No Flea For Me!

Hi, Everyone!
 
I had big plans to head to an amazing out of town flea market this morning but was hindered by a visit from Hanna.  How can I say no when she wakes me up and begs me to stay home and drink coffee with her in the morning before she leaves?  What an awesome sister I must be to choose her over the promise of vintage treasures.  So needless to say, I stayed home.  Oh well, there will be other flea markets, right?

Maddie and I spent the afternoon trolling through some of our local antique malls.  I found some great stuff but haven't unpacked or photographed it yet so that will have to wait until next time.  For now, I will show you some of the other amazing things I've been picking up here and there.

I found the 9" Fire King Swirl Jadeite bow for a ridiculously low price at a local antique mall.  I turned it over and over in my hands looking for something wrong with it.  It's perfect.  Even the cashier thought the tag may be a misprint. 

Ta-Dah!!  It just so happened to be the bowl I needed to complete my set.

At the same shop, I also found another Hazel Atlas striped tumbler and what I thought was the smallest Fire King Dots bowl.  I was wrong!  I recently found out that there were only 4 bowls in the set.  I always thought there were 5 but guess what?  This is actually the grease jar without the lid!

I just so happened to have the grease jar already.  Brian bought it for me for Christmas last year but the dots were pretty faded out.  So I just swapped out it's lid with the new bottom piece.  Voila!

So I took the faded out polka dot bowl and added it to my set.  Looks pretty good next to my Tulip set, don't you think? Oh, and look.  I also have the Tulip grease bowl, minus the lid!  I love learning new info about the things I collect.

I'm working on putting together the all white Butterprint Cinderella bowl set.  I was super excited to find the 444.  Only two more to go!

I have lots of the turquoise and white Snowflake pieces, but I have decided I want to mix in some of the black with them.  The 045 looks like a good place to start.

Maybe missing out on the flea market this morning was a good thing!  Maybe I should take a break from treasure hunting?  Yeah, right!  Brian was just telling me the other day that he is amazed at the way that I can always find a spot for the things I bring home.  I guess that's my hidden talent.  I better not try to suppress it!

Linking up with Sir Thrift-A-Lot for Thriftasaurus

Have a great week!

~Erica