Panning for Gold

[jennythereader]

This weekend Tom & I are going out to the Brimfield Antique Show

I'm not exactly going to be looking for anything particular, but there are a few types of things I'll be keeping my eyes open for:

- Household tools that are in good enough shape to still be useful, and are useful to me. Preferably ones that can still be used for their original purpose. Last year I got a great 5 quart casserole dish that I use semi-regularly.
- Pretty (food safe) bottles. I can put cordials, flavored vinegars, or bath oils into larger ones, and perfume oils into smaller ones.
- Scent lockets, or any pendant that can be adapted for the purpose.
- Tools for embroidery, knitting, or any of my other crafts. Again, I'm only really interested in ones that I could actually use.
- Ephemera that is in bad enough shape that I won't feel guilty about destroying it for collages or decoupage.
- Interesting coats or jackets. Again, only ones that could actually be worn in real life.

Comments

[kasnow860.livejournal.com]

Hope you have fun! I was supposed to go there today but...well...I was buying a car instead. Good luck finding some of the things on your list!

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

New cars are good. What did you end up getting?

[kasnow860.livejournal.com]

PT Cruiser 2005.

[jarien.livejournal.com]

The Malta Drive In (Route 9 up near exit 12 of 87) is going to be hosting a local vendor/craft fair every Sunday all summer, might also be something you'd like to troll through one weekend. They don't open until next weekend, but I'm interested to see what it's about - billed as not a farmer's market, not a craft fair, but a "local vendor market", whatever that comes to mean.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

That does sound worth checking out. Thanks for telling me about it!