Flea Market Outdoors

The Eclectic Vintage Garden Space

 Have you seen this new magazine?

It's full of delightful ideas for outdoor spaces all using flea market finds.

 A brightly accessorized dining space under ivy covered rafters.

 brightly painted furniture

I love this rusted bed nestled in the garden complete with candelabra. 

 more pastel brights on the front porch

 greens bring the outdoors into this covered area

I want one of those beds

 More brights. Just a throw and a pillow spark up this corner.

 Oh these climbing roses on a rusted iron gazebo! So in love with this.

A simple potting bench mounted to the outside wall. 

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There are lots more ideas in this issue. 

I've found it very inspiring!

and at work....

I just discovered we have this potting bench available.

Nice...isn't it?

And you know how obsessed I am about potting benches.

click here to go to the website Bob Mills Furniture.

It's perfect but it's pricey!

Thanks to everyone that encouraged me about my Mod Mix Monday Party.

I'm going to do my best to keep it going.

I know it's a small party but I really enjoy it and these days it's the only way

I can get to see what others are doing.

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Doily Table Runner

A Sad Story

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Confession...I really don't care for table runners very much.

I don't know why but...when I started seeing table runners made from vintage doilies online -

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Well, I changed my mind. I wanted one of these runners.

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Alas....I was stupid and didn't buy doilies every time I saw them over the past 20 years.

I didn't have a collection of them available.

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I thought...it will take me quite awhile to amass the collection of doilies I need to make a fabulous runner.

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Then, one day late last spring, I went to a small flea market in Norman.

My sister was selling jewelry there and I mainly went to visit with her.

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I made the rounds of all the booths and there was one booth selling vintage linens.

It was not a fancy booth...it was mostly junk.

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But there was one whole table full of vintage doilies.

The guy at the booth said 25 - 50 cents each!

I got like 30 doilies that day to make my runner. Lots of styles and sizes...much like those seen

in the photo above.

I was thrilled to walk out of there with a bag full for $10.

What a great day!

I'd soon make my runner.

Flash forward to about a month ago.

One day I think..."Hey, I think I'll make that runner today."

"Where are those doilies, anyway?"

I'd brought them home in a plastic grocery sack. 

That is what the flea market vendor had put them in.

I could not find them anywhere!

They are gone. Normally, I would have stuck them somewhere for safe keeping.

But life got busy and I must have forgotten.

I really think I threw them away one day when cleaning house.

One day I was sacking up junk mail and anything that I didn't need in the kitchen and or

breakfast nook and I'm almost positive I accidentally threw them away!

So disappointing.

Anyway when Donna at Funky Junk asked everyone to link up their table runners I immediately

thought about my runner that is never to be so I'm linking up

the inspirations of what it could have been if I hadn't been so careless.

Boo hoo...

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Ruffle Chair

Score!.....sort of

See this chair?

I have wanted it forever from Pier 1. 

Like several years.

It is actually a slipcover over a chair they sell.

Originally this cover was $70 and the chair $199.

I could not afford that of course...besides I didn't need a chair.

So, I'm looking through local markdowns the other day and find that one of our 

stores has this slipcover marked down to $9.98!

I raced to get it.

I thought it would fit my office chair.

Alas...it doesn't. It is just too tight on the back.

Am I crazy to keep it in hopes of finding the perfect chair it will fit?

By the time I find it, will I be tired of this fabric?

Here is what the fabric looks like...

It's just too cute to take back.

Surely, I can find something to do with it.

It looks great with my sofa.

The chair this slips over is now $150...still too much...considering that I still don't need a chair.

I just wanted it to slide over my office chair and transform it.

pooh!

oh well...

I was on a bargain shopping roll on Friday.

I went to a flea market at the County Fairgrounds in Norman, OK. 

My sister has a booth there where she sells jewelry she makes.

I bought a few things including a bracelet and earrings from my sis. 

I had a pretty good time finding some things for little money.

I bought lots of doilies for 50 and 25 cents each so I can make one of these runners.

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I also bought a china gravy boat that will mix well with my miscellaneous rose china.

An old bottle came home with me too that will be used for a craft project.

I know...old bottles don't sound like me but you'll see soon what I'll do with it.

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