Old Glory Antique Fair
For many years I got to
enjoy the wonderful
Canton, Texas
billed as the largest Flea
Market in the world.
I read about the Old Glory Antique
Fair in a magazine and thought
it would be fun to check it out.
I am so glad I did!
It was AMAZING!
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| Of course I took along my two favorite antique/junk shoppers. WARNING: THIS POST IS VERY PICTURE INTENSIVE. For those of you who enjoy Antique eye candy, read on. For the rest of you, you might want to scroll through quickly. |
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| Life is Beauty pillow. At first, I thought it said, Life is Beautiful. I think I like this better. |
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| Don't you just love rusty old tricycles? The plastic ones of today are just not the same. |
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| Love the No Trespassing Sign on the chair. Believe me, by the end of the day, we needed to trespass on any chair available. |
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| One of the reasons I love living in Colorado is that this state is so very aware of our servicemen and their families. Love this sign. |
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| I actually took a picture of this swing to show Jeremy. I think the little boys would love having some of these under the deck. Surely they would be easier than making a Harding Swing. |
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| These were all over the fair. I finally found out that they were from old Hardware stores and they were nail bins. |
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| This scene reminded me of our good friend Grady Burke who is a fallen firefighter. |
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| Neat display. |
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| This is not a horse trough. It is a baby bathtub. I would love to bathe a baby in one of these. |
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| I spotted Ki Nassauer, Editor-in-Chief of Flea Market Style. The link above shows her blog about Old Glory. She's the one in the red blouse. I guess I looked like a stalker snapping her picture. |
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| Check out this burlap and muslin table runner. I could make this. (Couldn't I Kami?) |
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| I'll show you my big purchase later in the post, but these little school chairs went with the set. The girls offered to go and bring the car to pick me up, so I relaxed in the chairs. Several people drove by and smiled. One lady rolled down her window and said, Do you want to sell those chairs? NO WAY! |
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| Another view of the chairs. |
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| Pots of geraniums were everywhere. |
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| The next few pictures give you an idea of the goodies that were for sale. |
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| In the afternoon, a huge rain storm came up. Do you think that stopped us? No Way! We just waited it out in the car. |
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| More goodies! |
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| There were actually no men working in sight. There were lots of women shopping. Oh, I take that back, there were several men helping to lug purchases back to cars. |
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| Ta! Dum! Here is my purchase of the day. I LOVE anything school related. That's probably not a surprise to anyone who knows me well. This school table and 5 chairs (one not seen) was just waiting for me. I was shopping ahead of the girls when I saw it, and I went back and brought them over to check it out. My request of them was this. "Either talk me out of this purchase or talk me into this purchase." I guess you can see the outcome. |
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| It's going to live in the basement den, right next to the Grandchildren's Room where it is handy for coloring, puzzle working, and anything else that comes to mind. |
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| It has cubby holes in the table and as you can see, it is already being used. Oops! I also notice in this picture that it needs dusting. Do you think I can get the little guys to do that for me? If you are friends from Colorado and would like to attend next year's Old Glory Antique Fair in Littleton Colorado, just about an hour from Colorado Springs, mark your calendar for June 14-15, 2013. If you are a friend from Texas, come on up. It's not as big as Canton, but the shopping is GOOD! |
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