Lovely Places: St. Jacob’s Market

We decided to head out of the city Saturday morning for a drive to Amish Country and spend the morning at the St. Jacob’s Market.

So much amazing food, great venders, and farmers with their fresh produce.
Of course there is also a great antique barn across the road.

An amazing lily farmer!

This was so stunning!

The heat was intense, but we bought this fresh 1 Liter lemonade with fresh fruit!
A definite thirst quencher.

And over at the antique barn, there were so many things I could have bought,
but I walked away empty handed as I know we don’t NEED anything.

There was this great set of 4 pyrex mixing bowl!

This awesome vintage fan…on the way home I was thinking about it.

There was something about this tall chair I loved.

An entire shelf full of various pyrex. Although I found the prices to be a little too steep.

And this was just the cutest children’s ice cream parlour table and chair set.

I shouldn’t say I walked away empty handed. We bought our weeks groceries at the market, all fresh and full of Ontario goodness!

Our Place

A few little things at our place::

A while back I posted about a bed that I wanted to get. Well here it is! We’ve had it a few months now and it’s been great for having extra storage under, not to mention that it’s pretty and white!

I ‘springed’ it up with these yellow pillow cases I got at a recent rummage sale for 0.50 cents each!

I also made this pretty white pillow from a remnant I got as well!

Another pretty little thing I managed to scavenge is this antique window. Last week a very old house across the road from us started to be demolished. After an early morning jog I waved one of the crew men over and asked if he could salvage a window for me! He was so nice and told me to get it after work.

I trimmed the top with a piece of vintage lace.


Filled one pane with a windmill print.

And another with a piece of yellow floral vintage fabric.

Here is the beautiful lock.

A pretty LEMON THYME plant.

Linking to Apron Thrift Girl

Barn Sale

Come on out to the first Barn Sale by Country Lane Treasures!
There will be lot of antique furniture, vintage finds including items from our online shop,
3 Thrifty Ladies, gifts for mother's day, and lots more!
Check out the link to our Photobucket Album.

Auction Envy

I’ve posted before about auctions that I’ve gone to with my parents.
Rob Sage offers great finds at every turn. Here are some items from an upcoming auction that are so very vintage!

Enamel Sign

Irresistible!

I think this would be such a fun gift for my son.

This is a lovely book case with a glass door and claw feet!

These next photos are from previous auctions and some stellar items that sold.

A beautiful condition walnut dresser with moustache handles.

Wow, the price was steep for this filing cabinet, but it has so much
character I LOVE IT!

I could see this being spray painted white! Amazing looking.

The shape and design of this is amazing! And the oval mirror is wow!

Alternative Shelving:: Wire and Wooden Crates

Antique wooden crates are a perfect detail to create a unique shelving option on any wall in any room. If I ever see one it will be snatched up in a second.

Make your own crates! Ana White

There are also vintage wire baskets or crates that I just love too.
I was at Crate and Barrel this evening and saw these reproductions
that are just charming.

Etsy Shop:: Every Eskimo

A variety of wire baskets and crates.

This is a slight alternative version, using round baskets to hold this child’s stuffies!
Bleubird

Wall Art Collage

I’ve been dying to get something up on our bedroom wall as it had this unsettled feeling, like we weren’t totally moved in or waiting to move out. There is something about having pictures hung that make a room feel more complete, more personal. And that is what I was going for with this wall collage. Two pieces have more of a significant meaning to me and the husband and I hope to add pieces to it as I hunt and collect more frames.
I was really unsure how to go about putting it together so I found this great post here that helped me out. This was an example that I used.



I traced each frame on a piece of craft paper so I could find the best configuration for the space on the wall.


Option 1


Option 2


Option 3

We went with option three. I know that I want to add more frames and the other two options didn’t seem to leave a nice space for any later additions. And I just like this configuration the best.



Pretty Art Wall.
 


I purchased these white square Ribba frames from Ikea a few years ago.
A great cheap way find nice 'art' is to look in a card store.
I picked up some pretty square cards for about $5.00 each and popped
them into the frames.

For this one specific frame I changed the matting around it with patterned
scrapbook paper. The card inside is what I gave my son-to-be-husband
on our wedding day. I like how there are hidden words locked inside!

 

This lovely "birds on a wire" original painting was given to me on our engagement.

BFF had a former summer student of his paint it just for me.
I love it and its special meaning.

This is a cool vintage radio that BFF salvaged from the roadside.

It actually has a really cool sound.
I picked up this pretty glass antique lamp from V.V for $8.00 a while back.
All it needed was a new shade.

Spray Tray

What do you get for $2.99 at Value Village? A tray to spray. I've been reading so much about spray painting lately, I just had to find something (useful) to spray. There are a lot of interesting ideas at Centsational Girl,  she's a spray painting queen.

A boring wooden tray.

 

A pretty tray to sit atop my lovely table.

And of course a pretty tray needs some pretty flowers in a pretty antique jug.

I love this jug as I bought it the morning I got engaged at an antique market.

 You can read about my lovely table here.