I Love a Bargain!

It's really hard to believe that tomorrow is Labor Day - seems the summer just got started but I am looking forward to the fall weather - when it's nice and sunny but no humidity!

This week has beena lazy one - Haven't done any rug hooking as I have had my nose in a book - or should I say several books. That's my problem - when I start a book - I get totally immersed in it and do nothing else! I usually go in spurts like this - wish I could balance it with some rug hooking, some reading, some chores, etc. But no, not me - all in or nothing! LOL!

And speaking of sun and laziness - isn't it funny how a cat will lay in a sunbeam - Here's Riley fitting his body perfectly in the sunbeam from the window - he's just too funny -

Riley and Jonesy are still good friends - Here it is bath time - as you can see my little Jonesy is getting so big!

Here's a pic of the Joneser relaxing -

And here is he taking a catnap -

Today I got up early to go to a yard sale. A few years ago I happened along to a yard sale that had really cool treasures (antiques) and good prices and one of the items I found was my cobblers rack - which I love and holds a lot of my hand dyed wool - There have been pics of it here on the blog - Jonesy has taking to sleeping in the wool on the rack! The house is near a local antiques flea market that is held on Mondays. Well when a holiday is on a Monday it's a big day for the flea market - so a lot of the locals hold yard sales around the area during the weekend. The other day I noticed the house where I bought my cobbler's rack was having their yard sale on Sunday and Monday - so I was there when they opened. I wasn't disappointed!

I bought myself yet another cool old box ($4) - hey one can never have too many wooden boxes, right? These two old blue agate coffee pots (one $3 and one $8) and the old hog scraper ($2) (Riley of course has to check everything out!)

Not sure what this is - anyone know? I asked if it was a candle snuffer - she said no but wasn't sure what it was - she thought it was some type of candle holder that you held onto - but it wouldn't be anything you could set down - and if you had a candle in it - of course you couldn't hang it from the other way? anyway - she tossed it in my lot of stuff at no charge.

Also got this old wall box, some tin molds, and this butter mold - well not sure if it's a butter mold - it's metal - not wood - very heavy- but the design was cool - and you can see i put a different candle in the hogscraper!

I picked up this sewing firkin too for $5 - She told me that she received it from a woman in her quilt guild and that it had been her mothers sewing "basket since she was a young girl - she said her mother has been gone for a lot of years now -

This was the stuff inside the firkin:

I then decided to go to a local flea market - Oh my goodness was it crowded today - it was hard finding parking. It was a good day - there was a lot of vendors - guess they all come out in nice weather. Found myself a basket, a book, and a kit to make my own basket with the instructions and the reed for $1! Also bought some peaches that I plan on making into a pie, some peppers and some mums for $2. Also ran into a rug hooking friend I hadn't seen for a while.

When I got home I decided to pull out some of my fall decorations - so put out some of them - here's my corncob wreath on my front door -

And here's the mum's I bought today and put in my big gray agate tub (they are actually red - the pic came out purply!) Now I need some pumpkins!

So all in all it was good day without spending a fortune! I rarely buy anything unless it's on sale anyway - Of course there was other things I saw I thought I would like but always ask myself "do I really need this" - sometimes my answer is "No you don't" - and sometimes it's "Yes you do but you can't have it!" LOL!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Labor Day Holiday.