Each year around this time we make our annual SpringTime trek to St. Louis for an Antique Bottle Show - "squeezing-in" a bit of ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! ShoPPing!*!*! Although WINTER is almost over according to the calendar - it most certainly WAS NOT in St. Louis THIS YEAR as well as here in Wisconsin... No Spring Jacket... No Sun... Next to none Daffodils...
*** HoWeVeR ***
The SHaBBy ShoPPing was AwEsoMe!!!
I netted some "key-pieces" that I'll be adding to my "SHaBBy S*A*L*E Stash" for the 1st Monthly ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! SaLe of the *2013 Season* - AT-OUR-HOME, here in Historic Cedarburg, Wisconsin, SATURDAY, APRIL 27th...... **AND*** The Na-Da Farm S*A*L*E EVENT at Anne Marie's, in Esmond, Illinois on MAY 17th & 18th...
Be sure to **Mark Your Calendar**...
Wet Roads... Sleet... No Sun...
Did Not Stop SHaBBy-ShoPPing!*!*!
If you look REAL CLOSE -
You can get a glimpse of the Iconic Arch
We did a lot of different things on this visit ~
one of them was driving around various neighborhoods...
I LoVe looking at Big Old Houses...
ONLY in this neighborhood
was the grass ever so slightly greening...
Besides our regular "Antique Stops"
we extended our **Hunt** to the numerous
Re-SaLe Shops that had "popped-up"...
Some of them were just AwEsoMe
with great finds & displays as well...
This ViNtaGe Round Metal Container had a
FaB Look, including functional divider/compartments inside,
but the "price point" was just too high for resale...
For me - this SHaBBy Cabinet was just
NOT ChiPPy in all the right places...
But it definitely had a look!!!
Perhaps a wreath affixed to the door
would help with an easement...
This was my FaVoRiTe Booth in a
Really Fun Junker ReSaLe Shop!*!*!
I LoVeD this Place and would definitely shop it on a weekly basis - for the thrill of the hunt ~ NEVER KNOWING what you might find digging through this and that!*!*!
LoVeD these smaller-sized corbels -
but had to pass ~ they weren't WHITE...
All B*L*I*N*G that I spotted on
the trip was soooo insanely expensive...
It made me realize how reasonably priced
my chandeliers are and will continue to be...
SHOP ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! for B*L*I*N*G...
On-The-Way-Up
This Antique Store's WINDOW DISPLAY
was bursting with **ViNtaGe Easter**
Although I'm not a big fan of
**Contrived SHaBBies** I just had to stop in this Store!!!
Sooooo Glad I did!*!*! The smell was heavenly ~ and all their reproductions were top of the line... InViTing Displays inside as well...
With my ANTIQUE BOTTLE SELLING STOCK extremely low ~ I was able to re-plenish it with some interesting ViNtaGe F*I*N*D*S netted at the Bottle Show...
We brought these two bottles to the show, but they
are still looking for a good home!*!*!
Demijohns were more commonly found
encased in "Old Wicker"...
FaB Color... Crude Applied Lip
** 1870's - 1880's **
Just AwEsMe F*I*N*D
ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! Style...
Frog Husband Netted this antique flask for me!!!
BeSt Old ChiPPy! Paint PaTiNa
on the Flowers...
Light Amber Flask dates around
** 1870-1885 **...
So for now... Yet Another Sunless, Snowy Day back here in Wisconsin...
J*E*A*N*I*N*E
Fun! and that is why you sell and that persons channdie is still there right...hang in there till Spring.
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