**Last Friday** ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! ~ Shops Chicago Botanic Antique Garden Fair!*!*!

Even with my RoadSide SaLe only hours away ~ "LAST FRIDAY" - I just had to visit the CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDENS ANTIQUE FAIR...  The day was cold & dreary - but full of "Springtime Displays" at this ViNtaGe Garden Themed Event...  I even ran into some other bloggers!!!

 Worden Antiques was one of my favorite booths at the show...  We're re-doing an area in our home and this METAL BASKET will look Just FaB on top of an Antique Cabinet...  (pics soon...)

 Sooooo Fun ~ whimsical painted flowers!!!

  FaB Patina...

 I have weakness for time-worn ZINC ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS...  The price was well out of my budget...

 These "Funky Vintage Flower-Like Lamps" drove me over the edge!!!  I can't even begin to tell you how long I looked at them...

 I soooooo wanted to purchase one of these Tole Lamps for my desk at home...  I insanely - strongly considered it for some time...  As expected at this type of "Eye-Candy Show" - they were priced "well beyond my means"... $$$$$

 Enlarge this pic... - BeSt Old Rusty Paint Patina!!!

 SHARON of "Sweet Repose" - I took this one just for YOU!!!

 This booth was in the "more affordable" area...  IT WAS MOBBED!!!   I want to say these people are from Tennessee...  Although everything looked lovely - a good number of items were reproductions, but they did have some "Re-Purposed ViNtaGe" as well...

LoVely lines on this chippy white iron table!!! ~  Loved how they flipped the carrier/tote on it's side for display...

What a welcome sight!!!  These gorgeous flowers - surrounded the "pick-up" area...   

Chicago Botanic Antique & Garden Fair 2010...

This year, other than "preview night" - I was unable to attend the show on it's FIRST DAY - Friday, but knew that I'd still get my eye-candy fix on Saturday...  Well let me tell you ~ the "ENERGY" was just not the same on Saturday...  I could tell very well that things were picked over and the Dealers were tired!!! Lots of concrete frogs... angels... watering cans... this year!

As you head toward the show entrance, the Botanic Gardens have this wonderful display of what's blooming on the grounds...

Everything is "1st Class" at this show!!!  UpScale white tents - you would think you're inside a building...  I was shocked at the parking fee this year -  being bumped up to $20.  on top of the Show entry fee...  I must be from Wisconsin...  

The day was GoRGeOuS!!!  ~ Sunny, but very cool...   Look at these beautiful grounds...

OK!!! ~ Let's get the chippy, shabby, crusty, rusty, old vintage garden pics happening!*!*!

 Take a peek in the background... See the little Birdie Perched on something FaBuLouS!

OMG!*!*! This is what I wanted to take home!!!  I LoVed It!!!  It was soooo Anthro!  Honestly, It would have worked out PeRfeCtLy in our home...  Maybe I could have talked my husband into it if he had been with me????  It was priced Over-The-Top Insanely... However - I've never seen another one like it...

  Probably from a large estate...  I've often thought - "why not buy just one fabulous thing"???

I loved these chairs!!!  I could see them with some Anthro Cushions or Pillows...and a funky tole chandelier above!*!*!

I would have taken these home toooooo!  ~ Over $4,000

My FiNd!*!*!  Dealer said it was probably from the "1930's" - Folk Art Tole Piece...  I'll be mixing this in with some of my Iron Frogs!!! 

It's Happening!!! **Chicago Botantic AnTiQuE & Garden FaiR**

 

BeSt "eye-candy" show...  Hope to get some display ideas for my SaLe on May  22nd...

Maybe I'll see some of you at the Show this Weekend... 

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Please do check out  "SWEET REPOSE'S" BLOG TODAY!!! - AwEsoMe Pics!!!  I've put this place on my "must see list" for this summer...

Chicago Botanic Antique & Garden Show...

Looking Ahead...  April really kicks off the warm weather season with an incredible "Eye-Candy" Show at the CHICAGO BOTANIC'S "ANTIQUES & GARDEN FAIR" in Glencoe, Illinois...   Mark your calendar for April 16th - 18th...  This Unbelievable ~ "Over-The-Top" Antique Event is as good as the Marburger Show in Texas..   The fresh Floral Arrangements in Old Crusty Rusty Urns are just breathtaking!*!*!  Dealers from all over the country come to sell...  Although most items carry a hefty price tag, if you really look, you may come home with something... AND the Highland Park Anthropologie Store is just a few miles away!!!  Over the years I've come away with "7" Exceptional Finds... and still have ALL of them!!!  Here are few:

My husband LoVeS Frogs!!! I've never seen one on a Lilly Pad!!!  PeRfeCtLy ChiPPy!!!

This "Iron Trellis Fragment" is E X C E P T I O N A L !*!*!  

I'LL NEVER PART WITH IT...

These items are on our stairway as you enter the house from the garage...

 Crusty...  Rusty... Chippy... 

ChiPPy Folding Bench from England...

Exceptional form... Getting ready to put it out on the porch...

Shabby Concrete Statuary with RoSeS on Top!!!

Chippy!!!

Precious little watering can!*!*!