**ChiPPy!-SHaBBy!** HORSE COLLECTIBLES...

Recently I was drawn to a few "ChiPPy" Vintage HORSE COLLECTIBLES...  I picked them up on our recent Ohio Road Trip...  THEN - TO MY SURPRISE, the current September 2010 Issue of Country Living Magazine had "quite a spread" on these Collectible Vintage Horse Items!!! - OMG!*!*! Here are a couple items I've found - soon to be for sale at one of my upcoming outdoor markets...  (click to enlarge)

I love "ephemera"...  I like tucking little trade cards like this in vignettes...  - They display well propped up in small flower frogs...

Country Living Magazine Article - Sept. 2010

OK ~ Here's the real deal...  Jeff & I went for a hike on Sunday in the State Park...  These horses were at a Historical Site we also visited just outside the park...

**ViNtaGe Garden Collectibles**

My love for "ViNtaGe Garden" started out many years ago when I lived in the Desert of all places!!!  It began with WATERING CANS and "branched-out" to other garden related go-withs...  I have my computer/office area in what I call my "Garden Loft"...  I'm surrounded with a good number of my most cherished vintage garden pieces...  Here are a few pics I'd like to share with YOU!*!*!  (click on pics to enlarge)

This is a rarer seed box...  I paid an insane price for it years ago on Ebay...  The RICE'S SEED PACKETS are also a "rare-find" - another Ebay purchase many, many, years ago...  Placement of vintage paper/ephemera is very important ~ you don't want "daylight" to fade them...

 It's rare that I buy a watering cans these days ~ It has to really be something extra special...  This little mustard-colored beauty was a recent "Door County" find this summer...

I love staging small pieces of advertising ephemera on/in flower frogs...  I think it adds just the right touch...

ViNtaGe Seed Jars...

Rochester, New York had many a seed box...
OMG!!! THIS SAME ADVERTISING SEED BOX has a "Full Page Spread" in the latest edition of COUNTRY GARDENS MAGAZINE - Fall 2010 Issue - JUST OUT...
Page 48...  Check-It-Out!*!*!

And lastly ~ ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! Shops KANE COUNTY FLEA MARKET this weekend!!!  YES - I still have some cash to spend...  If you happen to see me there ~ grab me and Say Helloooooo!*!*!