Fun at the Fair

I look forward the the Annual Antiques Fair in the small country town of Woodside, which we have visited even before we moved to The Adelaide Hills. It's always worth getting there before it opens to scoop up any real bargains


a tortoiseshell dressing table jar for $6

my favourite buy....a set of miniature faded blocks from the 1950's...$5

a pair of antique shoe lasts $10 pair

a really old set of Shakespeare books  $5

 

a sweet little book with a homemade book mark inside $3

there are a couple more things which I haven't taken pics of yet which I will keep till next week 

In the garden this week

 maturing plums

 3 happy girls

one grumpy broody girl

Preserving lemons

"Crepescule"

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The Dedicated House

Knick of Time
French Country Cottage
Ivy and Elephants
Shabby Art Boutique
Chic on a Shoestring
Country Farm Home
My Romantic Home
Sir thrift-a-lot
Rose Vignettes

Rooted in Thyme

The Charmed Home

Elizabeth & Co

Finding Fabulous

A Revisionary Life

Thoughts from Alice
Woman in Real Life

Hot Spring

It's been a very hot  and dry spring and we seem to have jumped straight to Summer with no rain for 3 months I picked up a couple of things this week from the local charity shops

An Akubra hat for $1.00 and a child's velvet riding helmet for $2 (just for decoration)

I love ceramic apothecary jars and this is my second

digging out my vintage bridal headpiece collection and rotating them

In the garden this week

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Abraham Darby

the first rose from the Mme Gregoire Staechlin which we planted in June and will cover a wall

Pierre de Ronsard

Clematis

Pink Wisteria Tree

recently planted Indian Hawthorn Bush

catmint

Look who has just migrated from the neighbors  to our  own gum tree...isn't he gorgeous

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The Dedicated House

Knick of Time
French Country Cottage
Ivy and Elephants
Shabby Art Boutique
Chic on a Shoestring
Country Farm Home
My Romantic Home
Sir thrift-a-lot
Rose Vignettes

Rooted in Thyme

The Charmed Home

Elizabeth & Co

Finding Fabulous

A Revisionary Life

Thoughts from Alice
Woman in Real Life

Enjoying Spring

A beautiful spring week and spending lots of time outdoors and  a nice weekend driving through the towns up here and browsing through favourite charity and second hand shops

An enormous rustic lantern which I am going to fill with candles

A couple of books for my collection of blue books

A vintage fabric covered box for my collection

 I won a antique leather bound book...1822..on my very slow collection of leather books. It's been a year since the last one as I have a limit of $15. The earliest is 1730

In the garden this week

The spring garden is  a  few weeks from it's flowering peak yet but I am already picking some for the house already. A veg garden is in for summer cropping and I am  enjoying the greenery while I can...a drought summer with heaps of heatwaves is predicted

Love this book!

Linking up with 

The Dedicated House

Knick of Time
French Country Cottage
Ivy and Elephants
Shabby Art Boutique
Chic on a Shoestring
Country Farm Home
My Romantic Home
Sir thrift-a-lot
Rose Vignettes

Rooted in Thyme

My Charmed Home

Elizabeth & Co

Finding Fabulous

A Revisionary Life

Thoughts from Alice
Woman in Real Life