Flea marketing saturdays

Saturday I got to go flea marketing I overslept by an hour but it ended up not mattering much because I finished on time.


We went to carthage which is one of my usual places I go but it has been awhile and yet the inventory hadn't changed much at all.. very disappointing Ill have to switch it out with a new area for flea marketing which Ill probably do again soon as Im trying to get my shop to 200 items its been my goal for awhile and I never make it..
but I almost have 200 sales so I should do 200 items once I reach 200 to celebrate :)


So I guess on average I make 100 sales a year wish it was a bit more but I pretty much only sell toys and vintage toys which means I have to market to adults with big hearts who still remember childhood...they are the best kind my favorite kind of people.


Well anyways Ill quit rambling on and Ill tell you about my trip


I stopped at the first flea market which is my favorite of the bunch because in the past I have found some great things kewpies and Puppy Brite and a squeaky tennis player.

I did find a few goodies

This cute little tykes toddle tot with dump truck :)

 I bought a to of these Goosebumps stickers just for the fun of it im not even sure what im going to do with them :)

 This is the second Stan plush I have found in the last 2 flea marketing trips I usually never find South park stuff so I felt pretty lucky to find him..I of course will probably only be keeping one Stan and Ill sell the other either on ebay or through my facebook.

 I bought this for a laugh Im giving it to my mom who is a Spanish teacher :)

 This guy is so cute and kitsch he will be going into Merrills charity store.

 My favorite find of the day the only squeaky and one I have wanted for awhile perfect for my upcoming winter scenes :)

                               A cute kitschy lamb planter also going to Merrills shop

 and I couldn't resist these guys I love everything 70s and Love is perfect :)
in one of my dads old High School year books its actually the theme for Football Homecoming.

 It turns out I went wild on the breakables I usually try not to but I found so many cute ones that I couldn't resist this guy almost got broken a few times by the people at the counter..happens every time I buy a ceramic bunny..I love him because he reminds me of the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland ..He will be going into Merrills shop.

 With Christmas coming up I thought she would be a good addition to the shop.

 Next I found a bag of doll heads..which I always buy when I find a good deal it was a large bag for 5.00 I mostly bought it for the giant clown head who I have already used he had a derby hat on that I wanted for a project and it had to be cut off him and I think Ill use his face as a mask for one of my dolls.

 This little guy was in the bag of doll heads...scared still of the clowns who were wanting to eat him.

 These look like cabbage patch doll heads..but they are apparently older and made by someone else..which leads me to wonder lots of things......

 the heads came with one of these pretty much just like a Cabbage Patch doll when you unfold it theres a birth certificate.

My next stop was to a flea market where I have had lots of luck in the past I found my Brite Eyed kid and my celluloid walker doll but...its inventory hadn't changed much at all and they now don't take debit cards but I did get 2 items which the lady held for me while I went to a atm machine.

This guy is oh so cute I almost want to keep him he is so snuggly and soft.

 And this thing it reminds me of a puffalump but im pretty sure its not..Any ideas?
there wasn't a tag on it.

I went to one more flea market but didn't find anything at all that I wanted and I decided to skip the rest because they were the more expensive wanna be upscale flea markets where they charge you 50.00 dollars for a mcdonalds toy ..( im serious ) or ones with mostly furniture and art for high prices.

Halloween reads

Only a few more days till Halloween...Towards the end of September I dug out some of my favorite scary stories or anything with a Halloween theme.





Last year I missed out on reading one of my childhood favorites Scary Stories to read it the dark because I had lost it somewhere I spent a year searching for it and couldn't find it and it was the wonderful Treasury that Josh had gotten me for Christmas one year
I didn't want to miss out on reading it out loud to him this Halloween so I had him order a replacement on Amazon and it was actually pretty cheap.

Heres how the books originally came ( paperback ) and how I first discovered them in fourth grade at quiet reading time.

 This is the version I have its a big hardcover book with all of the stories and the classic art work
they unfortunately have changed a lot of it for some reason.

 This story is one of the scariest its about two men who are bored and decide to build a scarecrow they are cruel to it and comes to life and skins them and hangs them on the roof.

This one is a story I always thought was funny because its about parents who go on a trip to mexico and instead of getting there kid something normal for a gift like Mexican jumping beans or a paper mache donkey they find what they think is a dog and bring it back ( isn't that illegal ? ) and it gets sick so they take it to the doctor and he tells them its a sewer rat with rabies..

The stories in these books are great the writer gathered urban legends from all over and he even got some from my home town and areas around me.

Next up is something else that I enjoy from my childhood ..I remember as a kid my mom got it into her head that these books are bad....its funny because they are pretty lame.

This is one of my favorite Agatha Christies not only does it have a Halloween Party going on at the beginning of the story but it has two of my favorites Poirot and Ariadne Oliver ( not sure if I spelled her name right ) its a great book...Plus look at the cover :)