Its raining its pouring ..its flea marketing time for me

Its been raining off and on all week here
sunday I had planned on a early morning fishing trip only to wake up to the pouring rain and sounds of thunder so I went back to sleep woke up a few hours later and it was still raining ..staying in the house doing nothing was not the way I wanted to go so I decided it was time to go flea marketing.

Here are my finds and a couple from my last little flea marketing trip with my mom that I hadn't take pictures of..and also some new squeak toys I added to my collection!


So for some reason almost all squeakys seem to have a boy and girl pair and I finally made my first pair
a doctor to go with my nurse :)

 I ordered the doctor on etsy and he also came with the cute little girl bowler they are made by the same company Alan Jay

 I found this cute book ..its one of my favorite childrens book series ...after Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys of course :)

 This caught my eye and made me smile its a bank :)

 The illustrations in this book are similar to Maurice Sendaks

 another addition to my collection it has somebodys name written on it though..still cute

 Some kitsch salt and pepper shakers for my charity shop

 a paperweight that reminds me of carebears or something....

 more salt and pepper shakers for my charity shop...

 a cute little doll she hasn't been opened yet :)

 Some plastic clowns..I need to do some research on them and the doll above

 a cute little kewpie look at his rosie little cheeks :)

 a rubber squeaky cat :) I have more that go with him

                                                             nd a slinky dog

 One of my favorite finds so kitsch ...so retro ...so pink and so adorable!
im putting her up in my charity shop

I had a pretty good rainy day :) and Josh found a vintage bamboo fly rod so he was really happy!

Gumball Machine Ramblings

Today I woke up and I had a sale in my animal charity shop
That made me feel better and less worried about it not working out.


I sold these vintage dog figurines I think they are made out of celluloid or some other plastic that isnt used anymore.
They were bought by a wonderful lady who is going to put them in her doll house :)

Heres another listing that I have in my animal charity shop
I think its adorable! It seems like he should have a butterfly or something on his tail
Vintage deer figurines are so fun and perfectly kitsch!

Ive been saving bottle caps for awhile now to craft with and I finally decided to make this colorful collage for my very boring white wall.

Next while I was cleaning my craft area I suddenly had an over powering urge to make something  ( it happens all the time no wonder nothing gets done! )so I sat down with my canvas and gumball machine toys and bottle caps and made this
Most of the bottle caps are from water bottles ( our water here at the apartment is very gross ) so we buy all our water the other caps are from sprite and mountain dew and smirnoff apple bite and from nasal spray ..My husband goes through one a week he has a chronic sinus problem.
I used some vintage magnets and some buttons and beads and some gumball machine capsules.

 In this picture you can see a toy ring stuck in a a capsule
These days I dont run into to many gumball machines filled with cheap plastic toys that I just cant say no to..I guess thats good because once I asked a cashier for $30 in quarters and I went nuts.
But the lack of gumball machines makes me a little sad because that was a big part of childhood.
Id go to the store with my mom and then on the way out Id ask for some quarters
I liked the machines that were more random and not the ones filled with plastic football helmets and stickers and candy.
I loved trying to get the toy I wanted most and probably spending $50 before I got it.
For so long I wondered what to do with the capsules..when I was little I put change in them
it seemed like a waste to toss them out.


My husband wants to make him a legend of zelda collage of link
So Ill have to keep on saving my bottle caps.