The sky was overcast, an advantage when one is looking carefully for treasure.
The park was bursting with sellers and buyers,no doubt due to the fact that Christmas is very soon. I felt all fluttery at the prospect of what lay before us, at what we might discover, and whether we would have enough time to do justice to it all, as I needed to be home, breakfasted and changed ready to depart for church by 8 o'clock. No matter we advanced towards the challenge!
Within moments, my daughter espied a set of attractive, green, retro food scales that we haggled down to twelve dollars. We had enjoyable banter with the European gentleman, who was selling them and we had a good laugh together, leaving them in his care to be picked up later.
We found shabby chic boxed, glass coasters and a set of tins, both new, for very good prices, plus some very attractive butterflies and glittery bird clips for a dollar apiece.
Next came an unexpected discovery, a wooden hat stand, its sections strewn amongst other items laying on a blue tarpaulin. Having bought a couple of these in the past, I recognized the potential here of a great find -YEP- the lady said two dollars when I inquired the price! I calmly, but hastily summoned my daughter and we checked it over and handed over the coin! WOW, What a find. We had wanted one for my daughter's home in the sky and here it was. Armed with these bits of polished timber and our quickly expanding, cumbersome haul, we continued our search.
Whilst wandering around, there was much to delight in, a poodle in a wire basket on wheels; a tiny interestingly dressed, tiny framed lady with a round water melon tucked under each arm; a pile of porcelain divided dishes that looked like strapless bras! People carrying all sorts of items, watering cans, furniture, flowers, food, some Christmas shopping, all making the most of a Sunday morning opportunity to find a bargain.
A pretty, miniature, glass teapot joined our collection, followed by three items of bling, a beaded wire arrangement and a pretty Italian glass bottle and interesting metal tongs, (such as you might use to manouevre sandwiches or cakes). Christmas patterned, paper patty cases, baskets (for a work mate to house her scarf collection) and an attractive square, white serving plate, on which Christmas goodies will look fabulous, all came into our possession. By now, I'm sure you can appreciate time was running out and we were finding things a bit tricky manoeuvring around the crowd without injuring anyone or dropping any of our precious treasure.
We headed for the gate, but didn't quite get there before I saw some beautiful African violets, so I treated ourselves to one each, a traditional violet shade and the other a frilly magenta variety- we will try our hand at keeping them alive!
We returned to our European gentleman, nicknamed Michael Jackson, to pick up the scales and we left the park, delighted at our finds and happy a the lovely time we had spent together.
Like two little kids on Christmas morning we returned to our vehicle to head home for breakfast, laughing as we went.
Here's photographic evidence of that fact.
And here's another of the violet and Italian glass bottle complete with butterfly - just gorgeous!
Hooray for car boot sales!
Simply Susan
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