keepers

For those of you that buy & resell vintage goods, you

know that every now & again we find something that we

just have to keep for ourselves on our antique adventures.

These are my two "keepers" from an antique trip to 

Appleton, WI on Saturday.

My Ian just moved to Neenah, and Dave & I journied over

to bring some things for his apartment & spend some 

time with our boy.  This was Dave's first chance to see the 

new place.  Lucky for us, Ian lives just a few miles from one of our

favorite antique malls, the Fox River Antique Mall in Appleton.

Since Ian works until about noon on Saturday, what were we to 

do while we waited for him??......antique, of course. 

To make for an even better day, we ran into Sarah & Winn, out 

for an antique adventure of their own.  And if this was not pure 

kismet, Dave & I have only shopped together at this mall twice in the

past year...so imagine we have spent maybe 4 hours out of 

365 days at this mall ~~ AND both times we ran into Winn & Sarah!!

Honestly, we had no idea they were going there, we each have at least 

a 4 hour round trip to get there...and we run into one another in the

middle of an antique booth ~ twice.........kismet!

Saturday was a day of "keepers" ~~~~ memories of such a fun day 

spending time with family, running into friends.  Each time I look at my

Kreamer heart baking pan & Dundee Marmalade pot, I will smile!

Addendum...imagine my extra surprise, I just did an EBay search on the Kreamer heart baking pan.  I debated spending a firm $32.00 for it, but decided I had never seen one before, AND I would keep it. One just sold in January for about $140 with shipping (with 11 bids!) on EBay! Yes, a keeper!