A Closer Look

I'm joining Kathleen at Faded Charm today for White Wedneday! 

Hope to see you over there!

If you remember my post from this past Met Monday where I shared my latest flea markets finds with you,

I was naughty.

I left you all hanging.

Such a big meanie, I am.

Sorry. (hehehe!)

Well, fear not.  I'm here to make nice.

Remember this birdcage that I got for free?

A nice lady threw it in with another purchase I made?

And you didn't know what purchase that was?

And it was my biggest (literally) purchase of the day?

(It was verry French looking, I might add.)

This is what I carted home hanging out the back of my SUV.

Well.....it was a little more than this, I guess.

And a little more than this....

And a tad more than this.

Oh, yes.  Lovely, isn't she?

In fact, Debbie and I BOTH took one of these beauties home with us.  

You should have seen our faces when we spotted them - 

behind my free birdcage that was sitting on a little table.

I had my eye on the sweet little birdcage.

I failed to see the beautiful panels right in front of my face, behind the birdcage.

I started bartering for the birdcage.

But....then.....we noticed the panels.

Our chins dropped to the floor....

our eyes got as big as saucers....

and we did this strange, zombie, trance-like walk, side by side, over to them for a closer look at the price -- thinking there was no way we could afford them, 

much less get them home in one piece.

"Forty dollars a piece", the nice lady said. 

Our saucered eyes and now-drooling chins turned toward each other in awe and amazement.

"Forty?............That's it?" 

we whispered in quiet unison.

"Yes!" she sweetly replied with a huge grin on her face.

She must have thought we were a couple of nutjobs. 

I'm surprised that we didn't scare her darling little daughter who was there with her.

(She's probably still having nightmares about the look on our faces...)

Well, we couldn't get our last dollars out of our pockets quick enough.

We practically skipped out of that building...

well....as well as we could carrying two 50 pound wooden tri-panels 

and a birdcage.

It was soooo worth a closer look, wouldn't you say?

If you want a look at Debbie's panels in her lovely cottage, be sure to skip over and see her here!

Blessings and { hugs } to you!

~ laurie