Flea Market or Home Goods??....

Good Morning!

Fall is finally here....

I absolutely love everything Fall!

I am slowly getting my Home decorated for the season.

This was a very busy summer for us.  My FIL,

as some of you may know fractured his C1 vertebrae in

the beginning of June, so I spent most of the summer caring

for him. He lives 1 1/2 hrs from us, so I wasn't Home much!

But, we did make all but one of the flea markets not too

far from us this summer.  The last one was the end of September.

 I've admired the olive buckets I've seen on a few blogs

and had never seen them around that I can remember anyway.

But, on one particular visit to the flea market I was the

lucky girl to snatch this up and put it in my basket.  I had learned

at the first flea that we attended and I passed on something I 

REALLY wanted and thought I would come back and

get it later.....well, it wasn't there and so I learned

to grab and get when you see something.

 I had more women stop me that day commenting on

my purchase and what great condition it was in.  It was 

so funny, some didn't know what it was, but found it

very interesting!

 It's in perfect condition with just the right amount of rust.

I love it right behind our sofa and when the light shines

through at night it's just perfect!

Then a few weeks later I had a rare chance to stop by

Home Goods.  Low and behold I strolled down an aisle 

of Fall decor....my favorite, and spotted this beauty!

 At first I just picked it up and though how odd it 

was that Home Goods would have an olive bucket. 

I wasn't sure that it was "real".....

so I sat it back down, started to walk away and

then decided I'm just going to put that in my cart

and walk around the store for a bit.  I sent a picture of it

to my husbands cell and he called me and said

"Get it!"

 So it came Home with me!

I love that man!

When I got it Home and really took a good look

at it, it still had cobwebs and some sort of dead 

grassy looking stuff stuck on the inside. My husband

is the one that pointed out the patch job that was done

on this side.  It is way rusty, but it's perfect in every way!

I even had a couple of women stop me while 

shopping in Home Goods that day and they

said, "What a COOL wire basket!"

Ha, ha....

They asked if I was going to put it outside and

fill it with pumpkins?

I said, "Oh No this will not be going outside,

it might get ruined!"  

Besides, I had the perfect pumpkin that I also

picked up at the flea market just waiting!

I have more fun flea market finds yet to share so I hope

you stop again! If you had a chance to stop by yesterday

I did a quick post to share that our daughter Amanda

started a blog. She purchased her first home and 

we've been helping her get it ready for her big move.

It's going to be so cute! 

Here's a link to her blog if you'd like to follow her progress.

I'm curious, what have you found at Home Goods or some other

store that was the real deal?

As always Thanks for stopping by!

I hope you have a delightful Fall day!