Treasures from JUNK BONANZA

Hello Everyone!  Thanks for stopping by.  What fun we had on our little trip to Minneapolis Wed and Thurs.

We left in pouring down rain, with Stops in St. Peter and Jordan visiting fun little shops and Antique stores.

I had a free room at Mystic Lake's Casino and after a little relaxing in our room , we had a nice evening, playing slots and having supper. Needless to say we both slept very well.

Early morning we had breakfast, played a few more games and when my cousin's wife won her $400 jackpot we packed up and headed to "JUNK BONANZA" about 2 miles west of our hotel.  Very cold and windy weather, but the event is held inside at Canterbury Park's big building.

                                                        A FEW OF MY PURCHASES

                                 Some vintage clip on Christmas candle holders, and silver molds

                                                     Golden napkin rings to be re purposed

                      A 1940's doll, and I had one just like this way back when  and this was only $5.00

                       These tiny pink felt baby shoes just jumped at me, isn't the tiny little embroidery adorable?

Two German Books,  the left one is a BIBLE  from 1877 published in Waverly, IOWA !  not that far away from where I live.The one to the right is in a hard cover box and published in 1912 and being German I think it looks like a Daily Prayer Book, published in St. Louis, Missouri.

                                  A few old wooden spools, will look great with some vintage lace

                                                         An assortment of more molds

                                          And a little jar that contained many plastic game pieces.

I wanted some old children's play cupboards but they all had "SOLD" tags on them from the "Early Bird" shoppers,  I also was looking for some unique metal flower frogs. But the price on what I found were way over my limit. This event is so well organized and I think there were 200/300 vendors with anything you can imagine in the line of  Antiques, Vintage this , Old that, and Fun Junk.

When we heard it  raining ice pellets we decided to quit a little early and head home. A normal 2 1/2 hr drive took us 4 1/2,  highways were slush filled and rain, snow, ice pellets lined our path. After seeing a few "in the hurry drivers"  slide into the ditch, we took one break to help with my stress by eating a quick lunch at McDonald's.  Top speed was 45 mph if you following the road equipment, We were thankful to be home safe and before dark.

We have not yet received SPRING...it's windy, cold and some snow, that melts quickly or heavy rains.  And the forecast has no good reports for this week. Mother Nature is mixed up for sure.

Now to get busy and create a few things with my "Little Treasures".. Enjoy your week.