Cottage & Family:
Canton First Monday Trade Days

My sister and niece have

been visiting me in Texas for

the last week ~ They live in California

and so we try and go back and forth

as much as we can ~

We hit the road shopping all week

starting with Canton's First Monday

{never can get enough junk!! }

Then as much shopping and

crafting as we could squeeze in ~

It was really cold and rainy most

of the time so we spent one day in

front of the fireplace watching movies

and Chelsey ( my niece ) taught

us all to crochet ~

{below is my daughter Stephanie and above

is a good friend Bethany, my niece Chelsey and

daughter Kristin }

Kristin added a rose and I just

love it !!

One day we decided to go

to the Gaylord Texan Hotel because

it is just gorgeous at Christmas ~

{ my sister Kim & I }

{my niece Chelsey, sister Kim, son in law James

daughters Kristin & Stephanie }

It is always fun to have them come

visit and sad when they leave!

I miss my family in California like crazy!!

I guess it is time for us to take

a trip there again soon ~

I had an awesome Canton

day on Wednesday finding

some Farmhouse goodness!!

I was totally on the hunt

for rusty and galvanized ~

Haha!! Can you tell...

Here are some of the things

that I found and are listed

on my website ~

There is also some vintage ticking

that is being washed

and a bunch of other things that

need cleaned and worked on ~

I want to go back sooo bad already!

I am kind of obsessed with treasure

hunting there!

I need to get out my paint

and work on some step ladders
~

Thank you for stopping by!

{added later }....all clean and

smelling good!

Last week I got to go junkin'

in Canton Texas ~ If you have

followed my blog for very long

then you know it is one of my

favorite times of the month!!

I LOVE it!!

Here are some of the wayyyy cool

things that I found ~

But....right as I was leaving

I saw these ( see pics below )

and for some reason really like them ~

The guy selling them said they are

grain buckets ~

Does anyone know if that is what they are?

I just know they would make

the coolest little thingies to hold

stuff but I haven't figured out

how or what to do with them yet ~

I love the colors and the rust ~

So very Vintage Farmhouse ~

They have 2 holes in the back

that are perfect for hanging ~

I need to scour Pinterest I am thinking ~

I LOVE going to First Monday

Trade Days in Canton Texas!

Every month it is something

I so very much look forward to ~

Even though I knew it was hot,

I left my house with a good attitude

and told myself that I would

just stand the heat because

I LOVE Junkin' !

I hit the grounds with my

trusty cart {a necessity there },

my ginormous ice tea and anticipation

of the treasures I would find ~

I drove in and saw ohhhhh maybe

5 vendors when there are usually 75 ~

But....I knew there was cool stuff

even with the 5 vendors and there

was still another HUGE area to hit ~

The next area had about half of

the usual but still some neat things!

I NEED a chicken coop and that cute

little bicycle and all the awesome

galvanized stuff, a gazillion

old keys, a stack of drawers and

birdcage ~

COOL STUFF !

Has anyone done anything awesome

with a chicken coop ~ I want to see :)

I didn't buy any of the big stuff

because I was on a mission for my

website and big stuff is expensive

as craziness to ship ~

After about 2 hours I thought

I would die of heat stroke

so I went to my most favorite

place to eat because it looks healthy,

you get free refills on ice tea

and they have a HUGE fan!!

Ohhhh and the buffalo head rocks!!

{not really, I don't like dead animals

but it is so Texas }~

After I ate I was revitalized

and ready to hit the junkin' trail for

HOURS more ~

Well I lasted about one more hour,

saw sweet Daphne and Dorothy that were fun

to chat with and decided heat stroke

was definitely setting in ~

Dang it!! I so wanted to last

for sooo much longer but

it was kind of miserably hot ~

{110 degrees and it is humid...bleh!!}

Next month I am definitely going

on Thursday so I can visit

LaurieAnna's Vintage Home,

Girls Gone Junkin and some of

my other favorite shops that aren't open

on Wednesday and have air conditioning ~

I talked to my mom, in California,

while driving home and she

told me that she was kind of chilly

because the ocean breeze was blowing

in and it didn't feel like summer

{which she loves }~

I would be loving some ocean breeze

right now :)

It was one of my most favorite times of the month

last weekend .......... Canton!!!

What is it about junkin' that is

sooooo much fun ???

I LOVE it !!

Canton is full of junk places to dig

through stuff and

full of places to get beautiful things that

are displayed gorgeous!!

This month I went with my two girls,

Kristin and Stephanie

and our friend, Bethany ~

Our first stop was Laurieanna's Vintage Home

which is always amazing !!

She has such a wonderful talent of making

her shop over the top gorgeous!

I am kind of

wondering why this guy

never unloads his trailer ~

I think I have taken the same

picture before ..... like maybe 2 years ago ~

See that fence gate wayyyyy on the bottom..... I want it !

I am not thinking that this bike cuts

it for my beach cruiser ~

But there were tons of them

and they would be super cute

in the yard with flowers ~

I bought some flowers here because she

had them displayed in old stuff and they were so cute!!

Two of the 3 girls ended up with puppies ~

We wanted to "save" them all but couldn't ~

I have been adding some of the things

I got at Canton and to my shop and

will continue to this week ~

I already can't wait until next month !!

A couple of weeks ago Lisa and I went to Canton

for First Monday ~ Oh my gosh !! I am so very

much addicted to that place ~ I LOVE it !!

Our first stop was LaurieAnna's Vintage Home which

was pretty much to die for amazing !!

It is beyond anything I can even begin to describe

and words and pictures are not enough ~

Another place we had to go was to the

Girls Gone Junkin shop ~ It is also just awesome !!

I am constantly amazed

at the talent of all of these ladies ~

I really loved this coat !

Thank you Lisa for all of these pictures

you shared with me :)

I wasn't going to post this one until I read the sign in

in the background and had to ~

It is perfect !

When I was in Canton last month I got a few wonderful old books ~

I started reading one I got on Etiquette from the 1800's ~

It is so much fun to read !!

Here are just a couple of the sentences that make me smile ~

There are quite a few though ~

"With care the skin may be kept free from the disfigurement of freckles. "

"A warm water bath once a week is necessary for cleanliness."

"A nap of 40 winks will help aged people get through the day in comfort."

This cracked me up ~

"If the eyebrows unite, let them alone. If you remove uniting hairs a scar will be produced which will disfigure more than the meeting eyebrow."

I could go on and on with each chapter of this awesome book ~

Yesterday I went to Canton First Monday Trade Days,

which is pretty much one of my

very favorite things to do ~

Give me a junk'n day over the mall any day !

I don't like new junk but old junk ~

More like old treasures that tell a story ~

LOVE IT !

I found some wonderful things and will

be listing them at Katies Rose Cottage soon :)

Darn I just noticed the awesome iron bed in this picture ~

I didn't even see it when I was there ~

I think that is Margo from Flea Market Style Magazine

and Robojunker in this picture ~

I need to pop over to her site and ask her ~

I get in such a zone while I am there that

sometimes I don't notice much around me ~

Well alot of times .....