Ella Elaine: June 2010

As I promised, I would like to share with you pics of what we packed into our SUV on our Kansas trip. While we were unloading I decided it was like trying to count the clowns getting out of the car at the circus. The stuff just kept coming and coming and coming.

A few of my favorites are the beautiful blue battery jars.

This was all in the car, except the card tables.

A couple of columns, a birdcage and I am a happy camper!

Clocks, collars and creams...

I found the best architectural pieces ever.

This window piece may end up on one my walls at home. We'll see...

With a little imagination, this old Model T part will become wall art.

I am going to use the child refrigerator and stove to display my magnets.

A few of these have already been spiffied up and are in the booth in McKinney. I think My Dear Hubby deserves one of these trophys!

Last weekend My Dear Hubby and I traveled up to Kansas for the Mid America Flea Market.

The above photo is one I took as we were leaving. The photo below is one I took when we first arrived. The sun is not up a 5:30 in the morning...

The dealers are not able to set up in the building until 5:30. They all started showing up and began to quietly unload. It was intriguing to watch. Shoppers (me) were walking around asking prices before the items even hit the floor.

My dealer friend from McKinney and her husband have been going to this market for years. Carolyn and Kent met us there and showed us the ropes.

It was fun watching the "building" of this sale.

See the dirt area?

I will tell you about that in a couple of photos.

Tables seemed to just appear out of no where. We constantly had to walk around to see what newly arriving dealers had to offer.

Rows appeared along with more and more shoppers.

At 8: 30ish an announcement over the speaker brought even more dealers to the arena (dirt) area. I quickly made my way over to see what else I couldn't possibly pass up. I found two columns just as they came off a trailer. I also found some metal bread trays. I asked the dealer how much they were and she told me the price. I decided I wanted a few and was picking through them when a man walked up and asked the dealer how much they were and she told him the price. He said " I will take them all." Of all the nerve. I looked up at him and said I was buying some... I must have had some look on my face, because he backed up and said he would take what was left then. I had a good mind to buy them all. That is what the little devil on one of my shoulders told me to do. Thankfully the angel on the other shoulder won out and I was nice.

The crowd kept growing.

I started stacking a small part of what I bought over by the door.

MDH started loading the Tahoe. Now ,you have to realize we had been buying for several days before this sale started. Caroline and Kent said they would share a trailer with us. We agreed, but had no idea that we wouldn't' be able to find one to rent when we needed it. This left us with the one option of entering the contest ~

"How much can YOU cram into a Chevy Tahoe..???."

I looked around and there was way more stuff on the ground than would ever fit. I voiced this opinion out loud to my MDH. He didn't say anything. I knew he had his doubts too or he would have done that man thing of, " Oh no, it will fit, I can do anything..."

I just started handing him whatever item he thought would work in each strategic move.