Indulge Your Shelf

On our last day of fun in Texas, we drove to Keller to the Mistress of Junk show; our friend, Kristi Day, had a booth of vintage goodies there, and we met up with another friend, Linda Postma for lunch and some more shopping! Here we all are -- Rebecca, Linda, Kristi and me! T he beautiful weather we'd been enjoying suddenly turned freezing cold that day -- that's why we are all wearing jackets! I wish I'd taken more photos there -- this was part of Kristi's booth that I loved so much! After we'd seen all there was to see at Mistress of Junk, we drove to nearby Grapevine and had lunch in an antique store with a cafe!  Then we spent some time looking around the store... On a different day, we went to another Waco vintage shop that I just loved, called Junque in the Trunk!  I loved this faux "spring cotton"  Clever standing lamp And I got myself this T-shirt that I really, really love and can...

I was so excited to finally be able to go see one of those huge Texas antique fairs!  Rebecca's daughter attends Baylor University in Waco and we have always said we would road trip to see her and go antiquing while we were at it!  It took us three years, but we finally did it! Me, Rebecca and the Bluebonnets! We were able to stay at Rebecca's daughter's apartment, and since we drove that made it affordable for me in this poor, out-of-work situation I still find myself in!  I so appreciated their hospitality!  The weather was warm and inviting -- we even got to sit poolside one day! -- and there was so much to see and so many sweet students to meet between Rebecca's daughter, her roommate and their friends!  It was a blast! Rebecca and me Roundtop and many of the sales in the area started up the last week of March but officially opened the first week of April.  We were there on the 4th day and it was a great introduction to a show of this scope an...