Market Days

     At a recent neighborhood Market Days, I really got lucky.  In fact, once I parked my car, I was literally ten steps away from this.

     Included in the set was this ironstone  tureen and ladle and these- all 12 of them.

     Now, at Thanksgiving , is my crew the type to sit Norman Rockwell - like with small soup bowls holding some fragrant Harvest on the Homeland concoction, chatting and sharing anecdotes during their first course?

     Well… maybe not… We do sit at the table, we do laugh a lot, and we do eat a lot, but when I try this, I can hear my father now:

“What is that for?” (referring to small soup bowl on his plate)

“What are we supposed to do with that?”

     I am going to try anyway. We can then laugh about it all as he shakes his head and thinks,

“What is Sister (me) up to now. That crazy girl.”

     At the same sale, I found these.

     Fourteen pewter napkin rings.  I immediately thought I could mix them with these, a hostess gift I received from a dear friend’s daughter.

Cost:

Soup set: tureen, ladle, 12 bowls       $25.00

14 pewter napkin rings                         $ 7.50

Would I rather pay $5?  Sure, but over the years I have learned more about value.  That concluded my garage sale shopping for the morning.

     I am linking to the following wonderful blog parties today.

2nd Time Around Tuesday and

Three or More Tuesday. Go see Diane at A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words and Tam at The Gypsy Corner for more entries.