Day 2 & 3 Of Trip

Sunday night, I found out that Karen, http://sadiessilkenthreads.blogspot.com/ lives only about 15 minutes from the Maumee Antique Mall where we shopped on Sunday !  Hopefully we will be able to hook up next time we are in Maumee ( in the Fall )  I would love to meet her in person!
Monday morning before we left Maumee, Tom took me to Joanne's so I could use a few of my 40% off coupons.  Darn my luck, so much of the fabric was already on sale, so I had to use my coupons on two spools of white thread and  a packet of embroidery needles.  I had bought a yard of a quilted fabric I really liked, reg. price $19.99.  So I figured I could use my 50% off coupon on that.  Turns out THAT was on sale too and couldn't use it.  I had to pay $13.99  Bummer.  I did buy some cute pastel polka dot fabric to make some more lil bunnies.
We drove on to South Bend Indiana, did some antiquing there.  I found a pretty beat up quilt that was priced first at $28, reduced to $20 and then the booth had a sign up that everything was 50% off - so I got a cutter quilt for $10 bucks!  Yay me!!!!!  I was so excited.  I NEVER find cutter quilts that affordable.
 Went to Applebees for dinner and spend the night.  This morning we drove on to LaPorte IN.  We arrived at 10:30.  The shop was closed.  The sign on the front door said they'd be open at 10 am.  We waited a good 20 minutes and no sign of anyone there.  We pulled out and drove around the corner, found another antique shop, it was also closed.  What the heck!!  We found two other stores we were interested in looking in and they were also closed!  It turns out we were still on Pittsburgh time and LaPorte is an hour behind us, LOL.  I can't believe it took at least 30 minutes for us to figure that out.!  Duh.  We waited, and got to visit all the stores that opened at 10 am INDIANA time but didn't find anything here either.  Still love looking around though.

We arrived in St. Charles IL at 2 pm this afternoon.  Just chilling right now and will be going to Gino's East for dinner for some Chicago deep dish pizza! 
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Day 1 Of Trip

 Before we got on the PA turnpike this morning, we stopped off at Trader Jacks flea market.  It was a beautiful morning, sunny, no wind and a good amount of vendors.  I didn't find anything but Tom was happy to pick up an old antifreeze water can from a gas station that he is going to redo and resell.  An hour and a half later we were in Ravenna Ohio at the AAA antique mall.  Neither of us found anything there.  That's not entirely true, I found several things I was interested in, but the prices were higher than I could pay.  Two hours later we are in Maumee OH at the Maumee Antique mall.  Tom had no luck here, but I bought 3 gray granite pans and an old semi rusty muffin/cupcake pan that holds 8 muffins.
We had dinner at Red Lobster.  I ordered a Mango Mai Tai YUMMMM  my first one, coconut shrimp, mashed potatoes and coleslaw.  We are spending the night here in Maumee and in the morning will head on to an antique mall in Michigan City, IN.
 We did run into some rain in Ohio after we left Ravenna, but I was snoozing and missed it, lol.
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PRIM BUNNY WITH QUILTED POCKET CUPBOARD TUCK

I just finished up this cute, simple, prim style bunny cupboard tuck with quilted pocket this morning. 

The pocket is filled with some Sweet Annie and burgundy and mustard pip berries. The pattern is by TRP.

Measures 9 inches high by 5 inches wide.  I listed it on my selling blog if anyone is interested.

My grandkids 'got me' yesterday with their April Fool's joke on Gramma.  They get here at 5:30 am and fortunately ( for me ) they go right back to sleep until it's time to wake them for school.  After I got them tucked in and settled the two older kids said "Gramma!!  There's a stink bug on the ceiling!!"  Knowing there is NO WAY they are going to be able to sleep with it up there I start off to get a paper towel to scoop it up with and they shout APRIL FOOLS!!  They are giggling hysterically because I fell for it.  They know how much I hate those darned things too.  Crazy kids.  lol  Did anyone 'get' you?

Tom and I are leaving tomorrow morning for our bi-annual trip to Chicago.  We'll be stopping at a lot of antique stores along the way.  I am sooo ready for another road trip!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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