July flea.o.logy, the best way to spend a Saturday!

  Flea.o.logy day ... I still love it after all these years ... a lot of work, absolutely, adrenalin, a must, exhaustion at the end of the day, definitely.  But after doing 4 or more sales a year for 9 years, I still love it.  Here are some pics and notes on the sale last weekend, here in Payson Utah, with a total of 36 dealers.

This is a closeup of a spot in my space ....

 This picture shows about half of my space ...

The side by side Victorian secretary got a new home, it turned out so nicely I was so tempted to keep it.

 I thought this was the most unusual find of the whole sale.

 This new dealer came over from Vernal to join us!

Love the random pics, like my sons chatting ... please note the disembodied arm.

 

 This is Dealer Dru's third flea.o.logy ... she is a smashing addition to our show!!

 

The Scottish festival was going on in town too, fortunately for us the fliers they sent out were misprinted with the address as 250 N. Main, instead of 250 S. Main ... we are at 218 N Main, and the crowd we attract on our own, made us look like a festival ... it was super fun to meet lots and lots of men, and ladies in kilts!

This dealer had rusty antique keys available for a buck ... not bad when I am seeing them at antique stores these days for $5!

 This charming fretwork and picket surround found a new owner at the sale, namely me ... It was just $125 and will perfectly span the last open bit of my soon to be fenced back yard ... I am pretty sure I couldn't have found the components for the amount I paid, and Mr. Fleaology, has just a little less work in his future!!  Thanks dealers Vicki and Mark from Bountiful's Pick it Vintage!!

If you've followed me for  long, you know how I love a pennant banner, there were several dealers sporting them... it makes it feel so festive ... sort of like a circus!!

 This part of the venue is my back lawn, leading to my garden house ...

 With the Cravings Truck serving up gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, and the Snowie truck making healthy slushies, we were all set!! 

A couple more shots of Jennine's booth, who's stuff I always adore ...  

and lest you think I forgot to take pictures of 2 Pits of  a Pear's set up, (as if)  they are getting their own blog post ... I adore there goodies, and it was super fun to hear their stories of selling at the Farm Chicks sale this year!! So stay tuned!

 Of course Liz, our resident face painter did her usual amazing work... and she will also be featured in my future post about a funny thing that happened at flea.o.logy with our four Lizs in all!!

Thanks for stopping by to enjoy flea.o.logy ... this cute couple came at the end.  They live in town, but have never stopped before.  But when they saw this carved rooster, as they drove by, they knew they had to stop at flea.o.logy for the first time.  Don't you think they look happy that they did?

Alice in Wonderland Card Banner

 On my Mad Hatter's tea party blog post, I had a a request for a tutorial on the cute Alice Card Banner, but since it was a gift, and I am against copying the designs of others, I went out on the Internet and gathered some public domain images of  basic playing cards, and very old Alice illustrations that have fallen out of copy right.  If you saw that post you may recognize them as uncolored versions of some of the same. So here they are copyright free, just for you!

 I am including my photo shopped version of the cards.  If you liked the colored ones on the other banner, feel free to color these yourself, after printing them off, of course.

This 'Alice' putting on a crown seemed like the perfect selection for the Alice Queen Card.

Of course, who else would be the Queen of Hearts, but the old girl herself!? "Off with their heads!"

 The rabbit in his court crier outfit demanded he be of the hearts suite, and since I was doing Kings and Queens, he received a promotion.  Though really, it seems to me that the Queen of Hearts would have a smaller and fidgety sort of person for a spouse, so Mr. Rabbit fills the bill!

 Then last of our four card suite is the star of the Tea Party!!  We all love the Mad Hatter, so it seems only fitting he be made King!

Have fun making your own version of the Alice Banner!

Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Our Mad Hatter's Tea Party was a grand success.  Everyone brought some finger food, old traditional foods for tea, like toast, cream puffs, clotted cream, marmalade, cucumber sandwiches and lemon curd.  

 Here are the girls at the tea cart, everyone but Alice wore a minimal costume, tiny crowns for the queens, rabbit ears, a top hat or spinning top beanies .  

 The sun was bright and very hot ... but I had opted for my side lawn instead of my shady front yard, just so we could eat by the garden house, it seems so whimsical to me.

Love this picture of the white queen licking her pinkies.  She's adorable!!

 As a service group, we always start our luncheon days with a couple of hours of charity work.  This time, we made ornaments for the Alice in Wonderland Christmas tree we are doing for the Primary Children's hospital fund raiser, The Festival of Trees.

The 'drink me' bottles were fun to make, and we finished several.

We also got lots and lots of fan folded paper done, to frame the red tart tins with the paper clocks in the middle.  Next month will be another work day for our tree.  We really managed to get into the mood of Alice in Wonderland with our Mad Hatter's Tea.  This may be our favorite Christmas Tree so far!! (It will be our fourth)

I know, it just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser!!