The last saturday of the month May through October the
Chicago Antique Market takes place about 5 blocks west of us. Nina and I went and found some cool stuff. There was some awesome metal cabinetry. I would love to have this.
One of these tin ceiling tile mirrors would look great in my downstairs bathroom.
I love the nesting chicken boxes and little metal hen house. I kept trying to think of a logical reason I should own these.
I did have to buy this graphic tea towel.
This
Frieda green apron with smocking was irresistible. Especially when all the vintage waist aprons were going for $5 each.
This flower print apron I could not pass up with the ric-rac and little ruffle inset bottom center. I just saw a vintage apron pattern for this exact design.
This brown gingham I thought was interesting because it is not sewn together with anything but the pearl cotton cross hatching.
The edges are turned under and the brown squares are cross hatched to secure it.
It looks like who ever made it , did not get a chance to finish it. All the strings were loose at the center of the waist band. So I machine stitched two rows of stitching to catch all the threads and pulled them to the back and snipped them.
All set to bake some cookies.
back detail. pretty on both sides ^_^
Wow, I have been nominated by Sandy from the blog Garden Path to be the recipient of the thinking blogger award. I am so honored. She has a beautiful blog, if you have never seen it you should visit. She is a nature lover from the state of Maine. She takes the most gorgeous photos and often writes haiku's to go with them.
Finally done, binding sewn down, sleeve sewn on and label attached! 
I sewed wide yellow ric-rac into the faced binding. I think it adds that little festive touch and will help it to show up against the black drapes in shows like IQF Houston.
Sunday was the Chicago School of Fusing May birthday party, hosted by chef and artiste Melody and her husband Dave.
that wiped these two gals out before we even got to eating lunch.
Here is Emily with the ever present needles in hand. This is how she gets so much knitting accomplished, she knits ALL the time. 
This is Emily's beautiful sock yarn that she sells in her Etsy shop.
Mel made all the birthday girls a pair of socks.
Emily made every one totes, you can never have too many! This is Anne packing her tote.
This adorable brown one is for me. I am not a May birthday, but it is sort of turning into an everyones birthday party.
This morning was the taping of the show. It aired live in Chicago so I have not seen the show yet. I will have to wait until 11 pm tonight to see it. During the taping they showed the previously recorded footage of the party and the landscaped balconies on a big screen, so I did see that.
Oprah and I are like best friends now, not, lol. It was clear actual communication was not an option.
Here's what I came home with. Another gift package like we got at the party so I can make more mojitos. And a gardening bag from Smith and Hawkins which I think will make an awesome KNITTING bag with all those pockets. Inside was a book from that cute Aussie gardening guy, sun hat and gloves, a gift card for gardening tools, seeds and a Lowes gift card for I think $150.