Shopping for the (one-day) shop

I have so many friends who have booths in local antique malls, and a light bulb went on one day. When I retire in a few more years, I, too, will have time to have a booth in an antique mall. So now I’m going to start devoting a few shelves in the garage to my “one-day” antiques booth (“Angela’s Antiques,” as I now think of it). Friends who’ve had shops before tell me it’s a great way to rotate antiques in your house. By the time you’re tired of a piece, someone else is just getting into vintage things and will love it. And so, all that to say that one of my recent Saturday thrift store finds, this $12 hot chocolate pot, is something that I will decorate with now but that may end up at Angela’s Antiques one day.

It was apparently a great day for picking up cheap plates. At the same store, I found a Thanksgiving plate I’d never seen before, and I look forward to decorating with it this November.

Earlier this year, I discovered too late that I didn’t have very many pretty green things with which to decorate for St. Patrick’s Day. This $3 rose plate goes into my “spring” box of decor in the garage.

I do love a pretty enamel tray, and this green one is by Marjolein Bastin, whose work I have loved for many years. And $5.99 seemed like a great price for a nice big 13-inch-wide tray.

This little kitchen plate with a prayer on it ($2) matches a Lord’s Prayer plate in my kitchen, so I had to have it.

And ironically enough, my new glass “teacup” with Brim on it (49 cents from a thrift store in Carrollton) was actually an old advertising mug used to promote a coffee blend back in the day. I was almost home to Newnan when I finally remembered the company’s slogan. Do you remember it?