first friday flea markets

We love our First Friday Flea Markets.  If you haven't been to one, you need to mark your calendar for the first Friday in March.  Our vendors are always wonderful, there are always deals going on in the store, lots of free treats and coffee and the perfect chance to enjoy some Phoenix weather and mingle outdoors.  We had so much fun last Friday with all who came and we missed all you couldn't make it.  Hope to see all of you there next month!

This month we had some delicious fresh produce...  you really missed out if you didn't pick any up!

Hope to see you next month!  If not sooner...

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happy.

Sometimes its the little things that can just make your day.

Like finally (!) finding a typewriter that actually types (even if it took me some serious time and lots of ink on my hands). Then making something (with said typewriter) that turns out exactly like you imagined, so that every time you pull your little homemade envelope out of your wallet, it makes you smile.

Somedays I need to just focus on the little happy things, so that the big, overwhelming things in life don't seem quite so big and quite so overwhelming.

And, come on, doesn't zigzag stitching on paper make you happy in that simplest of ways?

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kind of like disneyland for grown-ups...

At least, that's how I feel about going to the flea market. Walking up to the front gates, I just can't help but get that giddy, excited feeling. All the bright colors and the crowds of people (there were even guys riding unicycles out front this time). Wondering what I'll see, what I'll find, what I'll go home with. If going to the flea market could be an addiction, I would have it. I just can't get enough.

This dog in the jacket just made me giggle...

Another happy and successful day...

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and a fantastic Father's Day!

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