Colonial or "Knife and Fork" platter by Hocking Glass, circa 1934-1936 I had been really looking forward to today. I went on to bed last night so I'd be well rested and ready to go this morning. Unfortunately, it is on just such occasions that insomnia loves to interfere. I was up at 4:30am. And just could not go back to sleep. I had a text from James, and my phone was beeping. After I got up for that, I couldn't get back to sleep. I laid awake, turning things over in my mind. I messed around on the computer for a while, put a movie in, laid back down. Nothing was working.
Finally I dozed off and woke back up around 8. I got up and made a big cup of coffee and went out on the porch, where I called James about 8:45. He wasn't awake, and had texted me about 2:30am, but he said he still wanted to go today, so I headed for Spartanburg. We had a really nice visit.
We had wanted Justin to come with us today, but he was off with his mother-in-law doing horse stuff, so we were kind of on our own. Neither one of us knew exactly where the antique stores were, but I had looked up some directions on line for a couple. But I didn't know if they were the ones I needed to go to or not. I needed to pick up a Chirstmas present, and had to go back to the store from last week to pay for the bowl they didn't charge me for.
We started off at Barnyard flea market in Duncan, but there wasn't much there today. What glass I found was pretty over-priced, and I left it where I found it. The vaseline glass asshole has been making the rounds up there, telling the dealers that glass that glows under black light is vaseline glass (not true - much green depression glass glows under black light), so they have all priced stuff through the roof, which just pisses me off.
After that we headed back towards Greer to do a couple of stores there that James wanted to do, but it was still too early. We had lunch and coffee, and found an antique mall over there that opened at 1pm instead of 1:30. I found some nice pieces in there, and a lovely selection of pink Adam. I was going to buy a divided relish, since I love that pattern, and love Justin's divided relish so much, but when they got it out of the case, it had a crack. I ended up buying a Colonial green platter. It was very nice, but not a super deal, since it came from an antique store. Still, I was happy.
Since we were so close anyway, we ran by Russ and Billy's house to pick up some stuff that James still had there. Russ is visiting his family this weekend, but Billy was home, and we visited with him a bit before leaving him to his quiet day.
We then headed back towards Spartanburg, to find the stores I had planned to shop today. At the first, a smaller newer place, I got my first Christmas gift for the year. I was pretty happy about that. The next one we visited usually has pretty high prices, and I hadn't intended to go there, but they do have a beautiful selection. I found a pink Mahahattan creamer to go with the sugar bowl I got the other weekend on sale for half price, so I bought that. They had a large Bubble berry bowl in the ruby red color, and it was beautiful, but at the time I decided that it was too high, and that I didn't have anything else to go with it, so I didn't get it. Now I kind of wish I had. It was really pretty. I did see some other pieces, but there was so much in there, I forgot to check prices on all the ones I meant to check.
After that, we went on into Inman to the store where I bought so much last week. I explained my situation, and they looked up the records to charge me for the bowl they forgot to charge for last week. We also somehow got roped into helping to move a table. It wasn't until later that I realized I had meant to check my reproduction section on a Mayfair platter they had on sale. I would have bought it too - they had it on sale for half off. I was pretty pissed about that when I realized it.
Then it was time to head for Justin's for dinner. He was back. We stopped by the store and picked up a few things, then headed for his apartment. By that time, James and I were ravenous - we'd had a light lunch at Panera Bread. Justin and I did a gleeful post-mortem on the day's finds, and then James and I attacked some spinach and artichoke dip. We had a lovely meal on Justin's Heritage Green Taylor Smith Taylor dishes, and then had tea and dessert. There was much snarky conversation and inappropriate laughter.
By this time, I was pretty worn out. Four and a half hours of sleep and a long day of shopping had me pretty whooped. I ran back over the James's apartment, and helped him unload some stuff. After a very pleasant little visit to end the day, I headed home. Really tired, but really happy. It was one of the best days I have had in a long time.
My life lesson for today was - If you want something, you'll never know if you're going to get it until you ASK. If you never ask, you never get disappointed, but you can sure miss out on a lot of stuff.
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