Yes...I AM a little fruity!

My name is Annie and I have a problem!

I am currently cleaning and finishing up a bunch of home projects, preparing for out of town family who will be visiting in July! I have painters coming to paint my ceilings and the big wall going up the stairs. I tried to do the ceilings but downstairs, one room ties into another, which ties into another! Just too much ceiling! ANYWAY...back to my problem. I, like so many of you wonderful blog friends, LOVE to go junkin'! That's not my problem! MY problem is I tend to come home and drop all my bags in my dining room and sometimes it takes me a while to get back to them. Well, I recently was cleaning out my dining room preparing for the painters to come! I must have opened a dozen bags from my TS shopping sprees. I found wooden bowls, rusty graters, old bottles, Spanish moss, glue sticks, pip berry swags, metal pitchers, quilt pieces, fabrics....oh, the list goes on and on! And......I found FRUIT! I've started collecting fruit -- apples, pears, gourds -- for several ideas I have for my fall creations! I didn't realize I had SO much fruit. My son is calling me "the fruit lady"! Oh, but I love every piece I've found. And a few I love so much, they will be displayed among my own fall decorations!

And, of course, I can't pass up a good garage sale. These are some items I found at ONE garage sale last weekend! I passed up a few goodies that I'm really regretting now! Look at the wonderful apron! I just LOVE that -- 50 cents! And that wood bowl!!!!! Only $4! It's a big one and very nicely seasoned! She must have collected old bottles for she had a ton of them. I picked up a few flat bottles with which I plan to "rust" up and make old elixir and potions bottles for Halloween. That old copper ladle was $1.00. The copper alone is worth more that that! I don't know if you can see it, (maybe click to enlarge the pic) but in the back is an old wood lamp base -- 25 cents. It has a round metal base that I plan to rusty, and once I take the top piece off it will make a great make-do base! Oh...and look at that old potato masher in front of the grater -- 50 cents!

Okay...I NEED YOUR HELP on this one. I thought this was so neat and vintage looking. I know it's a grater of some sorts. A little round jar and this piece screws on to the top. Can someone tell me what it is used for?

Well, just wanted to come on with a few goodies and let you know how much I appreciate all the comments you all have been leaving. I really, really LOVE reading all your comments. I don't comment back here, because I know many of you will never come back and check. But I DO try to visit your blog and comment there! I will be very busy the next few weeks and probably won't be posting as often, but trust me...it won't keep me from visiting you all. Thanks so much for coming by today! ~~Annie