A Few Finds for Fall

Sometimes I forget to let you all see what I bring home from my vintage market shopping. But I had been looking for one of these standing vintage baskets for a while, and I just had to share it with you all. You can never have too many white pumpkins for Fall decor, so when I found a crop of these  "new" metal distressed pumpkins, one had to come home with me. and... I have a Brown Transferware detector built in, so I also grabbed up this little Brown Aestheic Transferware pitcher/gravyboat that was only $5. It's a cloudy and rainy day, so I had to quickly take some pics here in the Dining Room, where the light is always good.

I did some searching online and some of these are a creel type basket for bringing home the catch of the day. Other's I think may be a picnic type basket, but this one has water stains along the bottom of the wicker, so I'm thinking it was used as a creel.

It has a hinged lid with a cutout grip and what really got my attention was this cool canvas strap that allowed someone to carry it over their shoulder. It's a pretty good sized basket, so it could get a little heavy if filled. 

I would prefer a yummy lunch over a few grotty fish. Sorry, I'm not much of a fisher"person" and please don't ask me to fry it up for dinner... gagging sounds are being made here. I had food poisoning after eating a bad trout dinner at a restaurant once, and that was enough of eating anything where the eyes look back at me.

I'd like to recondition the wicker, because there is a lot of water staining. I'm torn as to what to do. I don't think I want to paint it, but I'm not sure. If I did it would be a light wash of gray. Any ideas?

Love that rusty distressed plump pumpkin.

It's just the perfect size and I've had it sitting on a cupcake stand here on the table.

The little pitcher didn't have a stamped mark on the bottom, 

but did have some kind of pottery marking that was hard to make out,

but it's definitely the real thing and very old.

I still had a little late afternoon light, so I took a couple of pics of my dining room table with the pumpkin on the cupcake stand. Cool down coming tomorrow, it may decide to be Fall after all!

xoxo,

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