CAMBRIDGE TRASH 'N' TREASURE

Today we are off to Cambridge, to do the Trash & Treasure Market.

It's a monthly market, and we have done it a couple of times before.

I thought it would be a good idea to add it into the ones we do on a regular basis, as over winter we only do ONE.

If we do OK today, we can do this one over winter as well.

So, we are up bright an early this morning, and off to Cambridge.

ABOVE: Coco got groomed recently, and OMG, within a couple of days she was super smelly again!  We have no idea why she's so smelly?

Does anyone else have a dog (s) that smell quickly?

ABOVE:  Stew bought this stuff for her.  The pet shop said it might help, one is a topical spray for itching, and the other one you put on her food.  I don't know if either will help, but I suppose time will tell.

She never used to smell this bad btw, I wondered if it's due to age?  

Alrighty, time to go... hoping it goes well.  Or at least there's lots of people to yak to if nothing else.

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ABOVE: Nice sunrise today. The sun will burn off those clouds soon enough. We're just waiting for the gates to open at 6.30... then we will be in and setting up.

9 am, all set up. Meeting friends here. No sales yet. Stew saw a stall that interested him, said I should check it out. Gave me his wallet.

Clever man! I spent ALL HIS CASH. 

I will show you on what when we get home. 

We just sold a colourful cot quilt... and its off to Scotland.  I love it when my stuff finds a home overseas. 😊

2.13 pm, and finally home and sitting down.

It is STINKING HOT outside today... possibly one of our hottest days so far.  There was a good breeze at market though, it blew over one of our racks at one point, so we had to peg it down.

IN all, it was a better market sales wise than we expected.

Knowing a lot of people are still away on summer holidays, and it's after Christmas now, meant less people around to shop.

But we did just fine.  Not huge sales, but worth it at the end of the day.

And being out there, being seen is always a good idea.  We get a lot of return customers, once they know we are there.

ABOVE: This market is predominantly second hand stuff, rip off clothes, bags etc.  Some good quality craft stalls, but not many.  Food stalls, hot dog 'n' chips,  might have had that for brunch. 😂😊  Sorry Mike.

ABOVE: Something I really like about this market is we can keep our car behind our stall (handy for unloading and re-loading), and you always get extra room out the front.

ABOVE: This is when our portable fan pays for itself!  Even though there was a good breeze, it didn't reach into the back of the gazebo where we were. I hogged it... sorry Darling.

Now, what did we buy, bearing in mind it was STEW'S idea...

ABOVE:  Wonky Houses!  How could we NOT get one for our garden???

There were three that were similar in shape, colour etc that caught my eye...

ABOVE: And this is the one that came home with us.  Now Stew has to put it on the fence ... a job for tomorrow, cos it's too damn hot to do it now.  And we are tired. 

5.30 am starts are a bit of a killer.