Flea Market Bain-Marie (and other great finds)

 All polished up and ready to use!

Today we ventured to our annual Antiques Faire in town and came home with some wonderful finds.  I saw this copper and porcelain Bain-Marie (double boiler) and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a $4 price tag.  FOUR DOLLARS!  These sell new for three hundred dollars!

Before photo

 Before photo

My husband gently hammered out the small ding on the lid.  The protective coating was still on the lid and all of the copper was pretty grungy. After a little a LOT of elbow grease it "Shown like the top of the Empire State Building!"

 

I also paid $4 for the cute zinc pitcher and quickly filled it with flowers from the garden

  

 

The blue enamel coffee pot was purchased on our way home from Yosemite National Park two weeks ago.  It, too is darling filled with fresh flowers.  I've got the "flea market" bug again and hope to make it to the "Foire Nationale à la Brocante et aux Jambons" in Île de Chatou (near Paris) next month and do some SERIOUS flea market shopping!  Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh....don't tell my husband  :)

xoxo

Nancy