Sunday farmer's market finds

Today Bob and I went to the Fremont farmer's market. It's so awesome, every neighborhood in the city has its own (really big and well organized) farmer's market. Last week, we went to the one a few blocks from our house and bought most of our groceries for the week. Fremont's market is more of an arts/crafts/antiques/and also food type of market.

Anyways, we were on the lookout for a hutch/sideboard for the entryway, and also a kitchen table. We don't really want chairs to go with the table, we have one cool light green metal chair (that was really an outside chair) from ikea, and a stool. We did want to get one or two more chairs eventually, but today we found an awesome, many-times-painted red chair:



FOR TEN BUCKS.

It has an awesome patina on it of places where the (no doubt lead based) paint has chipped off, revealing an orangy coral, and some spots where the paint is gone, showing the wood underneath.



I had to do some work on it, the legs all had metal endcaps that we were worried would scratch our floors. Don't want security deposit taken out for scratched floors :). Upon closer inspection I found that it was all crumbly wood glue holding on the metal caps, so I pried them off with a screwdriver and sanded the ends (Bob had sandpaper. Not that I probably don't have it somewhere in a craft box too), then applied little felt thingies:



I also found, at one of the many booths that were like miniature thrift stores, an "all jewelry this table $1". There was this beautiful brooch there!



Yay for farmer's markets! Or is it farmers' markets?