Flea Market Finds

It's been awhile since I have found some really great stuff to buy at a flea market, but this weekend I hit the jackpot! I found a box of various picture frames for $5.00. There was a total of 13 frames in the box.
I also found these cool old Victorian framed prints for $4. There is an inscription on the back of one that reads, "To Bessie Jane from Lois Bought in Norfolk, Va. 1949." Now, I am not an antiques expert by any means, but these do look really old to me. Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to rotate the picture. I also found a paperback Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook for $3. Always a good standby and I'm ashamed to say that I didn't have one (but I'm certainly not lacking cookbooks - LOL).

And the grand finale.....drumroll please.....

This ultra cool, had to have them, buy them for me please honey dishes! I have always thought that it's neat when people collect a certain china or dinnerware pattern. I've always wanted to do this, but quite frankly I've never found anything that I wanted to collect (until now, that is). I'm also very much into wanting to actually use the things that I collect instead of just letting them sit on a shelf somewhere and look pretty. I love yellow and green! My kitchen is painted yellow and I have green accessories throughout. And anyone who knows me knows that these dishes are sooooo me! I just love them!
Okay, enough of my wooing over my new dishes. :) In this set there is 7 dinner plates, 7 salad plates, 4 cereal bowls, 8 cups, 9 saucers, 2 cool little oblong bowls, a large serving platter, a creamer, and a long oblong dish which I think might be for bread or something (?). The maker is Franciscan, the pattern Picnic, made between 1974 and 1979. Like I said, I don't know anything about antiques and the like, so I'm not sure if there wasn't many of these made or if they are just not that popular. I had a really hard time finding them on the internet and ended up only finding them in one place. The lady had about 6-8 separate pieces for sale and they seemed to be kinda pricey. So, I don't know what their actual worth is, but I didn't buy them cause of the worth I bought them cause I love love love them. And oh yeah, the whole set was $35. It was a real steal! :)