Spring Flea Market brings Apple Annie’s outside for a day with vintage, antiques and handmade crafts

CASHMERE — Just like clockwork, the Apple Annie’s Spring Flea Market is back again. That is, like a vintage clock, the kind your grandmother had in her kitchen. Saturday marks the first of the two semi-annual events that the antique mall holds in the parking lot.

The event looks a lot like Memorial Park in Wenatchee during the last weekend of Apple Blossom: Tent booths galore, each promising something you just can’t live without, from vintage items to retro, shabby chic, home decor, sports stuff equipment and memorabilia, camping and fishing supplies and a whole lot more.

So if you just can’t get enough of local shopping — remember, these are treasures from folks in the area and around our region — this just might be the place to spend your Saturday.

The Market runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. The new Huckleberry Cafe that just opened up next door to Apple Annie’s will be open as well if you need food or drinks or even just a cup of coffee to tote around as you browse. The antique mall itself will be open as well, of course, so if you’d rather shop inside, it’s available an hour earlier than usual.

But the fun of a flea market is in the fresh air and the crowd around you. When you’re looking at things that make a house feel like a home, people get excited, and the fun becomes the mission.

The semi-annual Flea Market has become a tradition for treasure hunters in the Valley and beyond. Join the fun on Saturday, May 17 from 8–4 and support local vendors and artists.

Andrew Simpson: 509-433-7626 or andrew@ward.media