Showing posts with label Flea Market Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flea Market Friday. Show all posts

Ode to Fall in a Small Town (or The One That Didn’t Get Away)

October 1, 2010

Have you ever been to a flea market, antique store or estate sale and found a treasure that makes your heart go thumpety-thump? And then your heart drops because you see the asking price? This has happened to me more times than I can count. But s-o-m-e-t-i-m-e-s I’ve been able to haggle the price down and bring that baby home.

The first time I saw this painting at a local church barn sale it was way too expensive for my wallet. I left without it and hoped that it would be there the following week at a reduced price. My prayers were answered because against all odds it was! Well, the price hadn’t been reduced, but I knew they wanted to unload it so I haggled them down to a third of the asking price!  And it's HUGE, exactly what I've been waiting for to hang above our family room fireplace. 


 I LOVE THIS!
Now let me explain why…..
We live in a “village” of around 2,900 people. This bucolic and historic village is known for its horse properties and 76-year-old riding club. The village itself will be 176 years old this year. Each fall, fox hunts are a mainstay in these parts (don't worry ~ no foxes are injured!). It’s quite common to see the riders in their red or black blazers trotting down the street or on one of the many horse trails in town. This Sunday is the annual Blessing of the Hounds ~ an event where the pastor of the village church blesses the hounds who participate in the fox hunts. The blessing will be followed by a hunt, and we’ll know that fall is officially here! This painting portrays polo players but the overall homage to horses remains the same.


 Look at the open book, the wire-rimmed glasses (which may be hard for you to see), riding gloves, riding hat and the vintage clock.




 And I really love the "paintings within a painting" thing that's going on as well.  The frame, not so much.  But I guess that's going to be a whole other barn sale!

I hope you enjoyed reading about my
Ode To Fall In A Small Town.
And thanks so much 
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Flea Market Friday

September 3, 2010

You'd think that living right near the Wheaton, Illinois once-a-year ALL NIGHT FLEA MARKET I would have gone there lots of times ~ alas, no.  But this year I MADE IT (thanks Mr. CBD for watching the kids so I could go)!  My quest was (you guessed it) vintage jewelry, baubles and bling.

Warning: there are lots of pictures!



I've always loved these vintage key chain tags, from different states.  These two are from Illinois!  On the back it says "Postage Guaranteed" and "Finder deposit in any mailbox, Disabled American Veterans."  A simpler time, for sure.

Vintage rhinestone pin and traditional vintage (Sterling!) silver Mary ring.

Not sure who this is....but had to have it.

Front

  Back

Another Miraculous Medal (there are quite a few different ones out there), this one commemorating sightings of Mary in Medjugorge, Bosnia-Herzegovina.  I snatched up the anchor out of a grab box thinking it was some kind of antique brass nautical charm with a mermaid on it.  Lo and behold I get it home and my daughter says, "Mom, that's Jesus on the cross, not a mermaid."  By gosh she was right.  And by gosh, I really need to get to the eye doctor some time soon (I mean it!)  Best part is that it's 14K gold!  I love it when that happens.


These vintage rubber stamps unexpectedly caught my eye, so of course I had to have them ~ for $1.00.

Two bracelets and some bling scraps.  (Picture doesn't do them justice.)  And now a picture of a few little things that made me do the happy dance.....

It doesn't get any better than this!

There's more I could show you but I think you get the picture.  Not a bad haul for about $15.00.

I'm linking this up with Kecia's Flea Market Friday.  Head on over there and check out the other awesome flea market finds! 

Have a great (and safe) holiday weekend, everyone! 
PsssSt...I'm also linking up here:

Debbiesdoos Loves Livin in the Carolinas Garage Salen Party
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Flea Market Friday

August 13, 2010

I'm linking this up over at Kecia's Lemoncholy's Flight of Fancy today.  I don't have a lot of bloggy time (chickadees have not started school yet!) so I'm going to post a few photos of one great barn sale find I picked up this summer. 




I thought this book would be great for photo shoots ~ I've already used it a bunch and really like the effect.  When we got it home chickadee #2 said, "Mom, this book is really OLD, the PAGES ARE FALLING OUT!"  And I said, "I know, when a book is 106 years old that's bound to happen! :)"  I really had no idea how old it was was when I bought it, I just knew I liked it.  Even chickadee #3 wanted to read the whole thing with me ~ it's really rather beautiful and interesting, of course ~ it's the Bible!

Tomorrow is one of my favorite church barn sales ~ wish me luck!  And have a great weekend!

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