Helen and Her Daughters: Flea Market

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Vintage Dress Form

Last week my brother and I made plans to head out to the flea market on Saturday morning. It ended up raining and my brother called and cancelled on me. No problem, I certainly had other things to do. Later that afternoon I got a call from my brother and he told me that he ended up going out to the flea market after the rain cleared up without me. He must of felt guilty about it because he stopped by the house and brought me this lovely that he picked up for me while he was out there.

I just love her! I have never seen a red one before. Now I just have to find a name for her. Needless to say all is forgiven, I have the best brother ever.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

This and That

I picked up a little bit of this and that over the weekend, didn't find anything outstanding but did find a lot of great smalls. Mom and I hit a church sale, yard sale and a few estate sales plus we paid a visit to a couple of Flea Markets.

One of the Estate Sales that I visited had a lot of fabulous old photos and that is pretty much all I bought there. There was one item that I really really liked but when I asked the price the guy said it was already sold (just my luck). Anyway I was happy to walk away with some really great old photos.

We made plans to be at the Church Sale as soon as they opened the doors at 8 o'clock, however that didn't work out to well for us as they opened the doors early and the shopping was already in full swing when we pulled up. Everything was pretty much picked over and cleaned out but I did manage to find a few treasures that were missed.

Next stop was the Humane Society Yard Sale, not much there but I did find a couple of smalls and spent less than a dollar. I also walked away with a horrible sinus headache - the smell was horrible and we could not stay in the building very long.

On to the hoarder sale, it was just so packed in there you could hardly move. It was mostly books and not much else. I am a little mad about this sale! I picked up a 1971 Sports Illustrated Pro Football Game with the intention of selling it on Etsy. I asked the guy if all the pieces were present and he said yes they were and that he didn't sell stuff that was not complete. Well guess what - after researching it when I got home it is far from complete. Oh well, I took a chance and lost on that one. I did buy a few other things there.

Our last stop was the Flea Market. Love the wire basket, Cocktail set and the bottle opener I found.

More photo's on our Facebook page here.

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Oh and if you missed my earlier post on the Willard Suitcase Project you can find it here. Pictures and video of Jon Crispin's project photographing 400 suitcases and contents dating from the 1910 to 1960 found in the attic of Willard Psychiatric Hospital in New York.

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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Vintage Bread Cart

We had a fun junk hunting day on Saturday. Mom has family in Syvania GA and one of her cousins invited us down to look at some stuff a friend of his had for sale. We invited my brother to come along with us and the three of us set out yesterday morning around 8:30am. When we arrived we did some visiting with family and stopped by a cemetery where Mom's grandmother, grandfather and great grandfather were buried. I found her great grandfather's grave the most interesting. His name was JJ Morris and he was born in 1812 and served in the civil war. I also saw the house where all of my mom's siblings were born. After we wrapped up with all the visiting we rode over to meet the guy who had the junk for sale. He was quite a character. Just like someone you might see on American Pickers. Unfortunately, he didn't really have too much stuff that I was interested in, but you know me I can always find something. I dug up a lovely cast iron bird (that I just love), some old door knob plates, a little bottle, an old veterinarian's instrument and some deer antlers.

I was not completely satisfied and felt the need to do some further junking. My road trippers agreed so we drove to Statesboro and went to a flea market. This particular flea market was practically dead but there was one great vendor that had a lot of vintage. I ended up buying an old coke crate from her. I love the color and size of this crate.

What can I say, that still didn't do it for me. We decided to go to an Antique Shop in Statesboro that the flea market lady recommended to us. Funny story here. I probably would have come out a lot cheaper if not for Mom. The store itself was kind of weird. It was a furniture and vintage store. My brother and I whizzed through it in about 5 minutes and we were ready to go because there were not that many antiques to be seen. We decided to wait outside for Mom and after a while my brother said I better go check on her to see what was taking her so long. As I entered the store for the second time a gentleman ask if he could help me find something and I said "yes, my mother". He asked me if I was with the lady from Augusta and I said yes and he took me to the way way back (which my brother and I had completely missed) where all the antiques were (and there were a lot). I fell in love with the first thing I spotted. A beautiful chippy old bread cart! However I wasn't sure that it would fit in the back of the explorer. We measured and what a bummer it wouldn't fit. I asked my brother if we could tie it to the top and that's what we ended up doing. It made it home safely (although I was worried the whole ride home). So I guess I should thank Mom because if not for her I would never have seen this beauty!