Showing posts with label flea market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flea market. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

flea market sunday...

it has a good ring to it,
flea market sunday!!!
{or maybe I'm just obsessed with sifting through other peoples junk?!}

after being tipped off to this flea markets whereabouts,
{by our wonderful in-the-know friend!}
we naturally, packed up the boys and lugged them to it!

did we find much?
not really!

apart from this guy,
it was mostly just snooping -
but boy was it entertaining!

I think we shall make it a weekly occurrence!
{yeah, we'll see how that goes!}

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

fleas...

flea markets everywhere!!
it was glorious!
during our weekend in nyc,
we dedicated a whole day to walking around brooklyn 
scouring through tables of beautiful vintage-ness.

even the brick roads had me head over heels!

 we scooped this baby up for $5 {!!!}
to go with his friend from calgary {seen here}

then these little guys
{not sure why the band-aid, maybe for its simplicity and charm?!} 
we had to get gray's initials in the letterpress letters,
onward with the collection of g's!!

and as if the lantern wasn't going to be challenge enough to bring home,
we stumbled upon this find
a very rare and delicate surviving map
of the 1939 world's fair in new york
{walking through the busy streets of manhattan was a little nerve-wracking with this one along...
but sooooo worth it!}

you see, a while back
I snagged a few photos from a box of old stuff from my grandparents...
I took photos like this guy here

just because it was a giant sphere and it intrigued me.
looking into what that was exactly, I found out that my grandparents 
{living in new jersey at the time}
were at this 1939 world's fair and these were from that trip.

so now, we have these awesome family photos,
and a map to give them context...
{found in new york no less!!}
pretty exciting find!
now to have them framed...