We got up nearly at the crack of dawn (ok, 7AM…whatever) and headed out to the Stormville flea market. They have several hundred vendors (a few times a year) and it’s everything from super-junk to flea marketty stuff to antiques. We also…pigged out. For a flea market..the food is top notch. No, really. It’s good! I may or may not have eaten 2 skewers of meatballs and a a large plate of bruschetta…and fried dough…and had some of the Fiance’s sweet potato fries. My stomach hurts. Why is that? Dang it was yummy.
OK…so what’d I score? A little of this…a little of that…and a whole lot of kitsch.
Tole trashcan – $8 – super happy with this!
Tole tissue cover – $5 – a best of all it mounts to the wall.
Fancy blue plate – $1
6-7 vintage dish racks – 30cents each. I’m going to use them to display books in my office.
push button phone – $2 – I have hearing loss and the old phones have REAL bells…
Home Kink – $3 – “How To” book from Popular Science/1952. I am soooo scanning articles from this – very useful and TOTAL kitsch.
Do Not Disturb sign – $1
Ballerina Painting – $20. I especially like the petulant one on the right.
Paint By Numbers Deer painting – $2. It’s so terrible. I love it. Will paint the frame white and traumatize my co-workers with it. Yes, this is going up in my office.
And now…my feet hurt and I have a sunburn on the back of my neck…
mmmm meatballs….
May 25th, 2008 at 7:57 am
OOOH! Was it Country Living that had that whole wall over the stairs with framed paint by numbers? I love it!
And dish racks to display books is a great idea…
The food sounds amazing!!
May 25th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Yeah it was in Country Livig Magazine this month — seems to be making the circuit at the moment, have seen it in lots of mags/design sites.
May 25th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I looove the deer painting and I’ll take two skewers of meatballs, please.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
We are in soooo much trouble. Apparently the Fiance’s parents were at the flea market all day too and we didn’t call them to ask if they were going. I told him they’d be there! He said “nah, they’re over that”. Why do men not listen?
The Fiance’s Dad reports that they go every year for the antique-ee stuff and because they craze the food from that place too.
May 25th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
First of all, how do you know what time my crack got up??? LOL!
Looks like you got some fun junque and I would like an order of meatballs too please.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Yeah, I was planning on going to that. Got tied up though. : (