These are COOL mercury bottles......they were a big show hit!
**It took me ALL day today to download these few show pics (I'm pretty sure my computer is getting ready to crash) soI'm going to do 3 different posts on the Florida trip: these general Mt. Dora show pics....pics of the awesome new friends I met there....and then the pics of the backroads places and people!
I ended up buying these corbels, and 2 more like it, because they reduced them to a great price for me.....not crazy about the paint, though.
These burlap dealers were here in November.
The European linen above is fabulous........$18.00 a yard I think the vendor said.
The panda cookie jar displayed in the big wood bin was cute.
Shell art seemed to be big.....and there were some great primitives.
You find these industrial carts in lots of booths now---I saw chippy green ones, corrugated metal top ones, rough ones and shiny finished ones.
I really like the concrete sheep..... This dealer with industrial furniture seemed to have the busiest booth at the show. This show is spread out over 115 acres, with another big flea market next door to it, so you could spend all 3 days trying to see it all! It also felt like Equatorial Africa with the 85 degree heat, blazing sun, and dry, dusty wind!I was looking forward to it, but it turned out to be a bit TOO hot!
(Darn it........I had LOTS of great show pics, but gave up trying to download them!!)
I'm so excited to be heading to Mt. Dora FL in 2 days!!
Sharon and I will be selling in booth 89-- which is sorta near this building in the foreground --down on the south (far right) side of the show. (Looking forward to seeing all my Georgia friends that are coming!!-- See ya there!)
This video was sent to me by my good friends Charlie and Jenny who board their horses at Silver Cloud Farm on 81 in Walnut Grove.
During the ice storm last month the horses were stuck inside for many days and couldn't be turned out, and this video was taken as the horses were let out for the first time after being cooped up.
They seem timid at first, and then really get rolling!! Jenny's horse "Wawa" is the cute little paint up on her back legs showing off.
If you do your antiquing east of Atlanta, you surely have heard about the sweet sisters Angie and Christy who own MY SISTERS ANTIQUES on Main Street in Loganville.
These adorable girls are the nicest in the business and make everyone who enters the store immediately feel like family!!
They have a wonderful shop filled with great vintage finds that cover every category, and I always find something cool and unusual--at great prices!
I love how their vignettes always have some great architectural pieces in them....
....and I really loved this pink theme.....
....and how cool is Sandy?
This fabulous chippy pink-over-aqua cupboard is amazing in person (my photo doesn't do it justice)....and is offered by one of the nicest dealers I know....that would be Cheryl, pictured below coming up the aisle! This booth belongs to one of my other favorite dealers-- Susan Akins, and if you can't find a treasure in her booth, you just ain't tryin'!!
Be sure to stop in if you are in the area!! (The shop is closed on Sundays and Thursdays). Their website is:www.mysistersantiques.com
It seems like months since I managed some backroads therapy......and with temps hitting almost 70 and the sun shining bright (and the need for fresh merchandise) there was no way to resist, so I headed southwest through Georgia and down to Montgomery.
(Pictured above is the beautiful Meriwether County Courthouse tower in Greenville, GA)
We did some good pickin' around Montgomery and headed north on Hgwy. 231 and found this cool place.
The owner, Mr. Jones, was really nice and let me take pictures--it was much bigger inside than you could imagine, and totally filled with endless treasures--- which were so well organized (unfortunately almost always an indicator of higher prices).
Mr. Jones told us he lost about a third of his inventory in a tornado a few years back and hasn't bought anything since, which makes it hard to imagine what he USED to have!
He has EVERYTHING....and lots of it!!
I think the movie set production people should check this place out!
I REALLY wanted this clock.......
In Tallassee, we took a detour just before crossing the Tallapoosa River and Thurlow Dam to see this interesting abandoned building--I'm not sure what it once was, but I'm guessing a mill of some sort by the riverfront location.
I would SO have to play here if I were a kid in this neighborhood!
I forgot to get a shot of the river, but it was really pretty and wide, with old abandoned mills and bridges along it---makes you wonder what was once made here, and where we get those goods now?
A little more roadside dereliction on the way to Auburn...... It was a quick trip, but we got lots of great pickins (mostly smalls) at great prices in the malls and little places along the way---although I'm agonizing over what we had to leave behind because of space limitations (mostly bigs)!! (hmm....wonder if I could just run back over there today with my truck and be home by night?)
Take one chippy old door panel......add a twisty wire tree......and you have a funky and functional jewelry holder for hanging on the wall.
I added a wire vine to wind around it for more interest, which provides little places to hang rings and bracelets.
With the addition of a wire vine hanger at the top--it's ready to hang and display all my jewels---of which I have very few. This is probably the sum total of my collection (except for the boxes of vintage bits and pieces I have collected over the years to "do something with someday")
**I will probably list it on my Etsy---that is if I can force myself spend another hour in front of this computer today! The ice is melting, and if I stick to the main roads, I think I can safely venture out today! I am SO ready after a week of cabin fever!!
This project was fun--no real plan--just a general idea of size, and I bent and twisted the wire until something emerged that sorta resembled a flower!
The goal was to find a different way to utilize this cool chunky corbel I found the other day. Of course, the end result has to be functional, so I doubled the wire so it could hold photos, and you can also hang all sorts of stuff from the wire.
(Hmm, a jewelry hanger would also be a cool use--maybe with a wire tree?? I bought 4 matching of these corbels, so I have 3 left to play with!)
I just can't seem to stop playing with wire! The more I work with it the more ideas I come up with. My manicure is ruined, so I might as well keep going......
~It's all about the thrill of the hunt and cruisin' backroads searching for rusty gold. Rummaging for cool pieces of antiquity is only part of the adventure. Next comes the challenge of re-purposing into new creations with updated functionality. Favorite finds are architectural iron, wood salvage, industrial, lighting fixtures, automobilia, farm salvage, and old hardware. But the real story, which always transcends the pickin', is about the interesting people and the unique places discovered along the way!~
These are COOL mercury bottles......they were a big show hit!
**It took me ALL day today to download these few show pics (I'm pretty sure my computer is getting ready to crash) so I'm going to do 3 different posts on the Florida trip: these general Mt. Dora show pics....pics of the awesome new friends I met there....and then the pics of the backroads places and people!
I ended up buying these corbels, and 2 more like it, because they reduced them to a great price for me.....not crazy about the paint, though.
These burlap dealers were here in November.
The European linen above is fabulous........$18.00 a yard I think the vendor said.
The panda cookie jar displayed in the big wood bin was cute.
Shell art seemed to be big.....and there were some great primitives.
You find these industrial carts in lots of booths now---I saw chippy green ones, corrugated metal top ones, rough ones and shiny finished ones.
I really like the concrete sheep.....
