It's been forever since we have posted on the blog, but its been a busy end of summer and start of fall. The best thing that happened....I went on vacation!!!!
It was a great trip to the sunshine state! I have loved Florida since I was a kid. I used to carry the directions of how to get to Daytona Beach in my wallet because there was no such thing as the internet, GPS, cell phones or Apps. This way if I ever decided to run away or when I turned 18 and decided to move, I'd be prepared. In my Senior book I wrote that in 10 years I would be living in a beachfront condo in Daytona Beach, working as a travel agent, unmarried, and driving a 1979 (I did not graduate in '79 just liked that year's model) midnight blue Corvette Stingray. HAHAHA!!!!!
By the time I was 28, I was married living across the street from were I grew up and had a 6 year old son. Funny how life works out just the way we planned. LOL
Anyway, on this vacation I had told my husband I wanted to go pickin', so we hit flea markets on the way down I95 to Florida and on the way back. We also stopped in several shops in Daytona and surrounding little towns to see if we could find anything unique.
The haul wasn't huge, but the finds were fabulous.
We first found the flip-top table in a little shop in Daytona. The shop owner had just gotten it in, and didn't have any history on it, nor did he know what the inlay was made of. I'm still trying to some research to see if I can find out exactly what it is, but it is a beautiful piece.
We then found this awesome antique smoking table at a wonderful cluster of shops in Holly Hills. I had never seen anything like it in my neck of the woods. See how it has the drawer on the side with the ash tray and cigar holders with a kerosene lighter, then the humidor on the front. Whether you smoke cigars or not the piece is just fascinating to me, and would make a beautiful side table in your living room or bedroom.
We stopped at this huge shop on the river in Daytona that was packed full of antiques and repurposed items. It was a paradise. I noticed this corner chair just sitting along a wall, but it had no tag or info on it. The seat was not attached and was obviously upholstered over, but it was something I had not seen before at all. I was intrigued...then this little old lady spoke up and asked if I was interested in her chair. I said yes that it was cute. I didn't want to sound to eager and her throw out a HUGE price that I couldn't afford, but instead she said she was the owner's mother and offered me the chair for a decent price. I was hesitate because though I thought it was a unique piece, I was unsure if the price she was asking was really the deal she made it out to be. I decided to think about it, research it, and if it was meant to be I'd be back on Friday and pick it up. So.......I went back Friday and sure enough there was the chair this time tagged with the price she had quoted me. I snagged it up and brought it home with me!
On the way home we stopped by the St. Augustine Flea Market. Loved this place. It had such a variety of stuff to look through, but unfortunately I didn't score anything. My husband however found this great old fishing pole. His intentions were to use the guides off the pole on an antique rod/pool cue he is fixing up for his brother, but after being stopped by a man at the flea who informed him it looked like a valuable antique rod that he got a super deal on.....he is thinking he's going to keep it for himself and find something else for his brother.
Now lastly on our pickin' excursion my husband and I had stopped at a flea market in Jacksonville on our way down, and had seen a small telephone table and chair. It was a corner table, something we had not seen before. We couldn't make up our minds on whether it was worth picking up, so we left without it. Then as the week went by and we were out pickin' my husband kept bringing up that telephone table, and how he thought we should have gotten it. So on the way home we stopped again at the flea market and picked up the table. The gentleman selling it was the only antique dealer at this flea market. This was one of those knockoff fleas meaning there were lots of purse dealers, sunglasses, cellphone cases, socks, sheets, just all the stuff I am not really interested in finding at a flea market. I figured this is why the little table was going unnoticed. Everyone coming to this flea market had a cell phone and no idea what a telephone table would ever be used for.
So now we are back with our little haul, and eager to get started on the next phase of Homespun and Redone. New and exciting things coming next week! I can't wait to share with you!!!! I am SOOOO EXCITED!!!!
