And more stuff!

No, really, I must get a handle on my things.  But, just not right now.

When it's cold in Alabama, there aren't many yard sales.  And where I live, the estate sales within a 100 mile radius are few and far between in good weather.  So I go to antique stores.

Yep, new this week.

I found all of these things in the same booth in a favorite store in Hartselle, Alabama.
Bella Vintage.

An ongoing theme "I already have one (or seven)"
Yes, another camera, another clock, another scale, another frog, another ironstone piece.

But, I don't already have French carbonated lemonade bottles.

and the tag on this said it is a pharmacist's scale.  I only have kitchen scales.  The patent date here is 1898.

Thinking of Hartselle gives me an idea for a future post - there is a great restaurant called Cahoots and while the food is great, it could probably stand on it's own as a museum of vintage things.  Literally everywhere you look is vintage eye candy.  Here is a teaser photo from a couple of years ago.

Attention please Ladies: This is the Ladies' Room

Thank you so much!

Wow.  I feel very honored to be featured by Brenda at Cozy Little House in Welcome Wagon Friday.  Everyone is so kind.  I truly appreciate all the visits and nice comments.  

I hope to continue posting routinely as I have quite a collection of things and I visit shops often.  I do not have a business of any kind,  I just shop and collect.  One of these days that might change just so I can make some room.

My biggest hobby is photography.  Since the weather is not the best now, I decided photographing antiques, junk and collections is the next best thing -- as they are my second favorite hobby.

You people party a lot and I will figure out that aspect of blogging one day.

Thank you for the wonderful welcome,

Amy

This cabinet needs help

My home looks more and more like a store every day.  When will it stop?  This cabinet is overflowing.  I attempt to keep my things contained, but it is getting harder all the time.  I've been working on a "rotation" where I move things around, store some things, bring them out again.  I think that is the first sign of hoarding.    Oh, dear.

A skull, you asked?  He remained after all the Halloween was put away one year and I liked him there year around.  So he stayed.  (He's not the weirdest thing in there, BTW)

This is a little German coin purse.

Speaking of the unnecessary, I have a Label "vintage" on my vintage blog.  Geez.

Ancestors

Have you wondered why so many old photographs end up for sale in antique stores?  They are everywhere.  How did so many of them get away from the family?   Hopefully, most of them came from a photographer's own stash of copies of his work and were not tossed away by unappreciative descendants.  Many of them are tattered and have handwriting on the back with names and dates so that is not the case with all of them.  I wish I could purchase each one to save from destruction.

I remember a time when I was not a bit interested in long dead family members and their photos.  However, things have changed over the last 15 or 20 years for me.  I'm so glad I have these.  I hope my son keeps them long enough until he gets to the age to care about having them.  If the originals get away, I have them all scanned, high quality, backed up, electronic copy in bank safe deposit box - the works.

For those who are lucky enough to have these precious photos, please make the time to protect them (and your newer photos) from the worst.  One fire, tornado, flood, crashed hard drive can take them from us in a split second.  Get a scanner, learn how to use it, back up your hard drive, or pay someone to do it for you.  Think about it.  Enough preaching.  Please enjoy my ancestors.

Candy's Memories Gifts & Antiques

Another great store I shopped the other day with a great selection of vintage, antiques and new.  

Located at 121 E. Gaines Street (Hwy. 64) in downtown Lawrenceburg, Tennessee about a block from the square.

Find Candy's on Facebook.

Don't miss Davy Crockett and more antique stores and restaurants on the square.

I had a great lunch here.

Rusty Nail Trading Post

A new favorite.

So many photo ops here and bad/good for me - so many purchase ops!  I'm not sure where to start, but here's the big picture.  Isn't it great!

Yes, a rope bridge!

Something in the above photo came home with me.  The globe.  And yes, I already have one, but it's not pretty blue and gold like this one.

We will revisit the Rusty Nail with more photos in a future post.  

In the meantime please visit the Rusty Nail Trading Post's website.

and the Rusty Nail on Facebook.

Happy shopping!

Some New Old Things

These should be familiar to Sandie @ Steadmans' Corner.  I bought three of these items from her parents' booth!  The wooden box has a wonderful handle, the candy box is beautiful, and the buttermilk carton is, well, I just liked it.  The books came from the store owner, Sandra, and the hat from The Varsity in Atlanta came from Candlelight Antiques.

I love Halloween.   Enough Said.

Time, and time again . . .

Time and time again something funny happens that makes one realize what a small world it really is . . . and the power of the internet.  Today, while antiquing with a friend I met a fellow blogger.  I had just commented to my friend that the items in the booth we were in reminded me so much of a blog that I follow.  We moved on and shortly a lady came into the store, went into the same booth and began to work in the booth (I believe it's called "fluffing").  Anyway, I thought she looked familiar and somehow we started a conversation.  It finally hit me why I thought I knew her.  I asked if her name was "______" and it was.  It was the blogger I was speaking of earlier to my friend. She lives about 30 miles from me and I had happened upon her blog a month or so ago.  Life is funny.

If she sees this post and lets me know that it is OK to mention her name and/or her blog here, I will gladly do so.  If not, you will forever be wondering.

Update:  Sandie @ Steadmans' Corner is a fun lady with a new booth.  Good luck to her and her parents!

Trying An Emailed Post

and it worked!

I love clocks . . .

and office supplies and equipment . . .

Happy Holidays and my chip holder

I've been wanting a chip bag holder.  I found one this week.  It is holding some of my Christmas cards