This weekend was one crazy busy hoo-ha!
My kids had last week off and it was relaxing...
but we ended it with a bang.
I participated in our city's artwalk on Friday.
This weekend was also the fourth Friday of the month...
and to me, that means it is my favorite weekend -
time for our vintage wholesale market Pickings!
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| Succulents and and iron grate |
Last month I sold my banners there,
but this month I shopped and my kiddos hosted a lemonade stand
(see more about that a bit later in the post).
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| Vintage Juicer |
I just wanted to share some of my eye candy from this weekend,
as captured on my HTC OneX phone.
This phone takes the most amazing photos - I am blown away.
These photos may have been cropped but not retouched/altered at all...
aren't they gorgeous!? ENJOY!
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| Miniature gardens in all sorts of magical vintage vessels. This is a creation of THE SILVER PLANTATION |
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| Cool bottles of all sorts |
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| Vintage Suitcases |
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| Egg Crates |
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| Hat box with a top hat that belonged to Bing Crosby |
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| Gorgeous old jacket |
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| Jars of amazing buttons! |
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| Gorgoues carvings on doors |
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| The chair, the painting, the doilies...LOVE! |
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| Springs and Greens |
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| Let's bring back stoles! |
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| Lots of Steinbeck books - I do live in Steinbeck Country! |
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| My helper...Posing |
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| My helper...pouting |
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My kids hosted a lemonade stand at Pickings and will be donating a portion of their proceeds to help save the Lovers Point Childrens Pool.
We have a great ocean front pool here.
I have spent many, many summers wrapped in a blanket with coffee
watching my son learn to swim (summer is not warm here).
My daughter never had a chance to take swimming lessons there.
It was definitely a gathering place for mom's and kids during the summer.
The pool needs help. In 2011 it opened for 2 weeks. In 2012 it did not open at all.
The area around it is being revitalized...
and there is a grassroots effort to raise enough money $250,000 -
to fix and reopen the pool. They are half way there and every bit helps.
So...we tried...we did not raise a lot...but every little bit helps.
It was about the experience and feeling like they were helping!
That is a peek into my life!
Hope you had a great weekend!
Gorgeous photos! It looks like a wonderful place to sell and buy! I'm so glad your kids worked a lemonade stand to help the pool! It's great when children want to help their community! Thanks for sharing! Hugs, Leena
ReplyDeleteyou mention vintage and it got my attention, I LOVE vintage and looks like you all had fun - beautiful items and pics
ReplyDeleteWhat fun...and such a great thing to do with your kids.
ReplyDeleteI love the typewriter with the succulents.
Vintage stuff and lemonade sound good to me! Love some of those finds!
ReplyDeleteHow fun that they did a lemonade stand! And hopefully the pool can reopen. What an amazing view you would have while swimming there.
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