Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Day One Hundred Thirty Six 2013

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Wishing my daughter Kelly and her husband Kerry a very happy 5th wedding anniversary today! This old-timey photo was taken in Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg, Tennessee, sometime in the summer of  2006 [I think].
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This was taken yesterday. Son Knox joined the Kimbrough gang in December, 2011. They’re having fun celebrating five years together [and counting] this week in the Smoky Mountains. Wishing you all the best of everything today and always. I love you!!

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Day Two Hundred Thirty Eight 2012

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Roll out the barrels. We’ll have a barrel of fun. Did you know that the orange and white striped barrel is the Tennessee state mascot? Just kidding. But it could be, since the interstates always seem to be under some form of construction. TDOT is preparing to pave some more road through Wilson County, as we passed through on the way to a rare Saturday visit to the flea market.
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The Nashville Flea Market on a Saturday is stuffed with vendors and people who all seem to be pushing baby strollers and/or mini shopping carts. I prefer to visit on Friday when there’s no crush of humanity. Aren’t these big green bottles beautiful? One of the prettiest things I saw all day.
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It’s an election year, so there’s plenty of political memorabilia if that’s your thing.
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These are the coolest wire baskets, and now I wish I’d bought one or two.  They would make great planters. For African violets, maybe?
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It’s almost that time again! There were jack o’ lanterns all over the place.
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There’s more than just junk and tube socks to be had at the flea market—such as these antique record players or phonographs.
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This one is really vintage, and for some reason I can almost hear one of my mom’s fave tunes  ‘I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire’ playing on it.
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These are records that old phonograph plays—not even a vinyl disk but a wax cylinder. Technology is amazing, no matter what the era.
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I don’t even know what to say about this. Just…weird.
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These ancient boxing gloves look like they might have belonged to a gorilla.
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Zombie Raggedy couple.
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This was probably the scariest thing I saw all day.
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If only they still made the film…..
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Should have bought this to add to my little collection, but I didn’t.
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You didn’t build that.
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Hubby Neil always gets stuck lugging around the shopping bag. By this time, it was pretty heavy with three (small)  ironstone platters I’d bought. I think the only other thing we bought was fried pies.
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Would love to visit some day.
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More jack o’ lanterns.
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There was a vendor there who had an interesting display of historical memorabilia for sale from Colonial times up through all the wars into present day.
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A lot of their items were political, of course, like this election year poster. And yes I’d love a change, but I don’t think McGovern can help at this point.
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This was interesting. It looked authentic.
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Hey, look, I think I found Jimmy Hoffa!
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We could use him right now.
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Balloon man was there, creating cool stuff like this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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Power to the monkeys, right on.
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It was a pleasure to serve you.
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And this is what Neil finds fascinating. Go figure.
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Next stop after the flea market was the Kimbrough house, where grandson Knox seemed happy to see us.
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Son in law Kerry got to join us for our lunch at The Chop House. Knox got comfortable on daddy’s lap for his liquid lunch. Sorry, Kerry, I cut off your head.
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He conked out during lunch. His little neck brace pillow keeps his head from rolling all over the place.
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At Babies R Us, he got a big kick out of riding Dumbo.
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Got this cool pop up tent to play in.
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Knox is a blur now, he can crawl so fast. His mommy and daddy will have to invest in some gates pretty soon.  Good times, fun Saturday!

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Day One Hundred Seventy Four 2012

A Day At The Nashville Flea Market
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It was unbearably hot today but not for this bear. He got to spend his time in air-conditioned comfort~always a plus when you have to wear a fur coat. (He was so cute and soft)
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I can’t believe somebody was even charging for this thing. Maybe it’s a collector’s item.
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I was curious about this thing. It looked like some kind of torture device or weapon. The tag said it was a wheel. For a plow maybe?
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Someone with a sense of humor set out a water dish for these metal piggies. Oink!
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The rock people were there today. They sell these stones with names on them. We’ve bought one for each member of our family, and Neil set them in the sandstone pathway around our house a summer or two ago. We were glad to see them there today because we wanted to add grandson Knox to the path. Alas, they did not have one with his name, so we’re going to order one.
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This would have tasted really good as we meandered through the market this afternoon.
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This guy had some major dragon breath. Who buys this stuff?
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March of the lavender bottles. They were really pretty in the sunlight. The picture doesn’t do them justice.
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“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”~Hannibal Lecter.   Of course that’s the first thing I thought of when I saw this bottle.
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Today was most certainly creepy doll day at the flea market.
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There’s no escaping the fact that it’s an election year. This can looked more like something in which you’d carry fish bait. Either way, it all stinks.
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This vendor had some of the coolest jewelry for sale. She’d made necklaces and bracelets and rings out of old watches. It was unique and kind of classy.
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I mentioned that it was creepy doll day.
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I wasn’t kidding.
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They were everywhere. This one might give you nightmares.
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I always covet these vintage boots. (They were everywhere today, too.) I guess women were much smaller back in the day. My big toe would not fit inside one of these.
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One vendor had a shelf full of these little nightmares….I mean, dolls.
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Neil said this was a statue of Napoleon. Whatever.
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Jurassic Flea Market
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Cute little garden cherub looked like she was about to fly away, so she had to be restrained.
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Some folks believe this is what it’s all about.
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Escapees from the zoo—or stars of Madagascar.
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Apparently, “Miss Harlem” approves of this brand of ciggies. Wonder where she is these days?
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This always breaks my heart—family photos that have ended up at the flea market. Label your pictures! It’s hard to hang on to a photograph of someone when you have no idea who that someone is (or was).
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A colorful display. The flea market was packed with stuff this month.
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She’s thinking, I know I left my body around here somewhere….
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Greetings from the flea market! Gratuitous self-portrait.
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This vendor had the whole alphabet for sale.
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I guess the helmet didn’t make much difference in his case.
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No wonder Ken has that big smile on his lecherous face.
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Rawr!
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Does anyone know what these things are? Anyone? (Just kidding. I used to have a clothesline in my backyard. Neil took it down. He said it was ugly, so there you go.)
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Apparently, some artist figured Lennon would look better if he was yellow.
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Yeah baby! Fried pies. I like the chocolate chess. Neil likes the raisin.
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We were really thirsty. I wanted a bottle of water. Neil wanted a Pepsi. He put two dollars (yes, two dollars!) into the machine, pressed the bottled water button and out popped this diet Mountain Dew. We decided to just go with it and share it. Not too great with fried pies, however.
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We headed to daughter Kelly’s after our trek through the flea market. Grandson Knox likes to stick his tongue out. Kelly says he’s going to have chapped lips. They travelled home with us for the weekend.
Happy TGIF, everyone!