"Fleaing"...from the rain!

Mom and I managed our ways through the mighty Ocean Grove flea market before the skies opened up midday. And yowsers, did they open up! (Of course, the sun is now shining at 6:30 p.m. That figures.) I didn't find any super bargains at the market or the yard sales around town (Has inflation taken its toll on "fleaing"? Or are people delusional over what their stuff is worth? Yup; I think that's it.) but I managed to make a couple of happy purchases.

I'll post my finds later, but I wanted to share some of our day (unfortunately, the gloomy weather made for not-so-bright-and-cheery photos).

I see this vendor around a lot, and her piles of old kitchen stuff always crack me up. If you placed every item splayed across her tables tip to tip, I think the product line would stretch for 10 miles.

Loved these colorful lobster floats, and two for $25 didn't seem terrible (I've seen them around here for a lot more).


"Super primitive" is how I'd describe this piece! But the children's Hoosier-like cupboard was awfully sweet.


Happy painted signs -- all on pieces of random salvaged material.


Such a great little vignette of stuff, and if you look in the upper right corner of the photo...

...WOW. I'm not sure what you'd do with this, but as my mom pointed out it would make for one heck of a ring holder.

I love old suitcases, and these dandies were super cute. Not sure if you've seen the end tables Anthropologie made from vintage cases (I couldn't find a picture online), but with some inexpensive hardware (think wood spindles or salvaged table legs simply screwed in to 2 x 4 mounts underneath the case) you could save yourself, like, $300!

Lastly, this charming vendor has a store called Candy's Cottage in nearby Asbury Park. And...is that the wire display I coveted when I saw it on Please Sir's blog? Pretty much! Unbelievable...I'm suddenly finding all kinds of postcard displays.

Fabulous Find

This past week we visited a table at Pottery Barn that’s a contender to “replace” the one that never arrived (the saga I ran through in a recent post). The “Harvest Table” they had on the floor also served as their clearance table, so M. and I had to clear it off to check out the surface more closely.

As we were clearing the merch, we found this…

…which now at home with my vintage Ocean Grove postcards! I was just looking at a peach of display over on Please Sir’s blog, and Diana was kind enough to point me to an earlier post with some other options. I’m not even sure where it will ultimately wind up in my home, but it’s kind of cute. And, with apologies to Minnie Pearl, I’ve left the price tag hanging.

(And, yes; I plan to remove the price tag.)