Barn Time

 

Another fun little excursion to Brick and Barn in Valley Center: birds, dogs, pumpkins, antiques--what more can you ask for?

Scenes from the Antique Mall

 

This I love...

A surly mannequin (modeling an overpriced two-piece outfit).

This I also love...it is a counter display sign.

Hmmm...

Groovy!

Okaayyy...

No words needed.

Fun Fall Outing 2023

 

A little antique shopping...

A farm stand/pumpkin patch...

And a cold beer on a very hot day. It's a Fun Fall Outing!

Fun Fun

 A fun outing on Saturday to Brick and Barn, in Valley Center, an entire, well, barn filled with (mostly) antique and vintage things. Lots of rusty crusty stuff...

 I love this display piece...

 Lovely mint green metal sewing machine (only $42!).

 They've got GNOMES!

 I have my Grandma Betty's wooden rolling pin (much nicer than these, BTW...)

 Ducks!

 Lederhosen!

 Chucho the rescue dog and his adorable fango...

 On the way home we stopped for beers in Escondido and this (odd) bookshop was next door--they only sell paperback romance novels. Quite a niche business plan...

A very nice time was had by all!

And we bought a cool vintage milk bottle--stay tuned!

Deep in the Heart of Texas: Round Top, Day 1

 The antiquing begins in earnest...(and no, we did not see the Dancing Chicken, darn it!)

 

 Lots of these, everywhere--photogenic, but fake.

 Coconut cream pie and a Diet Coke--oh yeah!

 Barn cupolas...lots of these, too, but I think they MIGHT be authentic. They are quite large.

 Does this sum up "road trip," or what?

 

 Bottle trees! And an art car above (Blogger won't let me put this text where I want to put it!)

 Things for sale...

 

 Something totally cool: as the sign says, the "World's Smallest (active worship) Catholic Church."

 And it WAS tiny, not much larger than a storage shed. It has 12 pews.

 So charming...a sweet tiny cemetery behind it, with many Polish names on the headstones.

 And a Texas sunset.

Day One: it was good!

Deep in the Heart of Texas: The Purchases

 

 Guess where I've been? In Texas, on a really fun week-long road trip with my sweetest B., that's where! We started in Austin and then drove to Round Top, Texas, home of the Round Top Antique Fair.

 While it was soooo soooo fun, the prices were mostly outlandish; we've been collecting various and sundry things for almost 30 years, so we know the market fairly well, and our eyebrows were raised much of the time. Above is what we bought from amongst the thousands and thousands of vendors and millions (literally) of things to peruse.

 Bauer yellow ring bowls (including a huge one that we've never seen before); my most excellent vintage paper pulp duck decoy; two Irwin squeaky dogs direct from the defunct factory that made them; a red Bakelite bangle; a tin Christmas card file; a wee hotel silver mustard spoon; a cool sixties necklace (bottom corner); various paper things...

 ...a wacky made-in-Japan Christmas ornament; cute cloth cocktail napkins; Christmas stickers; hankies; and a Boy Scouts "Librarian" patch for my very own librarian.

There were zillions of rusty bits, fake antiques (I'm looking at you, painted metal chairs), charming willow baskets and furniture (and cheap!) made by a most charming elderly man, giant aluminum barn cupolas, a stuffed Yeti head (um, sure), way too much shabby chic, lovely farm tables, and tons of store display items, which I love with a deep passion. I love them, but it's not $500 worth of love...

Many more photos of what there was to see will follow...

Also? I'm TIRED!