Lemoncholy's flight of fancy: Columbus flea market

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

an impromptu flea market friday

Since last Thursday was so beautiful here in New Jersey a few friends and i got to hit the flea market, so i thought we'd do an impromptu flea market friday this week. To play, just show us some of your flea market , thrift store or garage sales finds in a blog post. You'll add your linky to my post on friday so that others can see your blog post and then you need to link your blog post back to my blog.

see you friday!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

flea market friday - join in!

Hi from Pennsylvania. I am staying with my girlfriend, Leslie, and we are taking a few classes at Beadfest. Tonight we started our two day class on resin applications with Susan Lenart Kazmar. It was fun and i resined a lovely butterfly that i found on the ground at Wawa before class. this morning before driving to Philly, i stopped at Columbus flea market and found a few things. you'll have to excuse my photos, as i had to do an impromptu photo shoot inside my car since i would be blogging here at Leslie's house.

adorable plastic Scottie dogs bracelet

great metal container full of vintage fabrics, rickrack, lace

metal and plastic and jewelry findings

vintage mass cards

awesome kewpie party dolls about 12 " tall. i got them for jane and i to fun up

ran into my friend and fellow blogger, Jill. I also ran into my friends, Abbie and Holly and forgot to take their photo (so sorry girls!)

Thursday, July 29, 2010

don't forget

don't forget that tomorrow is flea market friday.
feel free to show off our cool vintage finds from the flea market, garage sale, thrift or antique store.

the rules of participation:

1) you don't have to have gone to a flea market on friday - you can show off any wonderful treasures that you have found any time while at the flea market, junking antiquing or thrift store.
2) please mention Lemoncholy's Flight of Fancy's Flea Market Friday in your blog post and link back to this post.
3) this is a blog hop to meet other bloggers, so please no links if you are just trying to advertise your site. if you'd like to talk to me about sponsoring your flea market website, feel free to email me.

*see you tomorrow!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Columbus flea market

(photo hijacked from Jill Harris)

last thurs. i hit Columbus early and without jeff. tuck is home from school, so jeff watched tuck while i ran over to the market before taking the car in to fix the AC (3 years old and the AC has broken twice now). my goal was to find a vintage doll for a project i am working on. and you can see from the photo, that i did indeed find the perfect doll. while i was there, i ran into beth and jill, which was really fun. they both were pushing around their cute little carts while i chose to hand carry my stuff in bags and backpacks ( i find those carts are so hard to get around the booths) finally i ran into beth again and i opened my palm up to show her that i had .21 cents left and it was time to go! tomorrow is thurs - see you there!

Monday, August 17, 2009

hitting the flea yestreday

Yesterday morning i took a drive over to the Columbus flea market (Columbus, NJ). it's about 45 minutes or so from me. you have to go early as it gets hot and the vendors pack up around 10:30/11:00 since they've been there since 4:30am. i usually go to Columbus on Thursdays, as that's when all the vintage/antique people go, but some guy i spoke with was telling me i had to go there on a sunday as it was great. Well, i beg to differ! there wasn't as many vintage/antique people and it was a lot of crap. it was hot, smelly and there were soooo many people. it was like family day with 20 family members in tow all toting strollers and screaming children. it was crowded to the point where passing people and even looking in booths was difficult. drove me nuts! quote me here, never again! anyway, enough complaining. i found a few things that were fun before hitting the road. i got an awesome bag of vintage plastic and metal cracker jack type of charms. so when i got home, i immediately put them to work as turned them into bracelets. they turned out great and hopefully will go over well at the Country Living Fair (CLF).

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then as i was leaving the flea market, i saw a garage sale so i stopped. he had a bunch of awesome stuff. i picked up a darling pair of vintage green gloves in the prettiest green color ($1), a box of (4) vintage Mustang hubcaps (1960's) for a project that i'm going to do with Dillon ($5), a wood level for jeff (.50 cents), some junk jewelry ($2). but the best thing was this white portable washer on wheels. the guy said he used it to clean out parts, but i looked at it and saw a cooler or something i could do tie dying/coffee staining in. it also might be part of my display for CLF. look how great is it? cost? now don't get mad - but it was $3!

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i took a different way home as i wanted to stop by this other flea market that i've seen before (and heard about) but had never had the courage to go to. it is very SKETCHY. It looks like something out of the bayou's of Louisiana - almost as if you will enter in, but never come out. It is very run down and the it is full of shacks (shantys as i like to refer to them). the first thing i saw was the scrap yard, which i ventured into, but it really was more of a dump. so i gamely headed back into the shack area. the first shanty i went into was run by a woman with very few teeth (see what i mean?) but she turned out to be really sweet. i asked her about the place and she said it's always been a flea market, for 50 years or more. she said Wednesdays were the day to go as it was much busier. there must be 30 or more of these shacks on the premise all full of "stuff" - most of them were closed. i picked up a few things here and there. all in all, i found the people to be very nice and friendly. if i have time, i might go back wed. just to see how the action is and then do a post for flea market junkture.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

wow, a sunny day in New Jersey!

we had a nice day today here at the Jersey shore - and let me tell you that means something! it has been cold, rainy, cloudy, windy, gray and we are all tired of it! so jeff and i headed out to a flea market after getting tuck on the bus. we went to a different flea market, this one is further away and we got a little lost. but that's okay, it was a nice enough day to be out driving in the sun that we didn't mind. although i did have to finally call my friend, Abbie, for the flea market address so that i could program my GPS. thanks Abbie, glad you were home! while pursuing all the wares, i came across this darling woman. her name is Michelle and she was more than thrilled when i asked her if i could take her photo. don't you love her spunk? and check out her pin!

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at another booth, we came across this darling little doggie being carted around in a little pup sack. her name is Zora and she is a therapy dog. she was there with her doggie sister, but can't remember her name.