Fall Antique Weekend 2012

Wow, this week flew....but, our trip was wonderful! It was such a good time of antiquing, family fun, and fellowship with some of our extended family. The first day antiquing was a bit warm, but then our second day was cloudy and rainy, which is always kind of fun I think. Rain boots are a must for Antique Weekend in both spring and fall because it can get pretty muddy if it rains! We didn't have any luck finding the one big thing we were looking for (a dresser) but lots of cool little stuff.

We found some neat things for Boo including this little turquoise cowgirl outfit, an adorable Mary Poppins book, and a beautifully colored South Dakota pennant. She loves learning about U.S. presidents, but especially Lincoln and Washington, so this was a fun find!

Boo and I dug through lots of containers to find all these adorable accents for her vintage dollhouse. Such cuteness! I especially love the rug and wooden stool in the back.

We got this set of Chinese lanterns from a lady whose booth we always love. The colors are so bright and lovely, and I'm always looking for fun random party decor to add to my collection!

These little maps are from a 1955 German newspaper and are uber COOL. We bought 2 of our favorite cities we've visited - Paris and London - and then our favorite country - Italy. The illustrations are just adorable and we're going to frame them for Boo's room.

These pieces are all from Guatemala - cute little bags, a basket, and a table runner...I so love prints and colors like these. We also bought a larger version of the cool basket in the back.

Boo also picked out this pretty Frida Kahlo frame (she recently studied her in one of her art classes), a little doll for her shadowbox, metal plates/bowls for outside play, and a little Guatemalan purse. She loves antiquing and searching to find cool stuff, just like her mama! So cute.

This was another cool fabric piece from Guatemala, along with some adorably decorated bottle brush trees. Loved the colors and they're always so expensive online, so I was super excited about these.

Other finds include a gorgeous colorful kimono, some school stuff, and an original polly pocket little house and people (the teeny tiny ones that actually fit in your pocket, which my sisters and I had when we were little)! Anyway, that's it...fun stuff though!

We stayed with some family and got to visit others, and we so loved spending time with all of them. Family is just the best! One of our trip days we took Boo around our alma mater's campus (Texas A&M)...she's been there before but it's been awhile and didn't remember. It was fun showing her mom's favorite studying (nap) spot, dad's old studio, our favorite places to eat, and just special little places around campus/town. BCS has grown and changed quite a bit, but Aggies are still some of friendliest people you could ever meet! It was cool to see all the new modern buildings on campus along with some good green initiatives - like the neat water bottle fillers on top of the water fountains (have you seen those?), solar composters, recycling everywhere, and so forth.

It was such a great trip but I was so happy to walk into our nest and "be home". I so love my home and filling it was things we love (like the above) and making it a special place for my family. I truly am a blessed gal. Have a great weekend!

Away we go!

We are off on an adventure to here, one of our favorite places - it's a magical land called "Antique Weekend" with acres and acres of beautiful antiques and amazing vintage finds! It's awesome. Seriously. And we love it. And I can't wait to be there. We also get to go here, another fave of ours, and see some of our favorite people. It's going to be all kinds of wonderful! We have a short list of things to look for antiquing but we always find random cool things along the way - wish us luck! I will probably IG some neat things we find too if you want to follow.

Be back soon to show you what we found...Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

I'm Loving...

Hello! Things have been busy around our nest as of late but I wanted to share some things I've been loving recently...

These cute vintage Little People that I'm currently planning a certain someone's 3rd birthday party around. That certain someone LOVES vintage LP right now, as do I. Their colors are so fun and everything Fisher Price made to go with the LP sets is just plain adorable. I've definitely been adding pieces to our collection lately thanks to aweseome Ebay and my beloved Etsy.


This gorgeous vintage afghan I scored off Etsy from CaptainCat! Zelda, the seller, was so wonderful and even worked with me a bit on the price. It had been in my favorites section for quite awhile and I still can't believe I was able to get it! The rainbow colors are just SO beautiful.


These butterfly hair clips I made Lovebug for a local butterfly festival...and yes, by "made" I mean I attached hair clips to pretty store-bought butterflies. They looked so pretty landing in her hair.


Anyway, just some things I've been enjoying lately. What about you, what have you been loving?

Antique Weekend 2010

SO while our Antique Weekend trip was incredibly fun, it wasn't incredibly purchase-filled...which is completely fine, just different for us :). Anyway, everything we bought is in the above shot and it's all vintage Christmas decor. In includes a bigger reindeer to go with the two smaller red ones we got last time, two beautiful tiny caroler angels that match one I scored on Etsy last year, three different sized nativity scenes that I love, an adorable 1940's "ABC" Christmas book, and a cool hot pink bottle brush wreath. That's all folks! Cute stuff though, and again, we had a blast. I would really recommend if any of you ever plan on attending Antique Weekend to go to the first weekend ("Preview") as we normally do because we definitely noticed a difference in the amount of sellers and inventory, as well as the traffic. :)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend my friends!

Antique Weekend 2009

Hello! This weekend we're finally off at Antique Weekend and we're beyond excited!!! We all CANNOT wait to get there. It's such a mellow time for us that we really enjoy and after not going in the spring, I'm itching like crazy to get there and do some fun searching. I took ALOT of pics of last fall's trip finds but never did a post on them. I thought I'd do my computer a favor and do one so all of the excess find photos could finally be deleted :). So without further adieu, here they are...

We scored four of these cool vintage chairs that I absolutely adore! My Love remembers sitting in chairs exactly like these at elementary school. They are super sturdy and strong.


These are vintage stainless steel meal trays from an old jail outside of San Antonio...Lovebug loves getting meals and snacks on these.


This is a cool big globe we found for a complete steal and then the little one was just plain adorable. Apparently I like small globes. OH and with these vintage Nancy Drews and a few other copies I found on Etsy/Ebay I was finally able to complete my childhood collection that somehow had missing volumes. I absolutely adore the original Nancy Drew series and hope Lovebug does too someday :). I'd love to re-read them all right now!


I fell in love with this plastic Christmas village set...it's so precious. My Love did a lovely display on our mantle last Christmas with it that we all adored.


Just some other vintage holiday cuties we found for our advent tree and other random display. I do so love vintage Christmas ornaments and decor!


Apparently I really like these little Asian boxes too as it's the second one I've bought.


I adore matryoshka dolls as well and found these two adorable ones. One was a steal and the other one really wasn't. :) Anyhoo, I have fond memories of some our babysitter brought back from Russia when I was little. Lovebug LOVES these too...she plays with the "steal" set.


Oh my goodness, I love this bowl! The colors and design are just beautiful!!! I immediately grabbed it knowing it was mine without even looking at the tag. Thank goodness, it was completely reasonable. :)


We were lucky enough to inherit much of my childhood vintage Fisher Price Little People stuff and Lovebug (and I) LOVE to play with it all. So we're always on the lookout for pieces we don't have and found quite a few last fall! Hopefully there will be more this year too...


Here is a little collection of finds...an adorable painted cross, vintage embroidered fabric, an embroidered Christmas table runner, and some beautiful pillows from Guatemala. I'm a sucker for bright colors and gorgeous embroidery.


Last but not least is this absolutely adorable little plastic vase and vintage postcard. I fell in love with the colors in both and loved the fishing village scene.


Well those were our 2009 fall finds...hopefully we're finding fun stuff right now on our 2010 trip! Be back soon. Have a great weekend.

Christmas 2009 Decor

As planned, we took all of our holiday decorations down this last weekend and I love how simple and clean the house looks right now. I loved the Christmas decorations so very very much, but it's a really nice change. I snapped some pics and wanted to document it for next year, as well as share it with you all of course :).

A simple garland of vintage wire candy canes found on Etsy and hung on white embroidery floss I use for everything...


I love these two vintage reindeer found at this past fall's Antique Weekend surrounded by organic cotton fill "snow" we had lying around....


Homemade soy candles surrounded by vintage pretties (found where you can probably guess:) and some tree clippings. This is sitting on top of one of many crochet doily placemats I inherited from my mom...


I adore vintage crochet snowflakes and have collected many over the last couple of years from various places. I love seeing them hang, especially around our Michelle Armas painting, which she created for our wedding anniversary this last year. She has been getting alot of much-deserved attention lately around blogville (so glad!) and a print of her gorgeous Secret Garden painting is even being sold at Urban Outfitters now! SO, check her out...


This lil' holiday village on our mantle was one of my favorite things this season! I scooped up the bottlebrush trees at Antique Weekend this past spring and the houses in the fall. It's surrounded by more organic cotton "snow"...


An inherited metal basket filled with vintage Christmas books, some of which were my Love's growing up, some were Etsy finds, and the others were a sweet gift from a dear friend. This sat on our coffee table and the books were read and/or flipped through quite a bit! The vintage bells and the ribbon were also found at the amazing Etsy. Shocker, I know...


More adorable vintage reindeer found at a thrift store from the same thoughtful friend (thanks Emily!) surrounded by more of that "snow". I love these little cute guys with their tiny bells...


Another village shot...I loved this even more because my Love did it all and quite enjoyed himself along the way! He did a wonderful job and I so loved looking at this every day and seeing his work. I'm a blessed girl...


So there you go, our Christmas 2009 decor. What fun! I loved it overall more than any other year thus far and I look forward to the 2010 decorations, but first comes Valentine's and ALL the other seasons/holidays that I love so very much :)! For awhile though, I'm just going to enjoy the minimalist look we currently have going on.

Spring Antique Weekend '09

I'm writing this ahead of time and scheduling it to post while we're at fall Antique Weekend right now - YEA! :) It's part of the reason why things were so crazy because we were leaving to go out of town (plus other things I'll share later). So as I was eagerly anticipating our upcoming trip I thought I'd look at the photos from our trip back in March...and THEN I realized I never even did my post on our finds, did I? Well that was the beginning of my blog silence really and I just never posted on it...so I thought I would now. Better late than never, right?

We LOVE our antique weekends...I mean really, for us, it's a blast and is so relaxing. We love walking around and searching for cool finds. Love it. Our list of stuff to search for wasn't very big so we ended up with lots of little things which was fun. Lovebug had an awesome time mostly in the jogger but sometimes we wore or carried her. She loved seeing all the people and things...and of course just being outside! :)

Here are some little letter tiles we found. I had to dig through MANY boxes to get the whole alphabet + extras. I have many ideas for these but haven't put them to use just yet...


I loved this little Asian box. So adorable...


Some cute potholders for Lovebug's little kitchen...


We were able to find some pretty vintage dresses and shoes for Lovebug. Funny story is that those shoes are completely different sizes...hah! Yeah, didn't even realize it until we were home. I had a pair just like that when I was little (which I inherited) but these were bigger (one of them:) which excited me...Oh well. I love the Mexican dress which she wore here...


We loved this guy and thought the red was such a beautiful pop of color...


I fell in love with this babywearing Indian gal and the little dancing hulu girl, which are for Lovebug's eventual room...


This is all for Lovebug's future room too. Let's see, a piece of gorgeous fabric I want to turn into a pillow...a beautiful elephant I couldn't resist...and a pillow handmade in Turkey from vintage Central Asian textiles and costumes...


More little bits for Lovebug's someday room...


Cool vintage cars, trucks, etc. for Lovebug. She loves all of these, but I love the surfer van the most :)...


You might recognize these little Japanese fellas from my Easter post...


It's hard for me to pass up vintage hankies, especially if they have crochet edges. I love crochet doilies too...


We got all of these bottle brush trees for such a steal! I had to dig through SO many to get these ones though. I'm hoping to find more colors this trip...


Lastly, here is Lovebug and I at our special stop where we enjoyed a picnic lunch and a little nursing...gosh, it's crazy how much younger she looks here! :)


We really had SUCH an enjoyable trip this last spring and I'm sure we're having an incredible one right now too!! Gosh, I cannot wait! Hopefully the weather is being nice to us and Lovebug is enjoying herself as much as usual. I'll share our finds once we get home...Have a wonderful week!

Fiesta Party

I wrote this earlier in the week but am just getting around to posting it. Anyway, last weekend was SUCH a blast! My Love's parents threw a big 60/80 fiesta themed party to celebrate his grandparents being alive 80 years with 60 of those together!


Alot of family members flew and drove from different parts of the country to be there to celebrate the two of them. It was so much fun and the special couple thoroughly enjoyed themselves!


My little part of the very detailed and planned party was the decor which was really fun to put together. My in-laws and my Love's aunt did the rest and they did such an incredible job! Fiesta decor is so colorful and vibrant, which made it all the more fun! All of the fiesta supplies and decor I got from the famed San Antonio Amol's and I love it all!


Everything is all handmade, SO colorful, and just beautiful. I had wanted to make the paper picado banners we put everywhere myself, but just ran out of time unfortunately. The ones they sent me are far prettier than I could have ever done though! The handmade paper flowers that I arranged in some of my vases and containers are gorgeous too! So, if you ever need fiesta decor, check out Amol's!


For one of the centerpieces, my mother in-law requested it to be pictures of the couple's kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. We had found a metal tree at Antique Weekend for our advent Christmas tree, but thought it would work for this as well.


I found the little vintage sombrero on Etsy and the handmade paper flowers are again from Amol's, which I just twisted onto the branches and trunk. I carefully chose and cut the photos of everyone, and then put a little bit of temporary tape on the back of them and added a little ribbon loop and voila, a fiesta photo tree! My sweet mother in-law was very pleased and everyone enjoyed looking at all the pictures.


My mother in-law found these really cute maracas that all the kids (and adults:) just loved. They were fun little favors too!


The food was an overwhelming array of delicious Tex-Mex (of course) and once we began eating on the patio, a live mariachi band came playing around the corner. My in-laws are known for their surprises, but this one was especially enjoyable.


They entertained everyone for an hour and the special couple got up and danced a bit, which was so cute! Thank goodness the weather cooperated and it wasn't too hot that day.


We stumbled upon the little fiesta dress that Lovebug wore at Antique Weekend and of course HAD to get it! It was perfect and she kept the little flower hair clip I made her on nearly the entire day.


She had such a ball getting to play with her sweet cousins all day long...Lovebug and this beautiful cousin of hers especially adore each other! :)


My in-laws had pictures of the special couple from throughout their life set out all over their house which was really neat. The dining room was set up as the "wedding room" with alot of their wedding memorabilia as the decor, including her wedding dress, their wedding album, guest book, newspaper announcement, and other special mementos. It was so sweet to look back at their 60 years together!


There was also a replica wedding cake with their original wedding topper (so cute!). They cut their cake and even fed each other, which was just beyond precious!


It really was just the most perfect day and so wonderful to have all of our family there to celebrate the still very happy in-love couple! Well, I wanted to share it with you all. Have a lovely weekend everyone! I'm spending mine with these two lovelies whom I just adore...