Flea Market Loot
This morning I hit the flohmarkt down at the Leine river and it was surprisingly packed and loaded with new sellers. I found all of this loot below for around 20-Euros. Everything is vintage and in great condition and aside from finding these things, the warm sunshine and gorgeous weather only enhanced my visit.
It was a lot to fun to roam around from table to table up and down both sides of the river, and to stop for a drink and listen to the accordion player as I went. My grandparents and great grandparents played accordion so I grew up listening to it and really love this instrument despite how often it is dismissed up against the more mainstream ones. It is very hard to play, I tried!
The hangers were .40 each and handmade by the little old man's wife who sold them to me. I couldn't resist for two reasons: they will hold my shirts better than the plain wooden ones that I use currently and they are really cute (okay and super affordable!)
I love the vintage lace doily against that lovely federal blue framed in black, don't you?
The English creamer was one I'd been looking for since my London trip in May when I had coffee at Cocomaya, they had tons of these and I fell in love with their quirky faces. The marmalade porcelain jar is vintage too - it will look nice on the shelf in my kitchen with my tea tins and things...
All of these sweet finds will be packed away now and stored until the day when we move into our permanent home as I have no room for them here. Bye bye cute things, until we meet again!
(images: holly becker for haus maus)
It was a lot to fun to roam around from table to table up and down both sides of the river, and to stop for a drink and listen to the accordion player as I went. My grandparents and great grandparents played accordion so I grew up listening to it and really love this instrument despite how often it is dismissed up against the more mainstream ones. It is very hard to play, I tried!
The hangers were .40 each and handmade by the little old man's wife who sold them to me. I couldn't resist for two reasons: they will hold my shirts better than the plain wooden ones that I use currently and they are really cute (okay and super affordable!)
I love the vintage lace doily against that lovely federal blue framed in black, don't you?
The English creamer was one I'd been looking for since my London trip in May when I had coffee at Cocomaya, they had tons of these and I fell in love with their quirky faces. The marmalade porcelain jar is vintage too - it will look nice on the shelf in my kitchen with my tea tins and things...
All of these sweet finds will be packed away now and stored until the day when we move into our permanent home as I have no room for them here. Bye bye cute things, until we meet again!
(images: holly becker for haus maus)
Comments
Anyways! I love seeing your loot! It's a bit like getting to shop with you! Enjoy your weekend!
Alison
i love your blog, but i find the new font really hard to read. it seems very light against a light background. it could be darker/thicker.
AND! Love the new look for you blog, so clean + fresh!
I've been sitting here enjoying it...but can I make a suggestion?
Your posts are really hard to read all typed out in one clump. It would be great if you could break up the paragraphs.
The whole point of blogs is to communicate with your readers. But having no paragraph breaks, just huge chunks of hundreds of words, some (many?) of us just give up reading in the middle of it.
Thanks for considering it!
I have a passion for flea markets, thrift stores, garage sales, etc., etc. and so LOVE seeing your finds! I especially love your hangers...my aunt used to crochet hanger covers just like those, and so I really have a soft spot for them! In fact, I still have a couple that I treasure...and yes, they do function really well for those strappy tops or boatnecks tha seem to slip off the regular ones. I really envy the great vintage things you must find in Europe! That must be great, since they hang on to their past so much better than we do! Lori
danke für deinen Besuch bei mir!
Ich kenne deinen Blog deco 8 schon lange und ich liebe es! "Hollymaus" habe ich gerade entdeckt und gefällt mir geanuso gut!
Warst du die Joggerin in meinem Laden, die das Pferdchenbuch gekauft hat?
Vielen Dank, dass du mich verlinkt hast! Ich wünsche Dir einen schönen Urlaub! Éva
and time it so I can go to this fabulous fleamarket where you keep finding these treasures...
Cute coat hangers, what's old is new again, eh?
Laura in Ludwigsburg
I'm taking a literary fairy tale class right now, and it reminds me of one of the tales we just read--a boy had a golden stein with a similar sort of face that, when melted down because the poor boy had no money, transformed into a little dwarfen king who aided the boy in changing his fortunes. It's called "the black brothers." I love objects like that, so quirky and with a bit of mystery to them.