A late May recap.

I am really crap at this "frequent blogging" idea. It's mostly sheer laziness, but a smidgen of part-time employment on the weekends that has pretty much ruined my attempts at blogging. Huzzah for getting paid and haroo for losing my weekends again. Que sera.

Back in late May, my Mom and I did our annual pilgrimage to the Christie Antique show, and we both did pretty well from it. Every year there seems to have a trend, something that every other vendor seems to have. Last year was old school creel fishing baskets. This year, luckily for me, was vintage luggage. It's a relatively innocuous thing these days, everyone and their brother has got a suitcase from the 50s or 60s, but the big advantage of everyone having one is that they get cheaper. I picked up this beautiful mustard yellow carry-on for a whopping $12.

 Yep. $12.

Still has the mirror, a comb and some beautiful, intact interior.

My other great find of the day was the tooled leather handbag pictured above. A wee bit of haggling netted me this purse for $22. It's in pretty much perfect shape with a floral motif on the front and an Incan (?) wheel of calendar death on the other side.

Pretty bitchin' eh?

 And this is an old friend from last year. I'd imagine he's a tough sell. The trident was a nice touch.

He's so friendly!

In other news, BBQ weather is back in the Tdot. There will be some posts shortly about adventures in outdoor cooking to try and fill some of recent gaps.