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.

Christie recap

Oh, the random stuff you can find at an antique fair! I had a great time at Christie, and only managed to get a minor sun burn on my shoulders for a full day in the sun. Both my mom and I got some stuff, she was mostly looking for some supplies for a few crafts she's had in mind for a while now. Fortunately, both of us got small stuff, so the drive back to Toronto was nice and easy. Here are some of my spoils!

 It's a paper photograph,

 mounted in a brass matte,

 mounted onto a carte de visite. AKA, the chief reason I bought it. I have never seen this before. I could understand and almost expect a tintype in there, but the paper is different.

 And speaking of tintypes, check out this super bent number! My mom thought it looked like someone had run over it with a tool or something since the bends look really uniform and part of a pattern. I was just impressed that the emulsion held up so well to being attacked like that.

Cheese box! Bit hard to resist, and so utilitarian. Practical antiques!

Thesis induced insomnia...

I cannot wait for this thesis to be over with.  Ugh.
I'm pretty much done the draft of the chunk I need to hand in to my reader tomorrow... I need to pack for something far more important now.

The Christie Antique Show!!!
This is one of the biggest outdoor antique and flea market shows in Ontario, held twice a year and I have never been able to make it for the past several years. I've been either out of the city/country or been working and not been able to get out of it. I'm so excited to finally go. I'm heading out to the parentals house tonight so we can drive in in the morning from there.

Pictures all lovingly stolen from an Apartment Therapy post about Christie, which can be found here.

I'll try to actually take pictures of my own for once at these types of things...