things i didn't buy - & a couple i did

mini road trip!  on our way to Saxapahaw to see a music show (see next post), we detoured & wandered around Granddaddy's Antique Mall in Burlington.  hadn't been there in years....  the place is HUGE, with pretty decent prices.
i found many things that made me smile, such as:

this Class of 1938 autograph book of a woman named Lucille.  from some of the entries, it seems to be from around her tenth-grade year.  many entries were from rather bold young men.  i was especially taken by the very first entry.

"Lucille don't burn me.  -Elmer Bufford"

i think my knotty pine kitchen cabinets are worming their way into my brain over time (metaphor intended - or is that personification? whatever.), as i am finding mustard, rust, puce, and umber somehow appealing colors these days.  or maybe it was my youth spent playing with The Sunshine Family (see toy #7).

amazing toy camper van - oh, my!

in the latter years of high school and early years of college, i was a collector & wearer of nifty buttons (which, at the moment, seems like the absolutely incorrect word for these things.  but i just googled it &, yes, we call these 'buttons' even though you would likely not use them to hold up your pants.)

my favorite button from my button heyday was "my karma ran over my dogma."  i like to think that still applies.

fantastic jujyfruit puzzle.  i was tempted.

my weakness for cool, old toys pre-dates my profession as a pediatric occupational therapist.  but, now, i can pretend i have a legitimate excuse for the fascination.

like this one!  it's a teeter-totter balancing man!  an earlier version of that metal toy grown people put on their office desks to remind themselves to seek a state of zen balance.  or to pass the time.

this one was a little pricey, but i was fascinated by it.  it is a Tom Thumb Typewriter!!!  (i.e., a 1950's iPhone.)

i'm not sure, exactly, where my attraction for fake fruit & such comes from.  i suspect it is a specific gene i inherited from my paternal grandmother.  i found this glass & rubber geranium just lovely.
 

BUT, let me just say, i coveted these blue grapes.  oh, i had such a hankering for these blue grapes.  aren't they simply gorgeous?  i wanted these blue grapes.  sadly, as you can probably guess, they were not for sale.  not even telling the roving stockboy how much i wanted these blue grapes made any difference.

 i did end up finding a few things to purchase.

this will go perfectly with my knotty pine cabinets

and this AMAZING book, Blue2, by David Carter!

(really, you must click on the link i attached to Blue2 above,

just to get a sense of the wonderment of this book)

as i said, we were on our way to a music show, so we only managed to walk through about half of the antique mall.  a return trip is definitely warranted.  of course, i will feel compelled to start at the beginning again, just in case any new, magical items have been added.