#SOL24-23 Girls’ Day

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A couple times a year, my sister-in-law and I slip away together for a ‘girls’ day,’ a day of fun. We enjoy visiting flea markets, in particular, and that was our pleasure this week. We visited the “Vintage Vibe Market,” a spring fair with varied vendors at a local fairground in Howard County, Maryland. 

We both enjoy crafts, especially recycled crafts – or ‘upcycle,’ when something old is turned into something all new. In reality, we are almost professional browsers – neither of us needs another thing for ourselves or our home, and we have our ‘looking’ down to a science:

We walk through the booths and take snapshots of things that catch our eye, and then we re-evaluate at the end. Do we really like it? Do we really want it? Do we really need it? Like I said, we don’t need anything…so the final answer is typically no. 

However, the browsing is great fun! I suspect you can learn a lot about a person by what catches their eye at a flea market. Let me tell you more about myself through things I adored:

Bumblebees made out of metal, to hang in the garden, those are so cute…decorative beaded chains to display – well, where exactly? … hmm… stuffed carrots, for Easter? what would the granddaughters response be to this? aren’t they precious, though…wait, a tic-tac-toe game created in an Easter theme, that’s a fun idea…birdhouses carved out of wood, to hang in the garden….

I was fascinated by this crafter’s handiwork on an old cabinet door. I saved (hoarded?) my old kitchen cabinet doors as painting surfaces for my granddaughters…I wonder if I could play around with one or two myself? This design was lovely, I thought. But where does one put such a piece, when the artwork is completed? Looks great in a flea market.

This quote on a tea towel had me chuckling. There are tea towels and wood signs for any message one’s heart desires. There are too many things I want to say to settle on one message, I think.

It was a full and fun day of browsing – good company, good conversation, good bric-a-brac, too. Plus, we showed great restraint and came home with ideas and not more junk for our households – well, I fib. I did buy one silly thing for my husband:

Fungi for my fun guy! Yes, this silly doll is really for the grandchildren… at least I didn’t buy two, right?

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