My Inherited Disease...
My mother and my grandmother both tried to instill their great love for vintage and antique items in me from a young age. I will always remember them carting me around against my will to all different grades of antique shops in the historic districs of Virginia and telling me to have a look around as if the antique gods would send me some sort of awakening at age 12 and I would be able to find beauty and pleasure in all this dusty old junk. I couldn't understand their madness at the time as I had more important things on the brain: skater boys and instant messaging. Lord, really?
Nearly 20 years later, their antiquing disease has surfaced in me and I find myself wishing I could go on such adventures again. How much would I love to scower all their old favorite haunts for vintage baby dresses, toys, and shoes? To hunt down some fabulous one of a kind paintings and other unique decor for our home. To aid them in finding their personal favorites: antique gold jewelry boxes, perfume bottles, mirrors and frames.
Ah, it breaks my heart that such a trip is not possible, but I am grateful to have inherited some of their personal treasures. I cherish them with all my heart and soul as I know how much heart and soul was put into collecting them.
I have an antiquing/thrifting date in Floyd with my husband this weekend. I can't wait.
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We did that this past weekend. The sun was a shining and we went antiquing. My mom used to always get upset with me because I wanted to buy things at Goodwill (the only thrift store in our town) and she just couldn't understand it.
That sounds like a lovely way to spend the day, did you find anything good?
I didn't really start my thrifting craze until I was in college. I don't even think I knew what goodwill was in high school. I was naive and retarded and had to wear all new, brand name things. Thank God reality finally set in... hah.
i'm planning some trips this spring and summer with my mom in indiana. we're in cincinnati, so a lot of really cool places aren't too far off. there are a lot of excellent day trips to be had! i get to take lillie this year :)
ps i've been on etsy stalking down baby dresses for the past hour. bah!
Staaaaaaaaaacey, I am so jealous you get to go to Indiana. They have such great flea markets, antique stores, and thrift shops out there. I wish me you and our babies could road trip the mid-west together, haha... think about how many bathroom breaks we'd have to make!
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