The Tacoma Home and Garden Show - Vintage Market

One person's junk is another person's treasure.  It's always been fun for me to see other people's collections of stuff and hear the stories attached to items.  Vintage markets are a way to see quite a volume of stuff in one place and at my age, many of the items, now considered vintage or antiques, are simply objects that were once commonplace in my life.   There are also sometimes great finds for the garden.

Display after display of things that were fairly common housewares just a few decades ago.

Everything that we've created, our homes, our possessions, everything is eventually garbage.  Might as well enjoy a bit of the garbage on our journey through the compost heap that is the cycle of life, right?

 Why didn't these chairs come home with me?   Probably because I seldom sit in the chairs we have in the garden already.

 Serious lust for this fancy rattan peacock  chair.  The far simpler example that lives on my back porch came from a thrift store for one tenth of the price of this beauty

Sequin fruit.  Hmmm. 

The birdcage has serious possibilities as does the octagonal window sash.

I was surprised to see not one but two chimney pots.  The Urban Gardener (Design, Cultivate, Antiques)  always surprises with their unusual  and wonderful finds.  I've wanted a chimney pot for many years but usually found them a bit pricey.  These were quite reasonable and the one pictured came home with me. 

There was a pen nearby and somehow the altar tag was altered. 

There didn't seem to be as many vendors this year as there were last  but the quality  of offerings and clever displays more than made up for that!

Happy weekend all.