From My Home To Yours...

From my home to yours... Merry Christmas!

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Holiday images representing family, friends and sites near my home: December 2011

Broken Records, Baubles, Bulbs And... Edie Beale?

iPhone snaps & Instagrams taken at Zern's Flea Market.  Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania.

Another amazing afternoon of stall-strolling fun with two great friends... Thanks, Janie and Steve!

Bowties, Drum Kits & Striped Pyjamas

Another look back at my grandparents' Hoyt Avenue apartment in Staten Island.  Growing up, I would always run across album prints of posed shots showing my Mom, Aunt Karen and Uncle Kevin in their striped holiday pyjamas, but the more casual shots of them actually playing with toys seemed to be on these slides.  I'm glad to have had a more candid look at the playful side of Christmas 1957 and I know my family is as well.

One More Holiday Treasure

Yet another gorgeous vintage surprise from my friends Noreen and Jimmy.

This spectacularly colorful box will be collage/assemblage material (for at least one personal piece and another series piece for sale) and the bulbs that are still viable will go to both Noreen and my pal Steve for their vintage trees.  I haven't tested any of the bulbs yet, but oftentimes some oldies still work.

Piñatas, Dolls, Ornaments, Produce, Books, Trolls, Diamonds, Elvis, Velvet Unicorns & That Painful, Burning Itch

 

NOTICE: There are some things you should NEVER buy at a "dented can" store in a flea market.

What would a trip to Zern's be without Elvis, trolls or unicorns on velvet?

Just remember... Take care of that painful, burning itch someplace else.

However, if you have a painful, burning itch... You probably caught it here.

Zern's of Gilbertsville, PA.  26 November 2010.