a flea market day...

i've got a wicked hangover hang right now. we had my aunt and uncle and parents over for dinner last night and i drank champagne, a bottle of peach wine and a glass of red wine. needless to say, i'll be hanging low today.

on friday, my mom asked if we wanted to go to breakfast and out to some antique stores. given that we still need bedside tables, we couldn't turn it down. though we didn't find anything, we still had a good time.

dylan in his dream office.

an old fashioned wagon nearby.

the fry house.

the next day, we took chloe for a walk to dundurn castle. with the wide open space, she obviously enjoyed herself. and we got a little workout in, too.

she wishes this was her own personal house.

a girl and her castle.

i'm off to go nurse this headache with some water and time on the deck ;)

scenes from the weekend...

this weekend involved: coffee, wine, bbq's, backyard relaxing, early mornings, antiquing, furniture shopping, and a little shopping for myself ;)

 how i spend my mornings before work.

 i bought myself a little 'i'm leaving and i'm depressed about it' gift. this bracelet in gold.

 a hot afternoon + zinfandel in my parents backyard.

 ahhhhhh.

beady little eyes mcgee 

 gulp.gulp.gulp.

early morning (7am) antique market trips. i like mornings more than him.

country roads along the way.

there were some weird things at the antique show. (that bull (?) head already had a SOLD sign on it half hour after the show started!)

 a few finds for our new place. 2 suitcases for $34 and the ladder for $30.

 getting the ladder home in a sunfire was fun!

a little break when we got home.

and an ikea find for $20. we want our deck to have a lot of different lanterns.

we've got so many ideas in our heads (and on pinterest) for our new place and i'm really hoping that they turn out as good in reality as what we're imagining! also, since saturday, we've been in a massive heatwave and have been hitting almost 40 degrees celsius. it's continuing today; luckily i'm inside an air conditioned building all day.

saturday antiques...

saturday morning road trip (not really, only 45 minutes away) to an antique place with my parents and dyl. it was just ok. i like the one we go to in the summer better.

couldn't take pictures inside, so the above 3 are just with my phone...

 old broken down building

 dyl, me and dad walkin' to the next stop

typical "i'm terrified" picture whenever i see something butterfly related. yes, didn't you know? i'm deathly afraid of butterflies...

and another worn down structure i thought was cool

it was such a nice day (weather-wise too) and even though we didn't buy anything, it was fun to try out a new market and browse around. however, i think we'll stick to our regular place.

how a sunday should be...

it's not very often dylan gets a sunday off, but this past sunday worked out for us. we got up bright and early and were out the door just after 8 to head to the St Lawrence Market, well the antique market part. of course because we're early birds, the subway didn't start until after 9 (doh! we always forget this!) so we ended up walking the majority of the way. eventually, the subways were open, we grabbed our day pass for $10 that gives us both unlimited use of transit for the day. plus, it was just a beautiful day; sun was out, hovering around 18 degrees.

all the outdoor vendors, then to the right, there's a huge indoor space

that would be dylan's finger, trying to block the bright sun

his $10 find at the market, quite pleased with it (notice the matching grins from dylan and the dog?)

after the market, it was time to take chloe to the paw-pawrazzi photo opp

 

after that, it was off to the Distillery District. it's such an awesome area in toronto, all old buildings and breweries, shops and restaurants, art spaces and more.

i love this part; the tree lights up when you walk under it

hi!

art around the district 

and then we ate here on queen st, on the way home. so so good! 4 cheese pizza and layered nachos with guacamole mmm

and a steam whistle for dyl

we were go-go-go from 8am until 6:30 when we got home. such a good day. we hadn't done stuff like this in a long time.

anywho, it's supposed to be 26 degrees today..what!? it's been 18-21ish for the last few weeks and the rest of week is supposed to be 19-20 again. but i guess today decided to be a hot one. please go away and don't come back until next summer!

flea market sundays

• our first of the summer-me and dyl (last year we went at least 5x, this summer we were not so lucky)
• up at 7:45am
• at the flea market by 9am
• wandering around
• looking for skeleton keys and anything else eye catching-no such luck
• got 3 books (candace bushnell's 4 blondes; a true crime the good doctor; and stephen king's shining ($2 each!)
• breakfast on the way home
• stopping by a garage sale after that
• seeing a new value village across the highway and checking it out
• spotting a moschino purse and getting it for a steal (but no idea if it's authentic or not, but i figure i better grab it up)
• home at noon and back to toronto

 flea market via

i didn't bust out my camera this time around, too bad. it's such a huge market and there's no real organization to it, so i'm sure we miss a lot. but, we love it for an early morning sunday thing to do, i just wish we had time to go more often this summer. i'm hoping we make it to the big one in september at least.

did i get bamboozled?

this is what i picked up at the flea market in NYC, the one that was just a little sketchy..there was a table of shoes (some random, some designer), amongst the mess of records, frames, books, clothes, hats and everything else you imagine flea markets selling. i saw the red soles and thought, there is no way they are real, knockoff for sure. i mean, i've never owned a pair, so i wasn't even sure what i was looking for, to see if there was a tell-tale sign of being fake or real. the bottom of the shoes aren't worn at all (except for me trying them on on the bumpy, rocky, asphalt)and the left shoe has a sticker from bergdorf's on it. it looks like it's been on there a while. would these people go through the trouble of putting stickers on the bottom of shoes to make them seem more legit? i don't know. the soles look exactly the same as what is in stores (i obviously had to go to holt renfrew to check the bottom of theirs).
but how could i leave them there in the off chance they're legit? that's right, i couldn't. i only gave the girl $30 anyways, so if i got bamboozled (which i probably did), then at least she didn't empty my pockets..right? right. and they're cute! anyone out there who can tell me the truth? (you can enlarge this picture) for now, they're just hanging out on a shadow box...

nyc part 3: our last day!

our last day came fast :( too fast, of course. we started off with breakfast at empire diner and then took a walk at the nearby pier to work off the breakfast. eventually we made our way to shake shack for lunch. this place has been on my list of places to go to for a while and i've never made it, so this year, there was no exceptions!! but we clearly went at the wrong time (although i'm sure there is always a line..). we got there at 1pm (doh) and waited in line for 1 hour! for a burger! yes, that would be the hour line-up, and the sun was out in full force that day..but it was worth it! and get this, they had red.velvet.ice.cream. i died. it was uh-mazing!!we laid in the grass for an hour or so, because it was beautiful in the shade, and we were really full, and we just didn't have anything else planned; we weren't leaving until 10pmthen there was random flee market, i guess you call it, that we passed and took a look around. not gonna lie, it was a little sketchy..i'll show you what i picked up here, first i just have to find out if it's legit or not ;)that, on the left, is a hamburger cupcake and fries; dylan opted for the spaghetti and meatball one. after this, we sat at a cafe and had iced coffees and waited for 10pm to roll around. then it was time to go home :( sads. overall, it was another fantastic trip to the big city. i'll be back soon enough!