Antique Hunting

Knowing that I love antiques and vintage-flare, a friend of mine (who also appreciates a good antique) told me about a local antique faire. I attended my first one with her last weekend, and although it was outdoors while cold, windy and rainy, I felt like a kid in a candy store with all of the neat finds available. To limit my spending, I took only $20.00 with me. I figured that would be enough since I knew what I was hunting for - earrings, broaches, buttons, anything that I could use as embellishments on my own jewelry creations.

I found a piece that I liked right away, but I didn't want to just buy the first thing to catch my attention, so I kept hunting. I finally decided to make my first purchase on a pair of clip-on earrings. I thought that the stone placement on the earrings was great to just use the earring as is, or maybe even take the stones apart and use them as individual accents.

By the time we got to the other end of the antique faire, many vendors were packing up shop due to the weather, and we didn't anticipate finding anything else of interest. However, our last stop was a table which had among other things - two boxes full of earrings, broaches, belt buckles & miscellaneous broken pieces. Jackpot! By the time I was done going through everything, I walked away with multiple items that I was excited to use in future projects. I guess that taught me to leave no corner unturned at faires such as these. You never know where you'll find your own treasure.