Author: lauramchugh

When I first moved to the Peninsula, from the East Bay, I encountered this amazing place in San Carlos called Antique Trove. It was a gigantic garage sale, with class. Hundreds of vendors, each with their own little booth. I found paper, milk glass, vintage pyrex bowls, old photos, music sheets.  I collected up a ton of stuff, and the next time I went to get more paper, OMG – they were gone!

That was 3 years ago. I’ve found new options – like the Antique Fair at Alameda Point – but that is only once a month and so crowded and difficult to get to from Half Moon Bay. Yesterday, I was in Roseville and saw out of the corner of my eye a sign from the freeway that was similar to the San Carlos Antique Trove sign, so I got off and pulled around, and voila – it was like walking into the past, in two ways. It was the same vendors and items as from San Carlos!

I found a lot of really cool stuff, including some items for my new home.

I can put a mechanism in this to make it a functioning clock for my new kitchen.

I plan to use these old outdoor faucet knobs as pulls on my kitchen cabinets.

And here is a vintage, French blue light fixture for the wall somewhere.

I bought some tulips last week and they were a little droopy but I didn’t have the heart to toss them quite yet. Instead, I decided to take some photos of them, because the droopy-ness was alluring.

I took several photos, and they were okay, and then I noticed the miracle – the image of the flopped over tulips in the sun drenched countertop. It was shiny enough to act like the surface of a mirror. Only because the tulips were turned completely upside down did this work. Here are the images.

First, the ‘straight’ shot. Good, but not great.  They are pretty tulips.

Here are the reflected images. Some image manipulation was used in the making of these photos.

Boy, this making cards is fun, fun, fun. Just the thing on a rainy day. Now, we’re going to walk over to the fest and have a corn dog and clam chowder bowl. Yippee!

After the festival, I did these botanicals. Maybe I have one more set in me tonight because then I have to put all the stuff away so that I can get back to making dinner, doing work, etc. in that part of the house (the kitchen island).