One of my favourite hobbies is going to antiques malls, and I always like to take photos of the things I see there. It helps stop me from wanting to buy every cool thing I see if I can just take a picture to remember it instead, inspired by the Snufkin quote: "But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase." I'm by no means a minimalist, but years of living to and fro abroad has taught me the importance of only owning things that I absolutely treasure.
So I guess you can expect somewhat of a sporadic series of these kinds of posts. Because I go to the same handful of antiques malls it's also fun seeing how the stock changes, and sometimes I take a picture of something only when editing the photo realize that I actually really do want the thing and need to go back ASAP and hope that it's still there!
I love little desk ornaments like this. I can imagine the butterfly letter rack filled with stickers and ephemera, the boar with sewing notions.
I always want to rescue all of the teddy bears ╯︿╰ I also really loved this compact, if you look closely you can see it has coin slots too.
I loved The Adventures of Blinky Bill when I was little, I had no idea it was a book!
I love '60s fashion, I ended up buying the white dress with yellow trim. I love more social history type stuff as well, so I like seeing things like this box of toiletries from a hotel - it's fascinating to me to see how people lived and things they used daily and what was normal to them.
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