2013 Fancy Flea Vintage Home and Garden Market in Lakeland, Florida - Wowzers!

 

The 2013 Spring Fancy Flea!.... Part One!

 

What a day! What fun! Awesome stuff! Amazing Market!

 

 

I tried to get a photo of what I saw ahead of me

entering into the Fancy Flea. I could see way down the

street and what I saw was the tops of alot of booths,

but also nothing but people shoulder to shoulder for a

couple of blocks down!

 

The arrow in the picture shows nothing

but people's heads way down the road! And,

everything in between me and that arrow is people!

 

This place was packed like I have never seen before!

There were just hundreds and hundreds and HUNDREDS

of people everywhere you looked. It was so hard to get

anywhere or to see anything lol! And taking pictures was

even tougher to do! But I got some! So lets see how they

turned out so I can share the most amazing market EVER!

 

Well I knew right off it was going to be a great market....

it always is! But when I saw this as I was entering the

Fancy Flee from North Kentucky Ave, because the

only parking was a couple of blocks away, I knew this really

Really was going to be the best yet! No one has ever had

a booth like this one before! Totally awesome!

 

 

 

Don't you just love the eyelash tail lights!

 

 

Blue Betty came all the way from Tennessee! She had a tent set

up in front of her little trailer here on the right. You could even

go in and take a browse on the inside. Isn't this just CUTE!

 

To the right of Blue Betty as I was entering was the fabulous

ever popular "Poor Porker " of Lakeland in their ever so

adorable booth made of junk and on wheels, and serving their

awesome best around town fried dough - Beignet's!

 

As Jarrid says, "Their fluffy like little pillows of fried JOY!"

 

 

 

 

 

Follow their blog and watch the video of owners Jarrid Masse and Robyn Wilson's amazing success story here:  The Poor Porker!

 

Another sweet video of the two of them here:

Huffington Post - The Poor Porker

and here: The Poor Porker In Lakeland, FL.

 

Just goes to show what desperation, determination, hard work, a never give up attitude, and where a dream can take you! :)

 

Visit their Lakeland Curbside Market Saturday's. People line up to taste the incredible beignets and to join in community and conversation. What an inspiration!

 

Ok, lets get on to the Fancy Flea!!!!

 

The first block was filled with vendors offering fruits,

veggies, breads, plants, and flowers! More than ever before!

I felt they really needed recognition too....they work just

as hard as everyone else! Plus....there was some awesome

buys and great prices too! Hope you got some of these goodies!

 

 

Carrots

 

 

Beets

 

 

Egg Plant and Green Peppers

 

 

Red and Green Bell Peppers

 

 

I never knew that brussel sprouts grew like this! Cool!

 

 

 

Peppers, Acorn Squash, and Pinapple in the back.

It all looks so yummy! I love veggies and fruit!

 

 

Watermelon, pineapple, pears, apples, strawberries, kiwi,

and much more!

 

 

Squash, radishes, turnips, broccoli, beans, rutabaga's,

potatoes, corn, asparagus, and so much more!

 

 

Different varieties of fresh baked breads!

 

I think that guy sitting at the table back there must

have dropped in from the "Blues Brothers" hehe.

 

 

There were other plant vendors too, and I feel bad I didn't

take photo's of their booths, but I love Orchids so this booth

really caught my attention! So Pretty!

 

 

 

 

What would we do without our farmers! They work around

the clock, fighting many obstacles to bring us fresh foods,

and beautiful flowers and plants to surround our lives

with pretty, and make us smile! God love em!

 

If you want to see the photo's in a larger view, just right

click on the photo and open in a new window, and wala!

 

Now I want to share a few goodies I found that came home

with me! Then we will go on to part two of all the pictures!

I have over 500 photos, so going through to pick the ones

that came out decent enough to share and tone it down a

bit, or I'll be doing this for a month lol!

 

Here are my treasures!

There was a bazillion more things I would have

loved to have, but my word for the day was.....

Constraint! I HAD to have constraint!

 

 

Blocks made out of wood from old pallets, aged painted,

and lettered. These are from my friend Terrie Ireland

with "Chic to Antique". Her booth was just amazing!

I have pictures coming up later of all her goodies!

 

 

I scored this fabulous pillow from Tossed and Found! This booth

owned by Diane Mikkelson was just packed with the most awesome

treasures. What creative talent this lady has! Loved everything!

 

I couldn't resist it! Look at all the details on this pillow!

I'm pretty sure it was made from a painters drop cloth.

 

 

This cabinet handle is on the top of the pillow! In the photo above

it was hidden by all the pretty ruffled sage green ribbon.

 

 

I just love the sparkly buckle with the pretty lace!

 

 

And look at the latch! When you undo it there is an opening

to where you can remove the pillow form. How cool is that!

 

 

Love the skeleton key and the pretty ribbon it's tied to.

 

 

How cool is this metal piece with it's vintage clock face!

 

 

And the charming vintage bottle with it's pink pearls

inside and tied on with velvet ribbon.

 

 

Even a metal house number....three is one of my lucky

numbers too! See this pillow was meant just for me!

 

 

Gorgeous Venice lace and this pretty sparkly chandelier prism!

I love sparkly.....so again this was meant just for me!!

 

 

And lastly, tucked inside the front pocket was

this sweet vintage post card from 1909!!

 

 

Don't you just love the flag stamp posted on it!? I crack up when

I see these old cards.....look how they are addressed! When you

see how we have to address cards today, I wonder how these old

ones ever got to their recipient! And....a one cent stamp!!!? We

could only wish to pay that for postage again!

 

Isn't this pillow just awesome!

 

 

 

These awesome necklaces were also from Tossed and Found!

Are these not so gorgeous!!!? I couldn't resist on these!

I loved this lady's packaging too....very cool!

 

 

 

 

A Tossed and Found key chain with my initial....now no

one can say this wasn't meant for me! It's hard to tell

but in the bottom bunch of pearls there is one rhinestone....

sparkly again!

 

This is the back of the key chain....and it's pink....I love pink!

So all the way around this baby....it was truly meant for me!

 

I totally blew all my restraint in this booth! :)

 

 

This was my absolute favorite find of all! It's a

Victorian era photo album. The cover and back

is a hard shiny like cover with this gorgeous picture

on it! Isn't it just to die for beautiful!!?

 

 

A metal closure with engraved flowers on

the front and back section.

 

 

A close up of it.

 

 

All four corners have this metal decorative filigree. Love it!

 

 

It's pretty tattered on the side which had some tapestry fabric.

I'm going to try to find a piece as similar as possible to

replace it. Hope I can do it justice with the repair.

 

 

The pages inside are all a thick cardboard with these pretty

decorative paper coverings for the photos. I'm going to put

mine and Jacks wedding photos in this....and do them all

in black and white, and sepia. I think it will look nice.

 

 

There were three different large page designs around the

photo inserts......see the birds? I love birds too!

 

 

This was the other design and this was the only photo in the album.

I wonder who she was....I wonder how old this photo might be.

 

 

This is the back of the album...kinda beat up but I think

it is just beautiful! Really not bad for as old as it is.

 

Ok....this is it for today! Tomorrow....or geeezzz it already

is tomorrow lol....but I will do part two of the Fancy Flea

with lots of pretty things I saw along the way.

 

This post is long enough and I am pooped!

 

Goodnight....or I guess I should say Good Morning!

 

As always....thank you for the visit!

Hope to see you again!

 

See the Fancy Flea

Part 2 here

Part 3 here

Part 4 here

 

TaTa Till Later!

 

Love, Hugs, and Blessings!

 

Debi