A new addition to my “Things I love about Texas” list: Antiques Week!!!
Last week my mom and her best friend, Esther, drove all the way down from Kansas to join me for a couple of hot (but awesome) days of “junkin”! If you haven’t heard of Antiques Week (which I hadn’t until last year), it’s basically fields and fields of antiques, home decor, and lots of great junk. As we drove into Warrenton and got our first glimpse of the tents, my flea-market-loving-self was in heaven.
We took Arden with us on the first day, which started out okay…
…and then we had to call for reinforcements (aka Mickey)…
…but it was hot, she wanted OUT of that stroller, and the poor baby had an ear infection that we didn’t even know about. So you can probably guess how this ended…
She didn’t last long, but luckily we’d anticipated that and had taken two cars. So after getting her diaper changed in an old Airstream (how cool is that?), Arden and I were back on the road to Houston. Short-lived, but I knew I was coming back the next day…child-free 🙂
Day 2 started in Round Top: Population 90.
I’m so glad we’d gotten the inside scoop on where to go from a friend’s mom, because this whole thing was definitely a little overwhelming!
But back to Round Top…I think I’m in love with this town.
No really…
And the icing on the cake? The new Junk Gypsy store on the edge of town.
The three of us were like 13-year-olds about to see our favorite boy band in concert…
Which I guess makes this the equivalent of my mom meeting Justin Timberlake or something 🙂
By the way, Amie was just as sweet and Southern as she seems on TV…
After lunch in Round Top, we were back out to the fields to hunt for more treasures.
In the end I didn’t come home with a whole lot, but I had the best time! My finds included some $6 antlers, a Christmas ornament, and a handmade teddy bear for Arden that we lovingly named “Gypsy” (thank you, Gigi)!
Oh and this too…
What a great couple of days they were! I am SO glad that my mom and Esther road-tripped down to Texas to join me…and I’m definitely looking forward to making it an annual thing 🙂
On another note, I was chopped liver from the moment this lady walked in the door.
The love these two have for each other makes me so happy…
Such a fun week!!!
Great pics! It was so fun reliving this with you. Where did you get Arden's knot headband? Super cute!
I've never been antiquing but you make it look so fun! I LOVE that little "pink gypsy" shirt you got Arden!
Looks like SO much fun!! I love all of the pictures. I hope Arden is feeling better. Btw – your haircut is adorable!!!!
Looks like such a fun time! And I don't think I've ever seen an antique place with SO much goodness that I can spy in your pictures! Hope you grabbed some fun pieces for your house!
Looks like so much fun! I love "treasure hunting" too 🙂
Looks like so much fun! I love "treasure hunting" too 🙂
Looks like so much fun! I love "treasure hunting" too 🙂
How fun is that?! I see like 20 thing just in pictures I would want to buy. I don't know how you didn't spend hundreds! LOL Very cool girls trip.
That looks like a BLAST!!!!! I need to come down for antique week once we move to fill my house 🙂 its so cool the relationship you have with your sweet mom. I'm glad she and her friend could come down. Hope Arden is feeling better.
Just in the pictures I see like 100 pieces of furniture I would have brought home! Sounds like such an awesome few days (minus an ear infection! Boo!).
I would love to go to this week someday! Love the shirt for Arden and I hope she feels better soon!
Love this, so jealous!!! I would love to do something like that!
Hope sweet Arden feels better soon!
Love Round Top, but haven't been in years. Looks like you guys had a great week with your mom!
So awesome! What are you going to do with the antlers? I just saw a pin for an antler wreath that looked so cool!
Oh yes, when Grammy shows up at our house, it's adios Mama until she leaves. Looks like you girls had a great time!
My grandma would drag me to things like this when I was a kid and I wanted to die of boredom. Now I would love to go treasure hunting!
Yay! We had so much fun as well, besides the heat of course! we will definitely be going back in April! I didn't get much either (I scored some antlers as well!) but it is always fun to look at all the goods!
That last picture melts my heart 🙂
What a FUN girls trip!!! So you!
How fun is this?!
How old was your little girl when you got her ears pierced? I soooo want to do it, but am nervous!
She was 5 months old! I was scared to death going in there but it was not bad at all…she was over it as quick as it happened!