flea queen to the core

The local monthly flea market was today. No spectacular finds to share...but I bought a box of baby/doll clothes for $5 which had some very pretty items. For some reason its really hard for me to resist these dainties. I have too many. I think I will sell a lot of them on ebay. What do you all have a hard time resisting?

My irresistible list:

vintage dresses

vintage baby and dolly clothes

anything blue or green

chippy little cabinets

antique/vintage jewelry

antique/vintage baby items

Lately I am trying to avoid buying small stuff. I am trying to look for functional items, or architectural pieces. Right now I am loving old wire locker baskets and old mirrors. I saw a few today, but not "single mom" priced. :o)

I want my home to be very, very, uncluttered. My decorating style really falls into several...um...categories, I guess you could say. But most of all, I don't like clutter. I have noticed that my eye is drawn to more masculine type pieces, which is strange. My eye used to land on curvy pieces, romantic pieces, pinks and whites, florals, and the like. Now I am falling for worn rusty patinas, clean lines, practicality and usefulness, always anything white, worn fabrics in faded colors, even hardware and metals. To be honest with you, my mind is always racing with colors and ideas and wishes and placement and vignettes. In my mind, I have decorated and redecorated most rooms in my house at least five times since I have lived here. I have been a little surprised at this decorator in me. My mom was always very practical and our home was always nice, but she wasn't a collector of paint chips and fabric swatches, nor a flea queen or thrift store regular. Its sorda strange to have something that is all my own, that I discovered about myself, that just happened upon me out of left field. I think we twenty-somethings need these types of things- pieces of our identity that came completely from within. And maybe its slightly a creativity/control thing. I might be the type of person that needs a creative outlet, and needs to control her immediate surroundings because she feels her life is so beyond her own control. Whatever the root of my love of home and decorating and color and vintage, I'm loving building my home, with love and careful selection, and two pretty little girls in tow.

I'm hoping to share some pictures tomorrow. I have so many beautiful finds to catch you all up on. And a bathroom...a clean, crisp, white and...gray bathroom to share.