Casual Friday

Wore cut-offs with this cut-out blouse to work today. Cut-offs FTW!

Woodruff Flea

Thanks to getting up ridiculously early this morning I managed to hit all three Drives at the annual Woodruff Place Flea Market before the rain started. Here is a brief recap:

East Drive: A fellow with some great architectural antiques like doorknobs, light fixtures and such is in the 900 block. He also had some excellent news, a marketplace for antiques of all sorts will be opening the first of July on 16th Street at the Monon.

Middle Drive: A fellow with several purchase-worthy lamps is set up on the 800 block. I am kicking myself in the ass for not the buying the mint condition MCM lamp shade he had for sale. Across the street is a sale with a few rough, and therefore pretty gross and creepy, taxidermied animals, pretty sure the same ones I have seen in years past.

West Drive: 800ish block there is a gentleman with a good collection of very old vintage, mostly dresses, but also some underclothes and hats. A lot of it was stained or too old to actually wear, but there were a few gems that probably will not last.

So out of all of this, what did I buy? Only this Napier necklace. In addition to being huge and having a lion, I loved its '70s take on regality and filigree.

Getting Dressed Mess

Words I Live By

"That's odd. I'll take it."

Perfume Pendants

I spotted this mussel-shaped locket in the jewelry case of a busy thrift store. I have no shame in holding up the line to ask the cashiers retrieve goodies for me, but know better than to upset the line of carts behind me with long inspections. I mean, why would I bother to open it? It's a mussel-shaped locket, it could be a portal to hell and I would still happily wear it.

I fished the necklace out my bag as I got into my car and was pleasantly surprised- it was a perfume pendant.

This pendant, that dates to the early '70s, held Estee Lauder's perfume Aliage. I am confident I enjoy the remnants of the perfume almost as much as the original owner who nearly scraped it clean.

I came across this gold Estee Lauder perfume pendant through my same attraction to giant necklaces. This one is still full of the fragrance, Youth Dew.