The Antique Market

Sorry for the delay in posting lately!  Our wedding is approaching fast and I have been busy working on getting everything ready!  I wish I could share all of my wedding projects, but it has to stay under wraps until our big day!  But I will be sure to make you sick to your stomach with all of my wedding ventures once we are married.  Ah Married!  That’s crazy!  Now on to the Antique Market…

If you live in Jacksonville and you enjoy antiques you probably already know about The Antique Market, if you don’t you will now and you’re welcome.  I finally made my way out to The Antique Market and fell head over heals in love with this place!  I was basically Ariel seeing the human world for the first time and I think we all now how enthusiastic she was.

And now I am going to show you this whole new world, get it?  Sorry I’m lame.

This place will try to trick you by looking all cute and quaint, but it is ginormous inside.  It goes on and on with booth after booth of antiques of all different kinds.   I love the idea of having many different vendors in one building.  I find that most antique collectors have certain things that catch their eye, and the pieces they sell usually show it.  I love to see the different style of each vendor and also can usually find at least one thing I fancy in each booth.

Here is one of the first booths that caught my eye.  In particular that rolling teal table.

How cute is that? I could see this as a short little coffee table or I would personally use it in my art room, it would be perfect to transport supplies around the room.

These trunks were something that I saw as soon as I walked in.  I don’t know about you, but I feel like I can never get enough storage in my house and why not let it be an awesome antique, amiright?  I would throw either of these guys in the corner of a bedroom or even at the foot of the bed and use it to store extra sheets, pillows, you know all that good stuff.

I am really digging little antique medicine bottles at the moment, here are a couple that I spotted on my way in.

How about this cute little guy?  You know I found him right away.  He was was heavy and if he came home with me he would be a doorstop.

They also have some great furniture at some really great prices, loved this one above and the one below… hubba hubba.

This booth you could smell from a mile away, look at all of those homemade candles.  And I’m talking good smells.

Here is a view of the rest of her booth and you now know how long it has taken me to write this post, with all of the halloween decor around.

This bench was almost mine.  I would love to have a bench like this by our front door, gotta have somewhere to put your shoes on.

This booth was amazing, it was sort of music inspired with some other goodies throughout.  My favorites were the mandolins hanging around…

I will learn to play you someday mandolin!

Did I mention I loved the furniture?  This booth was also pretty sweet.  I especially loved this old wheel…

How awesome would that be hung on a wall?

This guy also wanted to come home with me to be another form of storage, probably for magazines exactly as it was being used there.

Are you in the market for a squirrel nut cracker?  Well, theh you’re in luck… because The Antique Market has one!  Oh no?  You need a dog nut cracker? Okay…

Boom! Got that too.

This booth was one of my favorites.  It just had so many unique antique finds.  I love this desk/table on the bottom and also those wooden cube boxes on the very top.

This awesome dough bowl and copper bin were in the same booth.  And one more because this booth was so bad ass…

It had a moose!  Say what?  Yes, a moose.  Love it!

This booth was also pretty killer.  It had some great signs and bottles. Want a closer look?

The booth above had some pretty great chalkboards.

 I love me some crates and they have plenty…

The above booth was full of fishing, outdoor, and men type antiques.  I pretty much wanted to take everything home to give to Justin.

This industrial looking chair was amazing.

If you take a walk outside and around the corner you’ll find chickens!  CHICKENS!  I mean I thought this place couldn’t get cooler, then it had pet chickens!

And after you pass the chicken coop you’ll come across the Consignment Barn which is a little bonus that is right next door.

Here’s what you’ll see there…

But that is a different story for a different day.  For today I’ll let you just bask in the glory of the Antique Market! Oh and PS they have awesome employees/vendors.  They are super helpful fabulous people!  Go see for yourself.