Mr. Flea and sister Lynn took me to Mt. Dora last Friday
to visit Renninger's Extravaganza.
It was a beautiful and cool morning...I was so excited to be there!
They were both so sweet and patient with me.
Mr. Flea even took two trips back to the car carrying my packages ...all without a single complaint.
It was a wonderful day.
This is a ridiculously long post of random shots
I took as I walked up and down the aisles of vendors.
Have fun looking!
What do you think?
See anything interesting?
Is there anything you would have bought?
:)
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102 comments:
I love all of the pictures! I would have bought the watch parts, gears, galvanized metal bins, bird cage, jewelry and the Christmas balls. I would have spent so much $$$!
HOLY COW.... I love the white frames with the sea fans.. the Jack Rabbit sign... just about everything.
I may not be able to get over the jack Rabbit sign... do we know if that sold and whose sign it was??
I would have passed out from pure joy,OMG that place is fantastic!!! When I came to I would've had to have that wicker baby buggy and those vintage photos and the lace and...and...oh everything.!!!
Oh my gosh ! Junkers Heaven !
So glad you had a fun day! If I had the money to spend I see LOTS of things I would love to buy! Piles of lace, clock faces, millinery flowers, the huge clocks and the gingerbread piece! I LOVE that gingerbread piece!
Michelle
Oh I am drooling! I would have not made it past the burlap and grainsack fabric pile. It's all heaven. I want to go ;)
Blessings
Becky C
I love that jack rabbit sign, that would have definitely had to come home with me. I can't wait for spring and flea market weather to come back. What a fun place. Hugs-Carrie
Oh My Goodness
I am in awe, such Fabulous pictures
Looks like so much fun
Thanks for another wonderful post
Pam
I'll be selling, but mostly buying at Mt Dora next month--can't wait!! My friend bought one of those fabulous wood industrial carts in your pics. I love that show!!
I didn't make it this last weekend, but I am going next month, the pictures were fabulous!!
Carol
...LOL!!!
Is there anything I would have bought???!!!
ahhh, yah!!!
all I keep singing as I was walking through your pictures :)
was, If I had a million dollars...I could redecorate an entire home with what I saw!!
xo, Rosemary
Oh My I wanted one of everything. Would love to know what you did walk away with? Some of us enjoy seeing through your eyes!
Wow, makes you want to have your own warehouse and start something?!!!
That cart is so cool.
Laura, I made a list of my favorites, not that it does me any good, but 1) Mercury glass Bottle the size of a jug
2) Birds of Nature book w/red vintage cover
3) 2 White Burlap covered Frenchy Chairs.
4) White Chippy Toy Truck accented with bits of Red
5) Old Crates
6)Red Stool
Oh, Good think I wasn't there, my entire paycheck would be gone ;)
You go to the best places I see;) xoxo tami
The lace, clock faces and some mercury glass bottles.....and so much more... those giant cogs, clippies and trinkets and ladles too!
I recognized the chicken laying thingy(don't know what you call it) I bought one this year at Brimfield. Still waiting to put on the wall. Oh those mercury bottles you and Paula bought!!
There was a lot I would have bought but the bird cage was a bit high$$$.
SOunds like you had fun!
xx
Carole
Renningers...HOW FUN!! My husband and I did that for my birthday last year. I am DYING over those mercury glass jars/jugs! I WANT one! ;-)
...ohhh and the sweet milanry flowers and the watch faces!
quante cose belle
perchè noi in italia non abbiamo questi mercatini magnifici
vorrei tanto essere li
un bacio silvia
how many beautiful things
because we in Italy do not have these wonderful markets
I'd love to be there
kiss silvia
I would definitely have been interested in the very small items in the trays (to use in jewelry).
However - One thing that would cause me to walk away is when the items are not priced. Do not price items based on your impression of me when I have to ask "how much" on every item I am interested in. Yes !!! Price matters!
Hope that makes sense.
Glenda
What a wonderful outing. I'm afraid I want everything pictured, including the saxophone! (DH plays them). Thanks for so many photos! btw, how do you get your photos so large. I'm on blogspot too. Thanks
~Marilee
I want need want need want all the clock faces!
Hi Laura,
It was fun to tag along with you. What did y0ou buy? Please share.
Fondly,
Marjorie
Laura, Just rub it in! I was suppose to be there but we had a change of plans. Very disappointing! I see lots of things I would have loved to bring home. Do you know what the silver bottles were used for?
Hugs,
Sherry
Holy cow! Talk about feeling like a kid in a candy store. I would have been totally overwhelmed by all the goodies!
I am drooling, wish I could jump into the pictures and touch and guy everything!
Oh Yum, I would buy all of it including the scrapple pans.
Ok everything except the photos, old photos are eerie to me.
Wondering if this Renningers is any relation to the Renningers antiques here
In PA?
hey laura! what's so fun about this post is i saw all these booths in person, and i bought things in these booths as well! i am glad you found cindy who had all the lace and tons of smalls. she's a great source for smalls. glad you had fun!
hugs,
shelley
OMG the best stuff, colo does not have places to go like that.....love looking at all the fun things....are they pricy? would love an example like the clock faces?
thank u so much for sharing
c
Holy. Every picture just got better and better! Lucky you!
OH yes...I could have spent some money there...so many great goodies!
you certainly gave us quite a treat. i saw numerous things that i liked,i decide to hold back and save my cash. :) Bestest,Denise
I'd love to see the inside of that Bird Book. Wonderful photos, what a fabulous sale!
I would soooo have bought that Jack Rabbit produce sign and the giant gray clock! Thanks for showing these pictures! We don't have any markets like this where I live so it's really fun to see : )
Courtney
Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard!!
wow, just wow...where the heck was this, not that it matters now, but, geeze...what great junque!
Only two trips to the car????
Is there anything there I would have bought?
Ah...yeah.
...Hi, I would have to watch everything,touching and giving them my time and my respect!.I love old dishes with flowers and lovers's letter...thanks a lot,because you have allowed me to go around in a so romantic place so far from me!!!.
:-)
Lilybets from Malta.
Dear Laura,
I would have shopped a lot because there are not so many things with us all at once :o))
Many greetings
Anja
Quite a few of the pics I enlarged to take a closer look, especially the stained glass.
How do you manage to exclude people from your pics? Aren't there crowds? Do the vendors ever ask you not to take pics?
Thanks for taking us with you. xx
Yes yes !! that Jack Rabbit billboard !!...did you buy it ??? please please please....send it to Holland!! ....love love love Ria.....xxxx....
I just so wish I could have been there, so many wonderful things.
There seem to be less and less here in France, maybe they've all gone to to the USA.
Love the Flea!!! I want everything. Was the bird book amazing? Did you buy any Xmas ornaments? Cute monkey and bear. The bird cage.. I'm rambling now.Thanks for sharing. Spring can't come soon enough.
xx Liz
I don´t have a nice market like that nearby but thank you for showing us the great things on this post, even if you thing they are a bit random photos. I´ve enjoyed a lot.
oh, oh, ohhhhhhh !!!!!
Sigh....
I wish I would go ga-ga over the smaller items, but oh no...not ol' Deb. She wants the ginormous clock faces, the bergere chair, that fabulous writing desk...although the letters and that darling child's 4th of July outfit did make me smile.
Debbie
Ok I just drooled all over the computer, these finds are amazing! I wish the flea markets here had great things, in Jacksonville Florida....I miss NC where the flea markets were wonderful!
I just love your long posts;) I see so many great things. I can't wait until the Elephants Trunk opens again this year!!!!!!And then there is Brimfield and ........we are getting more snow tonight, but a girl can dream
~Debra xxx
Capers of the vintage vixens
Oh, Laura, I think I would have been very, very happy to be there. I see SO MANY things that I like. Looks like they had pretty much anything you could be looking for. Right away I would have gone for the clock faces, the letters and the lace. But pretty much everything you took photos of, my dear, especially the framed sea fans.
thanks for sharing your trip to the flea market...awesome pictures...I can dream.
I would have bought the Christmas balls! ..and the old children`s bike! Loved them!
Beautiful...
Thank you for all the pictures, it felt like I was there. The 6th picture from the bottom, I would have bought the soap dish container and I am sure I would have spent hours and hours just looking at all the cool stuff!
*drool* Such eye candy! ; )
~Michele
oh my! Since it is -30 with wind chill and several feet of snow here, flea markets won't be open for months. Thank you for a wonderful little refresher, how much fun!
You have the BEST blog! There's nothing as rich with treasures where I live but I'd be poor as a church mouse if I lived near Renninger's. I'd buy a chandelier, the baby buggy, the trunk, the dress form, the bird cage and the chair it sits on, the fruit flavorings extract box, a lace table cloth, and those two pin cushions. Now all I need is a table.
Oh my gosh...there were soooo many things I would have loved to have bought!! Amazing... wish I were there..~smile~
Blessings...
xoxo Gert
Oh my Godness Laura itìs all just fabulous! Tanks for shariring all these treasures, I have to wait a trip to Provence to walk into a flea market so amazing!!!
have a nice weekend my friend.
Pass the smelling salts! So beautiful! I would have loved to buy the lace petticoats,the red heart Valentine box and the costume jewels! How fortunate for us that you photographed the event. Thank you.
Hugs and Tweets!
WOW..... That's all I know what say. I would have never left, I wish there where Flea markets like this close to my home, You must have been in heaven. Thank you for sharing all the pictures your post was not long enough, It gives my an excuse not to do any work..
I want the brownie book, and I am low on vintage lace. This looks like so much fun!
Love,
Suz
its all interesting! i love that kind of things. where is it from? Sorry, i am from argentina this is my first time in 52 flea blog ;)
course i follow this blog
DROOL - just added that place to my "bucket list"!!
Wait, I just looked it up - Is that in FLORIDA??
Oh my!! Gorgeous images Laura, don't mind admitting I'm slightly envious at the scale and frequency of flea markets over there! :-)
What I wouldn't give for a stack of those old handwritten letters and old photographs!
Love from across the pond,
Jem x
Dear Laura,
Well, I would have bought everything !!....from the picture frames to the old letters.
What was interesting to me were the leaded light windows. We had to have new windows put into my mum and dad's old house as the originals were rotten and were taken out. I kept the old ones in the garage for ages and then, when the house was sold, I offered them to quite a few reclamation yards but nobody wanted them !! They said that they could only sell Victorian/Edwardian ones !! I gave them away in the end to some people who made cabinets out of them so, they went to a good home. XXXX
heaven on earth it was!
jackie
bliss farm antiques
I want that pair of white chairs
This is fantastic, making me wish I were right in the thick of it!
i love rediculous. i love random. i love your post!!!!!!!!!!!! super awesome eye candy all the way!!!!! thanks for posting all those great photos!!!! mmm good stuff.
sue
sooooo kind of you to share. We're snow bound up here in PA and it will be months before I see those scenes. :) Fabulous! Sometimes we don't need all the words!
Oh my goodness...that's it. I am going to make a trip there soon. I saw so many things that I love. Thanks for sharing these fabulous things.
Thank you for sharing your view! I just love to random pictures of beauty!
Have a wonderful week!
After seeing your photos of all that prize stuff, the car boot sale I sent to on Sunday (where I found some vintage things) was a non-event!
Oh my goodness! I think Heaven might look something like this! What a great day! Thanks for sharing the pictures. (It sure beats the foot and a half of snow we are getting here!)
Susan
wow wee... I want to buy it all.... love this random extravaganza
The thing that really caught my eye.. was the baby carriage... and Lisa Simpson's Sax.. hahaha... so much yummy stuff here Laura... You must have gone beserk... Have fun ciao xxx Julie
Love, love, love this post and seeing all these vintage treasures...the only thing better would have been being there with you. WOW...be still my heart!
Cheryl at My Sister's Cottage
It looks like heaven to me. I saw so many things I would love to have, but don't really need.
Thanks for sharing the lovely photos!
Oh my gosh! So many wonderful things!
HAVE MERCY!!!!!
Yes, there were several things I would have bought. One jumped out at me-a little blue and white dish in the photo just above the Jack Rabbit fresh produce sign. Which I would have bought the sign. And the silver bottles.
I've never seen anything like this. It's wonderful.
Bless your husband. He's a keeper!
xoxo
lynn
Oh la la ... je ne sais plus où regarder, tellement il y a de trésors !!!
c'est un plaisir cette chine,merci Laura pour ce moment d'envie...
bon weekend
Manon
I don't think that we'd have been able to contain ourselves....oh my goodness - it was heavenly we're sure!
Karla & Karrie
OMG....so many things I want/need....what fun you must have had!!!!
Oh, it's mouthwatering -- all of it! I wish I could have been there! I love the lace, linens, and the big piles of stuff like the watch faces to rummage through...sigh!!
Oh what fun!
That rabbit sign would have come home with me...
for sure!
When I have been to the Renningers in PA, I never saw so many wonderful things, but I never made it to the Extravaganza.
Maybe this year.
Hope all is well,
love ya,
Evi
PS. Thanks for helping me out the other day!
Wow so many lovely things. Just returned from holidays and trying to catch up with all my favourite blogs. Charmaine
hi,first time to visit. where is Renninger's Extravaganza and when? Have to take a trip. flossielucy@cox.net
wow, sooo beautiful! thera are so many shabby old things!...and yes, I would buy a lot ;-)
many greetings from austria
margit
Wow what great items! I could have a blast at a place like this. Great pictures.
This was so fun to go shopping, be tempted and not collect another thing to try to stuff in my cluttered house!
What a fun tour! Thank you for all the pictures!
Just great!
Jane
Flora Doora
wow, I would have purchased a whole cart full of goodies. so many things that were so beautiful!
Wow What a wonderful journey through the lens of your camera, so much history and so many stories it could tell, if we only knew, guess we will just have to have our imaginations wander and create our own. Thanks for sharing! Blessings Marilou
I enjoy going to flea market because here is a place where you'll find treasures amidst all the trash.
So many beautiful things I'm overwhelmed! The cash register is wonderful. The clock faces are lovely...I could go on and on!
~Heidi
OMG dream is that you were able to buy something from each photo....beautiful, dreamy,
and breathtaking!
Love this....
I just found your blog and love it! Especially this Rennigers post since I travel down there every time there is an extravaganza. I design jewelry from vintage pieces so I'm loving looking through all your posts, etc!
http://spencermorgandesigns.blogspot.com
I just found your blog and have fallen in love! I adore old things and collect mostly old wind-up watches and books... that birds and nature book floored me. How I wish I could have bought that! Books are my greatest weakness and I am just starting to learn more about birds by an 1800's novel, and that one would just suit me. How I would have loved to have been there.
I also would have bought that stack of letters as you did. I was sorting through old post cards in an antique shop once, and came across about ten, all to the same woman... I bought them, took them home and read each one to find out that the receiver of those beautiful cards married the man that sent the very last one. It's treasures like these that make it all so worth it!
This is my first time visiting your blog.
I found you through High Street Cottage.
What I love about your blog is it takes
me for virtual tours of flea market.
I don't have a chance to visit flea markets
where I live, and I am having an absolutely
lovely time visiting them through your blog.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I liked AT LEAST one item in every picture! As far as what I would have actually purchased - whatever I could have until the money ran out. lol
Blessings,
Liz @ the Brambleberry Cottage
http://thebrambleberrycottage.blogspot.com/
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