It was another drizzly day, so we hit a few more antique and thrift shops. The Vintage Peddler is definitely my favorite in Springfield, Missouri. We never do much damage at the places we go, but just enjoy what and how the vendors have displayed their items.
I took SO many pictures, I’ll have to show them today and tomorrow. We are going to head home Saturday, so I’ll see you Monday!
Okay, let’s see what you like from The Vintage Peddler. It’s a lot of old mixed with some new… but very cleverly displayed… it is a real treat to visit there!
I did buy some silk ribbon from this vendor…to make pretty doll bows.
I would show some more, but it’s late and my phone is taking too long to upload my pictures. We are getting up early to finish our last day here in Springfield… I’ll show the rest tomorrow!
See you then…
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, my so much to look at in the pictures tonight!!
I spotted an old tin dollhouse (much like one I had as a child) on the top shelf in the second picture, and bride doll on the left side, partway down.
TWO wonderful thread cabinets!! That nice Brainerd Armstrong & Co., Spool Silk one in the 4th picture, and the Belding, Paul & Co. one in the 6th picture. It would be fun to have either one of those…if I had room for it!
I remember mom having a box camera like the one in the last picture, and Ron’s mother had one similar to those bellows ones next to it. She gave it to him, and I think he finally gave it to a friend who collected cameras.
What goodies will we find in tomorrow’s pictures?!!
Got a laugh seeing that three wheeled bike. My grandmother had one that she road around her mobile home park. I guess I would call it retro and not vintage. I even have a photo I took at my parent’s house of my father pedaling and my mother sitting in the basket on the back probably in the 70’s. Have no idea what happened to that bike.
Lots of great pics here today. Thanks Jeanne for sharing. 🙂
Dear Joy, I would love to have a tricycle like that! I never learned how to ride a bike so I think I could ride that one without falling off (laugh).
I know that a three wheeler would work for you. They are very stable. 🙂
Whoever does the displays sure is clever. The long broom head upside down holding seed packets is an example…..and the bike on top of another display…amazing. How long did you look at all that ribbon? Was there a color you didn’t have?
Glad you have the sister time🫶
What a wonderful collection of great items. I haven’t had time to check them all out but will do that later. The doll house is great. I never had one of those type doll houses because my dad was a carpenter and he made our doll houses. Beth and I had a two story colonial-type that was lovely. One year when we had a hurricane, Hazel or Diane can’t remember which, our basement flooded and destroyed that doll house. So my dad made another one for my two younger sisters. Theirs was a contemporary ranch with a patio in the center. I haven’t a clue what happened to that one since I was grown and gone while they were still playing with that one.
We have the most amazing quilt shop in town called The Wooden Spool, but I still haven’t made the time to visit in person just checked it out on the website. It’s only about three minutes from me so I really have no excuse. The woman who had the sewing/quilting shop previously passed away a year or so ago. I worried for awhile that it would just go away but the couple that bought the shop have done amazing things with it. It’s pretty much dedicated to quilting and they have a machine and will do quilting for people. I think one of the things that slowed me down in taking up quilting was that I would have had to go to Houston to have any quilting done and the one shop disappeared. Not to mention the shops were expensive. One of my friends has a ton of tops but said she was having trouble finding someone to quilt them for her. I haven’t seen her in awhile to tell her about this new shop but she may have found it on her own. A lot of the quilt shops in Houston sell fabric for quilting but don’t provide any services.
About the “Boxcar Children”, I only ever read the first one and loved it. I was in third grade and my teacher had it for us to read. I’ve often thought of buying the set but I just haven’t done it as yet.
Finally getting here to comment, Jeanne! I wanted to look at the pictures close up, plus made an early trip to the grocery store this morning.
While I don’t go to antique stores very much, if at all, when I do, it is like a trip back to my childhood! I guess that I’m “that” old!
In the second to last photo, there is a small piano that is probably is a music box. I have one that looks just like it that my grandparents had in their house, and that I played with when there. My grandfather gave to to me after I married, because he knew I loved it. It plays “A Fine Romance”. I have no idea where ot came from originally, but they had it for a long time before I came along.
Is that an old time telephone operator switchboard in that picture? And what a clever idea to make a farmhouse light fixture out of buckets!
I see a miniature jukebox in the second picture that looks like the one AG made for Courtney, their 80’s girl. And farther down on that piece of furniture, an old time phone like my other grandparents had! So many memories here!
Hope your day is rain free today!
What fun it’s been to see all the shops you three have been visiting. It’s been fun shopping through your pictures.
I like the “maybe metal” London phone booth in front of the metal dollhouse at the top in the second picture. Amazon carries some and one metal booth in particular I put on my Christmas list already! 😂
I like the bike with the cart as part of the bike. I’d like to get the ones you attach to your bike so I can pull our doggies around the neighborhood rather than a too long of a walk.
So much to look at and it’s fun that you and your sisters shared the time with us!
Glad you had this time together since tomorrow is your last day.
This place reminds me of the antique store in the next town over because of the mix of old and new. We used to go there each month to bathe our Collie Mix at the wash your own dog place.
The antique store was around the corner with another one next door. We would take turns going in while one would wait in the car with her.
Oh, my that Eastlake Brainerd thread cabinet in just amazing! My grandmother would have loved such a thing in her house and so would I.
I also like the bike. Someone in town rides a old wicker three wheel bike. I need one to ride the kitties around the neighborhood in style.
The silk ribbon is beautiful. I would have been looking as well. I also saw and like the English phone booth. I have a dollhouse sized one maybe two and a quarter inches tall, but it opens.
Dear Jeanne, I found myself saying “ooo pretty” at so many things. Thanks for taking us shopping with you.