This past weekend Tiffany and I went up to Tulsa to visit a dear friend of ours, Alayna. I think I have mentioned her on here before. She comes to Dallas a few times a year and we try and get up there once a year as well. We also went out to eat with some old college friends of mine. Go Pokes! We sat at the chef's table in the kitchen at The Tavern downtown, which was such a fun experience. If ever you find a restaurant that offers that you should certainly try it. It can get loud in there at times, but it is so much fun.
It has become a tradition now when we go to Tulsa that Alayna takes us to this place called River City Trading Post. It is this wonderful place that people can sell their "cheep crap" at, as I would call it. There are rows and rows of booths set up and each booth is a different persons stuff that you can rummage through. We always find some great "cheep crap" that we can turn into something unique and interesting.
We also were fortunate to come up on the weekend that a great flee market was going on at the fair grounds. Again, this flee market was rows and rows of people selling their "cheep crap" they have collected or found themselves over the years. Some of the stuff people were selling was actually "crap", but you can also find some really interesting collections of antiques, furniture, kitchen stuff, vintage clothing, jewelry, and anything else old, antique or vintage that you can think of in your head. It was so much fun seeing what everyone brought and talking to the people about how they had come to collect these things. Here are some photos from River City Trading Post & The Tulsa Flee Market:
You don't always have to go to Pottery Barn or Crate N Barrel to furnish and decorate your house. If you want to include some unique pieces in your home try and find a local flee market you can go to. Most of the things you find just need a coat of paint or some re-purposing of some kind. Then your living room or bedroom will be full of conversation pieces that remind you of the fun times you had finding them and making them into something uniquely yours.
Happy Flee Marketing!
Anna & Tiffany
P.S. Stay tuned for further posts of what we did with some of this stuff.
