the scale above, was $20. score! and it is loved by all, in it's new home. : )
i am always amazed, by the boxes of photos that i sift through, at these stores.
who were these people?
what did they do for a living?
is this where my photos will end up?
i often feel like i am invading a certain privacy, when i look at these people, in their family photos. i get a twinge at the thought of them, being gone. bless their hearts. i stood still, when i found one of those old wedding photos, where the couple isn't smiling and you keeping looking for a glimpse of love, and head straight to the eyes, seeking emotion ; ) i always look, but never have i had the nerve to buy any ; ) this past weekend i almost got my nerve up, to purchase a wonderful photo book, of black and whites. this young woman, this young woman was so beautiful...
she was snapping photos of herself, and she had those stockings on. you know the ones, that have the black lines going up the back. she was fierce, with that camera she used.
she was before her time
she was brave
she made me brave
she had me
i love that.
one love~
43 ladlefuls of love:
Melting...love those antique stores ;)
love u
Love the scale! I feel like I was right there along with you on that shopping trip. Wish I could see that book. I love old pictures too.
yes, you definitely did score -- love that scale!
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I love that scale! Only $20?! Wow!
Gosh. What a find!
oh yes, the scales - beautiful
and bw photography....so daring and adventureous most of the time.
i would have loved to seen that photo of the Brave Woman...my imagination is running wild...
I love finding old photos in antique shops. The same sorts of questions go through my mind when I look at them. I used to have a depression-era photo of an elderly woman in a tattered dress standing in the doorway of a house that had seen better days. She wore a determined but not unkind look on her face She looked like someone who would have no trouble telling you where it was at. J and I knick-named her "Granny Booboo" for some reason, but I don't know where the photo ended up. I do miss her.
score- indeed! I have heard that back in the day, people were instructed not to smile for photographs- it does leave you wondering though, doesn't it!
amelia* i know, right! i read that too. i just am so curious about that. : )
there are so many things you tell all in one post, hopping from here to there yet theres a harmony. thanks for sharing that antique piece..antique to me is synonymous to the old age romance :)
Your scales are so much nicer than the Anthropologie ones anyway, and at only $20! I know what you mean about old photos. I do own a few and I love looking at them, wondering about the subjects. I also have a beautiful book of old postcards, obviously collected by someone from their travels and their friends and relatives. I love looking for the connections there. Did you buy the album with the beautiful woman?
Sarah* i did not buy it. but when i sneak over in a week or two, i will look and see if it is still there. if it is, i then will know it was meant for me to take home. : ) xo
christina,
will this go on your writing desk? oh how i want to see where you sit to write. : ) bliss i bet. i also want to go treasure hunting with you. : )
go back and buy it when you can...love old photos...books...and oh the scale is so wonderful ...i had to just drink it in ...staring at the shape and all the numbers, you will enjoy this.
Dear Christina,
Your inspiration from a photo is exquisite. You should give it a home and a story. The secrets of antique stores and their wares always beguile me. Even the antiques and old photos I live with sets the imagination in motion.
Lovely scales! I have heard that back in the day, it took a long time for the camera to be ready to take a photograph and that people were sick of waiting and smiling... So often they are not!
antiques stores...sigh...LOVE
I was in an antique/thrift store when I stumbled upon a book I had as a preteen...imagine my shock when I opened it and saw MY name in my handwriting...well of course I had to buy it...still trying to resolve that mystery!!!
oh envy! the good one, you know. The one that makes you smile and say, I am sure if we both were together at the antique shop I would let you have the scale but I will claim visitation rights. Exquisite, but then I come here for my ration of exquisite when the spirit moves.
You made me smile too :-) again, thank you. The scale looks lovely. I wonder what I would pick up in an antique shop ... they say that there still lies the energy of all the owners in the objects ... I guess I would have to just feel whether it resonates with me :-). May I invite you to my latest post when you get the time ... have a blessed day! hugs
oops I made a mistake - oh my English ... lol - they say that there still lays the energy ... sorry I hope you can understand ...
love the scale and I say, if you love the photos you find, then buy those, too !
I have hundreds of those old photos and adore everyone of them and hope to give a bathroom...someday... a wallpapered look with them by just loosely thumb tacking them all over the walls...doesn't that sound just sooooo yummy ?
lovely find Christina ! about not smiling on photos, it does seem strange doesn't it ? i look at old photos albums in my family and they all look so serious even at weddings !
happy week to you !
xoxo
I'd like to see some luscious cupcakes on that scale. :)
It's difficult to imagine a family photo album not being prized and fought over by the descendents . . . but I'm sure that fierce woman wouldn't mind your loving and respectful gaze.
you scored big time...
i used to have an old hanging scale in my kitchen but sold it at a garage sale when we moved to a house with high celings..and i have always regretted it...loved setting seasonal produce on it..now that i am back in a tiny cottage..i should look for one..
and i always think the same thing when i dig through old photos in antique shops...wonder who they were? what was their life like?
more later, dear one
fondly,
kary
xxx
ohhh I love old photos.
Oh, Christina, I love this post. I collect old photo albums that i find at flea markets and antiques stores. I always feel like I'm saving them and caring for them since they've been abandoned. All those lives and stories--they feel like friends to me. Sometime soon I'll show you a bunch of them.
Love your new scale. Let's cook something!
xoxo Gigi
Cool find, Christina! Have you weighed everything in your kitchen on it? And that photo album sounds so interesting. Self portraits - very cool.
I have the same reaction to abandoned photographs...sad! How could they? I'd love to see the photos of the fierce woman with the lined stockings.
I know what you mean about those photos. Have you ever looked at the postcards or letters in such shops? I suppose that is really invading a certain privacy. I've invaded a time or two...
i am always in amazement at old photos. love your scale...and i love the price!
Hmm I do wonder who she was, what made her take those photos who saw them I love those thoughts..
Love your old scale, Christina! And I know what you mean about old photos, especially the wedding ones. You wonder what their lives turned out to be like, and whether they were happy...
The scales are a great find! As for old photos, I have a small box of them and love looking at them and wondering about their lives. It's always in the eyes - sadly, these days, even the eyes may be photoshopped by certain over-zealous snappers. xo
Oh my goodness, I thought I was the only one who stopped to wonder about those old pictures. Also, I bought a beautiful glass etched with a monogram and the number 75 on it, it's where I keep my amaretto cookies for coffee...and I've always wondered who it was made for, what they put inside of it while they owned it....it's funny how some belongings seem to float throughout the globe, belonging to many, but indeed, to no one.
It's a beautiful old scale...lucky you!
xo
I have my daddy's scale that he used at growers markets for many years, it's my treasure so I completely understand why you had to have it! I love, love old photographs, once bought a young girl's scrapbook from her senior year...1942, not only photos but memories as well and one of my favorite things left from my mother is an envelope of "unknown relatives"!! smooches
My dad was diabetic and had a scale exactly like that before he got is insulin pump. Love it. Love the memories...
I love going through old photographs at antique shops and wondering about the people there.
I always look at those photos too and I'm always struck by how unconnected I feel to the people. I look in their eyes for some glimmer of recognition and there is none. I try to imagine their lives, and I realize I'm telling my own stories not their's. But - like you - I always look. And maybe one day I'll find somebody who looks back. But - like you - I don't think I'll have the nerve to bring her home. She's her own, not mine.
that book sounds like the perfect photo coffee table book to enjoy over and over.
I adore antique shopping! I have looked at those old photos and had the thoughts, they were once here, what was their life like, etc. Beautiful!
So many times I have been in that same place with these old photos. Something feels not quite right about the invasion, and occasionally there's the person you just wish you knew--so bright and happy and smiling. So lovely reading about your treasure hunting. It's one of my greatest pleasures when I have the extra $$ :)
xo
Oh you should have gotten that album! It would have been so much fun! I havent been antiquing before but I definitely want to.
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