DC Big Flea

I'm a little ashamed it's taken me over a month to get this post together, but I have been pretty busy. Truthfully most of it comes down to laziness and never remembering to take the camera downstairs to take pictures.

Excuses aside, back in November a bunch of my family and I went to the DC Big Flea. It's your typical flea market- a mix of junk and treasures, so you really never know what you're going to find. I went in not expecting to buy anything, but I brought about $100 to spend and that was the perfect amount!

Back in February of 2010 I posted about a kitchen I fell in love with. She used trophies to decorate and since then I'd been keeping my eye out for a few to buy. I never fell in love enough to spend my hard earned money, but that all changed and I dropped $65 to get this beauty.

I'd never seen any of these copper trophies before, so I snatched it right up. They were selling a bunch of them for $65 a piece and I was tempted to buy more!

The next purchase was for our baby girl. I'd seen this idea on a few blogs and I knew it was something I wanted to do for her nursery. I found these blocks at $.50 a piece, so I grabbed them all up for a total of about $20. I already had the jar, and it's the perfect punch of color! (Since I don't know if lead is present, she will not be playing with these! They are purely for decoration.)

This last purchase was out of left field, but as soon as I saw it I knew the Mr. would love it. Why? His lucky number is 15 and he thinks guns are fascinating. This sign ($20) was a train speed limit sign and I just love imagining the history it had. As soon as I showed it to my hubby he started guessing what gun made what holes.

And that is my haul from the DC Big Flea. It's no Luckett's Market, but I'll take what I can get!