Christmas Shopping and Antique Market

Yesterday after my last class for the semester my friend Maggie picked me up for some christmas shopping!

After a visit to the big Goodwill thrift store at Sallie Mood Drive, the Oglethorp Mall and some stores at Broughton Street we had some coffee at Foxy Loxy Cafe, next to this pretty house. (For all of you who’ve read Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking books- downtown is full of these adorable Villa Villekulla style buldings.)

At Foxy Loxy I was thrilled to spot a St. Lucia banana bread in the counter! (Tuesday was St. Lucia/St. Lucy’s Day in Sweden, and it’s my favourite tradition with lots of candles and beautiful singing- this is what it looks like.) Later we found out that the nice girl behind the counter had Swedish ancestors.

Foxy Loxy have the nicest back yard, but unfortunately it was closed. I just love the architecture downtown Savannah.

After the coffee Maggie took me to a totally mind-blowing place- Habersham Antique Market.

Habersham Antique Market is a huge, huge hall where a bunch of different vendors sell things that they have thrifted from pretty much everywhere. Every vendor’s got his or her own booth that they’ve decorated, so you feel like you’re just walking through different rooms.

I wanted to buy everything for no particular reason other than that they were so pretty. Look at this amazing camera, or the chair it sits on!

Cute, beaded handmade collars from India. I think collars are the next vintage trend…

A birdcage- another hyped vintage gem, and possibly a very old sewing machine (?) next to another unidentifiable item.

Maggie tried on these ancient pair of glasses. At least that’s what I think- when you looked into them the world went all blurry.

Another “room” with fur-coats, hats and pretty hatboxes.

A Coca Cola bottle stand and an old can.

After an hour-long adventure at the antique market me and Maggie walked around the corner of the block, to check out Maggie’s and her husband’s house. There I found the coolest hair dryer ever.

And a pretty vintage tin containing the cards that they got on their wedding. I just love old, rusty tins. They are so beautiful.

I also found an adorably christmassy little dog named Franklin that were very fond of hands, and licking hands. :)

that was that day, a very good day. What I found I’ll show you in another post!