Sunday Afternoon Finds at a Roman Mercatino

Flea market finds, antiques’ fairs, garage sales, vintage bijoux stalls, second hand stores… Don’t you just love them? Market shopping in Rome, Italy, calmly browsing the displays, and then coming upon that perfect and unique piece? Ah, bliss.[SlideDeck id='3' width='100%' height='475px'] Every second Sunday of the month, a tiny “mercatino dell’antiquariato” (antiques market) comes to my neighborhood. And although my budget is a modest one, and I don’t usually dive into purchasing antiques, I almost always return home with one exquisite object. It is my extravagance. Be it a lavish item of vintage clothing, or a mismatched Art Nouveau vase, a yellowed journal, an old leather suitcase covered in turn of the century travel stickers, a silent film poster, ancient maps, or an old postcard with a love note written in pointy hand on the flip side, I will do all I possibly can to negotiate a fair price to bring it home with me. Here are more wonderful images I captured last Sunday: (To see what I brought home with me, be sure to see the last photograph.)

My son's into trucks, so this time he was the one dragging me away as I pined over the mini sewing machine.