:: Finders Keepers Markets ::

Late last year Gracie and I went to the Finders Keepers markets together. I love these markets - they're basically etsy in real life! I always set myself a budget (with cash in hand) so that I don't go overboard and buy one of everything. Every year I'm amazed at how creative people are. I'm pretty sure I walk around repeating the phrases, "Oh, that's clever!", "I love that!", "Look! How do people come up with this?", "I wish I could do that." And yeah, you get the idea.

:: Finders Keepers Markets ::

There has been whispers of excitement about the upcoming Finders Keepers Markets. I have been a few times before and have had such a good time drooling over beautiful hand made clothes, vintage wares, beautiful jewellery, and my favourite - the gorgeous stationery (no surprises there!). I was thinking about the last Finders Keepers I went to with Gracie, and then the time before that with Gracie and her gorgeous friend Laura, and I realised I never showed you photos from either of the days. Worst. Blogger. Ever. Seriously ... ever. Worst.

To rectify this situation, here are some photos from the last Finders Keepers Markets in July!

If only I had a million dollars to buy everything! Are any of you going this year?

:: Look Book - To Market, To Market ::

I have a few clothing loves at the moment. One of them is polka dots. I bought two polka dot scarves last week to rectify the fact that I owned NO polka dots! How I made it this far in life without polka dots is unknown to me. The other love is yellow. I love yellow of all kinds - lemon, sunshine, bright, pale ... love!

So, imagine my joy when Gracie arrived at the markets a few weekends ago wearing both polka dots and yellow!

Haha, I love this photo. We spend a lot of time laughing about not knowing how to pose. This was Gracie mid-"I don't know what to do"!

:: Cardigan - Valley Girl / Dress - Mombasa / Belt - Myer / Footless Tights - Target / Shoes - Rubi Shoes / Bow Shoe Clips - Sunshine and Carousels Etsy / Necklace - The Little Fox Etsy / Ring - Gift from Megan ::

What are your fashion loves at the moment? I also really love the colour mint green, but it's really hard to find clothes in that colour!

I love that I have met such a wonderful person through blogging. Did you know it was Gracie that got me into blogging in the first place? I was searching for images of Kikki K on Google and came across a link to her blog. I loved it so much that I decided to start a blog too!

:: Finders Keepers Markets ::

A little while ago Gracie and I went to the Finders Keepers Markets together. This was my second time at these markets and I loved them every bit as much as I did last time! I love the vintage-y, eclectic feel of these markets. There was so much amazing stuff on display!

Gracie and I had our photos taken at the photobooth! We had two photos - one with chalkboard caption speech bubbles and one with props. I took home the speech caption photo and Gracie took home the props photo - you can see those photos here.

The photographer also took a bunch of digital photos to put on their facebook page. This is one of the facebook photos (I look a little cross-eyed, haha!)

Gracie and I took a bunch of photos outside the museum, where they had a fabulous wall of amazing coloured flowers.

And of course, I couldn't resist buying some stationery.

What is your favourite thing to do at markets? It would seem that my favourite thing to do is spend money!!

I also took some cute photos of Gracie, but that's for another post!