Then Saturday I organised with mum (the ultimate antique roadshow lady) to go on a nice country drive to do some op-shopping and antiquing! She didn't have to even think twice and we were in the car on the open road. We went first to Ballarat and had lunch at the delicious Beechworth Bakery. She wanted to buy the cookbook so it was a neccessary pit stop. As was the purchase of lunch, 8 cookies to take home, and a rasberry tart to have later on that day :P
So after that we hit the road towards Daylesford hoping to find some cool stuff... and man did we ever! The first place we went to was in the main street called Junk Style. I don't remember seeing it any of the times i have been there, but she swears they have been open for a few years. Maybe 2. shrug. So walking along you see this sign:
Then you turn to look up the stairs lined with old mirrors and paintings and clothes, needless to say I was totally pumped to see what else was up there!
You walk out to see this amazing vintage/retro loft FULL of crazy things. It was a visual orgasm, there was not one boring thing there and there was simply too much to take in!! I didn't take a picture of what i bought but i got a beaded pineapple candle holder (josh said it is borderline garish/cool) and a babushka :)
that's my mum checking out their vintage furniture to outfit her little californian bungalow house that is being re-built.
Next stop was another antique store on the main drag as well. This place was called Wombat Hill Antiques, and was a nice old building on the corner across from the Info centre.
Inside was like a rabbit warren of rooms, packed floor to ceiling with heaps of old stuff. I didn't end up buying anything here - partly because there was noone there. my mum and i were the only ones there - i think the owners were out for lunch or something, but the door was open and this little old TV was on near the register and i could faintly hear some sports playing on it. It was a little weird. I half considered stealing something but they were probably watching on a hidden camera and would set off some hidden bear traps or something. i think i have seen a horror movie like that. ha. oh man, they had a stuffed peacock with all its feathers! i couldnt get a good pic cos it was up high and behind stuff. anyway here are some of the cool things i saw in the shop...
gotta love the headlines on those mags! anyway, after a good browse we went to another place that was mainly furniture and quite expensive. I did buy a candlestick and an old milk jug but no pics! Then we were ready for the peice de resistance. THE MILL MARKETS! There are Mill Markets in Geelong, Ballarat, Newcomb, i think Warnambool, and here in Daylesford. I thought i had been here before but walking in the door i knew i would have remembered a place like this...
three words played on my mind: Holy Fucking Shit. It is like a Bunnings but all op-shop stuff and antiques and crazy stuff! there was another shed almost this size behind me. I have never seen something so amazing.
It is made up of hundreds of little stalls set up by local shop owners or individuals. Generally they don't man the stalls and the price tags have a stall number on it which gets noted at the cash register. Here is mum perusing one such stall...
I saw this little money box and had a flashback to childhood. His name is Robbie and i had one as a kid. You put a coin on his hand and he lifts it to his mouth then opens wide and eats the coin. he was a good tool to get us to save our silvers, thats fo sho. 
oh and i saw this retro picnic set - how cccccccccoooolllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!
and here are some other cool shotzzz of my fun time at the mill markets!
omg those face jugs are made by Royal Doulton and are like $250 each. No thanks! Oh and guess what my fellow subarashii friends!!!???! I found ANOTHER DIRTY PILLOW!!!!!!! omfgomfgomfgomfgomfg!
this one is very cute, i cannot believe i now have 4 pillows from the 70's. all of which kinda freak people out. But let me think - the one above cost $15... the elephant one was $2.99, and the two others with people on them were $2.99 each as well. So that's $23.97 for 4 pillows. I'm sittin' pretty.
yeah obviously i saw this and was drawn to what i thought was a board game called "lose your shit"... but even "lose your shirt" is fairly strange. I couldnt reach it cos it was up high but i wonder if it is some kind of stripping game... Sadly i just put my suspicions to rest by Google searching it. It is a lame horse racing game where the jockey "loses his shirt" if you lose. boo!
oh and i saw this cool bird cage below for nearly $1,000!!!!
I watched "A series of unfortunate events" last night and i swear this same design cage was in it! But it housed reptilessssss! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppp. Also from the Mill Market i bought 2 70's style serving dishes - one is from Japan. I also got a Christmas Drinks Tray, aaaaaand mum bought me a Champagne ice urn which is really fancy and lovely! Once we left there we were starving hungry and went to get our bakery tarts from the car. Unfortunately we didnt realise it had gotten so hot and they were pretty melted and gooey. hmmm.... we still ate them though. laaawll. So anyone up for a drive to daylesford or one of the other mill markets sometime soon? you wont regret it :D
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