AE | The Weekend Lens via the Coburg Antique Fair

One of my favorite annual adventures came around this past weekend: The Coburg Antique Fair.

For one day each year this great little town is taken-over (pretty literally) by over 300 dealers. This year my little group of five (Kim, Katie, Jackie and Liz) spent the night here and we headed over there at 5:30am. We go that early to find the "good" stuff and to escape the heat. We dress in layers as the mornings are often cool (definitely a warmer morning than last year). We were on our way home before noon.

Had to take a photo of this sign. Love that.

My annual mirror self-portrait.

Katie found this great container for paper towels and wax paper - love the font used on there.

My big purchase this year was a metal rolling cart with really deep shelves and awesome red wheels. It will be perfect for holding folders, canvases, notebooks and other supplies in my office if I can get it upstairs. It's really, really heavy. We got it in and out of the car and into the house but not up the stairs just yet.

A few other things that made their way home with me include:

A book called The Story Teller. Loved it for the spine and cover at first. Loved it even more when I opened up and saw that the stories inside include Beauty And The Beast, Cinderella, and Jack And The Bean Stalk (among others).

A couple bags of Fisher Price people (found at a really great price for this sort of event). Anna loves these guys.

Two more match holders made it home with me to add to my collection.

The northwest sign, a little table to go next to Anna's bed, and a pull down map of the northwest also all now live here in my house. I saw some maps last year and didn't act fast enough. Love that this one includes Oregon (where I live), Washington and Idaho. The Northwest sign is metal - possibly from the old Northwest Airlines.

Check out my past Coburg adventures in 2010, 2009 and 2008.

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