Our Recent Shopping Adventure: A Delightful Spree Through Thrift Stores and Vintage Finds

As I sat at my desk, reminiscing about our recent shopping adventure, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and joy. My partner and I had spent the day scouring through thrift stores and vintage shops, searching for unique and interesting pieces to add to our home decor. We had been on a mission to find something special, and I'm thrilled to report that we came close to making some incredible purchases.

In my dream, I was imagining myself surrounded by olive trees, their wispy branches stretching out like nature's own works of art. I don't know if I'll ever find one just like it, but the idea of stumbling upon something truly special is what makes thrifting so thrilling. We had also stumbled upon a beautiful page from an old book, supposedly fresh off the presses from Paris. The intricate design featured the Greek key pattern, with Medusa gazing serenely at the top. I couldn't resist adding it to my art collage, and I'm excited to see how it will turn out.

We had also found some wonderful gifts for our friend Haley's upcoming birthday. She's a huge fan of butterflies and moths, and we had picked up some beautiful vintage prints that she'll surely appreciate. We're planning to frame them and give them to her as a special birthday gift. It's always exciting to find unique pieces that will make someone happy.

One of the highlights of our day was when we discovered an amazing breadboard with hundreds and thousands of little cup marks etched into it. This thing is a work of art, and I can already imagine using it in our kitchen as a serving board. The fact that it's been used by multiple people over the years only adds to its charm. We're excited to see where this piece will end up.

We also came across some fascinating sea creatures on one of the boards. I'm not sure what they're called, but they looked like coral brains or something similar. What a find! It was clear that the seller had done their research and was selling genuine pieces from around the world. We were impressed by the level of detail and craftsmanship that went into each item.

As we left the store, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction with our finds. It's always a thrill to discover something new and exciting, even if it doesn't always work out in the end. Our first year of marriage was filled with adventure, including a trip to China, which is a secret only a few people know about. I love the mix of modern and vintage pieces in our home, and I think this recent shopping spree has given us something to think about.

Before we left, my partner had suggested that we take some time to consider our purchases before making any decisions. We're not always impulsive shoppers, and it's refreshing to slow down and evaluate what we really want to add to our collection. It's all part of the process, and I'm excited to see where this journey will take us.

As we settled in for the evening, my partner mentioned that we should hit subscribe on our channel. I couldn't agree more! We had a blast sharing our adventures with you, and we can't wait to bring you more sneak peeks of what's to come. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram as well, where we'll be posting plenty of behind-the-scenes stories from our latest escapades.

Finally, I took a moment to enjoy the delicious meal that my partner had prepared for me. It was a feast fit for a king (or queen), and I couldn't get enough of it. As we sat down to eat, I realized just how lucky I am to have such a wonderful partner who shares my love of adventure and vintage finds. And as for you, dear readers, I hope you've enjoyed this little peek into our recent shopping spree. Until next time, stay thrifty, stay curious, and keep on searching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni really can't wait people i really can't wait i really am just that excited hey guys we are in the car and headed to what is supposed to be the biggest most amazing antique market flea market thing we don't even know what it's called in the southeast and it's called scots antiques so everybody's been telling us about this place for years we're headed over there today to check it out and see if it's as cool as everybody has proclaimed that it is so we thought we'd take you along with us because it could be a lot of fun it's like going to disney for you it is like going to disney it's better than disney we're going to an antiques thing they say it's huge i don't know we're going aunties i'm so excited we can't wait i really can't wait people i really can't wait i really am just that excited so i just realized we match you even put on black pants i'm even wearing leopard shoes really okay not the leopard shoes but oh my god it's cause i see you you watch me get dressed and then you go match me i was dressed first liminal it's my subconscious wanting to be like you which i never will because you're so much prettier now we look like tweedledee and tweedledum oh we know which one's tweedledum yes we do yes we do well we are on our way it's gonna take they say about 45 minutes 42 42 minutes and uh we'll go see if it's awesome and take you along and show you everything oh so here we are why do you not look as excited as i feel what's wrong with you man do you not know how exciting this is look at this building it's full of treasures just waiting for us wait why are those people allowed to go in faster than us i don't know actually it was they make two lanes i just didn't know wow so that means just sitting the long line in the first lane look at that back behind those trees is the highway this couldn't be any more nondescript this might be a total bust that's what you're hoping for you can leave early and all right let's see what it is it's full of land rovers and mercedes and i know that we drive an audi but she's an older little beauty not sure this is not gonna be bargain hunting day so we'll see what we find we'll see what we find yeah we'll see well before we get too far off on our adventure today i wanted to stop for just a moment and thank our video sponsor which is hellofresh and i don't know if i've ever been so excited because hellofresh has delivered my groceries and my meal fully planned out for me for the evening there is definitely a reason that hellofresh is america's number one meal kit these guys are amazing they have given me time back in my day which is the one thing you can never buy more of so i'm delighted we've got honey miso broccoli and sweet potato don berry i've never tried donburi we've seen all these exotic things today which really just reminds us of our travels and living abroad and i love the hellofresh introduces new foods to my family and to myself and i feel like i get to travel the world with our meals i mean this is really cool and i really really love that we also have zucchini and tomato flatbreads which definitely feels very italian and we've got pasta primavera with lemon parmesan sauce i'm gonna get this food going while we share scott's antique market with you guys and i will meet you back here in a little bit hellofresh is really amazing because it really cuts out the stressful meal planning and prepping because all of the ingredients arrive on your doorstep they're fresh they're pre-measured and the recipes are really really easy to follow and it's so quick and easy to get healthy meals on the table i think it's really awesome because you know you're going to get something delicious every single time the packaging hellofresh uses to ship your food in is almost entirely made from recyclable and or already recycled content i really love that hellofresh has donated over 4 million meals to charity in 2020 and is continuing to step up their food donations amid the coronavirus crisis go to hellofresh.com and use my code valentina 12 to get 12 free meals including free shipping i'll leave all the details down below in the description box when we first walked in i honestly thought okay well this was a bust but at least jack will have snacks and then we started to actually get to where the antiques were and i thought okay we're gonna be here a while because there are so many cool things and i started to realize just how big this place was and how much there was to look at and i honestly just started looking at everything i was just trying to absorb what was happening even around me because this place was so much bigger than i even imagined and there were already so many cool things that i almost just felt myself just almost shutting down like i'm literally just going to be looking and absorbing today i seriously doubt that i'm even going to be able to make a decision because i don't even know if i can trust myself to even like think clearly because there was so much cool artwork there were so many cool things we honestly just really started to just just look and take in all the different styles that we were seeing and each of the different vendors what they had and really not try to think about even purchasing it first because something this big can really feel overwhelming and also extremely exciting and i was trying not to like jump up and down and make a fool of myself when we got to the african booth i just about died i felt like we were literally visiting some other country it was incredible all the different wood carvings and all the different things i was so overwhelmed i so regret not going back and making more purchases there were also beautiful rugs beautiful furniture every corner that we turned there were so many beautiful things the other fun thing that i was doing while we were here was i was updating my instagram so if you don't follow us on instagram go visit valentina fossil over on on instagram and follow me there because a lot of times i'll post things like this in the stories and get your you guys feedback in the moment i think that's what's so fun about that medium um but here we are in this i was eyeing all the garden things and there were all kinds of things for the french country modern style that i love so much and there's like there's literally something here for everyone and oh my gosh all the cool mirrors were so beautiful and i found myself just you can see here this is how i update my instagram like oh my gosh look you guys there's so many exotic things i was totally freaking out i i couldn't even get my mind around that there were this many amazing things and i found myself wanting to decorate basically my entire house and like 10 other houses with all the different styles i was seeing you can see here there were so many beautiful gorgeous pieces of furniture these actually were really reasonably priced they weren't cheap this was definitely not where you were going to go for a deal but they had plenty of options that were pretty affordable i fell in love with this piece it was made out of mahogany and hand carved in cuba this place was like literally visiting the whole world like every little stall had something from some other place this piece almost came home with me i i have the link because it's actually listed on craigslist um both jack and i were honestly just having the time of our lives and you can see here as i went through kind of how i switched back and forth because i like to be able to show you guys stuff on instagram he really looked at some of these rugs because there were so many different choices and same with the artwork and we just realized that what we really needed to do was make sure that we had a really good plan in place and really knew what we wanted before we just started buying random things now of course if i see something that i love which i did soon after this moment i did grab some things and i'll show you those in just a minute but i really had a bit of an idea of what i wanted and i was prepared i i talked about my tips and tricks in my one of my last videos i'll leave a link for that down in the video description box but um these doors were something that i wanted to bring home and i have nowhere to put them so it's stuff like that where you realize you're going to see a lot of really cool things that you might not be able to bring home and then there's other things that are perfect and you just grab them because you're not sure where they're going to go but you know you're just going to find a spot so again i'll leave the link for that video with all my tips and tricks down in the description box so you can find it but also can you guess here what it was that i brought home with me we'll find out in just a minute to see if you are right okay well we just had fun we just had a ton of fun we went to scott's antique market which is apparently one of the largest antique market slash flea markets in the southeast it was massive it was huge and i don't know about you but i am white out a little overwhelming to say the least to walk in there we had so much fun we did but i am in need of a coffee and we are gonna get one um i'm gonna get dinner started and we're gonna show you guys what we got and then i'm gonna have to have a coffee so are we doing a haul yes i don't normally get to do holes i know what do i do we need to show you what we've got so do we get to show our favorite things yes okay i'll start with mine you guys know i have a thing for african carved pieces and this is so oh my gosh this thing's so amazing look at this this little guy is from the ivory coast and what's really cool is he said that that's how they create patterns on their fabrics is using that the little roller on there so that is awesome and that's going to go immediately to my coffee table i know i love that thing i'm so excited about it so i got this are you going to show that i get my favorite thing yeah stop all this buttering up is not going to work okay this is my new coffee cup i wish oh careful can you see it yes a gigantor vase yes this thing is absolutely amazing it's gorgeous i loved all the texture and the warmth the patina that it has and in my dream i was thinking like olive tree don't know if i'll be able to find one of those but something wispy that could maybe come out of it yeah either way it could be sitting somewhere and just be completely amazing so wow is that ever a find um and then i found see if i can show you guys this beautiful little page out of a book and supposedly he did say that it had just arrived from paris i don't know if that's true or not but i don't care we're going to pretend like it just arrived from paris either way and i just loved that it had the greek key and i believe that's medusa up at the top and it just had my neighbor and all over it and so that will be going into an art collage in the next coming days yeah why don't i'll show okay so i got these i got these for haley because her birthday's coming up and she is a huge fan of like butterflies and little moths and things i'm talking quietly because she's right there and i don't want to hear okay so i'm gonna frame these and give her these for her birthday gift which is coming up in three days in three days she's turning 20. but at least she appreciates vintage things and i think that that's really cool and then we found um another let's see this is like a it's always hard to show things that are white it's a really cool little sketch we've got a few of these we got grumpy old man i love that guy we love grumpy old man don't we and then this reminded me of the little captains that they wear in morocco these are amazing and jack is trying to convince me to put some blue into the powder room which is where he likes to go to brush his teeth sometimes when i hit if he thinks i'm not awake he's trying to be more quiet in the morning so we'll see if those make it to the powder room or not i don't know for sure they'll go somewhere super cool they're amazing yeah all right so we also got this amazing really cool giant breadboard breadboard which is just amazing and we use stuff like this all the time we actually use this i won't lay i probably won't lay food on it i wouldn't like food on it i'll use it like as a serving board and it adds like a really cool layer and it's going to look amazing it's supposed to be for a client but that's probably not going to happen it's probably going to go into my kitchen well the cool thing on this side is you can actually see hundreds and thousands of little cup marks yeah so this has been used a lot it's the real deal i love that yeah and look at how when you put this next week are these called sea brains what do they call it i don't i've never heard that yeah it had like oh god it's something like that a brain of sorts coral what's this stuff called i don't know what it's called but the cool thing was this is amazing everything the guy had was like real like he was selling these great yeah so you can really tell when you have real stuff that sits next to each other it's amazing yeah so that's all we got we had a lot of fun looking we came close to buying quite a few things yeah and may still go back i want to bring some of the adventure back into the house you guys may not even know this because we don't even say it but our first year marriage we went to china yeah like no one knows that and so i'm i love all the modern stuff that we have but i also love the textures and i love the sense of like collected and so i don't know there's some there were some interesting pieces today that yes that really are tempting us and i think it's giving us something to think about and instead of being too spontaneous about purchases we've decided that we're gonna give it some time and to think about it and that way when we go back we'll know yeah we'll know for sure that's what we want to do yeah thank you so much for going with us and oh don't forget subscribe oh don't hit subscribe don't hit subscribe don't hit subscribe whatever you do no don't forget to hit subscribe and then follow us on instagram both channels because yeah you did a bunch of stories today i did from there tons of sneak peeks of everything all right we'll see you guys in the next one bye of course you come just as the food is ready i can smell it oh my gosh it smells so good look at this i made this it's beautiful wanna try a bite yes mmm wow that is delicious yum i made a mess you can help me clean up the kitchen that goes so goodi really can't wait people i really can't wait i really am just that excited hey guys we are in the car and headed to what is supposed to be the biggest most amazing antique market flea market thing we don't even know what it's called in the southeast and it's called scots antiques so everybody's been telling us about this place for years we're headed over there today to check it out and see if it's as cool as everybody has proclaimed that it is so we thought we'd take you along with us because it could be a lot of fun it's like going to disney for you it is like going to disney it's better than disney we're going to an antiques thing they say it's huge i don't know we're going aunties i'm so excited we can't wait i really can't wait people i really can't wait i really am just that excited so i just realized we match you even put on black pants i'm even wearing leopard shoes really okay not the leopard shoes but oh my god it's cause i see you you watch me get dressed and then you go match me i was dressed first liminal it's my subconscious wanting to be like you which i never will because you're so much prettier now we look like tweedledee and tweedledum oh we know which one's tweedledum yes we do yes we do well we are on our way it's gonna take they say about 45 minutes 42 42 minutes and uh we'll go see if it's awesome and take you along and show you everything oh so here we are why do you not look as excited as i feel what's wrong with you man do you not know how exciting this is look at this building it's full of treasures just waiting for us wait why are those people allowed to go in faster than us i don't know actually it was they make two lanes i just didn't know wow so that means just sitting the long line in the first lane look at that back behind those trees is the highway this couldn't be any more nondescript this might be a total bust that's what you're hoping for you can leave early and all right let's see what it is it's full of land rovers and mercedes and i know that we drive an audi but she's an older little beauty not sure this is not gonna be bargain hunting day so we'll see what we find we'll see what we find yeah we'll see well before we get too far off on our adventure today i wanted to stop for just a moment and thank our video sponsor which is hellofresh and i don't know if i've ever been so excited because hellofresh has delivered my groceries and my meal fully planned out for me for the evening there is definitely a reason that hellofresh is america's number one meal kit these guys are amazing they have given me time back in my day which is the one thing you can never buy more of so i'm delighted we've got honey miso broccoli and sweet potato don berry i've never tried donburi we've seen all these exotic things today which really just reminds us of our travels and living abroad and i love the hellofresh introduces new foods to my family and to myself and i feel like i get to travel the world with our meals i mean this is really cool and i really really love that we also have zucchini and tomato flatbreads which definitely feels very italian and we've got pasta primavera with lemon parmesan sauce i'm gonna get this food going while we share scott's antique market with you guys and i will meet you back here in a little bit hellofresh is really amazing because it really cuts out the stressful meal planning and prepping because all of the ingredients arrive on your doorstep they're fresh they're pre-measured and the recipes are really really easy to follow and it's so quick and easy to get healthy meals on the table i think it's really awesome because you know you're going to get something delicious every single time the packaging hellofresh uses to ship your food in is almost entirely made from recyclable and or already recycled content i really love that hellofresh has donated over 4 million meals to charity in 2020 and is continuing to step up their food donations amid the coronavirus crisis go to hellofresh.com and use my code valentina 12 to get 12 free meals including free shipping i'll leave all the details down below in the description box when we first walked in i honestly thought okay well this was a bust but at least jack will have snacks and then we started to actually get to where the antiques were and i thought okay we're gonna be here a while because there are so many cool things and i started to realize just how big this place was and how much there was to look at and i honestly just started looking at everything i was just trying to absorb what was happening even around me because this place was so much bigger than i even imagined and there were already so many cool things that i almost just felt myself just almost shutting down like i'm literally just going to be looking and absorbing today i seriously doubt that i'm even going to be able to make a decision because i don't even know if i can trust myself to even like think clearly because there was so much cool artwork there were so many cool things we honestly just really started to just just look and take in all the different styles that we were seeing and each of the different vendors what they had and really not try to think about even purchasing it first because something this big can really feel overwhelming and also extremely exciting and i was trying not to like jump up and down and make a fool of myself when we got to the african booth i just about died i felt like we were literally visiting some other country it was incredible all the different wood carvings and all the different things i was so overwhelmed i so regret not going back and making more purchases there were also beautiful rugs beautiful furniture every corner that we turned there were so many beautiful things the other fun thing that i was doing while we were here was i was updating my instagram so if you don't follow us on instagram go visit valentina fossil over on on instagram and follow me there because a lot of times i'll post things like this in the stories and get your you guys feedback in the moment i think that's what's so fun about that medium um but here we are in this i was eyeing all the garden things and there were all kinds of things for the french country modern style that i love so much and there's like there's literally something here for everyone and oh my gosh all the cool mirrors were so beautiful and i found myself just you can see here this is how i update my instagram like oh my gosh look you guys there's so many exotic things i was totally freaking out i i couldn't even get my mind around that there were this many amazing things and i found myself wanting to decorate basically my entire house and like 10 other houses with all the different styles i was seeing you can see here there were so many beautiful gorgeous pieces of furniture these actually were really reasonably priced they weren't cheap this was definitely not where you were going to go for a deal but they had plenty of options that were pretty affordable i fell in love with this piece it was made out of mahogany and hand carved in cuba this place was like literally visiting the whole world like every little stall had something from some other place this piece almost came home with me i i have the link because it's actually listed on craigslist um both jack and i were honestly just having the time of our lives and you can see here as i went through kind of how i switched back and forth because i like to be able to show you guys stuff on instagram he really looked at some of these rugs because there were so many different choices and same with the artwork and we just realized that what we really needed to do was make sure that we had a really good plan in place and really knew what we wanted before we just started buying random things now of course if i see something that i love which i did soon after this moment i did grab some things and i'll show you those in just a minute but i really had a bit of an idea of what i wanted and i was prepared i i talked about my tips and tricks in my one of my last videos i'll leave a link for that down in the video description box but um these doors were something that i wanted to bring home and i have nowhere to put them so it's stuff like that where you realize you're going to see a lot of really cool things that you might not be able to bring home and then there's other things that are perfect and you just grab them because you're not sure where they're going to go but you know you're just going to find a spot so again i'll leave the link for that video with all my tips and tricks down in the description box so you can find it but also can you guess here what it was that i brought home with me we'll find out in just a minute to see if you are right okay well we just had fun we just had a ton of fun we went to scott's antique market which is apparently one of the largest antique market slash flea markets in the southeast it was massive it was huge and i don't know about you but i am white out a little overwhelming to say the least to walk in there we had so much fun we did but i am in need of a coffee and we are gonna get one um i'm gonna get dinner started and we're gonna show you guys what we got and then i'm gonna have to have a coffee so are we doing a haul yes i don't normally get to do holes i know what do i do we need to show you what we've got so do we get to show our favorite things yes okay i'll start with mine you guys know i have a thing for african carved pieces and this is so oh my gosh this thing's so amazing look at this this little guy is from the ivory coast and what's really cool is he said that that's how they create patterns on their fabrics is using that the little roller on there so that is awesome and that's going to go immediately to my coffee table i know i love that thing i'm so excited about it so i got this are you going to show that i get my favorite thing yeah stop all this buttering up is not going to work okay this is my new coffee cup i wish oh careful can you see it yes a gigantor vase yes this thing is absolutely amazing it's gorgeous i loved all the texture and the warmth the patina that it has and in my dream i was thinking like olive tree don't know if i'll be able to find one of those but something wispy that could maybe come out of it yeah either way it could be sitting somewhere and just be completely amazing so wow is that ever a find um and then i found see if i can show you guys this beautiful little page out of a book and supposedly he did say that it had just arrived from paris i don't know if that's true or not but i don't care we're going to pretend like it just arrived from paris either way and i just loved that it had the greek key and i believe that's medusa up at the top and it just had my neighbor and all over it and so that will be going into an art collage in the next coming days yeah why don't i'll show okay so i got these i got these for haley because her birthday's coming up and she is a huge fan of like butterflies and little moths and things i'm talking quietly because she's right there and i don't want to hear okay so i'm gonna frame these and give her these for her birthday gift which is coming up in three days in three days she's turning 20. but at least she appreciates vintage things and i think that that's really cool and then we found um another let's see this is like a it's always hard to show things that are white it's a really cool little sketch we've got a few of these we got grumpy old man i love that guy we love grumpy old man don't we and then this reminded me of the little captains that they wear in morocco these are amazing and jack is trying to convince me to put some blue into the powder room which is where he likes to go to brush his teeth sometimes when i hit if he thinks i'm not awake he's trying to be more quiet in the morning so we'll see if those make it to the powder room or not i don't know for sure they'll go somewhere super cool they're amazing yeah all right so we also got this amazing really cool giant breadboard breadboard which is just amazing and we use stuff like this all the time we actually use this i won't lay i probably won't lay food on it i wouldn't like food on it i'll use it like as a serving board and it adds like a really cool layer and it's going to look amazing it's supposed to be for a client but that's probably not going to happen it's probably going to go into my kitchen well the cool thing on this side is you can actually see hundreds and thousands of little cup marks yeah so this has been used a lot it's the real deal i love that yeah and look at how when you put this next week are these called sea brains what do they call it i don't i've never heard that yeah it had like oh god it's something like that a brain of sorts coral what's this stuff called i don't know what it's called but the cool thing was this is amazing everything the guy had was like real like he was selling these great yeah so you can really tell when you have real stuff that sits next to each other it's amazing yeah so that's all we got we had a lot of fun looking we came close to buying quite a few things yeah and may still go back i want to bring some of the adventure back into the house you guys may not even know this because we don't even say it but our first year marriage we went to china yeah like no one knows that and so i'm i love all the modern stuff that we have but i also love the textures and i love the sense of like collected and so i don't know there's some there were some interesting pieces today that yes that really are tempting us and i think it's giving us something to think about and instead of being too spontaneous about purchases we've decided that we're gonna give it some time and to think about it and that way when we go back we'll know yeah we'll know for sure that's what we want to do yeah thank you so much for going with us and oh don't forget subscribe oh don't hit subscribe don't hit subscribe don't hit subscribe whatever you do no don't forget to hit subscribe and then follow us on instagram both channels because yeah you did a bunch of stories today i did from there tons of sneak peeks of everything all right we'll see you guys in the next one bye of course you come just as the food is ready i can smell it oh my gosh it smells so good look at this i made this it's beautiful wanna try a bite yes mmm wow that is delicious yum i made a mess you can help me clean up the kitchen that goes so good\n"