On Saturday I went to the annual antique fair at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. As always it was a vintage feast for my eyes. Everywhere I looked I was surrounded by things that made me happy like, a ginned up granny in a packed bingo hall.
Jo and I spent a good 2 and half hours walking around, whilst eating a large stack of pannekoek, obviously. No Pretoria fair is complete without pannekoek, which we paid R3 each for, yip R3. I don’t even think you can get a half a handful of chappies for R3 these days. Sigh.
Jo and I looked, we picked and we paid. We both came home with very cool things, all of which, I think we paid super good prices for. My prize buy for the day were these afrikaans foil paintings. Yes, I have mentioned them before to you guys and if you read my blog often, you will know that I like them a lot. It’s weird, whenever I see one I feel the need to rescue it because they are so fragile and so hard to find. The man who ran one of the stalls there told me that they originate from the 1950’s and a granny started the trend when she used to make similar paintings using the back of the Quality Street chocolate foil wrappers – damn I hope this story is true, because I like it.
Anyway enough jobber jabber from me, here are some pictures from the day and my loot in full digital glory – see below.
Here are the foil painting I bought
Also came home with 2 very nice planters for my succulent collection.
I also found an orange bambi to match my other orange bambi that I found at a Hosipce store like 8 years ago. Now they can be together forever.
The last thing I bought and I’m not sure why, is this picture of a little redhead. Look how proud she is in her dungarees, so sweet.
what awesome stuff!
Yikes!
Love to visit this.
i also bought a foil painting this week!
mine is black and silver 🙂
i think i should tweet you a pic
That is amazing. I would absolutely love to go one day, never heard of it. So not ALL the cool things happen in CPT 🙂
ooo i love those foil pictures! i don’t think i’ve ever seen anything like them, and i love the story too! i have some little deer just like those! well, except yours have sassier eye lashes.
Such amazing finds, that redhead really is precious!
Wish we had this type of cool event in Cape Town.. I ALSO really love your Blog! You are great 🙂
I am very intruiged by the book in the background of your first succulent planter pot. Handjob?
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