photography and text by Corey Amaro
Going to Marburger.
(With a stop in New Orleans!)
Chairs,
Tables,
Mirrors,
Zinc pieces,
Ironwork,
Lanterns,
Marriage globes,
Lights,
Cameras,
Everything is packed….
Action!
Photo: The decorative top part of an iron sign that says, "Antiques".
Photo: A painted metal chocolate advertisement sign.
A year ago I came to South Carolina to help a Lynn (a friend I met through blogging) pack, load and drive her truck and trailer to Round Top Texas to sell antiques at one of the largest antique fairs in the U.S.A.
In the end Lynn hired Steven to help load the trailer, because honestly, Popeye we are not. Steven is an expert packer, but a terrible driver.
Steven and I fall asleep at the wheel, not a good thing to have in common.
Scary stuff… so scared was I last year watching him drive, that I ate all the snacks we had for our week trip in five minutes.
French Husband came this time to help Lynn.
I think he thinks we are nuts.
It amazes me that he only now knows this.
Oh well love is blinding at times.
Photo: Lynn's storage shed full of packed boxes.
When packing and moving Styrofoam boxes it sounds as if someone is scrapping their fingernails on a chalkboard!!
Did I make you cringe?
I am still cringing!
Lynn and I packed the twenty thousand boxes, France no longer has any antiques left.
Last I heard the Eiffel Tower was coming over too.
(Sacha asked if I packed a baguette for him, and Chelsea asked for yogurt.)
Lynn and I packed to the sound of fingernails on chalkboard, sweat running into our eyes, the rooster crowing because it is a crazy rooster that it thinks it is a dog…. crowing because he cannot talk/bark.
We had fun, we really did… really!
Out of all the French antique objects that she bought, only one thing in her storage shed held my attention….
I am gonna take him home with me, he is a keeper!
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Marburger Texas…
September 28 (opening) until October 3rd,
in Tent F-a, stand 4,
Lynn King, The Side Door Antiques.
See you there!
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