Here’s a special Christmas edition of flea market photos to help put you in a merry mood.
Inspiration
Earlier this month I made my way back to one of my favorite places on earth, the Pasadena Rose Bowl Flea Market. I was only there for a few hours, which is not even close to the time you’d need to cover the whole location. It’s such a crazy mix of old and new, junk and treasure, vintage rarities and hand crafted items. I could never have a wallet or back seat big enough to take home all of the amazing things I found there, but at least I was armed with my camera. There was such a plethora of visual inspiration that I’m going to devote a regular blog feature to these flea market finds, starting off with this selection of gorgeous books. The vintage paper back instructional book for painting on textiles had to come home with Mama, of course.
Without further ado, I’m pleased to bring you part two in a three part series of travel photos taken by fellow textile artist, and good friend, Liz Brizzi. She took these photos while traveling to Israel, Greece and Turkey; if you haven’t already seen her snapshots from the spice market, you should definitely check them out… I’m still not over the dried avocado, but these pretty lanterns are a nice distraction. For more of Liz, check out her artist interview, Etsy page, and blog.
It is with great pleasure that I’m able to share these wonderful photographs taken by the talented Liz Brizzi, who you may remember from our Artist Interview with her a few weeks back. She recently did a bit of traveling to Israel, Greece and Turkey, and the photos she took were so amazing that I had to split them up into a few segments so that I could show all of them. The below images were taken at a fruit and spice market; the colors and textures are astounding – but not as astounding as the moment where I discovered the dried avocados in one of the below images. My heart just skipped a beat. This market is magical.
Hoping everyone is having a delightful day, filled with food, laughs, family and friends.
