As a child our family of ten experienced hard times, We were clothed from jumble sales and furniture was either rescued from people’s unwanted items or junk shops. At times I remember feeling embarrassed standing in the jumble sale queue hopeful, embarrassed, ashamed that anyone I knew would not spot me. Today these junk shops and charity shop finds are now on trend, I am genius at spoting a bargain and our home is full of others once loved now unwanted treasures, very rarely purchase new clothing and when I do it has to be a bargain. Mum has long since departed, eternally grateful and proud of her lessons on thriftiness.x
In the Appalachian South there is a custom of putting cobalt blue glass in front of the kitchen window to keep out “hungry hants” (ghosts) coming in the window for food. From Germany, German settlers also put a little carved rabbit in their food cupboard to encourage the food to multiply, so the family would never go hungry. Once we heard about that custom, we all did it too in our houses. So far, it’s working!
These flea market shopping videos are some of my favorites! It’s interesting to see what you choose and where you put those treasures in your home. So much to choose from! ❤
Love that Murano vase! Thank you for taking us along. Thrifting is like exploring Grandma’s attic for hidden treasures. BTW the kitchen looks like a wonderful place to cook and hang out. Stay well.
Ciao Julie, what a blast today was, I love shopping with you. What a haul for 60e. the only thing with the Murano vase is a beauty. Thanks for taking us along. Amore da N.Y.
I really love the impressionistic art. I think it mixes with everything beautiful in your home up until the point where I got disabled and took up art I used to think only realism was beautiful, but I love all types of art, modern impressionistic you’ve done a wonderful job decorating your home, it feels comfortable and inviting🦋
Oh, Julie, thank you for sharing Nestor's channel. It was an absolute JOY to be able to meet him. So much like YOU! Passionate. Independent. And he knows knots! No doubt you worry to death about him. Much thanks to you and Luke for giving him so much space. He's a good kid. Can't wait to see what is in store for him. Hope he is good student, too! Congratulations!
Beautiful. Virtual shopping trip to Italy until I get my residence there. So interesting. I had fuuun! I would have bought the little painting, too ; it's so pretty. Never boring. I like seeing what you've done to the little house. I'll keep checking in. Thank you for sharing.
You found so many beautiful things! I would have bought all that you did, along with the basket! The basket could hold books or other things in the kitchen or living room! Absolutely love everything you decorate with!
Oh my gosh, that is literally my idea of heaven. Many years ago I explored the Depot Ventes in Normandy, and found many beautiful pieces of antique French furniture. I now want to visit Tuscany just to spend my days in places such as these. Incidentally, we are a Dorset family local to Mapperton. It’s one of our fave places to visit, we love to eat in the cafe and walk in the immediate vicinity. Our 2 feral ( now ‘domesticated’ ) cats were born at Mapperton!
Glad u got that picture @40 euros. I thought it would also be perfect for the kitchen as well. Love going to the flea markets with you...always great finds! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🫶
Going flea market hunting with you Julie is so much fun!!!! Thanks for taking me along👍🏻 I absolutely love the painting! It is perfect for the bedroom! I’m a sucker for vases, jugs and bottles. You did a great job finding those beauties. The little box is ❤️ I can’t wait to see the finished Italian kitchen and the farmhouse renovation🤩
You’re born for this Julie. ❤ I love the view in the videos when using the selfie stick. Funny we don’t see it but we see your little hand clutching it 😂😂😂. The little vase 💞💞💞💞💞 I know I mentioned putting the clock up on the window shelf. Now you held that beautiful green bottle up WOW the light showing through some gorgeous glass vases YES and fill with fresh flowers everytime you’re in your little Italian home. 😊 lovely video once again.
@@loriplate729 Exactly! Kept in the kitchen and sometimes on the front porch to cool. Grandma put hers in front of the open window to entice Granddad to come in!
Your content beautifully captures the thrill of discovery and appreciation for cultural treasures. Each video is a delightful journey through Italy's flea markets, showcasing your keen eye for unique finds and your passion for storytelling. Your ability to share the excitement and charm of these experiences is truly infectious, making viewers feel like they're right there with you on your best flea market trip ever. And I am Floating Village Life
Hi Julie, the cabinet where you placed the little glass vase would highlight items in the cabinet better if some embossed wallpaper was added to the back, or a mirror, love watching your show
Hi 😃 I had an idea! I don't know if you going to like it, but... You can hang an old small window frame and replace the glass with mirror glass...or live it as is and transformed into a "porta strofinacci" in the kitcken, as a thing where you can hang your kitchen towel, so they have a place and they are not too much around in the kitchen. You can paint the frame of the old window sage as the kitchen as well! And you can duplicate it on the farmhouse as well! 😃
This is so much fun going along with you, virtually! Today’s haul, so to speak, was great, I’ll start with the picture in frame that will go over your master bed, perfect in every way! The colors in the frame itself, and then the picture, almost reminds me of Folk Art, but the dark colors in it will be a great contrast with the color of your bed frame, which I think is beautiful. Can’t wait to see it once you’ve hung it up. The Murano glass vase is so cute, great price, also. I am looking at things as you do, well, I’m getting a lot of ideas and I do like your style. Let’s go shopping again❤️.
I love the green bottles and think they would make a nice grouping on your kitchen window sill along with others you find. Picture the sun shining through the glass. The little painting on a mini easel would only enhance. A collection of ceramic or unglazed orci would look great too.
I think it's fair to say you are probably the HARDEST working Countess of this era and ALL eras ❤you've more than earned your spot Julie your work will be the discussion of your descendants xo . I have a great idea..! You can ALL get your portrait painted.. ALL OF YOU IN 1 PAINTING! ❤kids too 🎉 😘 The earl and lady of Sandwich, you and Luke and your children ❤ om imagining your descendants making a room about YOU- As u have done for Alberta ❤ makes me cry sending u all the respect from 🇨🇦 JULIE IS A timeless TREASURE XO
@julieinitaly OMG JULIE- U won't believe what I just found SERENDIPITOUSLY- Search- Remains of Hell fire club UK ! Its a vid about their building now a ruin used by them! ..1st guy mentioned- -JON MONTAGU -Earl of Sandwich! was an original 12 member along w Bemjamin franklin in 1700s! It was a SATANIC SECRET club later reignited by Alastair Crowley - They started the phrase "DO WHAT THOU WILT"! incredible .. u need to get your FIL to check books in the library ! Xo 🤗 😘 u can dedicate another room- original FREEMASON ❤️ from 🇨🇦
I had no idea we could purchase some of your finds, this is so exciting. I love your thrifting videos and then to see where you put things, Can’t wait to see it all put up..
Darling, I’ve been watching you renovate this Italian precious home of yours and you’ve done such a wonderful job. I’m so happy to see you back. During this time that I’ve been watching your channel, my husband has been diagnosed with cancer. It was unexpected. It’s scary and he will be needing a stem cell transplant this year. In this video, I noticed that you said that you were going to have a few Airbnb‘s. We are not working, but if he gets through the stem cell transplant, we need to get away. And we have always wanted to see the UK and we’ve always wanted to see Italy, so what I’m asking is approximately how much you would rent as an Airbnb. Thank you so much for all the fun and I’m having watching your channel making believe I’m shopping with you. God bless you.
Hi Julie in Australia 🇦🇺 your trinket cupboard was called a Meat safe.I bought one similar 47 years ago .Mine was a cupboard without legs ! It had mesh on the outside walls .The top I sanded back it was Australian red cedar.They would place wet hessian over the cupboard and place it in the shade to get the breeze!Enjoy your trinket cupboard and Finds in Italy your having such fun 😊
The tall green glass bottle should go on the window sill/shelf you showed in a recent video, maybe the kitchen?? It would set off the stone wall exposed at the other end of the window well.
I loved that flea market trip! All I kept thinking was I need to help hold the basket and be another set of hands!😅 you did great filming with your phone and the stick, holding your bag and the basket!
Agree the naive painting is perfect, Julie. Check out Mose Bianchi as a possibility for the other little picture. Found lots of Bianchis, but some of Mose B's paintings of buildings bear similarities to yours, which may be a little brighter underneath the grime of years. Couple of intriguing finds.
Hello Julie, thanks for this great vlog! We can finally start the countdown for our holiday in Italy. We arrive on September 3. Do you perhaps have any tips for beaches, good food and of course thrift shops😊 I feel as happy there as a child in a candy store! I really like the blue/white plate 8.53 with some yellow (lemons). Have a nice day and keep looking for the gems😘
Fun Story, I visited exactly this flee market on my last trip to Italy and looked at exactly this Sailing Boat Painting as well. And I didn't buy it because of the hefty price tag. But it really is an awesome place. Thanks for sharing these places. Your joy on finding these little treasures is really infectious.
As a child our family of ten experienced hard times, We were clothed from jumble sales and furniture was either rescued from people’s unwanted items or junk shops. At times I remember feeling embarrassed standing in the jumble sale queue hopeful, embarrassed, ashamed that anyone I knew would not spot me. Today these junk shops and charity shop finds are now on trend, I am genius at spoting a bargain and our home is full of others once loved now unwanted treasures, very rarely purchase new clothing and when I do it has to be a bargain. Mum has long since departed, eternally grateful and proud of her lessons on thriftiness.x
@robsondog01
That meant alot to me...wonderful memories...🥲😉🥰
In the Appalachian South there is a custom of putting cobalt blue glass in front of the kitchen window to keep out “hungry hants” (ghosts) coming in the window for food. From Germany, German settlers also put a little carved rabbit in their food cupboard to encourage the food to multiply, so the family would never go hungry. Once we heard about that custom, we all did it too in our houses. So far, it’s working!
These flea market shopping videos are some of my favorites! It’s interesting to see what you choose and where you put those treasures in your home. So much to choose from! ❤
❤ NOT a hoader, rather a REPURPOSER! Loved the video! Thanks for saving AMAZING items from a landfill and sharing a bit of Italy 🇮🇹 with us! 🩷🌿
Glad you liked it!!
Same!!❤❤
I love all the finds, my fav is the small painting. You've such a good eye for putting beautiful things together in a thoughtful manner.
Yes Julie love the plate on the cupboard ❤
The kitchen is looking great can’t wait to see it finished great finds Julie ❤️🤗
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Loveeeeeeee all the beautiful things you got today
What great finds. Proves you don't have to spend a lot to find special, beautiful items with SOUL to adorn your house!
Absolutely!!
OH please take a look for antique jewelry as you are in these places!! What amazing things!!
so appreciate your energy. super fun finds! your little Italian home is becoming so warm, inviting . . . cozy.
Thanks so much! 😊
The vases next to the basket on the floor that you like…are wonderful
Love that Murano vase! Thank you for taking us along. Thrifting is like exploring Grandma’s attic for hidden treasures. BTW the kitchen looks like a wonderful place to cook and hang out. Stay well.
Ciao Julie, what a blast today was, I love shopping with you. What a haul for 60e. the only thing with the Murano vase is a beauty. Thanks for taking us along. Amore da N.Y.
You are my spirit animal!❤❤❤. It would be so much fun hunting for treasures with you!!! ❤❤❤ everything you purchased!!! Thanks!!!
Thank you so much!
I really love the impressionistic art. I think it mixes with everything beautiful in your home up until the point where I got disabled and took up art I used to think only realism was beautiful, but I love all types of art, modern impressionistic you’ve done a wonderful job decorating your home, it feels comfortable and inviting🦋
I love your flea market videos. That small painting is my favorite.
Mine too!
Mine too, at first blush it reminded me of your Italian villa!
Love coming along on your shopping trip.
Me too, I am so addicted to thrifting online. I have actually been on a trinket box kick lately. Love handmade, vintage, and cheap!
Oh, Julie, thank you for sharing Nestor's channel. It was an absolute JOY to be able to meet him. So much like YOU! Passionate. Independent. And he knows knots! No doubt you worry to death about him. Much thanks to you and Luke for giving him so much space. He's a good kid. Can't wait to see what is in store for him. Hope he is good student, too! Congratulations!
And he is so stinkin’ CUTE, too! ❤
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Beautiful. Virtual shopping trip to Italy until I get my residence there. So interesting. I had fuuun! I would have bought the little painting, too ; it's so pretty. Never boring. I like seeing what you've done to the little house. I'll keep checking in. Thank you for sharing.
Definitely get the Cowes boat painting after negotiating the price down. Love it!
You found so many beautiful things! I would have bought all that you did, along with the basket! The basket could hold books or other things in the kitchen or living room! Absolutely love everything you decorate with!
That is a fabulous flea market! Is like Aladdin’s Cave!
Oh my gosh, that is literally my idea of heaven. Many years ago I explored the Depot Ventes in Normandy, and found many beautiful pieces of antique French furniture. I now want to visit Tuscany just to spend my days in places such as these. Incidentally, we are a Dorset family local to Mapperton. It’s one of our fave places to visit, we love to eat in the cafe and walk in the immediate vicinity. Our 2 feral ( now ‘domesticated’ ) cats were born at Mapperton!
amazing!!!
Just learned what a demijohn glass is! I think a big oversized one would look great in that high kitchen window, to catch the light.
Glad u got that picture @40 euros. I thought it would also be perfect for the kitchen as well. Love going to the flea markets with you...always great finds! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🫶
Love picture , really like naive paintings
Love ❤️ your Video. Enjoy your time. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👍🇱🇷California.
Thank you! 🤗
Exciting finds, absolutely love that flea market!
Wait!!!...I just started watching....You passed by these beautiful large copper/gold pots/lamps...don't know what they are, but they look beautiful!!
Love your finds! Thanks for taking us shopping with you!🇮🇹
Would the green bottles go well in front of the high window with the deep ledge in the kitchen? Then the light would shine through them
How nice ~ Italian treasures 😊
Julie, you are a crack up. A Lady who lives 2 completely different lives. Love it. I’m so jealous. Sadly, I waited too long to live my dream.
Wonderful finds, the painting is perfect over your bed.
Yes!! The painting is my absolute favourite. Incredible find!
Wonderful Julie. Why is it that all the time when I watch your videos I want to move to Italy. 😁
Flea Market shopping is fun!!! Enjoy discovering the amazing items then choosing each perfect treasure for your Italian home. Love!
Yes! Thank you!
Going flea market hunting with you Julie is so much fun!!!! Thanks for taking me along👍🏻
I absolutely love the painting! It is perfect for the bedroom! I’m a sucker for vases, jugs and bottles. You did a great job finding those beauties. The little box is ❤️
I can’t wait to see the finished Italian kitchen and the farmhouse renovation🤩
The kitchen is lovely
Bargain! The artwork alone is brilliant!! Love it! ❤
Loved this and loved your finds!
Thanks so much 😊
😅HI, JULIE, this is V l do love this idea of getting something for us. Bye for now l have to finish watching this video.
Amazing fun video,always sooooo much fun hanging out with you, such a delightful wonderful person, cannot wait for the next vlog. ❤❤❤❤
Wow! thank you!
The modern style painting is my fave. Superb!
Love the picture. Its got the kitchen green in it aswell.
Yes! Thank you!
Had a fun time watching you find those wonderful items!!!
Glad you enjoyed!
You’re born for this Julie. ❤ I love the view in the videos when using the selfie stick. Funny we don’t see it but we see your little hand clutching it 😂😂😂. The little vase 💞💞💞💞💞 I know I mentioned putting the clock up on the window shelf. Now you held that beautiful green bottle up WOW the light showing through some gorgeous glass vases YES and fill with fresh flowers everytime you’re in your little Italian home. 😊 lovely video once again.
Love that painting. What a fun day out! ❤
Love all your goodies! What fun...
love it what an adventure!
Buy those green pictures for your kitchen.they look so fun. Will go great in bedroom. Beautiful.
I love those Dungerees ❤ Love watching this transformation unfold 💃🏽
It is so fun shopping with you~
Love "junking" with you in Italy🙂I scour all over the northeast for thrifty shops - great fun!
Love going on your thrift/antique store ventures. Such fun. 😂
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The kitchen is looking fantastic too!!!❤❤❤
Thank you so much 😊
A warm hug from Finland, Julie, for sharing your adventures in Italy.
I love the painting you bought that will go over your bed!
Me too!
enjoying your shopping trips and beautiful items you brought joyful to watch
I would have assumed that small primative screened cabinet a pie safe. Where pies were put to cool, and keep flies from sitting on them.
@@loriplate729
Exactly! Kept in the kitchen and sometimes on the front porch to cool. Grandma put hers in front of the open window to entice Granddad to come in!
You’re right! It’s for storing pies
I’m shopping with you as you shop that little painting is what I meant I love it too
Your content beautifully captures the thrill of discovery and appreciation for cultural treasures. Each video is a delightful journey through Italy's flea markets, showcasing your keen eye for unique finds and your passion for storytelling. Your ability to share the excitement and charm of these experiences is truly infectious, making viewers feel like they're right there with you on your best flea market trip ever. And I am Floating Village Life
Thank you so much!!!
Fabulous finds!
Thank you!!
Very fun, Julie! The basket was my favorite, so I am sad it won’t live with you, but enjoy your treasures!
Oh no! Yes, I was sad to part with it but there will be others....
I could easily spend hours there.... I like looking at every little thing!
Yeah you are back.. ❤❤
Ohh yes let's go treasure hunting in that amazing time capsules place 😀👍
Big hugs from Denmark.
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Hi Julie, the cabinet where you placed the little glass vase would highlight items in the cabinet better if some embossed wallpaper was added to the back, or a mirror, love watching your show
Great idea!
Hi 😃 I had an idea! I don't know if you going to like it, but... You can hang an old small window frame and replace the glass with mirror glass...or live it as is and transformed into a "porta strofinacci" in the kitcken, as a thing where you can hang your kitchen towel, so they have a place and they are not too much around in the kitchen. You can paint the frame of the old window sage as the kitchen as well! And you can duplicate it on the farmhouse as well! 😃
I loved that big chunky mirror! You did great Julie! I love your place!
Thanks so much! 😊
Ha!!!! you mentioned going to lunch. We didn't see your lunch...lol
We also enjoy seeing what you eat in Italy as well. 😄
Yes it was there. But the sea ♥️
This is so much fun going along with you, virtually! Today’s haul, so to speak, was great, I’ll start with the picture in frame that will go over your master bed, perfect in every way! The colors in the frame itself, and then the picture, almost reminds me of Folk Art, but the dark colors in it will be a great contrast with the color of your bed frame, which I think is beautiful. Can’t wait to see it once you’ve hung it up. The Murano glass vase is so cute, great price, also. I am looking at things as you do, well, I’m getting a lot of ideas and I do like your style. Let’s go shopping again❤️.
Thank you so much! Lots of more shopping together coming up!
Love the little vase.
The scales are gorgeous!
I loved the 2 vases next to the basket you selected.
@@revyred8679 so did I and thought they would be perfect for the kitchen window ledge.
I don't think the bright colours match the rest of the house
I love the green bottles and think they would make a nice grouping on your kitchen window sill along with others you find. Picture the sun shining through the glass. The little painting on a mini easel would only enhance. A collection of ceramic or unglazed orci would look great too.
Great idea!!
I think it's fair to say you are probably the HARDEST working Countess of this era and ALL eras ❤you've more than earned your spot Julie your work will be the discussion of your descendants xo . I have a great idea..!
You can ALL get your portrait painted.. ALL OF YOU IN 1 PAINTING! ❤kids too 🎉 😘
The earl and lady of Sandwich, you and Luke and your children ❤ om imagining your descendants making a room about YOU- As u have done for Alberta ❤ makes me cry sending u all the respect from 🇨🇦 JULIE IS A timeless TREASURE XO
Thank you sooooo much! and GREAT idea!
@julieinitaly OMG JULIE- U won't believe what I just found SERENDIPITOUSLY-
Search- Remains of Hell fire club UK ! Its a vid about their building now a ruin used by them! ..1st guy mentioned- -JON MONTAGU -Earl of Sandwich! was an original 12 member along w Bemjamin franklin in 1700s! It was a SATANIC SECRET club later reignited by Alastair Crowley - They started the phrase "DO WHAT THOU WILT"! incredible .. u need to get your FIL to check books in the library ! Xo 🤗 😘 u can dedicate another room- original FREEMASON ❤️ from 🇨🇦
Wow that is one awesome shop! Love it ♥️
It really is!
I think of it as …” your trash is my treasure”. ❤
I had no idea we could purchase some of your finds, this is so exciting. I love your thrifting videos and then to see where you put things, Can’t wait to see it all put up..
Thank you! Will be buying more flea market pieces next time as I had no idea that over 70 ppl would contact me for that one piece!
Terracotta bust was wonderful on the surface where you brought the bottle for the kitchem
Julie, I would love to go thrifting with you. I walk through the stores two or three times also. I love the beautiful music you have as background.
17:07 I just held my breath worried that you'd chipped the Murano vase, haha
Great prices!
Love the painting!
You must be so busy with your various projects! I'd love to stay in one of your AirBnbs one day
Picture in style of Georgia O Keefe/ Victor Pasmore. Love it.
That was soooo much fun going along with you in that thrift shop!! Thank you for taking us along!!!
Glad you enjoyed!
Darling, I’ve been watching you renovate this Italian precious home of yours and you’ve done such a wonderful job. I’m so happy to see you back. During this time that I’ve been watching your channel, my husband has been diagnosed with cancer. It was unexpected. It’s scary and he will be needing a stem cell transplant this year. In this video, I noticed that you said that you were going to have a few Airbnb‘s. We are not working, but if he gets through the stem cell transplant, we need to get away. And we have always wanted to see the UK and we’ve always wanted to see Italy, so what I’m asking is approximately how much you would rent as an Airbnb. Thank you so much for all the fun and I’m having watching your channel making believe I’m shopping with you. God bless you.
Hello. Does the UK still have church jumble sales? It would be very interesting to see you shop one. Good luck and thank you for the videos.
Hi Julie in Australia 🇦🇺 your trinket cupboard was called a Meat safe.I bought one similar 47 years ago .Mine was a cupboard without legs ! It had mesh on the outside walls .The top I sanded back it was Australian red cedar.They would place wet hessian over the cupboard and place it in the shade to get the breeze!Enjoy your trinket cupboard and Finds in Italy your having such fun 😊
Oh, I would live in that vintage store! So much temptation!! Are there similar stores like this in many regions of Italy?
I think so!
The tall green glass bottle should go on the window sill/shelf you showed in a recent video, maybe the kitchen?? It would set off the stone wall exposed at the other end of the window well.
I carefully cut a bottle out of a wicker basket. They both look fab separated. I found it at the decheterie 🙂
I loved that flea market trip! All I kept thinking was I need to help hold the basket and be another set of hands!😅 you did great filming with your phone and the stick, holding your bag and the basket!
Agree the naive painting is perfect, Julie. Check out Mose Bianchi as a possibility for the other little picture. Found lots of Bianchis, but some of Mose B's paintings of buildings bear similarities to yours, which may be a little brighter underneath the grime of years. Couple of intriguing finds.
Love this video. A tip . . . once you've been around the shop go back in the opposite direction. You'll see things you missed first time round.
Great tip!
The mesh screen cabinet is a pie safe.
Hello Julie, thanks for this great vlog! We can finally start the countdown for our holiday in Italy. We arrive on September 3. Do you perhaps have any tips for beaches, good food and of course thrift shops😊 I feel as happy there as a child in a candy store! I really like the blue/white plate 8.53 with some yellow (lemons). Have a nice day and keep looking for the gems😘
Fun Story, I visited exactly this flee market on my last trip to Italy and looked at exactly this Sailing Boat Painting as well. And I didn't buy it because of the hefty price tag. But it really is an awesome place. Thanks for sharing these places. Your joy on finding these little treasures is really infectious.
Where is this place? Tuscany?
they should lower the price...