Not So Much

Sometimes the idea in your head is not a winner.  Sometimes you spend a fair amount of time on a project which had so much potential but fails to garner results.  Case in point..

Styrofoam ball covered in black leaves and sitting in a McCoy planter.

Supposed to be cool and spooky.  Reality bears a striking resemblance to a vintage bathing cap.  If it were such a cap it would be fun and cool.  As a Halloween craft, not so much!

Keeping it real folks.  They cannot all be winners!  This loser will not be saved!





The "Glamorous" Side of Junque

People, this is my garage.  This is my garage two weeks after the Springfield Extravaganza.

I cannot believe I'm showing you this.  I cannot believe it still looks like this.  I cannot believe I sold as much crap junque as I did and IT STILL LOOKS LIKE THIS!  Good grief it is never ending and completely my own fault.  I am such a junque-a-holic.

Somewhere in these piles are the makings of a fabulous booth for the Rural Antique Society show in two weekends.  Somewhere...

Oh and just wait till you see the enamel stove I got this weekend.

BECAUSE I NEEDED IT?!!!!!!!  But really, once you see it you'll know why I had to rescue it!
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Junque Goddess Trio

It's been a while since I had any of these beauties to junque around.  One yard sale and one thrift store yielded three Junque Goddess busts similar to my first goddess (you can see her here if you promise not to remark on the sad quality of my photos - I was such a blogger newbie at the time!).

These girls and I are headed to Springfield this weekend where I hope they will find happy new junque homes.  The ironstone lid was lonely at a thrift store so I gave it a vintage button and lace make-over.  Perfect for a sweet accent to a vignette.

My chalkboard sign was an auction find.  A great old cabinet door with perfectly chippy paint.  Makes a great sign for the booth and will easily transform for the next owner.  Got a few of those chalkboard marker pens and WOW I am in love!!!!!!!!!!

Wishing you all great junque.  If you're heading to Springfield this weekend please drop by my booth #532 and say hello (near the Arts & Crafts building AND the Bourbon chicken booth which is ever so lucky for me!).

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Heavy Metal - My Way and Show Particulars

This is how I like my heavy metal.  The rusty, crusty, chippy vintage variety.  Good grief you weren't thinking music when you read the title, were you?  Oh my, never. I was a serious alternative/techno girl back in the day (the kind who cringes when she hears orchestral elevator versions of Depeche Mode songs in mass shopping establishments!)  Back when alternative music WAS alternative but perhaps I digress...

Witness my haul from flea market last weekend.  I'm amused when some shopping excursions end up having a theme.  Wire baskets galore and a vintage metal wire store display.  Throw in a pair of red painted metal child size chairs and I'm a happy gal.

Loved the woodblocks.  I still have a bunch of letter blocks so these will be fun to place in the bowl at shows.  I was hoping to keep them but husband was not as thrilled as me!

So here you have it.  Our shopping carts were VERY heavy by the end of the morning!  I kept thinking I should stop since I may have confessed mentioned the lack of garage space and impending cold weather but I soldiered on while remember my upcoming shows.

I'll be bringing my junque to:

Springfield Extravaganza

September 16,17,18

Springfield, OH

Booth #532 (same spot as the May show)

AND

The Rural Society Antique Show (SO EXCITED TO BE ASKED TO JOIN THIS EVENT)

October 14,15

Mt. Vernon, OH

http://www.theruralsociety.com/

And I've even got the neighborhood yard sale coming this Saturday which will be the perfect opportunity to really get in there and sort stuff out.  Any local folks who'd like to attend the yard sale just drop me an e-mail and I'll get you the particulars.

Junque on folks!

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World's Longest Yard Sale Score

I've wanted a pair of these for a while.  They were on my list.  You know the list I mean.  The one where you have an idea for something and think I really want that and then tell yourself if you just wait long enough you'll find one at a yard sale/thrift store/auction.

Of course they didn't look this way when I happily grabbed them from an otherwise creepy yard sale at the fairgrounds in somewhere (I don't remember where - it was a REALLY long day) Kentucky.  You know how they looked.  You've all seen them.  Monkey wood tiki head forks and spoons once abounded in many a home across America.  No more.  They have been cast aside, discarded and branded ugly. 

Well that's where a girl like me steps in and performs her grand rescue.  All these babies need is some primer and a can of spray paint.  Tiki on!!!!!!!!  I love them.

They are happily hanging (yes, I do for a fact know that they are happy - how could they not be happy when painted such a cheery red?) in the kitchen.  My daughter has remarked that she would like bowl of cereal big enough to require the use of such a large spoon.  Perhaps I shall encounter one of those at another yard sale one day!

The old camp stove got some enamel pots from an auction a few weeks back.  I'd like to get some plants to put inside.  I'll just add that to my list and see what the junque gods provide in due course.

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Miss Me Much?!

Yoo hoo! 

I'm back from a rather unintentional blogging break.  Time got away from me.  Junque got away from me.  My mind may or may not have gotten away from me!

  In an effort to get my blog groove back I'm showing off a favorite recent find:



Quite possibly the most divine scale EVER!!!!!!!  Oh how I love thee.

Lest you think I've been a completely lazy blogger I have accomplished a project or two.  Witness the following:

Vintage cabinet door repurposed into a chalkboard

Ah yes, back to school.  That would actually explain a bit of my absence.  I've been readying myself and the munchkins (who are not at all munchin-like as they enter 6th and 1st grade) for school.  

They started back on Thursday.  On Friday I was back to some hard core junking in an effort to keep from sitting at home and feeling sorry for myself.  The loss of a little person to have lunch with each day is a rather large void to fill.  So of course I filled my trunk and then approached the garage with much trepidation.  There really is no room at the inn but somehow I got it in.  The car load I picked up this morning at the flea market is another issue...

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A Short Stay

I often buy things "just because" they are cool, interesting, old, nifty, amusing or just way too good to pass up.  A LOT of times I don't have any need/space or use for them.  Please note that this is how "unintentional" vintage vendors are created!

I recently put together a display in my entry out of finds from the World's Longest Yard Sale (STILL just about the best time EVER).  It's only on loan.  I love the table but it isn't really my style.  It will go to a sale in the next couple of months.

Ditto the berry garland.

The enormous ironstone platter IS a keeper and will probably move around the house a great deal.

The driftwood ring is one of a pair which came from my favorite booth of the day.  We'll be keeping those for a LONG time.

I had the glass shade and round mirror in my stash so was easily able to pull things from here and there to create the "scene".  The beauty of junque is that if you pick enough of it you can ALWAYS make an inexpensive and unique display!  At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.

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