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Flea Market Finds
Okay Readers, I am SOOOOO sorry. I will take pics of those funktastik items 2morrow, and I am going to try and find some more. You can see the door we found in the SLIDE SHOW. An update – the pic we found – actually FIT in the door!
My friend, Crew Member and Part Time Staffer PATTI showed me this amazing BHG magazine – a special edition about Flea Marketing, and I was like … I didn’t know I had a style – I’m totally a Flea Marketeer!
Anyway – I’m on the prowl for a Bird Cage and a Galvanized Pan – one to make an organizer and another to make us a clock!
ANYhoooo – please bear with me – I’ll getcha some pics.
Ms. Flea Marketeer!
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There’s a great Junk Shop – Ohmigosh, did I call it a Junk Shop? Okay – it’s like an Antique Shop/Flea Market/Great Finds/Oddz -n- Endz type place on Main Street in Collinsville called the Rainbow’s End.
We found some neat stuff for the shop. Noah found a working rotary phone. He called me from it and LURED me to the shop. I also called him. When he got there, he said, I figured out how it works. How cute is that. The couple working there got a kick out of it too!!!
Anyway, we found print drawers. These used to house like letters for printing… I have one, complete with the old letters. I loved it and thought, OHMIGOSH, how cool would it be to sell Oddz -n- Ends like bulk brads and eyelets and STUFF out of it. I have been searching and was fortunate to find TWO! One needs repair. I hope I can get it useable. I also found a NOT so antique letter sorter, but I thought, how cute for card making supplies, or something like that. My FINAL ultimately WILD find (yeah, my son and the couple there thought I was berserk) was an OLD cash register drawer. My son was like, will that work? Is money still the same size? LOL…
Nah, I was thinking (about this drawer with the AGED spring still attached at the back!!!) that I would put Jenni Bowlin coupons and tickets in it for sale. At the top I plan to decorate and stencil or attach letters maybe saying “Time for Change”… This drawer is UBER cute and just entirely different. I am all about NOT same! Who else will have this display… Okay, yah – go out and hit up your Junk Shop (and for me that is a term of endearment) and find a VINTage cash register drawer complete with old spring loaded action.
At my friend’s garage sale (OhMiGosh – she has county wide famous garage sales, ‘specially when she hauls out the scrappin’ goodies she culls all season long…), I found CUTEY-PaTOOTie Bird Cages, a neat anteaky (yeah, I can spell, but I can be uNIque too!) round table… Do you know how much display/fixture companies want for a table like this? I got an AMAZIN’ saw for the Great Lloyd and Company – what can I say, I appreciated the work he did for us!!! All our counters are handmade in America bayyyybeeeee! My son snagged coooool YugiOh cards (boring – sorry guys!).
I hope I can hit some great sales on some Thursday, Friday and Saturdays in the AMs and find AWESOMELY unique fixtures and SUCH for the shop.
While we were finishing up cleaning, painting, etc. I sent my son up in the crawl space to see if there was anything to get rid of so we could put some fixtures away and he found some GEMS! We found an OLD picture of a mercantile, lots of acrylic fixtures (so tacky but $$$ savers), and this NEAT handmade old door (3D) with a wood awning, all DECORATED! It says “Stamps of Approval” and it has a big OVAL opening, a little shelf, and well, for a store that sells stamps – how FREAKITY DEAKITY awefilledsome is that? It even had like hinges. We had MADE a wall to preserve an original brick wall, so we had a bump out. Being a preservationist BUFF, I wouldn’t even let ole LLoyd and Co. put even a HOLE in the brick so that bump out is purty big – and there is enough room to create a corner cubby using this DOOR! Come on down and have your pic taken behind the old Post Office door!
HEHEHE, enough from us. Off to WORK!
What’d you find on your adventures this weekend?
C’mon, post and tell me the wildest thing you found…
