Thursday's are for Junkin'

Thursday's are our Gone Junkin' day, aka girls day, aka shopping trip, aka business meeting (lunch at LaFinca), aka board meeting (planning out our booth spaces, junk transformations, etc), aka vintage market day and lots of fun!

Angea and I meet at our favorite little vintage market. We shop there first - Angea being the early bird, she gets a newspaper and we plan our garage and estate sale route, then we end with lunch at our favorite Mexican food restaurant. Some days there are good finds, some days it's not so good. Today, was a good day - lots of boxes and sacks in my back seat! Most of the sales were in dark barns today, since it was so cloudy and dreary, but that didn't stop us.  Ok, I will admit one dark barn was kind of weird in a creepy way and we left quickly without buying anything. That's the good thing about shopping in pairs and we vowed to never go back to that location. We both found boxes of vintage lace today, which is always exciting!

I can't pass up pretty vintage lamps, candlesticks, doilies, or silver platters

Or a very vintage flour sifter and bundt pans, or macrame or a gorgeous blush pink lace dress (so much gorgeous trim on it that will look fabulous in wedding bouquets.)

My mind is busy plotting what I will do with everything! I've got a few ideas and some things will likely show up in our Uniques and Antiques booth (exciting news coming soon about it) in Mineola. 

P.S. There's is a new batch of Gone Junkin' sleeveless shirts and distressed, bleached flannels available in my Etsy shop now! 

New Brooch Bouquets for Your Rustic, Vintage Glam Wedding

 I've been working on some new bridal bouquets, that are ready made and ready to ship. I love collecting vintage lace, brooches, buttons, and assorted jewels to create these bouquets.

This first bouquet has lace from two different vintage wedding dresses. I recently found a beautiful, David's Bridal satin bridesmaid dress in the Portobello color. I immediately knew that it would be fantastic for cutting up to make roses and it gave this bouquet an elegant touch!

Ivory satin roses , burlap roses, lace, and doilies also comprise this keepsake bouquet. Rhinestones and pearl buttons and brooches accents the crochet lace flowers.

 As I'm out junkin', I'm always looking for potential brooches that would be pretty for bouquets. Over time, my collection had accumulated several pink toned pieces, so that inspired me to create a new brooch bouquet with the pink and gold color scheme.

 Tan and white burlap roses along with assorted lace is used in the bouquet. Gold rhinestone mesh ribbon adds some glitzy glam to the bouquet!

 This bouquet is a timeless, neutral color; with tan and white burlap roses, white and ivory lace, along with gold toned and pearl jewelry pieces. It will match almost any color scheme for your rustic, vintage themed wedding.

 I've been bringing in my plants during the cold spells and the house feels like a jungle some days, but it sure is nice to be able to see some green, in the middle of winter! Overall, its been a mild winter, so the ferns have stayed in the gazebo, most of the time. I hung my chandelier in the gazebo as well.

All of these bridal bouquets are unique and one-of-a-kind, due to the vintage nature of the brooches and brooches. These are all currently available in my etsy shop and ready to ship now! If you need coordinating bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnieres, or corsages - please send me a custom request and we can discuss your wedding!

RaLeigh's Wedding Pictures

I love when my customers send pictures from their wedding! RaLeigh sent a couple pictures from her recent wedding. Isn't she a beautiful bride, with a very pretty lace dress?!?  

 RaLeigh is carrying a navy burlap bouquet. These were a few pictures before she walked down the aisle and she said "I loved my flowers that you made ! Thanks again!!"

Thank you for letting me be a part of your special day! Congratulations and Best Wishes to you and your new spouse!

Inspire

Inspiration is everywhere. I'm inspired by so many others that I have mentioned before, things I see, places I go, ideas that are passed along from others, etc. 

I've never really felt like I'm that inspiring to others, I'm just ordinary me... There was a fellow vendor at the Yamboree this year. She came by and wanted to look inside my camper and we visited a little while. She had been thinking about getting her own camper to travel to shows, as a means to support her family. Her friends discouraged her and told her she wouldn't do it. 

The next day, we met in the walkway, and she brought tears to my eyes. She said you don't realize how inspiring you are to me. You give me a new outlook and determination for my business. The camper she had looked at, had already sold, but she's looking for her another one. I wish I got her name and contact info. If you're reading this, please contact me and let me know what's going on. I meant to come by your booth on Saturday and it just didn't happen. I hope we meet again and your setting up your camper! 

We live our ordinary lives and don't realize how we can have an impact on others. Be an encouraging friend, not a discourager. In a world full of negativity, be the happy. 

(The heart with wings, dream, believe, and inspire lace cuffs are available in my Etsy shop.) 

Live Life Vintagy and Fabulous!

Live life Vintagy and Fabulous! 

Here's a few more items that we've been working on for the Yamboree. 

These dream catchers were already loaded in the camper, but I had to get them back out and photograph them all together. I was sitting in a hospital waiting room last week and hand stitched the vintage doilies to the hoops and got lots of "whatcha making?" So for all the curious ones, here they are finished! 

Don't be afraid to chase your big dreams!

I kinda, seriously love vintage lace! I'm making up for that time as a kid, when I hated lace! These lace and flannel dusters are vintage and fabulous and the cold front coming tomorrow, should make it perfect weather, so we can finally wear them! 

My sweet lil' carousel horse is ready for the fair! You might have seen on Instagram (especially if you follow the stories) that I found an U-G-L-Y carousel horse, while out junkin one day. She's now a sparkly pink, gold, cream, and rose gold. My first thought was paint it solid turquoise glitter, but... 

When I saw this picture on Pinterest, I fell in love and knew this is how I would fashion her. Please bring your sweet lil' cowgirls by with their tutu's on and take a picture with her, because I need to see the sweetness in real life! Maybe she needs to decorate a whimsical nursery or girls room or she would make a great photographer's prop for mini sessions, so this could happen several times... The possibilities are endless! 

🎼 You only love me for my big sunglasses...🎼

Oh Vanessa, she's looking all sassy with her shades and big hair bow on! 

The only difference between an adventure and an ordeal, is your attitude... Here's to grand adventures! 

Our Yamboree booth starts Thursday 

at 12:00 till 6:00 pm. Friday 9:00-6:00, Saturday 9:00-5:00 at the Yamboree Fair Grounds. Come see us and say hi! 

Fabric Hoarding Pays Off (Eventually)

So here's the thing, we hunt and gather all the pretty fabrics and odd things that catch our eyes. We stash, ok maybe we hoard these things away, because we know someday we will use them.

We travel to estate sales, garage sales, vintage markets, we clean out houses, and our finds inspire us to make new things. We worry we may one day run out of pretty lace, but who am I kidding, I recently organized fourteen, yes 14 buckets and baskets of lace, doilies and hankies. That doesn't count all the ribbon, suitcases full of fabric, 4 huge overflowing tubs of burlap, and other random stuff in my collection. 

Since starting this post, I've been working on a project and can't seem to find the "just right" lace in my collection, so I'll have to continue with my gathering! 

We hang on to those little snippets of ribbon, that seem to always fall out on the table and floor, because one night they will have a purpose.  Case in point, last weekend, I was working on a new teepee pillows (to debut soon) and that little bit of pink floraly ribbon was just what I needed! I think it has fallen out of its bucket one million and forty three times, just begging to be used.

We save, because when inspiration hits on a Saturday night at 10:00, you have the supplies on hand! Instead of hoarding, let's just call it building inventory. 

Those hankies, napkins, lace, and doilies, came in handy while I worked on a little something fun for me! I can't wait for cooler weather, so I can wear this shirt! 

I'll be the first to admit, my pics aren't great, but I took them late night on my sewing table... Better pics coming, when I actually have a good hair and makeup day! 😉 My current state is paint splattered, from my forehead to my big toe...

Exciting things / announcements are coming soon, so y'all stay tuned!

She's come a long ways!

I was looking through my camera roll Friday and realized it was exactly 2 years ago that I found my camper! She's came along ways from her ugly duckling - deer camp camper - man cave - mossy oak sticker days! Here's a few now and then comparison pics of camper to glamper. 

Two years ago, I spent the weekend cleaning her up and did the same thing this weekend as we are preparing for the Backwoods Marketplace  next month. She got new handmade curtains today and some cleaning, as we are starting to load inventory for the market. Nothing says glamper like a chandelier! 

You've come along ways Miss Gussie! Oh the power of a good scrubbing and paint! 

"Sometimes I wish I lived in an airstream

Homemade curtains

Lived just like a gypsy" - Miranda Lambert 

Of course she has homemade lace curtains. Don't tell her, but I really wish I had an airstream too! Seriously though, I would be tickled with a whole fleet of vintage campers! 

I ❤️ the original backsplash and I haven't done anything to the green cabinet doors or countertop. 

You sure have been a fun project to fix up! I always knew a camper would be a part of my future business, I just didn't know exactly how. It makes my heart and creative self happy to be able to share her pictures and get to travel to vintage markets with her. Thanks for traveling along with our journey! 

Vintage lace

Once upon a time, I didn't like lace, couldn't stand it, didn't want it touching my skin, no how, no way. Times have changed! I'm always in search of vintage lace and even have a few friends on the look out for me as well. I fear running out of the good stuff and you never know when you will find more, so it's like a treasure hunt. 

Last week, I was out garage saling and happened to meet up with Angea at one of our favorite second hand shops. We knew of a big craft supply estate sale happening the next day, but got word that we could go early and shop that day! O.M.G. I just thought I had a lot of craft supplies! This was a full house of fabric, patterns, canvases, paintings, you name it. I didn't know the lady, but she must have been a very creative person. As we looked around, I found a big box of tangled lace and fell in love! 

They were so shocked that I wanted to buy the whole box  They were going to price it by the yard although, we finally settled on a price for all of it. As I mentioned earlier, it was a tangled mess of lace and it took me almost 2 hours to organize and sort through it when I got home. I'm so glad we didn't have to measure it all at the estate sale and calculate per yard price! 

Tip to families dealing with estate sales: price items by the box or be prepared with a box price and we will be more likely to take it off your hands and you get rid of the items quicker! There was hundreds, maybe thousands of patterns there, but I didn't want to look through each pattern individually, but if there would have been a box discount, well I might have grabbed up a few boxes. The same went for buttons - they were 10¢ a card, when a box lot would have been way more convenient. 

Since I have a new supply of vintage lace, I'm busy creating new items for my shop and the Backwoods Marketplace coming up in March. Here's a peak at a couple new purses / bags that I've been working on this week. 

They are fun bags that are just the right size to carry the essentials - wallet, phone, keys and lip gloss. Whatcha think?