around the store

lots of good stuff has come in this week....we are kind of packed full!!! oak church pews, oak dry sink, oak claw foot dresser, oak bookcases, primitive cupboards, neat old chairs from culver military, walnut shaving stand..... 6 big chicago cabinets, great mantles but painted, 3 secretaries
lots of good smalls too.... like great victorian prints, bee sting crocks, nice old tins, 200 pieces of milk glass,
more roseville, black syrups and shakers...pile of pink depression, and lots of cheap fun misc....

plus lots of harvest tables

chickens taking a ride

chickens on their way to bella chic.....for her big art show.... http://www.bellachicinteriors.com/
so much going on.....

...we have a stickley rocker, and dont know if its worth 200 or 2000...

....a new person has applied for work....tempting...she might be able to do computer work..

this old doll and neat tin drawers becomes a very nice combination for a kids room..picked out by a creative customer...

....chaos in the foo foo room, but it turned out pretty good...

....our snapping turtle that the kids have watched all summer in the big pond, got nicked on the road...bloody but alive...and the kids found out..
....... incoming today....lots of nice wicker, cheap shelves, painted commode, pretty rose cups, handpainted signs, and some nice cheap little furniture for the rough room...

good people today....tom,who has been selling to me for over 15 yrs....

also good....free OBAMA bumperstickers, at the store while they last...

and now for something completely different for the trash to treaure people out there....RECYCLED BARBIES RECYCLED BARBIES

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5165121

new in the foo foo

our foo foo room seems to be pretty popular...its kind of overflowing right now....sometimes i go in ther just to soak it up....before going back out on the floor and all my work....
the internet is so full of shabby and cottage...i love to go blog hopping just to see others version of the world...
. see our new signs handpainted by rhonda on old door panels....and the nice wide cupboard with the porch posts on the front...these have sold to several stores..for shabby ..cottage store displays. they would be good storage in so many places...

look here for fun saps with a foofoo flavor....and more....

http://www.arosewithoutathorn.com/ItemsForSale/Category8/sub-gallery.htm

http://www.fleamarketqueen.blogspot.com/ lots of fun stuff here...

look here , if you like making paper projects for free graphics and lots of fun images `````` http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com

road trip

my new bug

dh was inside

the nice lady in the blue said she got hers giant dragonfly $100 cheaper than i got mine!!!!!the artist, in tye dye, tried to explain..... it was weak....but you know artists!!!

riding in style....

we had a ball and got tons for the store....9 church pews, 3 oak bookcases, a beautiful walnut secretary, a drysink, lots of archeterctural parts and pieces, big ships wheels...

.and art !!wonderful scrap iron bugs...and signs made from old licence plates...

. here are some pictures of the crowd and stuff....i was in hog heaven with over 2000 dealers showing their goods.... wish i had more money and a bigger truck!!!! so i could have brought more home..... we wil be unloading today....

it was my birthday, going to that show is always my best present...i got some things for myself too, a painting, a wonderful tramp art box, and probablay one of the bugs. they are so cool...im hoping to put one on the roof of our building, it would go with our tinman so well....

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can you believe this taxidermy!!!!
the show was the springfield extravaganza in ohio...they had plants, antiques, rehabbed and all kinds of old cool stuff....from all over the country....my camera skills arent the best...but im trying to learn....

store rules

our store is so big and chaotic...we have made some rules that have helped us survive and keep it going...... no credit, no layaways, no special orders.... we arent big enough or organized enough to offer some things that seem normal other places..and especially at our prices......we are more like the auctioneers, as is .. where is ... and if you want it you buy it...kind of old fashioned...

. but it keeps us on the right track and , we hope, in good with our customers....they know we dont offer that stuff and dont take it personal...

we do store things for free if they have to be left...and we try and tell all the damage we know about on the antiques...

but as far as ordering we just cant do it...

one guy asked for a certain cabinet last weekend and wade ended up saying, we are too unorganized to even think we could do that...

...actually, i felt awful yesterday when a really good customer wanted an entertainment center..she said all our furniture is from you and we want our tv thing to match....

it sounds so much easier than it would actually be... im the communication center and 3 guys are the manufacturers....

..i can barely deal with all we have going now.... and being too organized would really cramp me...even if it were possible.... there is a lot of total serendipity in this place and that seems to work and keep it interesting to me anyway..........

so knowing our limits..we say no a lot.....our goal is to underpromise and hopefully over deliver....

loving cement and stone

another pic from our local country graveyard....my sweet grandson and i went ..and saw about 6 civil war soldiers ....and ww1 ww2 korea and vietnam..

i enjoy the beauty of the stones ..but the history there is pretty amazing too...

heywood wakefield

so modern and so not greenoak....but we have it and what should we do? its a great brand...just not sure how many midcentury modern customers we have here in the indiana corn country....

around the web

today was my day off and i took some time just to loll around , nap, dabble , cruise the web.... for the first time i looked at etsy .... http://www.etsy.com/ it was like going to a huge art show..... cool....i kind of searched lots of different ways, like by shabby from 50 to 500$...i saw rehabbed furniture like we do for a lot higher...

i love altered art and all the neat junk it uses and the free outsider views it sometimes has.......i get lots of ideas but not much time for it or the right skills either....heres a neat site http://alteredroute.blogspot.com/ and my all time favorite ullabenulla http://ullam.typepad.com/ullabenulla/ there is so much on that site..

http://www.zneart.com/index.php im not quite sure what thisw is, but there is some great stuff on it...

.i find such wonderful places, and too often cant get back to them...

also today i tried to work on my word skills....im such a teckno dud...but maybe someday i can put pictures and words together in the font and color i want....

i did help dh and jon out at the store for a couple of hours, trying to get all the furniture put away....

while i was home , 30 boxes came in at the store..christmas and fall merchandise.....just what i need to face tomorrow on a busy saturday morning....

tonight on the tube...news then wings of a dove...

new this week.........

we got so much in this week......full to overflowing...good walnut furniture, this great governor winthrop, the best we ever had...a wonderful marbletop table, lots of neat shabby furniture..the giant broken pediment that wont even fit under the awning....a big clawfoot oak table.... lots more... and roseville too..oak doors with bevelled glass...

plus tons of fall and halloween!!!!

...i love my job...

today i got to meet a fun arkansas traveller...and her mom...... i wish she was a neighbor.... also today a guy from the past came .....about 15 or 20 yrs ago on a hot day ...i got a call and went on a house call .. it was an old guy who had 15 nice oak 12 ft long church pews....i drove over alone and we made a deal.... somehow he and i loaded them on my pickup truck, we didnt have boxtrucks or jon then, .....somehow we lined them up on end in the truck , not laying down....i was about 20 miles from home and had to go the back way it was such a scary load...also too tall for any low phone lines....and this was also before car phones or cells.... i got home just fine..... a fun memory.......

....well yesterday an real old guy came in and had some doors for sale.....and he said, remember me i sold you some church pews.... he told jon he was hoping that lady was still here......

what would be the chances ? that someone would be there in the same place doing the same thing 15 yrs later....he didnt even call first...

.it was a nice day....that part anyway...

the sad part was a great worker here had to quit..hopefully to come back next summer..... so im looking for more help....and thats always real hard.........