try and come

the cheap parts are growing....vases tools salt and peppers, depression glass, steampunk parts, primitives, glass and china...little birds, owls, lots of iron, kitchen utensils, pottery , lots of books in 50 cent row, lots of linens in 50 cent row.
lots of windows in 4 $ row..

half price area starts friday..lots of really good stuff in here.... christmas , leftovers, spring,,,tons of antiques...

HALF PRICE DECISIONS ` these things definitely going into the half price area....this part starts friday....

most of the vintage dolls

french busts , crowns, and Eiffel towers

garden leftovers

lots of sticheries....

big fish signs

pink flower frog vases

lots of florals

tons kitchen items

6 big boxes of christmas...

some halloween

of course its mostly miscellaneous....a little of this and a little of that.... lots of old and vintage for sure.

yard all set up and waiting

all the tables set up.... in jons yard.... jon and john did the set up... 5 big long rows...

lisa and christa brought all the boxes out..... maybe 2 or 300...2 boxtrucks full... lots never before seen on our shelves!!! lots from our shelves....

the tables are up...and waiting...

jons nice empty yard..

we are hoping for our yardsale record holder ...the one who bought 700 50 cent items one year........we have such great 50 cent stuff this year....and mostly nice and clean...

junk art and YARDSALE

our big scary fish....still waiting for a home....and one of our shutter flower pieces...wtih split spindles...

YARDSALE AUGUST 9``````UPDATE

THE HALF PRICE PART STARTS ON FRIDAY august 7 ... its under the awning to the right as usual .and will be packed full....so far i know im putting the small wire dressforms and all the eiffel towers and probably some gazing balls ....and ???????....

50 CENT ROW... this week we bought out a storage shed.....full of cheap stuff...so the 50 cent row in the yardsale part will be totally packed.... i hope some resellers make it this year...the 50 cent row will have tons of antique linens and tons of books....

THE STORE WIDE SALE STARTS ON FRIDAY....all the furniture will be on sale.... and everything else....

we just got in more giant chickens and quite a bit at auction last week....so we are really packed and trying to get it all ready......

still need to get the ads ready.... aND the work schedules,,,and all the things moved to their yardsale spots... a big job since one of the things is the whole half price room.....

we have the cards all printed and should be stamping them soon .....if you didnt get yours be sure and sign up at the counter....

LOTS OF WINDOWS WILL BE HALF PRICE...

around the store today.....we were so messy and so busy today..so much coming in and going out.... ...thankfully, lots of customers and they didnt seem to mind the mess.... we are pulling out of a mall and brought a whole boxtruck full of stuff so it can be here for the big sale.... we did get almsot all of the storage unit stuff priced and put in boxes for the sale...

teamwork;;;; I BOUGHT A PILE OF INDUSTRIAL STUFF/metal junk out in the parking lot ...including a wonderful huge iron hook..... about 5 minutes later a guy brought it in to the counter and dh just made up a prices 2$!!!! so wrong.......and he knows nothing about the industrial market or what i was going to sell that hook for....the man was happy to get it...and totally shameless about the giveaway price... ..

in today...another white harvest table..7 ft long

wicker table and fancy chair

lots of old christmas balls

lots of nice jewelry at 2$ each

oak bookcase

cute window cupboards...

big old railroad chains

CHEAP THRILLS....

TODAYS INCOMING WAS SO MUCH AND SO CHEAP.... I WENT TO THE AUCTION AND PRETTY MUCH BOUGHT FOR THE YARDSALE....I THINK WE ARE GOING TOHAVE THE CLASSIEST 50 CENT ROW EVER!!!!
i got boxes and boxes full of cheap fun stuff today.....
tons of christmas
colored glass
chickens
knick knaks
figurines
birds
silver
wine glasses
i probably wont work on it till monday.....sunday is our best day and its so wrong to trash the 400$$$
tables with piles of 50 cent items.... the way it works after a big auction is unpack it all ....then sort it into different prices and where it goes then price and put away, or now box up for the yardsale.... i think i got 5 or 600 items saturday!!!!
but we got some good stuff too....a nice big china cabinet, a sailboat picture made of match sticks, cement birdbath,
and jon got quite a bit at the yardsales too..... so we are really packed full.....
we got a cement mold at the auction....and i think jon has visions of doing some cement work...

cheap thrills.junk art ...

one of our big recycled/rehabbed counters..... the neat parts at the top are from an old house in ohio...jon andi design these and our carpenter makes them....somehave doors on the back...some open..
our new shutter/flower things ... i kept the one below for my home studio....if i ever get it moved up out of the basement...

make my day!!! a nice hint for someone near and dear....... ...

we have been working on shutters a lot lately....and have plenty to sell too...there are so many places to see junk art and recycled art out there on the internet..... see my links...

lisa made these neat shelves....a nice skinny hard to find size....

..and something for the guys..... also by lisa..

i love these, from a texas gal.....

a nice day off.........

today we got a nice big pile of old time primitives...yelloware bowls, a butter churn lots of crocks, ironstone potty, all kinds of crock bowls, paintings, graniteware etc etc... the lady was an old antiquing friend...we met at her yardsale a long time ago...and have bought and sold to eachother ever since.... she always said when she got ready to downsize she would call me.... shes about 80 and from west virginia, .and knows a lot......she finally answered a question ive always wondered about...how did they clean out the jugs in the old days? it seems impossible to get inside those old jugs to clean them.....she said they were usually for molasses and her mom would heat the water and pour it in the empty jug and it would melt out the mollasses and she would do it over and over until it ran clear.... ....
she gave me a present...a box of old sheet music...and told me about how they cooked baked beans ...let them sit all day in the bean pot then put bacon and molasses on them and put them in the stove all the next day day...
also there was a nice big pile of misc for the yardsale!!!
my big car is packed full so i guess i will be working a bit tomorrow on my day off....again....

now in, all rehabbed and repainted.........

a nice red cabinet, about shoulder high

a white buffet with open front

a nice black hall seat with a lift lid

a big fancy white china cabinet

a big black counter or island, a beautiful panelled door is the front

just in from the sign department[lisa]

some love signs

a big manitou sign, 6 ft long

and ....a nice git r done sign..

plus

more tools

more crocks

a firkin

nice wicker, a chair and a planter

slow and trash to treasure...

one of our trash to treasure counters... or cash wrap or kitchen islands...and one of our window creations all dressed up for winter last year...

it was so slow today!!! ..so we fluffed and made stuff.....we always have lots of work to do...

thank heavens for trash to treasure

it saves us every day....either selling the parts to our creative customers for their projects or making up things to sell............we get a lot of interesting inventory from good old cheap parts.....we have tons of windows, old doors and old shutters and old spindles and new and old tin and piles of misc!!!

so we make things

...like chalkboards....made with chalkboard paint on old things,

...we have shutters and tons of neat brackets so we make shutter shelves

...wall words on windows

...tin words on shutters........lots of things in the rough room get more valuable with some clean up or a little paint...

...all of the above we can do without carpenter skills.....except for cutting the little shelves out for the shutters...

then,if jon can help we go for more wilder and bigger ideas......hes the only one we allow on the big saw..

.and every week we have the chance to lay out a project like the picture above, for our carpenter who wont buy wood....that big counter is almost totally from recycled parts......

the idea part seems easy...i get 10 ideas before hitting one that really hatches out and is produced and actually sells....we have lots of half done and total failures....hanging around...

one trash to treasure theory we have is...if its small, under 2 ft, it can be made in china for 3$....so why go there....

one neat customer was trying to make me grubify those little electric tea lites.....no way can i use my paid help to add 50 cents to a thing.....it was a good idea tho....for our country room...

so we are busy little bees....and packing things away for the yardsale too...

bought today....

huge railroad chains

little pile of tools

cow chain

beautiful french sofa

fun road signs....men working etc etc

we arent downsizing ..

dont worry, we arent downsizing the yardsale....this one will be as big as ever!!! heres a picture from last year.... that must be the 2$ row... .... ITS TRULY A GREAT CLEARING OUT....AND WE ARE WORKING HARD EVERY DAY GETTING THINGS READY FOR IT.....

i hope the HISTORICAL star of our sale comes this year....one year she bought 700 50 cent items!!! THATS THE RECORD!!!
THE RECORD FOR LONGEST TRIP TO THE SALE WAS A GREAT BUYER WHO CAME all the way FROM NEW ORLEANS...
we are ..DIGGING INTO ALL THE CORNERS OF THE STORE and pulling out tons of great stuff......if weve had it very long its going to be bye bye out there in the sale!! THIS THING IS ANNUAL AND RAIN OR SHINE.... ON SUNDAY AUGUST 9..
WE WILL HAVE things FOR altered artists, steampunkers, repurposers and RESELLERS .....and anyone interested in good INDIANA JUNK...

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
AROUND THE WEB.......
THIS NEAT GOAT TOWER IS FROM
http://www.relics.typepad.com/


isnt it neat what people do for their animals....

today at the store...

today wE put some fall out..mostly garland and nice big summer flowers..

lots came in today ;trunks, nice tall skinny oak bookcases from the amish, a beautiful round oak table with leAves, a big counter/island, several big brass containers, an iron st. bernard bank....several crocks..SEVERAL NICE TABLES INTHE ROUGH ROOM

incoming this week......

a beautiful piece of terracotta....from an old building....

lots of old molds and pans from a bakery

little stained glass windows and cheap

lots of small open cabinets from the carpenters...

piles of jewelry.... mostly in the 1$ box but some in the case

A NICE PAIR OF 8 FT DOORS,with big windows

recycled ~~~ aka junk birdhouses

pile of linens with some nice 1950s table cloths

old decals

more books, sets, curwood, kids

art deco sled and a newer set of water skis

2 more typewriters

rotary phones

SO IT WAS A VERY GOOD WEEK........we bought from our chicago buddy, jon went yardsaling....and my best supplier had me a nice big fat pile!!!

with a store you have to think several months ahead ....Also ive been ordering madly for the fall and christmaas.... ....im trying to figure out what everybody will be in the mood for this year....i got some cute and cheap and some big and fabulous...this is something dh and jon dont help me on at all....its just over their heads..... so its mostly carol and lana and ruth and i looking thru the catalogs and trying remember what was popular last year and what was left over....and whats neat and new for this year...

the yardsale is so close..AUGUST 9..we got the postcards...dh designs them and we print here...im working on lining up the workers for the big day....its takes lots to set it up and at least 10 on the sale day.........and as usual it seems impossible to get it all done and priced...but we always do ....with a lot of hard work......and my yardsale building is really packed this year .... ..

one of my favorite parts of the sale is seeing the rough room out in the sun.... you can see its full potential then....it gets so piled up in there!!! and there are always hidden gems even we havent seen for a while...

JACKPOT OF JUNK

IT WAS SUCH A FUN SALE AND
we are still working on it......but its almost all put away......
ABOVE IS OUR PRETTY 11 FT long COUNTRY FARM TABLE..... its a little short..foot rot... ITS DOING A GREAT JOB HOLDING OUR NEW INDUSTRIAL SECTION.... got more today too....fun STREET signs, door knobs, cute little gas cans.....and WE have a FREE PILE ..scrap iron and fruit jars....
SOME WILL STAY OUTSIDE IN THE JUNK GARDEN IM THINKIN OUR RECYCLED 5 FT CHICKEN IS RIGHT AT HOME ....

SAVE THE DATE

YARDSALE SUNDAY AUGUST 9...
.9 AM
31ST ANNUAL.... STOREWIDESALE...BIGGEST BARGAINS OF THE YEAR.... we have started making some decisions...
i hate to think we are this far into summer..... usually our first decision regarding the sale is what kind of mailing we send out.....the stamps have gone up again..... so we have chosen to use a regular postcard instead of the jumbo one....this saves us about 700$ in postage...but was the jumbo card worth 700$ more $$$??? not sure if we chose right on this....our mailing list is close to 4000 names....making the stamps almost $2000......we cut about 200 names off last night.....if you got cut please email dh and he will put you back on....and get on the email list next time you get in ..
also time to think about the schedule....im starting to think about what will be in the half price area.., for sure a huge pile of great christmas things we got from a fancy store closing....,..... and im seeing a whole houseful of misc this week....
i think we are going to have the best pile ever for this years sale.. .. this is annual and a biggie..we have saved things back all year in another building just for the super cheap yardsale part......if you havent been here for it here are
the parts of the sale......
+ the sale really starts friday august 7....that would be the storewide sale and the half price sale...we use a big area under the awning for that...packed full....
+ but the best part...the big yardsale is sunday only....thats the day that jons yard gets unveiled and you can buy from the rows.... 3 huge rows of 50 cents..2 $ and 4$....
+ on sunday the rough room is moved out into the driveway!!! and wade has free food...
we have plenty of parking and lots of help that day...
all this is rain or shine....

a good day...packrat paradise...

jon and i went to a great auction today.......kind of hog heaven....it was the best auction sale ive been to in years....tons of great primitives and wonderful farm stuff., buried in piles of misc and total junk.......piles and piles...we got some great stuff....and the prices will be nice and low....

i got these

these are great for flowers....or ice and beer

part of our pile....i love totes and metal pails cans and baskets...

a good row

a manly day.....the big crowd was mostly men.......but they look at it as tools and we look at it as also accessories.or iconic rural america or ART....or raw materials for trash to treasure projects..... ..so it kind of works out.. the owner was a good old buddy and buyer from most of us...

.2 rings ran the whole day....i was outbid a lot by a 10 yr old amish boy....bidding for his dad in my ring as his dad was in the other.....they must be better than jon and i because jon wasnt in the other ring bidding against the dad....whats with that!!!!

i knew the owner....he was a wonderful guy and he was always going to sell me something,,...HA!!...but never actually did....now i see why..he was a total packrat and had acres and buildings so he never ran out of room.......he had at least 15 buildings and trailers , so he never had to sell anything.....

...

jons building..... he got the contents of this building for 10$$ ....we wanted the building!!! its so neat and round...

a greAt row

one of the auctioneers....i tried on this, but it went for 35$

the tall guy is my buddy and sometime supplier ...and you can see some of the competition...
and josh

nobody went thru this pile....

WE got all these....

there was really some good stuff in this row..

another good row

i didnt take everything in this pile!!! left some real bad plastic... ALTHO IVE HEARD SOME OF THATMOLDED PLASTIC FROM THE 70S IS HOT ON EBAY...

jon and josh

thankfully , jon is such a good packer.. . WE NEVER WANT TO GO BACK AND REALLY TRY TO GET IT AL ON ONE LOAD.. ...

HAPPY CAMPERS!!!....this is the life...

. BACK TO OUR ROOTS....

jon gets to go to auctions a lot more than me...BUT im hoping to get out a lot more this year...we have such a great crew at the store i think i can leave on more saturdays.....

hopefully by monday it will be all unloaded and priced....

p.s....lots of our customers enjoyed digging thru the big piles ...but its mostly put away now......about a third of it is packed in a barn waiting for the yardsale in august........and jon made some fun birdhouses with some of the parts......WE PUT a new INDUSTRIAL METAL SECTION UNDER THE AWNING...

and heres some eyecandy from a different part of the design world....http://keltainentalorannalla.blogspot.com/

HAVE FUN ON THE 4TH

come see us will be OPEN ON THE 4TH.....at least till 3.....probably later....

closed today, so lots of couch and internet , grandma and garden time , but i always answer the phone...so there was a little business going on as well.......made a deal about a mantle....jon drug me over to the store to see 2 guys with a load of glassware to sell...they turned me down,,,,even tho they didnt know anything about it, they got it free, and it was full of basement water....

. some dealers from ohio called and came, ...we heard screaming...the kids trying to catch the new PIG who had escaped from the chicken pen......jon got it when he was at the amish carpenters, something wrong with the castration and they didnt want it....

.. i babysat on his 2 littlest while he and matthew went to the yardsales....didnt get much....

got to lounge on the couch a lot....and saw lots of fun spots on the www......

heres some eyecandy for you..

http://vintageblissandco.blogspot.com/ i love her words out of pictures...a few posts down...

http://sparrowsalvage.blogspot.com/

http://urbanfarmhouse.blogspot.com/

http://www.ullam.typepad.com/ my all time favorite....her world is magical and gigantic....

so LIFE IS GOOD...

around the store

a nice new load of windows coming in.....some with diamond panes....

hard working junkers..2 of our suppliers.

.at least todays load was in nice weather...we have unloaded in the dead of winter ....

lots has come in this week...including this huge oriental moriaga vase.....
also some tall wine glasses in color,
roseville
lots of keys
a nice and very reasonable dining room set
a huge black and oak harvest table
straight razors
more small furniture...chairs, benches, little tables,,,
cute little nicknack's....
a big 6 ft tall palm tree in iron, butterfly brackets, Fleur de lis hooks
mission oak desk
lots of primitives
and some misc vintage christmas

TRY AND COME OUT...WE ARE OPEN JULY 4

ALSO LISA Made ANOTHER OF OUR BIG BE NICE OR LEAVE SIGNS.....they are getting pretty popular.... we also made one that says my barn my rules.......