Monday, October 26, 2009

keep calm and carry on.....chaos reigns

i love this picture....its so calm and beautiful...we have a big 5 ft angel too...and smaller iron angels..by next week we will have a whole angel display in the white room....
BE AN ANGEL FOR CHRISTMAS....at the openhouse we raise some money for our local ministers who help so many at christmas....5% of candle sales will go to them....they are such a good group with much need and no overhead...and its local

this is a super busy week at green oak.,,,, we are starting early on all the displays....the store should look completely different in a week...today we will be packing up the little present that everyone who comes will get....its a suprise.
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW .......
got some little robots...like hanging off of our guardian mascot...made in indiana, by a disabled vet.....we used one for a jewelry display....
see above..
if you were here sunday you might have noticed 2 giant renegade st. bernards in the rough room..... big and scary..... they had escaped from the neighbors....also in the rough room, the walnuts are falling on the metal roof....it isnt gun shots....


chaos reigns....we are working behind a barricaded area getting our christmas out...dh bought 3800 stamps today for our big mailing for the openhouse...so i guess i will be sticking them on the postcards tonight.....


our hottest thing last weekend....lanterns...

big ones and small ones....one guy was going to drill a hole in the bottom and fill with lights or outside....many bought our battery tapers for them



some of ruths fun lanterns...these have the battery candles too....nothing is glued in , so you can make your own display next spring.....


my fun lately has been around our

steampunk love signs..above...... i lay it out and lisa fastens it all down....see them under the awning....or on our etsy.... http://www.gypsymarket.etsy.com/




heres one of our suppliers....a fun guy who always has more junk to sell me......he stops here on his way to the scrap yard....old and still working...and loving it..he brought giant chains ....made to pull trains...and lots of parts for our junky birdhouses that we will make for next summer.....



we are so glad when we get to see

what our customers do with the good parts we sell....like this wonderful garden house one of our customers designed and had built for her back yard....full of antique stained glass windows..




busy busy busy....trying to figure and where to put everything.... for our big christmas season.....OUR WINTER WONDERLAND is coming up fast....nov 6 7 8......

we have lots of help this year....and are working like mad getting ready....

carol made this fun wreath below...with beautiful vintage balls.... we should have several done for the season......




so much we are enjoying now is recycled, repurposed or just plain fantasy.....


in this week...

..more windows, salvaged

a little white corner cabinet

3 big counter/bar/islands.... 2 with tin....made by our carpenters

several tables under 40$

big beautiful stained glass lamp....carmel slag

large old iron pot....cracked

shutter cupboard...made by our carpenters using salvage shutters....nice big one...

more sugar molds

chair benches....one with arms...amish made..out of old chairs

big shipment of lanterns

Monday, October 19, 2009

anticipation....

WINTER WONDERLAND OPENHOUSE...NOV 6 7 8

Legends part 2.....
DIANE.......we ALWAYS have a dollar box for jewelry...junk jewelry.... its on the floor under a dish display....one day our worker, who loves jewelry, brought up this gaudy big gold glob on a necklace with big diamonds in it..and said to me that i better look at it again...she was right...it was real...
the chain was 14k , a very good sign....id bought it at an estate sale...and it was modern and ended up there in the 1$ box with a lot of OTHER MODERN costume jewelry from the sale.......

the family was rich.....BUT i hadnt even noticed the necklace ....it was probably a memory thing.. made out of the family wedding rings....thats my guess anyway,,,,.it was cast gold with old diamonds in it...my gold guy offered me 2000 for it...now thats what i call a wonderful employee......she could have very fairly bought it for 1$$$
like anyone else could have....
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JONS BEST BUY ..so far...
one day jon came home with 2 ice cream scoops .... bought at the flea market for 1$ each..... one was heart shaped....he put them on ebay without showing them to me...with a starting price of 25 for both...usually he shows me stuff before putting it on......but really so good because i probably would have sold the heart shaped one for 100$, it was very neat.... it brought 4500$$$ on ebay....and a guy emailed us and said we gave it away ..it was really worth 8000$$....

open house nov 6..7...8...




scenes from last year...


OUR WINTER WONDERLAND OPENHOUSE IS ALMOST HERE...we are working like mad little elves to get everything out and ready FOR YOU for the big weekend....

.... you will be suprised at some of the things we have come up with this year..LOTS OF GOOD REASONABLE THINGS, SOME BiG WONDERFUL EXPENSIVE THINGS, AND NEw this year, christmas lanterns and GIFTS TO GO,, ..and there will be a little goodie for you...
more info coming soon...

SO SAVE THE DATE AND COME SEE US...
....NOV 6...7...8...



Sunday, October 11, 2009

fun at the store....


A HAPPY CAMPER with peacock decorations for her store window...
mugging with dh

heres part of our baby grand...only 300$$$!!!! its nice....we dont have room for it....it has a beautiful lion in brass inside....





from julies store.... http://www.bellachicinteriors.com/ .....AND SO TRUE


THESE HAVE BEEN SO POPULAR....AND so useful for the holidays... WE ARE PUTTING OUR BATTERY candles in them..... we just got about 30.... good with real candles too...they are all glass and metal, so can be outside too...we have lots of christmas ideas for them....
so many fun customers this weekend....and thankfully a lot of them....
GREENOAK LEGENDS....
we have the greatest customers.... here are a couple of our favorite stories....nameless of course...but you know who you are...
THE CLOCK GUY...my good old buddy collects clocks and he got to buy a beautiful, rare, 11 ft european antique grandfather clock... ....it wouldnt fit his house so he lowered his living room....
THE BIG TRADE.... this is more about husbands ....this poor guy thinks his wife traded a nice little piece of used furniture , value about 90$, for the biggest best fancy carved turn of the century oak buffet we ever had..value back then, about 5 or 600$.. from the studebaker mansion supposedly....
THE ROBOT DEAL.... a guy used to come buy from us, and stay all night sometimes....we had just gotten a little toy robot and sold it to him for a couple of hundred......he hadnt paid for it yet...and called someone on our phone and sold it for 1000 $ profit..somehow this felt so wrong..... but a deals a deal...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

junker truck.....

remember i said i wanted to do a junk trip and invite customers to go with us? well i found this fun person in washington state who really does it!!!http://www.comejunkwithus.com/
LOVE THE TRUCK

Monday, October 5, 2009

HOG HEAVEN....a nice big pile....

wouldnt these be fun around the campfire, all metal...only 9$
one of 4 trucks...2 pick ups ~ 2 box trucks full.... .packed with care....
there are 4 or 5 pianos on one , i get to see them tomorrow...i think they were about 5$ each...isnt that terrible...we are going to tear them up for the parts.... except for the baby grand... i havent seen it yet.... they took the legs off to get it in the truck..we really dont have room for a big piano....jon said it wasnt the right kind....


good heavy benches from the camp 35 to 45$


nice oak kids chairs.... really good shape... some of our old hickory pile....altogether about 27 pieces....mostly a little rough..or a lot rough
couches, setees and chairs and a couple of rockers
7 or 8 big pine work tables....there are some short ones too....not sure where to put all these...they are really nice and CHEAP
from 25 to 95 each...
SO ITS A GOOD DAY AROUND HERE.... AND ALL ABOUT THE STUFF...
jon did show some restraint and let 40 boxes of books go for nearly nothing....our half price room is already full of books....i have to wonder tho what we missed...
why i love this business....also today some cool thngs from the fancier parts of the JUNK WORLD ...LIKE sterling spoons from tiffany , and some trench art from ww1, and chemistry lab bottles and new goodies for our etsy store store... http://www.gypsymarket.etsy.com/ ...where we sell steampunk supplies and all kinds of goodies for the altered art world.....
today im hoping for dealers in big trucks to buy some of this stuff!!!!
UPDATE.... the old hickory is gone...the red chairs are gone....
. but we have a beautiful BABY GRAND PIANO and its only 300$$$...also lots of really cute kids chairs....and some huge metal shelves....
p.s. i just put a great big neat junky link on my sidebar...check it out ...she has theneatest truck pictures... http://retreatdesign.blogspot.com/