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...

the foo foo and white parts

from last year.....

this is on my mind right now...it looked like this last year....and hopefully will again this year..... right now its all in our heads and packed away in boxes and on its way to us....the big openhouse date for this year is nov 7 8 and 9....its pretty exciting and scary to think about recreating the whole store in a few days.... plus i have so much new and great , i hope , things for this years christmas season....this year we are doing country, foo foo, glitzy and lots of traditional.....

getting ready for the yardsale

we are getting ready for the big day

...next sunday....at 9

its kind of a party....

today i packed up lots and lots

including;; graniteware, advertizing, primitives of all kinds, bottles, jewelry,all kinds of christmas stuff...tools, fans

lots of dishes,, and pottery

several big boxes of antique linens for the 50c row, plus lots of christmas florasl and spring florals for the half price part....

i think this year will be a good one, with lots and lots of stuff....

we have a little building packed full, we will be getting it out all this week...

if anyone is into altered art or rehabbing i think they will like our selections....we have so many parts and pieces....

and this is our cheapest day of the year..

.plus all the rough room furniture will be out in the sun!!

there is a nice big field just south of us....you can park there easy....and in the field behind the building....we will have plenty of help...

looking at these pictures from last year is actually kind of scary,..we kind of move a big portion of the store around..... but we always seem to get it mostly done.....we do have a lot of help....

...im hoping for that wonderful customer who bought 300$ worth of 50c items one year....she is our yardsale star!!!

the yardsale part is in jons yard...

yardsale mode

we are in yardsale mode now..about 10 days away...

...last night dh and i stamped about 1000 postcards....3000 to go....

at the store we are pulling stuff off the shelves this week and pricing for the sale...then it will go in the big truck and wait for the big day....aug 3.....

i kind of know whats going to be in the half price part....

heres my to do list.

...get all the ads figured out and inserted

....find and schedule the workers....

..get everything priced!!!!!! so hard

...make the aisles as big as possible

...fluff up everything as well as possible

....go thru the christmas for the half price part

..lots more....

the rough room will be all outside...there is such neat stuff in there and its kind of a big dark pile and hard to see....but on yardsale day its out there in the sun....or rain!!!

also the whole half price room will be out there in jons yard....lots at .50!!!!

we hope everybody tries hard to come...the yardsale part is a one day deal!!! the store sale goes on for about a week...

and in the middle of it all wade in a tux with lots of goodies for you....

GETTING READY FOR THE YARDSALE

we are working hard on the yardsale now....its SUNDAY aug 3.....we should be getting the postcards this week..then we design them ....then steve prints them ...and we work at few nights stamping them, all 4000.......

all year we have saved the misc and modern and dregs in a different place for the yardsale...we have a seperate building just full and waiting for the big day...lots of christmas too....

the parts of the sale are...STOREWIDE SALE

..BIG HALF PRICE AREA

. ...jons YARD FULL at 4$ 2$ and .50 so much so cheap...

also we take the whole rough room outside into the sun ...you can see everything!!!

for us its our yearly clearance .....our 30th anniversary sale....

the first one was just a whim ....and it went over pretty well....now it is pretty huge with lots of super bargains...

it starts at 9....and its rain or shine...

my to do list this week...

.pick words for mailer

start scheduling

think about what gets in the half price part...

dig out all the discontinued christmas...

get everything out and fluffed up for the big weekend....

basically anything weve had for a year might be cheap or realllll cheap....

HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT....

garden party

did you get this in the mail? its our postcard for the annual garden party...
hope you are coming.....we will have a free plant for you, as long as they last anyway..... this year we got lots of nice plants from an amish greenhouse....as in my question, can you deliver,, now mam we only have horse and buggy, his answer....
but they sure are pretty plants and reasonable too....