It Was A Good Day For Junking!!

We made a trip to Lincoln, Nebraska to go to the Girls State Basketball Tournament in the beginning of March so we had to check out some junking places, Tiede's was one the places we revisited, it was well worth the trip!

This is the entry way as you enter the store, wowzer!~

It is one the most organized shops of junk I have possibily ever been in......

Everything is not only organized but it is also sorted by color, I loved it~

All the green glass, all in one place....

David and Jackson entertained themselves in the books, which happens to be half of the store, Beulah has a annual book sale every April.....

Set of dishes all in one place......

Beulah and I going through things for pricing....

Loved this old hanging scale, probably from an old grocery store.....

A shot of some of my purchases, the new mannaquin has beed named Wanda, after a fellow junking friend.

Meet Carl and Beulah, they own Tiede's Secondhand and Antiques. They are only open on Saturdays, they collect all week long and open for business every Saturday.

The final job, loading all the treasures, it was well worth the trip, we will definitely go back to shop again!

Cammie(:

A Feast For the Eyes..... Bachman's.....Vintage.....Fab!!

I'm Back!!! I know I have been bad about posting to my blog lately but believe me I have a good excuse. I was sworn to secrecy previously to this but am able to break the silence now.... soooooo.... where have I been hiding....? BACHMAN'S!!!! I too, as has Margo, have been working for Bachman's, helping them find goods for the new look for their retail stores in the Minneapolis area.

Check out this great old turq cupboard, saved from an old back porch, can you believe someone didn't want this?

Here is another find, an old iron bed, again saved from a sure fate of being lost forever. It's last home was an old abandoned school house that hadn't had school in for 50 years. Now it will go to some one's home to become alive again!

Old silverware made into hooks for your home, these were once a prized possession of some one's, maybe a wedding gift, now you can have a little piece of history as part of your home...

Farmsytle, this is a fantastic section of the store, it's really a must see.

City is another great look, the theatre seats came out an old local theatre 50 years ago, went into storage until the call was received that they would like to get rid of them. Of course, myself and a friend of mine were more than happy to take them off of their hands.

The mix of old with the new is virtually flawless, Larry, Ki and the team did a fantastic job of setting the store up.

The Euro look is one of my favorites, although it really is hard to say one is better than another, it has some great architectural pieces, some great repurposed items, and a fresh new look that I adore.

Soooo, go on now, get your booty moving and get on out to Bachman's at Lyndale, Eden Prairie and soon to be Plymouth stores and check out the great new vintage look they are selling, I know you will find something you can't live without! You can also go over to Margo's blog to get more on the skinny about Bachman's.

If you can't get there or live to far away, maybe your should plan a trip to the cities and check it out, for all you fellow Nebraskans, the Nebraska UNL girls basketball team will be playing in Minneapolis Sunday at 6:00p.m. Maybe take in both?

Keep posted to the blog, I will be sharing some of the junking trips I arranged for Larry and Ki to shop the tri-state area, as well as some of my recent junking trips and finds, see ya soon.

Cammie(:

It Has Arrived Early!!! No More Waiting!!

The word is out that the new Fleamarket Style magazine has been arriving at retailers door steps early! What a great surprise, we can all start getting our junking fix earlier than we had anticipated, so here it is the cover of the new magazine! TaDa!!!!!

I can't wait to start thumbing through the pages, getting my inspiration from Ki's new projects, great photography from Matthew, and stories about the junking world. I'll talk to you all later, right now i need to go and start absorbing the magazine! Happy reading!

Cammie(:!!

I'm Still Out Here... Just A Little Under The Weather..Literally!!

Just letting you know I am still out here, just a little under the weather, meaning under snow, ice, rain, and all the things that are related to it. We have had a challenging winter season so far, with power outages, no Internet service, no phone service and even our cell phones didn't work sometimes, 5 -6 days at a time being snowed in, digging out our driveway for 3 days just to get to the road. WOW!! I'm ready for spring!

I assure you I will be getting back on track, just playing catch up right now, but have some great things planned that will be coming down the pipes soon, so keep checking back.

See ya SOON!

Cammie(:

Is It Frosty The Snowman? or Is It Jack Frost?

As most of you know I live in Nebraska where we just happened to receive from the heavens above not inches but feet(s) of snow. So what better thing to do than get creative with the tons and tons of white stuff.....

Frosty or Jack, whatever you want to call him, was built during the snow storm of 2009 by one of my son's classmates and his sibling during one of the days when we were ALL snowed in. This is the biggest snowman I have ever seen, he is all of 10 feet tall!!

Here's Jack, the other Jack, my son playing in the brush pile that is full of snow and tunnels....

Jack Frost had everything looking frosty and icy....

Miles is standing by the edge of Highway 57, which is just 2 1/2 miles from our house, check out the size of this snow drift....

Jack went to the top, or more like semi-crawled to the top.....

Miles decided to join him......

Here they are, both at the top. The sheer size of the drifts are almost unbelievable??

This the highway looking back at the tunnel we just drove through.....

This went on for over a mile, the snow is taller than my Expedition for over a mile long on a highway, we even drove on the shoulder part of the way because the entire highway is completely covered and 8 foot deep for 25 feet to the left or the right!!!

Mother nature did make some beautiful designs in the trees....

This was our first pass through the tunnel following the snow plow......

Another shot of the height of the drifts....

Our neighbor's shed roof collapsed from the weight of the snow onto his machinery that was being store in the shed.

This is the make-shift road our neighbors plowed threw their front yard, threw the fence and out into the field so they could get over to the farm place to feed the cattle....

The trees that run south of the house....

This is where the road use to be, over there underneath all that snow and on the other side of the fence, which all you can see now is the top of the posts.....

This is the most snow I can ever remember seeing in my lifetime, it's almost unbelievable, even as you stand right in front of it, looking at it. All I can say is WOW, and we have global warming? I'm thinking Ice Age.....

Stay Warm .... Cammie(:

Kathol Repair and Welding - 106 Years In Business!!

I would like to introduce you to my welder, he runs a welding and repair business in Bow Valley, Nebraska which has been in his family for 106 years, which is when his great-grandfather started this welding shop. This is a true blacksmith shop in it's original state as you would have seen it 106 years ago. When his great grandfather started the business the biggest business in the shop was making and repairing wagon wheels. If you should happen to want a wagon wheel repaired yet, Chris is your man, he learned how to repair a wagon wheel from his grandfather and his great-grandfather.

This is the second building that was built to house Kathol Repair, the first one sat just west of this one which would put it in the middle of the street in today's city layout. This building is still over 100 years old.

Meet Chris, he is the main man in this welding shop and the only man. He can repair a manure spreader, a tractor loader, build a junk lamp or a chalkboard stand, or even make a pulley stand. He is a real artist when it comes to steel. His workmanship is superior!!!

During our visit Chris had the double forge lit for us so we could see how it works. It was amazing!

He put a steel rod in the fire and let it get hot so he could show us how you actually work hot steel into something else....

Here he is using the anvil that has been in this building since it was built by his great grandfather.

This vice is the only thing that has been added new in 106 years that blacksmith shop has been there.

This is another tool original to the blacksmith shop, it is used to hand hammer hot metal into round shapes....

If this anvil could talk, just think of the stories it could tell. Just imagine the changes that this one single item has seen in 106 years~!

Here are some more of the original tools used by Chris's ancestors....

The drawers with all the little parts and pieces that have been opened and shut by many generations of blacksmiths.....

Chris getting the steel hot so he can show us how to make a shovel head the old fashion way.

This machine is run by a belt that runs throughout the shop on a line shaft and runs several different machines, this machine is called a trip hammer, it is what you used to hammer a piece of steel flat to make a shovel head.

This is the gate hardware that was hand forged by Chris's great grandfather over 100 years ago.
He moved it and made it permanent so that it can be shared with anyone who visits the blacksmith shop.

Chris with the gate that was built 3 generations ago.

Larry, Chris and Ki, who also happened to be on the tour that day.

The shop is located in Bow Valley, Nebraska which is in the upper north east corner of Nebraska, stop by sometime and check out the blacksmith shop, it is quite interesting if you interested in history and seeing how things use to get done, besides that Chris is very proud of his heritage and loves sharing the story with others.

Cammie(: