Throw Your Hat in the Ring!!!

This is our 6th year at the Junk Bonanza, we are looking so forward to seeing all of you again. We have been searching high and low for all the great junk so we can fill the trailer, or should I say trailers, with our great finds to bring to the cities so we can share them with you!!

So to celebrate the occasion we are having a giveaway!

You will get a pile of great stuff:

* 2 VIP tickets, which allow for admission all three days of the event, including the Early Bird on opening day, two hours before the show opens to the general public.

* A Junk Bonanza tote

* A Junk hat from the Junk Revolution store

* A copy of the latest Flea Market Style magazine, rolling off the press around the end of August!

All you need to do is answer this question......

What is it that you love most about junking?


Just comment on this post by Thursday August 26 at 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Be sure to leave your contact information so we can contact you if you are the lucky winner!

Learn more about the indoor, rain-or-shine Bonanza at www.junkbonanza.com, or on the blog at junkbonanza.blogspot.com, where profiles of individual vendors are running almost daily.
The annual Junk Bonanza brings together more than 130 juried vendors of select vintage treasures, junk and antiques! This year's event, Sept. 15-17, returns to Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn.

Good Luck!!

Cammie(:

Oronoco 2011...... Good Friends, Good Junk, and Good Times

The fall issue of the Flea Market Style magazine made it to Oronoco's Gold Rush Days just in time for the festivities! So did the editor of the magazine, Ki Nassauer, who had a flight canceled and was on stand by, but finally got on a flight to meet up with the crew from Junk Bonanza!

And boy was the junk good.....

Pam, myself, Ki, and Emily.......

Our Junk Hunk working the crowd.....

Pam, our of so wonderful card passer outer, Junk Bonanza promoter extraordinaire.....

Ki signing magazines, by the way we brought 200 magazines, and we ran out, Whew!!!

Mike dressed in part of his attire for the occasion, he's from Trash to Treasures...... You may recognize him from the spring issue of Flea Market Style.....

More good junk.....

Pam doing a fabulous job.....

Pam , and of course Dawn, another one of our great vendors from Store House who helped provide merchandise for the Junk Bonanza booth......

And of course Eddie, she is the jack of all trades and always comes to help us, we couldn't do it without her....... Thanks Eddie!!!

Here is the setup crew, Kim, myself, Jane, Dawn, Eddie, Pam, and Sarah. Thank to all of you for making it a complete success, it's a great group that works together and we get the job done.

So there you have it, fun was had by all, junk was found by all, now off to get ready for the Junk Bonanza, which is just three weeks away for us. Start packing and planning, we are all looking forward to seeing all of you!! See ya there!!

Cammie(:

Junk Bonanza - The End of a Great Story....

My neighbor, who was new to the Bonanza this year, and by the way had a fantastic time, gave me a good neighbor gift. Madison and I are both showing off the gift, I have on the earrings and bracelet and Madison has on the necklace, all a matching set. Dawn is from Blue Earth, Minnesota.

This was probably one of my favorites when it came to hats, you should have seen the outfit he had on the next few days!

Bobbi Boyd was another one of my neighbor's, he had some great vintage tin peace signs....

Jackson modeling the cowboy hat, getting into the whole spirit of the Bonanza.....

A few more friends, from left to right, Angela, myself, Val, Jane and Margo.

Jane's space was amazing, her displays were mouth watering......

Love how she used these old cafe stool bottoms, she is so clever!

My dear friend Ki......

More of Jane's space at Mustard Moon....

Pulley stands, great for displaying your collection of pulleys....

The Corral, it was brimming with some great western decor....

That wraps up the Junk Bonanza for 2009, it was a great time, fun was had by all. I'm already out buying things for next year, looking forward to seeing all of you again, until then happy junking.

I'd like to thank all of my customers, my Junk Bonanza posse, the great neighbors I had, and the staff of the Junk Bonanza for making the event a big success. I know how much work goes into the planning of this event and just want to let you know how much I appreciate it. See ya next year!

Cammie(:

Junk Bonanza - Part 2

This is the first thing you seen at Sara's booth, she is co-owner of Seasons In Carver, which is located in Carver, Minnesota. She and three other shops have occasional sales once a month.

You never know what you will find in her booth, this is a combination of a mannequin, a feed sack, and a punching bag ring, which was the skirt for this creative "Bemis Dress Form". She used it to display her jewelry on......

I love the way she used this truck muffler cover to display the pool balls in.......

Tons, and tons of letters, the dish these were in was HUGE........

A couple of cool old frames and a porch pillar......

One of my favorites, I love old advertising, this could be used to display jewelry......

Here is some of the crew, my sister Judy, Sara of Seasons in Carver, myself and Laurie from the Whistle Stop who traveled all the way from Omaha to show her wares for the Bonanza.

Be sure and check out Sara's occasional sales, I heard she has a really cool display with an old truck door in her shop right now!

Cammie(:

Watch Out It's A Stampead!!!!

Look what I found yesterday! Some great horses for the Bonanza just sitting there awaiting my keen senses to find them amongst the clutter of a fellow junker friend of mine....

The story is that he used to have 47 of them, he had bought from an older gentleman who had collected them his whole life, he was down sizing, and sold his collection to my friend. Now, seven lucky people get to share this elderly gentleman's love of the horse clock by taking one home with them from the Bonanza.

Stop by the Junk Corral if you'd like to check them out!

Cammie(:

Gold Rush Days or Bust!!!!

This past weekend I was invited to go to Oronoco, Minnesota to join Ki and some of the Junk Bonanza posse to help promote the Junk Bonanza and sell some really good junk! So Madison (my daughter) and I loaded up and headed to Oronoco for the big flea market. Boy did we have fun!

This is the trailer, it had to be a small load because I was sharing with the posse, didn't want to end up in junk jail for an overload, so I had to be conservative.....

The truck loaded and ready to hit the trail to one of the biggest flea markets in the midwest....

License plate letters were a hit!!

Meet Jane and Sara, they met me there, we worked our tails off getting the booth set up, of course, it was raining about the time we started setting up, but being devoted junkers the show must go on....

Junk.... my favorite word....

Sara and Madison smiling and greeting the customers. The temperature was almost 100 degrees on Friday, we felt like boiled lobsters when we got done that day, but the crowd was great, people were buying and we were passing the word about the Junk Bonanza as fast as we could hand out the cards....

Check out these very cool bingo cards, each one has a different advertisers name on it, all from Sioux City, Iowa........

Believe it or not, after I traveled 350 miles I seen two people I knew from Nebraska, so I went over to shop at their space and found some things, this wire fencing being one of them. Do you like?

I love these old vinyl chairs with no arms, and the color of this one was fabulous, which meant it had to go home with ME.......

Old street signs with some really cool names on them, you will have to stop over to my booth at the Bonanza if you'd like to see the others......

Barbels, barbels, and more barbels!!!!! I love these to use a s paper weights. 1 pound, 3 pound and 5 pound, for those really big piles, like the ones in my office right now....

Locker baskets.......

An old metal and galvanized cream separator, makes a great place to put ice and pop!

Love the label on this old ice cream freezer, I think you could still use this to make ice cream, the instructions are still inside.

Can you see a little child riding around in this? How adorable, but I think some pumpkins and fall gourds would look pretty cool in here too.

Ice Pal, I'm told this was used when you went ice fishing, it has runners so you could pull it behind you on the ice. What could this be used for?

Antlers.....

Handles.... maybe for towel holders?

Pulleys.... love the one with the star on it......

It was great fun, I met some new people, and made some new friends. Thanks Ki for inviting me, it was fabulous. Sign me up for next year!

All the things in the photos will be going to the Junk Bonanza in September, so don't forget to stop by and check it out. 30 days and counting...... start packing NOW.

Cammie(: