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(:

Judy's Barn Sale This Weekend......................July 1 -4...!!!!!!

Judy is having her big barn sale this weekend near Milford, Nebraska. We took a few things down for the sale, stop by this weekend and check it out if you are in the area!
Take a number!

Meet Joann, she has been doing the sale for several years!

Old lawn chair seat, now a magnetic board for above a desk!

Ski table, great for a lake house, cabin or cottage!

Suitcase coffee table....

Chalkboard chair, another thing for above a desk or a kitchen wall!

So get your wheels turning and head on out to Judy's, she hanging around for all you Independence Day shoppers!

She is located south of Seward, Nebraska, just go to the Interstate 80 and Highway 15 intersection and go 8 miles straight south and that's where you will find this happy group of people working hard to bring you this fun sale!

Happy 4th of July!!

Cammie(:

Gathering of Friends

I know the "Gathering of Friends" was in April but i am a little behind in posting but for those of you who were not able to attend I thought you would enjoy the great stuff they had to offer....

I loved this little chair, just as i took this photo it disappeared before my camera..... SOLD!

A new use for springs......

Great colors everywhere.....

Great textures.......

More great colors.....

Signs.......

Architecture........

Love this whole stack of suitcases.......

And this is Dan, he works for Bachman's, he found a few things he couldn't go home without, that jacket fit him like a glove!

Frames.....

Clocks......

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE.....

An finally, some of my friends, Jane, who heads this whole "Gathering of Friends", they are all lucky to have her, then Pam, Sarah, and myself. There is some high energy when this group is together! Soo... next time you see something about the "Gathering of Friends" get on over and check it out, well worth the trip, and we came all the way from Nebraska!

Cammie(:

It's City Wide Cleanup ....... Yeah for Me!!!!

Maddy and I went to Ponca for my grandson's spring concert, afterwards we went to find somewhere to get a bite to eat, out of the corner of my eye I spotted this......

They were the old smaller shopping carts and some of them had the child nester seats attached to them!!

Soooooo.... in my nice clothes I started pulling them out of the pile, I was informed that the dump truck was coming at 8 a.m. so I called the hubby and told him to bring the truck, we saved them from the sure fate of being lost forever in a scrap iron pile. Now for the cleaning, but well worth the effort!

Cammie(:

A New Life For Sam's Bed......

This is my friend Sam, I met her at a flea market near Fremont a few years back. I was drawn to her booth by the cool things she was selling, we got to talking and she said her house had recently burned down, she had lost all the things that were special to her, all her prized possessions. She was just trying to get back in the swing of things and do some flea markets and start over again after her huge loss. Several years went by, I would visit her booth at Finders Keepers to buy from it occasionally. Last August she contacted, said she was kind of getting out of the business and had some things she wanted to get rid of, I went down to her house to see what she had.

This was the partial trailer full we bought from her, we were not done loading yet in this photo. Remember the cool pinball machine I had at the Bonanza last year? I got that from Sam. One of the other things we bought was this old iron bed. As you can see from the photo above, it had been through the fire and was all black. It was hard for her to part with but she said she would let met have it, it was time to move on and let go of it.

We took it and had it sandblasted so it looked like this.......

Then we took it to a place that does powder coating, it then took on it's second life!

This is it's new home now! It's at the Bachman's Spring Ideas House in Minneapolis, now it's a staple in the little girls ballerina room. This ones for you Sam, one of your prized possessions is now alive and living, heading to someone else's home for it's new life, it's second life.

Cammie(: