Treasures Around Every Building and Field!!

Again, we are out rescuing junk from a fate that none of us want to think about, the scrap iron pile, or a burn pile. Check out the pile of great drawer fronts with little cast iron pulls on them. Does anyone have any great ideas for these jewels?

This is the house that is on this property. After visiting with the owner of this old beauty, he informed me that the house use to be an old drug store in a nearby town in the beginning of its life, it was then moved to this farm where it has been every since. But as all old things, it is slated to be burned down, so we are trying to salvage anything we can find before its fateful day.

Interesting huh? These are the steps to the basement of the house, it's a wide staircase for fast exits in case of unexpected residents.....

The inside has boxes of stuff and all kinds of things to discover.....

So, as we find things I will post photos of them so you can share my rescue experience with me. Have you rescued anything lately that was meeting an uncertain fate? Stay posted for pics of our finds!

Cammie(:

Great Shops, Great Friends, and Great Junk.....

Last month we made a trip into the cities and it happened to be the sale weekend of all the coolest shops in Carver, MN.... Meet Sarah on the left and Jane on on the right. Sarah owns Seasons in Carver and Jane owns Mustard Moon.

This is a shop called The Garage , loved all of his stuff!

Adorable little table and chairs!

Teachers aids.... way cool!

One of Jane's creations over at Mustard Moon......

Ms. Mac's Too... she just opened their second location, very festive for the season!

If you make it to Carver it is well work the trip, there are at least 5 shops we visited, so check it out when you make your way north, well that is, north from where I am...

Cammie(:

Whistle Stop's Shopkeeper and Artisian Show

This Saturday was the Whistle Stop's outdoor market, so at the last minute we decided to go for it. So Friday afternoon we packed the trailer and took off at 5 a.m. on Saturday, I got up at 3 a.m., that is even too early for me!


Maddy with a smile even after getting up at 4 a.m., she is a trooper, my hubby and son helped too, I couldn't have done it without them.

Stopped and got some fresh flowers before we arrived to spruce up the place....

Wheels, you know I love those....

Meet Linda and Sara, they are just starting a new business called the Junque Factory, which will be in an old chicken coop on 192nd and Dodge in Omaha. Their sale will be June 17, 18, and 19. Looks like she has some super ideas so we are putting it on our calender to attend.

More flowers and oil carriers with fruit jars in them.....

Love the old books, such great covers and colors....

A few Rodeo pop bottles......

Check out our new creation, its a old coke cooler gone island/party pop cooler. It was quite a hit, lots of lookers but we still have it, which is ok cause I think the husband is kinda liking this one.

A little red, white and blue.....

A great work bench that did sell and is going to a home where it will be loved and used everyday!

Mr. Whistle Stop... he was making California tacos, roasted corn on the cob, and beans for everyone and boy were they good!!! He happens to be quite a cook!

One of the vendors was from Junktion 42, these two ladies had 3 spaces and all I seen them do was carry furniture out of their booth all day long. This is another very creative pair!

I'm very glad I met these two, I know we will be crossing paths again.... soon....Overall, we had a fabulous day, good food, good friends, new friends, great customers and of course the best hostess you could ever ask for, Laurie, Whistle Stop's one and only. Thanks for asking us to come down Laurie, we had a great time!

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(:

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(:

Saving The Past... Again... Look What We Found!!

It's an age old story these days.... this place is about to see it's last days on this earth.... it is scheduled to be bull dozed in.... so my son called another junking emergency today. My husband and I made our way over to the place to see what could be salvaged....

This is the original house to the farmstead, there is another newer two story square house on this acreage also, it too will be getting torn down. The house in the background is a two room house, no bathroom or running water.....

The lone birdbath in the yard, which will be coming home with me......

Here I am peeking into the door of the old house....

Here is what I saw... lots of stuff everywhere....

some cool old table legs....

There was a little loft so I volunteered my husbands services to see what was up there, no varmints, just some old fruit crates....

This is the back of the house, it is in a little bit of disrepair but we did find some treasures there...

Next building, a cute shaped old chicken coop. You always find some great things in these....

Galvanized chicken nester, check out the tiny little wooden chicken feeder, wouldn't that be cute with some flowers growing in it....

Chicken waterer lids, gotta have those!

Nice old oval washtub, which I found in the little wash house shed.....

We decided to take a walk in the grove, looked like there were a few things scattered over the years throughout the trees, and we were right! Look at these nice old cream cans. They are shorter and fatter, cute size......

Windmill blades, always LOVE, LOVE those!!

Next was the the old grease house shed, I sent the husband in here first too. Found some things we wanted .....

And some we didn't.... we left this one alone.....

Probably sat on that shelf for 60 years, earlier we found a calender hanging in the old house, it was dated 1957......

We found Harry Baker's wood tote, made many moons ago, saved and will end up in someones house as a cool little wood tote......

The old wells were covered with these old cast iron lids, love those, but darn are they heavy!

A water pump..........by the well.....

This one brought tears to my eyes, this was the cupola off the old barn, he was a little bit damaged beyond saving......

Found this in the grove on the ground......

Next building..... the BIG old red chicken house!!

Peek! Another nice old galvanized chicken nester and.......

a calf bucket, love these, they have a hook so you can hang them on a fence, gotta get that.....

A Warner chicken nester.... in the same building~

Now this was a little harder to get to but when I spotted the super duper coolest crinkely wire, I had to have it.....

This is an old chicken cage but as you can see it has a BIG old tree laying on the top of it... not to worry......

When you have connections with a handy little skid loader to move that tree for you......

and wala, it's been removed from my project!!!! We did have to spend another hour disassembling it to get to the cool wire panels, but we got them!

A bunch of old oil cans, look at the great old graphics.......

Now here are few photos of our load, one of the loads......

Another view, check out those cool old wire screens and the seed sorting screens......

A double wash tub and several wagons, trikes and bikes, all good for something, wheels, metal seats, and more....

Here is the BIG load, all going to the scrap iron.

We went to the mini mart when we got loaded for something to eat, time had went by so fast that it was already 3 p.m., which also happens to be coffee time for the area men, as we were listening to them gossip one of the guys asked his friend, "Hey, Jerry is that your truck full of garbage.", he said no my truck is around the corner, that isn't my garbage." The hubby and I just looked at each other and started to laugh. What are they talking about, this is some of the greatest junk ever, oh well, better they don't know how good of junk it really is, more for me!~~~

Cammie(: