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(:

The Good Old Red, White, and Blue....

We took off and headed to South Dakota over Memorial Day weekend, here are a few flags we saw....



Chamberlain, South Dakota...

Now that is what I call a very patriotic dog!

Just some tourists, but had to get a photo of their shirts...

It's nice to see the patriotism in the country!

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(:

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(:

ROYAL Find- Literally !!!!!

I was so excited when I saw these yesterday!! They made my heart skip a beat when I spotted them sitting there!!

My friend Lucky Larry called me this weekend to tell me he had found some letters for me. We headed over to check it out last night...

These are letters from an old theatre called the "ROYAL"

They even have the old light bulbs in them... STILL....

I think they are fabulous......

What is fabulous find have you ran across lately? For now I will just sit and enjoy the eye candy, well, just for a short time, gotta keep focused on the hunt! Junk Bonanza is only 5 1/2 months away, it will be here before we know it! Make your plans early!!

Cammie(: