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Cruising & Junking on a Saturday Afternoon...

September 8th, 2008 in member junk     
shabbychick Kathy Stantz, contributor
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The three junk-a-teers - Belinda and I caught Italianpeasant between customers!
Heres a pic of Quail Crest Farm - beautiful country setting for an autumn fair!
What a great old swing - darn, it wasnt for sale...
We had the van sooo full - this scale was re-purposed to be an armrest!! :)  (My friend, Terri, is modeling its very practical use!)
Rear view of our great finds - we couldnt fit another thing in my truck (I mean van...)!
The three junk-a-teers - Belinda and I caught Italianpeasant between customers!

The "three junk-a-teers" - Belinda and I caught Italianpeasant between customers!
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Our day at Quail Crest Farm was awesome.  (and, we even caught a garage sale on the way...bought a great old double metal laundry sink -barely visible from the rear shot of my van - it is filled and surrounded by mums...)  My three girlfriends (Terri, Carol & Robin) and I strolled the grounds "oooohing and ahhhhhhing" over all the vendors' wares - italianpeasant's wonderful whitewashed furniture and "stuff", polymer jewelry, antiques, lots of "junk" art - (chandeliers made out of white wire garden fence - pics to come), dried flowers, gardens & greenhouse, etc., etc., etc...

Meeting my two new junkin' buddies was the icing on the cake!  We're making plans for a little "junket" in October.

After Quail Crest we went into Wooster and antiqued, stopped for an ice cream, and shopped at the Habitat for Humanity's "Restore" - shoved a few more items in my van, and then drove the countryside looking for an antique mall - which we found, and speed shopped for 45 minutes...!  It's not a perfect day until you can close a shop down! :)

Kathy

Lesson of the day - don't forget the GPS...(just had a "few" wrong turns...)

 

 

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shabbychick writes: Hanging out with the "girls" is definitely huge fun...and finding some good junk is always a part of the plan!! (And, we definitely laugh "alot" too!!)

That poor scale/armrest (LOL) had been antiqued with a faux wood finish...yikes...we're painting it a nice vintage teal and piling some dried hydrangeas on it - it'll probably sell right away! (fingers crossed anyway)

Will get pics of the chandelier, and my other "new" junk projects posted soon.

Kathy Posted: 11:56 am on September 9th
MimiToria writes: What great fun you had! I just spent 2 days with my best friend junking and we had a blast! I laughed more in those 2 days than I do all month together. You found some great stuff! My friend just bought a scale similar to the one you have up front in the van. All of Lynette's cool postings on here with her scales inspired my friend.
Looking forward to the metal garden fence chandelier post. My mil made one and used insulators as candle holders. Sue had some great ones early on in their junking years. It will be fun to see your version. Posted: 10:14 am on September 9th
LuAnn writes: Kathy:

Sounds like you had a great time. Aren't sales worth the getting lost for. I had 2 sets of those old laundry tubs. I sold one this summer at my sale. The other has a removable lid. I use it during the summer as a bar table and as storage in the winter. One year I did put large pots of flowers in each side and it looked great--for future reference.

LuAnn Posted: 6:41 pm on September 8th
shabbychick writes: Candy - It's kind of funny - when we bought it, I was thinking planter, and my friend was thinking of actually using it for what it was intended - a sink...for our workshop! So, a sink it will be - for now!! LOL Posted: 2:40 pm on September 8th
Junk_Sophisticate writes: What a beautiful place and it sounds like you ladies had a lot of fun! Are you keeping the mums in your laundry tub for display?

Keep on junkin'!

Candy Posted: 2:32 pm on September 8th
KimberlyMelamed writes: I wish my van(VW Toureg)looked like that! Way cool stuff! Thanks for sharing in the fun! Posted: 2:24 pm on September 8th
italianpeasant writes: SHABBY, so wonderful to meet my new "junkin' girls ohio" team :) the day turned out sunny & warm, i thought for a minute the hurricane was heading this way! it must have been you girls speeding over LOL. Posted: 2:15 pm on September 8th
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