Music Valley Antique Show

Hello there!  Happy Monday!  I have loads of things lined up to show you if I could just get something completed... I am thinking this is the week (that I make a Robin Hood fox costume.)  Anyhow, I am about to make some plans for you local folks...this weekend there is the Music Valley & Tailgate Antiques Show.  These shows always have absolutely swoon worthy antiques.   I am partial to old signs and the Spring show did not disappoint.  In the Spring, there were also plenty of vendors with great industrial wares (I am also partial to industrial looking baskets and storage.)

And, if you want to go to this show, I can get you free tickets... all you have to do is go to City Farmhouse and tell them Vintage Junky sent you and they will give you free passes... it pays to know me, huh?  *chuckles*

Okay, I will be back soon to show you some things that are finished.... well, they aren't right now but they will be very, very soon. Pinky promise.

bye for now!


oh, and for those of you that have had trouble commenting on mine and other Blogger blogs... I found a piece of info:  it seems that it is a Blogger/ Internet Explorer issue with the embedded forms.  So, I changed my comment form for the time being.  So, c'mon, talk to me *wink*

Fluffed And Spiffed

Hello all! hope you are all doing well... Today is bright and shiny and Thursday!  Sometimes I forget the day of the week....I woke up and sleepily wondered what today was and what I had to do.  Then I realized it is Thursday and while that  may mean nothing to you, but Thursdays is my favorite day.  Always has been and I suspect it always will be.  Yesterday, I went out to the booths for a few hours and fluffed and spiffed to freshen them up a bit.  Loads of new items went in and I hope to get some more burlap shades there this week.

Here are a few photos from Winchester:

Sprinkle some Sparkle:  German glass glitter in little salt and pepper shakers

I also went over to City Farmhouse to stock and fluff, but Mr. Hughes had been there the day before hanging some things for me, so he had it looking pretty good if I do say so myself!

Some of you who are local will probably see him at the booths more than me.  And you will call him Mr. Vintage Junky.  He now answers to that and is okay with that moniker *wink*  He is my muscles and luckily, he has a good eye as well.

Well, I am off to paint if the hyena will stay asleep just a little longer.  If not, it is time to start our day.  Which includes a covert Operation Vintage.  Keep your fingers crossed that an awesome bookcase I passed up months ago is still at the place where it was.  I would tell you, but then I would have to erase your mind.  baby hughes needs more storage.  And, he also wants a truck.  A green one.  Happy Thursday everyone!

bye for now!

Booths as of Late

Hello all!!!  Apparently, I have become a once a week blogger.  I have been pretty busy though (I almost just wrote busty... definitely not that!) Anyhow, last week, I left the hyena at home with Mr. Hughes and went to do a little fluffin'. Unfortunately, I only brought my little point and shoot... and what does that matter... the Mr. is the good photographer around these parts.  What I am getting at is: the photos are a little dark and grainy, but you will get the idea.

My booth at Winchester is l o n g and not deep.  And while I love it, it isn't easy to get a photo of the entire space.  I normally just take the smaller stuff and leave the heavy lifting to the Mr.  So, if you ever see someone in my booth, moving in furniture, that isn't me.  I am not a 6 foot tall man with a beard.  

I will take a break right now to show you that while I love selling vintage goodness, I love to buy it even more.  And, this little number (hahhaha!) is actually a really long surveying stick that is mineallmine!  The Mr. was out at the booths one day and came home and told me about this stick.  Well, the store couldn't open fast enough the next morning for me to call and hold it until I could come and look to make sure it was what I thought it was.  And it was!!  I haven't hung it up yet, but this was one of those things that I couldn't pass up...  I always end up kicking myself when I don't buy something when I love it.  Even if I don't have a real plan for it.  Which is why, before long, we will be on Hoarders.  

And now, my space at City Farmhouse.  I restocked the piano roll runners, which you can see on the buffet.  That was a Mr. Hughes design.  He is pretty wonderful... that frame with the rope is also his design.  Okay, I will be back soon...pinky promise.... maybe tomorrow... with some new designs for etsy and one is for the holidays...gasp!!

bye for now!

City Farmhouse Booth

Hello all!

I am back after a bit of an unscheduled break.  I know, I know, I teased some of you with this post and didn't deliver as soon as I expected.  But you see... I have been a bit busy.  Well, me and the Mr. have both been busy.

We opened a new booth at City Farmhouse in Franklin...actually right next door to my booth at Winchester... and also where he purchased my clock.  There was a great spot available and we just decided to go for it.  And, since it is a bigger, more square space, I needed to get several pieces ready. 

So, since we didn't have a babysitter or a way to keep baby hughes entertained for several hours there, I armed him with a very rough drawing (yes, I went to design school and I know how to draw in perspective, but I choose not too!!) and a whole trailer full of new vintage stuff!

Mr Hughes took some quick photos so I could see how it turned out... I am planning on going there this weekend and making just a few tweaks, but for the most part, he executed my vision!

I am not really big on themes, but I sort wanted to incorporate 2 that flowed into each other.

When he came home with the organ, I knew that we would do some music type things with sheet music and organ pulls.  He stripped the organ and turned it into a desk!  And then he mounted the keys for a really cool vintage wall accent.  We also used some vintage music teaching aids as posters on the walls.

This buffet is just screaming to be in a farmhouse kitchen.... and it has a antique player piano roll that we turned into runners.

I also wanted sort of a vintage travel thing going on... you know, old maps, suitcases, postcards... that sort of thing.  So I decided to have him cover one whole wall with vintage maps.

I recovered this Louis XVI in a pale blue linen with a light, light grey paint on the wood.

This is a really cool display piece that Mr. Hughes designed.... I filled all the boxes with moss and then filled them up with restaurant ware and books and packets of great vintage papers.

This is another way that we used the pieces from the organ... I stole the knobs from this piece to put on the little blue piece... what to do??  Well, just use those organ knobs as pulls for the dresser (Betty, if you are wondering.)  I also put some vintage photos in some vintage bottles.

I love the font on them... so pretty!

He also created this frame with a woven rope and metal clip system to showcase some great heraldry prints.

All in all, I think he did an amazing job in mid day Tennessee heat putting this together.  Now, I wouldn't be me if I said that there weren't just a few things that I am wanting to tweak to make it just like my vision.  And some photos that I want to take to show you more of the details of some of the displays that we put together.  

One thing that I wanted to point out that we didn't get an actual booth photo of is this bench that Mr. Hughes Frakensteined together... I think it is incredible! 

We took a Frenchy bench frame and instead of upholstering it, Mr. Hughes created a sanded barn wood seat.

(by the way... isn't our "grass" lovely?!?)

I think it is a great look (the bench, not the grass!)

It is makes the bench a little less sweet with the barn wood.  It would make an awesome coffee table too... don't think that I haven't thought about keeping it!

And, this sweet little piece...

When I found it, it had lived a former life royal blue. It was pepto pink.  Now, this little smoke stand is grey with a fresh little cross on the door.  Perfect in a tiny half bath for an extra roll of toilet paper.  And that little indention on top that used to hold an ashtray... well, that seems to be perfect to nest a bowl full of pretty soaps.

I will take more photos this weekend when I am there... like I said, the Mr. just quickly took some at the end of the day so I could see for myself.  So you will have to put up with more booth stuff soon 

*wink*

On another note, Vintage Junky is on Facebook now, so if you want to pop by there and like me and stroke my ego a bit, I won't stop you!  Ha!

There, I will post photos of each piece of furniture and which booth they are in.

Okay, that is all folks... my little sick hyena is about to wake up from his nap and he especially wants his  momma.  I will be back soon... Pinky Promise!

bye for now!!