tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72909061742141047712024-03-04T22:11:48.049-08:00Into VintageInto Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207115790435481356noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290906174214104771.post-8742701686760431192014-09-17T14:16:00.000-07:002014-09-17T14:26:55.273-07:00Can I get your autograph?<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I wrote a lame title for
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Vintage Junk Rocks! </i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ok, I’ve probably written worse but if you knew how much over-thinking I put into things, you’d
understand why I consider that kind of cringe-worthy and once/if you read this
post (unless that last sentence was enough to make you turn off your computer
or put down your phone or abandon your tablet and leave the area) you’ll
understand how lacking-in-subtlety (yet easy) that title would have been. For me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Did I mention the over-thinking?
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There’s been a series of
totally random yet very delightful emails showing up around The Land of Into
Vintage lately and here’s one example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I was wondering if
you would be interested in letting us use the attached photo on an album cover
for a small up and coming band called Surviving Allison. It will be used in
good taste, and we would give you full credit for the photo on the album.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You may recall <a href="http://sointovintage.blogspot.com/2013/01/because-its-my-week-end.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">a post from back in the olden days</span></a> when I took myself out for some birthday junking
and snapped these photos while in an antique mall in Astoria, OR (Hi there, Phog
Bounders Antique Mall).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then that random-yet-delightful
email arrived and before I responded, mad googling commenced in order to check
out the band, Surviving Allison. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I just
wanted to make sure they don't sacrifice unicorns or anything like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They don't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And so my response to
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.survivingallisonband.com/#!music/c192w" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Click here to go to Surviving Allison's website. </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or follow them on <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://instagram.com/p/s_KjCmB8Qr/?modal=true" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">Instagram here</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">P.S. a HUMONGOUS thank you to everyone who took the time to wish my dear Auntie a happy birthday on <a href="http://sointovintage.blogspot.com/2014/09/mile-marker-90.html" target="_blank">my previous post</a>. You are the best. xo </span></div>
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Into Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207115790435481356noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290906174214104771.post-50613613457389402132014-09-10T01:37:00.000-07:002014-09-10T01:37:56.237-07:00Mile marker 90.<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She is someone
who defines optimism as “…an 80+ year old woman who renews her passport.” (And
uses it!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">She knows what in the world airbnb* is and finds it pretty interesting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She takes </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">selfies</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">!</span></div>
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a resume that contains the following titles: Award-winning Author, Gourmet Chef,
Restaurant Review Writer, Business Owner, and Hotel Social Director. (There are more. This is just the highlight
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Former Social Director at the beautiful <a href="http://www.broadmoor.com/" target="_blank">Broadmoor Hotel</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She is
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her. (See previous reference to “Gourmet Chef” and “Restaurant Review Writer.” Sheer terror, I tell you.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">She reads my blog, refers to me as a writer and encourages and supports all of my endeavors.</span></div>
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bowls and refrigerator sets for eons but for those of us just waking up to the Pyrex experience (HelloMyNameIsAmy), I feel as though in the last year
or so, there has been a sudden EXPLOSION of Pyrex collecting, hoarding, sharing and selling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Century, I’ve started a Pyrex (and more) collection of my own, safely contained
on a <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/intovintage/vintage-pyrex-and-more/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Pinterest board</span></a> where it won’t take up space at home, be washed in a dishwasher
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pyrex poster is from etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/PoconoModern" target="_blank">Pocono Modern</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Live
and learn. SO much to learn. Now hoping to find a Pyrex for Beginners
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I get started here let me just say that this much I already know: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I am <a href="http://sointovintage.blogspot.com/search/label/vintage%20dishes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">a vintage dish junkie</span></a> and therefore have
NO BUSINESS whatsoever prowling around the dish aisle of a Goodwill thrift store
BUT once I’m in the store I feel it’s my moral obligation to check out every.
single. aisle. including the one with the lame used sporting goods (deflated
soccer ball or random golf clubs anyone?) and so there I was.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Doing my civic duty in the dish aisle. In the
name of junking. Which sounds an awful lot like junkie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For the
most part I kept my hands to myself but while eavesdropping on two people
discussing Pyrex (free continuing ed class over in housewares!) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I spied some pretty little plates and here
comes a(nother) confession:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have
become THAT PERSON. The one who whips out her phone in Goodwill to google the
item in her hand before making a potentially heinous mistake involving fours of
dollars by taking a pass on something that maybe she should have bought but didn’t.
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of the fours of dollars
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really don’t know how to explain that part of the equation. It’s not like they cost
forty dollars because then PROBLEM SOLVED.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The tipping point. </span></div>
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the dishes. The magical, pretty dishes that had many interesting things
happening. A nautical theme. Not one but two marks on the back (mad googling begins
here!) and those marks involved the words ENGLAND and FAMOUS ARTISTS. Surely those
are good signs. And the crazing. I love crazing. And they were pretty. And I’d
never seen them before. And they were pretty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Despite my frenzied
googling at the store and later again when my dishes and I got home, I still couldn’t
determine specifically who the “famous artists” were and somehow <i>not knowing</i> disturbs me. If <i>I </i>were
putting the works of “famous artists” on my merchandise (and adding a second
china mark specifically explaining that they were made by “famous artists”), I
would say in BIG HUGE LETTERS who the “famous artists” are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And now I feel as though
the internet is keeping secrets from me. Because everything about everything is
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weekend netted one of my dream scenario estate sales. All of my lax, random
criteria were met or exceeded: family run, out in the country, piles to pick
through, displayed nicely but not too nicely, very reasonably priced and there were OUTBUILDINGS
(2 of them!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was just one little flaw at this otherwise perfect sale and I’ll simply refer
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by the giant FREE pile on my way to the good stuff in Building #1, The Barnacle, who had stacked her purchases next to the free pile, greeted me by saying, “Don’t touch those! They’re mine!” even though the only
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
reached for a massive ring of keys that had been overlooked because it was hanging
between studs on a garage wall and *like magic* there at my elbow was The
Barnacle. She hovered behind me to see if I was buying the keys while her
husband yelled out from across the garage, “Hon! I can’t believe you missed
those keys your first time through here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sorry, Hon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I now had
an estate sale shadow following me and I didn't know why since The Barnacle appeared
to have been finished with her shopping when I arrived. Maybe it caused her anxiety to
see me swooping in and making piles of the things she rejected. Maybe she
thought I knew something about the junk that she didn’t. Maybe missing out on
that ring of keys caused her to question all of her life choices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We'll never know. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So many Wheaties cereal prizes - Frank Buck explorer's sun watches. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I do
know at this point there were only two shoppers in this 3-car garage, myself and
The Barnacle, and as I dug through a very small box, she suddenly appeared again, standingrightnexttome, and stuck her hands in the same small box where my
hands were already busy rummaging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
exactly was happening here?! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Much to my surprise, my outside voice, which would usually try for a more diplomatic approach at first,
just blurted out “Are you <i>stalking</i> me?” #personalspace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I was completely ignored. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At this
point I had to make some decisions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Should
I get into a Barnacle-Stalker girl fight in a (handsome) stranger’s garage at
an estate sale? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No. Because
that is a completely ridiculous idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But
if I did</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, would it affect my ability to buy the stuff I had left behind
with (handsome) Brother #3 in garage #1? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Probably.
And that would be NOT GOOD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Could
The Barnacle take me down pretty easily? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ABSOLUTELY.
Small rambunctious pets have knocked me over. I was no match for her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I stepped
away from the box and The Barnacle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why? Because there is so much junk in the
world, more than enough for everyone, that it’s just not worth being another
Barnacle at an estate sale. And I’m more than okay with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine
if you will…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s
summer – possibly June or July. The weather is warm if not downright hot. The gardens are planted, flowers are blooming,
tomatoes are ripening and there’s a song in your heart and a smile on your face
because you’re planning to attend an amazing vintage event over the weekend to
shop for something specific or perhaps for everything in general (my preferred
method).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With
that in mind, let me ask you this: How
would you feel if you turned a corner at this hypothetical summertime vintage
event and came across something like this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Or this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I brake for Shiny Brites. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Would
you stop and shop? In July?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Would
you need to put your head between your knees and count to 10 to avoid passing
out</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">?
(No, wait, that’s not you. That’s me).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m
curious to know if anyone else shops for vintage Christmas year round like I
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know if I came across a vendor in a
middle-of-the-summer vintage event (or even during a regular non-holiday-season visit to a vintage mall),
who was dedicated solely to vintage Christmas, regardless of what might be on
my shopping list, I would stop dead in my tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">More <strike>blurriness</strike> shiny-ness.</span></span></div>
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maybe that’s just me. Shopping year round for vintage Christmas is one of those
things that feels perfectly normal.*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so because I know how I feel about the
topic of vintage Christmas year round, I wonder how you might feel about it and
would greatly appreciate any <strike>enabling</strike> feedback you’d like to provide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PS I took the Christmas photos shown here in late 2013 when Magpie Ethel and I combined our vintage Christmas hoards at Monticello Antique Marketplace. She wrote a fun post about it and you can<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/10/holiday-mall-space-madness.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">CLICK HERE</span></a> </span>to read it. Lots of eye candy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After several
hours of driving and Skittles-eating, my traveling companion, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PluckyMaidens" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Pam</span></a>, and I arrived
at <a href="http://thefarmchicks.com/antiques-show/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">the Farm Chicks Antique Show</span></a> a few hours after the event opened on its first
day and I made a beeline to my favorite vendors, the Vintage Linen People.**<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I immediately gave them all my money (holds up hands and says “I have this many”) and then got to work
selecting the items which would ultimately return home with me to join their
friends who were eagerly awaiting them in my vintage linen hoard/stash
/collection/whatever-we’re-calling-it-these-days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was
recognized right away by one of the Vintage Linen People thanks to my repeat
performances on the exact same spot in 2011 and 2012. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Three years later they still
remember me because of <a href="http://sointovintage.blogspot.com/2011/06/fresh-from-farm-chicks.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">my previous summit attempts</span></a> on their vintage linen
mountain. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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completed, this transaction resulted in a drop-off trip to the car because it’s
physically impossible to navigate the aisles of Farm Chicks while carrying a
garbage bag stuffed with vintage tablecloths, barkcloth and doilies. Trust me
on this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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secretly suspect those shoppers pushing baby strollers through the Farm Chicks venue
don’t have human babies tucked away in there. I now believe their strollers were filled with toddler-shaped gobs of vintage tablecloths in an effort
to avoid multiple trips out to their cars. Smart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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self: Begin bookmarking folding baby
strollers on eBay.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Occasionally
I would cross paths with <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">my friend Ethel</span></a> and her rock star, vintage-toting mom,
signaling acknowledgement with just a friendly wave and a nod because Ethel was in her ZONE,
a ZONE which prefers to skip over non-essential chitchat while there is still vintage
goodness to be discovered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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second day of Farm Chicks was very similar to the first day for me. I spent
some time with the Vintage Linen People (they had replenished AND FOLDED (!) their
inventory) and then I moved on to some general junk browsing since the crowds
were lighter this morning (that changes quickly as the morning goes on). </span></div>
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drive home included one small unscheduled detour because someone was talking
while her smartphone GPS was waving its arms in the air, pointing and shouting
to let us know </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">TAKE THIS EXIT. NOW.</span></div>
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Linen People, if you have a formal business name, I apologize for not knowing
what it is and for bestowing you with such a McBasic (yet apt) descriptor.
Maybe hang a sign or something? Or not. Whatever. I love you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of these days I’ll write a post about THE SECRET TEST**** Ethel gave me the first time I ever went junking with her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an hour after I bought this thing on a recent road trip, I had some serious buyer’s
remorse.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now
that I think about it, my remorse started to set in as I lugged it across
the street from the thrift store where I purchased it in order to put it in the
car (which sounds much easier to do than it actually is).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By the
way, as far as foreign objects in the back of a Subaru go, an anchor is very
close to the top of the list of things to avoid. It takes up an awkward amount of space, is
impossible to pack around and, in a true crime against the senses, IT RATTLES. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CONSTANTLY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As we
rolled down the highway, this thing jangled, clinked and clanked in a way that
could only result in a series of tiny-yet-constant mental seizures for me so at
one point I pulled it out of the car (this too sounds much easier than it
actually is) and went at it with a pair of pliers, 100% ineffectively, <i>just to try to make the </i>(insert any
curse word here)<i> clinking stop. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (Issues alert: I once pulled my car over on
the freeway to silence a suitcase zipper pull that was jiggling just a little,
a sound not detectable by any human ears other than mine).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
quickly learned that when you’re the person in the car who BOUGHT AN ANCHOR and
that clanking, awkwardly-shaped anchor is eating up precious cargo space, you
pretty much have to go along with just about anything your traveling companion
buys, says or does.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because
you are the person who put an anchor in their car.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“May I have a sip of water, please?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“No,
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lather,
rinse, repeat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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home, I sent the anchor straight to storage because we needed some time apart to think about where this relationship was going and don't you know it, I suddenly started seeing anchors everywhere.*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">4,852 likes can't be wrong, can they?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
then this post popped up on Facebook, courtesy of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmericanPickerMikeWolfe" target="_blank">Mike Wolfe American Picker</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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anchors probably don’t indicate an impending anchor-décor-trend but it’s all I’ve
got to go with. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">JUNE 16, 2014 UPDATE:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Thrilled to report that ten days after I dropped anchor at Monticello Antique Marketplace, it sold! Turns out it's just as awkward in an antique store as it is in the back of a Suburu. Anchors away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or even
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My
friend <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Ethel</span></a> has gotten me hooked on yet another <s>internet time vacuum</s>
fun way to share those random vintage moments that pop up throughout the day
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s
right! For example, when I spy a piece of rare vintage barkcloth and it's not for
sale, you can feel my pain in real time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a great way to feel confident
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So if
you want to see what I see, just follow along on your smartphone. It’s easy to
download the free Instagram app and follow IntoVintage. The app also allows you
to leave comments and to heart the photos that you, well, heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
other option for viewing photos on Instagram is to use it on your computer via
the <a href="http://instagram.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Instagram website</span></a>. You can also take
a sneak peek of my photos by <a href="http://instagram.com/intovintage?ref=badge" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">clicking here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
follow lots of my favorite bloggers along with new-to-me vintage loving folks I
discovered while exploring Instagram.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And if
you’re posting your photos on Instagram, please leave me your Instagram user name in the comments
section so I can see what you see too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Every once in a while
when there are multiples of something vintage for sale and I can’t bring myself
to take on the possibly excruciating and/or time-consuming task of cherry-picking
only certain ones to buy, I hear Sue of <a href="http://vintagerescue.typepad.com/vintage_rescue_squad/2011/09/what-if-i-buy-them-all.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Vintage Rescue Squad</span></a> whisper in my ear, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Ask how much for all of them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I always do what the
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and landscapes in and around Portland, Oregon. Everything from snow-covered Mt.
Hood, pre-eruption Mt. St. Helens, the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Coast
and many, many views of the vintage Portland skyline. I’m guessing these postcards
are unused inventory from an old souvenir shop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I did end up buying
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just days after I pinned
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garage of an estate sale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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later I turned to the stranger next to
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strangers in line at estate sales about random things they find in the corners of garages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mushroom has already moved on to its new forever garden and may I add a word or
two about those blue glass insulators? I don't know much about them other than
they're pretty (and were once outdoors) but I always buy them when I can find
them for a dollar or less because they're consistent sellers for me. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After many conversations
in the car regarding things neither <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Laurie/Ethel</span></a> nor I could recall about <a href="http://sointovintage.blogspot.com/2013/08/you-are-getting-very-sleepy.html" target="_blank">our previous road trip to Alameda Point Antiques Faire</a> (Did we stop here last time?
Does Roseburg come before or after Ashland? Where was that place with the great cupcakes?),
I decided to take some notes this time around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Laurie’s house in Portland, OR at 8 a.m. to head to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alamedapointantiquesfaire" target="_blank">Alameda Antiques Faire</a> in
the San Francisco Bay area. Woo-hoo! So excited!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One scheduled stop on
the way out of Portland at a church rummage sale was quickly followed by two
unscheduled stops at estate sales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unscheduled stop back at Laurie’s house to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">unload
her car which was now completely full. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Four hours and 16 miles later <i>we are
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to three antique malls, a thrift store and a vintage shop before eating dinner
and eventually keeling over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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us 9-1/2 hours to travel 420 miles? The junkin’ just can’t be rushed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a.m., eventually ending up in Emeryville, CA, about 200 miles away (an *easy* 3 hour
drive) and just a short distance from Alameda Point Antiques Faire, our Sunday early
morning destination / reason for living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hour drive into 10 hours and here’s why: 3 vintage shops, 1 flea market, 3 yard
sales, 2 rummage sales, 1 thrift store, 2 huge antique malls, 2 random shops
and 1 estate sale. In 4 cities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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5 a.m. and the reward was attending heaven-on-Earth, Alameda Antiques Faire,
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the vendors. I kept it all straight with my Patented System for Remembering© by
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miles / 3 estate sales, 3 rummage sales, 13 antique malls, 2 thrift stores, 4
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last night, when normal people are winding down and relaxing, <a href="http://www.magpieethel.typepad.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ethel</span> </a>and I pulled
into town after 4 very full days of hardcore junking and unloaded a car packed-to-the-gills
with vintage finds from our road trip to<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alamedapointantiquesfaire" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Alameda Antiques Faire</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be processing my finds, going back to Ethel’s house to pick up a second load of
vintage junk (!!), and thanking my lucky stars for all of our good luck and
great vintage scores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as my thoughts turn to junking closer to home, I thought I’d share this <a href="http://melissasantiques.blogspot.com/2014/04/garage-sale-season-has-started-with-bang.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">*beyond amazing* score at a yard sale.</span></a></span></div>
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pretend I was touring the countryside in my imaginary vintage camper,
having madcap vintage adventures all over the USA and now, just for fun, I’ve pulled
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ride down the mountain in the ski patrol sled was much more exciting than the
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On several occasions
recently, I’ve had the same conversation with a variety of vintage-loving
friends regarding the influx of non-antique, non-vintage items being sold in some
antique malls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lately I seem to be
finding myself in antique malls that are a combination of a small
percentage of vintage vendors mixed in with a large percentage of new gifts, toys,
collectibles, hardware, crafts, food, and dollar store merchandise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">While I’m not opposed to
any of those items, I am opposed to them being sold in a shop that calls
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It would be like going
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is pretty flexible -- I’m usually willing to overlook dirt, digging, poor
lighting and piles if the price is right. ( And the stuff is old. )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I also get it when
things are beautifully displayed and perhaps a little higher in price because a
vendor has taken the time to present their unique finds in an inspiring way. ( And
the stuff is old. )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But this? Not so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will now climb down from my (vintage) soapbox and thank you for letting me get that off my chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">PS Everything you see
here I came across in one ‘antique mall’ earlier this week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">…and
when I count to three, you will awaken, open your eyes and remember nothing of
the past three months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Which
ought to be pretty easy to do because there hasn’t been anything here to remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hello!
How are you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I. Am.
Fine. Just wandered a little too close
to the edge of the internet and fell off for a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s
how I’ve been spending my internet summer vacation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Keeping
my space at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MonticelloAntiqueMarketplace" target="_blank">Monticello Antique Marketplace</a> filled and fluffed while looking
ahead to the vintage Christmas holidays. Still waiting/hoping to find that big
vintage Christmas score out there, somewhere.
An abandoned Shiny Brite ornament factory filled with long forgotten
inventory would be ideal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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does it seem as though yard sales are getting less awesome by the minute? Out
here in the country, they’re my main source of vintage treasure during the
summer months so every weekend I head out with my fingers crossed.</span></div>
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Ship) in the San Francisco bay area, with many, many stops along the way at
antique malls, thrift stores, junk shops and anyplace else that caught our eye.</span></div>
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processing all that which is Texas Antiques Week and was not bogged down by tedious
and boring technical difficulties?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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amazing traveling companion*, <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Laurie/Magpie Ethel</span></a> has written THE BEST day-by-day account of our trip, from sweet tea to
rolling garbage cans and everything in-between, starting <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/04/round-top-texas-antique-fair-day-one-and-two.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">HERE</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beautiful display by Marburger vendor <a href="http://jhilldesigns.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">J Hill Designs</span></a></span></div>
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this trip was first and foremost meant to be an adventure into the junking
unknown (cue up theme from Star Trek) and a fact-finding mission for possible
future trips. I also hoped to do a little buying for re-selling. And be
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A few of these came home to join <a href="http://sointovintage.blogspot.com/2010/01/state-of-my-collecting.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">my collection</span></a></span></div>
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prices were somewhat higher than what I had anticipated which is what happens
when junking 2,100 miles out of my very affordable Pacific NW comfort zone. I had a bit of sticker shock at first but as a
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not-yet-ironed but terribly affordable.</span></div>
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the absolute highlights of this trip was meeting my longtime junking idol, Sue
of </span><a href="http://vintagerescue.typepad.com/vintage_rescue_squad/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Vintage Rescue Squad</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. It was a thrill
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I would give the entire Antiques Week experience 5 gold stars!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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go back? Of course! Want to go too? Let’s
make a plan for next year!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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could not have asked for a better or more compatible traveling / junking
companion. Every single day we marveled about how well it was going and we were
together, literally, 24/7 which included minimum 12 hours days of driving,
junking and eating. Thank you, Ethel. You’re a peach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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couple of years of discussion and <a href="http://vintagerescue.typepad.com/vintage_rescue_squad/2012/04/warrenton-2012-junk-heaven.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">reading about other’s adventures there</span></a>, we decided this
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month, <a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/2013/03/a-much-anticipated-vacation.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Magpie Ethel / Laurie</span></a> and I are grabbing the biggest, emptiest suitcases we can find and
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here’s the deal: Between
Austin and Houston there’s a series
of small towns, Warrenton, Round Top, Carmine, Shelby & Fayetteville
to name a few, where <i>thousands</i> of antique & vintage dealers from all over the country
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happening. From everything I’ve read, there is more to see than is humanly
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More than humanly possible</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Wheeee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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toyed with driving the 2,000+ miles (and that’s only one way!) from Oregon to
Texas, but that would have allowed for zero stops other than gas and sleeping (unless
we wanted to be away for a few <strike>days</strike> <strike style="background-color: white;">weeks</strike> months) and I don’t know about you but Ethel &
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we came to our collective senses and decided for our inaugural visit we will
fly to Texas, rent a car and then head for the hills, fields, shops and
tents filled with junk, patiently waiting just for us to discover it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now, this junker turns to you for advice, suggestions, directions, things to
see & do, things to definitely avoid, places to eat and anything else you
might think of to share with us. I thank
you in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I had finalized a total overhaul / rearrange,
a wooden bench that was piled high with a cabinet and shelves (both of
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meant all that piled junk had to come down in order to extract the bench.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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birthday this year, I gave myself the gift of junking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weekend spent puttering around thrift shops, antique malls and junk shops on
the Oregon coast (and a little on the Washington coast as well).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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began at <a href="http://www.monticelloantiques.com/" target="_blank">Monticello Antique Marketplace</a> with some foofing of my space there and coffee with Laurie who brought me this lovely bit of Springtime-in-January, a la
<span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://magpieethel.typepad.com/my_weblog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">Magpie Ethel</span></a> </span>(her alter ego).</span></div>
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and foofed, off I went!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it through 4 huge antique malls, <strike>7</strike> 8 thrift stores, 3 charming vintage shops and one
*awesome* junk stop and saw lots of inspiration along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there’s been a shortage of paint-able furniture around these parts and because of
that I’ve been forced to lavish my painterly attentions on other items, their only
criteria being that they’re holding still and have not been painted in the past
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holds all the behind-the-scenes ‘stuff’ that keeps the magic alive (not to
mention things from falling over, off and generally going to pieces) in my
antique mall space: a hammer, pliers, nails, tape, extra price tags, a magic
eight ball, scissors, candy, a Swiffer duster, safety pins, elbow grease, glue,
several thousand Sharpie markers and some loose change.</span></div>
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course, now the inside of The Kit looks more tired than ever so a full remodel
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month of January always has me pondering what I hope to accomplish in the
coming twelve months and after several rough drafts, I’ve finalized my official
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