Gone Fishing

Happy May Day and Opening Day of Fishing Season! It's that day that most fishermen in Wisconsin and probably anywhere in general can not wait for.  I mean really Brad Paisley even wrote a song about catching hell if he walked out that door to go fishing.

Minocqua is the gateway to the beautiful Northwoods of Wisconsin as well as some of the clearest and most abundant lakes in Wisconsin.  For those of you who have a fisherperson in your family but you prefer shopping well lucky for you that the Minocqua Antique Company is also on route to the clearest lakes in Wisconsin.  This day begins the start of the busy season for the Northwoods, and our booth is stocked with plenty of goodies for you treasure hunters.  We are still offering our red dot 1/2 off sale, so if you are in the area or heading up to the Northwoods soon don't forget to stop by the Junk in da Trunk Girls booth, also tell them happy 2 year anniversary of being in business as May 1 is also their opening anniversary!

 Grab your poles, your tackle, gas up your boat and head out to your favorite fishing hole, and afterwards stop at the Minocqua Antique Company.

Minocqua Antique Company
8536 Hwy. 51
Minocqua, WI

Open 7 Days 10 am - 6 pm

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Project Mercy

T here checking in on a Tuesday to let you know about 23 of my friends that need lots of help.  Some of you might know that Mom helps out with the Chicago English Bulldog Rescue in those few moments of free time that she has.  Well a few days ago Mom told me that some of the volunteers went on mission to help out as many of my friends that were "surviving" as best they could in a puppy mill. To get them into some loving arms and a safe and healthy environment.

You can read about and see all of my 23 friends HERE . Those big hearted humans at the rescue are taking care of them.  Some of my friends are going to need quite a bit of some medical attention, if you are interested in donating to the cause you can do so HERE.

Thank You everyone for taking a minute to read about my friends, if you can help it would be greatly appreciated.  Mom even says she will donate 10% of her SHOPS sales to Project Mercy so you can buy some fun vintage and help out that way also.

*The Picture is of Laverne & Shirley  they came from the puppy mill and are house guests with my friend LuLu*

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Chicago Outfit Roller Derby Wrap Up

Over the weekend my friend "Get off My Balls" and I were apart of the Chicago Outfit's extended family as we vended some of the Jadarie Handmade Upcycled Handbags among other treasures we brought.  The roller derby was so much fun and our girls won which was the cherry on the sundae!

There was a point I took a break and walked up to the balcony to check out the main event of the Outfit Girls vs. Nashville, you can see a little bit of the action in the back ground in this picture.  I hadn't been to a roller derby in a few years so I had to read the "How the Scoring Works"  in the program to refresh my memory, with how the Jammer scores the points.  It really helped, and it was so much fun.  It would be super fun to be able to be a roller derby girl, but I'm ok supporting these amazing athletes off the track.  

 We hope to be out at another bout this summer so watch our Facebook events page for details. 

 Also, Thank You so much to those of you that came out and took home a small piece of my heart and soul with you.  I hope that you enjoy your one of a kind handbag.  

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Vintage Garage Recap

The Vintage Garage serendipitously happened over Earth Day weekend here in Chicago.  And really when you think about it what is better for Mother Earth then buying vintage anything and using it in your everyday?

While at the show I got to meet up with some of my customers, put a face to a few twitter and facebook friends, as well as catch up with my vintage Etsy Street Team Leader.  Oh and a bunch of stuff found new forever homes which was really the entire point of doing the show I guess not just socializing.

I also came across a few new shops that sucked me in with of course their vintage camera inventory, repurposed items, and general arrangement of cool treasures.

The first booth that I stopped in that caught my eye was Sugarcookielady  Susan has such a great eye and a great assortment from housewares to clothing to some awesome vintage school maps that I almost had to adopt but held myself back. 

Martha from Open Door Studio drew me in right away with her display here of vintage cameras, thermoses, and of course Pyrex! 

Greg from Hatch't Design Co. had a whole booth of re-purposed items, this hand drill turned into a desk light was great.  He spoke with me for a few minutes about how his creations come about and it really is a great process that he has a great passion for. 

Thank you to everyone that came out the the Garage on Sunday, hope you found some great treasure, we will be back in action at the June market, so mark your calendar for June 16!

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Happy Earth Day

Happy Earth Day Everyone... even though really every day should be Earth Day!  As you know my way of making a living and paying the bills is finding new homes for vintage cast offs as well as giving new life to tired and neglected fabric one hand bag at a time.

Recycling and re purposing is not only trendy right now, but it helps the earth and all of us in the long run. Shopping second hand gives you individuality, anyone can go into any box store and purchase what ever it is that they are looking for as well as the next thousand people that walk into the box store across the country.  Walking into a second hand store to me is like being handed a treasure map and  being challenged to find something unique.

Shopping second hand all started when my group of  high school friends were very much into going over to the local Goodwill and finding ridiculous t-shirts from the 70’s and t-shirts that had ridiculous sayings on them.  That was the thing to do when we were bored, now pay attention I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, this is what we did when we weren’t cow tipping (just kidding, we rarely did things like that).   Any who back to the task at hand, on one of our Goodwill adventures I broke off from the group and went in search of things other then t-shirts and I found this super awesome vintage US Navy issued peacoat (as in from a  real Sailor named Kent his name is written in permanent marker inside) and this peacoat was $5 I was sold.  It was July but I made my purchase, brought it home and bust it out every January as it's the warmest coat I own.

From that peacoat purchase brought a whole new fascination with second hand stores. While my friends were looking for t-shirts I would roam around and find some super awesome stuff which at that time I did not have a use for.  Fast forward 10 years later and I now can be found at various thrift stores, estate sales and garage sales (when in season in the Midwest) on a weekly basis.  I like that I can find unique items that someone else has cast off but still has some life in it for me and more then likely I will be the only one wearing said item.  

 

I hope that  each of you that reads this blog will do something today that is good for the earth, go to your local second hand store and see what you can find.  I will be spending the rest of the afternoon turning a pile of fabric into one of a kind handbags, you know just trying to save the earth one upcyled handbag at a time.

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Vintage Garage & The Belber Trunk To Hold Your Junk

This Sunday April 21st is the Vintage Garage Chicagos' Season Opener.  Word on the street has it that there are going to be well over 100 vendors with quality vintage merchandise at the show.  I'm going to give all of you faithful friends a preview of one of the unique pieces that I will be bringing.  On top of this gem I will also have many small items similar to those items in the Junk Shop.   

Now let's talk about the Belber Wardrobe Trunk. 

The Belber Trunk & Bag Company was one of many companies that made a variety of trunks during the late 1800s and 1900s. Belber Trunk & Bag Company was founded in 1891. In 1920, Belber's manufacturing facility operated out of the Larkin/Belber building in Philadelphia.  This trunk is a  wardrobe style. In the July 1920 issue ofCosmopolitan, a Belber ad described the trunk as follows... "A Belber wardrobe trunk is a closet and dresser combined. Clothes hang up on hangers - place for shoes, for hats, for underwear, for laundry, for small accessories. Everything kept neat and orderly - nothing mussed or wrinkled. No more trouble than to pack it than to hang things in a closet - and you needn't unpack it at all. Simply take things out when you want them and place them back again when you are through." 

                                         

This gem would be great in a small city apartment acting as a linen closet, in a studio to hold various supplies, or act as a coffee table or end table.  This is the 2nd complete wardrobe steamer trunk, and it will be up for grabs at the Garage on Sunday.  Just make sure that if you are interested in this beauty that you bring a friend along to help cause she's heavy.  I'm not sure how bell hops and stewards maneuvered these guys when they were full of someones possessions. 

The Vintage Garage is this Sunday, April 21 from 9 am - 5 pm and is located at 5051 N. Broadway in Chicago.  You can find all of the pertinent information HERE.  The event goes rain or shine as it is held in a parking ramp structure.  Hope I see some of you on Sunday!

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Thursday with T: Vintage Garage Prep

Happy Thursday Everyone,  T here taking over the social media for the day.  Mom is in full show mode, she's getting ready for something called the Vintage Garage that's happening on Sunday.  Show mode means our house is full of really good old smelling stuff that I have to keep walking around, until we pack it up in boxes.

We've been busy washing lots of things mom drinks her water out of, looking at these things in paper boxes with lots of little plastic pieces that I try and steal, wrapping things in paper that must be special, and taking pictures of big things that I want to climb in. 

Mom tells me that she's going to have a preview on here tomorrow of some of the goodies she is going to have at the show, so stay tuned. I'm trying to talk her into letting me come with to the show on Sunday cause it's no fun to stay at home with Grandpa when her and Nana will be meeting so many new people. I told her that I need to make new friends too, so hopefully I will see you on Sunday with my new bow tie.

Well I've got to get back to work, Mom just opened up a new box and there are some interesting sounding toys that are just begging for me to play with and hide under the bed.

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