Heidi and Tricia

These girls travel in style and they drove all the way from Arizona to participate in the Fall Show at Warrenton. It was quite an adventure to get to Texas. They took some wrong turns, drove for hours, got stopped by the border patrol, pulled over by the Fredericksburg police, and even ran over a poor little raccoon that was jaywalking.

Meet Heidi Martincic of Paris Montana. She makes gorgeous vintage eclectic salvage jewelry that she sells out of her adorable little vintage Airstream.

My hat is off to any girl who can pull her own trailer! The Houston Chronicle did a nice article featuring Heidi.

You can visit her beautiful blog here.

This is Tricia of Vintage Bliss. She has been published in Somerset Home and Somerset Studio magazines. Tricia teaches classes on scrapbooking, stamping and mixed media art.

You can visit Tricia's blog here.

Just call me Gabby

I actually enjoyed my second day of shopping way more than the first. I think it's because I found a few good pieces the first day so I could relax, have fun and take it easy. You just don't drive that far and drop everything just to come home empty-handed. Some of these pictures are mine, and some of them are David's (Mindy's boyfriend). David takes great pics.

The area around Zapp Hall was where I headed first. For those of you that don't know, Zapp Hall is where it is happening. I was about to stop and say "hey" to Debbie, but she was in deep conversation (imagine that!) and not wanting to interrupt, I went and visited with Courtney and Sarah.

Sarah was doing some last-minute touches. I think she is very talented to be able to use a curling iron without a mirror and outside to boot.

They make lovely handmade jewelry out of vintage items. Their displays were awesome.
My next stop was to see Mindy of Primtiques, a. k. a. "The P". I don't know how she does it, but she consistently finds unusual, awesome items. She has been know to flag down trucks. Sometimes you have to be bold to get the "good stuff".

Renee and Barbara

This morning, I got up bright and early and went to Warrenton to go SHOPPING!!!

About 10 minutes after I arrived, it started to rain. Not a little, wimpy rain, but a cats-and-dogs downpour. I had my big umbrella and was able to duck in to one of the tents. Hey, you might as well shop while waiting, right?

After the rain, I saw a lady carrying a box that was made out of reproduction license plates and of course asked her the all-important question, "Where did you get that"? She said she found it at a cute booth. "Just turn right at the stained glass, then go left and the tent will be right there".

I even took a short cut and found it right where she said. The tent belonged to Renee Jackson and Barbara Mason. Renee is also known as A Junk Queen and Barbara is Simple Blessings.

We had a lovely chat and I thoroughly enjoyed her tent. Her displays are AMAZING!

Ephemera parade

I always thought that ephemera meant "old paper goods", but when I looked up the definition here is what I found:

ephemera n. - 1. anything short-lived or transitory. 2. an ephemerid

I have some ephemera that is over 100 years old. That doesn't sound short-lived to me. I just makes it absolutely precious!

SellaholicMom created a treasury on Etsy dedicated to all sorts of ephemera and I was pleased to be included. She has featured my music book which is over 100 years old. I even got to see the organ that this music was played on. How cool is that?

'*ephemera* what's in your collection?' by Selloholicmom

Showing the many faces of ephemera... It is one of my very favorite items to collect....100% vmteam vintage

Vintage 1940s Chris... ZinniaRidge $6	Pages, Pierre Larou... hatchedinfranc... $7	VINTAGE NEEDLE BOOK... Selloholicmom $10
1902 - Music book ... AtticRat $15	Vintage Bette Davis... ZinniaRidge $5	Boy Scout Merit Bad... AnnesAccumulat... $7
Dennisons Desk Orga... VintageJewelsA... $9.00	Three Vintage Photo... britishvintage $10.00	Pictures from the P... Pjjlacasse $5
Vintage Church Fan ... thevintagebutt... $14.00	Baseball Boy Ad Fai... ThreeOldKeys $8	Mad Magazine Vol. 1... worldvintagebo... $3.5
1956 Rare Vintage C... ismoyo $8	Pinup Girl Elvgren ... DovelySells $25.00	Wonder Woman DC Com... worldvintagebo... $11

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A.R.K. sale

A.R.K. (Animal Rescue Kleberg) has sales once or twice a year and I do my best to shop them. They have nice items and it's all for a good cause, too. I arrived about 30 minutes early with my friend, Diane so we could get a spot at the front of the line. I am so glad that today's weather wasn't like yesterday's. I small cool front blew in and it was actually quite pleasant.

ARK usually has some pretty awesome finds and today did not disappoint. Some of the things that I picked up where unusual to say the least. I never thought that I would by a toilet! I also picked up a beer mug that has a built-in whistle. I guess you can test to see if you have truly wet your whistle or not.
I was really happy to find all of this sterling. I just have no idea what I am going to do with it.

Granny green

I go through LOTS of paint, so I love to hit the "mis-tints" ailse at WalMart and Lowe's. It's good paint, it just didn't turn out to be the shade that the previous customer was looking for. At half-off, it is often the perfect shade for me!! This time, I found some good ole granny green exterior paint. I hadn't thought to call this color Granny Green until I ran into a woman in Bastrop that referred to it that way.

Let me tell you, the shop hasn't cooled off one bit. The cool fronts haven't made it anywhere near this far south. These birdhouses are going into one of the shops in Corpus tomorrow. I guess it's real sweat equity.

Wire basket Paparazzi

Black, Red, Silver

Curated By: TimelyImpress...

ArtFire.com

Craft Tutorials

The wire baskets that I picked up at that awesome sale are getting some nice paparazzi this week. First, they were featured on ArtFire when Timely Impressions added them to her member-curated collection that she entitled Black, Red, Silver

then today. . .

. . . Alice of Time Passages featured them in her Etsy treasury, entitled Industrial Strength

Be sure to click on both of their shop names so you can see the marvelous goodies they have in their shops.

I feel so˙·٠•●♥LOVED♥●•٠·˙

My, what a big spout you have!

I picked this watering can up at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago. I have never seen another like it.

The Reading Room

This afternoon, I received a convo from Denise at World Vintage Books that my brass door plates had been included in her Vintage Market Team treasury entitled The Reading Room. It is always nice to be included in the treasuries. It is super nice if it ends up on the Etsy home page. :D

Wimberley Market Days

Next weekend, I am going to go visit my parents in Bastrop. I plan to show up with a loaf of freshly baked orange cranberry bread. My sister is heading up there also. While we are there, we are planning to visit downtown Bastop and check out the sweet antique shops that are sprinkled around. Then on Saturday, we will go and shop, shop, shop at Wimberley Market Days and maybe hit an antique store or two to top the day off perfectly.

Photos courtesy of Wimberley Lion's Club