bald

While I was having lunch with my friend, Shirley, the downtown shop called me and told me that my booth looked kinda bald. I thought that was a cute description and definitely music to my ears. Linda said that a dealer had come in and cleaned me out. She bought my chandelier and most of my framed pieces. What an awesome birthday present! Thanks for letting me brag a bit. I'm really jazzed about it.
After my delightful birthday lunch, I scrambled to put together some items to replenish the booth. I am going to have to take my drill and masonry bit the next time I visit my shop so that I can hang my pieces better. I can't take a chance on using the Command hangers. Even with the screws, one of my items fell off in the middle of the night, setting off the alarm. Ooops!!

Blogging friends

You meet a lot of nice people while blogging and that is where I met Jan Thomason. We are both Texans, but you know how big Texas is. She lives hours away from me so we hadn't actually met until we made plans for lunch at Warrenton last week.

We have commented on each other's blogs and have kept up with each other that way. We both have sons named Clay and I told her a story about mine. When my clay was in junior high, our neighbor was having a swimming pool dug and Clayton thought that all those truckloads of dirt would make a great dirtbike jump in our backyard. I was busy in the kitchen cooking dinner when I saw this huge truck dumping a massive amount of yucky old clay on our lawn. I told Clayton we didn't need that kind of dirt in our yard. It was clay; worthless dirt. He said, "Mom? You named me after worthless dirt?" After she read that story, she signed her note to me, "Jan, Mother of Worthless Dirt". She has a great sense of humor.

We thoroughly enjoyed our IRL (in real life) meeting. Jan was out shopping with her friends Julie and Annette. It was a pleasure to meet them and share our Warrenton shopping stories with each other.

Theresa Cano hosts a wonderful blog party each season near her booth just outside of Zapp Hall. We get to meet our fellow bloggers in a face-to-face. I didn't get to make it to this last one. I had some orders that I had to rush back home to fill. Such is life.

Chatting with Carolyn and Debbie

It was a very brief chat since I was limited on time this trip. I had to get my shopping done and then zoom back home to get some special requests completed for one of my booths in Corpus Christi. I had furniture to paint and Halloween items to create.
I got to meet Carolyn Westbrook. She has a lovely book called The French Inspired Home. She did a book signing at Theresa's blog party. Her and Debbie were visiting at a cozy little table near Zapp Hall. I got to sit down with them for a brief chat and a couple of pictures.

Debbie is such a hoot. If we lived closer, we would definitely "hang out". You can visit her blog here.

Zapp Hall is Party Central

COURTESY OF PENT-UP PHOTOS

I agree with Malissa. Zapp Hall is definitely Party Central.

Malissa makes darling photos and postcards with a definite vintage feel. She was set up near Zapp Hall, too. My favorite haunt. It was very nice to meet her. It was also nice to meet her right-hand angel, Rhonda. You should stop by her blog and see what she has been up to.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID THE SNAKE LOVER

Malissa had quite a time leading up to the show. She is a real trooper. Her husband took her sick dog to the vet and ended up going into a diabetic coma. He is doing fine now, but it was a very, scary time for them.

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.