Vintage Cards...

Remember my post last weekend about the scrapbooks I picked up at a local sale? Here are some of the cards that were in the scrapbooks...1940's-1980's

March Madness Sale!

Hey Michigan junk hunting buddies!

Antiques Market of Williamston  is having their annual March Madness sale!!! Not sure yet if I am going-I love their sales and haven't missed very many over the years...check it out!

Can You Help?

Hi Everyone!

This is a different post for me, I don't normally ask for help like this, but this is for someone very near and dear to my heart. Please read below, and if you are able to help-we would greatly appreciate it, if not, thanks so much for reading through to the end-and please keep us in your prayers!!

As you may or may not have heard, my cousins Denise and her husband Will have a beautiful daughter Zoe, that was born with spina bifida and they are participating in a fundraiser walk for Spina bifida on June 22nd in Monroe. I've really been feeling like I needed to help out, but I wanted to do more than just a donation. So, I am joining them on the walk! 

We are TEAM ZOE and we want you to join us too! We need more people to walk with us, and yes raise some support money too. It is super easy to register on their website, and you can pick whatever amount you feel comfortable with trying to raise. If you don't meet your goal, you don't have to pay that amount yourself-it is just a goal to try to achieve. You can set it as low as $100, or the sky is the limit. 

Zoe has brought so much joy and love to our lives, and we can help her and other kids (or adults) who were born with spina bifida by just walking! It's a short walk-it starts at 10am and the closing remarks are at 11am! You could be home and relaxing by 1:00-how easy it that?!? It is such a short walk, that kids can walk with their parents! What a great opportunity to get kids involved in giving of themselves to help others!!! They could even collect soda cans from home and turn them in and use that money as a donation if they can't join us for the walk...

I think it would be a HUGE support to Denise and Will if we all joined together to support them and walked together as a group. What do you say? Are you in?

No worries if you can't make it, we WILL miss you, but we will understand. Let me know if you want to join TEAM ZOE, or visit the spina bifida association of Michigan's website and sign up to join TEAM ZOE. Use this link to join our team   http://www.walknrollforsb.org/faf/home/waiver.asp?ievent=1061859&lis=0&kntae1061859=FA1F40727F574FA28CC70285ACB0EC46#.UTkqKhyG2h0

If you can't walk and still want to help, you can make a donation at this link http://www.walknrollforsb.org/faf/search/searchParticipants.asp?ievent=1061859&lis=0&kntae1061859=FA1F40727F574FA28CC70285ACB0EC46#.UTkqphyG2h0             

Under participant name enter: Kim Traud or Will Williamson (although he is already half way to his goal...and I am at 0%-just sayin!) :)

Hope you can join us!!! Even just $5 will be a BIG help! Please help spread the word too!!!

Thanks for reading this and for considering joining us!

Kim

A wee bit of green...

Today was dealer day at the antique mall where I have my booth, and since it is close to St. Patrick's Day, and spring is just around the corner, I loaded in a ton of green! I was able to move around all of the leftover reds and whites from the Valentine's display and get 3 bins full of greens set up. The only things that came home with me were a child's rocking chair, an old wooden box and a bowl...that I decided to keep for a while-LOL!

While I was there, I noticed the dealer across the aisle from me had two things in his booth that I've had in my booth for almost a year! I've had mine priced at $12 each and his were $33 each...I had just moved mine to a low, bottom shelf when I saw his, so I moved mine front and center before I left. I was going to discount them to $6 next month...we'll see if anything happens now.

I take pictures of my booth when I am all done so that while I am at home planning my next display, I can take a look at how it was the month before so I can make it totally different for the next month. It is a LOT of work to do a whole new theme every month, but I enjoy it and it has been working, I think, as far as sales go. I do a lot better when I change it up than when it is the same old same old every month.

Here is what it looked like when I left...

A Little Tiny Junk Fix...

We've been so busy doing house/moving prep stuff lately that there hasn't been any time for hunting for junk! Something I've been dearly missing! I think I'm starting to develop a twitch in my right shoulder, and my left eye won't stop blinking...kidding...but it feels like I'm going through some sort of withdrawals-that's for sure!!

On top of being really busy, there just hasn't been much out there that piques my interest. I took a chance on two sales this morning-never found the first sale...no big deal...didn't look all that great anyway. The second sale was scheduled to open in 4 minutes when we pulled up and there were cars and people EVERYWHERE! I was #33 and Kevin #34. I only saw a few things in the photos online that I was interested in, so I was thinking about leaving because, surely all the good junk would be gone by the time I got in there!

The stuff I went for was all snatched up by the time I got in, but I found some other junk that I couldn't leave behind. Kevin even got an old military, pea green wool blanket. It came in handy for him while he waited in the car while I made a quick stop at Treasuremart on the way home!

I've been to enough sales that this particular company runs, that I think the lady in charge is starting to recognize me. I don't know if that is good, or bad...but I like the way she runs her sales, she is usually very nice and she has fair prices.

We stood in line to check-out for quite a while, and the lady in front of me who was checking out, had a pot that was marked $5, the check-out girl thought it was $3. The lady pulled it back out of her bag and showed her it was $5. She told the check-out girl how honest she is, and that's just a trait of hers. Then she immediately tried to pass off $7 worth of linens for $3!!!

She hurried up and told the cashier the price and stuffed them in to her bag, the cashier had her pull them back out and looked them over and corrected her and told her it was $7, not $3. The lady said oh, ok $7. Really?!? Wow! Honest on $2 but not on $4? Geesh!

Kevin has never gotten over the "this feels awkward, shopping in someone's house, maybe I shouldn't be here" thing, so estate sales stress him out. While we were there a woman who had already checked out and was making trips to her car started a ruckus because one of the things she bought was missing from her pile. A man in line had picked it up and was going to buy it. He gave it back and everyone was happy.

I'm choosing to believe he was a newbie and didn't know any better-rather than the alternative. That little 60 second scene stressed Kevin out-he wanted out of there NOW! I couldn't believe that little nothing riled him so much. I told him about the time Auntie and I were at at sale together and two big guys almost started throwing punches in a basement over dollar records! Now THAT was something to be anxious about, or stressed about. LOL!

Here is what I picked up today...all from the estate sale-no treasures at Treasuremart for me today!

 5 scrapbooks filled with old cards, a yardstick, a sifter, enamelware pan, two tablecloths, glassbake casserole, swanky swig, shaker bottle.

 I thought Adam should have added this to his housewarming present! A swag light made from foam egg cartons with beads and ric-rac---complete with light bulb and chain for hanging-it even works-$1!!

More hot pads that will probably never make it to the booth!

I'll take some snaps of the vintage cards in the scrapbooks and show them in a later post-They were $2 each book, and I've been enjoying looking at them all and even reading the messages written by friends and family in them! I bet you'll like them too!

Happy Weekend!!! Stay warm and safe friends!!!

Odd housewarming presents...

My oldest son, Adam who will soon be 22 informed me that his best friend's sister finally moved out and got her own apartment. He wanted to go to the Salvation Army to try to find her a housewarming present since they are all going to be hanging out tomorrow night.

I was not prepared for what he bought!! My idea of a housewarming present is something that is thoughtful, useful, and even something they might actually want. His idea is to get the biggest laugh.

This is what he got her...

She doesn't even have a hamster!

 He only wanted the mug, they were sold as a set and they had a tan sticker-so they were half off!

 She doesn't smoke and no one that she hangs out with smokes....

This one is disturbing. It has a sticker on the back that talks about what a good mama bear she is, not only does she nurse her own two, but she's adopted an orphan that she feeds as well...

I would love to be there to see her face when she opens her gifts...I would have probably gotten her a set of bowls-LOL!