Now to get it all home!

Here is the last of the JunkMarket photos.

Love the weathered wood, vintage leather & old tools.

Pendant lamps made out of old pipe.

Many vendors had their own definite style and colour palette. 

Vintage cottage chic!

Metal lawn furniture, minnow pails, tackle boxes, gas cans all displayed on an old wooden dock.

A few goldfish add some character.

Diffent decades compliment eachother.

Mid-century modern chairs with an old washtable against a backdrop of corrugated barn siding.

Black accents with Parisian linen fabrics.

Stools in every shape, size & material, from schoolhouses, machine shops & barns.

White and ivory accented the metals and old cement pieces.

All too soon, we had brave the bitter winds to re-arrange the truck and return to another blizzard from

Minneapolis to Two Harbors.

Come into the studio to see the treasures that made it back to Thunder Bay.

The Quest Continues.

You can't just have one....

......trip around the booths, that is.

Each time through the building there were more treasures to be found.

In fact, each time I look at these photos,

I see something else I love!

The pops of vintage colour definitely set the tone.

This vendor used red as the accent. Its amazing how many vintage items are red! Not just Coca-Cola signs.

Grey, pewter, tarnished silver & galvanized anything.

Beatiful frames with chalkboards get the message across.

Did you save any old bicycle rims???

there are still a few more photos to come!

Travel Adventures of the Pixie Pickers!

"Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the Pixie Pickers from their Junk".

(We did pass some US mail delivery trucks).

As March was coming in as a lion, we were truckin' our way down the blustery north shore of Lake Superior.

It was Day 1 of our buying trip to Central Minnesota.

Our knuckles were not the only things that were white, there was about 10' of visibility with white-out conditions.

But we were on a mission.

Luckily, we found some transport trucks to show us where the road was and successfully arrived at our destination just a little tired from the tension. It was a room service dinner and Kobo's for us.

Thursday, we bounced out of bed and in spite of the lack of Timmie's to get us going, we were almost first in the "earlybird" line.

Here is what was revealed as we entered the Junk Market Under Glass....

There were oodles of creative vignettes,

vintage finds mixed with artisanal, industrial and retail display pieces,

the beauty of greenery mixed in with funky table setttings.

Check out the scrap boards used as placemats...

Rusty hardware bins as storage,

an old cafeteria dish tray rack as display shelving,

artfully placed farm surplus, architectural salvage & tree stumps.

Giant letters from old signs were everywhere!

So much to see and/or grab before the general public was let in.

Tune in tomorrow to see Day 2 at the sale.

Mosaic Window Workshop

There was a great group of ladies, eager to learn how to break glass on Sunday.

They brought their designs and found their favourite colours and realized their own artistry, piece by piece.

It definitely wasn't quiet too often, but all heads were down in deep concentration most of the afternoon.

There is just something so rewarding about the colours and finding glass shapes that fit together perfectly.

Not to mention all that glue to mess around with!

The pieces were left to dry and all the mosaicists were counting their sleeps until they could come back to play in the mud.

Then a little elbow grease for cleaning, buffing & polishing.

And the big reveal!!!!