almost famous

the new fall flea market style magazine is out! 

cover styled by camp wandawega hostess with the mostess herself, tereasa surratt.

they have great articles like this one, favorite finds. 

we can all relate to this i bet.

they posted fav finds from all over the us - 

let's see what fav finds they found in wisconsin

whaaaat?????

that's right.

i emailed a "few" favorite finds back when  flea market style blogged about fav finds and they picked my souvenirs sign!!!

i didn't hear anything back after i had emailed, so i didn't think my finds were much of anything : )

they might of thought i was a stalker and wanted to cut off all communications....

to my surprise, 

my sister donna's sister-in-law (correct grammar?) diane

commented on my previous post "table for two" (thanks again diane)

and asked if that was me in the flea market style mag fav find.

i wasn't able to pick up the magazine yet,and had no clue.

thanks ki (i know she personally picked it) and all the good folks at flea market style magazine,

home to the fun junk bonanza in minnesota.

this is a great article about the 

"spring (snow-mageddon) junk bonanza"

 that my 

sister-in-law sue 

and i went to.

here the sign, sorry not the best photo.

but how happy am i?????????

electrified!!!!!*

*sorry for the lame picasa

"even more fun and useful image processing"

picture.

it's a sign

or 3.

my friend Susan from idle awhile was wondering if i would share my treasures from 

junk bonanza. 

i just got a few things, one find are these signs from good ol' clems variety store.

you know how i love vintage signs.

not sure how old they are, but figuring that there are not too many variety stores left and the cost of candy nowadays i think they must be from the 70's at least?

anywho they were a good price, 

it was a sign.

mother lode at the junk bonanza

 we made it!  but before we got here we had to go thru.......

this!!!
yucky snow.

i picked up my sister-in-law sue and we made the trek to shakopee, minnesota.  It should have taken less than 2 hours -  took us over 4 hours.  not fun but we made the best of it.

the next day was a much better day as we headed to the
 junk bonanza.
so much to see and buy.

the guy (on the left) is on the show "west end salvage" on hgtv  
we need to head back to iowa to check out his shop.  

cute booth, cute name

mama's happy display

sue's checking out this cute retro booth.

which had this blue typewriter - perfect buddy for my pink one.

sign #1 - need 

another way to use globes.

sign #2 - need

do you see that cool sign on the back of the shelf. 

 sign/shelf #3 - need

nice to see some friendly faces - here is jan from gracies cottage and kathy from down lilac lane.
it was great to catch up with them.  
 jan and my sister-in-law sue were sporting cool chucky taylors, i need to get with it. 

thought downton abbey would show up.

out-door arbor - ha!

 sign #4 - need!!! 
as you can imagine not in my price range.

artful junk display

 sign #5 - please!
 seeing a pattern?  i love signs - but again passed. 
  cute yellow bar/ garden/ craft/ cart.

cow - in a field - in a truck.

junk bonaza had a wedding lab -
4 booths filled with wedding ideas, very nice.

this booths specialty is turning vintage wedding dresses into updated wedding dresses.

junk bonaza was fun, but it is good to be home.