Part 2 Antiques Liquidation Garage Sale -- Christmas Edition

 

A few weeks ago I liquidated all of my fall /Halloween themed vintage inventory.  Tomorrow morning I will be selling all of my Christmas inventory.  It will be less dramatic -- very little furniture or high priced items.  Just the leftovers from last year's Christmas season.  But CHEAP, so CHEAP.

These always sold like hotcakes in NW Missouri.

Down here?  Nada.

I sewed all of the crazy quilt stockings by hand.

Now selling them for $4 each.

The last of my bleached bottle brush trees -- on the $1 table!

All the items here are on the $1 table.

Still $1 table.

Yet more $1 items.

I am not planning on getting rich,

just clearing out and making room.

And maybe my husband can park his vehicle in the garage this winter!

Finally A Use For Sweet Gum Balls

We have two huge sweet gum trees in our front yard.

They provide shade, they provide privacy, and

they provide gorgeous fall leaves.

They also provide jillions of gum balls....

I saw these at an antique mall and had to laugh.

Holiday Vintage Home Sale

 We are getting ready for our last home sale of the year --

with a Thanksgiving & Christmas theme.

 I still have two hickory log desks and one dining table

left from the ones I bought at auction a couple of weeks ago.

So they will be in the sale.

 Vintage Christmas.

But I definitely didn't find as much this year as normal.

 Some autumnish primitives.

 Local advertising.

 A whole herd of concrete animals and gnomes.

 Holiday sparkles.

We are only going to open Sunday afternoon,

so we'll see how that works out.

Christmas Sleds Stuffed With Stuff

My Christmas workshop in the cellar is running

out of "bits and bobs".  There were just a few misc

pieces left, and I decided to shove everything in these 

three little sleds.  

I bought all three sleds at a local antiques store,

for about what I would have paid at a yard sale.

Only one is old.   But I knew I had plenty of  Christmas 

"stuff" left to vintage them up.

The one above I entitled "Let Heaven and NATURE Sing".

So now my Christmas workshop in the cellar

is officially closed (and empty).

All three will be last minute additions to my

vintage booth at Camp Flea.

Unconventional Christmas Trees

 I bought all of these metal wheels at a flea market,

and when I stacked them up -- VIOLA.

An industrial Christmas tree.

 We just recently tackled the "garden"

in our back yard.  After the previous owner

abandoned it, he used it to toss his old wine bottles.

I wish he would have drank about three more!

This screen has literally sat by our trash can outside since we moved in.

I knew I didn't want to toss it, but didn't know what to do with it.

Until now.

Book tree at the library.

Tin "tree" at local antiques shop.

Garage Sale Finds In Mid-November

I am still adjusting to living in a new area.

Things are just a little different.

Like having yard sales in the middle of November,

on a lovely 60 degree day.

This painted folk art bowl was hands down my fave find.

I am putting it on ebay after enjoying it for the holidays.

(It may be my only Christmas decoration this year.)

I was thrilled to find vintage Christmas

stuff for my antique booth.

(I have set up a temporary Christmas work center

in the cellar, that you see in the background).

I bought an entire tub of old ornaments.

Super fun to sort through it all.

The nicer ones in this photo came from

Wildflower Vintage Market

(featured here in my last post.)

Wildflower Antiques Christmas Open House

Wildflower Vintage Market is a cute

little antique store near our house.

Just the owner, no booth rentals --

which is rare these days.

 She had a Christmas open house friday night,

and offered 25% off to the first 20 people.

So I was one of those standing in line.

 That night she had a local carver in-house.

He was very talented and fun to watch,

and a local baker supplied the lovely cookies.

But I didn't bring my camera until Saturday,

and of course the cookies were gone.

 Renee is very artistic and has a good eye.

Her sisters and mother contribute to the shop as well.

 She had two of these matching benches.

I didn't notice them until Saturday,

and of course they were already sold.

 Lots of cool hand decorated items.

 All with a great vintage flair.

 I bought some Christmas ornaments,

but there were people with armloads of purchases.

Stenciling Your Own Vintage Ornaments Tutorial

Last winter I got the notion to stencil on ornaments.  Not just any stencil.  I wanted the vintage ornaments to look like the old-time Shiny Brite stenciled ornaments.

Surely someone has made stencils for that purpose?  And, wouldn't you know?  We can always count on Martha Stewart.  She may have more than the ones I found on-line, but I was just happy to have come across these.  I knew the stencils needed to be small, flexible and have adhesive on the back.  Thank you, Martha.  You knew just what I needed.

I ran out of time last year, so I only recently had a chance to try out these little beauties.  I tried them this first time around on medium shiny brites.  Next time I am going to try larger ornaments.  I used a flat white house paint sample I had on hand, and it worked very well.  As usual with a stencil, load the paint sparingly on the brush and dab off excess on newspaper before lightly dabbing a thin layer of paint inside of the stencil.

While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled it (with stencil still applied) with fine white glitter (again,
to simulate a stenciled shiny brite).  Martha advises to take the stencil off while wet, but I did not read directions until later.  It was fine taking it off after it was dry.  (Martha also wants you to use her special Brush and Stencil Cleaner afterward.  That makes me laugh.  She is so intense.  She also says "Attach backing to stencil and store".  I am surprised she didn't tell us where to store it.)

Ceramic Tree Forest

 I was lucky enough to pick up three ceramic trees this year.

13", 19", 19".

I am selling them for $30, $50, $70 --

which is a steal if you see what they are selling for on ebay.

 I got the large white one at the

"Last Flea Market Of The Season"

(read that post here).

It had some damage at the top,

but my husband did a great job of repairing it.

The other two have music boxes.

I am looking forward to taking them into my new antique mall....

 where they can join their friends.

Stenciled Christmas Tree Saws

On the "last flea market of 2018"

I snagged 6 or 7 rusty saws for $1 each.

I knew immediately what I was going to do with them...

It took four different stencil sets, but once I got it figured out

I was able to "hammer" them out pretty quickly.

All in my "Camp Flea" booth now.

Moving Into A New Antique Mall

 Moving is hard.  Finding a new church.  New friends.  New doctor.  New grocery store.  New antique mall....really that was a hard one.

We talked to people and visited several antique malls.  But it took some actual shopping for antique furniture for our house to discover the best fit for us.  We had several shopping trips to an area in Ozark, MO that had several antique stores close together.  It seemed like whenever we needed something we had to do "speed shopping" and it was handy to have a few antique stores in one basic location.  That's how we landed on our new selling "home" .... Camp Flea in Ozark, MO.

The Camp Flea mall is located just off hwy 65 south of Springfield 9 miles or north of Branson at the Jackson Street Exit under the big "ANTIQUES"sign.  Either direction it is the second Ozark MO exit.

People pass right by it on their way to Branson, so the location is great.  I asked about booths for rent, and the manager asked me some discerning questions to figure out if I was cut out for one of the front booths.  After looking at some pics of past shows and booths, I passed the mustard.  

 So if you are ever in the area -- look for my "Saturdays" Antique Booth right across from the front counter.

 We moved in Saturday so that we could be "settled" for their Christmas Open House the first weekend of November.  

 Of course, vintage Christmas is no problem for me. Just getting the booth painted, lighted and furniture moved in -- that is the hard part.