Some of you may have noticed that I haven't done many posts lately
about my little booth. There has been so much going on these past few weeks!
Anniversary trips, milestone birthdays (which I must admit caused me a bit of distraction!),
furniture refinishing, house decorating, auctions,
and one other thing that I am just so excited to tell you about!
My friend Keely and I have decided to join forces and open a new booth at a HUGE antique mall in Columbus, Ohio. This will help us reach out to a new market in our state's capital city.
Heritage Square Antique Mall (1865 Channingway Center Drive, Columbus OH 43232) has extended hours....they are open until 9pm both Friday and Saturday and noon - 6pm on Sundays! We are doing it together, because, well, everything is more fun and easier with a friend!
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Keely is really good at finding cool old stuff!
She describes her decorating style as "modern country" liking a clean,
simplified look mixing old and new. I've bought a ton of things from her over the past
few years such as wire baskets, chippy doors, and ephemera. Her husband likes old toys,
so his interests always add a touch of whimsy to her merchandise assortment!
So, when we decided to partner up and split a booth, we both knew we would have quite
an eclectic mix of goods! We hit different auctions and never know what the other is going to find!
It makes things fun, random, and quirky! Which, as you know from getting to know me through
this blog, I'm all about fun, random, and quirky! With all of that in mind, we wanted to come up with a name for our new booth space that would reflect our merchandise mix accurately and thus, the name was born.....
Motley Junket
a collection of random vintage wares
- motley: composed of diverse often incongruous elements
- junket: a festive social affair
Yep! That fits us just right! We will definitely have a motley mix of goods! Primitive, modern, frenchie, country, shabby, industrial, cottage, maybe even retro now and then! And for us, junking is social and festive, and visiting our booth should be social and festive too! We want to meet our customers, say hello, and get to know them! It's part of what makes this business unique!!
With that said, to give you an idea just how random our style is, I thought I would share
pictures of a few of the things comprising Motley Junket currently!
This first picture is a shot of our booth from across the aisle. We are still figuring out the best
layout and usage of our space, so bear with us as we learn to decorate a booth with a pegboard
back wall and no side walls!!!
I brought in this funky old
industrial shelf with just the right amount of crust and rust.
It is over 6 feet tall and about 4 feet wide. It's original use was as a seedling starter,
but we removed the electrical components because it wasn't functioning anymore. It is filled with
all sorts of tarnished silver, glassware (including a FRENCH glass ice container!), and
sparkly little odds and ends....
We have a 6 foot tall vintage aluminum pom pom tree!
Keely brought in the coolest life-size animated 1920's Santa that still works!!
LOVE LOVE!!
vintage nativity scene...
OODLES of these vintage squeezable Santas to clip to a tree branch....
a little bit of creamy dreamy sweet and shabby going on in this corner....
check out the vintage pink swirl Fire King cream and sugar set!! So hard to find!!!
This petite child size dresser with attached mirror is freshly painted in crisp white!
It would make the perfect addition to a little girls room!
And the regal red frenchie chair is fit for a princess, don't ya think?!?!
Hope you are all having a great weekend! We went to two auctions today hoping to
hunt and gather some treasures......and we did just that! We got an interesting mix of stuff....ironstone, industrial carts, a commercial industrial restaurant shelf, the most amazing vintage bottle brush candy canes, and an old ornate GRAY chunky frame! All in all, it was a good day! Long, but good!!
