Oronoco Gold Rush Days Antiques show is hard to describe. Picture a small (tiny) midwestern town turned massive antiques show - literally booths/tents set up one side and down another of every street in the town. Dealer wares ranged from the fabulous to the idustrial to the military to the practical.
I was not looking for anything in particular - my house runneth over with LOTS of treasures from past excursions.
I went to escape my children for a day (hey, it's August and I am tired of the whining and fighting and I paid a babysitter good money for putting up with it for a day!).
I also went to meet a blogging buddy - Kim from Mimi Charmante!
I have pictured my few purchases above. The cute little vintage "Nest" stamp was meant to be mine! I love old Bingo cards - why? I could not tell you - perhaps for their graphics, black & white simplicity.... Oh, and I found a Big Ben cream colored clock with a brown face for my clock collection.
Knowing that the Junk Bonanza is coming up in September I decided to save my $$$ - I had such good luck there last year!
On a separate note - I know some of you are finding me via the Junk Bonanza Facebook post....WELCOME! I met with Ki today to show her my initial ideas/finds for the Arc Value Village table top I am doing as the Junk Bonanza's Thrifty Mom. Shopping Arc, I have found some wonderful china pieces, great vintage fabric inspiration and other fabulous table top accessories. I look forward to putting it all together. Ki, of course, had many very creative ideas to add!
Great vintage wares are all over Minnesota! Please leave me a comment if you are coming to the Junk Bonanza!
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Jill,
ReplyDeleteI love your blog! I too was at Oronoco. I was there on Friday. It was hot!! My mom and I plan on checking out Junk Bonanza, we've never been and look forward to it!
Great finds! Oronoco definitely had some fun stuff!! I'll be seeing you at Junk Bonanza!
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Oh, now I am getting sad that I am not coming back for the bonanza!!! Please take lots of photos so that I can pretend that I was there...
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I've heard about you for the Junk Bonanza event and that you would be styling a table using items from Arc Valu Village. Hopefully, will get a chance to meet you. I am a vendor there this year and will be selling my vintage redesigned jewelry as well as other wares. I'm part of a new shop in Anoka that is called "the French Flea" and a contributor with Amy of Junkologie on the Junk Market site. Here's to a fun time at Junk Bonanza.
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