November Funky Junk Flea Market & Craft Fair

I'm looking forward to this long weekend, not only for the epic gorging that will take place this weekend (blah, blah, blah, family time.), but because I have yet another Funky Junk Flea Market & Craft Sale!  This month we're adding a Friday evening portion to our Saturday fair to coincide with Black Friday. The fine folks just down the street are putting on 5 Points Friday, a great event promoting shopping local for the holidays.  They've invited us to particpate alongside them, so all the more reason to come over to the East Side for amazing local shopping for the holidays!

This time around the sale will have a great array of vendors, some different from Friday to Saturday. (perhaps it's best to come BOTH days!). I hope to include a list of the vendors soon.

October 20th Funky Junk Flea Market and Craft Fair

This Saturday, from 9 am until 2pm Boheme Collectif will be holding it's latest Funky Junk Flea Market.

There will be a host of local artists and vintage dealers, so it'll be a great opportunity to shop local and unique for the holidays!
Here are a couple of pictures of new items that I'll be showing:

Upcoming events

So I've got a lot coming up in the next week and all of it is going to be a blast!

First off, this Saturday, is Boheme Collectif's Funk Junk Flea Market.  Tucked away in an odd little venue, Boheme Collectif will be featuring DJ Sooper Grover as well as some of the coolest, funkiest art, crafts and vintage Nashville has to offer.  It's also a fabulous venue for performance art and music, but I'll get to that in a minute.  You don't want to miss out on this!
 

Below is a sampling of items that I will have available there!

Next Wednesday, the Magic Cabaret will be putting on a night of magic, burlesque, music and so much more to help raise money for Suicide Prevention.  There will be prize packages and individual prizes auctioned off, a bake sale and more entertainment than you can shake a stick at.  I'll be contributing my semi-famous vegan (don't let that fool you) pumpkin bread and a few necklaces to the fundraising effort as well as enjoying the smorgasbord of delights set for the evening.  You can buy advance tickets here (includes 2 drink tickets!):

TICKETS! YAY!

Last, but not least, EraBellum Artist Co-op will celebrate its official, Grand Opening!  It'll be Thursday, September 27th from 6 pm until 9 pm.  There will be food, fun, music and retail therapy available.  I am so excited about my booth there, check it out!

Made in Nashville

I am at Made in Nashville RIGHT NOW!  I apologize dear reader(s), I dropped the ball by not telling you before.  So I am telling you now, come on out, the weather is gorgeous, the food smells amazing and I hear there's a garden made entirely of BEER!  ;)
And I should probably mention that it all benefits literacy programs in Tennessee!

Boheme Collectif Funky Junk Flea Market

So I've been hearing an approving murmur here and there about a group called Boheme Collectif.  I keep hearing good things about the people in it and the shows and exhibitions they put on, so when I saw that they were putting on their very first craft show, The Funky Junk Flea Market, I jumped on it!  This Saturday, August 18th from 9 am until 2, they'll be holding their first ever art, craft & vintage show at their not-so-secret lair on Gallatin Ave.  If you can make it, you should come by and check it out, if all goes well, they plan to make it a monthly event.  There are more details on the flier below.

2 Storeys Antiques

As you may have read in my previous posts, I kinda' have a collector's crush on Carter's Creek Station Antiques.  Slightly off the beaten track in just barely Columbia TN, it's an old general store and grainery that houses many, many booths of antique-y goodness.  The grainery is a separate building across the street from the main location that has been growing and evolving over the past couple of years.  There is a space in it that had been converted into a funky, little apartment at one point, but recently has opened as its own antique store.  Carol and Bubba Storey have been one of my two favorite vendors at Carter's Creek ever since I bought my 1963 combo record player/hifi/TV from Bubba and he drove it all the way to Nashville and helped me load it in the front door.  I have since made many a happy purchase from the 2 of them and I am thrilled that they've opened their own spot in addition to their existing booth in the grainery, 2 Storeys Antiques.  They could not be more fun-loving and friendly and they always have fantastic deals on great items.  Below is just the tiniest selection off items available at 2 Storeys.

Gorgeous metal file cabinet and sundries

Amber luster glass with a carry rack

Funky, chippy radio cabinet, gutted and ready to store your unusual treasures

 

A view of the front and loads of adorable lawn furniture

Like Carters Creek Station, 2 Storeys offers layaway.  Their hours are Thursday - Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 1-5.

New pieces for upcoming shows

I'm on a hot streak boys & girls, just look at me go...

Made using vintage pocket knives

more fun with vintage pocket knives

upcycled old buttons

old academic achievement medals

the book charm is also a locket/pill box/mini-storage

more in the "Key to My Heart" series

fancy new earrings

a few more over-sized rings

New jewelry and vintage

I've been working, hoarding shinies and pounding the pavement for new trinkets to sell or reimagine.

A few new jewelry pieces...

And some "new" vintage...

 

And some new pieces of "potential"!