Happy Halloween!!

Happy Friday everyone!

Just wanted to share a couple more pics of my Halloween Mantel....

I finally got my collection of  Black Cats from storage....

I love these little guys & they make the mantel finally come together...

These two are Lori Mitchell...love her stuff!!

Here's a pic of Sandra's table all set for Halloween...

She has a cute little black feather tree all  decked out for the season!

My table did not get the Halloween treatment this year...

it's covered with craft projects for our show coming up in about

2 weeks ( EEK!!!)

I can tell you that this little one... 

Is READY for Halloween...she's gonna be a Bumble Bee!

She got to visit the Pumpkin Patch last weekend and had a ball!

Hope you all have a FUN Halloween weekend!!

Now I'm off to carve pumpkins ...

I'm linked up with ...

Debra's Vintage Inspiration Friday

Scoot over and visit everyone's inspiring posts!!

Boo!

Southern Comforts Fall Festival

It's a beautiful fall weekend here in North Carolina

temps are in the 70's with an awesome blue sky!

I hope to get out and enjoy it this afternoon but I've got

what we call " the creepin crud " of a cold....so I'm in front

of the computer checking out what all of you have been up to...
maybe a walk later... right now I want to tell you about my Saturday....

Sandra and I spent yesterday at the 1st Annual

Southern Comforts Antique & Fall Festival

in Salisbury, NC

A perfect day for it too!

the collage above is just a portion of the venders that

were set up inside and outside of the Rowan County Fairgrounds

antiques, junk, primitives

vintage jewelry, handcrafted items

fresh produce, flowers

and good food!

Southern Comforts is an fabulous antique shop

located in Concord, NC

we met a lot of great people who share a

love for things from the past...

two of our favorite junkin friends were there

first...Tammy from ReFunked Junk

she had a wonderful eye catching display set up outside

great cabinets & farm tables

we love her re-funked/re-purposed/altered jewelry

she was very busy the whole time we were in her space

she had a fab collection of jewels for Halloween!!

loved these....

I wish I had a link for you to go and see more of her stuff

BUT...she doesn't have a blog yet...

she's a teacher and very busy...

but I'm working on her to get one started

 

This guy had the best looking produce!

all grown locally !! it looked like the produce stand in June not October!!

I was impressed and came home with two great "big purple" tomatoes

can't wait to have that sandwich later...yummers!

fall flowers and pumpkins were set up

outside too...they had already sold a ton of stuff when

I snapped this pic...

The other friend set up there was

rock star junker- Beth - from

 Olde Tyme Marketplace

her space was inside & let's just say

AWESOME!!! She totally rocks the vintage displays!!

I just loved all the screen doors lining the back wall

chippy cabinets,wooden stools and boxes

with straw tucked in every little nook & crannie

bittersweet and lucious smelling candles

I wanted to take one of everything home with me...

I'm saving up for her

Christmas Tyme @ The Markeplace

Dec 3 - 5

back at her shop in Marsvhille

if you are local you should plan to attend!!

Here's the loot we did come home with...

a few more jewels for my altered jewelry I'm

making for the show

and all this ...

vintage suitcase ,seltzer bottle & a great old basket

old frames for chalkboards and cork boards

feedsacks and ticking fabric for totes and table runners

 vintage sheet music for wreaths and ornaments

playing cards and game pieces for altered jewelry

cookie cutters, a vintage leather coin purse

clock faces & a cool vintage document box

alot of "smalls"...as we junkers call it

It was a good day!!!

If you are local and would like information on the

Holiday Sale we are having Nov. 13th

contact me thru email @

junkwildnc@gmail.com

Sandra and her sweet Momma have been doing this show for

30 years- this years promises to be another great sale!!

Hope to see you there!

XoXo

Grab our Button!!

Happy Tuesday blogger friends!

I've just completed the process of creating a button for JUNKWILD.

I appreciate all the comments on the photos from the last post.

I actually created three different buttons and decided to go with

"sweet horse" since this was the overall favorite. I'm sure I'll change it

up every so often and use the Chippy Chair and the Rusty Scroll too.

So GRAB OUR NEW BUTTON!!!

 It's easy ...just click on the button tab and add to your blog!

I found all the how to's @ Blogger Central no more cut and paste!!

I'm working on my Halloween Decorating post ....Stay Tuned!

Here's a sneak peek at the little bit of Halloween Decorating I've done so far....

My First Book Page Wreath...made from a 1943

copy of a Gregg Shorthand College handbook

although you can't tell in this pic...

the graphics are pretty cool!

I used a tutorial from

Miss Mustard Seed

here's my mantel...

I made another small book page wreath to hang over the antique mirror

and a Trick-or-Treat Banner 

letter cards from itsybitsandpieces 

and Halloween graphics are from The Graphics Fairy

and cool Halloween subway art  

that I created on Wordle.net   

I'm still working on this mantel display....

This rusty plant holder is one of the great pieces

I picked up at

Old Tyme Marketplace

a few weeks ago during Beth's Harvest Thyme Event.

(If you haven't seen that post check it out here)

I LOVE it here on my front porch with the pumpkins!!

A perfect grey pumpkin, a cool book cover for the season

and my chalkboard door with an autumn verse

the woods are

full of fairies

the sea is full

of fish

the trees are full of

golden leaves

lets make an

autumn wish

( I borrowed this from Paige @ Simple Thoughts)

my new favorite thing is subway art...

I really like how this came out.

it was  fun and FREE!!

Hope everyone is having a great week!

XoXo



Look what I found.....

Old Photos!!

This past weekend while clearing out clutter

for the garage sale I came across these old photos.

I actually took all of these shots myself...yep little ole me...

the first one

~  goats on a dirtroad ~

was taken back in 1987

on my Grandparents farm here in North Carolina

I love this pic! I remember the moment I took it..

My Grandmother ( MaMaw) was standing right beside me....

I miss her. I miss the farm.

They had a great farm!

( today there are about 100 homes where the farm used to be ) :-(

I had forgotten about this pic until I found it in a box

I'm so glad I have it!

Now granted~  these are not professional pics but

they were taken with an old 35MM Camera

(a good one)

but still....

these were just prints that I found in a box

scanned them into my computer

then played around in picnik ( my new addiction)

and voila! I have great old photos that I love,

 and can now share with all my blogger friends!

This one

I'll call it...

~ stumpkin ~

:-)

 was taken about the same time

at Blacks Produce in Denver, NC

Just a few miles from where I grew up.

~ blueridge beauties ~

These beautiful horses were grazing in their pasture

along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, NC

My sweetie and I stopped to take in the scenery and

snap a few pics....it was beautiful!!

I love how the one horse is looking at me...:-)

~metro expo~

This photo was taken at the Metrolina Antique Show

in Charlotte, NC back in the late 80's as well.

I love that show and still try to go every month if I can.

~ sweet horse~

This sweetie was also along the Blue Ridge Parkway

she came right up to the fence when we stopped.

I love this pic...

 the barbed wire fence

the bark on the tree

the grey/white color of the horse

and she's looking right at me!

~ pretty little pinks~

I was working for Lake Norman Magazine

at the time I took this ~ the editor liked it so much

she published it in the monthly edition.

The pink daisies were growing along side this

old post in my Mom's backyard.

So finding these old photos has fallen right into

my project of changing things around on the blog.

I already changed the background & added a new header

ShabbyBlogs.com makes it EASY!!

 next I want to create a button for JUNKWILD.

So here are a few I'm playing around with...

I'm not sure how to get the whole "button thing" to work

so if any of you have any tips please pass them on...

Let me know what you think of these!

This beautiful, old, chippy metal chair

sat under a giant oak tree in my backyard

in Davidson for about 8 years

I sold it ( I know!...what was I thinkin'!!)

It was about 6 different colors

I about cried when I saw this photo

This one( and the next) are of an old iron

chippy white

 scroll bracket I have for sale

in the JUNKWILD space @ Treasures On Main.

I would love to hear what you think of these photos!

Did you have a favorite?

late addition...

I was going to post pics of my front porch decorated for Halloween...

but my daughter has been suffering with a toothache the last few days

and now needs a root canal :-(

so I spent most of the last two days

taking care of  Sweet Hannah...(my Grandbaby).

 I am linking this post to

Vintage Inspiration Friday @ Common Ground

picnik is a big inspiration for me right now

to get out and take alot more photos !!

(Hope that's not to lame!)

Stay tuned for Halloween Decor pics to come !!

Thanks for stopping by!

XoXo

A Makeover

JUNKWILD has a new look...

it's a work in progress

I'm changing and adding new stuff all week

Because you all inspire me so much...

tell me what you think...

Please

&

Thank You

. .

^

~

XoXo