sweet country shopping in okotoks

a couple of weeks ago johnny b. good and i headed off to okotoks via the back roads.  it was a rainy, misty kind of day which makes for soft and saturated photos. 

"All Through The House", were hosting their infamous country fall market.  Their shop is fabulous on it's own, but when they invite their favourite pickers and dealers to set up on their property, well that makes for a REALLY fabulous day in the country.

https://www.facebook.com/Allthroughthegreenhouse

weathered, chippy and rusty!  all my favourite colours, hee hee!

there was tons of delicious goodies everywhere

sunny miss bonnie, was looking so chic in her woolens!

simple country flowers are best

i got all sorts of goodies from this cutie 

they had a great turn out, despite/because of the weather

sparkley jan, had her booth full of her hand made vintage goodness.

these shoes were to small, otherwise they would have been MINE

sparkle jan hamming it up

these are the things i scooped that day

and here's what i did with the dried hydrangeas

i love them, they look great with the dried artichoke

and the school locker baskets hold my ribbons in my sewing room

2  vintage silver jewelry thingys made by 2 bragg creek makers

 the beautiful necklace was made by sue stevens of "Hot Rocks Glass Jewels"  just for me.  i supplied some sentimental bits and bobs and ta da, look what she created!   i absolutely love it soooo much. 

the silver ring was a spoon, it's the most comfortable thumb ring i've ever had.  marina, from "A Little Forked Up" makes a whole line of jewelry from vintage flatware.   also, best name EVER.

I love this time of year, there are so many country markets, antique shows and such.  Then it's Christmas market time.   Just a little reminder to save the date for  the The Vintage With Flair, Christmas Market.   It's THE BEST CHRISTMAS MARKET BECAUSE I"M IN IT!  

Saturday, November 8th,  Red Deer Lake Community Hall.

be there or be square,

xxo

sue

big fat thank you

I really want to thank all of you all who made their way out to little Bragg Creek, and come visit me at my little place in the woods.

 Friday was a blast!  A little wine, a little junk, all mixed together on  one of the last summer nights of 2014.

 The beautiful models showed up, to show off the vintage sari's.  and we're not sari!  for the pun, 

ha ha!

 some retro guy stuff

 kitschy kitchen goodness

the doors are open 

 LOVE your new necklace Cat!

 Mozart is looking good.

 The fashion was flying out da' door.

 Gold and gold is good.

 Come on in.

 Cash desk, showing off the domes, cloches, bell jars made by MOI.

 Grecian goodness

My lifelong thermos collection was up for grabs.

So, again, I appreciate you all who were able to come out, and you who couldn't make it.  Keep in mind the next sale I'm showing at is "The Christmas Market, hosted by Vintage with Flair"  November 8th, 2014.  Me and G are working on a whole new concept, so stay tuned!

https://www.facebook.com/VintageWithFlair

xxo

sue

pickin' in the country this weekend

my co-junkers make wonderful models and furniture movers.  they were the prettiest furniture movers at the show by far.

so we had a beautiful fallish, country weekend.  it was sunny and crisp  with lot's of alberta blue.

saturday was all about beautiful okotoks.

at the crack of "noon-ish" we hit the  "all through the house fall market".  they invited some of our favourite junkers and makers to set up in their courtyard and it all looked so great.  we found some really cute things from pam "the vintage with flair" lady https://www.facebook.com/events/160210714179879/

our co-junker, leslie scooped up the most darling slipper chair slipcovered in a pretty barkcloth, for her vanity, from  bonnie and teresa  "a vintage affair"

https://www.facebook.com/AVintageAffairCalgary

my favourite find was the suitcase table from the cool folks at  "rescued  by design".  g spotted it for me, it is just the right thing for an end table in my lounge.  the suitcase was used to contain an airplane respirator,  it says  Scott Demand Respirator,  NY.  so that's all good.

g picked up a retro clothes hamper for $5.00!  she's going to spray it pink, and use it for her recycling in her atomic kitchen.

the groovy gals "at all through the house", had their shop filled to the brim and it looked just great!  i finally found the perfect mailbox. a nice touch was the beautiful fiddle music being played a couple of real cuties.  https://www.facebook.com/Allthroughthegreenhouse.

after that is was time for some fancy schmancy fashion shopping in the old part of okotoks.  "on a lark" is the sweetest little shop filled with antiques and killer fashion!   i splurged on a linen coat.  then across the street we go to  "ginger laurier".  leslie picked up a pair of smexy camo jeans, that fit her like they were custom made!

  http://www.gingerlaurier.com/. 

then it was time for dunch a "heartland", the most wonderful eating spot,  located in  an  antique church.

http://www.heartlandcafe.ca

we finished dunch in time for a quick whirl around the most impressive "cozy cottage".  i picked some van- gough chalk paint.  g got a most heavenly candle,  it looks and smells like a real cake!  she also got a bullet bottle opener for her guy. oh, and i picked up some bubble bath,  so that just shows what kind of wonderful variety miss laura budd has on offer at her shop. 

/http://www.cozycottageinteriors.ca/

xxo