Junking Day with Blogger Friends
I recently spent the day looking treasures or junking with my friends who are bloggers as well!
Two weeks ago, my dear friend Tara from Suburble arranged the perfect day, in my opinion:
To spend the day junking with fellow bloggers, shopping and high tea.
And getting free goodies at the end? Amazing!
So here’s the crew:
Jenn from Clean and Scentsible, moi, Tara, Donna from Funky Junk Interiors and Jennylyn, owner and creator of Fusion Mineral Paint.
We started the morning off by heading out past Abbotsford to Granny and Grumpa’s for some treasure hunting.
There were so many barns full of cool stuff to check out.
Like these beauties. Yikes. These dolls definitely creeped us out!
But we quickly got past the creepy and made our way to the cool, rusty stuff like rows of old vintage looking typewriters.
I snagged this typewriter up right away!
Be still my heart, rows of crocks!! You know how much I love my crocks.
Can I take this one home with me? Pullleease?
I have never seen one that big. I really want it. Is that odd?
I love how everything is organized in these rusty barns.
I love this printer cabinet. I’d love just a tray.
Look, the fonts are written on the front, so cool.
Insulators! Sooooo many insulators.
I spy my typewriter already in my car and I scored these old school desks. I have no idea where they will go in my house but I adore them.
I even made Tall Tara sit in one, ha! She’s such a great sport 😉
I picked up a couple of crocks (of course) and a few other goodies I’ll show you later.
Next we did some shopping in my new favorite store, Spruce Collective. I’ve been wanting to go there forever!
We were dying of hunger by this time so we made our way down a couple of doors to Traceycakes. High tea is my absolute favorite type of meal (if it could be called a meal). They accommodated us without a reservation which was wonderful!
It was so great to have time to sit down and have a girl time chat. We could all talk endlessly about blogging, DIY projects and paint.
Next we went thrift store shopping and I spied this baby. Oh yeah, you might not know this about me but I played the organ from about when I was 6 years old to age 16. It was all my mom’s doing. Hmm…I wonder why it never really took off as a cool instrument to play? It does bring back some lovely memories. Shall I play you a tune?
We ended our day with some tailgating in the parking lot.
For DIY bloggers, that means showing off the furniture you scored BEFORE you met your friends for a day of junking.
I thought Donna was going to snatch that table from Tara.
Have you ever wondered what the back of Donna’s pick-up looked like?
Those rusty objects were her finds from the day. Of course she will do something amazing with them.
And here are all the free goodies from Jennyln! Did you know she is the producer of Miss Mustard Seed’s paint line?
We all went home with a bag full of paint and waxes and stencils. I cannot wait to get started!
Jennylyn is such a sweetie. She flew from Toronto for the day to see Donna!
Thank you for the goodies, girl!
See? It was the perfect day! So glad to be able to call my ‘online’ friends ‘real’ friends.
You girls rock.
It sounds like everyone had such a wonderful time! How great it is to meet up with blogging friends and do some serious junkin! I love the desks!
We had a great time. Aren’t those desks cute? I’ve always wanted a set 😉
Hugs, Jamie
Oh, look at me – not fitting into that desk at all! I can’t wait to see what you did with them – such a steal!
It was a great great day… So happy that I got to spend to it with you, lady!
haha, I’m such a mean friend…you’re awesome girl 😉 And that was an awesome day!
Hugs, Jamie
I LOVE crocks too in fact I seem to have quite a lot of them. I have one on each step going up to our second floor, several I use as waste paper baskets and a huge one that we keep our pellets in. My son told me if anything happened to me, they would go in the garbage. He changed his mind after I showed him the prices on new ones. Now he wants them. Maybe I will sell them when we hopefully move.
I love crocks so much, Patty! I have about 20 or so but I really have to hold myself back from buying them because I’m running out of room. But the uses are endless, aren’t they?
Hugs, Jamie
How fun! I want to come on the next one!
Shauna, come on out here girl!!
Love junking with friends! That high tea is to die for. Yum!!!
It’s the perfect day, right? Thanks for stopping by 😉
Oh I agree, that’s my idea of a perfect day too. Nobody gets blog talk like another blogger and what fun to have such great stores to poke around in.
I couldn’t agree with you more, Grace!
Hugs, Jamie
Oh that was soooo fun… watching you buy stuff! hahaha You’ve seriously got a great eye! And your pics are so gorgeous!
Now I want to go back. 🙂
It’s a sickness, really, haha. I must learn your negotiating ways, Donna. It was so wonderful to meet you and spend the day with you 😉
Big hugs, J.
Ahh!! Such a fun day! It is SO much better hanging out in person! 🙂
Can’t wait to see what you do with your desks and other goodies. I can’t wait to try out the paints! xo
OMG, this sounds like so much fun! I wish I lived closer to you guys. You will love the Fusion Paint it it awesome!
Hi Jamie;
Thanks so much for the shout-out! It was so great to see you all having such a nice day out!
Love your blog!
Elisa from Spruce Collective