Junkie

Believe it or not a hearty group of antique and junk dealers set up at the Wellfleet Flea Market all year long. Sunday was such a lovely day to go out and see what everyone brought to sell. I bought a few things. Nothing fantastic but I will make money when it all sells. My friend Susan was with me. She had been on The Cape to work at a high end auction on Saturday afternoon. She crashed at my house to shop on Sunday. We set up at many of the same antique shows. My dogs were so happy to have a guest to snuggle up to while they slept. Susan found a bunch of interesting sterling jewelry and a funky 60's painting. Click the picture below to check out her current eBay auctions. I am sure this week's haul will be making it on to eBay over the next few days.

I like junk! And I like to buy from people nice and interesting people. Above is one of my favorite dealers who sells in Wellfleet regularly.


I bought these super cool antique chandelier parts on Sunday too. I have no idea if I will make something with them or if I will save them for shows next year. There was just no way I could leave the market without them.
On the way back to my house we stopped at a few of the group shops in Dennisport and Harwich. I found a bunch of 50's necklaces which I immediately brought home, cut and restrung them in to the bracelets you see below. I am calling it The Vintage Restring Project. They are not new for me I have just not done them in a while. I have been stock piling broken or injured necklaces for a while now. Time to get stringing!The pink set above are my favorite. Most of the beads in these bracelets are glass or or pearl and all the beads are vintage except a few high quality large faceted Quartz rounds I added to a few.

Here are a few shots that show my pretty new tattoo done about 2 weeks ago by Cape Cod tattoo artist extraordinaire Michael L. Tupper...and yes, it hurt like a mo-fo. However Michael has a very light touch and it was truly comforting to be worked on by someone I have known for 20 years.
I also got some great textiles and a yellow chenille I need for chenille patchwork quilts in the one of the antique malls. I have some bigger quilts in the works for next season. There were quite a few requests for them this past show season. They are a lot of work...Let's see how many actually come out of my studio in a completed state!

Hope everyone had a peaceful and yummy Thanksgiving...Emily

Brew ha, ha, ha, ha, ha....

My friend Kathleen makes the best tacos! Dave and I went to dinner at her house last week for some taco n beer brewin' fun. The boys bottled one batch of beer and got Guinness batch going for the next bottling. Hand made beer is a wonderful thing.

A truly yummy art. This is the bag of roasted hops after the sparging process.

Chris and Dave in the outdoor kitchen.

While the boys were brewing the beer Kathleen and I walked to the beach in with our wine. It was warm for October, warm enough for bare arms and bare feet. Such a simple pleasure to be in such a pretty place with my one of my favorite girls of all time. The Red Sox were on TV when we got back so while the guys finished up the beer we took a little 3 inning nap...Possibly due to a little too much red wine.

This is my favorite time of year, well actually September and October are the best months to be on Cape Cod. The weather is lovely, everything is still open, the kids are back in school and I actually have some free time to enjoy it.

Hooray.

Hey Kathleen, when is the party?

XO Emily

Emily's Czech art glass button eBay listings!

Ok, time to share some special buttons set aside for projects of my own. I am almost ashamed of how many buttons were piling up in my jewelry supply cabinet. This lovely group is listed over on eBay in my store at a fixed price. Click on the pictures to see them full sized.

This is a rare chance to buy a reasonably priced large lot

Such lovely detail color to the finises and in the pressed glass patterns. It's been 6 years and I am still amazed with each order they make for me. The Czech are the only people in the world producing high quality modern hand made glass buttons.
Just in case you missed the word link above in the text....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180147810876

More soon, Emily

Wellfleet Oyster fest 2007 Emily's Show Pics

The crowd was shoulder to shoulder again this year and the weather was just perfect for oyster eating, beer drinking and buying handmade goodies!

The smell of oyster stew was blowing down the street all day making me hungry. I never spend enough time eating at these shows, they are so busy most of my time is spent with buyers. I did have a lobster roll but didn't eat one single oyster. Sales were over $1,000.00 better than last year...Hooray!! I did have a lot more handmade goodiess at this show than I did last year. This is not such an easy show because the spot they gave me had to be set up and broken down each day.Same thing last year. It wasn't that it was difficult, just a pain in the ass. How much can one really stress overputting up a collapsable tent and 3 tables of handmade goodies? The money was there so I can't complain. At antique shows I use about 12 tables and pack a whole 6 by 12 foot cargo trailer in addition to my van and Dave's truck to fill my 20 by 20 foot spot.

Here are pics of my booth.

Below is a happy warm baby under one of my chenille & vintage fabric baby blankets.

Below is some of my button jewelry. check my etsy shop if you are interested in doing some holiday shopping. http://www.crazycakes.etsy.com/ I have been adding lots of new pieces to my shop for the holiday shopping season.....with more to come!

This is the happy shopper section. That's Barbara Joy in white, We had fun chatting and drinking a little wine in my booth on Sunday afternoon. She stayed 2 hours button shopping and talking about the similarities of our handmade lives. Barbara makes awesome pet beds, accessories & steps. Check out her website http://www.decadentdigs.com/ you may even be seeing some of my Czech glass buttons on her future creations. The gals below were so happy with their purchases I couldn't resist getting a picture of them too.

This gal, who's hands you see below, was really fun too. She bought my 2 biggest and funkiest button rings. Check out her big sterling silver ring with the cherub and set stones. It was Made by Uma Thurman's mom. How unique, I just love it. I have not had time to look up her website and info but what a fun & unique ring.

Sam's spot... I am happy to report she did quite well in the small space she had. It was fun to do a show with one of my childhood friends. It was good show experience for Sam and she got to promote her new etsy shop http://www.samanthamaeve.etsy.com/

Sam and Kathleen above, 2 of my best friends in one place! That rarely happens since my best friends have scattered themselves across the United states over the past few years.

Since this is the only show I do on The Cape, It was fun to see who would be showing up next that we knew! I was happy to see so many familiar faces.

Above are some yummy truffles by http://www.wellfleetcandycompany.com/ They even had chocolate oysters, no real oysters were harmed in the making of the chocolate oysters, I was assured by owner Jude Huber.

Happy vendors were easy to find on Sunday morning. Everyone I talked to had fantastic sales on Saturday. Above is Kathleen Masterson of http://www.kemdesigns.net/ She was a few booths down from me last year as well. I have run in to her set up at the Wellfleet Flea Market from time to time. Rock on Kathleen!

These funky folky paintings were in the booth next to my old friend Ron Kusins, owner of http://www.pewtercraftercapecod.com/ Ron was the first person I ever rented a room from, my first room mate ever when I was 18 years old. I was so happy to see him cashing on the oyster fest fun! That's Ron below, and his ocean temed pewter work in the picture below that.

Above is the Bluegrass band that played on Sunday morning. I wish I could have heard the better but there was definetly more action out in the street where we were set up.

What's next for Emily's Handmade Goodies you might ask?

The Boston Bizarre On december 9th at the CYCLORAMA on Tremont street!!!

Click the link below for the 2007 vendor list & more show info.

http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston_stuff/vendorlist.html

Emily

Wellfleet Oyster fest 2007 Getting Ready

Been spending most of my time getting for my next show which is The Wellfleet Oysterfest on October 13th and 14th it's a fun and super well attended street festival. Click on the title of this post to visit their website. Last year over the 2 days over 20,000 people came to party in the street, eat Oysters on the half shell and buy handmade goodies from a few hundred vendors.

Pretty simple sachets... One is vintage barkcloth, 2 are vintage feedsack fabric, one set is done from a beautiful earl9 1900's wholecloth quilt. I have been looking to fill certian price points and these are my new $20.00 item. They come tied in a stack of 3 with a pretty Czech art glass button on top. I've done a big batch of these for the Oysterfest but have a feeling they will become a regular part of my inventory.

I just found out I will be one of the 95 vendors in this year's Boston Bazzar Bizarre!! you can check out their website here http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston

Getting all my displays together is always a fun challenge. It's all about cramming as much stuff in that space as I can. At the antique shows spaces are much bigger and the shows are run much differently to say the least.

Recently I found these vintage metal flower pots and painted them pink to display my vintage fabric covered buttons. I usually show them in a flat case but that takes up way more space.

Below are a big batch of Czech glass buttons. I have been using flea market finds for displays for years now....

A few months ago I picked up this stacking metal container at the flea market. This month in Country Home magazine they are showing the same piece as a countertop catch all to hide and organize counter clutter.

Below are my latest vintage finds. I went off cape last saturday to do a little treasure hunting in some of my favorite spots. I especially love the funky fabrics and the painted bunny bookends.

This little antique black glass boston terrier below was only 2 bucks! So cute, it looks like my fat little dog Bella

This bracelet is simply amazing. What a big chunk of sterling! It weighs over 4 ounces. Not quite sure how old it is because it's marked 925 instead of sterling. Pieces marked streling are generally older. Either way what a great & showy artisan made cuff. Not for the faint of heart!

Emily

Camp Life... Antique Photos Of A Simpler Time

Beautiful photos of a time gone by. Click on them to see a larger view. I wish I was there in the woods relaxing with them eating donuts, yes donuts and drinking wine in the snow. My kind of party...I am actually more of a cake girl than a donut girl. I wonder what's in the hanging pot?

I recently purchased these photos for my own growing collection of antique photos. I have always been fascinated with the past and how people lived when life was a lot more simple. Lately I would like my own life to be a lot more simple & unencumbered. But for now I will escape in to these fantastic photos.

Emily

Emily's Brimfield September 2007 photos

It was a hot one that's for sure. I didn't do a lot of picture taking at this show, just too hot to do a lot of walking. It was in the high 80's both days. The show was a bit slow compared to last September but the buyers were $till $pending. Most of my friends in J&J still did as well as they have done at past September shows that weren't as hot. It was actually hotter and more humid at this show than it was in July. Fortunately there was a really nice breeze on Saturday and we got out of town before the thunder and lightning came through. That's always a little scary in Brimfield when you are standing in a show tent made from metal poles in a big open field.Above is a case of smalls in Joann's tent a few down the row from me. Those are her cute little vintage plastic toys below as well. I just love her vintage fabric stockings below the toys too. They really came out great. The holidays are closer than I want to believe!!!
I am sure we will be seeing more in Joann's Etsy shop for the holiday shopping and decorating season below is a link to her online shop

www.josewsvintagebags.etsy.com

Such a pretty European linens booth in the Brook row. Couldn't resist snapping a picture. Below is one of my favorite booths down in the back of the J&J where I bought the most stuff at this show. when I unpack I will share my Brimfield finds. Bought a few things for my house and a few goodies I will resale. I am keeping this folky wire heart antique doormat for my house. Here it is in my cargo trailer where I live when I am in Brimfield.
Don't feel too sorry for me. Dave, my honey, has a half hybrid truck so we have electricity to plug in to and we sleep on a fluffy futon under fluffy vintage chenille spreads. It's actually really fun. We even has a fan in the trailer since it was so hot. Got to love my man and his man-gadgets. I bought a Sirius satellite radio before we went to the Madison-Bouckville show so we had music in the tent which really makes a nice & relaxing shopping and selling environment.

These porch rockers were put to good use after the show on Friday. We had a little gathering involving a super spread of BBQ and picnic food goodness for dinner followed by a bunch of cocktails and show stories while relaxing in a big circle of Bruce's rockers. I had the lime green one in the back row.

The pictures below are all from my booth.

I met so many friendly new faces and saw many of my favorite repeat customers. One lady came to the show all the way to Florida to see me. Her husband spilled the beans on that one, said they couldn't come to town until the J&J field opened at the end of the week. She bought a big pile of Crazy Cakes to give as birthday gifts throughout the year. It was a good show overall even with the bad neighbor drama.

Cakes available at www.crazycakes.etsy.com
Loved that Yellow table! Bought it first thing in the morning on my way to the booth at 4am. It didn't stay past 7 before it was off down the lane with it's new owner off to a fancy shop for resale.

Handmade goodies above...Hair ties priced by the piece and also by the dozen for wholesale buyers. Vintage fabric yardage and some vintage clothing below.

My next show is The Oysterfest craft show on October 13 & 14 on main street in downtown Wellfleet, Ma. It has a lot going on like a live band, oyster shucking contests and has HUGE attendance. until last year I had no idea that 20,000 people gathered at one time for one event anywhere on Cape Cod. I love a good street festival and this is a GREAT one. My best childhood friend Samantha is coming up from Florida to do this one with me. I am going to do a feature on her pretty jewelry here on my blog soon. We just set up an etsy shop for her so if you want a preview of her work check out http://www.samanthamaeve.etsy.com/

Until next time...Emily