ARE YOU READY????

AMERICAN PRIMITIVES at CLAYSON FARM

ANNUAL OUTDOOR ANTIQUE SHOW

SATURDAY AUGUST 13TH!

9:00 A.M. TO 4:00 P.M.

ADMISSION IS $8.00

($1 IS BEING DONATED TO THE PEGASUS PROJECT)

50 WONDERFUL DEALERS WITH TONS OF PRIMITIVE COUNTRY GOODS, FUNKY FARM JUNK, PAINTED FURNITURE, SMALLS, QUILTS, LINENS, SHABBY CHIC, VINTAGE GARDEN, RUSTIC METAL MUST HAVES, JEWELRY, FOLK ART, GREAT FOOD AND FRESH PEACHES IF READY (FRUIT IS A BIT LATE THIS YEAR).

GRAB A FRIEND, GAS THE TRUCK, GRAB A TRAILER AND

COME SPEND THE DAY ON THE FARM.

221 HALL ROAD...YAKIMA

RIGHT OFF HWY 12 BETWEEN YAKIMA & NACHES

Woops!!

Well I fell off the wagon for days 3 & 4...but I have a good excuse!! On day 3 that would be Saturday me and my littlest junkin partner left the house at 5:30 a.m. and headed to the Farm Chicks show in Spokane! Lucky for me and Garrett my nephew Coalby goes to EWU and lives in Cheney during the school year.....and again lucky for us is that he is not quite done wih school yet AND agreed to take care of a Garrett for me for the day!!!! So with a surprise visit from Kelsey (Coalby's very cute girlfriend and a local girl who has watched Garrett before) a great trip to the park...the gift shop on campus and pizza delivery they survived the day and it made for a great day for me to go junkin!!!!

Kinda weird being by myself although that feeling soon changed when I drove into the parking lot of the show!!! HOLY COW people everywhere...not sure where all these people come from but it must be far & wide! With the help of good friends watchin my back I was able to "creep" up in line and didn't have to wait the hour or so I'm sure it took the other line to get into the show!!!! I had a mission in mind and that was to get my flyers out to the dealers & friends that I have there so that maybe a few of these gazzillion people would hopefully see my American Primitives at Clayson Farm flyer and grab one to save the date & join me in August!!

There were as many people inside as outside as there was an early buyer ticket that could be purchased that got you into the show an hour early. With a whole new bay of vendors this is a titch overwhelming....everywhere you look is something else wonderful & amazing....the lengths that some (most) of the vendors take to get their booth ready is incredible. Back seats of old rusty cars, grain silos, gigantic barn cupola, 6' round water trough made into chandelier heck I even saw a booth that had a beautiful live white chicken!!!! Yes people pull out all the stops for this show!

One of my other missions was to get myself back to Cheney get Garrett and get to Moses Lake to watch Claysons 4:00 game. He had a baseball tourney there this weekend!!! Sorry to say that I missed the game but I did get to see the Sunday games and watch the boys battle it out to take 3rd!!! Great job boys!!!

Ok to the reason for missing my post challenge....on Saturday night when we checked into the hotel (whole team of 12 boys plus all the families) there were already 2 other baseball and 1 softball team checked in....so the place was a zoo. I knew that the hotel had a computer and free WiFi so I thought this would be great I won't miss a day cause they have a computer!!! Little did I know that I would be vying for a spot on that computer with 50 kids ages 9-16.....uggghhhh!!!! I even went down just before midnight and they were still on it!!!! Sunday morning wasn't much better so I thought oh shoot I will just post when I get home...got home about 9:30 and got unloaded, laundry started and sat down and fell asleep!!!

So that's my excuse and I am sticking to it!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!!

Born to Live.....Live to Junk!

Down the Junkin Road.....

Oh such a beautiful day....no rain....no wind.....and oh my goodness is that the SUN??? Yipee!!!

So many things going on this weekend....but the biggest goings on is in Spokane! The ever spectacular Farm Chicks show is this weekend!! If you have never been well then by all means empty the truck find a trailer, ditch the kids & hubby, grab a girlfriend or three and get there!!!!

Come on what are you waiting for?....trust me you won't be dissapointed!!!

Where ever you are headed make it a safe trip!

Enjoy this wonderful Friday!


Born to Live....Live to Junk

GOOD MORNING!!!!!

Well here it is day 2 already.....hay this is a piece of cake!!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Born to Live....Live to Junk!!!

*THANK YOU*THANK YOU*THANK YOU*

I need to first apologize for my excessive tardiness on a very overdue THANK YOU! to all of my vendors, all of my very underpaid help & the wonderful customers who come out to support the show!

If it weren't for all of you I would have nothing!!! So again THANK YOU*THANK YOU*THANK YOU!!!!!

With that being said I need to get this years slideshow on here and some other wonderful pictures that were taken...........please please don't hold your breath!!!! No I will do better I promise!! I did take a big step and get on facebook......thanks to Sarah (www.culturawine.com) I am up to speed well at least for the minute!

I will be back....I have a very fun "Fall Harvest" show planned in the barn on Sat. Oct. 17th from 10-4. I have gathered some great stuff since the August show! Great vintage finds, cornstalks, pumpkins, gourds, mums, rosehips & treats!! So keep in touch!

Have a junk filled day!

AND THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS.........

ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT!
WELL THE LISTS ARE GETTING SHORTER.............OR IF I JUST KEEP TELLING MYSELF THAT WILL IT REALLY HAPPEN????

THANK GOODNESS FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY. MY MOM & SISTER HAVE BEEN TAKING TURNS WATCHING GARRETT OR SHOULD I SAY GARRETT HAS BEEN TAKING TURNS WATCHING GRAM & AUNT WEEZE!!! POPPY HAS BEEN MENDING PICKET FENCE PANELS WHILE CLAYSON HAS BEEN MY SLAVE BOY!!! BETWEEN WORK & HOME MO HAS BEEN SO BUSY HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHICH DAY OF THE WEEK IT IS! AND BLESS YOU SARAH FOR ALL YOUR HELP THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS! WOW COULDN'T DO IT WITH OUT YOU GUYS!

THE WEATHER HAS BEEN GETTING COOLER (YEH) BUT THAT ONLY MEANS THAT IT IS BOUND TO RAIN BUT WHEN???? HOPEFULLY IT WILL GET BUSY AND AS LARRY THE CABLE GUY WOULD SAY "GET ER DONE" AND SOON!

HERE ARE SOME DIRECTION TO GET TO THE SHOW......MAYBE ALSO A GOOD IDEA TO MAPQUEST MY ADDRESS: 221 HALL ROAD YAKIMA, WA 98908

FROM THE SEATTLE AREA:
TAKE I-90 EAST TO ELLENSBURG THEN TAKE 1-82 SOUTH TOWARDS YAKIMA
TAKE EXIT #31 HWY 12 NACHES (HEADS WEST) FOLLOW FOR APPROX. 6 MILES
PROCEED THROUGH THE LIGHTED FOUR WAY INTERSECTION (OLD NACHES HWY)
TURN RIGHT OFF HWY 12 ONTO MAPLEWAY (2 MILES FROM LIGHT)
ONCE YOU TAKE EXIT OFF HWY YOU WILL WANT TO MAKE AN IMMEDIATE LEFT ONTO HALL ROAD I AM THE FIRST HOUSE ON THE RIGHT AFTER ALL THE FRUIT BINS

FROM THE TRI-CITIES/PORTLAND AREAS:
TAKE I-82 NORTH TOWARDS YAKIMA
TAKE EXIT #31 HWY 12 NACHES (HEADS WEST) FOLLOW FOR APPROX. 6 MILES
PROCEED THROUGH THE LIGHTED FOUR WAY INTERSECTION (OLD NACHES HWY)
TURN RIGHT OFF HWY 12 ONTO MAPLEWAY (2 MILES FROM LIGHT)
ONCE YOU TAKE EXIT OFF HWY YOU WILL WANT TO MAKE AN IMMEDIATE LEFT ONTO HALL ROAD I AM THE FIRST HOUSE ON THE RIGHT AFTER ALL THE FRUIT BINS

THERE WILL BE SIGNS ONCE YOU GET TO LIGHTED INTERSECTION ON HWY 12. I HAVE SEVERAL PARKING ATTENDANTS TO GET YOU WHERE YOU NEED TO BE.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR INTEREST AND WE HOPE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO COME & SPEND THE DAY WITH US!

TRAVEL SAFELY!