"Junk Salvation" by Funky Junk Sisters

Junk Salvation Hillsboro Feb 2012

Most people have heard of Portland for it's environmentally friendly attitude. If you have never experienced a trip to the Portland area antique markets like Monticello and Stars then we highly recommend it for all treasure seekers. Once a year our Junk Salvation Vintage Market hits the Washington County Fairgrounds and It’s really almost impossible to explain the mass of vendors and shoppers brimming with treasures coming from all over the Pacific Northwest. The market only lasts a day and a half so its a flurry of buying and selling the most coveted vintage items.

For us, this sort of non-stop shopping and hunting is fun. We love trying to figure out what odd trinkets were meant for and hearing stories about unique pieces from the vendors. The characters you meet and the variety of objects you find at an event like this is extraordinary.
Here's a small sampling of what we saw...

Happy Junkers!

Excited shoppers!

Great displays!

Serena and Heather!

From left to right, Heather, Dixie, Serena and Linda.

Holy Moly....were we thrilled to receive the news on Friday that

Serena Thompson of the Farm Chicks and Heather Bullard

of Heather Bullard, LLC were going to grace us with their presence at our lil ol

Junk Salvation show in Hillsboro, Oregon the next day.

We admire both of these ladies for their accomplishments and their empowerment to women all over our fantastic JuNK nation. We chatted about the show and where else to go in the Portland area for a "JuNK FiX", then we quickly captured the opportunity to snap this pic with them.

Thanks to Serena and Heather for stoppin' by our Funky Junk Sisters Hillsboro Show! We will have more pics of all the SwEEt TrEasUReS and JuNKtAStIc VeNDoRs soon!

Much Junk Love,

Linda & Dixie

Vendor list and a special guest for our Hillsboro show!

ARE YOU READY?

My oh my do we have a treat in store for you....drum roll please!

Here's the vendor list for our Junk Salvation show in Hillsboro, OR

this weekend.

Whimsical Details

Rusty Chick

Birdsong

The Gasworks Factory

Just Because Antiques

Forget Me Knot Dreams

Molly Mo

Roost

Today's Country Farm and Frills

Sue & Terry Powers

That Jewelry Girl

Sister's Corner

Dymond Graphics

ReCandle Company

Lavender Hill Cottage

Imperfection

Vintage Market

Mack & Momma

Amy Kozma

One Gals Trash

Gypsy Home

Kitchen Clothesline

Three O'Clock Winds

Bella

Pasteesh

Rose Cottage

Auntie Joy

Maison Douce

A Thing for Roses

Faded Charm

Vintage Living

My Shabby Passion

Heather Hansen Designs

Bee & Mason

Poppy & Ivy

Junk Soiree

Hoity Toity Designs

JBro

Sparrows Nest

Christine Marie Studio

Vintage Renaissance

The Garden Cat

Beaucoup

Lazy-Jo Ranch

No Ducks & Bunnies Vintage

Just Chic

The Purple Pear

Found for your Home

Little Apron Pocket

Gurrlie Girl

Simply Shannon

Aunt Adeleine's Vintage

Pierced Zebra

Voondi

Ormolulu

Blue Ewe

French Bulldog

Lorene Edwards Forkner

Linda Morrison of Luluz

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Goodness! We've got more great news! Special guest

Lorene Edwards Forkner,

author of

Handmade Garden Projects: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creative Garden Features, Containers, Lighting & More

Lorene's the absolute best junker/gardener around and she's got a

new book out. We are privileged to have her join us for book signings at the show. Yes junksisters ya'll will get a chance to grab a copy of your own and she'll sign it for you. A junktastic addition to your funky library.

She is definitely our kinda people, don't cha love the pics? They are from her book.

Ok junk peeps...that should do it. We'll see ya'll this weekend! Remember we are doing our

Breast Cancer Benefit/Early Buy

on Friday night from 6pm to 9pm.

Then we will have regular shopping from 10am to 4pm on Saturday.

Here's a link to a map to the Washington County fairgrounds...cuz ya know...

we don't want ya'll to get lost! http://www.faircomplex.com/general/directions.html

Linda & Dixie

Hillsboro, Oregon here we come!

Yes our next Junk Salvation show is just around the corner. It's in Hillsboro, Oregon at the Washington County Fairgrounds on February 3 & 4, 2012. Watch the video below to see what our Funky Junk Sisters Vintage Flea Markets are like.

We guarantee you will like what you see...

This year we have added a Friday Girl's Night Out to the event in Hillsboro. It's a breast cancer fundraiser with early bird shopping from 6-9pm on the 3rd of February.

It's a chance to shop for a good cause.

Tickets for this special event are available for sale here.

Here's a pic from our last one.

A couple of years back we raffled off this fabulous pink tree that was decorated with ornaments donated by our vendors. Debi Ward Kennedy of Retreat Vintage Markets was kind enough to put her wonderful designer touch on the tree by putting it all together for us.

photo courtesy of a high res life

Above is another photo of a Friday Night Girls Night Out where we crowned our sweet friend Sandy, "Trailer Trash Queen". We have since lost her to cancer....every breast cancer fundraiser we do reminds us of Sandy and how we need to keep up the fight against it!!!

Won't you join us?

PARTY!!!

We told ya'll about the cool New Years Eve Party we were called to decorate...

well this is how we did it.

We started out with some old sign letters, two of them were 5 feet tall. They no longer had the neon in them but we were fortunate that they still had the white covers with them. So many letters we come across have been damaged and don't have the covers intact.

We wanted to light them up but we didn't want to spend a ton of money and we didn't have alot of time. Story of our lives, right, huh? Did you know you could buy Christmas light strands in bulk without the bulbs? Yep, we found that out. We bought lotsa feet of it, then we bought several hundred C9 bulbs in our favorite colors....PINK and BLUE. After screwing them all in we duct taped them to the inside of the letter.

Like this....nice and secure. We did have to add a plug to the end and some sort of top to the other end so we wouldn't electrocute anyone. Yikes.

Plugged them in and here ya go! We replaced the cover and surprised our clients with the finished product. We'll show ya'll that at the end.

Here's a pic of the fancy hotel room we stayed in since we did attend the party that night.

It was FAB with views of the city all around.

Here's the finished product with the lights of Tacoma behind. LME stands for Lights, Music & Entertainment. So cool, if we do say so ourselves.

The party was a blast and was enjoyed by all!!!!

Take a Break

We had a super busy week! We decorated a Posh New Years Eve Party for 350+ people that turned out fantastic so we decided we deserved an afternoon of pleasure.

We spent it looking through old Country Home (sniff, sniff, miss that mag)

issues and found this DREAMY pic!

Just stop with your busy lives for a minute and imagine yourself sitting on this bed

with your favorite magazines on a mild summer day.....ahhhhhh!

Wonderful huh?

Send us photos of your favorite vintage finds!

We are looking for photos of vintage pieces... as you have used them in your home. Maybe you used them in someone elses house, we just want to see how you incorporated them into everyday living.

Then we'll look them all over and publish our favorites! Come on it's a challenge... and ya'll know you want the recognition!! Who doesn't?

Besides, it's a chance to share your vintage vision.

Email your original photos to funkyjunksisters@live.com

by February 15, 2012.

Much junk love,

Linda & Dixie

Link List

Junk Salvation Hillsboro Feb 2012

Serena and Heather!

Vendor list and a special guest for our Hillsboro show!

Hillsboro, Oregon here we come!

PARTY!!!

Take a Break

Send us photos of your favorite vintage finds!

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