Auction buys!

 

Well I do not get to auctions very often but my husband found one in the paper that sounded interesting. It was on a 100 year old farm with tons of the junk I love everywhere. It was another hot day in Iowa but it stayed partly cloudy for most of the day. That helped a ton. It was a tough fight but I did come home with a truckload. Love the old red dry sink we got. It wont make it into the shop for the fall Open House this weekend but shortly there after as I rework everything. Going to be hot again tomorrow but the weekend sounds cool. Thank goodness. This heat and no rain is getting hard to take. Hope everyone can come. The girls at the barn are having their open house also. Lots of fun in the neighborhood!!

Oh my I have been so bad with keeping up with my blog. Check out facebook under Wanda Tuetken(at Gatherings as I have posted much more there. We are having our fall event next weekend Sept 13-15. Please stop by for lots of early prims and handmades!

Love the high sides on this early youth bed. It is a grungy old finish. The ticking I bought last week at old farm auction filled it out nice. Then I surrounded it with fall. Lots of new arrivals in the shop and I am changing everything around again. Sold several pieces of furniture this week so  back to the drawing board. The pumpkin family has returned. The first set sold in a week. They fit right into this group. Come by and check out all the new arrivals but excuse my piles as we design a new floor plan!

Love this old door and frame! The burlap wreath works perfect on it!! I can never have enough gourds!! Love this old buggy full!! Getting the shop in shape!!!

Ok I am running out of patriotic and needed some things in the back of the shop! Oh My I am having fun playing with all the new things. Love how this group turned out today!! Nothing is better than fall!!!

More of the shop redo!!

Since I redid the window and pulled things from the shop. Now I am redoing the  shop! Got the front two sections finished today!

Here is the rest of the window!! Love the old dry red stepback with the glass long gone!! Nice size red farm table and old dry dough box with lid!! This window turned out amazing!! Our hours are M-F 11-4 Sat 10-4 and Sun12-4. Will finish the basement today and lots of items are marked down there. Adding things to half price room also!!Stop in and check it out. I am making lots of messes upstairs as I redo the main floor!!

This red stepback fit right in. I left it closed as I like to see the wear around the door!! It is squared nailed but must have been built in as one side is not painted. Love it anyway!!Abe looks great on there!

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Changed out the window Monday! Love this dry old old old red jelly cupboard. Sold one of the bowls yesterday so the stack is a little smaller. THe dark piggin just arrived!

Oops almost for got this great load I got this morning! Huge iron banded mortar! Love the stack of old dry bowls and the old niddy noddy! All things wood!! Love Love love!!

I added the chair and primitive girl! Just got in this tall stepladder in old blue paint! Hung the huge flag on it! This flag was used in WW11 to put on submarines as they surfaced so they knew which country they came from!Geraniums are always a finishing touch! We will not be open Memorial Day! If you ever traveled far and we missed you my cell number is on the door and we will make every effort to be there!

Well our new hours worked great this week! 11-4 during the week gives me much more time to get things done around the shop and I got to go out to gather things twice this week! The wonderful gray log box is great! Square nailed with raised sides! I put a doughboard across it to make it a table! The great piece on the back wall I love love love! It is a wool bundler!! It folds in to make a box and then they strung string through it to tie it up! Can be folded up and used as a shelf but I love all the forged iron on it so used it as a wall piece!! The wooden house is a square nailed beekeepers house! Small openings at the bottom for the bees to enter! All of these items came from a trip out east!! Started redoing the basement this week also! All the green pieces went down and did up a cute group down there. Hopefully I can get some more done down there this coming week!

Just letting everyone know our weekday hours are changing from 11-4! Will still be open seven days a week but shorter hours during the week. If you call ahead or message me I will gladly meet you there earlier or later. Weekends we will be open 10-4 on Sat and 12-4 on Sunday!.Hopefully this works. My cell number is on the door and if we missed you ,call me and we will make our best effort to try to meet you. Just need more hours to go picking and get the shop in order. I  am there early lots of days getting things in order. So if your planning a long trip just let me know ahead of time so we don't miss you!! Hope everyone is staying out of the storms! We have more coming tonight Have a great Monday!

Back wall is full of barrels and prims!!

These are some things I picked up this weekend. Small deep sided breadboard with lots of wear,. Primitive herb crusher, dry old mortar and pestle!! There is a small turned grinder also. This old dry cabinet has a shelf with holes cut out. Works perfect for wine bottles, I put some of my green bottles in there, Abe is hanging out with all those great items!!

Put this hired hands bed in there also!! Picked up the early wardrobe Saturday when we went to Rochester!! Added some patriotic touches to set it off

started redoing the window today!! This dry sink just came in last week. It has an oversized well on it which I loved!! Filled it with wonderful wooden pieces and thought it turned out great!

This is an early square nailed open cuoboard! Filled it with lots of early wooden wares!! I am having a thing about mortars right now!! Have been gathering lots of them. We went up to Rochester  yesterday and I got an early painted wardrobe with awesome old hooks!! One door but not very wide which is what I love!! Hoping to do the window tomorrow with some of the new things. Got some ideas going!! Should be great!! Also picked up a good selection of smalls!! Got them all unloaded this morning so lot of new stuff to play with tomorrow!! Stop in and check it out this week!! Expecting a new box of soldiers in also!! Come and see the new items as we get them out!!

Had a great weekend at the shop and one of my facebook friends from Missouri traveled north to my shop!! Bringing in a new stepback today hope to find a perfect spot for it. Had yesterday off and went to drs appointment with husband. THen we saw the new Iron Man movie and supper at Carlos Okellys . Nice day! Got some yard work finished up in the morning. Off to the shop to play with my new stepback.