Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great Easter weekend! Did you get a chance to do any junkin’ in between all the fun holiday activities? I got lucky on a couple of sales so I have a few junkin’ finds to share with you today.

Here’s my small loot haul. Still not too shabby for only hitting three sales and $8 spent!

Well, actually it is kind of a shabby loot haul, my kind of shabby!

As in shabby-chic, like this small vintage oil lamp, pretty gold mirror and tiny solid brass bunny with perfect patina!

Or this brass Eiffel tower…

Or these precious, tarnished silverplate and crystal salt and pepper shakers…

Or this beautiful footed urn, perfect for displaying my tulips from the Easter bunny. Very shabby indeed!

I also found two more bottles for my collection. So many cool finds, it’s hard to choose a favorite!

This old rusty, yellow golf basket, was only $1.00. It’s a pretty cool find because my youngest son just took up golf and he likes old sports related junk too. I couldn’t resist using it for an Easter basket, at least for the weekend! As you can see from the Nerf guns and swords in the background (keepin’ it real), it was a nice Easter weekend with lots of outdoor fun. Spring has sprung in full force and yard sale season is really here now. Can’t wait til next weekend! Are you ready to get junkin’ too?

Amber

Parties:

Let’s Talk Vintage at Vintage and Co,

Vintage Charm Party

Friday was my birthday so I treated myself to a little  junkin’. First I hit my favorite consignment shop where I found three very old ironstone mugs. I actually went looking  specifically for ironstone mugs, so it must have been my birthday luck!

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I am a junkaholic. Or at least I think I think I am. I love a good rummage sale and prefer to spend my free time on the hunt for anything vintage. My previous blog and IG name, “Junkaholics Unanimous” was a play on my addiction to junkin’ and being proud of it. On my blog I called for all vintage junk addicts to proudly unite along with me, and many did! One day I was discussing the ideas for my new blog with my dear blogging friend Olivia at Reinvented Collection. She has a stunning blog and gorgeous French style. She has been such a blessing to me as I have jumped back on the blogging horse and I truly value her opinion and expertise.

We were discussing whether or not to keep my old name on Instagram and other social media accounts when I launched Follow The Yellow Brick Home. Out of nowhere she said, “Amber! ‘Junkaholic’ does NOT represent your style!” One thing about Olivia—she is a straight shooter!

What? Why? How? Junk IS my style. I love anything chipping, rusty, crusty, old…junky!  Olivia is in Alaska, so she hasn’t had the opportunity to see my collections of  jars of antique marbles, vintage buttons, and mismatched game pieces, hoards of vintage pearls, or stacks of antique post cards curated neatly around my home. Neatly. Yikes! So maybe I am not be a hoarder? I might be having a crisis of identity!

After listening to her reasoning I began to agree with her. I love to go junkin’, but I really do have a more brocante and shabby-French Farmhouse style. I don’t have hoards of rusty metal and salvaged wood piled up behind the garage (anymore). Inside the garage is a different matter…

Let’s take a look at some of my recent finds that support Olivia’s opinon. Read more