Antique Resale Shopping Down Hwy 421 Jasper Co & Hwy 2 Porter Co Indiana Junkyard Gypsy Style

This time of time of year in northwest Indiana can be kind of gloomy & cold.  We’re usually hoping for a bit more spring like weather to push us past the wintery doldrums, but that 

con hog Puxatony Phil pulled a fast one on us this year,

 stole our early sunshine & headed for the Bahamas!

With no garage sales in sight for weeks & weeks to come we headed out to some obscure resale and antique shops hoping to score some better deals than in the pricer stores

 where they tend to get more foot traffic.  

All bundled up, we scraped the frost off the windows & headed south down Hwy 2 towards Hebron, Indiana.  Our 1st two stops being at the downtown junction of Hwy 2 & State Rd. 8 sit adjacent to one another; Andrea's Gift And Thrift & Goodbuys Secondhand Shop 

Andrea’s shop was extremely well organized & tidy & crammed pack

with a wide variety of items.

I picked up a few St. Patrick Day items here.

However, someone forgot to tell the sic delusional girl

 that this was a santa bear elf NOT a leprechaun!

Mom found a set of sealed twin sheets for $5.00 that she needed for an air mattress, so she felt like she had scored a good deal.  Diane was interested in New York drawing kit, but they said they never negotiate on price, so that ended that purchase. Never understood small, single owner stores not negotiating a buck or two when they need to move 
SO Much junk.

Keep the stock fresh & moving - right?

Which is what Goodbuys Secondhand Shop 
 is doing next door.  

This was my 1st time there.  I was really pleased with the selection & prices.  Very friendly & helpful. I don’t normally frequent antique shops, but I could definitely see that changing with Goodbuys being a regular part of my junking haunt.  You can get a really good feeling for the the items they carry in their store through their Facebook page, 

as they photograph most everything in the store. 

I Just about fainted when I stumbled across this beauty!

My best find of the day - No, my best find so far for 2019!

Just a stone throw down the road, next to the school is a 1893 victorian home built 3 years after Hebron became an “official” Town.  For probably the last 40 years this structure has housed & served as mini town museum housing the owner operated  

Old Farm House Antiques.

Owner is super friendly & helpful. 
 Prices are spot on retail or over.

 But the eye candy always makes my visit a delight.

 

Continuing on Hwy 2 out of Hebron, we kept going straight on 421 into Demotte. 

 Downtown, close to the post office is Sell it Again.

 

Individual booths, I always like that, so you at least get a chance at finding a deal here & there. They also have a great catalog of store items on their Facebook page. Eclectic mix of a lot of different type of stuff, even big architectural pieces like fireplaces, windows, letters & signs. Or like this chalk dog, which I keep thinking I want to go back & get. 

 I don’t know, what do you think?

Maybe if the booth owner comes down a bit.  Hummm?

I also happen to run across this complete Pink Vintage Round Wedge Spice Set adorned with fruit and the stoppers! 

Always seems like the pink ones are incomplete &

 people are selling individuals wedges to complete a set.

Next we head further south to 

 Jasper Junction Thrift Store & Flea Market 

Hwy 231 & 14 right before Rensselaer.

Had we have known it was 50% off 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month we would have purchased more, but we didn't find that out till after check out. They also have 50% of clothing Tuesdays, 25% off for Seniors on Wednesdays & 25% for Veterans on Fridays. However, these discounts only apply to the thrift store not the individally owned booths.

We finished off our day with lunch in Rensselaer, jumped on Interstate 65 and headed north back home.  Spent a $100 on the excursion & got some much needed inspiration to get me past my groundhog let down.  Nasty varmint! 
Hopefully spring is around the corner, 

but for now I have new things to list for Easter!

Happy Junking! 

Flower Press - Drying Flowers Naturally

So Spring is here, I can tell by all the rain.  Ah, Spring - It's like a good party that summer has to dry out.
So with all the fresh flower blooms dancing in the rain - I decided I need a flower press instead of using all of our heaviest books.  Because, as hubby reaches for "Mathematics - A Human Endeavor" and I tell him No, no you can't read that it has a flower drying between it and "The Illustrated Concordance of the Bible".  His look indeed mandated a flower press.  But come on - really, when was the last time he ever reached for that book!  Bigger question Why!
So he proceeds to gather some scrap wood and makes me a flower press.

Note it has a handle, so that I can carry it.

To where, I don't know.  Maybe just in case I need to press on the spot.  But it's kind of nice because I could hang it.  But scrap wood looking like that - who would?  Or Wood?

 So I thought I would photograph it and put it on FaceBook.  Just a quickie post - no big deal, right.
(Kind of looks like a tombstone for the flowers in front of it.) 
Till one of my twitter followers suggested that I should do a Blog post.  Well, now I can't very well show an UGLY flower press!  So I had to pretty it up.   (Men, they're always causing more work for me!)  Who knows maybe that's what hubby said when he was cutting the scrap board for me?  So I pulled out my vintage greeting cards and vintage wallpaper along with some other embellishments

and proceeded to plan my design.  Decided it would just be easier to wrap it like a package.  Chose the more subtle fleur de lis pattern to match the main vintage greeting card.

Did a little cutting and trimming; A Lot of gluing, and WaLa

A flower press in a pear blossom tree! 

 And in the grass

And in the living room.

  I kindly removed last falls remnants from between the books (some leaves and butterfly wings from a fatal car crash) to store them in a more Appropriate place. Thank you honey.   Tomorrow I tackle the Easter daffodils and the tulips

That should be interesting as I have to dissect them in order to press.  Thank goodness for my biology classes!
Any suggestions on how to make a one dimensional daffodil and tulip would be most appreciated!

Next up Lily of the Valley, Lilacs and most FAV... Peonies!

Enjoy the Rain!

Ciao!

JunkYard Gypsy

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