colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Feb 1, 2012, 6:46 pm
Methinks the groundhog will not see his shadow, and winter is almost over, because I scored some primo junk this week. Spring junk. My sister Erin (who was BORN on Groundhog Day) and I went to some outdoor markets and shops in Adamstown a couple of weekends ago. It was freezing, and there weren't ma...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jan 24, 2012, 4:35 pm
I got me some winter junk. Which is never as awesome as spring junk or fall junk. But it is the best I can do, considering that it was mostly dug up from local antique malls, thrift stores and auctions. Not many flea markets or yard sales happening these days. I love that met...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 14, 2011, 9:08 pm
I have a special gift for you today: a vintage-loving Ryan Gosling: Happy Holidays!! There's more on my new blog, Vintage Picker Ryan Gosling. Read the whole list of fresh gifts.    
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 13, 2011, 5:06 pm
Candied Pecans. They are like potato chips - you can't eat just one. Unless you are allergic, then you can eat just one, before you go into anaphylactic shock. They are so simple to make. I've used this recipe several times during the past few years. I usually double it, add a teaspoon o...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 12, 2011, 9:26 pm
I bought one of these Waring electric wine openers at a yard sale last summer. This one retails for $31 on Amazon. It was brand new in the box - the woman who was selling it said that her brother bought it for her as a gift, but she already had a regular wine opener that she liked. That woman is a d...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 11, 2011, 8:12 pm
Today's guest post comes from fellow blogger/vintage freak, Pam of One Gal's Trash and Plucky Maiden's Junk Fest. She shares one of her favorite gifts to receive: vintage Christmas brooches. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Is there anything more fabulous than a vintage and sparkly object ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 9, 2011, 9:32 pm
Need a quick gift for someone with a sense of humor this holiday season? You know - something inexpensive, amusing and actually usable? (Well, usable if you drink wine and are constipated.) Buy a bottle of Old Fart wine, and tie Stool Softener to the top. Dulcolax would be my stool softe...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 8, 2011, 4:08 pm
... “vintage Michigan” to commemorate my favorite moment of 2011 when I traveled cross-country to pick up Colleen's freshvintage camper and found this cool Michigan map from 1892.  Chris and I used our GPS that day to find the camper, but where we were in Michigan was so rural that we could p...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 7, 2011, 9:47 pm
Every blog I've been reading lately has been saying how vintage Bertoia chairs are on everyone's holiday wish list. I mean, they are like, everywhere. These mid-century modern masterpieces are this year's Cabbage Patch Kid. Or Pong. Or something like that. Oh - and what a coincidence! We...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 6, 2011, 10:12 pm
If you are a smart cookie, you will put these four antiques & vintage-related books on your own wish list this holiday season. Or, if you aren't a selfish wench like me, I guess you could buy them for your favorite collector, dealer or hoarder. I've read and loved the first two, and last two are boo...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 5, 2011, 7:12 pm
UPDATE: We have winner! Scroll down to see who scored the calendar... Just in time for the gift-giving season, Sue from Vintage Rescue Squad released her Dreaming of Junking calendar for 2012. This is her third year of creating calendars specifically for the vintage-obsessed - this one i...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 4, 2011, 8:15 pm
Stationery makes a great gift for teachers, newlyweds, and small business owners who frequently write notes to customers. There are SO MANY stationery shops on Etsy and elsewhere online - it is hard to figure out where to start looking. I bought these flat cards for myself a few month...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Nov 2, 2011, 10:59 am
I swear - I won't talk about the camper in every blog post. I am just mentioning it here because this was our first time bringing it to Clover Market in Ardmore, PA. And it was an enormous hit, if I do say so myself.  We even met one shopper who had the same exact Scotsman as a child! Chris and my ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Oct 25, 2011, 7:36 pm
So...I was interviewed on a local radio show last week: Eat, Drink and Meet Mary. Mary Bigham is a food blogger who has a network of websites about restaurants and events in the Philadelphia suburbs (particularly Chester County, which is where I live). She has a weekly radio show on Fridays from 12-...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Oct 14, 2011, 8:35 pm
Here are some of the totally groovy vintage finds that Chris and I will be bringing to Clover Market on Sunday. This is a Rem Line tool chest, that would make an excellent drink cart. (Is it wrong that I am using a child's chalk board to announce the drink of the day? Oh, well. Hopefully...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Oct 12, 2011, 2:55 pm
Join us at Clover Market on Sunday, October 16, 2011! 10 am - 4 pm rain or shine 12 E. Lancaster Ave. Ardmore PA 19003 This is the biggest Clover EVER! Over 70 vendors selling jewelry, art, crafts, good and lots of VINTAGE & ANTIQUES! Lisa from Brandywine View will be sellin...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Oct 7, 2011, 3:59 pm
Ever since we bought our vintage travel trailer (also known as a camper), people have been asking us where we found it. I thought I would share the daily ritual of frenzied web searches that led up to it's purchase, in case you were thinking about jumping on the camper craze yourself. ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Sep 26, 2011, 7:56 pm
We were supposed to use our camper for the first time last weekend, but the forecast was RAIN! FLOODS! LOCUSTS! We cancelled our camping plans, and, of course, it only ended up raining on Friday afternoon. The rest of the weekend was just fine. Damn you, Hurricane Schwartz straight to hell!
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Sep 16, 2011, 10:00 am
We debuted our 1956 Duro Scotsman travel trailer (aka camper) at the Brandywine View Fall Fling Tent Sale last weekend. I should've charged admission - I would be RICH! So many people took a peek inside. I enjoyed telling the story of Chris and Doug traveling to Michigan to ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Sep 5, 2011, 6:21 pm
Chris, the kids and I drove into Lancaster County, PA this morning for the Landisville Annual Labor Day Flea Market and town-wide yard sales. It was our first time there, and we will definitely go again next year. The sky was overcast, so it kept many of the regular vendors away. I imagine that it w...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Sep 2, 2011, 11:14 am
Every once in a while, the super-awesome readers of my blog send me stuff that they know I will like. They email me and say, "I hope you don't think I'm a stalker, but I want to send you something in the mail. Can I have your address?" Studies show that only 3 out of every 10 people who ask for your...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Aug 27, 2011, 5:00 pm
Here are a few tips on how to prepare your home for a hurricane, specifically for people who can't fit another damn thing in their garage. Tip #1: Tie down everything on your deck or patio Here's what my deck normally looks like: Here's what it look...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Aug 12, 2011, 7:12 pm
Yes, I love flea markets. Especially the ones in Adamstown, PA. Chris and I took the kids to Black Angus, Renninger's and Shupp's Grove last Sunday. Chris and I had lots of fun. I can't say the same for the kids. There weren't many dealers at the markets, so we told them to p...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jul 22, 2011, 1:56 pm
Chris brought home these card file drawers a few weeks ago from an auction. I saw a photo of them on the auction's website ahead of time, and asked Chris to bid on them if they were less than $20 for all three. I figured that I would clean them up, maybe re-paint them and sell them in the shop or us...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jul 13, 2011, 10:11 pm
Here is a peek of part of my globe collection. These are in my bedroom.  My neighbor Teresa always busts on me about having globes in my bedroom. It always ends up with some joke about Chris playing with my globes. Every once in a while, I make the grave mistake of looking too closely a...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jul 2, 2011, 2:21 pm
I hope all of you in the U.S. are enjoying the long weekend. We are celebrating Maeve's 7th birthday with a sleepover and my attempt at the cheesiest patriotic birthday cake ever made... Making blueberry-filled ice balls for our neighbors' patio party, with berrie...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jun 22, 2011, 5:01 pm
Here is one week's worth of Chris' auction wins. Well, the good stuff, anyway. He seriously bought all of this without my help. I know - crazy! I am a little embarrassed because it is way better than most of the stuff that I've scored lately. He paid $114 for everything in this photo.  ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jun 16, 2011, 5:45 pm
I thought I'd share a few of my more humorous finds of late. This is a set of seven books in the Plain Language Money-making series. My favorites are "How to Scheme Your Way into Profit" and "How to Legally Avoid Paying Taxes". These are from the 1960s, so I think some laws have changed ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jun 10, 2011, 5:24 pm
We had another successful outing at the Clover Market last week! This was Chris' first time selling with me and and I am happy to report that we did not kill each other. This was also our first time using Square to process a few credit card purchases, and it worked perfectly. Our theme t...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 30, 2011, 8:46 pm
My collection of crocheted genital-warmers is growing. (You don't hear that sentence very often, do you?!) You remember my Super Guy gift from Sue and our Allison family heirloom, right? The little orange one is jealous for certain. Well, if a man can have a Peter...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 24, 2011, 4:58 pm
Here's some of the lovely junk that I picked up during my vacation in April. My in-laws met us in Savannah, and we all drove back to Pennsylvania in our minivan: four adults, two kids and lots of luggage. This did not stop us from filling any available space in the van on the way home from Georgia. ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 20, 2011, 7:00 am
I mentioned a few days ago that we would be selling at Clover Market on June 5th. At the last market in April, we had a few customers ask if they could pay with credit cards. Sadly, the answer was "no". But we are getting our asses in gear for the June show, and we will finally be accepting credit c...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 18, 2011, 6:00 am
Chris and I went to an estate sale last week. He spotted these tablecloths first, and then beckoned me into a room that was filled with Florida souvenirs and flamingos. There must have been at least fifty Florida state plates, along with trays, salt and pepper shakers, signs, glasses, flamingo-shape...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 16, 2011, 4:36 pm
I know that some of you vintage-lovin' Pacific-Northwesterners will be visiting that tiny show called The Farm Chicks on June 5th. On that weekend each year, all of us jealous Mid-Atlantic antiquers just sit at our computers and read everyone's Farm Chicks recaps. And wish we had somewhe...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 13, 2011, 4:30 pm
These were my finds from two weekends ago. It was a whirlwind trip to two township-wide yard sales and one barn sale. I had the kids with me, which meant less room for furniture purchases, and a greater need for random crappy toy bribes to keep them occupied. But the upside is that they always provi...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 10, 2011, 4:30 pm
Can something be industrial and unbearably cute? Have you seen this playroom in the new Restoration Hardware Baby & Child catalog?    Photo Credit: Restoration Hardware Baby & Child Website The catalog and website are packed with other ridiculously adorable nurseries, bedro...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 8, 2011, 11:33 am
First there was the Lime Skyy Light. And then Sweet Tea Vodka and Lemonade (widely known as a John Daly). Now, I give to you: Absolut Wild Tea Vodka, Sprite Zero and a splash of lime juice. Or lemonade. Or cranberry juice, if you like pink drinks. Or skip the Spri...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 7, 2011, 4:25 pm
I love you, Lancaster County! Even though I have to dodge buggies and roadside horse shit and little children on scooters when I drive through your lovely countryside. I left the house at 6am this morning to get to a barn sale when it opened at 7am. That's where I bought that...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - May 3, 2011, 3:19 pm
We spent six nights at The Breeze Inn in Tybee Island, Georgia, and every day I would find something new that I hadn't seen the previous day. I didn't want to leave! I originally learned about the house from the Better Homes and Gardens article last summer. In many of the articles in ho...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Apr 29, 2011, 5:28 pm
So many photos, so little time. Clover Market, my Savannah vacation, antiquing along the east coast with my in-laws...I don't know where to start! I suppose it make sense to start with Clover Market on April 14th. This was a fabulous sale for us. We made more money at Clover than three d...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 31, 2011, 9:41 pm
My sister, Erin, and I will be selling at the Clover Market on April 10th from 10am until 4pm. We are so excited to be involved in this outdoor vintage/art/craft/yummy food market in Ardmore, PA. If you remember back in October, I did a tour of the market with a group of shoppers. We walked aroun...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 17, 2011, 3:19 pm
Happy St. Patty's Day! We celebrate this day each year with a little party, because my husband and I are Irish, my favorite color is green, my middle name is Patricia and my first name means "girl" in Gaelic. And we like to have fun and drink (sometimes in excess, but always responsibly) ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 15, 2011, 5:57 pm
We only have a few short weeks left until we leave on a family road trip to Tybee Island, Georgia. We'll be renting the Breeze Inn Cottage, owned by NY Times best-selling author Mary Kay Andrews. She spared no expense when she renovated the cottage in 2009. To top it all off, she painted it a fabulo...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 10, 2011, 7:27 pm
Last week, I found two vintage Sealtest Ice Cream items: a scoop/spade and a yellow wooden box. Have you ever heard of Sealtest? I think it was only in the northeastern part of the United States. My brother-in-law, Doug Hovey, has always talked about the fact that his family ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 10, 2011, 7:27 pm
Last week, I found two vintage Sealtest Ice Cream items: a scoop/spade and a yellow wooden box. Have you ever heard of Sealtest? I think it was only in the northeastern part of the United States. My brother-in-law, Doug Hovey, has always talked about the fact that his family ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 10, 2011, 7:27 pm
Last week, I found two vintage Sealtest Ice Cream items: a scoop/spade and a yellow wooden box. Have you ever heard of Sealtest? I think it was only in the northeastern part of the United States. My brother-in-law, Doug Hovey, has always talked about the fact that his family ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Mar 2, 2011, 10:41 am
I have a new personal picker. Well - maybe not new. He's been around for 12 years. It's my husband, Chris. He loves going to auctions and I need more inventory, so it works out for both of us. Chris went to four auctions last week. After each one, we played a little game: How would I pri...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Feb 15, 2011, 7:51 pm
My vintage finds have been selling like hotcakes lately. Yay! But Lisa at Brandywine View Antiques is constantly bitching that I don't have enough stuff in the shop, so I went out to my local haunts and managed to find some more stock to keep the masses (and Lisa) happy. The ...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Jan 21, 2011, 3:48 pm
In the winter, sometimes I resort to shopping at antique malls to get my fix. It isn't always the cheapest route, but I occasionally get lucky. Chris and I visited Adamstown, PA a few weeks ago. The photo that is hanging on the shoe rack (or baker's rack?) portrays the attend...
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colleen a. posted an article on freshvintage - Dec 31, 2010, 3:27 pm
I know you are all busy getting ready for your fancy New Year's Eve galas and whatnot, so I don't want to take up too much of your time. Here's a quick review of the last few weeks of Christmas fun. The kids made a gingerbread village that looked nothing like the one on the box:
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