lori miller vintage design co

the show on the road...

The ladies are on the road again....

I have quite the collection of vintage dress forms and normally they are NSF.

As you know.... not for sale.

Except when the show hits the road.

I like to bring four or five statement pieces.

The show.... Junk Bonanza.

First ever spring Bonanza and IT Snowed.... it snowed a LOT !!!

we got 12" the first day of the show...

will it ever end.???

Luckily, the snow didn't start until we were unloaded and set up.

We even had 4 GOOD hours of sales before the snow started and then it took another 2 hours before the crowds got scared over the driving conditions and everyone split.

With spring in mind.

We set up our space.... I say we because I shared my space this year with 3 friends.

Christine and Lori, friends from Michigan....Re-Treat Design

and Betty from Petunia's.

It was a blast and I didn't have to schlep as much product.

We had a great mix of Vintage product and a little bit of our own creative art.

fabulous birds and owls .... Christine

I dressed my ladies with a touch of the garden....

...of course my camera battery was low.... I cut out a lot of blurry shots but the more I took the worse it got. ugh....

new Barn shirts....V-neck.... big hit

my trophy collection from home

(our first sale)

the spindles were strictly for drama but we sold them.... everyone loved them

chickens, boxes, cases and sock monkeys.... who would of guessed....

the monkeys enjoyed the road trip but unfortunately, they went back home to Michigan....

my new line of vintage silver art

Fun.

The largest canvas 54" x 36" went to a coffee shop....

I am so excited to have it displayed in an public eatery

(sorry for he blur)

Betty brought this fabulous bird cage and head collection....

Love!!!

Betty also put together some fun fairy gardens with fun vintage pieces

overall, we had a blast AND sold a ton....

It was so nice to share a spot....I fit all my goods in Mr. Miller's Tahoe for the ride home.

You gotta love that!!

I made a few spring flower paintings for the show...

and a few for the Barn....

See you there... at the Barn.

Lori - RBPCo.

nature - think green

Hello.

Happy Sunday.

I just have a few minutes before I blast out the door to go to work... yes, even on Sunday !! First the hospital, and then if I am lucky I will have time to run a

few errands before I open the Barn at noon.

The barn ....Fun times...

we are selling the craziest stuff the last few days. Stuff that has been in the store for years... big vintage prop items !! You hate to see them go but it brings on change, which is good.

I have been going crazy with green and pops of color inside...orange is always a good for a smile.

Because the snow is still here...I really thought it would come and go. April Snow storm... who cares... right, it will melt in a matter of minutes...WRONG.

So wrong.... still here.

think positive...it will end...inside, the flowers brighten up the old barn wood.

the green glass candle sticks are awesome...

the touch of green from a little birds nest

LOVE

we have a few of these French script flower stems left

I even dressed my candelabra...just right for spring...

be happy !!

New clocks just in and a great new book

What Katie Ate

Fabulous photos and journaling.

Stay tuned.

The week ahead brings the adventures of Junk Bonanza.

This is the first Spring show Ki has done. I'm sure she was expecting warm breezes and trees blooming, not people lined up in their scarves and mittens, and certainly not another snow storm on the forecast.

I just hope Tuesday, when I load the truck it isn't freezing AND Wednesday, when I unload the truck it isn't freezing. I am a fair weather kind of girl....not too cold and not too hot.

... like I said... the adventure is on !!

This Thursday - Saturday.

Come see me!! I am bringing some fabulous goods

( even some of my collections from home are coming)

Jeanne d'Arc - April issue - in stock

Lori - RBPCo.

Weather

Oh Boy.... here we go Again.

April in Minnesota. Just like my cute little Pooh book... hold on tight!!

It is coming down fast and hard and started with hours of freezing rain.

Yuck.

You can just see the corner of the table... a good 7 " and still coming down.

We are lucky a lot of it melted or came down as rain before the freeze...

Weather

Ugh... bring on the DIRT

These guys... all real plants, waiting for the outdoors and some sunshine. At least when you walk in the front door at the BARN this is what greets you.

Internal sunshine. You can't help but smile when you come in the door.