Mimis' Suitcase hits the road!!!!

2 weeks ago Mimis Suitcase hit the road for our first ever flea market!!! check out some of our groovy wares that were for sale!!!

 I love the old thermos' they are fun to actually use...i am working on a collection for when i buy myself a glamper!!!!

 beautiful colors! i love these awesome summer colors!!!! the bowls to the right would be amazing for dips for this summers numerous cookouts!!!!!

 vintage state plates galore!!! super fun displayed as artwork! I have a collection of blue state plate on my bedroom wall!

 you can never go wrong with lovely linens....which are also great to make into other things like curtains, pillows, needlecases, purses and more!!!!

Amy and I looking sweet with our vintage aprons! <3 what a fun day we had! although we vowed to park our butts under the tent next time to avoid spending all of our profits! I got a to-die-for 1930s Mother Goose book to add to my collection that day for only $5!!!!

We were up and at 'em at 5:30 in the morning, a major miracle for this girl!I dont do mornings is an understatement! and we set up at the Hartville Flea Market in Hartville, Ohio- i love this place and never dreamed I would someday be a vendor! I am not sure when we will get back to sell there again but rest assured, we will!

For more of our fun finds, visit us at etsy! www.MimisSuitcase.etsy.com! I just put a few items on sale recently and added some fun finds that I didnt have at this sale!

These are a few of my favorite things, well blogs anyway....

On this beautiful summer Saturday, I just wanted to give u a bit o' inspiration.....I have so many blog posts in my head but today, I wanted to share my favorite blogs... Lets start with one of my BFFS Susan and her blog: mustlovejunk.blogspot.com

 am soon to start peddling my wares at her shop... soooooo exciting!!!!!

I love her blog and her shop HOME SWEET HOME~ just went there today~ Susan and I met when i visited her shop about 6 years ago, and fell in love with it, we became fast friends and we share our love of thrifting, decorating, crafting and last but not least...FOOD!!!!! We are always up for some Starbucks, good conversation and lots of laughs!

Next up my friend Laurie and her awesome blog: www.onevintagelane.blogspot.com

I met Laurie years ago at a local craft show, and we kept running into eachother and became friends, her shop is truly a wonderland and I love her sense of style! 

 I am soon to peddle my wares at her shop!!!!

these next 2 are not people i know but they are 2 people I truly admire!!!!

I discovered www.soulemama.com on an absolute fluke a few years back and I have been hooked ever since!!!! 

Amanda Blake Soule  has out 3 books(as far as i know thats all) and I own them all- her blog amd her life, inspire me as her and her family homestead...someday I hope to go to the squam artist retreat and meet her at the taproot gathering... to tell her how she inspires me!!!!! P.S. she is also doing a magazine that I, of course subscribe to.

last but not least at all....I again randomly discovered www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com....but I discovered her first I had seen her face in some sort of crafting blog with Matthew Mead, and wondered what her story was...a week or 2 later i read just a part of her story in Parade in my Sunday paper....I logged on to her blog and bought her wonderful book the weekend it hit the book stands

 Her love for her family and life itself is inspiring as well as her faith and her ability to make everything around her lovely...... lifts me up and touchs my heart

 and she also introduced to the music of her friend, Mindy Gledhill, this beautiful song brings me to tears every time I play it....

I love these women who inspire me....

enjoy your weekend

OUR NEW ETSY SHOP

 Meet my lifelong friend Amy....Our parents met when our Dads were both in the Army. Her Dad was in Vietnam and my dad was still stateside. Our moms were fast friends and stayed best friends for life. Amy and I gained our love of "junk" from spending weekends with our parents cruising flea markets and antique shops. Our prize for behaving on these trips? Beautiful jars of antique marbles, that we traded and collected, packages of amazing "sea monkeys", and big bags of Lays potato chips... Some of our fondest memories of childhood....Fast forward 30 years and we find ourselves knee deep in a love of thrift and the joy of the hunt.... We decided to turn this love into an etsy shop.... devoted to sharing fun, retro and vintage finds.

Our logo: designed by lindsey at thepostmansknock on etsy.com, She also designed the banner for my shop, www.recycledchick.etsy.com She does excellent work and is soon to design my daughters graduation invitations. 

We only have a few items listed currently but plan to load our shop with goodies as the week goes by.
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