Big News! Flea Market Style Weddings Magazine

It is official!  The FMS team is hard at work on a new magazine title!  Flea Market Style Weddings.  Check out the FMS site for more info! I am hearing bells!
Cheers,
Ki

South Dakota. Playground for Real Junkers!

Heading to South Dakota this week to renew and refresh.  I have been spending way too much time at my desk looking at a computer screen and need a junking fix!

My good friend Cammie AKA Midwest Junker Extraordinaire will be escorting me to a few of the places I have been dying to visit after drooling over pics.  I am also hoping to get back to visit some of my old favorite junk haunts.

Hopefully the weather cooperates and the mosquitoes haven't hatched yet.  (Oh, and the tics.)

No makeup, no cell phone service and I can wear the same clothes the entire trip.  Sounds grand!

 No parking tickets in this part of the country!  It will be simply heaven on earth!
Cheers,
Ki

What a great event! Kathy, Susi and Carrie do an amazing job putting together Three Speckled Hens in Paso Robles CA. Great vendors, spectacular antiques, vintage items and junk, yummy food, delightful music make this show a standout!

If you didn't make it be sure to mark your calendars for fall!
Cheers,
Ki

Meet me in Paso Robles CA!

Heading to Paso Robles soon to sign Flea Market Style magazines and shop the Three Speckled Hen's show. I can't wait! It is an amazing event held in Paso Robles, one of the most beautiful areas in California. (Just 2 hours north of Santa Barbara.)

I met the Hens at the fabulous Farm Chicks show in Spokane last June and knew I wanted to be part of their fun sale! On a trip to Paso I got to hang out with Susi, Carrie and Kathy at Susi's family's vineyard and tasting room. Check out my post here.

Don't miss this great antiques show and sale! April 14th & 15th (I am signing mags on the 14th)
Check out their website for all the scoop!
Cheers,
Ki

Portrait Obsession

If you know me, you know I have this obsession with oil paintings. Specifically portraits of men and women. I recently saw these two paintings at Melrose Trading Post, a great little weekly flea just down the street from my house. Which one do you think I brought home to hang with my collection?

Five bucks and it was mine! Her name is Bertha and she was painted by Mary Rex in 1958. Even though she looks a tad stern, I believe she was a fun gal!

Cheers,
Ki

Flea Market Style Cover Reveal

I am always relieved when the cover is put to bed! It is pretty stressful. Lots to choose from and probably the most important part of the process for a newsstand publication. The Spring issue should hit the stands mid to late February. I know you will love it. I do. I have seen every inch of every page a million times and it never gets old.

We are hard at it on the Fall issue but thought I would take just a moment to express my gratitude to the incredible team that puts every issue together and the readers that allow us to keep doing it. Thank you!

Cheers,
Ki

A New Door Opens in 2012.

We just have to find it!

I believe there is a plan and purpose to one's life. Not sure what mine might be, but I will continue to search in the New Year. One of my favorite sayings is The more you know, the more you know you don't know. It is true.

Life is grand and I plan not to waste a minute. Wishing you a wonderful 2012 and thank you for your support and friendship.

Cheers,
Ki