yeah, i am not much for sitting in the heat any more - i am a coward when it comes to sweating in the confines of a building with no air conditioning waiting for someone to decide if they need to spend their pocket change on my trinkets ...i am not sure what i feel about having 'done' the cattle barn flea market.. but I am pretty sure i am done ... we are scheduled to return to waco this coming weekend and bring a uhaul back to arlington after emptying out some storage buildings we have in waco ... i was excited about the opportunity to sell things in the cattle barn flea market and to be fair, i wasn't there saturday and my middle sister and her husband sold things for us ... they had a pretty good turnout ... rod and i went sunday and sales were ok, i bought more than i sold, which is always the case ... the buying there is awesome ... just couldn't bring myself to sell the good stuff as cheaply as some of the other dealers sell ... but, i am going to play out the next 2 weeks or so and see ... guess i have been in the business too long, but if i know i can get $15 on something by waiting for a specific show, why sell it now for $2 ... it was also way hotter than i expected and i forgot to bring a fan ... overall, i don't guess it was not that bad - i got rid of some things, i bought some cool stuff and... i now know that is not how i want to accomplish liquidating some of the things i have accumulated ...
so today we had a day off, sort of, from work - we didn't have to wear work clothes, though they still called us all day long and at the end of the day we have been working on stuff for our employer ... anyway, my middle sis drove us around ... we went to the montgomery street antique mall in ft worth - cool place - busy - but heavy on the 'antique antique' not very junk friendly - at least that i saw - lots of 50% off signs and the like - then we made our way back to arlington and my sister says there is a place she thinks we would like ... she winds us through an older area of arlington and we pull into an older strip center - not strip as in gypsy rose lee strip - but the old style shopping center of a strip of retail stores - this one was probably built in the 30s or so - just about 3 maybe 4 spaces all together - collected treasures was the name of the little shop and it is literally stuffed to the rafters - at least i think there were rafters, but i couldn't see them - the shop wizard - when i say wizard, stop in and you will see what i mean, this little lady is a wiz at everything - she paints, she upholsters, she creates, she decorates, she displays, she sells - her 'can do' attitude will charm you immediately - and i would say these things about her even if i didn't want to rent a space in her shop - i am submitting her photos of the things we do so she can decide if our styles will compliment one another - i didn't take my camera along or i would post pics, but you can see by looking at her website what a wiz she is at display - for now - i will leave you with pics of the cattle barn adventure - you really should make your way out there to shop soon - there is some awesome stuff there and it is all priced so reasonable -
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