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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Taking the Antiques Plunge

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my flag garlands and promised I'd soon show you where they were going.  I'm finally ready for the reveal! 

 
We are now antiques dealers!  We decided to take the plunge and try to rid ourselves of some of the excess baggage stored in our attic, basement, and cabinets.  While I've been selling vintage goods on Etsy for almost ten months, this is our first brick-and-mortar booth (ok, pegboard and linoleum if you want to be exact).  We're a little nervous about making back our booth fee, let alone any profit, but it is certainly an adventure. And a lot of work.  It takes a long time to write out price stickers for books!  

I used two of the four garlands in the booth, which we opened April 29.   The booth still needs some tweaking and definitely more stuff in the display case, but I'm pretty happy with the way it looks so far.  That said, I am very open to suggestions from all you sellers and shoppers out there!  If you see any areas for improvement in arrangement or anything else, don't be shy about letting me know.

Our booth is on the second floor of On the Square Antique Mall, a three-level mall in Walworth, Wisconsin.  The store used to be across the street in a strip mall where, many years ago, we bought the big hutch that is in our living room. The mall is now located in a former department store.


So this new adventure begins.  I just hope it is a Sweet Posy Dream, not a Sweet Posy Nightmare!


21 comments:

  1. That's fantastic! What a wonderful new venture. Wishing you the very best of luck and lots of sales. Your booth with your bunting looks wonderful. I did something similar a few years ago so I know how much work and time it takes. Maggie xx

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  2. That's awesome. I wish you all the best. I can see stuff I might like to own already.

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  3. Your booth looks wonderful! Congratulations and best of luck!

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  4. What an exciting new adventure! Congratulations and good luck!

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  5. Congratulations on taking the plunge! There is only one way to find out if it's going to work and you are doing it. What a cute shop. I wish you the very best!!!

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  6. Congratulations Lynette! How exciting! I would love to have a pegboard and linoleum shop! :)

    You have such beautiful things. I know it will be a success! Best of luck!

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  7. Your booth looks great. Hope everythings goes well and lots of buyers!!! =)

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  8. How exciting! It looks great. Best of luck.

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  9. How exciting. I would love to have a little spot. Love tha banners
    Thanks for commenting on my fairy garden. That sweet little house I bought at a wine and chesse festival here in the village. I think I paid $30 for it two years ago. I went to the garden center and they had ones half the sizr for $70........same person made them. They had a teeny tiny wishing well for $30. I am hoping to go to the festival this year and see if the person is back.
    I added a fence to the grden and took out the marble path and put some other kind of stones in. It's so addicting.

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  10. Congratulations! Hubby and I love to browse shops like yours....I'm sure you'll do great.
    Debbi
    -yankeeburrowcreations

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  11. Congratulations so exciting!! I hope it is super successful. I wanted to open a booth too and had planned to on March 1 this year and I chickened out! I worried about making rent and if I could be successful at it....Good Luck!!! Love the wicker rocker!

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  12. I love antiques so I hope your new business venture is well supported and goes well. How exciting for you. I'm sure you'll do wonderfully well xx

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  13. Congratulations. I am so excited for you. I've been thinking about doing this, but I am waiting until after I get the knees fixed :)

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  14. Congrats! That's so awesome. I'd love to hear how it goes :) I love antiquing and would love to have a booth sometime. I know as I get older my collection is only going to grow! That building looks so familiar... even though I'm in Washington so I've definitely never seen it. Perhaps I've seen a similar one along the coast.

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  15. Wow Go for it !Looks really inviting especially with that shabby chic bunting!Good luck.x Cath

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  16. Exciting! It looks great! Good luck :-)

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  17. Congratulations! What a great space you have. I've visited several shops like this (sort of like those inside-flea market places). It's always such a pleasure to be able to look for treasures. I wish you much success in your endeavor!

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  18. Wow, that's quite an endeavor! Good luck and happy sales:)

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  19. I admire you for taking this step! Best of luck. It looks great just the way you have it! I would so love to browse there. Sorry to be out of touch. I've been a little down since coming home. Trying to bounce back!

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  20. Your booth looks great. I am starting a small mall and I wish all my dealers had nice a booth as yours. I'm out of control. Richard from My Old Historic House. Good luck.

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  21. Wow, how exciting for you! I can't to hear more about your adventures in antiquing and dealing. Thanks for sharing, liz

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