A Vintage Harvest, It Was A Success!

Well the show is over.

Our first vintage/antique show, A Vintage Harvest was a great day.

  It was a success.  

We had a huge crowd of happy shoppers, 

the garden was beautiful, 

the food was delicious,

 and the vendors outdid themselves with merchandising their spaces. 

Here a just a few photos of the day.

 **Most of all we are indebted to our family and friends for helping us pull this off smoothly.**

Don and Melanie thanks for running The Vintage Bricoleur space and the donut run.

 Mom and Dad Bustos thanks for helping out with loading and unloading, and for a home-cooked dinner the night before the show and lunch on set-up day. 

 Sam and Ashley thanks for running the Porter Station so smoothly and helping with loading vendors.  

Thanks Jim for working so hard all day loading up customers and vendors, and for the delicious homemade dinner after a long show day.

Angela, Trevor, Arica and Coralie, thank you for shuttling people around on the golf cart, getting lunches for vendors, for entertining the little ones who were at the show at different times and for loading vendors up.  We couldn't do it without you kiddos, our Jr. Bricoleurs.

Thank you Mom Sjotvedt and Linda for running a vendors' space who got sick at the last moment.

Thank you to our store dealer Shelley, and her daughter for working at The Vintage Bricoleur on set-up day and show day.

And Betty thank you for the wonderful surprise coming all the way from Texas to show some sisterly support. (and the coffee run)

I could go on all day..... 

there were many more people involved.  Thank you to each and every one of you.

To see more PHOTOS, go to our Facebook page.

Come visit our store:

The Vintage Bricoleur 

3750 Taylor Road Loomis, Ca. 95650

Inside the High Hand  fruit sheds.

Stay tuned for the next show date!

Terry (one of the bricoleurs)

The Life of The Vintage Bricoleurs

Some Details:

(Some of us right before a show.)

Do you ever think about what we have to do to prepare for a show?

 Or to get something ready to bring to the store? 

 Most things go out of the "workshop" or "workroom" different from when they were picked up from an estate sale, picker, someones trash, a private shopping experience, yard sale, the wood pile on the side of the house, yard sale, a very nice antique store. You name it.  It comes from all over.

Next we decide what we want it to become.  Most things are in need of a new "life".

By that I mean it has to be cleaned, painted, mended, fixed to be made stronger, and priced.

Items have to be saved and gathered to create special displays.

It has to be loaded into the truck or trailer and hauled to the location where it will be sold.  And then unloaded and set up.

We somehow come up with creative ideas to display our items.

It is fun to see it all come together.  

Most of the time we have a basic plan.

You get all set up, and in a short amount of time, you have to re-merchandise because thing are selling. On The Spot. 

Fun.  It is a challenge, but I love it.

After a show, the items that did not sell need to be repacked into the truck and trailer and taken home for another show or taken to the store. 

 If we have had a busy day at the store, things need to be restocked or redisplayed.  Most of our items are "found" items, one-of-a-kind, so usually new merchandise is brought in.

This is just a peak into what we do.

Sound fun? Or a little crazy. 

For us it is a little of both.  Mostly fun because we have a passion for it.  We love to create and breathe new life into things.  We love being bricoleurs.

bricoleur:

We get to work together every day.  This is a family business.  Our kiddos (the Jr. Bricoleurs) work right beside us, learning along the way how to take something out of nothing and turn it into something beautiful.

And...

We could not do it without you.  Our faithful customers who support us in this.

Thank You.

We have also met some great fellow vendors, dealers, shop owners and show promoters.  You all are very inspiring to us.

Please visit us:

The Vintage Bricoleur

3750 Taylor Road

Loomis, Ca. 95650

Inside the High Hand  fruit sheds.

Terry (one of the bricoleurs)

  

A Beautiful Sunny Morning in Penryn

I could not resist taking a few pics on the way to the store today.  It is mid January here in Northern Ca. and we have had some very cold weather in the last few weeks.

This little bloom was waving at me as I walked down the sidewalk to the car.  A reminder that the cold will not last forever.

Mmm... Smells so good!

A little bit of verbena coming through the fallen leaves.

Bare branches reflecting off of the street after the night rain.

The sun was so bright I got a sun spot right in the middle of this photo.

(Old granite P.O.-1878 across the street from our house.)

The remains of the granite foundation of the original school house in Penryn.

The historical Palm trees that our town is known for.  These were used to line the  driveways leading to the estates in the area.

This small building just up the road from us, was the office for the Griffith Quarry that was in operation over one hundred years ago.  

The sun was so pretty reflecting off of the 110 year old High Hand fruit sheds where our store is.

And finally our store nestled against the back wall of these primitive sheds.

It's no wonder that I love antiques and vintage, living in this beautiful place.  I was raised in this historical town and I am blessed to be able to raise my children in the same town.

My Jr. Bricoleurs are growing up so fast!

(On our last family trip down to the Central Coast.)

Visit The Vintage Bricoleur

3750 Taylor Road

Loomis Ca. 95650

Inside the High Hand  fruit sheds.

Terry(one of the bricoleurs)

Homemade Soap Available...Soon

We have something new to offer you.

Be watching in the stores and at our shows.

Homemade Soap

So far, three scents are available,

Oatmeal Lavender, Soapy Fling, and Ginger Lemongrass. 

 Carefully made by one of the Jr. Bricoleurs.

Some of the ingredients and tools.

Mmmm.  It smells so good....  You need some of this, you will love it. 

I love mine.

Terry (one of the bricoleurs)



Jr. Bricoleur ~ Angela

Sometime back I did a post about Jr. Bricoleur Shirlie.

This post is about one of the other Jr.Bricoleurs, Angela.

You might remember another post I did about Random Bits.

Angela takes what she calls "random bits" and puts them together to make these.

No two are alike.  These are available at the shows we sell at.  Angela is 14 and has been making these for about a year now.  I am so proud of her.

Terry (one of the bricoleurs)



Happy 18th, Miss Jr. Bricoleur

I want to introduce to you Shirlie, the eldest of the Jr. Bricoleurs.

It just so happens that she had a B-Day this last week.

Happy 18th Birthday Shirlie!

For some time now, the Jr.s have been bringing some items to the shows to try and make a little money.

This last show, Shirlie had half of a space all to herself!  She does a good job of merchanding her items.

Cute little bistro chairs with Coca-Cola.

I love the green bottles in the white wire basket.

I am glad that she had the room to spread out a little, but I missed her in our space.  I like to put her to work.  :0)  She is a big help, wrapping items for customers, making change, etc.

I will be introducing the others Jr.'s in the next week or so.

Terry (one of the bricoleurs)