A Girl Named Timi

Keepin The Farm Chicks High

After that fabulous Farm Chicks weekend last week, I came home higher than a kite on The Farm Chicks atmosphere. My head was spinning with ideas, things I wish I would have bought, trying to remember names and faces of all the bloggers /non bloggers I met and thinking about next years trip.

It's a Farm Chicks high that lasted for weeks and weeks last year.

My high was only to be snuffed out immediately on Monday morning by my Mother and physical therapist.

I had promised to help my Mom with her garage sale this last weekend. My physical therapist just roughed me up so I would be sore all week. I sometime thinks she does that so that it will be a reminder to me that I need to be doing my stretches and exercises on my shoulder on a regular basis.

Anyway.............back to my story of getting high

45 years of accumulation (my mom saves everything) is what my Mom had that needed to be organized, priced, and ready for 3 days of selling.

THANK YOU

WSU Laura for helping me price and organize one day.

That's a good friend folks.

Most of my week last week was helping my parents, catching up with house chores that I was soooooooo behind on, physical therapy, getting the Mobile Estate ready for a garage sale weekend stay at the parents, and making sure The Hubs was ready for his impromptu trip to Florida.

If that doesn't kill a good Farm Chicks high I don't know what will.

On Sunday I was looking to get a fix. I was lookin to get high again.

I called WSU Laura said "ya wana get our high back?"

She was in!

It had been a high killing week for her too.

How did we get our high back you ask?

The Funky Junk Sisters

and a little junk shoppin

Linda, Funky Junk Mama, and Dixie

Have you heard of them? Have you met them? Have you visited their blog?

You need to!

I loved meeting these ladies. We had the best visit with them and will be following them and their Royal Junkness.

Dixie and Funky Junk Mama

This was a great freshman show! They had fantastic vendors, displays were beautiful, and it was set up well.

I hope that they decide to do this again. Because I see a sophomore show from these ladies being even better.

We got to do a little shoppin, a little buyin, meet bloggers we didn't get to meet at Farm Chicks and met some that didn't get the opportunity to go to Farm Chicks.

WSU Laura and I got up early Sunday morning and drove to Puyallup to meet

Lisa, Isabel, and Joy.

and........ an added bonus............

We finally got to meet Laurie Ann of Tinkers Piggies whom WSU Laura and I have been blogging with, chatting with and trying to meet for over a year.

Today was the day!

It was so much fun to meet her and her mother. After reading her blog for so long it was like we had known each other for ages.

Thank you Laurie for coming out to the Funky Junk Sisters sale.

I also got to meet Tiffany from Shabby Scraps. She was one of the very first blogs I followed when I first started blogging.

How stinkin cute is she?

WSU Laura, Shabby Scraps, A Girl Named Timi (with her eyes closed of course)


Have you met Deb Kennedy of Retreat?

She was at Farm Chicks.

I didn't get to chat with her there but I had the nicest visit with her at Funky Junk Sisters.



Bob (aka..Dave) and Deb

They are super nice and if you see them at another show or even out and about.......say hi. They are smart, interesting, have wonderful items and are super fun to chat with.

Have you met Mary Beth?

She's from Poppyseeds in Stanwood.

This is a super cute store that Michele introduced me to last year when in her hood (hometown) of Stanwood.

They have some fantastic stuff in that little store.

This is the lady who stepped in front of me while I was taking a picture.

This is an example of the unflattering pictures I use sometimes as mentioned by Debi Burton in her blog this week. What Debi forgets is that I take crap pictures! They are all usually unflattering.

I decided to post this picture of this woman because her and her friend were having so much fun at this show. They were shopping up a storm, laughing, and visiting with everyone. She clearly had her eye on something and was headed towards it. She didn't care who was in her way. It made Debi and I laugh.

We have all been there!

Lady in the picture.........if your reading.........I hope you are still on your Funky Junk Sister High.

This is Debi Burton from Ormolulu

We met in blog land and through Annie.

Again........she was so busy at Farm Chicks that we didn't get to chat much when we finally met in person. We finally got to chat a while on Sunday and it was so much fun. Not only does she have some very cool stuff.......... she's fun too.

These are some of the pictures I took on Sunday at the show.

I was trying to be all Tres Birds like with my photo skills.

as well as trying to show up all those other blogger with all their fancy great pictures they post. Like Coastal Nest with all her lovely pictures

My picture takin arm is getting better. I can get my arm up past my waist now and I'm getting pretty handy with my left hand. I don't think this is really going to help my photography skills but it's a good excuse right now.

Lisa, Isabel, and Joy

Those crazy girls from Oregon.

I'm also going to include Joy's sister Teri in with these crazy ladies even though she's not from Oregon.

She was with us also but I don't know where she was.

She's just like Joy......only different.

I have grown to really adore and admire these ladies. Spending time with them is like having your batteries recharged. You can't help but be in a great mood and inspired for days on end after spending a day with them.

Let me tell you about a little secret that WSU Laura and I found out about after we left The Funky Junk Sisters Sale.

Something that maybe all of you knew about already.

Laura and I didn't.

Sumner Washington has some GREAT stores!

Who knew?

A few months ago I met Debi Brock (who is a really lovely woman) from Garden Party while I was at Annie's. Debi was telling me about The Funky Junk Sisters, and about Today's Country Store. About Amy being published in Flea Market Style and that I should check them out one day.

It sounded like I really should............

Well this 411 should have been a 911!

I was totally missing out by not following up and knowing this information.

This is Jeanine at Today's Country Store

She provided Laura and I with exceptional customer service!

This is a great store.

We will so be making a trip back to Sumner!

A lot of the stores were closed on Sunday (stupid! Didn't they know it was The Funky Junk Sister Show?) but we hit everyone of them that was open.

The New England Salt Box

Simple Tidings

Picket Fence

Folk Art Gatherings

Whistle Stop Antiques

You should plan a trip there. This is a great place to wonder, poke around and buy. They also have this very fun charm bracelet program that some of the stores are participating in. It's a fabulous idea and I'm going to have to steal it some how.

I bet you don't leave empty handed from this little town. I know Laura and I didn't!

Mark your calendars and dust off those blog badges you made.

August 8th there is going to be a blog party in downtown Snohomish.

More details to follow.