After yet again stuffing my spring loaded luggage together, Karen and I head out Lucketts way. We went early afternoon because we heard they had done most of the setup for us. Really?! I couldn’t wait to see!
The countryside when crossing into Virginia was AMAZING. Lovely postcard styled farms against low, rolling hills, dotted with historic homes is how I’d spell Virginia. If I had asked Karen to stop at every farm I wanted to shoot, we’d never have made it to Lucketts.
And then we were there. Seriously, I felt positively giddy seeing the sign above the front steps. I’ve been looking at these pictures forever of this exact image and to finally see it for real? Why I didn’t get someone to take a picture of me sitting on their steps I’ll never understand!
Setup was well underway. Rows and rows and ROWS of vendors were everywhere you looked. Exciting! This event is HUGE.
The booth
And then I saw our booth. It was totally decked out funky junk style with supplies displayed in the coolest junk containers, stacks of reclaimed wood, tools galore, everything we would need.
We both shook our heads in amazement at how perfect it was. NO detail was left untouched. EVERYTHING and more for the demos was totally stocked and ready in the coolest junk containers ever. Heather did an AMAZING job!
ACK! It’s real!
The Hometalk burlap totes that were to be handed out were totally cute!
Then we head for The Lucketts Store. I was so anxious to see it!
They were well prepared for the event by the looks of it! 🙂
Funny and genius all at once.
Loved the markings on this trunk styled dresser.
Seriously… you know I died over that bed…
I’ll take two of the one on the right! Coolest wooden lights ever.
The store was AMAZING. Loved the cashier area.
Miriam and Allison
One more exiting thing was about to transpire. Miriam/Hometalk and Allison Hop aka The Golden Sycamore pulled up later in the day and lemme tell ya, I literally blinked to make sure I was seeing them for real! Here they are talking to Luckett’s Heather.
Would you check out Luckett’s ‘parking lot?!’
Allison was even cuter than I imaged. She was the PERFECT winner of the Hometalk / Lucketts trip and it was so cool to take in her excitement.
We three walked the Lucketts grounds. And then Miriam gasped… she spotted a sweet bench with a picket backdrop surrounded with flowers. I immediately knew she needed to sit in that bench and be caught in her moment. So glad we did! I think she needs a bench and picket fence just like this in her own yard one day, don’t you?
YUM!!
Walking the grounds and seeing the good junk was overwhelming in the best of ways. I just wanted to jump up and down and act like a kid! Oh wait… I DID.
Cool vintage numbered bottles… love this idea!
GAK!! This booth hit a home run for me. I raced around and kissed everything in sight, promising to bring one of everything home with me. Although only one thing made it home, it’s huge and beautiful and can’t wait to show you soon!
Metal covered numbers and letters. Getting weaker by the minute…
Glass door knobs, grainsacks, olive buckets and everything in between. Die.
LOOOOOVE these old neutral toned kitchen cannisers! Why haven’t I noticed those spoons until only now? ARG!
If I lived closer, I would have emptied out this booth.
Rusty, metal numbers and letters. Overwhelmed yet? I sure was!!
Lovely white / shabby booth.
Cool, vintage pedal cars. This was a toy booth.
See those stacked empty crates? They’re waiting for the crowds to fill up during…
Next up… Part 7 – HT Lucketts Meetup day!
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And now for something EXTRA cool! If you have Lucketts posts, please link them up below so we can read your own stories! Link up as many as you desire. It’s Hometalk Lucketts storytime!
Lucketts looks so incredible! I hope there’s some sort of UK equivalent I just haven’t found yet
Lucketts was so much fun! It was so nice to meet you as well. We had so much fun at our booth too!
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hey donna, great idea putting all the posts in one place !! cant wait to read them all … ( love being first ) ..lol ..your photos are great ! but of course they are… funny how certain things we all took pics of, and others ..each each of us had our own perspective ! see you again soon ! somewhere ??? jeanne
Donna..what a great idea to have this Lucketts Link party…a great way to see it all…It was so incredibly fun and meeting so many fellow bloggers was just the greatest!!!…Thanks so much for the opportunity to experience Lucketts again!! …loved your pics…you were truly a “kid in a candy store”…..
Hi Donna
Have you come off of Cloud 9 yet? I’m sure I would still be floating if I was you.
And thank you so much for featuring my compost bin pallet project on the weekend. For some reason, I couldn’t link up to thank you on that post. I’m always touched that people even notice my work. Thanks so much.
OMGosh! I LLLOOOOVVVVVEEEE these pictures!!!! If I could have gone, I would have come home with $0 in my bank! Happy, but broke! HA! I can’t wait to see the purchased item….must be special to have been chosen among all of that great stuff. Can’t wait for your next post!!!! PS….LOVE the picture of you “devouring” the junk!
When I wrote this last night, I didn’t know I’d be linking it up here. I think you’ll get a laugh out of it!
XO,
Christy
Hi Donna, thank you so much for having a Luckett’s party. What a great idea! Your photos were so wonderful. Wish I had seen the bottles with the numbers. Would have bought some for sure! And the HomeTalk booth was so full of charm. What fun!
Thanks for the linkup Donna! I love looking at all the pictures! I will most definitely have to spend more time there next year…so much I didn’t get to see. It was so great meeting you and the other bloggers…and Miriam though!
Nancy
I think I would have been doing backflips, Donna. Thanks for all your fabulous pics. I hope to make it there one day. Soooooo wish I lived closer.
I was Loving ALL the photos, but my heart literally dropped (or maybe stopped) a moment when I scrolled down to the petal cars!! Oh be still my heart!!! 🙂 I love all the junk!
What a bunch of AWEsomeNESS!! So happy for you!!
WOW….WOW…you must have had so much fun!! I wanna come visit there….i would need a big truck to get all the awesomeness home…wow
Hyperventilating at the antique toy cars….gasp, gasp, gasp…Thank God husband is next to me to revive me!
And the metal chairs…ACK…they’d be perfect in my kitchen at the counter I redid!
SOOOOOOO wish I was there with you!
Enjoy!
Hi Donna!
I follow your blog and read all your posts as often as they come out! I really enjoy what you do, the pieces you create, and the places you get to go! This would be my dream job. I know this probably isn’t the right time or place to be asking you this, but how would I get started in doing a blog like this? If you want to email me separately, that would be fine, or just comment on this stream if you would like. I am really looking into it and would someday like to linkup with you as well! Any info you can give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!
Carrie
oh your blog is wonderful..love junk too(:)
Gosh, I am feeling a twinge of jealousy as I admire all your photos. Forsure, I need to plan to attend next year.
I so wanted to go to meet everyone but, alas, my son’s birthday was that weekend! I am so making it next year! Love all of the posts and pics of this fun and soon to be nationally recognized, I am sure, antiques fair!!
Wish I had some of these big markets around here.. Love the pictures. I would be broke for sure.