Chippewa Valley's Hidden Treasures Visitor's Guide

As many of you know we have had our shop for a year now. In that year we didn't do much advertising, none of which we did any paid ads, only things like Face Book, Craigslist, and of course our blog :) We had a great year, but I really wanted people to know we were in Eau Claire and in Banbury Place. I think Banbury has so much to offer and feel Eau Claire doesn't know it exists, yet.  Sadly we have seen shops come and go and I didn't want to be one of those that had to go! So I was thinking of places to advertise (because when you are a small business you have a non existent budget for marketing). And one day one of the ladies at a new shop that opened up asked if I wanted to do an ad in Hidden Treasures. Of course I said yes right away, I knew what Hidden Treasures was all about. When I worked at Tep's Drive In, we put ads in there! (By the way if you are local, it's located in Augusta, WI. You have to go there! You must get their homemade root beer and the garlic fries that will make you drool!)

Anyways so I knew what Hidden Treasures was all about! It's a local visitors guide that gives information about Eau Claire and the surrounding areas. Including, Fall Creek, Mondovi, Altoona, Hixton, and so many more towns! Lori Schmit is the publisher for the magazine and does an amazing job! Not only does it highlight a calender of events that goes in each city, but she put articles together about the history of the cities or events that are going on and also fun articles about ice cream or picnics, and about local businesses. She does a great job featuring each city and showing all the events that the city has to offer. Hidden Treasures comes out four times a year, each season. So all year long you can find something to do. The best thing of all about Hidden Treasures is it is FREE to the public!!! So when you see one pick it up and save it, so when you have nothing to do, you can open it up and see what is going on!

We put our first ad ever in Hidden Treasures, the summer issue and not expecting it we got this wonderful write about Banbury Place!!! How cool is that, it was everything we wanted and more!

Below you can see the wonderful write up about Banbury Place!!! Or you can check out the entire Hidden Treasures issue at Chippewa Valley's Hidden Treasures Visitor's Guide!

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Before and After announcement!!!

This before and after is very special to me! It all started when one of my very good childhood friends that I have been friends for over 15 years, (I would consider her and her sister more like sisters, than friends.) Any ways she asked if I would paint some furniture for her. She brought them over and I recognized them right away, they were mid century modern dressers from when she was little, her mom bought them for her and her sister. So I remember them in her and her sister's room. So I asked her how she wanted them painted and her and her husband picked out the colors, white and yellow. 

Little did I know that when she picked up the furniture that it would be for her nursery!!!! She told me that she is expecting!!!! I was completely in shock and SOOO happy for her (I think I am more excited for her then I was when I found I was going to have a baby!) I can't wait for December to get here so I can hold that little baby!!!

She also asked me to do the announcement photos!!! Of course I was honored to do them!!! I will have to show you my favorite!!!

Here is the before...

Here is the after...

Here is their announcement...

Congrats Jessica and Sam!!! You are going to be great parents!!! Can't wait to meet the little peanut! 

One Year Already!!!

This month is our 1 year anniversary of being at Banbury!!! We never thought in our wildest dreams that we would ever have a shop. We have so much fun looking for all the cool, one of the kind items! We have met so many wonderful people on this journey so far, including the other shop owners and customers! We look forward to another year!!! Thank you all very much for supporting us by getting the word out and shopping at Vintage Junkies! We couldn't do this without our wonderful customers!

We have a lot going on in Banbury Building 13.

There are two new shops that opened this month

We are also having a flea market in the parking lot June 27th and 28, 2014.

Here are all the wonderful items we have in the shop right now!

Shabby Chic Plant Sale

We have friends that asked us to join their annual plant sale and of course we said yes!!! So we gathered up our yard "junk" and fun unique items that would look cool outside.  We have tons of different plants, herbs, flower baskets, perennials, rose bushes and so on... Today was the first day and it as almost 90 degrees!!! Tomorrow is suppose to be the same, so we will get our tan on...lol.  Here are some photos of the items we have. So if you are local and out and about come and say hi, address and details are on our Face Book page.

Buffet

This is the 1st buffet that we have scored. I have to say these are hard to find in our area or they want A LOT of money for them. I would have loved to keep this piece, but no where to put it :( So someone else will have to cherish it :)

Here is the before...

Here is the after...

Vintage Wardrobe

I saw this piece on Craigslist about two weeks ago, it was posted for about an hour and I was in love with it. I didn't have anywhere to put it though and couldn't justify buying it. I showed it to my husband right before I left to take my daughter to dance and on the way home I got a call from Chris saying you should get it. I asked "where are the heck are we going to put it?" We have no room for it. He said it would be cute in Bailey's room. So of course I called right away to see if they still had it and they did!!!  Go figure the only room in the house that is pretty much done and has all the furniture it needs is Bailey's room and here I am buying a new piece of furniture for it...lol...oh boy. But I LOVE IT!!! I have never seen one like it before! 

I really debated if I should paint it or not. It was pretty wood, but it did have a lot of scratches and one of the legs needed to be repaired Thankfully my mom and Chris did that for me. I did end up painting it...

Here is the before picture...

Here is after painted and distressed...

(The lighting is horrible for pictures in this room, but you get the idea)