May show canceled!!!!!!!!!!

Something happened this month that has never happened in the 24 shows that we have done.........I could not find enough vendors to put together the type of quality show that 2nd Saturdayz is known for.

Ruffles and Rust, a show in Monroe is running the same weekend and we share a lot of the same vendors, 4 vendors called and said that they were on vacation, my friend Virginia, a 2sat staple, is out of town working an estate job. Gail and Otis are low on product, Leslie is taking the month off getting ready for Farm Chicks, and there are out of state reunions bla bla bla.......so when it started to seem too thin, I agonized and finally this morning decided to pull the May plug.

So help me get the word out.

I will miss doing the show, but unless we can really be great, why do it?

XOX L

I admit that I don't get out enough.  I have what I like to call my little Tacoma animal trials.............sorta a pattern of Junk stores and Antique malls that I lurk around in for good stuff.

But when I got an invite to go to lunch in Bothell with some of "the most amusing ladies", and I was told there would be chocolate milkshakes as well, there was no question, Bothell next stop.

I had long wanted to stop into Country Village, and it right up the road from the famous Ranch Drive Inn, so I went and I had no idea.......it is like a little disney town, complete with pond and an old guy feeding the ducks.  Sam Wheeler at the Antique Mall made me feel right at home.......and while I was there the most amusing ladies came into fluff their mall space.  It was good hunting and gathering.

So Bothell is on the new Animal Trail list, chocolate shakes and good junk, really what more can a girl ask for?

Jeanne d' arc Living Magazine

We still have some spring Jeanne D'Arc's, let me know if I can mail one to you.  With postage they are 16.00.

Jackie Lee Eagan Knapp just posted a blip on FB about me doing her beyond great show in Anacortes, April 28th, called Island Chicks.     They let the show go for a brief period of time and another promoter did it.  I was not asked to attend when that promoter had the show, in fact I believe I was told that I wasn't welcome to even shop it.....anyway when I read all the nice things that Jackie wrote about I had an "oh God I'm so not worthy moment", and this is why.

Even tho I have been running 2nd Saturdayz from almost the first show, it was not started by me alone.  Truth be told is started on a trip with Frank and Virginia to Port Orchard, which Virginia thought was Port Townsend.....and I was in the back seat whining about Fremont in the winter, and Frank said we should start our own show.  Do it at Sandpoint on the months when Denis doesn't have a show.  Well that went no where, but I coerced John and Bob into my scheme.  And we looked and looked for venues all over the area.  And finally one day at a Denis Eros show I just made up my mind that we were putting a deposit on the venue and going for it.  And we did, we contacted all the vendors we had met over the years and asked them if they would be interested in a monthly show.......Gail & Otis were the first paid vendors we had.  And both John and Bob worked so hard making the show a go.  Bob has the decorating bug big time and that first show that he and Bev did was so lovely.  It was swoon worthy.  But Bob and John decided that they just wanted to be vendors and they were great vendors, they also made the gift bags and vendor bags, Bob would make vendor pins that I would promptly lose, but some of the vendors still wear them.  What I am saying is this.  I am totally responsible for getting the show paid for every month.  But John and Bobs spirit will always be there as far as I am concerned, and if anybody had good things to say about 2nd Saturdayz, they certainly deserve part of the credit.  That is why I needed to put a disclaimer out into the planet internet.

But Thank-You Jackie, my pin boards do rock.

Vendor info, floor plan.

New Vendor Information.

So you think you want to become a member of the Junk Tribe, well here is the scoop.

The market is held monthly , the 2^nd Saturday of the month at Magnuson Park,7400 Sandpoint Way, in Seattle wa, in the workshop attached to hanger 30.

2^nd Saturdayz is billed as a Urban market, not a flea market. I love a flea but 2^nd Sat is just a bit different in that we work really hard to make each market a event that our customers not only leave with interesting items but are inspired as well.

We are a vintage only market, I hate the word juried, but I do need to have a sense of the type of items you are selling, pictures and what other, if any other markets you have done.

We love fresh, never- before -done- a -show- folks, and are happy to mentor and encourage. I love what I do and am happy to help in any way I can.

We are in a small venue, we kinda like a small venue, and we may stay in a small venue for along time. That means we only have room for a small number of new vendors each month. We have our regular Junk Tribe that has been with us since the beginning and we are totally loyal to them about their spaces. But we have some spots that we save every month for new vendors or different vendors and we encourage you to apply and give it a shot.

If you have any other questions you can take a look at our web site, www.2ndsaturdayz.blogspot.com or you can e-mail me at luluz1953@yahoo.com, or call, 253.709.6041 and I will get back to you.

 We are really a happy show. We really want all our vendors to be successful and have a good time.

Thanks for considering hanging out with us.

L.

Floor plan: 

flea markets.

It is no secret to anyone who knows me that I love a flea market or a swap meet.  Not really cuz I like to shop them, I just like the "vibe".

Somehow I have ended up with a really lovely market.  Really, 2nd Saturdayz for it's size and the fact that we have it once a month is extraordinary.  I would be proud to have a show once a year as lovely as 2sat is most months.  But the vendors bring it every month.  I am always amazed and proud to be part of such a great and talented bunch.

But, and here it comes, what I also really love is a market like we bumped into in Elma this Saturday, after the Grays Harbor Swap Meet (which I love).  It was in an old grange, love an old grange hall, and it had a rusty tin roof.  The ramp going up to the door was so steep that if it was ment to be used by someone  in a wheel chair lets hope that they were an olympic athlete.  I was in love before I opened the doors to see it was painted entirely in PINK!  The pink Linda Marcov and I call old lady pink, soft and glowing.  Not only the walls, but the tables and all the benches, old lady pink.  I was swooning.  Geff and I were the youngest folks in there, except for the 12 year old girl selling friendship bracelets.  There were tables filled with the most undesirable crap I have ever seen.  Yet I was enchanted. When I bought candles made by the honey man.......he only had 6 and he really seemed not to want to sell them,  each one he carefully wrapped in a paper towel and closed with tape, in the middle of the candle wrapping he ran out of tape.  It was all stop, everyone went looking for tape.  You gotta love that.  Crocheted beer hats, yes they were there.  Crocheted everything.  In the most ghastly variegated acrylic yarn imaginable.  I was loving them.

And this is why.  I love what we do, all of us that sell.  When Linda was speaking at 2sat a couple of months ago she called what we did a noble profession.  And it is.

I love that those folks gathered items all month and crocheted and cleaned and lugged, boxed, and priced.  Just like we do at 2nd Saturdayz.  We have a different customer base, ours are hip, urban, sophisticated shop keepers and the very discriminating.  But it is the same, the same care and hope that we will come away better off at the end of the day.   

So I hope you will come to our little market this Saturday, January 14th.  I can promise that over Debs dead body there will be no variegated  acrylic anything, but there will be heart, just like in Elma last Saturday.  Hope to see you there.  OX L

My Birthday Present.

  This year for my birthday Geff, also once famous news photog, gave me the most amazing present and  you can take a look at it here My birthday present.  I actually teared up.  It reminded me how far 2nd Saturdayz has come and how much I love the vendors and the folks who come to support us every month.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I do, go take a look.