Annual October Girls Road Trip & Found Treasures

October brings on my favorite season, Autumn, and

one of my favorite road trips. 

Julie and I have enjoyed this trip since 2011.

Mostly staying at Big Cedar Lodge

  

Enjoying the beauty of The Ozarks and of course shopping!

Boomshakalaka!

Boomland is one of our favorite home decor stores and offers amazing selections for seasonal decor.

It's a must for us to visit when were in the area!

Another of our favorite haunt is the Spring Creek Tea Room in Ozark, MO.

Not only can you get a nice lunch and home-made desserts, but it's attached to an antique store!

Here are some of my treasures from this trip

 Beautiful Celluloid dress trim

Mini canvas print

Deer plate (inspiration for a Christmas vignette)

Isn't this fox figurine the cutest fox ever?  

Vintage Red Glass Art Decor and Cut Steel buckle

1950s aluminum starburst molds 

Deer platter

(more inspiration for a Christmas vignette) 

Vintage tatting trim

1958 Turkey platter

Vintage Milk Glass vase and vintage porcelain/Bone China lids

 Vintage lace & trims

Like any vacation, we anticipated our trip, enjoyed every second sharing it together

and sad when it was over.

Awe, but another road trip is in our plans...Junk Jubilee here we come!

My recent Girls Road Trip 'Pickin' Treasures

Recently I blog about my Girls Road Trip.  Here are some of the treasures that found their way home with me...

1940s Glass buttons on original card, Vintage plastic Elephant buckle, Sterling Silver flower pin ($1.00!) and a broken strand of creamy pearls

 Large crock bowl with pennant edge design

 Crystal S&P Shakers for making my 'Snow Girls' and some great orphaned lids for another project!

 Vintage 2-tiered Office stamp holder

 Vintage tins - the SOOVAIN tin is a medicine tin that once held Acetphenetidin with aspirin and caffeine & sold for 25 cents

 And

several vintage postcards for 25 cents each

 

 The wonderfully worn vintage handmade
wooden tool caddy worked well as a base for a Christmas centerpiece

I love pickin for treasures!

GIRLS ROAD TRIP

I was blessed this week to take a GIRLS ROAD TRIP with my dear friends Julie & Cindy

We stayed in an awesome log cabin in the woods at The Big Cedar Lodge. 

We were on GIRL TIME - no husbands, cooking, jobs, chores, etc.

We junked/picked at every possible antique store, flea market and garage sale along our route

Poor Cindy... we crammed our treasures around her in the backseat.  I think she only got hit once with sliding debris - OK not hit, but definitely bumped.

We are known as the original CHICKER PICKERS.

 

My motto is "there is always room for more"

At our last garage sale we had to unpack the car and repack it so we could squeeze in three large wooden flower boxes.  These were a great find as they were cheap! and they make great bases for Autumn & Holiday table centerpieces.

 

Aah, but that was just the last garage sale.  We hit a handful more antique stores and one flea market and managed to squeeze in even more treasures... just small ones.

We also enjoyed retail shopping, tea room lunches and the gorgeous Autumn trees of southern Missouri

There was a beautiful waterfall at Big Cedar Lodge

This was our last morning and we stopped by the marina to see the morning fog lifting off the lake.  A man fishing in his boat in the midst of the fog offered this great photo

Autumn is my favorite season...  

"Winter is an etching, Spring a watercolor, Summer an oil painting and Autumn a mosaic of them all." ~ Stanley Horowitz