Show Business | Buying To Sell
As I was preparing for Lucketts, I received some e-mails and comments from a few of my readers who are fellow antique dealers. They were interested in knowing how I select what I buy to sell. The short answer is…I shop for myself. I know that’s sort of a fluffy answer, but it’s true. I […]
THE chair and letting go
If you followed my Lucketts preparations, you know that I made a last minute decision to sell THE chair. Kristi, one of my readers and a shopper at Lucketts this year, was hoping the channel back chair I kept mentioning in my posts looked similar to THE chair. When she saw it was upholstered in […]
Furniture Feature Friday – Better late than never…
Today I was working on some photo shoots and stopped for a few minutes to check my e-mail. There was one from my mom. “Did you forget about FFF? Doesn’t it post on Thursday nights?” Well, yes I did. Sorry about that everyone. I’ve been in a bit of a post-Lucketts mode, which involves getting […]
French Cane Chairs
I’ve had my eye on a certain style of chair for a while. Oval backed, caned French chairs. If they’re affordable, they’re rickety or the cane is punched through. If they’re perfect, they’re too expensive. So, I decided to save up and sell my dining set in order to be able to buy four of […]
Some things are meant to be…
I did sell most of my furniture at Lucketts, but a few pieces didn’t sell. And that’s okay. When I decided to sell the chair, I also decided that if the channel back chair didn’t sell the first day, it was coming home with me. I love it… I also ended up bringing home the […]
Lucketts 2013 Day Two Recap
Day one of Lucketts is all hustle and bustle. Day two is much more relaxed. It was still the busiest day two I’ve experienced in my Lucketts fair career, but it wasn’t anything like the Saturday craziness. I actually had a chance to stage my space and take some pictures before the gates opened… …and […]
Lucketts 2013 Day One Recap
Saturday is always THE DAY of Lucketts. That’s when the die hard buyers come and the place is always bustling. I started the morning super early at 5:15 am, so I would have plenty of time to drive down and get the booth set up by the time the gates opened. The skies looked a […]
Carrying me to the finish line
I feel like I could write for a week straight and still forget to share things I want to share about the time leading up to Lucketts and the event itself. The recap and tutorials and before & afters and stories and pictures and lessons learned will come…but not in this post. Yes, we had […]