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It was awesome! Thanks to Maker Faire and all who attended!!!

More pics coming soon, gotta run out the door now!

I am so incredibly thrilled for Detroit’s first Maker Faire this weekend, and I’m even more excited to be a part of it!

The Maker Faire is 9:30-8:00 Saturday, and 9:30-5:00 Sunday in the parking lot of the Henry Ford Museum, and Reware Vintage will be in the Craft Faire tent with a TON of record notebooks and record jewelry! Come see us, then check out the Life-size Mousetrap and giant Etch-A-Sketch on your way to the DIY Theater!

Once again, we had a great time at the Royal Oak Antique and Garage Sale! I got to meet some internet friends in real life, visit with my family and buds, talk with fellow vintage sellers, and see a bunch of my regulars from past shows!

It was an exhausting, great time. Oh yeah, and we sold a TON of stuff.

Dan kept joking that he was going to put this sign out when I wasn’t looking.

The Royal Oak Antique and Garage Sale always has a lot of vendors selling stuff you don’t want – sham wows, cheesy printed blankets, crystal nail files, Tupperware, bootleg and random DVDs (like the vendor next to us)….but also always has hidden gems that make it all worthwhile. I picked up one more piece of the vintage polka dot Pyrex I’ve been hunting down over the years (now I’m only missing one bowl!), a 1950′s Girl Scout troop leader dress, a cool skeleton key to wear as a necklace, and a 70′s T shirt – all for less than $25 dollars.

As usual, I totally forgot to take pictures with most everyone who came by to visit…but I did remember to ask Dan to shoot a video! Why yes, I do have mad skills folding T shirts (years of working in the mall when I was younger all paid off).

Beth Folds Under Pressure from Bethany Nixon on Vimeo.

Our plans for the weekend? Royal Oak Antique and Garage Sale!!!

In the parking garage on Lafayette and 6th Street in downtown Royal Oak, this is one of my favorite weekends of the year. I’ll be packing up the entire website and setting up shop in the garage with Dan, stop on by you Michiganders! We’ll also be selling a bunch of our personal collection not on the site, like our Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and N64, about 100 different video games and a whole bunch of melmac and 80′s drinking glasses (Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids, Star Trek…)

For those of you eyeing something on the site, you may want to order that special something in the next few hours before I close shop for a few days… The Royal Oak Garage Sale is a favorite of mine because we sell SO much. Come Monday when the website comes back up, your favorites might be gone!

For those of you coming, we’ll be in space F65 on the first floor of garage, and it’ll look a little something like this:

Except I’ll have way longer hair and an even bigger smile on my face.

In honor of Reware Vintage just turning five years old, I thought I’d have my very first giveaway!!!

Here’s all the awesome prizeness going on.

This vintage, handmade apron with a great cross stitch design! Scored at a crafter’s estate sale.

A Nat King Cole Record Notebook, made by Reware Vintage!

A copy of “Better Homes and Gardens: Gifts to Make Yourself” from 1972. One of my favorite vintage crafting books, I just picked up another copy from a friend, and would love to share it with you! There are TONS of great ideas and tutorials in here!

And lastly, this great vintage tassle necklace – it’s super long, and even more fancy in person!

All of this will go to one lucky reader! Just leave a comment on this post, and tell me which item you love the most and why!  If I don’t know how to get a hold of you, leave your email address or twitter handle, so I can contact you if you win! I’ll pick a winner at random on Thursday, July 8th, so leave your comment by midnight on Wednesday, July 7th! One comment per person, please. And you do not need to live in the United States – I will ship this anywhere in the world to you! This is only good on this blog – not on the Facebook pull-blog, so Facebook fans, get over here to enter!

I’ve also decided to extend my birthday sale on Reware Vintage! Get 20% off your entire order (no minimum purchase), by entering BIRTHDAY at checkout! The sale will also run through July 7th.

Good luck everyone, and thanks for a great 5 years!!!