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Woodstock Market Opens Fantastic New Location in Acworth
The Woodstock Market has officially moved to the corner of Highway 92 and Bell’s Ferry Road in Acworth and it is fabulous! Fill to the brim with antiques, collectibles, new furniture and rugs, jewelry, women’s accessories and more, it is a treasure trove set in wonderful new surroundings.
Owners Karen Bennett and Lisa Whelty have outdone themselves in providing a great shopping experience in the new location. The front and sides of the permanent market are made up of tiny “shops” on a row of delightful “storefront” designed to look like a variety of adorable stores, each filled with things to delight the most discriminating shopper.
From fabulous antiques to handmade soaps, the 60,000 square feet of the new market is jam-packed with treasures.
The new market is located in the old Hobby Lobby just inside of Acworth, and convenient as can be. The Market is still hosting their regular monthly show, still on the first weekend of every month. The hours for the outdoor show are Friday and Saturday 9 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. During these shows, the number of dealers and items to buy grows, so these are great days to visit the market, too.
The Market itself is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm and on Sunday from noon to 6 pm.
Make a date to see the new Woodstock Market soon, though. It is fantastic!
For more: http://woodstockmarket.homestead.com/
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“Back to the Good Ole Days at the Five and Dime” Sale at Big Shanty
Big Shanty Antiques and Gifts in Kennesaw is having a special day on November 5th. They will be have a special “Back to the Good Old Days at the Five and Dime” sale.
Participating dealers will donate small items in their booths and they will be marked with special tags priced at only 5 and 10 cents.
Proceeds from the items sold will be donated to MUST Ministries.
Big Shanty is wonderfully fun antique mall located just off of Highway 41 at 1720 North Roberts Road NW in Kennesaw Crossing Shopping Center. (For you fans of dancing, it is almost next door to Cowboys).
Big Shanty offers such a wide array of items for sale, it would be difficult to describe them all here. If you love antiques, collectibles, gifts and more, Big Shanty is a great spot for looking –and buying!
Even better, on Saturday, you can buy something fun for a nickel or a dime!
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It’s Brimfield!
It’s Brimfield!
By Katherine CookIt seems like a little overkill to talk about the biggest and best antique show in the US on an antiques blog, doesn’t it?
Hasn’t everyone heard of Brimfield? Well, everyone who loves antiques, at least.
OK, not everyone has, so here goes. Brimfield is the Mecca of the antiques world on the East Coast, and is considered one of the best flea market/antique shows in the world.
Want to know why? How about 6000 dealers? That’s right. There are actually twenty shows all together at Brimfield, stretched along a mile route along Massachusetts Route 20. The shear volume of dealers is staggering.
And it’s the stuff, too. Yeah, yeah, in the south we know the truth. We have some fabulous stuff down here (like hunt boards, sugar chests, plantation beds), but up there, they have been saving stuff up in their attics for hundreds and hundreds of years. There were also lots more people up there saving up lots more stuff in their attics. Sometimes, regular visitors to Brimfield will tell you that great merchandise seems to just pour out of the woodwork.
Yes, it’s overwhelming. A dealer friend of ours went there for the first time a couple of years ago. We saw her at a show a few weeks later. Eager to learn how it went for her, at first she just blushed mightily.
“Well,” she said after a moment’s hesitation. “It was so overwhelming, I left after two days. I just didn’t know where to turn.”
Of course, if you’re going, the lodging issue is huge. People –especially dealers- book their hotel rooms a year or more in advance. But there still may be places to stay for the summer show, and close enough to get you to the show… if you don’t mind a drive.
The summer show is in July this year, from the 12th through the 17th. Yeah, that’s six weeks away, but try to find a room for those dates. This year’s fall show is September 6 through 11, so you can plan ahead. There is a third show every year in the spring, and many dealers we know say they like the spring show best. (Next year’s spring show is May 8 through 12, 2012.) Many who are regular Brimfield visitors will tell you that they like the spring show because, they say, there is a better selection, although with 6000 dealers, how they could tell makes you wonder….
A favorite item you may see at Brimfield…that’s not an antique? It’s the people who print up t-shirts that say “I Collect ______” and wear them to help locate their beloved antique/collectible in the masses of dealers there.
Anyway, if you want to know more about the Brimfield Show, here’s a good place to start: http://www.brimfield.com/
You can see some really cool photos of Brimfield here, too! http://www.brimfieldbook.com/slideshow/index.html
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The Antiques Roadshow is Coming!
The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Atlanta on August 6th.
You can apply for tickets to the AR online, at their website at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/faq_02.html#tickets_03 . You can also apply via postcard. The ticket deadline is April 18th.
The AR is one of the premier events in the antiques world, and even if you can’t go, you can still watch and cheer on our fellow North Georgians!
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The Lakewood 400 Antiques Market
To some that may sound like an odd combination – The Lakewood 400 Show. After all, Lakewood is the area south of Atlanta where the old Lakewood Fairgrounds- the fairgrounds for the city of Atlanta- were for many, many years.
But there is a reason.
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