Vintage Shop Hop

We are so excited to be a part of the Vintage Shop Hop!  Over 190 antique and vintage shops in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin will join forces on April 25th and 26th in support of each other.

  Some shops will be offering sales and discounts.  Tattered Tiques will have a raffle you can enter to win a "Vintage Girl" t-shirt and flea market tote....perfect for a day of junking! So show a little vintage love and stop by the shop this weekend and see us.  We will be joining forces with Steeplechase Antiques in Barrington, and Lucky Junk in Arlington Heights.  These shops are fabulous and are run by the sweetest ladies!  If you haven't been to either, please pay them a visit and tell them the Tattered Tiques girls sent you!

For a complete list of shops participating visit www.facebook.com/vintageshophopevent.com click on the notes tab at the top.  Then you can pick which region you'd like to         visit.                                                                                                          

We hope you pay us a visit this weekend!  Happy Junking everyone! 

"Fall" for Tattered Tiques

We are celebrating fall here at Tattered Tiques.  We have filled our main table with fall crafts as well as some great treasures that are perfect for fall decorating.   We will have more to come in the up coming weeks, along with very exciting news. We are also going to expand our hours so we can be open more for you.  Now, some cute pics of what's in the store this week.

I LOVE old antlers.  We always buy them when we are up north, because they are plentiful up there. 

More banners, and how about some festive fringe garland.

These are old cricket boxes.  They were used to transport crickets when you went fishing.  We turned them in to a fall display box.

 
We have been busy restocking some of our crafts, including, Marche Tags.

 
Our new favorite find is filled to the brim with lots of goodies! 

 
Many, many more Paris bottles.

 
 
 
We sold out on dressers last week, so we got busy searching for more. They are REALLY cute!

 
See what I mean? We just can't get enough of this color, and either can our customers.  
 
 

Well, we hope you come out and see us this weekend.  We are open this Thursday, Sept. 1st, Friday the 2nd, and Saturday the 3rd.  Thursday and Friday from 10-5pm, and Saturday 10-3pm.  Visit us at 22029 N. Pepper Road, Unit 2, Lake Barrington, IL. 

Threshing Bee

 

Have you ever heard of one of these?  Wikipedia describes "Threshing" as the process of loosening the edible part of cereal grain (or other crop) from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. And a "Threshing Bee" is a festival held in communities to commemorate this process.

The Threshing Bee in Sycamore, IL is this weekend and it starts Thursday!  These pic's are from last years show. I'm ALWAYS up for a day in the country, so last year I dragged my whole family to this thing to check out exactly what it was.  It turned out to be one of the neatest experiences I've had.

Have to park far away? No fear, they've got tractors all over picking people up and shuffling them where they need to go.  The kids were sold as soon as they got out of the car!

Right when you walk in, they have all the machines lined up.  They are a sight!  Being someone that has no idea about this kind of machinery, I was instantly impressed by these train like machines. They were gigantic and powerful!

This one was filling up with coal...as you can see in the background.

 

The best part of the whole show is the parade.  It is at 1:30 everyday.  Do not miss this! The parade is a showcase of all the different machines.  Each one is SO different from the next.  I can easily say it was the most facinating parade I have ever seen.  And I've seen the parade at Disney World, so that is saying something!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The festival also has many other activities to see and participate in.

There are many different farm displays.

 

There is a petting zoo and pony rides.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                    There are military displays.

There is even a mini flea market with great prices!

If you are in the area this weekend I HIGHLY recommend this event.  It is such a neat thing to see. I have to say, one the best parts of the Bee is the people. Country people are definately the nicest people around.  So welcoming.

The fest is this Thursday thru Sunday(11th-14th).  Try and make it out.  You won't be dissapointed!

Click here for the Threshing Bee website and to get more info.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July Road Trip

Last weekend Tattered Tiques took another junking journey.   Mom and Anne and I  drove down south to visit one of our friends who picks great stuff.  He has a huge warehouse filled with antiques. 

 

 
This is how these trips all start.  With a huge UHaul, and a ton of kids wondering why they can't come with.

On the way, we stopped in Morris Il.  We have been wanting to visit the adorable shop Whimsy.  It is filled with great vintage inspired gifts mixed in with antiques. 

 
This shop is worth a stop if you are ever in Morris, IL.  The town is littered with tons of adorable little shops!

 
This diner was a hoot!  We loved everything about it, especially the people.  

 
We have a thing for great old signs as you can see.

 
Just one more.

 
We love to come across hidden gems like this one. 

 
We thought we had hit the jackpot when we walked in.  Unfortunately, even though this place was a complete mess, the prices were too high for us.

 
So much potential here! 

 
Rustic charm.

 
Further along, on the ride, we came across a few sunflower fields.  They were amazing.

 
They are so cute, and charming.  Nature at it's best!

 
And now for the not so bright side of things.  This is the storm that was waiting for us when we got to our friend Chuck's. 

 
This is Chuck's place.  See how the storm is right over the buiding.  Scary right?  Anne and I were terrified!  We couldn't believe how no one else was flinching inside the completely metal building! It  Iitterely sounded like the roof was going to be ripped off! Mom didn't think anything of it either.  I thought for sure the storm outside was going to turn into a tornado.

 
AHHHH.  We survived the storm.  The colors of the green corn against the blue sky were beautiful afterwards.

 
 

 

 
We came back with some pretty cool stuff!  Come see for yourself this weekend, if you can take the heat!  Tattered Tiques 22029 N. Pepper Road, Lake Barrington, IL.  We are open Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Now for the reality of a long overnight trip.  What I didn't mention earlier was......We drove down in Dad's car with the huge UHaul trailer attached, got to Peoria, and were snobs about which hotel to stay in (most were booked, so were left with undesirable choices), so we continued to Pekin, IL, where we were once again, snobs about the hotels.  Actually, we booked a room at one, went to our room, which smelled horribly of mold, so we turned around, checked out, and continued down the road.  That's when God punished us for being snobs, and the car broke down!  Yes, 11pm at night, in the middle of nowhere and the car breaks down.  So, it's back to a different hotel in Pekin for the night, where we had to call dad, to come in the morning with Anne's car, (you didn't expect us to cancel our trip did you?), but, first, we have to get the UHaul off the car so it can be towed.  This is when it really gets ugly!  The trailer doesn't come off.  The very nice tow guy tried for ever.  Now it's 3:00am and we have called UHaul to come out and remove it for a fee of $170!!   We all got to sleep at 3:30am, Dad was there in the morning to save the day by 8:00am.  It was an awesome, awesome adventure!  That's the ugly truth about this road trip.