Antiques Faire Recap

We are back from a fantastic Alameda Point Antiques Faire this weekend, where we did twice as much business and even got a few custom orders!  Wendy and I shared a booth with Lane from Urban Orchard Interiors, and she had some gorgeous pieces to sell. 

 These vintage gold velvet slipper chairs were one of the first big sales of the day.  The fabric is original and the chairs were in very good condition for their age.  They're going into a men's clothing store which will open soon in San Francisco. 

We also sold another gold pair of chairs -- these tufted barrel backed chairs which both swivel and rock.  The folks who bought both sets of chairs really wanted them to have their original upholstery.  That was a surprise to us, even though the fabric in both cases was in good condition. 

Another early sale was this table inspired by bowling pins.  The top was refinished and the legs were painted, numbered, and distressed.  We had a ton of interest in the table, even after it sold.

Also sold was this recently transformed sweet secretary with grey paint on the exterior and and nice surprise of coral on the pull-out desk section. 

The ticking stripe whale pillows were very popular and sold quickly.  We're going to make a ton more of these and open them up as custom orders on Etsy.  Lane's navy and our citrine chevron pillows also sold, but we have a few of the coral pillows left.

Our big mirror also sold, along with Lane's beautiful black buffet and French grain sack pillows. 


And a few more photos of some of our smaller items. 

It was a fun day, and even though it is totally exhausting to get up at 3:30 am for the 4 am set-up and finish the day at 7:30 pm, we were saved by extra hour of sleep from the end of daylight savings.  And even though we unloaded and loaded a full sized Uhaul four times in one weekend, I'm not even sore!

Our little Claremont Finders Keepers Etsy store is pretty depleted after we had to take down listings of items that sold at the flea market.  So once again, we'll be working to build up our inventory.

 Thanks to everyone who came to visit and hope you all have had good Monday!