The street light banners are up! We spent a few hours this past weekend at the booth, rearranging and add some new merchandise — gearing up for the Riley Festival. We’ll do it again this coming weekend as it will be our last chance to get things just so before the festival starts on Thursday, [...]
The 2012 Riley Festival is only 3 weeks away! We are busy setting up and getting the booth stocked really full so it can last the full 4 days. During the festival it is impossible to get close enough to JW Riley’s Emporium to re-stock. Unless you can carry it in your hands while walking [...]
Okay, the 6th installment coming up! This installment of cool vintage items features small items or “smalls”. These go pretty fast in a booth so we have to have some back-up. We try to keep our eyes open for interesting and fun smalls that we think our clients would like. It can’t be ordinary or [...]
It’s been tough this season, keeping up with the sales and replace items in the booth. The yard sales haven’t been as great as in past years and one of our favorite auction houses has gone down from one a week to one every two weeks. They say the economy is getting better, yet we [...]
It’s time for another addition of Cool Vintage Items! the yard, garage and tag sale season is heating up! We have been very busy cleaning out the garage and trying to get things to fixed up and ready to take to the Vintage With a Twist booth. Victor Talking In this addition, I’m gonna show [...]
Our garage is chock-full of miscellaneous items we picked up to eventually go in the booth. There weren’t a lot of auctions and sales through the winter but, somehow, we still ended up with a lot of stuff for the booth. Now, the job is to get out there and sort these vintage items into [...]
Things have been hopping around here. We did pretty well for February. The owners of our mall, JW Riley Emporium (Antiques) told us that February is usually a quiet month for sales but that we did well in spite! We are planning a pretty big overhaul soon. The garage is full of vintage items that [...]
Another really cool find this week. This time at an auction. A lot of Sheridan Silver Co. hollow ware was up for sale. It included a footed waiter’s tray, a tea pot, sugar bowl with lid and a tall creamer. We got it for a good price. It was very tarnished so today I drug [...]
Precious Moments figurines are a collectible figurine made by artist Sam Butcher. They were very popular when I started collecting them in the 1980′s. My first piece was the bride and groom (Lord Bless You and Keep You) given to me by my future sister-in-law. We used it as our wedding cake topper. I visited [...]
Yup, Spring is coming! The retail world is already hauling out the garden center products along with grills and patio furniture. Swimsuits will be making an appearance soon too! At the Vintage With A Twist booth, we are packing up all holiday touches in favor of Spring colors and anything that will support the Spring [...]
Now that Christmas has past and the New Year is only a couple of days away, we are getting ready for a re-do of the Vintage with a Twist booth. We did a pretty major one at the beginning of October and just sorta refilled the last couple of months. Taking down the holiday decor, [...]
In late July, 2011, our little family group began our vintage/antique booth space endeavor — and subsequently, out vintage blog to follow the journey. We filled it with items we already owned and began the treasure seeking circuit to continue adding to our inventory. Today, almost a month later, our booth is a lot fuller [...]
With the constant flow, in and out, of the booth, I have managed to photograph some of the vintage items that are cool and different in the booth. If you missed the first article highlighting some cool items, check it out – Some Cool Vintage Items in the Booth. This cool find is a tiered [...]
We have been pretty busy since the Riley Days festival earlier this month. We did very well during the festival and even in the 2 weeks following. We have some projects just waiting for some TLC so we can get them in the booth but with a personal move, things have been put on hold. [...]
Yup, the Riley Days Festival is only 10 days away — starts Thursday, October 6th. With a loaded schedule of events, this year festival named, “Her Valentine”, after JW Riley’s famous poem, is sure to be a success. The map you see here for the event is a embellishment of the map provided by the [...]
We have been scrambling of late to replace some items that have sold. Deb and Tony have been perusing through their treasure barn, Heather through her garage and home, and mom and I have been to yard sales, auctions, thrifts and more gaining some inventory. Below are some vintage items that are cool and different [...]
Tony, Debbie’s husband, is very talented and completely into building things from scratch. If you read our “About” page, you will already know that Deb and Tony lean more towards the primitive look as their favorite. A couple of weeks ago, he put a playhouse style barn in the booth that he had made — complete [...]
Well, it has taken more time than I expected to take pictures and get a post up here about adding to the Vintage With A Twist booth space. Sorry! We are still trying things out and moving things around but a least you can get an idea for what it looks like today. If you [...]
The first full weekend in October this year, the 6th through the 9th, 2011, the Riley Days Festival will take place in Greenfield, IN. This is one of the largest festivals in the state of Indiana. Thousands will attend the 4 day festival that marks the 42 annual celebration of Indiana poet, James Whitcomb Riley’s [...]
Vintage with a Twist is a vintage shop and website that shares our love of vintage items. It’s a collaborative effort of four people, Ann, Heather, Debbie and Mandee. We have a booth space in a lovely antique/vintage mall in Greenfield, Indiana. The J.W. Riley Emporium is located in beautiful downtown Greenfield. Ann is the [...]
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We are located inside the J.W. Riley Antique Mall in beautiful downtown Greenfield, IN. J.W. Riley Antique Mall 107 W. Main Street Greenfield, IN 46140 317-462-5268 Mall Hours: Monday –
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My mom is a Dachshund nut! She just loved the little wiener dogs. We almost always had one while I was growing up. The two that stick out the most in my memory were Hilda (from the time I was about 4 until I was 14) and Lucy, the 14 year old Dachshund they have [...]
In the last post, I showed you one of our displays that had quite a few Coca-Cola items on it. Here it is again: We got a call from the mall owners that we needed to move things around and make a space in the corner of our booth. Seems they are adding a [...]
Okay, the 6th installment coming up! This installment of cool vintage items features small items or “smalls”. These go pretty fast in a booth so we have to have some back-up. We try to keep our eyes open for interesting and fun smalls that we think our clients would like. It can’t be ordinary or [...]
It’s time for another addition of Cool Vintage Items! the yard, garage and tag sale season is heating up! We have been very busy cleaning out the garage and trying to get things to fixed up and ready to take to the Vintage With a Twist booth. Victor Talking In this addition, I’m gonna show [...]
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