YOU'D BETTER FILL UP THE OLD JALOPY. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO HIT THE ROAD IF YOU DON'T WANNA MISS ANYTHING IN MAY. AIN'T IT ALL JUST TOO DOGGONE MUCH FUN!

After a cold wet winter, antiques are breaking out all over the place. Sales and happenings all through the month of May.  But you don't have to worry about missing your favorite event, because you can depend on the New Century Collector to keep you posted on what's going on out there.  So gas up the car and hit the road.

HERE'S YOUR MAP TO ANTIQUING NIRVANA 

MAY 1ST

   ABOUT TIME ANTIQUES BIRTHDAY

What could be better than cake and an antiques sale.  Be sure to stop by and wish a happy 1st birthday to owner Connie Tibbits at About Time Antiques Mall.  Cake and antiques! Mmmmm on both counts.

MAY 5TH

FLEA O LOGY, EVERYONE'S FAVORITE FLEA MARKET

SANDY HISTORIC MUSEUM ANTIQUES EVENT

This is not a day for antiquing lightweights.  Two must attend events, the spring Flea o logy sale and the Sandy Historic Museum collectibles sale & appraisal event will separate hardcore antiquers from the wannabe's. 

As luck would have it, the girls at Flea o logy are out to get the worm.  So, you can participate in the art of discovering second hand treasures at 8:00 am Saturday morning, and still make the scene at the Sandy Museum  by its 10:00 am kickoff.  

Find out what your old stuff is worth. The Utah Antiques Dealers will be sponsoring an appraisal event at the Sandy Museum, where for a paltry $3.00 each, you can have your antiques and old books evaluated by three of Utah's best appraisers, Gary Thompson (Gary Thompson Antiques), Nate Bischoff (Bearcat Antiques & Appraisals) & Ken Sanders ( Ken Sanders Rare Books).  All proceeds will go to the museum.

MAY 6TH

CAPITAL CITY ANTIQUES MALL, SUNDAY MARKET

Capital City kicks off the third season of its popular Sunday Markets on the second Sunday in May.  Owner Monica Zoltanski promises to soothe our souls with a few of our favorite things; antiques, food & music.  What better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning.

MAY 12TH

EXPRESSIVE BUNGALOW ANNIVERSARY

 THE ESTATE SALE MALL, PARKING LOT SALE

Expressive Bungalow, one of Salt Lakes classiest resale shops, celebrates it's first anniversary in May.  Stop by on the 12th, and congratulate owner Nancy Blaney, enjoy some refreshments, and shop at 25% off your total purchase. 

If outside sales are you thing, you'll want to be in Ogden for what promises to be a great antiques & collectibles sale in the parking lot at The Estate Sale Antiques Mall.  Owner Lance Lewis always has plenty interesting things at good prices.

MAY 19TH

  ACORN'S SPRING ANTIQUES SHOW

 CROSSROADS DOLL & TEDDY BEAR SALE

On May 19th, it's back up to Ogden, for Acorns, everyone's favorite antiques show.  Promoter Heidi Wilcock has the touch, every show seems better than the last.  You can pick up a discount card at almost any antiques shop, or print one out on the New Century Collector website www.newcenturycollector.com

It's back, Crossroads Doll & Teddy Bear sale. This is the one doll collectors wait for all year long.  Promoter Dorothy Drake brings her doll extravaganza to the Utah Fairgrounds On the 19th, .  You can get a discounted admission with her ad, or print a coupon from our website www.newcenturycollector.com

MAY 26TH

SPRING CITY HERITAGE DAY

Last but not least, is one of my favorite annual events.  Spring City Heritage Day.  Catch an early breakfast, bid on art by the foot, attend an antiques show in the Old School, and take the most fascinating historical home tour you've ever been on.  It's an easy drive from anywhere in Utah to Spring City.  If you've never been before, this will become one of you favorites too.

I'LL SEE YOU OUT THERE.  I'M GOING TO TRY TO MAKE THEM ALL!

HAPPY HUNTING

COME ON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO TAKE A LITTLE PEEK!

Come a little closer, you're going to like what you see!

It's okay, don't feel so naughty.  Everyone is doing it. And you don't want to be the last one to see what's in the latest issue of the  NEW CENTURY COLLECTOR.

This is a bit of an old fashioned girl.  She waits to pickup her issue when it arrives at her favorite antiques shop. I'll bet she doesn't even have a cell phone! 

So, join the crowd, and Just give the link below a little click, and you can feast your eyes on our May issue, before it even hits the stands.  Come on, take a peek, we won't tell. You know you want to.

 JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK TO GET AN EARLY PEEK

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HOW AM I GOING TO SNEAK THIS STUFF PAST LYN? IT'S RECORD STORE DAY, AND I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY.

Like everyone, It's easy to get carried away on the big holidays, you know, like Christmas, New Years, Halloween, and of course Record Store Day.   It’s all just too exciting.  That's because there's  simply  nothing I like better than a Record Store.  Those hallowed depositories of the sights and sounds of our youth.

 

There is one caveat.  Unlike torn tee shirts, crumbs in my beard and buffets, I actually have standards when it comes to record stores.  I don't want to see CD's and cassette tapes, or racks full of those stupid little cases people carry them around in.  No displays of mp3 players, or those crappy little ear buds people think are real headphones.  Come on, just show me the records.

So, when I need a musical diversion, it's into the old pickup and off to Respin Records in Taylorsville, where owners Paul & Ginger really know how to stock a record shop. 

 

The Record Shop Day sale at Respin had been occupying  my thoughts for a couple of days.  The enticement; a big chunk of the stores regular stock for sale at a buck an album.  That's cheaper than when I bought them the first time around in the 60's.  So, on Record Shop Day eve, I laid in bed like a kid waiting for Santa, full of anticipation and worry.  The notion that someone might get there first causing  increasing anxiety. And sure enough, when I pulled in, the place was already buzzing.  .

Geez, people were hauling my records away by the crate full.  What about me? Still, a couple of hours later I found myself feeling a little calmer, and  leaving the store with a box of records worth a thousand memories for less than a hundred bucks.  Now, just how do I sneak the darn things into the house.

Thanks for the memories Paul!

OXIDE EXTRAVAGANZA! OR, INTO EACH LIFE A LITTLE RUST MUST FALL

Yesterday, I had a little back & forth with my friend Brenda at Just a Bed of Roses in Farmington, about some rusty old stuff she had come across.  I'm a bit of a dinosaur, and back in the ice age when I had my shop, we threw the old rusty junk in a box in the back room, hoping that sooner or later it would turn into dust and we could just sweep it out.   Turns out that these days, if you're a modern  girl, you're your using the term charm, and rust in the same sentence.  Who'd a thunk it? Here's a taste of what up at Just a Bed of Roses this week.

  

 Brenda's theme this week is:

DUMP DIGGER TREASURES

Elements to rusty up your home decor & gardens

Sounds like Brenda has a truck load of rustibles that she will be unloading today.  She's in luck though, its scheduled to rain, and that should put a fresh coat of oxide on all her goodies.  If you want to check out Brenda's "dump digger" sale, get yourself down to Just a bed of Roses at 15 East. State Street in Farmington.