AntiqueWeekend: Time Flies!

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Time Flies!

Wow, my last blog was this time last year! Its nearly Easter again, and my cast iron bunny, a Warrenton find, is back out on the table. The Warrenton show fields are filling up as I write. Every day when I pass through Warrenton and Round Top on Hwy 237 there are more treasures spilling from the trucks. Old windows and doors, buckets and boxes, cast aluminum dinosaurs, vintage patio furniture, parts of windmills, linens, dishes, cowboy boots, glitter and sparkle. It’s a feast for the junk loving eyes.

Elegance at Texas Rose, SH 237 RT

Looking back, AntiqueWeekend.com has been online for 15 years and counting. We arrived in Fayetteville, Texas (population 267) in 2000 with all our worldly goods. AntiqueWeekend.com was born in the historic Sarrazin building on the town square. Signs were painted and a website was created. We designed a map, a calendar, added shows as they arrived, and answered the many questions sent to us by excited shoppers planning their journey to the mecca of junkin’, shoppin’, collecting, and just having fun.

Silver plate at Round Top Hill

We bought two old houses and enjoyed the luxury of having vendors bring us old house “parts” twice a year. My old cast iron sink with its wonderful wing-like drain boards came from Warrenton. Its part of our everyday life, where my grandchildren crack eggs and make pancakes, and know to carefully set their dishes in the sink. Cast iron is pretty unforgiving!

We have met some amazing people…… the Junk Gypsy family, the Ex-cess family, Chip and Joanna Gaines, the Massey Family, the entire Royers clan…the list goes on…but the common thread is family.

Treasures abound at Bar W Field, Warrenton

We love it, it’s a circus but it’s our circus and we look forward to it and revel in it. Keep the questions coming, enjoy David’s photos, look for yourself in the crowds or see what you missed and make your plans to come to the next show. We’ll do our best to keep you informed!

You can always contact us by email: david@antiqueweekend.com or linda@antiqueweekend.com

In the coming days of the shows my blog will spotlight individual show sites, vendors, food vendors, and the cool stuff we see wandering through the tents.

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Our Story

In 2000, with his temporary job in California coming to an end, David asked me where I wanted to live next.
I said Fayetteville (Texas), a charming town of 266 people in central Texas. And so we came. We moved into a loft above a commercial building on the square in Fayetteville. It was there that AntiqueWeekend.com was born. My husband had visited Fayetteville many times over the years, visiting his parents and grandparents. He told me wonderful tales of the antique shows held twice a year. It was hard to imagine that the fields of grazing cattle could be filled with tents and booths full of treasures. (They do move the cattle!) We love garage sales, prowling through antique stores, flea markets and thrift stores. In California we attended some legendary flea markets including the Rose Bowl and Long Beach. We spent our Saturday mornings driving through the greater Claremont area finding some wonderful treasures at garage sales.
With time on our hands and treasure hunting in our souls, we decided to utilize David’s computer skills and develop a website that would serve as a resource with information about the semi-annual Warrenton and Round Top Antique Weekend and a directory for the ever-increasing number of show sites and vendors. It was a different world 13 years ago. Few show sites and even fewer vendors had websites. And social media was unheard of. With smart phones and tablets the world has changed and we can see it in the visits to our website. And we have changed, too. The website now has a clean new look. We are on facebook and twitter, have thousands of photos on twitter and instagram, send a periodic newsletter and have recently launched an AntiqueWeekend blog.
We have changed, too.
We bought our own old farmhouse, planned weddings and have wonderful granddaughters who love to visit Mimi and PopPop at the farm.
We bake cookies and do crafts and many of the pictures you see on the blog are projects we have done together.
When you are making your plans to visit Antique Weekend we want you to have all the info you need and great photos of what you can expect to see. Between shows we want to inspire you. We’ll share ideas, memories and information about events that happen here “the rest of the time” so you can plan to come back more than just twice a year.