This Sunday is Earth 🌏 Day! In honor of the occasion, #Happy 😊Hoarder is feeling EARTH-Y so let’s get dirty!
How do you celebrate this wonderful orb we call home? What is your favorite EARTH-Y find? Tell us a story about it! Are you an avid gardener? Do you participate in Earth Day celebrations? Share a memory of your favorite EARTH-Y activity!
In 1962 the book “Silent Spring” began to raise public awareness and concern for living organisms, and the environment. Creating Earth Day gave voice to that emerging awareness. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 and continues to be celebrated in more than 192 countries worldwide! Let’s celebrate Mother Earth!
You have from now until Sunday, April 22, Earth 🌏Day, at midnight PST to share your EARTH-Y tale! Be sure to tag our Happy😊Hosts!
Pam @pixiegurrrrrl
Christine @christinevautour
Candace @barncandy ☺️ 🌍
Dana @thisoldcapehouse
I guess you could say I’ve always had a tactile connection to the Earth, the Soil... and all the goodness it brings forth. Always dressing in Earth tones, so much so that in fact one of my friends in high school told me Candy why do you bother to get dressed? Just throw some dirt and grass on yourself and you’re good to go! It’s true, I’m a Nature girl. Collecting feathers and pine cones and twigs and rocks. I’ve had a few mouthfuls of dirt too and seriously pondered weather a watermelon seed might take root in my belly!! Well to prove me right, here I am after spilling my bike and falling face first into a nice mud puddle. Can’t get much closer to the Earth than that!! Happy Earth Day!! Leave No Footprint!! #Happy 😊Hoarder #earthday #eatdirt #naturalgirl #earthtones
When you visit some beloved cousins who are moving sometime this year and you get to pick through their basement, you know, just as a help to lighten their load... I’m helpful that way 😅. The rusty table is heavy steel but small enough to transport as a show table. Enamel tub full of great wood for small signs. An old toolbox that I begged for sits on a wooden explosives fuses box that belonged to my grandfather probably when he worked in the mineral mines. Imagine me opening the lid on that old galvanized bait pail and seeing my dad’s name “Chuck” lettered on it in his recognizable handwriting; brass old miner’s lamp needs some investigating as to its origins! And, the season begins. #mustlovejunk #livingwithvintage #heirlooms #miningartifacts #explosivesbox #rusty #ijunkthereforeiam #minerslamp #itfollowedmehome #onemanstrash #industrial
TBT Five years ago this month! It's still too feezing cold for yard and tag sales but here on the threshold of the barn that stores the candy, is a pile from one Saturday morning in April 2013. A haul that boasts Galvanized Goodies, Parts Drawers and Bins, Old hardware display pegboard, Insulators, Tools, Antlers, Enamelware, Vintage Golf Caddy, Tool Boxes and old white Planters, all made for a Fruitful outing! Oh Junk season where are you.....? #TBT #ijunkthereforeiam #mustlovejunk #barncandy #partsdrawers #oldtools #garagejunk #ahuntingwewillgo
I is for Industrial! Anything used by industrial workers or in the manufacture of products, mechanical or otherwise! I seem to be having my own Industrial Revolution as I am drawn to the oily, the grundgy, the heavy gauge steel and the utilitarian objects mostly utilized by hard working hands. It's Inspiring! and just Interesting! This is a teeny tiny Ingento Paper Cutter with the top right Inscribed with some great advice for the user to Keep the Joints Well Oiled! Point taken! The cutter sits on a table that more than represents Industrial in the most raw fashion - decades and decades of useful repair of pieces and parts on a workbench found in an old barn. Those paint splatters are like artwork. Industrial artwork. Sharing for #thequestisthebest #TQITB !! #industrial #oldjunk #garagejunk #workinghands #barnjunk #ingento #vintageofficeproducts #livingwithvintage #mustlovejunk #ijunkthereforeiam
Animals all have their own unique way of showing emotions. If you know horses, then you know what the laid back ears mean. This guy knows me well but he wasn’t too thrilled that all I wanted was a velvety muzzle snuggle and I didn’t even bring sugar cubes! Just another day on Apple Tree Lane! #horsesofinstagram #horses #backroads #appletreelane #countrylife #horsewhiskers #horsewhisperer
This photo appears over edited but it’s truly the worn off paint of the long closed up snack stand at the swimming hole in my home town on the first sunny warm day so far this year. Many sandy toes including mine stood here waiting for ice cream sandwiches on a summer day. We used to walk the steep mile hike up here past the rushing waterfalls every day and never thought a thing about it. The water is peaceful and so pretty. In winter we’d ice skate and have a tree burning ceremony after Christmas. I learned to swim here and that dark cold drop off the diving board into the abyss is something most kids these days don’t get to experience! Pushing the limits “past the ropes” into the scary open dark waters out to that tippy raft! Now it’s mostly deserted year round but hoping it gets some new life this year. Mother Nature at her finest up here at Heater’s Pond! #justasmalltowngirl #ogdensburgnj #swimminghole #childhoodmemories #earthday #countrylife
This Sunday is Earth 🌏 Day! In honor of the occasion, #Happy 😊Hoarder is feeling EARTH-Y so let’s get dirty! How do you celebrate this wonderful orb we call home? What is your favorite EARTH-Y find? Tell us a story about it! Are you an avid gardener? Do you participate in Earth Day celebrations? Share a memory of your favorite EARTH-Y activity! In 1962 the book “Silent Spring” began to raise public awareness and concern for living organisms, and the environment. Creating Earth Day gave voice to that emerging awareness. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 and continues to be celebrated in more than 192 countries worldwide! Let’s celebrate Mother Earth! You have from now until Sunday, April 22, Earth 🌏Day, at midnight PST to share your EARTH-Y tale! Be sure to tag our Happy😊Hosts! Pam @pixiegurrrrrl Christine @christinevautour Candace @barncandy ☺️ 🌍 Dana @thisoldcapehouse
What a weekend of extreme temperatures! Yesterday Sunburn, today Windburn! As mentioned earlier in the week, I’m getting back to thinning the herd of toy collectibles and got a few things listed in my Etsy shop tonight! It occurred to me that toys like these are a forgotten breed with all the electronics and distractions and overscheduling of little kids. The sound of that little fire truck bell dinging up and down the driveway with the thunder of little legs churning the gears! Great memories! I love the wear shown on these toys and it’s sure true they don’t make them like they used to! Link in bio if interested! #pedalcar #murray #vintagetoysale #wyandotte #dumptruck #movingvan #firetruck #thosewerethedays #livingwithvintage
A Harley and a Hoop Shadow! My home town has so many of the original small garages left in original condition. Sure would like to explore this one I saw on a walk today! #harley #garagespotting #justasmalltowngirl #lifeoutside #garagejunk #myhometown
Free hauls are the best hauls! Obviously I’m too excited to stage this photo properly! This is in the back of my car. Right Now! 👀There’s a nice weathered pallet for sign making on the bottom, and the top piece is a former shelf of a bar back with the rings from the liquor bottles still there! Minutes before it hit the dumpster. I’m going back later to explore the base cupboard. Luck, happenstance, timing.... sometimes it all comes together. Adding to this rescue is a huge old top board I removed from this stepped shelf that I can use for a sign. I’ll use this as a rustic display for jewelry at my vendor shows! Oh and it’s hot and sunny today! SaturYay!! 🙌🏻 #ijunkthereforeiam #upcycling #repurposed #yourtrashmytreasure #salvaged #oldwoodnewlife
There’s a Dunkin next to my mom’s house and I swear I see as many cool old cars there as I do at shows! Just, not all at once! 😅. Saw a cool dude exit the donut shop in camo and shades and I said this must be your car! Lol. ‘66 Ford Galaxy with some sweet wheels.... American Racing. I’m a Chevy girl but still .... #vintageford #galaxy #hotrod #carspotting #firstonraceday #projectcar #americanracingwheels
Just a crow.. pruning in the morning sun, waiting for breakfast and looking over the barn and fields. Seems perfect to me too. Happy Saturday! #simplelife #farmhouse #barnscape #crow #sunrise #saturday
Do you have a day job office? I do, and I can't help but let my collections trickle into the decor. Since I work at a high school, some vintage educational books from 1922 found at a local library close-out sale and this old Hubley school bus seemed likely candidates to add #bitsofrusticcharm to the place I spend most of my life! The bouquet of school bus yellow Ticonderoga #2 pencils sit in a matte finish Hull planter and a rusty heavy old iron keeps everything in line! Having bits of my collections at work keep me company and often start up fun conversations with visitors! #hubley #vintagetoys #oldbooks #bitsofrusticcharm #livingwithvintage #dayjob #hullpottery #mustlovejunk #schoolbusyellow --
H is for Hardware! Historic Home Hardware! Been hoarding it forever and it's just something that can't be duplicated in the modern world. I love using huge handles on the kitchen wall to hang handtowells - they add a great vintage touch and always get a comment! Hardware made centuries ago has patina and charm that lasts forever. Finding matched sets is a daunting task but isn't that what the quest is all about!!?! Sharing for #TQITB ! #vintagehardware #historic #oldhandles #doorhardware #thisoldhouse
Tired of the snow and ready to pack up the moving van and head south?? Hell No, just another day to appreciate the magic of Mother Nature! All original 1950’s Wyandotte 24 inch Grey Van Lines tractor-trailer coming up for sale later this week! #vintagetoys #vintagetoytruck #wyandotte #toycollector #pressedsteel #movingday
HAY! It's what's for breakfast! Sugar Frosted Flakes! Yes there was more of the fluffy white stuff this morning but nothing can stand in the way of these sweet fellas and their haystack on Apple Tree Lane. #horses #snowfall #barnscape #appletreelane #farmlife #barnandfarm
Why the "Sad Face"? Five Alarm Sale! Going through the collection and thinning the fleet - Coming up later this week I will be listing a few vintage pedal cars and toy trucks to get started. All are original and not reproductions or repainted; original Played With condition. Like all of us over 50, the marks of age have created a patina that only the most fun wear and tear can provide! I have a small Etsy shop which I plan to expand soon and I'll provide a reminder here when these vintage toys are listed. This vintage Murray Sad Face is so lucky to retain the original ladders, bell, wheels and windshield. All this little truck needs is a pair of happy little feet to get it fired up! #pedalcar #oldtoys #toyfiretruck #vintagetoys #firesale #oldcartoys #vintagetoys #murraysadface #murraypedalcar
Get your motor running? Head out on the highway? Looking for Adventure? Or. Whatever comes your way? Nothing fuels my energy tank like some good strong coffee and this very amazing 5 pound Lindley’s brand Motor Coffee tin is just way too cool. I spotted it on EBay and just had to borrow the pic, no affiliation just pure simple adoration and sincere coveting here. Too pricey for my purse but a girl can dream! Happy Sunday!! #vintagecoffee #coffee #mustlovejunk #kitchenjunk #coffeecan