I love your idea!! A lot of folks have started out doing sales in their yards!! You go girl!!! Wished I lived close I'd join you!!
I'm old to but we'd have fun!!

go forit...but do an internet search first, think I remember blog with that name.

Fun idea. I wonder if that is how the Junk Bonanza in Minnesota started out. It would be a good name for garden related art too. If I was more industrious, I'd work with you on it but I never have any energy so I wouldn't be much help. I'd come buy your stuff though! he-he

Speaking of recycling ... has anyone picked up Fleamarket Style magazine? Our own Robomargo is featured in it. I noticed they featured a number of bloggers who have shared things on their website. That would be another cool way of getting national attention by getting featured in their magazine.

I used to own a crafters' mall. We had 50 booths and were very selective with our artists. No egg carton crafts or plastic canvas. We had a lady that made GREAT bird houses out of recycled stuff, another lady spun and knit dog hair into hats (they sold like hotcakes!). A third did glass etching on recycled glassware. We had a wonderful tole painter who combined her paintings/signs/etc. with "collectables".

We did extremely well UNTIL places like Michael's crafts and Joanne's Fabric and the local home improvement store started importing crafted items from overseas. We just couldn't compete with their 40% off sales all the time (which became 70-90% off sales when their items didn't sell at 40% off).

Not saying you shouldn't try...but DO be aware of the pitfalls, especially with the current economy where people just aren't buying extras no matter how pretty or unique! It WAS a wonderful, fun experience, and we made darned good money at it for a while!

Sound like fun! The "tri-state area" near Ashland has a consignment shop named that & if you Google "Second Hand Rose" you get a lot of hits so don't know if it is public domain or not!! "Katie's Kreative Arts" might be safer as it is using part of your name but of course not as likely to stick in peoples minds. "Katie's Junk out of the Trunk"or "Kate's Junk Trunk" might be fun & you could add sometime underneath, saving the planet, 1 piece of junk recycled at a time, or saving junk from the landfills etc.I like the Kate's Junk Trunk & you would need cute little story on how you were going to "dump" with trunk full of junk when you suddenly saw a sparkle in the trunk & decided to try to save ........Think Paul Newman's salad dressings he has cute stories with his products. You need 1 cute story people will remember. Have fun!! Jan

That's a GREAT idea Toomuch! I say GO FOR IT!!! You never know.

Donna in Florida

Sounds good to me too!

it's a great name..
we have a Second Hand Rose antique/2nd hand store near me..it's one of my very favorite places.
old claw foot tubs, rusty old license plates, old farm tools, really old wash tubs..it's filled to the max, both outside and inside. cast iron pots, and an old pot belly stove, that keeps the place toasty warm.

great luck to you..it's going to be fun and we can watch it grow for you.

Becky

Our local recycling center, called 'BRING' is one of my favorite places. Old doors, chandeliers, whatever. Recycling artists have built a patio chapel there, filled with wonderful recycled art, to be used for recycled marriages; either renewing vows or marrying 2nd, 3rd, etc time. Maybe I can donate a pretty glass totem; in fact, I think I will! Funny how ideas start with one person's daydream and evolve to become someone else's.

Kathy,
It sounds like fun! Why not try it in your own yard to start as you say? Do you have anything to lose? Just get some friends to help out it will be more fun. I like to stop at crafters home shops when I'm traveling.

I just erased a boring paragraph about business names and registering. Shortform: In NH the Secretary of state's office is where you call to find out if a name is taken. It may be a county thing in your state, I don't know, but it wouldn't be hard for you to findout.

Remember someone talked about a successful Garden Art Sale some time ago, and they made poster/directional signs out of thin plywood painted and maybe even in the shape of a watering can. People would look for them cuz they liked the sales. It would be neat to have Rose signs or any flower really.

Play it again Sam is probably being used.

Good luck, and report back!
Kathy

desiderata---I was just going to post that we have a local shop called Second Hand Rose that has a big old woodstove to heat it when I saw your post and realized that YOU AND I LIVE IN THE SAME TOWN!!! I'd LOVE to get together for coffee sometime and talk junk! If interested, let me know!!!