Our annual Barn Sale is our biggest sale of the year, where we pull good junk from every nook and cranny! It's a tradition we started even before Rural Rout...

By design, there are seven weeks between our June and July markets. The main reason for this is because we actually do some farming here at Bloom Where You'...

We have a couple monthly markets under our belts now and it's time we can take a breath and reflect. The May "Garden Market with Friends" was a big success!...

It's been awhile since my last post. We spent February and March preparing for two big shows, the Marburger Farm Antique Show in Round Top, TX Apr. 2-6 and ...

I saw the hashtag #pickersgottapick on an Instagram account I follow, and said "Amen, sister!". Whether you're a "professional" picker (and you sell old stu...

Of course I'm talking about stripping paint from old hardware. Why? What did you think I meant? We recently brought home a super cool old cabinet that had w...

Today is "National Plan for Vacation Day". If you're like me, you believe vacations that include shopping -- especially vintage/antique shopping -- are the ...

2019 has started with a bang here at the farm! We've had beautiful sunsets and almost every type of weather imaginable, from temps in the 50s to start the m...

Happy 2019! We wanted to tell you all about what we've got cookin' for the upcoming year. After six fun years our annual spring vendor market has come to a...

Please excuse the long gap between posts. It always takes awhile after the RRR Vintage + Handmade Market for my brain to recover and for the creative juices...

Suddenly, we're 10 days out from our market on May 5th. How did that happen? Wasn't it just Valentine's Day? It's crunch time and thankfully the weather has...

A couple months ago I came across an Instagram account called Rural Revival. Of course I was drawn to a name like that, and they had a cool logo, too! (I'm...

It's about 5 1/2 weeks until the RRR Vintage + Handmade Market on May 5th, so I thought I'd write a little about what that looks like and what we've been up ...

To create some fun and engaging content for the RRR Facebook page I started posting groups of photos from Pinterest showcasing different decorating styles th...

These last few weeks have been spent getting ready for the start of our spring show season which kicked off Feb. 23-24 in Loveland, CO. The most fun part is ...

We were living in Elmwood in 2002 when the opportunity came along for us to move to Grandma Brandt's house. She and my grandpa moved here in 1944, raising l...

Earlier this week was the 15th anniversary of the day we moved to the farm. It's really weirding me out that I'm old enough to have lived someplace as an ad...

My mom always told me to not wish my life away. It's hard not to do that this time of year when it's been two months since our last show and there's still t...

"Comparison is the thief of joy." This quote has been on the bulletin board above my computer for years and has rescued me many a time. I even say it out l...

Sometimes on the treasure hunt you may come across a painting with an ugly or outdated frame. The frame screams "1970s!" or "1980s!" so loudly that you migh...