fleattitude vendors at the Vintage Whites Market. . . are YOU coming?

W i l l   y o u   b e   t h e r e  ?

T h e s e   d e a l e r s   w i t h   t i e s 

t o   fleattitude   w i l l   b e  !

Amy Redden, Vintage Fern

Annette Broadhead, Flea Bit

Aubri Pearson, Oh My Good

Brenda Klomp, Just a Bed of Roses

Carla Cunningham & Sheri Parker, C & S Co-op

Cathie Cox, fleattitude Vintage Market

Christine Ishmael, Vintage Yard Sale Utah

Courtney Bird & Lorraine Lewis, Vintage Bird

Cynthia Edmunds, Bookbinder

DeAnn Adams, Two Antique Gypsies

Debbie Crosby, Tattered Butterfly

Debra Washburn, Relic Mercantile

Denise Gamble, Two Ole Crows

Dru Beecher, Polka Dot Poplars

Jennifer Reed, 3 Dotters Vintage Rentals & fleattitude Vintage Market

Kat Markham, K. Markham Designs

Kathy Romero

 Lindsey Snarr, One Vintage Dish

Miss Fitts - Sarah, Amanda & Mary Ann Fitt

Rachael Skidmore, Maeberry Vintage

Ranae Zauner, The Blue Vintage

Shireen Watanabe, Mon Amie Jewelry

Steve Bateman, Silverwear

Vickie Hunter, Pick-it Vintage

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   w i l l   y o u   b e   t h e r e  ?

Hurry, spring. . .

f  l  o  w  e  r  s

seem intended for the 

s  o  l  a  c  e

of 

ordinary humanity.

~ j o h n   r u s k i n

may your days be 

p e a c e f u l

during the forever of winter

as we wait for the first hint of 

s  p  r  i  n  g

to peek through the earth

and smile at us. . . .

Progress. noun: the act of moving forward toward a goal.

Just wanted to let you know. . . 

yes - it is possible to make progress on a New Year's resolution.

For the full story, check out my column in the 

January New Century Collector:

http://newcenturycollector.blogspot.com/2014/01/for-those-of-you-who-read-our-cathie.html

Announcing. . . our spring market!

save the date. . .

fleattitude's spring market

saturday april 26th

@ the old pleasant grove rec center

65 e 200 s   pleasant grove

8 am 'til 4 pm

     featuring our best vendors ever. . . .

Words for a new year. . .

As the new year dawns, I find myself learning of my friends' "words" for 2014.  Their words to live up to, their "guideposts," so to speak.  A tiny little group of letters that will mean something big to them as they go forth and try to become better people.  "Balance" is one.  "Gracious" is another.  Got me to thinking, what would my word be?

Cope?  Survive?

Hmm, those don't seem hopeful enough, do they?

Then I got to thinking, I've had "words" that I've lived by for a long time.  Words that mean everything to me, from the way I live my life to the way we've tried to raise our children to the way we run our flea market, and everything in between.  These are the words that make me tick. 

T   R  U  S  T

My dad once told me that "when dealing with people who matter, be dead honest."  I tend to be "dead honest" with everyone.  And I want others to be honest with me, even if its painful or embarrassing.  Perhaps its old-fashioned, but I like to believe people, to trust them.  Period.

R  E  L  I  A  B  L  E

If you say you're going to do something, do it.  Be there.  Show up.

K  I  N  D  N  E  S  S

"I want to be kind to everyone, for that is right, you see," (LDS children's song).  My daughter once went through a traumatic time in her life which left her with a PTSD-type reaction to anyone who yells.  I've had to learn to control my voice when angry (why yes, I do get angry sometimes!) so as not to upset her further.  I'm not always able to do this and I sob afterwards when I've yelled and frightened her.  I've learned that kindness is always a good choice, no matter what.

H  E  L  P

Several months ago I took the "Love Languages" inventory and found out that one of my love languages is "help."  Couldn't be truer.  I love it when my husband helps me. . . which he does a lot.  You'll see him doing it at fleattitude.  And just about everywhere else.  I love to see our dealers helping others.  Isn't "helping" what life is all about?

N  I  C  E

A few years ago I was working in a situation where I had to quit because someone didn't like me.  It didn't make much sense to me since I did my job well and was appreciated by most everyone else there.  I was nice.  But the person who mattered in keeping my job didn't like me.  Funny thing is, I had earlier received a plaque from someone else related to my job that said, "Because nice matters."  I still have that plaque, because, in spite of all that happens that is out of our control, NICE does matter.  No matter how hard life is, no matter what cards we are dealt, NICE matters.  And NICE is important.  Period.

So. . . happy 2014, and may you find the right words to guide you through the new year and your life.

And. . . if you're at a loss for some, here are a few good ones:

g  o  o  d      j  u  n  k  i  n  '

sincerely,

                     cathie

Remembering Christmas. . .

Snapshot.  n.  1. a casual photograph made typically by an amateur with a small handheld camera.  2.  an impression or view of something brief or transitory.   < a snapshot of life back then > 

 

When I think of the Christmases of my childhood they present themselves in snapshots.  Ones that I’d like to pull out and share with you.  So let’s put Bing Crosby on the Victrola, grab a cup of Ovaltine, and have a seat on the davenport. . . .

I was a child of the 1960s in suburban Detroit.  When I was five all I wanted was what every other little girl did. . . Chatty Cathy.  She had a blonde bob and blue eyes, just like me, and such pretty clothes.  Back then our names were even spelled the same.  And, after all, she loved me and wanted to play with me. . . which I knew for certain because she told me so!  Would Santa come through? The anticipation was torturous. Sleep eluded me that long night.  As Christmas 1963 dawned I tiptoed down the stairs. . . peeked around the landing. . . and could finally breathe when my wondrous eyes met hers.  Yes, she had made the trip down the chimney, and I was happy beyond belief.  
(It's a different doll in the photo. . . sadly we never got a photo of me with her).


My dad was a young finance executive at Pontiac Motor in the 60s who worked far into the nights and most Saturdays, yet he always made time for Christmas activities.  After taking a v-e-r-y long time placing the huge colored bulbs on the tree, Dad would finally get out the army footlocker that held our ornaments, the magical trunk that we only saw once a year.  Inside the fragile Shiny Brites were wrapped in tissue paper that had been used and re-used so many times that it was as familiar to me as feel of my own hair.  Oh how I hoped I would get a bell – or just maybe a teapot – to unwrap!  At last Dad pulled out the cardboard boxes with the metallic tinsel.  He insisted that we place it on the tree one strand at a time, which I was good at.  My mom would throw it on hither-thither, which quickly got her expelled from tinsel duty.  Which was okay.  Decorating the tree was my time with Dad. . . .

Christmas Eve we went to my dad’s parents’ house.  They lived in a humble home in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit similar to South Salt Lake.  Russell Clayton was a truck driver, and he and my grandma Dorothy taught Sunday School.  Grandpa would get down on the floor and play with us kids with our new Tinker Toys while my grandma and my widowed Aunt Mildred prepared the feast in the kitchen where you bumped into each other if more than two people were in there at a time.  Presents from them included puzzles in round tall cans, crocheted slippers with leather soles, pick-up sticks and checker games, and, when I was older, a Bible with a white cover.  Because I was unknowing I didn’t like their tiny house much when I was a child, but theirs was the kind of house that I now love to go to estate sales in – with its telltale signs of quiet lives lived with dignity everywhere you look. 

Christmas day we went to my mom’s parent’s home.  Art and Dorothy Brown lived on 25 acres in Rochester, which might compare to Holladay or Draper.  There the adults ate cheese and crackers and Blue Diamond almonds and drank Michelob and watched the Detroit Lions while I sat on the davenport and drank Coke out of 6 ½ ounce green glass bottles and studied the Miles Kimball and FAO Schwartz catalogs. 

We had to dress up to go to Grandma Brown’s in our holiday best – I usually donned a wool plaid pleated skirt with a white blouse or a fancy twirly dress.  One year when I was around 13 my Aunt Margaret – who wore too much lipstick and smelled like the perfume inserts that came in your department store bill – gave me silky white panties which she made me hold up in front of the entire extended family.  Oh.  My.  Goodness.  How could she?!  My uncle later divorced her – probably over the incident.  After dinner my grandma would pull out a plate of Christmas cookies that she had been baking – and freezing – for months.  My favorites were the spritz that she shaped into candy canes and wreaths.  She would then return to the kitchen and emerge carrying the plum pudding in what eerily resembled a wedding march or a graduation processional.  She would present the sacrificial pudding to my grandfather, who, amid exclamations of wonder from the audience, poured brandy over it – and then TORCHED the thing!  Actually he just used a match but it was larger than life to my young eyes.  And the grown-ups actually ate the bloody mess.  Aargh!  “Um, pass the cookies, please?”

My favorite Christmas “snapshot” of all is the one my parents never took with a camera, perhaps because it was so ordinary.  Each December night I would lie on the floor near the Christmas tree with only the tree lights on and “those old familiar carols” dancing in my head.  I would stare with wonder at the shiny ornaments, my eyes darting from one to another, constantly choosing a new favorite.  And I would study the packages, each covered with Santas or poinsettias or holly and tied with bows made by hand by my mother.  How many of the tags said “Cathy?”  Was my precious doll in one of them?  Hurry Christmas, oh hurry fast. 

May your holidays be filled with joy 

  and your home be filled with good junk. . . .

Merry Christmas from fleattitude

Cathie & Jen

Our fleattitude vendors. . . November 2013!

We're incredibly happy with our vendors for our upcoming market. . . 

                                                           . . . and here they are!

Amy Redden

Vintage Fern

Annette Broadhead

Flea Bit

Brandon Kay & Tonya Painter

Two Pitts of a Pear

Callie Bott

Carla Cunningham & Sheri Parker

C & S Co-op

Cathie Cox

second hand stuft

Connie Pinckney, Mike Swendsen 
& Michelle Swendsen

Something Borrowed

The Clever Craftsman

DeAnn Adams

Two Antique Gypsies

Debra Washburn

Relic Mercantile

Denise Gamble

Two Ole Crows

Dru Beecher

Polka Dot Poplars

Gretchen Thiessens

Silver Teapot Antiques

Heidi Wilcock

Acorn Antique Show

Hug-hes Cafe, Ogden

Jennifer Reed

3 Dotters Vintage Rentals

Jennine Ashley

Le Junque

Jenny Jolley

Julie Collings

Karen Houmand

Kathy Romero

Lacy Johnson

Larry Ray

Picker's Paradise

Linda Magro

Lindsey Snarr

One Vintage Dish

Margo Graham

Mary Ann Hill

Miss Fitts

Michelle Jones

Vintage Cupcake

Mike Sovic

Nichole Huntington

Cavalcade

Oakley Seal

Hot Diggity Vintage

Penny Jones

Penny Jones Art

Ranae Zauner

Sarah Morris

We Got Fleas in Utah

Shireen Watanabe

Mon Amie Jewelry

Steffi Link

The Pink Door

Steve Bateman

Silverwear Jewelry

Tammy Herker & Jayme Henry

Tom Peterson

Vintage bicycle display

Tonya Vistaunet

Vickie Hunter

Pick-it Vintage

fleattitude Vintage Market

Saturday November 16th

at the Old Pleasant Grove Rec Center

65 East 200 South

Pleasant Grove, Utah

9:00 am 'til 4:00 pm

$1 admission

or

8:00 am early entry for $5


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