SeaSalt Antiques and Vintage Market

I'm finally getting the chance to post a few photos from the weekend. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately!) there aren't too many shots because I was so busy selling treasures from the Yarmouth County Museum's stall!

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who sold and shopped! We look forward to seeing you again soon!

Meet Alice Pedersen

 

When you visit the Wooden Buoy on Water Street in Yarmouth, let your eyes lead you to the happiest and most colourful corner of the shop and you'll be amongst sisters Alice and Annie Pedersen's treasures.

"Our style of vintage is bright and colourful. We love red, we love blue, we love turquoise, all the colours of the '50s," says Alice.

 

The Pedersen sisters grew up in a Danish family and their love of the mid-century modern style was fostered from an early age.

"Mid-century stuff was always in our home. We grew up looking at it and loving it and it just carried on," she says.

 

Alice says she was just gathering kitschy items for her own collection until last May when the Wooden Buoy opened. Now she and her sister are in the business of selling their cute treasures.

 

Their collection includes colourful kitchen items, anything bearing the image of a cute animal, and even old radios and TVs.

"Anything just as long as it's mid-century," Alice says.

 

She's looking forward to being a vendor at the SeaSalt Antiques and Vintage Market on June 13. She says she likes meeting new people and being a part of the community.

 

"I'm excited to let people know that we're here and that we love our shop and I'm sure they'd love it too if they came in and had a look."

SeaSalt Antiques & Vintage Market

We're back! Yarmouth County's premier vintage and antiques fair is back again for a spring show. We have a new, bigger location and will have even more exciting antiques vendors this year!

Join us at the Mariner's Centre in Yarmouth on Saturday, June 13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

And stay tuned to the blog for more profiles of some of our fantastic vendors!

Fall Vintage & Antiques Fair!

Start spreading the news! The Fall Vintage & Antiques Fair is coming to Yarmouth on Saturday, October 18! We'll be at Beacon United Church from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We had such a great time in the spring that we just couldn't wait another year to get together again. We're so excited to see you and to show you all the lovely treasures we've collected over the summer! Here are just a few of the happy faces you'll see in October.

In addition to enthusiastic antique dealers, Sissiboo Coffee will be back to keep us all caffeinated and the Red Shed and Samantha's Cupcakes will keep our bellies full!

Admission is only $2! Join us on Facebook to keep up to date.

See you soon!

Meet Susan Bain

Susan Bain has been collecting antiques for many years.

"I always loved antiques, since I was 10," she says. "I loved to wash my mother’s salt and pepper shakers and cups and saucers every spring and fall. And I loved rearranging them on the shelves. That’s how I knew I was born with it, I guess.”

Bain will be one of the vendors at the SeaSalt Antiques and Vintage Market Saturday, June 10 in the Anthony Pavilion behind the Mariners Centre and she's looking forward to it.

“It’s just fun for me," she says. "It’s a lot of work because you have to pack everything, take it there, pray for sunny days and then pack up what you don’t sell to bring it back.”

“But we wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t fun!”

Warehouse Antiques and Collectibles

Although Warehouse Antiques and Collectibles (located on Water St., under the Glebe St. Frenchy's) just opened its doors this year, Howard Benham is an old hand when it comes to picking antiques.

"Oh my gosh, I've been doing this off and on for 35 years or so," he says.

He goes by the moniker Antique Picker and also sells his wares from his barn at 301 Dayton Rd.

Benham says his love of antiques started when he was just a boy.

"I've just always liked old stuff," he says. "We'd go to Grammie's to visit and, you know, my brothers would be out playing and I'd be in the house looking at all the neat, old stuff. It's just always been something I've liked."

Warehouse Antiques and Collectibles is a group effort with several vendors sharing one large space. He and fellow collector, Alice Pedersen, came up with the idea of opening a shop.

"I needed a partner, so we partnered up," he says. "We'll give it a whirl and see what happens. I hope it works out for us."

Howard Benham, Alice Pedersen, and Craig Ward

Benham has been instrumental in helping to organize the second annual Tusket Vintage and Antiques Fair. He says he's excited to take part again this year.

"I'm glad Natalie [Smith] started this," "We love it and look forward to doing it again this year."

Yaciuk's Antiques, Clocks & Collectibles

If you drive down the Lake George Road, you'll come upon a neat, little barn on the side of the road with bright red doors. If you're lucky, a flag emblazoned with the letters O-P-E-N will be flapping in the wind.

David Yaciuk opened his antiques shop in Annapolis Royal more than 10 years ago, but now calls Brenton home.

He says he's been crazy about antiques since he was three years old, but it all started out pretty traumatically.

"My obsession in life was washing machines until my sister put me in one and it traumatized me," he says.

"The only thing that calmed me down was my Mom sent me to the neighbours' and my neighbour gave me her cuckoo clock because I was fascinated with it. And I’ve been collecting clocks since, almost as a comfort thing."

Yaciuk not only collects and sells cuckoo clocks, but he also has a workshop in the barn where he repairs and restores clocks.

He also collects music boxes and different kinds of animated and wind-up toys, but cuckoo clocks are special because they combine all of his favourite things.

"The cuckoo clock is everything compressed into one," he says. "You've got your music box, you've got your animated figures, you've got the mechanics all in one little, bunched up box."

Yaciuk's shop also boasts an impressive collection of Hummel figurines.

Yaciuk says he looks forward to selling his wares at this year's SeaSalt Antiques and Vintage Market Saturday, June 10 in the Anthony Pavilion behind the Mariners Centre.

   

"I'm excited. It'll be great, for sure," he says.