April Coker, Author

Category: Junkin’ and Thriftin’

  • Canton Junkin’ Trip

    Visiting First Monday Trade Days in Canton, Texas is usually not an option for me during the summer months.  Any time the temperatures rise above 90, you can count me out for outside activities.  I don’t like to sweat, and the heat takes all the fun out of whatever I’m supposed to be doing.  I’m…

  • Three Crazy Thrifters

    Our local Goodwill store is our go-to place for thrifting and junking these days.   Sometimes we crash their store–my mother, my two sisters, my niece, my daughter, and me.  This trip it was just baby sister, daughter, and me. But I’m afraid they may have mixed feelings about us being there. Left to right:  My…

  • Booth sprucin’ and ponderin’. . .

    One of the things you have to do when you have a booth space in an antiques mall is spruce it up occasionally, or as Vintage Rescue Squad puts it, “foof your boof.” I just love that.  I wish I had thought of it myself!  Surely she won’t mind if I borrow it? Anyway, these…

  • Not my day. . .

    Have you ever had a day when nothing went right, when you felt like you should have just stayed in bed?  I imagine we all have. Today was that kind of day for me.   It started last night when I knelt down on the end of my porch to turn off the water faucet…

  • You never know what you might see. . .

    . . .at your local Walmart! Check this out! It’s a 1950’s Chevrolet pickup truck so cool I had to take pictures. If you look carefully, you may notice that the paint was intentionally done to look like rusty, aged, old paint.  Hubby says that Richard Rawlings of the Discovery Channel show “Fast ‘n’ Loud”…