JB MPLS is Expanding! Meet JB at The Paddock!

Junk Bonanza is expanding at Canterbury Park for the Fall show Sept. 22-24! Welcome to Junk Bonanza at The Paddock! We are pleased to offer an ADDITIONAL 20 booths, outdoors in the Paddock area between the Main and Expo buildings! We had a great response with the two pioneering vendors who were outside for the Spring show, […]

NTM Monday: Never Too Many…Door Knobs!

It’s NTM Monday! Never Too Many…Door Knobs! These are the passion of Amber Lyon Ferguson, aka @junkaholicsunanimous on Instagram! We love that she shared this collection, one of her many love-to-collect items! ” I have been collecting for about 10 years. I have been a dealer but right now I sell primarily through my Etsy […]

NTM Monday: Never Too Much…Pottery!

It’s NTM Monday! Never Too Much…Pottery! Here’s a peek at part of the collection of Cathy McCool of Maple Grove, MN! “I love mid-century modern pottery: McCoy & Shawnee mostly, but I have all makes of pottery,” she says. “I love getting different colors of the same style.  This photo is in my living room, but I have pottery […]

NTM Monday: Never Too Many…Cheese Domes!

It’s Never Too Many Monday! Fresh off of an amazing Junk Bonanza in Minneapolis, vendor Sarah Bierstedt of The Purple Pincushion was moved to share her collection of cheese domes!  Says Sarah: “I have 37 of them between my studio and my home. At home they are tucked in around books on the shelves or sometimes lined up down the center of the dining table for a conversation starter. I […]

JB MPLS: Day 2!

Day 2 at the Bonanza was Lucky Friday! Mid and John helmed the info desk and gave out 40 $25 vintage hotel fobs, to be redeemed in vendor booths for merchandise. This is Deb Schueler, our very first Lucky Friday winner! Check out a group from the Hudson (WI) Community Education program! Twenty-eight intrepid, largely first-time, […]

Bonanza or Bust for Hudson Community Ed Crew!

@junkbonanza Minneapolis was happy to welcome 28 intrepid, mostly first-time, junkers from the Hudson (WI) Community Education Program to Canterbury Park today for vintage treasure hunting! They came, they shopped, they rebounded their comfy motor coach for the trip home by 2:30 PM! The Bonanza says thanks for checking us out! We have special group pricing for […]

Wedding Date Planned around JB MPLS!

We love this story! Angela Moeding and Adam Hendrickson are engaged to be married on Saturday — He proposed during the Bryn Mawr Garage Sale in Minneapolis. Their wedding date was planned around this Junk Bonanza! The engagement photos they posed for in their Eden Prairie backyard were taken by Naomi Liester Photography with a vintage tandem […]

JB Booths! Check Them Out!

  The visual feast that is Junk Bonanza is, by turns, breathtaking, smile-inducing, heart-palpitating and just plain fabulous! Check out a few of these booths from our fabulous vendors! Rivertown Trading and West End Salvage… …Mustard Moon and s.a.r.a…. …OTC Vintage… .. …Time Bomb Vintage, Rose Mille, Scout Vintage Collective, Objects & Art… …Briar Patch […]

Happy Anniversary to A Vintage Parcel!

Today the Junk Bonanza wishes a very Happy Anniversary to partners in business and life, Jenni and Ben Mueller of A Vintage Parcel! Happy #15 to this rocking’ duo, who met on New Years Eve 1995 at a party Jenni was hosting at her parents’ house. Jenni was a senior at Osseo High School where Ben had […]

Spring JB MPLS : Prep and Early Load-In!

Bonanza prep work starts well in advance of the show! All the boxes reposing in this JB teammate’s living room were loaded for their new home at Canterbury Park! Marking booth spaces takes two days. Here’s our camera-shy, Day 1 taping crew — Eydie, Lauri and Jennifer — at about 7:30PM Monday evening, shortly before they wrapped up their handiwork in […]