Mannequins Come Full (Re)Cycle!
We love a good repurposing story, naturally! That’s Junk Bonanza San Diego vendor Karen Joyce of Last Vestige Found, wrestling one of four golden mannequins out of Ki’s garage and into her vehicle! That’s not the usual detritus one has hanging about in the garage, even for a vintage vendor or junk show maven! They were assembled […]
Preferred Lodging at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel!
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel is returning to the Bonanza as a Silver Partner! Opened in 1992, the 600-room luxury hotel in Prior Lake is just eight minutes away from Canterbury Park. Check it out here! Mystic Lake is the Bonanza’s preferred provider for hotel rooms during your stay for the Nation’s Best Round-Up of Junk! If you’ve shopped until you’ve almost dropped, […]
#YarnBombTheBonanza — Progress Report!
We’re excited about the yarn bomb project for Junk Bonanza Minneapolis! You’ll remember that we were inspired by international public art installations such as this car… …and these animals… …to do our very own yarn bomb at Junk Bonanza Minneapolis April 21-23! Our Minneapolis installation artist, Knitteapolis, will yarn bomb the life-size horse structure that Canterbury Park uses at the racetrack! As befitting the […]
Hope Chest MN Early Bird Ticket Giveaway!
Here’s your chance to win Early Bird tickets to @Junk Bonanza #Minneapolis from our nonprofit partner, Hope Chest for Breast Cancer MN! Hope Chest is giving away 5 pair of Early Birds, which get you in two hours before the general admission shoppers on Thursday, April 21, the first day of our show! They’re also good […]
Fab MPLS Vendors, Part 3!
@junkbonanza #minneapolis is pleased to share the third installment of our rocking vendor roll call for the Spring show April 21-23 at Canterbury Park! It won’t be long now! Check out these amazing vendors! Crowned Crow Dona Rose Antiques Dos Fannies / Chocolate Robin Double Take Salsa Dunn Bros. Coffee Eclectic 887 Elegant Junk Faulkenberry Antiques Found Salvage […]
6 Reasons to Be an Early Bird!
Ki and Team Junk Bonanza are hard at work getting ready to bring you a fabulous Spring show! We can’t wait to see you April 21-23 at Canterbury Park, where more than 150 of our rocking vendors will bring you amazing vintage wares and upcycled goods in an event we liken to the World Series of Junk! Can’t […]
New MPLS Vendor: William Holcomb Antiques!
@junkbonanza #minneapolis welcomes William Holcomb Antiques/Oak Hill Emporium! Name: William Holcomb Business name: William Holcomb Antiques/Oak Hill Emporium Live in/Business located: Des Moines, IA Your style in three words: French country chic You knew you were a junker when… …I had a garage build for the overflow from my house, not my car! Best all-time junking find: […]
A New Home for Kitty at Ki’s!
We all know how much Junk Bonanza‘s founding maven, Ki Nassauer, loves oil and paint-by-number paintings. Her Los Angeles home is filled with castoff oils of unknowns, lovingly plucked from vintage markets and received as gifts. That’s Ki at JB San Diego in February, where she posed for a new press picture with a painting in […]
New MPLS Vendor: Rural Route Rust!
@junkbonanza #minneapolis welcomes new vendor Rural Route Rust! Name: Terry and Teresa Lorensen Business name: Rural Route Rust Live in/Business located: Avoca, NE Your style in three words: happy, nostalgic, industrial On your junking bucket list: picking a scrapyard full of old windmills with an abandoned Kodak factory next door You knew you were junkers […]
Fab MPLS Vendors, Part 2!
@junkbonanza #minneapolis is pleased to offer the second installment of our rocking vendor roll call for the Spring show April 21-23 at Canterbury Park! BeCycle Bee Happy Honey Bovine Boutique Briar Patch Primitives Brownton Abbey Cactus Creek Chantilly Junk Charity Gachne Cobbwebb Cottage Coffeebark LLC Colonial Estate Buyers Coon Creek Primitives CountryJunk Country Keepsakes CoverAll Doll Ki […]
