Welcome

I would like to thank you for stopping by and learning a little about us. My name is Sarah and my husband's name is Tim. We are known as the Junk King and Queen or the owners of Heavenly Junk. We live in western Oklahoma in a small town called Cordell. We got married in 2009. God has not blessed us with children but we do have a sweet puppy, Hoss, who is about 6 years old now. My hubby owns his scrape iron business and I own a tag office. (Like a DMV for Oklahoma.) Then together we are a husband and wife team who sell junk at vintage/junk shows. That is right junk. Rusty, metal, funky, farm, car part junk. And that is just the start of what we sell.

About 2 years ago I seen a vintage/junk show in Oklahoma City and seen some of the stuff hubby hauls off selling there. I thought to my self what if we did that? So I signed up for a local craft show and took some junk and painted furniture to it. Let me tell you I almost sold out!! Came home to show my hubby all the money I had made and he thought I was crazy!!!

In June 2015 I took him to a show called Junk Hippy in OKC. I had seen pictures on Facebook of this show and knew that one day I wanted to sell at this show!!! (Which we now do!!!) When we drove into the fair grounds I seen this line that was really long and the doors had been open for 30 mins!!! There was women dressed in nice clothing with big jewelry and I can remember thinking these women are going to a junk show?? I was in a t-shirt and jeans with my hubby. (Who was the only man in line.) When we entered the door my heart was pounding out of my chest. You would have thought I just seen a famous actor or something. There was rust junk everywhere! My hubby starts over to a booth, looks at something and almost dropped it. I asked him "What's the problem?" He said "I get this all day long (for free) and can't get that price out of it if I scrapped it." I said "Do you think it is to much?" He said YES!! so loud that the owner of the booth looked at us. I then told my hubby to stand back and let's watch to see if anyone looks at it. Sure enough not two minuets later someone looked at it and headed over to the owner and paid the amount on the price tag. No questions!! Nothing!!! I thought my husband was going to die!!! We walked around a bit and met some vendors and asked them some questions about the show and what they sold. We never thought we would be at that level but thought of we could sell to vendors that would be awesome. Another husband and wife team (which are still our friends to this day) was there selling and we talked to them for a long time about the show and how they were doing there. They told us that we should try to get on the waiting list for the next show. I thought yeah right I just got the hubby to come to a show I highly fought I could get him to sell at a show. We finished walking around and even bought a few things. As we were on our way home we sat in silent!!! Then my hubby turned to me and said "So what do you think?" I said "I think there is a show in a few months." He said "Ok, see if you can get into it." So I applied for a show called Junklahoma in Piedmont, Ok that was in September 2015. And we got in!!!!

Sep 2015 came fast!!!! We picked and picked for that show!! (So pick or pickin' is where you go out in a field, barn, old house, etc. and find your junk or rusty gold!) As we were loading getting for the show I took some picture of our trailer and posted them to the event Facebook page. The last thing we loaded was a set of lockers. They were not pretty and very rusty but they were really cool!! On that post I had a few people ask me how much for the lockers and I had no idea how much for them or anything for that matter so I said I didn't know yet. The next morning we had to get a tire fixed (this is an on going thing in our world. Lol!!) so we went to the local farmers co-op. The guys there looked at our trailer and said "Oh, Tim you are hauling another load off today?" The hubby said " No going to a craft show." They gave us the weirdest look and just changed the tire. I got out of the truck and headed to the back of the trailer and took a quick picture and post it again to the Facebook event page for the show.

The promoter of the show loved that picture so much that now uses it for promoting the show to this date. It is the true meaning of junkin'!!! When we got to the show and started to unload the first thing that came off was those lockers. Somebody came up and asked "How much for the lockers and this tractor grill?" I said "$75 for the lockers and $20 for the grill." She said "Sold here is the cash." Then the promoter came up and asked how much for some chairs? I gave her a price she said sold and handed me the money. That whole show was like that.

 Before the show

 Before the show

 Before the show

After the show

We had no idea how to set up a booth, what to price stuff, or how to sell "Junk." But we prayed over that booth and asked God to help us sell and He sure did!!!

Since that day we have learned so much. Some on our own and some from others. With this blog I hope to show and tell you all of it from pickin' to shows, from setup to tear down, to decoration in a booth or in your house I hope to cover it all.

Happy Pickin'
Sarah