Finding Treasures at Hunt & Gather!

If you are ever in the Twin Cities area, you must take time to visit this store. Hunt & Gather is a wonderful flea market type store in Minneapolis, located at the intersection of 50th & Xerxes.  This place is filled to the brim with eclectic antiques and the strangest, coolest, funniest and truly oddest objects that one can imagine.  I could spend hours digging through this store.  As I stroll through the isles, my mind is constantly spinning with ideas as I turn each and every corner.  And best of all....the merchandise is generally very reasonable (a.k.a. - cheap).  Their low prices keeps their inventory moving, so the store is always changing as new items are added. Yep...I am in love!

Blessings, Tracy

Now that's cute!

I saw this "Perfect Roast Turkey Timer" at Patina the other day.  I thought it was funny that the legs pop up when your turkey is done. It made me chuckle.

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New Skeleton Votive

Here is the large skeleton votive I purchased at Patina the other day.  He really is adorable.

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A Fascinating Place to Visit!

I recently visited the Accent Store Fixtures warehouse in Minneapolis.  This business sells new and used store fixtures and I have to say, it is a fascinating place.  I am a big antique/salvage yard or warehouse type of person, so this was right up my alley.  It's like a huge store fixture graveyard.  

For anyone looking for mannequins or mannequin parts to use in your Halloween decor, you need to find a place like this in your area.  I thought "most" items were fairly priced.  Although, I do think you need to visit the warehouse to find the best deals.  I found the prices to be generally cheaper than listed on their website, especially on slightly "dinged up" mannequin.  Most of the dings in these mannequins you wouldn't even notice unless they were left standing naked in your front yard.   Here are pictures of just a small sampling of  items this business carries.

Here you can see the styrofoam male mannequin heads I used to make my Mummy Heads. They were $5 each. You can see my Mummy Heads here and here.

Love the Superman pose the guy on the left is pulling off.

Interesting???

LOVED these life sized styrofoam torsos. I thought they were a good deal at $15 each!  These would work great (lightweight option) for anyone interested in making a "Witch's Urn" like mine.  I did see regular mannequin torsos similar to the ones I used for $30.

I liked this huge mannequin head, although the left side of her 

face was badly cracked from a fall.

They have great wall organizational basket systems.

Display cases and racks up the wazoo!

Colorful rolls of ticket stock.

Blessings, Tracy