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The Boys of BH
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
BH in The Land of Tarte
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The Boys of BH
Monday, August 9, 2010
The 2010 Barn House Flea Market!
The unexpected happened on July 31st here at Barn House!
(look at these beautiful ladies!!!)
(the line about an hour before we opened)
WOW! Last weekend was a pivotal moment in time for Barn House, to say the least. It was incredible!! It was exhilarating on many different levels!! We had a spectacular turnout of customers and friends of BH, and the most incredible treasures and displays from our featured guests! After every show, The Boys evaluate the good and all of the things we can do better in preparation for our next event.
But, let me step back a bit. After last season, we decided that 2010 was the year for us to focus on core values of why we moved to the country, why we started our little business and also on making time to nurture the friendships we have made over the years of being in The Beautiful Pacific Northwest. Also, we threw a few things out in The Universe about inviting only good, positive and clean energy onto our farm. Our home is the most sacred place on Earth for us and we must honor and protect it. Everything else much kindly and gently be escorted off the premises (y'all know what I mean?).
Angela, Heather and Thea (Thea's Interiors of Portland)
Our Flea Market last week was an AMAZING collaborative effort! It was a week-long celebration of friendship. It was a celebration of why The Boys and our Special Guests spend hours/days/weeks/months preparing and moving our “stuff” back and forth and back again (then forth and back again-again-and yet again). It was a celebration of why very special friends of BH drive/fly from all over the country and even Canada to be a part of The Barn House Experience.
The VERY popular Parking Boys and Girl of BH (with J&J)
Liz (Seabold Vintage Market) and Cindy (Tarte)
Folks are likely to get snatched up and hugged (and possibly kissed) by a complete stranger or someone they only know from Blog World. And at certain times, folks might just not even be able to hear themselves think with all of the laughter and shenanigans in the air.
Lynne G, Angela and Heather
AND, you might just be shocked beyond believe to be greeted at the front door by very famous photographers/stylists/writers like Heather Bullard (Senior Editor for Flea Market Style Magazine), Tiffany Kirchner (The Fancy Farm Girl and photographer/writer for Somerset Life and Where Women Create) and Kimberly Taylor (Mimi Charmante and Kimberly Taylor Images).
Me and "My Girl," Kim (aka, Mimi Charmante)
Thanks ladies for saving our tails by working the entrance and being so super sweet to everyone who came in during early buying. Your friendship means the world to us!! We owe you BIG time!
There was singing.
Lara Blair (Modern Prairie Girl and Lara Blair Images) anointing us with her beautiful voice along with "Dusty The Musician" doing his thing...
There was lots of dancing.
Lisa (A Thing for Roses) and Debbie (Worthy Goods)
Me and some of our other girls / favorite photographers - Robin (Bird Tweets), Tiffany (The Fancy Farm Girl), Cheesy-Me and Lara Blair (Modern Prairie Girl) -- Just silliness in the air EVERYwhere!
There was an awesome Sheriff that helped with a BIG traffic/crowd control issue in the morning. There was also a near riot when Katherine’s Folie ran out of her 400+ Red Velvet Cupcakes (who knew grown men loved cupcakes so much -- very strange! lol). Thank goodness for that Sheriff!
There were those moments when folks could no longer hold back tears of how special moments throughout the day(s) touched their hearts.
Portion of Seabold Vintage Market's space...
We should have started filming a new series called, "The Real Boys of Barn House - What really goes on behind the scenes!" For those that know us, y'all already know that The Boys love a good party (to say the least). So of course, there was the Pre-Show Dinner Party in the backyard the night before the show.
(photos courtesy of Seabold Vintage Market - Joey and Cindy - Two Peas in a Pod)
There was an After-Party on Saturday late afternoon and another one on Saturday evening. AND there was an After-AFTER Party celebration with just The Boys and The Queen and King of Tarte on Sunday night. Can you imagine the incredible stories we all have to tell???? There was so much love in the air! You just wouldn't believe it if I tried to explain it in detail (not to mention most of what goes on at BH stays at BH - lol)!
Calamity Jane's incredible space
This week long celebration validated many-many-MANY ideals that we hold true to our hearts. #1 is true Friendship. Our only regret is not being able to spend more time during the show with folks that came from all over to visit us and The BH Family. (there was a minor traffic jam that required a tiny bit of attention---thank y'all...thank y'all!) During the really busy hours, I took on the role as Trolley-Taxi-Driver for folks who had to park up and down our country roads. Joe was running up and down the street like a lunatic trying to secure additional parking from neighbors. The 7 Parking Boys and 1 Parking Girl were all sweet as pie during what we will call The Best Thing That Happened To Venersborg In The Last 100+ Years! Most of our close neighbors really still do love us (we pray)!! :o)
The Brough's Primitives Space
We also didn’t get enough pictures, but we will direct you to our friends who documented our Flea Market waaaaay better than we were able to. Please visit their sites to see their amazing photos and stories from last week. (If I missed anyone, please email us at theboys@barnhousebh.com and I will do my best to add folks to the blog list). Their pictures and stories are much better than ours...we thank them all for their hard work here and/or visit to our little show and the kind words on their experience here on our farm. :o)
Seabold Vintage Market and once again Seabold Vintage Market
Little Cottage and once again Little Cottage
Notes from a Cottage Industry and again here
AND, we would never-EVER forget two of our favorites...
The Worthy Goods Girls
If you were here, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your kindness and generosity!!! If you were not able to make it BUT were sending lots of positive energy our way, we thank you too!!! Check out our little slide show of some pictures we were able to snap right before the show started.
The Boys of Barn House are in the midst of finding the right formula...and the right balance. It feels REALLY good to know we are moving in the right direction. EVERYthing about this show felt INCREDIBLE and we wouldn't change one thing at all. Thanks to all of y'all, this was THE BEST BH event EVER!!! Thank you, thank you and thank you -- more than ever!!
Much Love,
Joe and Jermonne
The Boys of Barn House
P.S. - Now it's time for us to get back to doing a little of this (which is nothing but just sitting in the pasture)...
And this (ain't much but lovin' our babies)...
And this (ain't a whole lot but loving on a turkey or 9 of 'em that are just gettin' too big for their britches)...
And getting back to these (Ol' Miss Celie and her chicken friends)...
And we certainly must get back to our BIG (dirty) Boy of Barn House, Harpo...who surely needs a good cleanin'...
But, most importantly, it's time for ME to get my a$$ off this here blog get back to this...THE Boy of Barn House...My VERY Best Friend "Joe-Joe"...he sho' is C-R-A-Z-Y, but that's my boy! (he is asleep, so yes I can safely say he crazy -- AND, you can see it in his eyes if you look close!)
We have lots of exciting news coming soon. Don't y'all forget about us!!
The Boys
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Destination Barn House!!!!!
BARN HOUSE PRESENTS
The Barn House 3rd Annual Flea Market
This is the biggest Barn House Event of the year! It's the only time we completely fill the barn AND an entire portion of one of our pastures with our favorite artists/collectors/friends. We are very honored to have 25 of the most beautiful and talented folks around the NW joining us for The BH Party of the Year! There will be amazing treasures, food, music and lots of fun!! AND, from what folks have been bringing so far it is sure to be the BEST BH show EVER! You don't want to miss it!!!
Saturday, July 31st
(one day only)
Early Buying: $5
9am - 11am
Free Admission
11am - 2pm
Barn House Featured Guests:
A Cottage Industry - Camas, WA
A Thing for Roses - Sherwood, OR
Annie Fannie Abigail - Portland, OR
Auntie Joy - Silverton, OR
Belle Blanc - Lake Oswego, OR
Bella Shabby - Forest Grove, OR
Calamity Jane - Ridgefield, WA
Camas Antiques - Camas, WA
Duchess - Vancouver, WA
Flutterby - Naches, WA
Gund - Portland, OR
Katherine's Folie - Seattle, WA
Kindred Roses - Camas, WA
Little Cottage - Battle Ground, WA
Madison Park Antiques - Portland, OR
Maison Douce - Sherwood, OR
Molly Mo - Sublimity, OR
Retreat - Camano Island, WA
Seabold Vintage Market - Bainbridge Island, WA
Sparrow - Battle Ground, WA
Tarte - Oregon City, OR
Teresa Sheeley - Omak, WA
The Brough's Primitives - Camas, WA
Worthy Goods - Oregon City, OR
Please note: Unlike our other shows of the year, you will pay each vendor at our Flea Market. Many only accept Cash or Checks. The nearest ATM machine is about 5 miles away at the Chevron in Hockinson. Please plan to stop on the way if you need cash.
In the meantime, The Boys of BH and The Barn Family will be patiently awaiting your arrival. We hope you can join us for the fun!!
BARN HOUSE MARKETPLACE UPDATE
(online store)
If you can't make it to our Flea Market, be sure to shop us at our online store (www.barnhousemarket.com)! Lots of new products have been loaded recently. Unfortunately, we will need to close the online store for about a week beginning Friday evening. BUT, we have something really special lined up for when we reopen...more to come.
Joe & Jermonne
Barn House & Barn House Marketplace
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Destination Barn House - The Lineup!
On July 31st, The Boys of Barn House will be hosting our most special event of the year - "The Flea!" It's the time when we clear the pasture and host the largest number of loving and talented friends we can possibly fit inside AND outside of our Barn. For us, it is several amazing days of fun, friendship and inspiration from our favorite collectors/artists/designers. For our visitors/customers, it's an awesome vintage/antique treasure hunt in a unique and beautiful setting.
We are V-E-R-Y honored to be hosting many-many-MANY of our favorite folks from all around the Pacific NW.
Duchess - Vancouver, WA
Gund - Portland, OR
Madison Park Antiques - Portland (Sellwood), OR
Tarte - Oregon City, OR (visit link for 7/24 event in Oregon City!!)
The Brough's Primitives - Camas, WA
&
AND, if you are in the area, please don't forget to visit our neighborhood friends down the road who host another special show:
and the Antique/Vintage Stores in Downtown Battle Ground:
&
Main Street Station
all just 10-15 minutes from our place
Come for a beautiful drive to the country to visit Barn House and a TON of our beautiful special guests!
And if you don't want to drive by yourself, join one of the buses coming from Seattle or Eugene...
From the Seattle area, visit: http://comejunkwithus.com/
From the Eugene area, visit: http://www.comeplayeugene.blogspot.com/
Certainly there will be lots more to come on our 3rd Annual Flea Market, including directions and some more favorite places to visit nearby.
The Boys of BH
P.S. -- Can't make it to Battle Ground, WA?? Visit http://www.barnhousemarket.com/ for a little preview of what's to come online after our show.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Destination Barn House! (Part 1)
Before I get started on our upcoming Flea Market, let me give a quick update on Barn House Marketplace (our online store). We are open for business and spruced up the site with some awesome new products from BH and Retreat. Isabel (Maison Douce) is just getting back in country, so we hope to have more of her treasures once she recovers from frolicking all around Europe. Some of the new items listed are BH's new extra large linen pillows, french bus banners, garden tool belt aprons, slate chalkboards, leather cases, vintage piano player music and much more!!! (the glitches with some of the products have been completely worked out)
Check out Barn House Marketplace!!
OK, this is our first in a series "Destination Barn House!" posts. Our Flea Market is by far our biggest show of the year. We have invited some of the most beautiful, inspiring and talented collectors/designers in the Pacific Northwest! These are all folks who have touched our hearts in some way. They truly understand the BH Vision and bring their A-Game to everything they do. They all have their individual styles that make them unique as artists/collectors. But most importantly, they are ALL really nice people -- Drama Free!!! We are so honored to have them participating in our 3rd Annual Barn House Vintage Home & Garden Flea Market! (more to come on these talented folks)
Attention Seattle Area Friends of Barn House!!!
Come one, Come ALL!!! The Barn House Vintage Home and Garden Flea Market is going to be one party you don't want to miss!!!! More on this very soon...
Much Love,
The Boys
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Barn House Update - The News!
It has been an incredible week for us! The Sun finally came out signaling that Summer might actual really be here!! As a result, we finally were motivated to get our online store back up and running. Barn House Marketplace is now open for business (again). We are very happy to have two very talented invited guests and friends selling with us - Maison Douce and Retreat Design. There are lots a great treasures...check us out at www.barnhousemarket.com.
We now have new T-Shirts for sale at BHM!
But, the BIG NEWS really is that The Boys of Barn House are in the July issue of Sunset Magazine!!!!
This has really been an unbelievable year for us! We have been featured in Somerset Life Magazine, Flea Market Style Magazine (2 articles shot at our home), The Seattle Times, The Columbian Newspaper and now one of the most iconic magazines - Sunset!! Sunset Magazine has been around for over 100 hundred years (yes, since 1898) and is one of the most widely distributed magazines in the country. It is really unbelievable that we are actually in it. We are so incredibly honored. Life is really good!
I remember clearly when Heather Bullard was here for one of the photo shoots for Flea Market Style and being shocked that she actually wanted to take a picture of us for the magazine. We get TONS of magazines and the reality is that 999 times out of 1,000 there is certainly not folks that look, feel (and maybe smell) like us. We told Heather that there was no way FMS would put a picture of us in the magazine. She winked and said, "Oh yes they will!" And, oh yes, they did! And so did Sunset! Me and Joe have been joking about how terrible we look in the Sunset photo. I don't know what we were thinking about staying up so late the night before, but we look a little rough. The first thing I thought was "Jermonne, you need to stop eating and stop eating NOW!" I told Joe if he had red hair, he would look like Johnny Depp in the Alice in Wonderland movie poster. It's worth $4.95 just for the chuckle about how we look! LOL
OK...enough joking around. If you live on the East Coast and don't have access to Sunset, we have about 25 copies for sale at Barn House Marketplace.
Thank you all for so generously supporting The Boys of BH and our dream! We are truly blessed to be surrounded by so much love and inspiration.
Much Love,
J & J
The Boys of Barn House
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Coming up for air...The Boys of BH are back!
Whew...our Spring Show was something we could have never imagined!! Especially considering that leading up to the show we had decided to NEVER-EVER have another show in May. If you don't live in the NW, you may not know that we have had the coldest/wettest Springs on record. The weather has been absolutely miserable. Getting ready for the show in the cold and rain was less than desirable to say the least (especially when building a new structure was part of the plan).
The Mother's Day Tribute was a little bitter sweet after losing Joe's mom recently. We also use to host my family and our family of friends in CA for a special Mother's Day celebration at our home. All we really wanted to do was spend time with family/friends, work in our gardens and charm the turkeys. We loudly proclaimed that next year there would be only one show and that would be our Flea Market. It was time to trim the fat...it was time for Part 2 of the Big BH Cleanse. We had way too much stuff cluttering our lives.
We pulled out stuff from every nook and cranny, priced it to sell and waited to see if anyone would show up for what we thought was our final Spring Show. And even though we had proclaimed it was our final Spring event, the Universe expressed something a little different. After weeks of rain, the clouds cleared and the Sun shined brightly on our faces the morning of our event.
The line started about an hour before we opened.
15 minutes before the show, the line was already down to the far end of The Barn.
We said, "Uh Oh!" And just when we thought we we would never do another Spring show, we had the biggest/best Barn House event to date. At a certain point in the morning I looked out from my post at one of the registers and was torn between feeling giddy and terrified. Apparently, we will be having more Spring Shows!
We are so honored to have friends like Katie, Robin and Leah who saw things getting completely out of control and stepped in to assist at the registers and with crowd control. We are also every honored to have some of the most talented and hardworking featured guests (BH Familia) present to help pull together such an awesome event. They brought their A-Game and worked their fingers to the bone and we will forever be thankful!! We also must thank the five smiling BH Parking Boys (+1 Girl) for guiding our customers safely through the somewhat mushy pasture as well as helping carry treasures to the cars of the happy buyers. The parents of these kids should really be proud!! And certainly we must thank the many-many customers who came out and generously shopped until they almost dropped! HEE HAW!! :o)
We have been getting lots of calls/emails from friends wondering what the heck we have been up to lately. After riding the crazy train all Summer last year (with our home/gardens suffering from a lack of attention), we decided we were going to slow things down a bit this year to focus on what is most important to us -- home, friends and family. So while a lot of our friends were partying it up with Serena (Farm Chicks) and our lovely friend Celeste (Chaps/Cake) in Spokane a few weeks back, we were here supervising one of the most meaningful and eventful projects to ever occur at our home -- A HIGH-TECH IRRIGATION SYSTEM!
This may not be thrilling to most, but if you have ever had to fight with 100 feet of a water hose in the hot/dry Summer for 3 hours a day trying your best to keep your favorite plants and flowers alive, you will understand.
It will give us back hundreds upon hundreds of hours this Summer/Fall!! We have talked about it for the past 3 years, and finally made it happen this year!! NOT that we have been able to use it yet as it has rained pretty much everyday since the beginning of the month, but one day it will be very useful! LOL
Other than that, we have just been loving the turkeys and baby chicks, editing, fine-tuning, gardening, visiting special friends and getting ready for The Big Daddy of BH events - The Flea!! The lineup of 30 or so invited guests is amazing!!!!! They are talented, positive, fun, loving, hardworking and incredible folks who we are privileged to know. We will be sharing the details soon, but please save the date - July 31st.
OH, and Barn House Marketplace (our online store) will be back up and running very soon. We have two very special invited guests - Maison Douce and Retreat! More to come this week...
Much Love!
The Boys of Barn House / BH Marketplace
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