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Flea market flip- sell day

7/26/2018

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After our workshop adventure, we were ready to begin selling (ok so we had to wait a few days but we were anxious to get going). We woke up early in the morning to head over to the Long Island City Flea Market to begin selling our pieces. We arrived two hours early ready and eager. Since we were so early, we decided to go sightseeing. We took photos of the Long Island Pepsi Sign, walked along the boardwalk, and got coffee. During our walks we found a hidden treasure on the side of the road, which I was tempted to take home with me.  It was this beautiful ornate mirror that would have been great for staging the nightstands.

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A Day in the workshop

6/29/2018

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After a few weeks, it was time to go to the workshop. That's right people, our episode took multiple weeks to film.  After a long two weeks of waiting, we had time to think of how we were going to transform our pieces. And if you watched the episode, you  know that our categories were ombre, rewrapped project and convertible design. To our surprise the workshop was here in Connecticut at a super secret location, if you want to call Stanford a secret. Marco and I love to make things fun and exciting, so true to our style, we showed up at the workshop with props. If you’ve seen the episode you’ll see a lot of dancing in the workshop and references to the  tropics. We danced in a conga line, made mojitos (not ) and Jenn really surprised me with her moves! Thank God we brought the props!

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A Day At the flea market

6/2/2018

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After a few suspenseful  weeks, the boys were off on their Flea Market Flip adventure. The gambit of emotions one must feel . The anxiety, the unknown, the excitement. Just thinking about it makes my head spin. Anyway, they were put up in a cute local hotel in New York, near the Flea Market they were going film the next morning. Here is where my insight ends and Gabe’s begins (unless you would like to hear about my dog sitting adventures while they were filming, which is  as exciting as it sounds. It just involved a lot of binge watching some TV shows) .

“Hey Guys it's me, Gabe, it's time for the inside scoop on Flea Market Flip are you ready? !! Our story consists of 3 parts buying, workshop day and selling, and believe me they are all an adventure!
 We arrived at the quaint hotel around 3 pm. The hotel was empty except for the employees. I remember thinking, is this the right place?  Am I to early? Or worse to late? Brushing off the nerves, Marco and I decided to settle in, drop the  bags and get something to eat. (15 minutes later) We are waiting for the elevator to get to the 3rd floor and we hear voices of two ladies laughing, heading toward us. Marco gave me a look and I knew what he was thinking( Are these our competitors?) It was silent in the elevator… it could have been due to the excitement of what was to come or just elevator etiquette where you move to the corners and look at the ceiling or door. Anyway, we got back to the lobby, and it was full of the Flea Market Flip crew members. I couldn't believe it. We were meeting the people we watched on TV for so long. It was amazing to meet the crew. We introduced ourselves, shook hands with the producers, agents and crew.  They were all so nice. Marco and I couldn’t wait to get to the Flea Market the next morning but hunger was kicking in and we were off to find the local restaurants. We woke up early to head over to the Stormville Airport Flea Market. It was colder than usual for this time of year. We were wrangled up together in pop up tents, with pairs of strangers and crew members. They gave us a printout detailing which teams will be competing. We hadn’t met our competition yet so we weren't sure what to expect, little did we know we had actually bumped into our competition in the elevator. Funny how things work, isn’t it? After the crew explaining the rules ( really fun stuff...not), Marco and I planned to explore the Flea Market right away as we were given time to poke through some of the items available while we were waiting for our turn to film. That’s right ladies and gentleman, there are multiple episodes filming on the same day. Don’t you just love some old fashioned Hollywood Magic?


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A Flippin' Good Time

5/17/2018

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Well as some of you know by now my business partners, Gabriel and Marco were featured on HGTV’s Flea Market Flip. Some days I still can’t believe that actually happened! Over two years later and I still get so excited thinking about it!  I know it was a dream come true for them. They got to showcase their talents to a national audience. Not to mention they would be on TV and let's face it, that's pretty cool. I know you want to hear from them and you will, I promise….patience….I have a role in this too, promise. Let’s start at the beginning.  Gabe and I first met working for another company, and we became fast friends. One day we were talking about this show that he has always wanted to be on. Can you guess what show that was? Yes you got it, Flea Market Flip. He kept saying he wanted to be on the show someday. Well I had something other than someday in mind. I knew Gabe was very talented, I mean he made me a gorgeous bookshelf for goodness sakes! It took some convincing but he said if I find the info he would sign up. So like the persistent pain I am I googled the information for Flea Market Flip and sent an email to their casting department. We didn’t hear anything back for about 2 weeks and when we finally did, they said that casting for season 7 had just ended. Bummer.

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