What's Your Picking Style?

Booth Crush recently posted this question on their Facebook page, and it's fun to see the answers, especially if you have a booth or you manage a shop with booths.

To be honest, Sherri and I always kind of struggled with a theme when we launched our first booth; the mall was huge and only a few booths offered us any examples of following a clear, pure style - none of which really blew our skirts up.

And we were new pickers, scared of locking ourselves into one style - what if customers didn't like that style? And we felt we were at the mercy of budget constraints - you pick what you can afford, whether you love the style or not.

Looking back, those were "learning opportunities" (read: rookie mistakes) and we probably should have taken the time to really narrow our focus before we started scrambling to pick pieces.

July 2015: our first booth 2 weeks in.

January 2016: last shot of our booth before we moved to a larger space in the mall.

January 2017: final shot of our second booth before we opened our own shop

As time went on, we honed our style into a signature mix of primitive rustic/farmhouse and industrial/modern. That's still a lot to pack in a booth, but we did. We brought that mix of styles to Re-Invintage, and looked for vendors whose style meshed with ours. Here's a start-to-finish trio of our booth shoots, from the early days until a few weeks before we moved everything to our own shop.

So what do YOU look for when you hunt for vintage and antiques?  Comment below - we'd love to hear from you!
~ The Southern Pickin' Chicks