I told my friend I was going to Junkstock this past weekend and he asked me why I was going to a Gentlemen’s club on a Saturday morning. Fail.

In case anyone else came across “Junkstock” in their search for things to do in the Omaha area and had some questions, I can assure you this is a family friendly and fully clothed event.

In fact, Junkstock is quickly becoming known as one of the countries best vintage festivals. Junkstock began in 2012 as a small event with a handful of vendors, but over the years it has expanded to become a semi-annual, three-day event at Sycamore Farms with 200+ vendors, 20+ food trucks, and a stage for local musicians to show us what they got…talk about success!

We paid our $10 cash only entrance fee and wandered the crowd trying to find our friends. It turns out saying, “I’m standing near the wooden pallet vendor” or “there is a guy selling artisan chocolates to my left” doesn’t really narrow things down at an event like this, woops. Thank goodness for the pony ride station and thank goodness there was only one.

Before getting too carried away in our hunt for all things dusty, rusty, and adorable, we obviously had to stop and snap a picture at this totally staged photo-op – an instagrammer’s dream!

Ok, now that we got that out of the way, time to focus! You really learn a lot about your friends by observing which vendors they are drawn to. I won’t name names, but I had no idea my friend would be so into tea cups glued together to form a bird bath – fascinating! This is truly the one-of-a-kind type of junk people flock to the event for.

We strolled past locally made cutting boards, pallet wood everything, homemade soaps, beef jerky out the wazoo, carefully crafted greeting cards, more home décor than we could fathom, and so much more!

I’m a total sucker and/or a Basic B because I was loving all the weathered pallet wood décor – I couldn’t resist! I strolled down Penny Lane (not kidding) and bought an old teal ladder to use as a blanket holder in my living room. So stinkin’ cute!

Eventually all our strolling made us hungry, so we wandered over to the food truck area, grabbed a bite, and hung out around one of the fire pits they had setup. It took 3 days to wash the campfire smell out of my hair, but totally worth it.

This was such a fun day with friends and I am already looking forward to its return this September!

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-Leah