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The Bearded Man Speaks Brimfield Antique Show 2012 Wrap-up: These buying trips are like the Super Bowl to us, so it takes a while to get off the high when we win. Winning is finding the stuff we were looking for and also finding the surprises and unknown. Special thanks to everyone who who made this trip possible. Darin Combs for assisting me on this picking journey, Colin The Circus trainer with his trained eye to capture the moment frame by frame to get you as close to the action as possible. Pf flyers for the amazingly comfortable sneakers for all the walking and GMC for the Hybrid Denali that was great on gas.

On our last day in Massachusetts we decided to drive up to Boston to say hello to Bobby,Kristen and the entire Bobby From Boston crew. It’s always good to catch up with them and spin around Boston. Can we publicly say that Boston is certainly fit for the next BKc store, can someone make that happen? At any rate, Stop by our stores to see the goodies and see what we dragged in from the road. The BKc, style + Character & The 100 Years Plan . . .

The BKc SF + StyleForum 10YR Anniversary wrap-up: What an eventful week-end/Beginning we had in San Francisco, from our friend Bianca’s Fashion Showcase at the beautiful Clift Hotel on Thursday to the Art MurMur in Oakland on Friday night to Monday night front row at Drake’s concert with surprise guest Lil’ Wayne to backstage with The Weeknd and the XO crew at The legendary Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday night. (Thank you to everyone that helped make us feel extra special, you know who you are!). But what really helped kick this all off in style (pun intended) is StyleForum’s 10 Year Anniversary event on Saturday. Fok and The StyleForum company put together a wonderful series of events at the W Hotel in San Francisco starting on Friday and although we couldn’t capture All the fun, we had our handy photogs right there with us snapping away. Enjoy the pics. The BKc Style + Character & The 100 Year Plan . . .

Brimfield Antique Show 2012 Day 3 of what feels like a never ending dream of Antique and vintage heaven but of course another rainy morning- never stops any Brimfield vendor or buyer. Around this time of the year, the weather is normally either rainy or gloomy, either way a tad bit wet. We do welcome the rainy season more than we welcome the extreme heat during the July Brimfield show, if you have to miss any one of the three shows, make it the July show. We journeyed off into our normal routine of breakfast at Te Brown Cow and then off to catch whatever show opens that day.

We are pretty excited to report that we did really well today, with tomorrow being our last day in Springfield and possibly Brimfield. We have plans to head over to Boston to spend the day with Bobby, Kristen and the team over at Bobby From Boston. More rain tomorrow and of course more fields opening up and allot more shopping to be done, if it’s called for, nothing forced. If we don’t find anything tomorrow, we’ll be totally fine with what we gathered so far. Stay tuned for a full wrap up and more detailed updates, our brain is calling for rest. The BKc Style + Character & The 100 Year Plan . . .

Brimfield Antique Show 2012 Day 2: We woke up at 4:30am after what felt like too few hours of sleep, for Day 2 of our trip but officially Day 1 of The Brimfield Antique Show 2012. We made the drive from our hotel in Springfield to the town of Palmer for some good country breakfast at The Brown Cow, yep! The Brown Cow. After an amazing country breakfast with full country service we made our way over to Brimfield a quick 5 minutes away. The early morning show traffic was at its peak, with vendors, buyers and press creeping bumper to bumper on route 20. We made our way to our usual parking lot, went over the game plan, grabbed the bags and jumped into the 2012 buying season. We shopped the entire day and certainly secured some interesting goodies. As Bobby “Bobby from Boston” advised us, “you will find loots of things you like, but you can’t have it all. Stay focused on what you represent and what communicates your message”. Man! if that’s not wisdom, nothing is. That is so true here at this show, because their is so much to see (6000 vendors), so much to buy and lots of temptation to buy everything. The day started slow, with Ouigi & Darin browsing and taking lots of notes, but when they picked up their stride, they did some serious buying. Stay tuned for more on our Brimfield Antique Show 2012 journey. Special thanks to GMC for the super comfy, reliable 2012 Hybrid Yukon Denali for our trip. The BKc Style + Character & The 100 Year Plan . . .