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Creating a Dream world
We believe there exists a restless roaming spirit deep within all of us … it’s in our nature. It’s in our very being. It’s a magical, mysterious, romantic thing to set out on a journey … a journey with no exact route, no precise destination, no GPS. It’s the journey we fell in love with. The journey stole our hearts long ago and never let go. For us, the road — the wild blue yonder — beckons to us in our dreams, whispers to us over our morning coffee, and begs to us from the passenger seat. It’s the mystery of taking a new trail, the discovery of a hidden junk store, the chance meeting of the waitress at the diner that makes you know you are on the right path. A path that found you … a path that, if you let it, becomes part of your story forever.

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

— Steinbeck

In the early days, we burned up the backroads of Texas … searching for that elusive piece of junk that would put us into a junk high for days. And it was more than the junk, it was the search. The hunt. And for us, hunting season was always open. From the beginning, it didn’t matter where we were headed, if any piece of junk or junk store on the side of the road was fair game.

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Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wonder & Wander

October 13, 2016

In a world full of conventional designers and DIYers, Texas sisters Amie and Jolie Sikes have spent almost two decades cultivating a unique style all their own. So much of design today is all granite and marble and stainless steel, the type of luxe layouts that make Martha Stewart swoon. Enter the Junk Gyspies. Their style is a joyfully low-couture break from the mainstream. Take a little bit of glitter, grit, Texas twang, sass, bohemian, gypsy, rock n’ roll, country, chippy-peely paint, down-home, and biscuits, mix all of that together, and that’s Junk Gypsy.

To those who aren’t interested in haute couture decor or home makeovers, these gals have a unique, refreshing take on design. Shabby-chic is nothing new, but the Junk Gypsies take it to a whole new level. They began their design careers repurposing used items they found at flea markets and fairs throughout rural Texas. They’d take second-hand items like old chairs and tables--and just plain ol’ junk--and remake and re-imagine them into statement pieces for house, barn, or vintage Airstream. Theirs is flea-market design with a “Funky shway” vibe, a harmony of junk refinished and distressed into DIY art.

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