Bags of boucle, bins of buttons and innumerable notions await the scavenging hordes at the Textile Center's 8th Annual Garage Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. One dollar gets you in the door to the annual sale, which unloads fabric by the yard and bolt, knitting items, sewing machines and needlepoint and needlecraft items, as well. The event is followed by the Bag Sale from 3-4 p.m.; all you can cram into a sack for $1. Gain entrance to a Friday preview, 6:30-8:30 p.m. for a $25 donation. Textile Center, 3000 University Av. SE., Minneapolis, 612-436-0464.
KIM YEAGER
New junk book Long Lake junk mavens Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer show how to "showcase your personal style a la junk" in their new decorating book "Junk Beautiful: Room by Room Makeovers With Junkmarket Style" (Taunton Press, $21.95).
Detailed before-and-after color photos document how to restyle rooms with inexpensive recycled objects; a chicken feeder retooled as a seasonings shelf, a beat-up kitchen island that gets new life as an arts and crafts table and an old flour mill cart that becomes a coffee table. (The book also includes the paint colors used on walls, trim and furniture in the rooms. Nice touch.)
Some of the authors' off-the-wall decorating tricks may not be your style -- say, a collection of whisk brooms as window treatment. But the dynamic duo (who are contributing editors to Country Home magazine, regularly appear on TV and run www.junkmarketstyle.com) seem to have bottomless talent for repurposing junk.
Whitney will sign books Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at a Gathering of Friends Antique Market in Burnsville; Nassauer will sign April 17, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Mustard Moon in Carver.
LYNN UNDERWOOD
