Treasures by the Locks will be closing on March 30, 2025. We’ve been quiet about it here—mostly due to lack of time, as closing a store is a surprisingly busy endeavour—but, it’s time to break that silence! From now until closing on March 30, everything that’s ours is 50% off. Vendor WCT’s products are 30%…
Excellent news, online shopping fans! I’m pleased to be able to offer affordable shipping throughout Canada and the USA during the Canada Post strike. International customers are welcome to contact us to obtain a shipping quote, as I have to go through a different channel for that (and it’s far more expensive for me to…
Canada Post is now on strike and, as a result, anything mailed through them will be on hold. To help get around this, we’ve signed up with ShipStation—which allows us to use services like UPS, FedEx, and Purolator without paying through the nose (we hope) and without you waiting forever for your packages. Items listed…
Summer of 2024 marks our fourth(!) running our own brick-and-mortar shop. It’s hard to believe that Treasures has made it this far. It hasn’t been easy, and we still have a lot to learn, but it’s been very interesting. There were no major disasters this past summer, thankfully. The building finally got painted (the same…
It’s that time of year: we’re now open 7 days per week, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. No more showing up on a Monday or Tuesday and finding that we’re closed, or stopping in at 4:15pm to see that we’ve left the building! It’s a good time to check in and see what we’re…
The multi-vendor market is a common sight in cottage country. It’s a simple business model, especially for the vendors involved, and has helped many small businesses get their sea legs. If you’re familiar with the flea market and antique mall, then you already know of two types of multi-vendor markets. They don’t work exactly the…
Being a successful market vendor comes down to a handful of simple tactics that, once worked into your schedule, are easy to turn into habit. Some markets will even do some of these things for you for an additional monthly fee. Read on to learn some some of our most-suggested strategies for getting more eyes…