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by: Diane Cowen
Sisters Jolie and Anne Sikes, along with their mom, turned their free-spirit style and love of old stuff into a business, roaming through flea markets, junk stores and auctions for things to buy and sell. Along the way, they designed products of their own, produced under their angel-wing Junk Gypsy brand and sold online and in their shop outside of Round Top.
Q: You invoke the name of Willie Nelson a lot. Tell me what your favorite Willie Nelson songs are.
Jolie: There are so many, it’s hard to say. I feel like our favorite is “On the Road Again.” Our dad has been singing that song our whole lives. However, there is no Willie Nelson song that is not great. “Willie for President!”
Jolie: And we adhere to “What would Willie do?”
Amie: But we don’t smoke pot.
Someone in the background is trying to get in on the Willie Nelson conversation.
Amie: That is our mother. She is wielding a hot-glue gun, putting glitter and feathers on a cow skull.
Jolie: Junk Gypsy has some parallels to Willie, I have to say with modesty. We set out to do what we love. Willie did songs that spoke to him, even though Nashville said to do something else. If you try to build a brand based on what everybody else is going to like, you’re not being true to yourself.
Meet the authors: Amie and Jolie Sikes will sign copies of their book at 2 p.m. Sunday at Books-a-Million, 5000 Katy Mills Circle, Katy.
Junk Gypsy store
Where: 1215 Texas 237 S.
Information: gypsyville.com