Shopping The Shops and an Ice Storm

Recently I have been trying to sell more of my stuff. I have purged my dressing room,
cleaned out closets and emptied my storage boxes. As I have written before, I have antique
spaces at The Staunton Antique Center were I sell things large and small, some things I
have re purposed and a lot of it I also sell online.

My Ebay shop is listed under ,mmcelroy313, and  have listed more than 100 items, it is

a little bit of everything from my shops to my closet.

The Thibaut wallpaper book I no longer use, the egg plate sold this

week to a teacher in upstate New York and the jewelry was in a jewelry box

I bought on Ebay. 

Vintage Ralph Lauren blazer I bought on Etsy, a dining room table I bought

from a neighbor, and yes the picture was taken in my dining room and a

group of discontinued fabric samples from Kravet.

I also have several items listed on my Etsy shop, a little over 30 items, under my

name, Margaret McElroy, were you can list anything vintage, self made, including

clothing. Here are a few things from my shop.

 You can also find me on Instagram under, Margaret M Mcelroy, were I love

to post pictures of my daily life and I love to pin on Pinterest under, Margaret Mcelroy Interior Design.

And on a last note, we had a cold snap come through late Wednesday night, I

could hear the ice cycles hit my roof into the morning. As the storm got worse, this is what fell in my back yard.

  Limbs fell everywhere, exposing the top of the trees and even a large nest. Now we clean
up the mess. More pictures of the storm on my Instagram page  and please check out my antique
booths when you are in Staunton and shop my online shops from your sofa at the comfort of
your home.

A Vacation/ Holiday Saturday

Over the Holiday, I had several days off between Christmas and New Years.
The Saturday before New Years Eve, I set out to drive to Dayton to the Dayton
Farmers Market to pick up my lamp fixtures from my lighting guy at Lone Pine
Lighting. As I started up Route 11 I soon realized that this area had gotten more
snow than the slight dusting we had received. The farmers market was packed, I
picked up my lamps and walked around the indoor market. They have the Amish
Cheese Shop, where I got some cheeses, dried Saffron and dried Ginger. They have
a kitchen shop, homemade fudge, ice cream, a sandwich shop and a deli. It was so
packed at lunch time that I decided to go back to Bridgewater to a little restaurant
that I had read about called Jalapeno. This is a cute industrial style restaurant with
a skating rink next to it including fire pits and lots of families. I had my first and best
ever Cuban sandwich in this cute cozy bar style Restaurant, I posted a picture of it on
my Instagram page. On my way back to Staunton, I stopped in Verona at some of my
favorite thrift/ antique shops and hit the jack pot. Here is what I found.

A beautiful Asian hand painted vase with pretty colors.

This colorful floral hand painted Italian vase.

A very tall yellow vase with a Chinese style scene.

I had seen these Chinoiserie prints before Christmas and they were still there waiting
for me, it was meant to be and they gave me a discount.

And last but not least, the peacock vase,

Little Kennon's Wedding at Norwood in Powhatan

Earlier in June I attended my nephew Kennon's wedding
at our family home "Norwood" in Powhatan Virginia.

This home has been in our family since the 1800's. My mother grew up her here
and now it is the home of my aunt. Connie.

It has an English Basement, we used to ride our tricycles around this when we were little.

Here is a picture of the reception tent in the backyard.

The seating area for the nuptials, Kennon is the first of the little cousins to get married.

This is a picture of the back porch were I spent wonderful evenings with my
Grandparents.

Four generations of my family attended Easter Egg hunts in these gardens.

The house and land run all the way to the James River, you can see part of the Luck
Stone Quarry on the other side of the river in Goochland.

If you look closely, you can see the horses in the field. I posted more pictures on
Instagram and Facebook.