What Came In On Saturday

A lovely horsie type of lady named Lucy came in Saturday and asked if
I wanted to consign some things for her. She had some really cool stuff....

                                           Really beautiful resin bust of a women...........

                                                Horse themed bench.................

                                                          Horseshoe wine rack..............

                                        Paintings of buildings here in Staunton.......................

Big print of horse riding gentlemen

                                                     Lily of the valley in my yard

Fiddlehead ferns in my yard!

Big Changes This Week

What Came In On Thursday...............

 Marney's chairs got reupholstered..........

Colorful pillows, bags and tunics came in just in time for summer.

 Changed the windows and did a three day floor move!

I dropped a mattress and a heavy box spring on my right foot, not once but twice and took the
big toe nail of my left foot with the same box spring. Almost fainted!

Sunday Lunch With My Kids

Sunday I had a celebration lunch with my children. Their dad made pork chops, a garden salad
and corn on the cob. I brought an appetizer and pound cake. We celebrated Edmund's 17th
birthday which is on May 1st and Ellie will finish her 1st year of  college at Sweet Briar. I am
so proud of them and love them both very much.:)

Spring Flowers

My Spring flowers and the begining of Summer Flowers.

This Spring weather really has brought out beautiful color in my yard in just days.

Repurposing Antique Frames and Wallpaper

I have had a lot of empty antique frames come in recently. All are wood and either
gilded, carved or plain wood stain. I started playing around with ideas of ways to use
them. I thought about turning them into mirrors, but I have a lot of mirrors in here and
do not need any more. So here are a few of my ideas of what to do with them..........

I have three very large Seabrook wallpaper samples that have been discontinued that are too
pretty to just throw away. They have that Chinese hand painted look to them, I know that I
will have to get glass for the frames, but do they also need to be matted?

I brought in a painting I did last summer of some of my hydrangea flowers from my yard
to try in the frame that was white and gold and already had the glass in it. I am going to
take it home to try it, but wood insert cuts off the painting and the frame is too big for the
painting if I take it out and I don't really need the glass, do I? I wanted to hang this painting
in my bedroom on a blank wall.

Another thought was to frame these two beautiful, hand painted,original  wallpaper designs
I bought on Ebay last year and never did any thing with. If I nix the painting in the frame, I might
try the smaller of the two designs in this frame because it already has the glass and backing.

For a Saturday, it was a great day! I had a customer take a picture of Elfie and post it on
Facebook as a shop dog and a mother and daughter come in and spend hours trying on
all of the vintage hats that came in last month. One of the veil/birdcage feathered hats went
home with the mom on approval along with a vintage bag I had from Ebay.