Fresh Flowers and More New Arrivals

Last Friday I planned a dinner for a new friend of mine
who needed a little pampering. He is going through a
nasty divorce. I planned a dinner that I had seen on
Food Network by Ina Garten's Surprise Italian Dinner.
Simple steak, fennel and warm salad. This left plenty of
time for wine and good conversation.  I also bought some
tulips to bring a little color in to the house and add a touch
of Spring, after all it was in the 60's.

The tulips were on sale for $8.99 a bunch at Martin's and my friend also brought
me flowers from Martins in fun bright colors.

The flowers my friend brought had a strange pink dye to them.

It turned the water pink and mu hands pink.

And on to what came in at the end of last week and the begining

of this week!

A beautiful old set of wicker, two sets of sofas, two arm chairs

and a side table.

Interesting wooden wall art

China, china and more china, all sets from the 20's to the 50's

and a sweet little Chinese painted desk.

Snow Days, Are We Done Yet?

How many days till Spring?
I dug my way out of the house yesterday to come
down and dig out the sidewalk in front of my store
and The SPACE. I walked down with a neighbor, ran
into another friend walking his dog and called a friend,
client and board member to come and help shovel. We
discussed using some furniture from my store in the SPACE,
looked at fabric samples for her living room, not a bad snow
day!

I need to invest in a good pair of snow boots. My car is stuck behind my house
and it will be Sunday before it makes it out of the driveway. I have items to deliver
to the UPS store. Any way, yesterday afternoon, a friend came by the store, and we
drove around town looking at the damage. We put his car in the garage downtown and
started walking to fine something open, we ended up at Baja Bean and spent the afternoon
eating salsa, guacamole and chips, drinking margaritas and shots of tequila. After that we
ended at Zynoda for wine and dirty Martini's.

Today is another story, the storm that almost completely shut down the
city of Staunton, has passed. Now we are in a melting mess. What a
difference a day makes. Back to work and reality. Happy Valentines
Day everyone!

A plus to all those people who posted great snow pictures on Facebook!

What Came In This Week

More goodies coming in this week from
a friend that is moving into her parents old
house...

..
Beautiful hand painted folding screen.............

Lots of pairs of bedroom chairs and Queen Anne Chairs........

Pretty vintage fabrics including this Clarence House Chinese jar fabric on the folding
screen.

And my F. Schumacher rep sent me these beautiful samles. Designs
by Alessandra Branca and Mary McDonald.

Baby It's Cold Out Side

This week has been a real eye opener. Monday it felt like a
Spring day, I was busy in the store and sold items on my Ebay
site and my Etsy site. I new the snow storm was coming so I headed
to the UPS store and got my package out to Arizona to get it going
the opposite way of the storm. I made sure I had plenty of fruit, coffee,
soup mixes, and basic items in the kitchen in case I got snowed in. I got up
early Tuesday to get ready for a possible drapery installation. At 7:00 am
looked out the window, dark, cloudy and no snow. I got in the shower to
get ready and heard Elfie barking, barking alot. Came out to see what the
fuss was all about and this is what I saw.....

So, the drapery installation was canceled, I made some more coffee and started to
plan my day, do to the situation at hand.  I watched a couple of talk shows and went
on line. I figured I had to get to the store to catch the postman to send out two packages
to California, since I couldn't mail them Monday, MLK day, no mail right. I had two
questions on Etsy about items in my store that I couldn't answer from home. So Elfie and
I made the trip in on foot. A friend had cleared the side walk off in front of my store, +1,
answered the Etsy questions, had some customers and caught up with the post man. Went
back home at 3:00 pm to this......

I left out the picture of my car which is totally snowed in, I will have to close up early
today to go back and dig it out before the next snow storm hits tomorrow. I do have
the drapery installation rescheduled for tomorrow of course, lets see if that happens!