Walk in the Country

This old house with a stone chimney, sits back from the road dusted with white wild flowers in the front. It caught my eye while taking my first evening walk at our new farm.

Tiny Christmas tree

This is our tree this year. Barely 3 feet tall with white lights, this little tree has only wood painted red cardinal birds for ornaments. Set on top of an antique sugar chest in our living room, this little tree has become our only decor this Christmas.

Usually this tree is on my porch, but with packing in preparation to move to our tiny hunting cabin, Christmas decorating has had to take a back seat. As much as I love Christmas, it is still a joy because we finally have a contract on our historic home. We are praying every day that the sale will be finalized soon. I am so glad for this, but even more to celebrate the birthday of our King! I pray my next post will be from our little cabin in the hollow!  From there we will complete the log cabin we started years ago, which will be our next permanent home, just uphill from the hunting cabin.  Blessings to all for a joyful Christmas!

Our final Thanksgiving at our old southern Tennessee home was celebrated my daughter and her husband. As we await the buyer of our home to come forth, we thank the Lord each day for all the blessings we have enjoyed at our home and farm.  More than any, we celebrate the love and joy of our Lord, who blessed us more than we deserve. 

 As we move on to what we know as God's plan for us, I invite you to visit my new blog Hannah Gap Inspirations, reflections of God's love as we move to our country farm to complete our rustic log cabin we will soon call home.  This new blog will contain inspirational messages and Bible teachings from a Spirit-filled perspective of the Word, as we work to complete our cabin home and create a new life on Hannah Gap.  Join me on our journey, and see a sneek preview of the cabin where we left off five years ago.  Happy Thanksgiving to all!! 

Trip to Bush's Beans

A trip to Bush's Beans in Chestnut Hill, TN this past week was much fun.  My husband and I stumbled on it while taking a backroad to Sevierville while in east Tennessee.  It was truly a backroads trip, and so happy to find their cute store, museum, and the ENTIRE factory!  Even Jake, the Bush Beans dog, was a participant in the store museum movie.  Yes, we sat through it, and thoroughly enjoyed it.  I was not aware

 the Bush Co. began as a packing company for Van Camps. but later became their own company. 

We enjoyed the little Bush camper trailer in the store, as we browsed through their many displays inside the original general store.  I love the wash tubs on the front porch because I just got some for the porch of our log cabin we are finishing. 

Our little journey to Chestnut Hill, with the Autumn leaves at their peak, just made our day. I was so glad we stopped! 

White Ironstone

White ironstone was a hit at the Springfield Extravaganza this weekend.  Although I would have loved to have been at the Country Living Fair in Columbus just miles away, I did not have enough stock on this trip to warrant the cause.  However, we had a great show, and many buyers were also attending CLF, and working both shows into their schedules.  With beautiful weather, my husband to help me, and a huge turnout, it was a super weekend.

 This cute possum belly cupboard with galvanized drawer bins sold right away.  Our furniture buyers were mostly there on Thursday while we were setting up, but this piece sold on Friday morning to a young dentist's wife who was looking for a cupboard for her husband's office.

 I love old bottles, and had numerous great antique and vintage bottles that enhanced several collections.

My walnut wallshelf that used to hang in my bedroom also found a new home.  The antique shelf was custom made for a display in a Shelbyville, TN drug store in the early 1900's.  It is always fun to know the history of an antique.

My husband makes the dish racks that can be hung on the wall or set on a table or countertop.  I didn't sell it this trip, but I did sell the old blue glass kerosene dispenser in front of it, as well as the white wall cabinet down on the bottom right of this photo.

This vintage handmade cupboard also left us.  My huband assisted two young ladies loading it into a small suv with the backseat down.  It was over six feet tall, but amazingly just fit.  They still had numerous smalls they put in the bottom cabinet portion, and then a chair and several other items on top.  I always said a lady can pack it home if there is a will to do it!

I sold half of my ironstone pieces.  I love it, have so many pieces, and still hate to part with it.  Now that we are on our downsizing quest, I realize it time for some of my pieces to be loved by someone else. 

A cute young girl bought all my letters, and another young couple bought my vintage lamp.  If she hadn't, I had decided it was going to replace one in my house and go with me to the next house.

Many more smalls, a great industrial cart, two tables, two wonderful hanging lamps, and several of my crochet hats, a wagon, signs, and mancave items were sold.  We had less than a third left to put back into the trailer at the end of the show.  A big thank you to all of our buyers, the nice folks set up on either side of us, and to the many pleasant people we met on our 3 day weekend in Springfield.

Jewelry at Springfield Extravaganza

If you are visiting the Springfield Extravaganza this weekend, Fri thru Sun Sept 14 - 16, please stop by and see me at booths 480 And 481. I will be displaying some of my jewelry including vintage creations as well as new silver and stone pieces. We will have a great selection of vintage and primitive antiques, with lovely white ironstone pitchers and platters. If you are looking for gothic lights, don't miss us; we have 7 matching lamps that came out of the old Jefferson Courthouse in Plymouth, IN from the late 50's. They are amazing! I will post a few more pictures. See you in Springfield!