Lucketts Spring Market Recap

We had two beautiful days - which makes a record - because in all of the years that I have been doing this show it has always rained - at least on Sunday - if not on Saturday at some as well...

jewelry boards, suitcases, and vintage clothing

a long view showing some of the furniture

A close up of my 'Pink Girls'. I had an 'oval' coffee table in the same pink that sold.

A most amazing Hollywood Regency mirror.  It is fabulous!!!

A one drawer table with leaf - off to a happy home  :)  oh the candle holder and a 20/20 board too - bye,bye!

A lovely rose pink chair and ottoman, and a very nice Drexel end table.  They have been installed up at It's Bazaar in Purcellville.

French Provincial desk with book hutch and chair.  A little cluttered with vintage purses...and hankies - oops.  Not my best choice to show off this pretty piece...

Some fun vintage deadstock Spanish rings from the 1970s.  They are just fab!

top shelf: Italian souvenir bracelets from the 70s, cities represented, Venice, Rome, and Verona.
bottom shelf: beautiful Toledo, Spain earrings, and bracelets.

The other side of the tent - two pub tables, great vintage fans, picnic hampers and more!


My lovely neighbors this year were - to the east: SemperStylish (http://semperstylish.wordpress.com/) - it was their first show (wow), and to the west - BlueEggBrownNest (http://www.blueeggbrownnest.com/wordpress/).  It was so nice to meet them and share their company for a few days.


A dear friend, Kerri and her mom Carla came from PA to visit and shop - you can see us here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2822749026223&set=a.1737409493413.70268.1783908799&type=1&theater

Many thanks go to Lauren Hunt, my summer helper - who dove right in and endured 'hell week'; my husband Bob who along with Kenny Kopp our nephew, and his friend Dan Powell who provided the muscle; my daughter Virginia Theerman who provided selling help both days, my friend Jennifer Huffman who lent me her 10 x 20 tent and my friend Janis Bell who came out to lend a hand on Saturday.


Some funny stuff to follow,


let me know if you went - and what you enjoyed the most! 
until then, Liz

A special treat

I am always trying to come up with new ideas to give my customer's a special treat when they travel to see me at a show.  I'm at the Luckett's Spring Market this weekend in the Field of Gold.  This year's treat is a magnet in a little hand stamped muslin bag.  

I also have decided on a new 'tag line' for my business - it use to be "for home, garden, and you".  I have changed it to "for your nest".  This new tag line relates to my logo - the nest - which I have used forever, and to the fact that what I create and hunt is for your nest!  What do you think of the change?

Here are the sweet magnets - they have a super strong neodymium magnet on the back.  This means that - because I made them - they are CUTE, but it also means they are USEFUL.  Yay!


Well you may imagine - after early days and late nights getting ready for this show - that I am exhausted.  Yep - that's me.


I'll give you a sneak peek tomorrow of some of the furniture I have re-loved for the show.


See you then!  Liz

Ten Good Reasons

I am sorry it has been so long... I have been so busy juggling:

1. getting furniture sanded and painted and ready to sell at Everyday Elegance
2. doing the Lucketts Spring Market at The Old Lucketts Antique Store in Lucketts, VA
3. doing the White Elephant Sale at Everyday Elegance in Purcellville, VA
4. all the packing, unpacking and repacking that goes will all of the above
5. entirely reworking the bigger room in my shop by moving the display/checkout counters - to create an honest to goodness shipping area
6. clearing out the front of the shop - to be able to move furniture in and out of the double doors - so I can have a dry place to sand, clean and paint these items
7. getting enough shallow shelving to accomodate all of the 'smalls' I sell on Etsy
8. unpacking, cleaning and displaying all of those 'smalls' on said shelves
9. getting all of the seasonal items packed in boxes and into the little storage room
10. expanding the capabilites of the smaller room (formerly occupied by Moonshine Essentials) by putting up two 5' + clothing rods with shelves above to accomodate all of our vintage clothing, and arranging said clothing - now to be used by both me and V La Mode (formerly M.E.)

We have just finished #10 - and will be going back out to continue working on that room a bit.

I am so excited - I really was beginning to wonder if all of my plans that I had for this space would come to fruition this summer. We are getting so close to this becoming reality at this point I can hardly believe it!

SOOOOOO... Party with me!

CelebraTe ~~~~~ WOOT! ~~~~~ YipPEe! ~~~~ WooHoo! ~~~~

Pictures of the before, during and after will follow in the next post.