Ahh yes, give me a few free hours and a couple of dollars & you know where you'll find me...in an antique store, of course! While we were home in PA. over Christmas, I took the chance to go to one of my favorite antique sources, Big Valley Antiques, in Milroy, PA. Its a relatively newer antique "mall" and it is filled to the brim with great, great stuff. Terri & I went crazy there and came home with a big bag full of goodies.
In the photo above, you can see that I found a cottage print in a nice frame, several vintage houses for my Christmas village and some skeleton keys. I'm very into the idea of using skeleton keys in a little vignette....once I pull that together, I'll be sure to post pics.
Here is a closer look at the houses & the print:
Here are some more goodies that I found....
The green stripe on the bowl is going to go perfectly with our re-vamped kitchen. I bought the postcards to tuck in here & there in my holiday decorations next year. As a side note, my always interesting sister , has an AMAZING collection of antique Christmas postcards. She's been collecting them for years & probably has over 100, at least. She & her husband live in a Victorian duplex that has wonderful moldings over the windows & entryways into each room, on which she displays the postcards every year. I think that she posted a picture of them on her blog (link above). At the rate she is going, she is going to need to find another place to display the cards or move into a bigger house!
Alrighty, I'm off to prep for the beginning of another week. I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend!
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