Patina Green Home & Market Blog

Serendipity Spring Market!

“a talent for making fortunate discoveries while searching for other things…”                     - definition of Serendipity

 

We are soooooo excited to be a part of Serendipity Market!!  We are teaming up with two of the very best artists & merchants in our world of friends…Willow Nest and LaurieAnna’s to bring you the best we have to offer for Spring 2009!

 

 

When we think of Spring, we think gardening, birds preparing their nests for new arrivals, porch rockers and gliders, anything earthy and green and fresh….potting and growing!  It’s the best time to be outside so that’s where we’ll be!  We will set up our “goods” on the porch at LaurieAnna’s in Canton and can’t wait to show you what we’ve found!  Linda with Willow Nest will show her beautiful works on the other porch, and it will be the preview of Spring inside at LaurieAnna’s Vintage Home.   We can’t wait to see her fabulous displays of Spring merchandise that only she can put together! 

Come early for champagne brunch between 9-11a.m. and for first picks on our “one-of-a-kind” merchandise! 

Honeybee Workers

“It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey.”

-Bees of the World,

The Secret Life of Bees.

 

We went on a foraging trip this past weekend… gathering “nectar” from all our friends at Round Top Big Red Barn sale.  And what fun we had shopping (of course) but also seeing friends that we now consider “our people”, our family.  What fortunate ladies we are to be embraced in this small world of passionate, kind and giving individuals.

 

Our trip started with a wonderful stay at Linda and Ludmil’s new “Willow Nest Inn” in Burton...if you get the chance to make reservations and stay there (you may not because we booked it for the next ten years!), you won’t want to leave.  It’s everything we shop for – complete with price tags just in case you want to take a little Willow Nest home with you.  They have put together a “nest” that any mama bird would be proud of.  We felt like little chicks – all comfortable and warm and safe and excited to see what we might find in this new world.  Thank you Linda and Ludmil for creating such a special place.

 

It was great to see Judy & Bill Hill.  They always set the standard for “Best of Show” in our opinion.  We found some great finds at Melanie and Brian’s  booth, and met new friends from Ennis that had fabulous gardening finds and can load a trailer with only inches to spare!  We bought the fabulous architectural table from Linda and Ludmil’s booth that I have lusted after ever since I saw it in a magazine article that had pictures of their home in Washington. Of course, Peg with French Vanilla (had her beautiful display of French and Vanilla items that only she can find.  And then there’s Theresa, queen of blog world...with all of her unique finds.

Thanks to all “our people” for making a successful foraging trip – we indeed came away with a pound of honey...a full trailer and a full heart!  What more can one ask for!

Pictures of the Willow Nest B&B are below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture is of Spice who lives in the neighboring pasture next to the B&B.  She put smiles on our faces.

 

 

 

A new look for a new year!

It’s January, all fresh and new, a clean slate to do with as we choose.  It’s a time to renew, a time to pack away 2008 no matter how heavy that suitcase will be or how full it seems, it’s time to close the top and look ahead.

 

Old stuff, junk from the past, antiques...they manage to find us and say “buy me”, “love me”, “bring me to life again”!  And that’s what we do...

     

Why did we buy those old yellowed-edge sales books that were lying on the dusty shelf hidden behind books?  Were they saying, “I never got to be used, the store closed before they got to me...I would make a great notepad now on your desk at home...buy me”?

 

Why were we drawn to the table with layers of paint and years of wear that said “love me again – you won’t believe all the stories I can tell”?

 

Why did the rocking chairs say “with new cushions I can be alive again, able to share hours rocking on the porch this spring”?

 

Because even though we try to pack away our past, it never really goes away.  It is a treasured part of us and part of the world.  It shows up again and lives on at another time bringing joy and smiles to another generation, creating memories of another kind and finding love in another’s heart.  That’s the miracle of life.  For what we carry in our heart never goes away.

 

So in January, in 2009, we hope you find happiness and peace with something of the past.  Come see what's "new" at Patina Green . . . our latest collection of stuff that found us . . .

Luann

 

Here are a few photos.