Back after a long blogging break

My kids helped with the ripping out of the yucky carpet
even grandbaby Maya
created a huge yardsale
My kitchen piled up high with mess


This has been a year that has stretched me in ways I didn't know were possible. I Took on an Antique store/Tea house last September, went through some intensely hard family issues and am giving up the store after a year to be home with my family.This will be my last week running the store and then the task of clearing it out and cleaning out the building awaits. All that to say blogging has been way down on the list of priorities. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. As dim as it still seems. I am looking forward to being creative again. Looking forward to quality time with my family,appreciating the people in my life that have been rocks through a very hard season of my life. You know who you are-Thanks!!!
Preparing for the store /closing sale started a snowball affect in our home. We decided to part with lots of furniture pcs we didn't really love and switch out for new (to us) pieces. After moving out pretty much all our furniture, it seemed like the perfect time to rip out our atrocious dirty carpeting. We have had a pile of pine flooring sitting in our shop for five years just waiting to be put in . We decided to spur-of-the moment do it. Wow what a difference. I stayed up late and stained it and I love it! Just wish it were through out the whole house.

A Fun Garden show in Brownsville

We have had the pleasure of putting some of our goods in a fun Garden sale at the Ata Vista Farm in Brownsville. This wonderful historic Estate is A fabulous place just to view. It is immaculately cared for having been built in the 1870s. If you have a chance to go for a country drive this week, the sale goes through the weekend. There are some really beautiful handcrafted and vintage items for sale. here are a few items we brought up.

This Week is Our Garden Sale!

Colby Cottage welcomes you to our Spring Garden Sale! This week is the week, weather permitting, we will be opening up the outdoor garden yard and filling it with statuary, birdhouses, arbors, and various other garden decor and flowers. The sale starts Friday, April 16th at 10:00 am. We will be serving treats and lemonade and you may also be welcome to order tea or coffee drinks! Please join us and hope for lots of sunshine!

That's right, we even have blueberries!

Feel free to stay a while and have a cup of tea!

Our living room gets a"Goodwill" makeover

It all started with finding a (new to us) couch at Goodwill.This replaced a pitiful couch that we got at a garage sale for 18.00 last summer. Long story, but we sold our other couch on craigslist thinking we were getting a different one. The dream couch we thought we were getting fell through and we were stuck finding whatever we could to sit on. The new couch is leather and a good color for our large family who like to get dirty. However it had issues. I had to do a major repair job underneath before we could use it, thus the 145.00 price
Somehow the couch clashed severely with our lemon yellow -suppose to be cream wall paint. I have hated it for three years. I decided a gallon of paint was a good investment so we chose a putty color. I love it!!!.
Next hideous curtains must go... Found some long creamy linen ones and they are awesome. Notice the curtain rod and glass knobs. This was re-purposing from stuff out in our workshop. I'm on a tight budget and I quite liked how they turned out.
Last a large coffee table fresh from Goodwill today finished off the new look.