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.

Thought I'd share a little secret

Yes I'm back at the Monticello in Portland. I just couldn't stay away! The gals oops, and guy (sorry Hunter)that work there, are so incredibly great and I really missed everyone. Anyway to make a long story short I'm back again as of this week. Thankyou Joyce and Kelly for having me:).
As you can see my space is smaller than the last but as usual, I was able to pack in alot. My whole life is a bit cluttered right now so it fits right in. I had fun putting the background up in the booth ,thinking I would come really prepared, I arrived with four drills, all of which proved to have dead batteries within about five minutes. Such as is my life as of late. Oh well finally got it together and built character while in the process.

In the midst of change some things stay the same

One of those things is the quick passing of time. It continues to pass ever so quickly and here we are in a new year and I was just getting use to writing 2009. I have gone through some big changes around here recently and time has been precious. Blogging has not been priority but I did want to mention how much I am honored to be again at the Monticello Antique Market this month . I am in the front window and of course it is nearly impossible to get good pictures through a window, but here is my attempt. As always this is a wonderful store and ever changing .Try and stop by as there are lots of wonderful items.