Ashes to Ashes

I have been waiting tables for friend of mine in a fine dinning restaurant for about a month to make ends meet in this slow economy. The building was a historic depot (The Depot was the name) with wonderful tin ceilings, random width wood floors, wavy glass windows, and what ever else makes old buildings charming. At 4:20 am yesterday morning it caught fire and was destroyed. The gentleman I worked for Tony York had an apartment upstairs and that's where the fire started. Fire Marshall thinks a fan caused the fire. So not only did my friend loose his business, he lost his home! He has 3rd degree burns on his head, face, arms and hands. He is going recover but it will be a long and painful road for him to travel. This restaurant was a dream come true for Tony. He put his heart and soul into everything he did there. He worked along side all his employees doing any job that needed to be done. Please pray for him that God will help him heal and give him the determination to rebuild his life, his home and his business. My heart goes out to you Tony!
Love Theresa

New Displays At Home

This is one of Criag's lamps that he assembles from old lamp parts and pieces. I love finials in different shapes and sizes, and books are one of my favorite ways to get height when doing a display.


Small angel lamp with brown and white transferware, white berries from my good friend Theresa Cano and a cool dish scrubber hanging over the side of the dish.

I have statues all over my house, naked men and women! None of the clocks I have work, I just love the way they look. A small crazed piece of ironstone with flowers and empty frame and more books complete the look.

Loving cups or Trophies are great when they grouped together. I don't have very many, the small silver one is a gift from my good friend Theresa Cano! So glad I have friends like her! Go check out her blog Garden Antiques, you won't be sorry!

Hope you enjoy looking at pics from my house! I have many more and I love sharing them with other people.

Theresa

Sorry I Have Been MIA

My computer died on Christmas Day and I found out this week from computer guy that it couldn't be fixed! I finally bought a new one today. I will be posting some new pics in a couple of days.
Theresa

Christmas is almost here!

I can't believe there is only 15 days until Christmas and I haven't done any shopping yet! I used to have all my shopping done months before December even arrived. But the older I get the slower I get! Oh and the fact that I can't remember anything any more.

I thought I would show a few more pics of the shop! Here is a stove with some Christmas cheer!

I love this violin thats been wired into the frame. I like to layer empty frames and objects.

This is the inside of a cupboard with some of my favorite things. i.e. doll heads and doll legs in moss!

This is another corner of the shop. The shop is so cute and charming. It's by far the best place I've ever had to display my junk!

In case I get to busy everyone have a Very Merry Christmas

and A Happy New Year!

Theresa

More Pics

Here's a couple more pics. I had to call my good friend Theresa at Garden Antiques cause I couldn't figure out how to move my pictures around when I'm editing my blog! Thank goodness she knows more about this blog thing than I do. Thanks Theresa!

Another load

Craig and I took more inventory to the shop today. I can't wait to get to filled to the brim! Each new thing we add makes the shop look better. We are having a Christmas open house this Saturday. I'm not a huge fan of Christmas decorating, and I hate getting left with inventory that doesn't sell. This plant stand with large ornaments is my answer so a Christmas tree! It has snowflake garland and an angel on top. The great bicycle in the window is already sold. I think I'm going to replace it with a silver tree and some thing else wierd, not sure what that is going to be yet.

Thank You Computer

It worked again!! It makes me feel bad to know that there is a tiny machine that is smarter than me!! Woman like to know that they can do anything without the help of others, but in this case that wasn't true. I don't have any patients, if I can't get something to work in one or two tries I'm done! I guess one reason that is true, because I always have something else waiting for my attention, kids, dishes, house work, book work, furniture (scrub, glue, screw, paint, cut off rot, price and what ever else one has to do before selling a piece of furniture). What I'm saying is I don't have time to be patient! I need to learn to slow down. Again I am so excited about finally being able to blog, hope you guys visit me often!
Theresa

My Hero

Well I'm not sure how he did it, but my husband figured out how to get my computer to let me blog! Some kind of business about a trusted site! I sure hope I can get this work the next time I want to use it!

I opened a new shop on Nov. 15th. Here are a few pics.

I'm so excited! I have wanted to blog for a long time!

I Finally Have a Blog!

This has been long in coming. I had my computer worked on, and I was able to create this blog at the office of the computer guy! Thank you computer guy! Now if I can get this work at home I will be very happy!! Bare with me!! Can't wait to start showing you some pics!
Theresa Smith