a huge thank you!!

Wow!  We are humbled!  

We want to say THANK YOU to everyone who came over the weekend to visit us.  

We thought the pouring down rain would keep everyone away!

It didn't!!

It was so great to see so many old friends and make some new ones!

Thank you to all our wonderful friends and customers who stood in the rain.

Thanks to my darling son who worked the muddy parking lot and made sure no one got stuck! 

Thanks to my sweet daughter who helped me so much.

Thanks to my wonderful French Hen Farm crew, which without you this wouldn't be possible...

Thanks to my sisters, Becky and Sandy; my cousins Judy, Jane and Bonnie; and my friends Anne, Cindy, Kim, Carrin and Jeff, Jenni and AJ, Mechele; and my mom, who instilled this love of what we do here.
And a very special thanks to my hubby who helps me every day and loves this as much as I do!

fa la la la la!

hope to see you tomorrow night or saturday!

frosty the snow tree

Frosty the snow tree is waiting your arrival!

snow deer

Here is another Table centerpiece I made.  This one started with an old ironstone plate. 
I found an old bottle brush tree and some vintage deer.
I brushed the deer with some glue and sprinkled snow and glitter on them.
Topped them off with a glass dome!
Perfect winter centerpiece!

barn light!

The barn is lit, the tent is up, the wreath is hung, the barn is bursting with goodies....

hubby's creation

Every sale, my husband has a pet project that he works on.
This beautiful piece is this shows "special project."
She is equally beautiful on both sides.  

So it  can be used as an island or a buffet.

Here is how it started...

Its top was layers and layers of green paint....  

He sanded it forever, but the top is beautiful now.  
I think the top is one solid piece of wood.

He added some much needed woodwork on the body.
I painted it and waxed it.  He cleaned the hardware.
I wish I had room for her, because I think she is beautiful!

holiday buffet

Here is a gorgeous buffet from the wonderfully talented Jenni from The Vintage Songbird.  She will have some beautiful pieces for sale at our Sale on Dec 7 & 8.
She does the most amazing work!

chippy wonderful!

Here is a wonderful chippy cupboard from the talented Kim from Uptown Antiques in Marysville.

Come on Friday or Saturday to see this and more great primitives from Kim!

white christmas

Here are some beautiful pieces from the wonderfully talented Carrin From Chic Unique.
Come see us on Friday or Saturday and see these and her other wonderful creations!

french classics

Wish I had a before picture of this beauty.  She started out painted all black...  all of her.  
You couldn't even see the beautiful details she had.
Now that she is painted you can see all the beautiful detailed wood carving.  I love her!
Then I painted this pretty dresser/buffet to match her.

Both will be available at the sale this coming Friday and Saturday!

fun holiday centerpiece!

Here is a fun thing to do with old Holiday decorations.  
I took a hurricane vase and added some vintage flea market finds...a vintage santa, a vintage deer ornament, an old sleigh, added some mini ornaments and a sparkly silver pick...
Sprinkle in some snow and glitter and you have a really fun table centerpiece for the holidays!

pretty holiday bottles

My obsession with old bottles continues.
Take some old bottles, some old photos, vintage papers and glitter them up!
Very pretty for your Holiday mantle.
We will have these for sale at our Holiday Open House December 7 & 8!
Hope to see you then!

2 weeks until our Holiday Open House!

standing guard...

Hoping to see you Dec 7 & 8th.  These little deer will be there to greet you.  Aren't they cute!

it's starting to look a lot like christmas!

I know its not Thanksgiving yet, but the barn is getting twirled up for our Holiday Open House Dec 7 & 8.

Here are a couple sneak peeks of how the barn is starting to shape up for the Holiday Sale.

My goal is to get it done before Thanksgiving so then I can just craft up until the Sale.
I will be sharing with you some of the new things we are making this year.
Hope you can make it!
Friday,  Dec 7th in the evening 5-8, then on Saturday Dec 8th 9-4.

warm metallics

I found this picture on the site Joss & Main. I fell in love with this dresser....

I became obsessed with trying to find nice metallic paints.  I have tried quite a few.  
Krylon, Martha Stewart, Modern Masters... to name a few.
So far my favorite it Modern Masters.  
It is a very nice coverage and the colors are warmer than some of the others.
I took this little empire drawer piece (sorry it is upside down in this picture, but you get the idea...)

and made this out of it.

I used Modern Masters on this one.

Here are a couple others that we painted.

Knobs from Hobby Lobby -they have the best and every other week they go half off!
(Yes I still need to find my last knob for this one!)

We used Martha Stewart on this pretty dresser.
We will have these pieces at our Holiday OpenHouse, Dec 7 & 8.