Our Trip to Penn. ~

Hello Friends & Folk!

we are back home safe & sound from our trip to Penn. this past weekend ~

we attended the 

Penn Dry Goods Market 

 ~ at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, PA ~

while we were there, we ran into my sweet friend Marie Lombardo, a fellow-member of the 

Prim Stitchers Society on Facebook

Hi Marie! it was a pleasure to meet you and your lovely family

{{and I told you that the show would be awesome....was I right?}}

after the show, 

we went picking 

{a.k.a. antique shopping}

we went to SO many places, that my head is spinning ~

I bought SO many Good Things that my head is spinning....

and my change-purse is empty!!!

the following are some snaps I took from our travels,

and a SMALL portion of the loot I dragged home with me....

{believe me ~ Miss Joan & Miss Felicia did their damage too}

There is just 'something' about Pennsylvania...

can't quite put my finger on it.

but being there recharges & inspires me ~

 I always come home feeling a bit different each time I visit my Mother's home-state.

The architecture and gardens, peacefulness and folks greet us 

and lend us a welcome that is as charming as those little lights you see 

in so many of the early homes' windows....

Here are a few snaps of the gardens 

...located behind one of my very favorite shops in Bethel, PA.

~ Milkweed Antiques ~

the gals that run the shop are

'witchy-folk'  {like me}

and love to decorate with cast-offs and rusty things....

right next-door,

is a sweet little shop called 

~ The Brown Bonnet ~

this is their front porch...

 we drove backroads {for hours it seems}

 as Miss Felicia directed us {from the backseat} to each & every shop she could find on her GPS...

Miss Joan proceeded to bring us to the very best dealers in said shops....

{trouble with a capital "T"}

so, in no particular order is my haul ~

a little of it anyway, as the rest will be available this Saturday at our

Annual Spring Open House & Market!!!

{come visit us!}

beautiful ticking found in Jimmy Cramer's booths at

Beaver Creek Antiques in Maryland:

below is a reproduction spool box found somewhere in PA 

{can't remember...that 'spinning-head' thing again...}

a few slices of reproduction fabrics from

~ Burkholder's Fabrics ~

{love the colors/prints}

and an early rock-maple sewing hoop clamp below

{found: somewhere in PA!}

below is a smattering of early linen & tow towels from the 

Penn Dry Goods Market

from Ann Bedics 

{The Cat Lady Antiiques}

I LOVE her FABULOUS booth!!!!

we also visited the awesome shop of Tish Bachleda of

~ The Tweed Weasel ~ in Schaefferstown, PA

I came home with the early seed-bags below:

here are two minuscule strawberry emeries {below} 

from the booth of Randi Ona

at the Penn Dry Goods Market...

...are they not thee sweetest?

This big-girl had to come home with me ~

made by Tish Bachleda/The Tweed Weasel...

love love love her!

we saw many wonderful examples of hooked rugs at the Dry Goods Market ~

all of them were out of my meager price-range...

BUT

I spotted this 5ft x 3ft beautiful thing rolled up in a basket under a table 

in some little antiques shop in Middle-of-Nowhere, PA and had to have it!

I got a super-duper deal on it 

and it will be laid on the floor of our breakfast nook here in the farmhouse kitchen....

I love the fading, the background and the size of it ~

{and Iggy seems to love it too...}

crazy cat ~

 don't give me that look!

another trinket from Tish/The Tweed Weasel...

one of her tiny chickens nestled in a paper basket :)

sweeeet!

by the end of the trip,

the three of us were...

{{ well to use a word that Kathy Barrick uses to describe us, in the most-polite way of course: }}

"SNARKY"

:)

we were tired, hungry & road-weary 

waiting for our food at some Applebees somewhere in VA? WV? MD?

oh who knows....

what a beautiful-mess we three are ;)

Flea & Me
~ goofy & crazy ~

and here is Miss Joan ~

choosing her meal at said restaurant.

hi joanie :)

whatcha gonna get joanie??
...dessert chosen before dinner?

All-in-all a wonderful trip in the company of friends ~

and I wish you all the blessings of Good Friends!

now it's back to a normal routine for me...

I have bunches of 'stuff' to finish for the Open House this coming Saturday!!!

**I will be answering all of your emails/pm's/convo's as soon as I can ~

orders that were placed while I was away will be shipped tomorrow :)**

~ Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori