Country Christmas House

The images speak for themselves. 

Our friend's house in a small South Carolina town is chock full of primitive antiques. 

They have a log cabin in their back yard for goodness sake.

I want to get back to the house, in the spring, when the garden is in full bloom.

Do forgive my fuzzy and rainy iPhone images.

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Happy Christmas

Olive

Primitives and More

Happy Monday my friends.

Isn't this a great tower of primitive crates? 

It is in Bob's booth in Ridge Antiques.

He is one of the owners.

I love this beautiful religious piece.

 I have a similar one, at my house, that I cannot let go of.

Yes, I am a terrible seller.

A marvelous urn. 

I think this is Jimmy's.

 It is hard to keep up with all their booths.

 The three of them have a lot of space in these two joined buildings. 

They also have a lot of knowledge about antiques.

Mary Ann has quite the collection of flow blue in this magnificent corner cabinet.

These tear drop knobs are something serious on this chest.

The image is blurry but I love this piece that Mary Ann has in the kitchen area.

Mary Ann has a great flair for primitives.

 All you rooster lovers look at these old rooster dishes. 

She has an enormous set. 

I am eyeing that chippy red toolbox in the center of the farm table.

I hope you enjoyed Jimmy's, Mary Ann's and Bob's booths. 

They own and/or manage Ridge Antiques. 

They are lovely people and I am honored to work with them and Beth.

Ridge Antiques

605 Main St.

Ridge Spring, South Carolina

An easy way to remember how to find us is we are by The Nut House (woot)

 on Highway 23.

CC has written her first blog about South Korea here.

 I have told her to turn off word verification.

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Joy and Peace

Olive

Broome Closet Window @ Ridge Antiques

The Talented B and I are thrilled to announce we have

 another booth at Ridge Antiques in a large window space.

 This booth is big, sunny, and a better configuration than

 our other booth which we still have right down from this one.

We moved in yesterday and brought as many fall items that would fit.

B painted the blue dresser and the red table.

This is a beautiful Italian chair.

Please visit us at

Ridge Antiques in Ridge Spring, South Carolina. 

Ask for The Broome Closet booths. 

Plural.

Folks there know me as Terri, do not read this blog,

 and will know nothing of Olive or Olive Out. 

The owners have little use for computers.

It would be fun to have my worlds collide.

Beth and I feel thankful and incredibly blessed to have this opportunity.

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Many thanks to all of you who have emailed me asking if I was okay.

 I have missed all of you and blogging.

 I will be going into more detail about CC and South Korea in another post.

GETTING CC TO SOUTH KOREA was quite the project.

joy and peace

Olive

In The Booth...

I hope you, my peeps, do not mind if I show you what The Talented B and I have in our booth at Ridge Antiques. I am over the moon about this turquoise tole tray. B painted the sweet chair and recovered the seat.

Then the find of all finds, by B, is a vintage laundry basket.

 It is filled now with old frames. You do not know how badly I want to bring this home with me.

But I am currently paying for a trip to Korea for CC. We are booking that flight today. 

Kiddos come first. 

Shucks.

Come see us if you are near Ridge Spring, South Carolina at Ridge Antiques on Highway 23. 

Ask for The Broome Closet booth. 

If you enjoy primitives the store has plenty of them.

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joy and peace

Olive

From Zero to Two Booths In One Hour

This is a story of two booths but more importantly of two friends. 

Several weeks ago:

Sunday night: The Talented B asks me to partner with her in her booth, The Broome Closet At Ridge Antiques, in Ridge Spring, South Carolina.

Monday: Jean from The Rusty Gate calls and says she is closing her store where I have consigned at for several years. Jean is also my friend and this was awful news

Monday: Minutes after above phone call The Talented B calls and says the owners of the antiques store approved me joining her booth.

Monday later: Jean and I talk and she encourages me to open a booth at a local flea market at Hidden Treasures in Sandersville, Georgia where she will be in July. My partner there is my SIL Sue.

 I know God had his hand in this flurry of phone calls and sudden changes. I am blessed to have wonderful loyal friends like these.

Two weeks ago Joe and I set up the flea market booth. Essentially I have been getting items and shopping for two booths simultaneously . 

It's been fun, crazy, and exhausting. These two booths are one hundred miles apart by the way. The saving grace is our houses are near each one.

These images are all from Ridge Antiques. Our booth is named The Broome Closet.  Talented B had a store with that name and the owners of this business invited her into a booth here. The Broome Closet is on Facebook here.

 She's something serious. She restored this dresser. She also paints furniture beautifully. I will be sharing her painted furniture on this blog.

 Oops my iPhone is not for sale.

Talented B has an enormous stash of monogrammed linens in the booth.

 I love vintage monograms.

I have some questions for you all who have booths. 

When do you do laundry?

Where do you find time to blog?

When do you vacuum?

I am curious, yes I am :}

Just to add to all these "goings on," as my mama would say, I have two spider bites resulting in severe cellulitis. Also our daughters from Alabama are arriving Friday and bringing the darling Mini Wee's who are staying for two weeks!

{next post is hydrangeas arranged three ways}

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joy and peace

Olive