Pumpkin Front Door

Happy Friday

 Leslie Ann from Fairhope Supply Co. said you could see my

turquoise bike from Kansas. 

Well here is my pumpkin door.

Can it be seen from Kansas too?

Not only did I use a spray can of paint (on the bike) I actually used 

a paint brush and painted two doors.

 I realize it is a lot to take in. 

Sit down if you must.

There are orange/pumpkin tones in our stone. 

While Joe was recovering from his surgery we had the house professionally washed. 

Prior to that we had a new roof installed.

We have been busy at home maintenance.

The paint is Valspar's Roasted Squash.

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peace and joy

Olive

Living Room Chairs

Hello friends.

 I hope you are having a good week.

The chippy green primitive chair in our living room has acquired 

a vintage suitcase and a basket of fall gourds.

I found the white chair at an estate sale.

 It is slip covered but pretty rough otherwise. 

Yes, I nailed a chair to the wall.

It has beautiful primitive curved legs.

 It's a child's chair and was hand carved. 

I think it's a piece of art.

If it was on the floor the legs would be unseen. 

 Dried forsythia is in the urn. 

I dried it quite by accident and liked how it looks.

Ghost Cat Alert!

Sometimes camera hiccoughs are fun.

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joy and peace

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

Southern Fall Porches

For those of you who like big Victorian houses this is a good  example. 

These images were taken last fall.

This screened porch is gorgeous and attached to this house. 

Please pinch me for not getting a long shot of the house. 

I believe I was trying to stay out of the road.

Across the street is this classic facade.

 I am partial to these urns.

Magnificent

I have no other images of this house save this one of the lone urn of lavender mums. 

Note the lace curtains.

 These houses are not in the southern vernacular but are 

located in Middle Georgia.

 I like them and thought you might enjoy them.

We southerners do like big ole urns though.

If I cannot lift an urn I want to buy it.

In Olive Out news I am having a wee minor surgical procedure tomorrow.

 I found out today I will likely need more surgery soon.

 There is a life lesson in here. I think it is-never retire at age forty five.

Thanks to all of you for the many comments about CC traveling to South Korea in the last post.

Y'all are the best.

 Many of you have emailed and checked on me and I do appreciate your thoughtfulness.

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joy and peace

Olive

The Talented B's Porch

I have a new friend that is destined to be a blogger. She paints beautiful furniture, thrifts, has an antiques booth,  a beautifully decorated home with a mix of new and vintage, and a wonderful front porch with flowers which you shall see today. 

For the purpose of this and future posts {and there will be more posts} I am going to call her The Talented B.  She uses a copious amount of purple flowers in pots around her steps and front entry. It makes for a cohesive look.

One of those chairs is on each side of the door. The Talented B found the chairs at a yard sale.

Purple petunias and white verbena were planted the day I took these images. They will spill over the sides of the urns.  An urn is on each side of the garage.

The side of her house is planted in pink hydrangeas which are about to be in full bloom. For hydrangeas to be pink here they must be hybridized because our soil is acid.

One more just because.

I will be taking photos of The Talented B's office and guest room make over this summer. Plus the rest of her home eventually. A blog authored by The Talented B would be brilliant.

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joy and peace

Olive

My View Is Just As Important As Curb Appeal

Our yellow house has many windows and I plant flowers with that in mind.  

My view is always a consideration.

  I helped a sweet friend of mine select plants from a local nursery last Thursday. She bought me this popcorn viburnum and a catmint plant for helping her. I am excited to have both of these plants. The viburnum is in my view from the deck.

  This is a faux copper urn another sweet friend sold to me for next to nothing with the catmint planted in it. Catmint is invasive and that is why I put it in a planter. It will have purple blossoms later. This planter is in my view when I drive into the driveway or walk in the gravel road we live on.

 I seldom share the front of the yellow house because it is rather plain but the salvia has started blooming and I adore it's spiky blooms. Salvia is a winning perennial for me and blooms from now until winter. That is getting my money out of a plant. I cut back all my perennials in February and that helps them bloom in the spring. I see that view of the front steps every time I drive into the driveway. I keep pots of succulents on each step and a little birdbath.

These iris were transplanted from our old house to the yellow house last year. I planted them in the side yard.

 This is my view from the den door where I sit and blog. The curvy gravel road has our yellow house and four other houses on it but they are spaced well apart. I garden for my view. I want to see beautiful flowers when I look out the doors, windows, and deck, of our house. Curb appeal is important but so is my view. 

Gardening brings me peace and I feel close to God in my backyard flower garden and yard. There is nothing like the feel of sunshine on my face and dirt on my fingers. The satisfaction of spying a new bloom from my kitchen window is worth all the work.

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Olive

White: Almost Converted

I can achieve this shot of the living room by standing on our stairs. 

I have been using Valspar's Churchill Hotel Vanilla spray paint 

on some objects on the coffee table. 

The three candle sticks were brown. 

 The large base for the cloche was bright gold. 

Now everything is a unified calming creamy white. 

The pair of urns are vintage and were made in Japan.

I declare I have been just about converted to white.

Almost.

I still have color on chairs and windows.
I am off to an estate sale.
It is across the world from our old house but it has
an one hundred year old tool box that is interesting.

Let's hope it's not five hundred dollars.
Budget budget.

Edit: The toolbox was enormous, beautiful, old, and  $1300.00.
 You can see an image of it in my picture gallery on the sidebar of the blog. 
If unsold the owner is donating it to a museum 
as it is filled with vintage railroad tools.
 Joe said they could donate it to his museum. 
Right.

joy and peace

Olive

White Fall Table

The urn I painted has joined vintage pottery and a garage sale lamp on our white table.

This is a good example of mixing old pottery with new. 

The large white cachepot in an unmarked McCoy.

We bought this shade for six dollars, on clearance, from Target last year. 

We were waiting for a lamp to pair it with. 

Finally we came across this lamp on Saturday at a garage sale.

Total cost nine dollars. 

The burlap like shade, lit, gives a soft glow to our yellow walls.

You can read about painting the large urn here.

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happy fall

Olive