Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Monday, September 13, 2010

Scott Antique Market

My friend, Mary Delia of Container Gardening, told me about the Scott Antique Market a few months ago and I finally got a chance to go. It is only once a month and the stars finally aligned and I made it! There was so much to look at that I just wandered for hours. If I got tired, I took a break on one of the bajillion pieces of furniture.

I have been on the hunt for a hutch (a.k.a. china cabinet) for over a year. I have never been able to find one that I actually wanted to purchase. After hours of wandering and coming to terms that today wasn't the day... there it was. MY new hutch. As I neared, I prayed for it to be in my budget, but I knew it was impossible. When is it ever in your price-range?


Aint she a beaut? A real antique... that's all I wanted. And well. I got it. It was in my price range! I thought I would faint with excitement. 

I (over)eagerly rushed to the nice British man running the booth and alerted him that I would be taking the hutch home with me immediately. 

5 minutes later....


We were off. 

This is the only time in my 27 years of moving things to and fro and fro and to, that I have not complained one iota about the weight/shape/height/pointy/scratchiness of the said piece of furniture. 

I began immediately setting up my new toy. 










I also created a tornado of mess in the kitchen while setting up my hutch, hence the clutter covered table. 





So, Hooray! Finally! And I love it. I actually kissed it with my coffee this morning. And my apologies go out to Thandrew for being invited over and then being forced to sit at the table and stare/talk/ooo/ahh about the hutch and then congratulate me on my great find. Finally, I was asked to stop patting myself on the back by my support team.