The following story was intended to be posted this past Halloween. Sometimes matters of the heart cannot be rushed. I have loved Halloween ever since I was a little girl. It might have been abou...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/a-belated-halloween-tribute/
The end of September ushered in the last of summer-like weather. On the final Friday of the month I noted that, oddly, the leaves had not yet begun to change color on the trees. While not com...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/show-and-tell/
It happened without an obvious warning sign & was somehow undetected by my “Muma” radar which is so unlike me. Now it is my burden to bear for the rest of my days. One minute she was fine ...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/owl-always-love-you/
I have a massive closet in my upstairs spare bedroom that I pretty much use like an attic. On top of the lifetime collection of paraphernalia I have accumulated in my forty-something years, I of...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/a-heaven-%E2%99%A5-sent-valentine/
Remember that song from the seventies, “Every Kinda People,” that Robert Palmer* sang? It popped into my head this week & now I can’t get it out. “It takes every kinda people, to make wh...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/every-kinda-people/
Last summer some dear friends of mine gave me a bunch of items they found when cleaning out a relative’s house that they thought I could sell in my shop, one of which was an old, copper dust pa...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/a-message-from-lizzie/
I have said often that the thing I love most about being an antiques dealer is the wonderful people I meet. It behooves me to remember all of them because, not only do such memories make me fee...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/the-victorian-tea-party-2/
In the very early planning stages for my antique shop, I always knew I wanted to have a means by which I could tell someone had entered the shop when I was in my house. Unless I was working with ...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/the-antique-shop-charmer/
If you’re just joining the Adventures of Antique Shop Girl, might I suggest you first go back to the beginning to catch up? My next post contains a few references to my earlier posts and I woul...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/just-joining-the-adventure/
I remember with pride so many of my early customers after I initially opened the antique shop and, of course, my first ever sale. Who wouldn’t? There is one customer, however, who will always r...
https://antiqueshopgirl.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/floras-gift/