"Summer in the Shop"

We're all dressed up for Summer! 

 

We have filled The Loft full of Summer Fun goodies!

Antiques are all around the store and in the shed... 

This cute, apron clad, barefoot gal is holding a crow and truly getting into the Summer Spirit.

You'll see sweet signs of Summer...
         Crows on watermelons...
                   Flags and more.

Dishes... frames... notes... little summer pillows and woolen table runners. To name a few.

Wonderful for gift giving and for giving to yourself!

There's even an old crow sitting up top.

So grab yourself a Lemonade, and come see what we've got in store for you.

"Bulletin" just in...
A new class has been added to our Summer Schedule.   "Tumbling Flag"

Tina Rainer will teach this class on Monday, June 24th from 10-2. Class fee is $16.50

We have two new kits... starting with this one.

It's called "I Pledge Allegiance" and comes with thread, wool and background fabric. Kits sells for $3.50

The pattern is in the new Summer 2013 magazine "Primitive Quilts and Projects"

Look what we have done with a wonderful old quilt. 

Kathy has turned it into a "13 Star Flag"

Pincushion. 

Kit sells for $6.95.

It's a shop favorite!

It's almost here!

 

Kathy Cardiff will soon be releasing her newest book called "Cottage Keepsakes" A Year of Pin Pals from The Cottage at Cardiff Farms.

She will be showing it off at Market and then The Country Loft will have it in the shop.  

       Reserve your copy today with us!

Here's a friendly reminder about "Market Party" coming up soon. Mark your calendars for May 29th Wednesday from 4 to 7. We'll be showing off all of the new exciting things we find!  

Be sure to come... We'll be having Door Prizes and Refreshments!!!

Thanks for stopping by today...

Sharon & Susy

"Happy Mother's Day"

We want to wish all of those wonderful Mom's out there a very Happy Mother's Day!

If you need some ideas... the perfect gift for Mom... let us help you out. We have beautiful home decorating gifts... table lamps, dishes, place mats and napkins... and don't forget the new arrival of antiques from the Midwest!

Maybe Mom would like to take a class... we can help with that too!

Donna Whitmore starts up her new

Rug Hooking class this month. 

This marvelous wool rug is called "Trio".
It will be taught in 3 sessions. Dates are May 21, June 18 & July 16 from 5:30 to 8:30. The class fee is $13.00 per session.

Maybe Mom would like to do some hooking!

  

Tonee White is back with another terrific "Vintage Club"

Tonee teaches this class on Saturday, May 25 from 10 to 3. Class fee is $28.00.

Learn needle turn applique with Tonee or just brush up on your skills!

Mom could certainly enjoy this class!

Patt Anderson is teaching this so cute and very useful "Small Sewing Tote".

Now, I know Mom would love this!

Patt's class is Friday, May 31 from 10 to 1. Class fee is $13.00.

Next week Sharon and Kathy head to Market!!! They will be seeing and buying all of the newest fabrics.... wools.... patterns.... and notions the designer's have to offer. We can't wait!

We are going to show it all off at our "Market Party" on May 29th, Wednesday from 4 to 7.

Be sure to circle your calendar...  join us for refreshments and see what's new.

We're always glad when you stop by to see us... Have a wonderful Mother's Day.

Kathy & Susy

Antiques & New Classes

The Antiques are here! 

Sharon and Joe always find us the greatest antiques. 

When you walk into the Antique Shed... you'll meet these wonderful pieces first.


You will find wooden boxes, foot stools, chairs, tables and blue Ball jars (great for putting buttons and other notions inside).

You may recognize some of these pieces from Sharon's blog when they were out on the road hunting them down.

Not pictured is an all wooden children's scooter. So Cute!
There is also a metal child's shopping basket. Can't you just see that full of wool!

There are some of the biggest wooden spools I have ever seen. Great for wrapping your trims around. Functional and decorative.

Come and get them, before they are all gone!

Do you own a Singer Featherweight? 

We have the best class on Featherweight Maintenance taught by Peggy Harrison. She's our specialist on keeping your little machine up and running.

The Maintenance class is Saturday, May 11 from 10 to 1. Call and we'll sign you up. It's a well spent $15.00.

This is the "Bulls Eye Quilt" taught by Tina Rainer.

Class for this quilt is Saturday, May 18 from 10-4.
Cost is $23.00.

The picture shows two color ideas. The Bulls Eye quilt would be terrific for a beginning quilter. The edges of the circles are raw edge, which allows for easy sewing... and makes a soft fluffy quilt!

Hope you can join us for this fun class.

"New Books have arrived!"

"Fresh from the Prairies" by Devon Lavigne and Sharon Smith has 12 quilts that capture the Spirit of the West.

The Spring issue of "A Simple Life" is here with new stories of a time gone by.

Thanks for stopping by today... Jayne & Susy

 

Kansas City to San Diego or Bust!

Sharon and Joe, we can't wait to have you back and see your wonderful finds in person. From what we can see you Antique Hunters were very successful. We'll see you soon.

We loved seeing all of our cheery customers on Saturday at our Open House. Thanks so much for coming out!

We had some of the cutest kinds of shoppers. A future quilter taking a look!

We had lots of class sign ups and we all enjoyed Tina's demo. Who doesn't enjoy a new ruler, book and fresh ideas!

The Class Schedule is NOW on line.

We would like to share a few new projects with you...

This one is called, "March" a new Cheri pattern being taught by Jayne Cartier.

Cheri's patterns are some of the shops favorites.. and we thought it would be great to teach some of them.
Jayne uses wool for her appliques. 

Class is Wednesday, May 8th from 10-3. $18.00

Deby Wickham has used her own design  called "Flower Stitchery" perfect for Spring time.
Come in a take a close up look at her embroidery... we love it!

Deby's class is Friday, May 17 from 10-2. $16.50

How about a "Buggy Barn" quilt made scrappy and fast!

It's called "Scrap Bag Star" and is taught by Cindy Mead. I may have to get in on this one.

It's a two part class, taught July 31st, from 5:30 - 8:30. Second class is August 7th, from 5:30 - 8:30.  $26.00.

Cindy uses lots of great plaids for this one!

We still have plenty of room in all of our classes... sign up with a friend or two... find some time for yourself and join us!

Three new books have arrived...

"Farm Fresh Quilts" by Kim Gaddy
"Revival!" by American Quilt Study Group
"Butterfly Fields" by Carolyn Nixon & Betsy Langford

All Great!

"Summer Nights"

What are Summer Nights you ask ... well, they are 6 fun filled Friday nights starting July 12th with Jo Ann Mullaly teaching her new quilt called, "Lianna's Quilt".

Classes run from 5-10 for $28.00 and includes Dinner. 

We'll have a "Snowball Quilt" by Donna King...

Kathy Cardiff will teach a "Wool Mini Pocket"...

Catherine Hughes teaches a "Patchwork Garden" quilt...

Colleen Loucas has one of her fun "Mystery Quilts"...

and Susy Boyer teaches a Wool Crazy bird house "For the Birds"

Take one, two or join us for all of them... Sewing, Eating and Laughing with friends...

It's the best!

As always... Thanks for stopping by today!

Kathy ~ Tina ~ Susy

We're heading out early this morning because we have a lot of miles to cover.  The skies look pretty ominous, but I think it's supposed to be clearing.

This part of the country really has had a terrible winter with lots of flooding.  This picture is not a lake, it's a corn field that is under water!!!

We are coming up to our next stop that is on a little bit higher ground.  Hopefully all of our antiques are still above water.

Well, a couple hours later and we have a nice little pile of goodies!!!

We have also picked up some of our favorite blue ball jars and some great old refrigerator glass jars, but they are all wrapped up and didn't get in any of the pictures.

On to our next stop, and the scenery is more of the same. . . . . gotta love those cows!!

We picked up some good stuff here and look at that little old wire child's grocery cart . . . . . isn't it cute!!!  Fun things, you never know what is going to strike your fancy when you are rummaging thru old places filled with pieces of the past!

And of course I couldn't pass this up!!  I haven't seen a postal desk in quite a while and this one is in great shape.  I know someone is going to love this for their sewing room!!

Well, we have covered a lot of ground today, over 150 miles with lots of stops and at our last stop we heard about this antique flea market in downtown Kansas City.  We are getting here a little late, but maybe there is something left that we will love!

Sure enough,  there were a few things we just couldn't live without. I just hope my expert packer can squeeze them in.  We have managed to fill that once empty truck!

So, this will be our last post from the midwest. I fly home from here in the morning and my wonderful hubby will be driving this load of goodies back for us.  We will try our best to have them in the store on Saturday!

It's been fun sharing our trip with all of you!!
  We'll see you soon,  Joe & Sharon

It's another early morning in the middle of the country.  We lost our bright sunny day by the time we had loaded our truck yesterday.  We had one more stop in mind so we tried to hurry before it started raining.

I don't know what it is about fields with cows and old barns, but I just love looking at them and they are pretty much the landscape in this part of the country!

We have a friend who lives out here in the country and she collects things for us and stores them in an old barn on her property.  She's out of town. but fortunately for us, she has some stuff for us to look through and her son is going to meet us at the barn! Yea!!!

This is the barn and it looks like it is open and ready for us to poke through!  Gotta hurry though, rain is coming!!!

Sorry I didn't get any pictures inside, but there really wasn't much to see . . . . a lot of hay, farm stuff and a little corner with stuff piled for us.

Here is the first pile of stuff out where you can see it.  I know porch posts and old ladders were on my shopping list and all the other things are a bonus!!

There is more to come here!

I dragged out this next bunch while Joe was loading the first.  We picked up some pretty great stuff here.  I can see lots of fun summer decorating in the future!!!

It's so nice to have friends who know the kinds of things you like!!!

This morning the rain was definitely with us, but we have a ways to travel, so we might have clear skies by the time we reach our next stop.

Back country roads are still pretty and peaceful even in the rain!

We finally reached this cute little town that that has amazing little victorian houses.  It also has great flea markets where we can usually pick up a lot of treasures!

We had to rush through because of the rain, but we were able to grab a few things.  Not as much as usual, but we are hearing that because of the really bad winter back here, people haven't been able to get out and search for stuff like they usually do.

Oh well, we have friends waiting with stuff for us tomorrow and I think we have done pretty good so far!

So . . . . . . . it is back on the road again and we will talk to you in the morning!  Joe & Sharon

Hi Everyone!

It is a beautiful sunny morning in southern Missouri, only 33 degrees, but I have enough excitement energy burning that I'm glad it's a little cold.  We are headed to our favorite barn sale and I can't wait to see what wonderful things they have this year!!











Driving through this beautiful countryside is so much fun, especially when I am looking for barn sale signs!!!
















I just know barn sales signs lead to good things for us!!!

 

And what did I tell you . . . . . It only took us about an hour to come up with a great pile of stuff!!  However, I hope no one wants wagon wheels, because those are not ours.










We found a couple of great cupboards too.  I can just see them stuffed with fabric and wool in someone's sewing room.

Karen, one of our friends here, is showing them off for you!!

Here is this incredible barn and some of our wonderful friends,
the ladies that run this sale!!! They do amazing refinishing
on these antiques.










And here is my wonderful husband, working hard while I continue to grab stuff.  That's our empty truck in the background . . . . I'm sure it will be full by the time we are heading home!!!












Hopefully there will be something for everyone amongst all these treasures!!!  If not, maybe there will be something for you at our next destination, but I better get to work so that we can get on the road again!!!







Our tummies are full thanks to Jane, her husband Roy and her sweet mom, Mary!!  They always provide us with such a nice lunch.  We are ready to roll so I will talk to you again tomorrow and give you a glimpse of what we find!!!


                                                      Bye for now . . . . . . . . Joe & Sharon