Showing posts with label Excursions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excursions. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2012

In the Search of "Goodies"...

My sister, my niece and I took Mom to Ottawa, Kansas to celebrate her birthday last week, and to see if we could come across any goodies to bring to the Friends of a Feather sale.

We found goodies alright...but I won't be bringing these particular ones to the sale...the beautiful architecture of this small Kansas town, and the way they are being maintained by the current owners, is absolutely breathtaking!  These buildings, that were constructed over a hundred years ago, are nothing short of remarkable...built with intricate details...unique, creative artistic design...and pure craftsmanship.  I love that, on some, the year that they were constructed are engraved in stone and integrated into the building design, and some, additionally, feature a name.

I couldn't physically bring them to you...so I am sharing some of these wonders of a bygone era here on our blog...where I love to share creative and unique corners of our world with our "Friends of a Feather"!







As I was walking the main street of Ottawa photographing these beauties, Mom, Cara, Alexandra and I would tuck our heads into the many antique and flea markets that Ottawa had to offer!

By the way...we found some treasures that we DID bring home with us...

You'll have to come to our next Friends of a Feather Sale, which is on the calendar for 
Thursday, February 23rd from 6 to 9 p.m.
Friday the 24th and Saturday 25th from 10 to 5
to see what we found!



LOVE CUBBIES!!!










We took a break to enjoy some lunch at one of the local restaurants...






"I bet you can't wait to see what we found...."



Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Summer has flown by!

Three months have flown by since our spring Friends of a Feather sales event and it's been two months since I have posted on our Friends of a Feather blog.  I have been enjoying my sweet grandson Max and anticipating the birth of my new little granddaughter and time has just gotten away from me!  You can see that this little guy could be a little distracting...in a very good way!! 


Though we are not planning a Fall Sales Event at my home, a couple of my Friends of a Feather and I are still collecting some wonderful things to repurpose or to sell at our next gathering ~ we will keep you posted when our next Friends of a Feather gathering will be... 

Until then, you can find unique and primitive finds, repurposed and refinished furniture in Cheryl's quaint little store on Santa Fe Drive in old downtown Overland Park called Now & Then.  

Nicole is the artful master at refinishing and repurposing furniture.  She makes an old piece of furniture breathe new life again in a very nostalgic way.  She sells her one-of-a-kind pieces in Cheryl's store.



We headed South from Kansas City...took two cars and two routes...Mom and I in one car, Cheryl, Helen and Nicole in another...Mom and I meandered along our route stopping and taking photos of flowers and other things that piqued our interest as we passed by. We love old worn structures that remind us of days gone by. This old school house was a beauty...





 As Mom and I were enjoying our route...the other girls on the other hand, who left earlier than we did, and took an alternate route, ended up with a flat tire...and had to wait for AAA to rescue them and take them to the nearest town with a Walmart to get it fixed!  All they wanted to do was to get some where to start digging for unique and wonderful treasures!!! 


Finally, we met up at one of our planned destinations, and after several stops that were almost a complete bust...which is so disheartening when you have money to spend and you are just itching to find that perfect something...we eventually found this amazing antique store!


All of us Friends of a Feather LOVE primitives...and this store was chalked full of wonderful finds at excellent prices.  We all piled up our found treasures in preparation to take them home with us!




 We are all cubby horders...Nicole found this green beauty that she has to keep for herself!



 Helen and Cheryl both have short hair...Nicole found a wig in the antique store that had a similar style...so she couldn't resist putting it on...the Three Musketeers!!  We were rolling with laughter!


You know when you go antiquing and find things that you just LOVE and you get the wonderful feeling of attachment and excitement...ok...we were wetting our pants...needless to say...we were on Cloud 9!


The woman who owned the primitive antique store directed us to a pole barn full of unique architectural pieces that could be used for repurposing into some amazing one-of-a-kind pieces...



 Old doors...who doesn't love them?  
The blue paint on the one we found is scrumptious...


We are all anxious to find another road less traveled soon...to build our inventory of great finds to share with all of you other Friends of a Feather out there!!