I can hardly believe it is almost the end of June.  But it is, and the good news is that the time has come to get ready for our fave antique show of the year – the Round Lake Antiques Festival next Saturday and Sunday, June 27 & 28.  We love this show for lot of reasons, many of which [...]

We are here at my mom’s house in North Carolina, enjoying a break from upstate NY’s seemingly never-ending winter.  It is unmistakably spring here, with dogwoods, forsythia, and azalea all in beautiful bloom.  And it is Monday, and therefore time for the Coolest … something.
For some reason my thoughts went back to Christmas several years [...]

 
I have been working on the online shop that is attached to this blog for a while, and it is still a distance from my ultimate vision for it.  But the time has come to make it official.  We are celebrating our Grand Opening during March and April – and ringing it in with deals for [...]

 
We are excited to do our first Antique Show of the season this weekend, in Schoharie NY.  As we prepare for it, I’m wondering what advice I could offer a new antiquer attending a show.  These are the my tips:
           1.  Bring cash.  Many antique shows and dealers do not accept credit cards.  You can also use checks, so bring those too, but [...]