The Acorn Antique Show is a Success, Again!!

Just back from spending the weekend in lovely scenic Ogden, Utah at the Acorn Antique Show.  The show was a great success ... I sold every single piece of lavender glass shown to the right, to five different customers!

Only one of the antique Victorian syrup pitchers above found a new home, but so did the sweet punch set ...  The mother's pictures and mottoes will all be making their appearance at Treasures in a few days.

 It was so fun to see Abby, a former Acorn Show dealer, and kind of an icon, she always dressed up in period clothing to do the show, and this weekend, she came in full regalia to meet up with old friends, and do some serious shopping.

This gentleman dropped by and checked out my toy train, he found it to be working and complete save one axle, (the wheels off that axle were even in the box)  He was so pleased he took it home.

This charming antique pillow was purchased by my friend Stacy.  It is two embroidered doilies, that have had pink stitched eyelets place at intervals through which lovely old ribbon is run to hold it together.  I have a suspicion that it just might end up at Stacy's Shabby Shoppe sometime, what a charmer!!

 

At the end of the show, when the action was tapering off, my friend Cathie and I did a little 'shopping' around the show ... we surprised dealers as we added their goodies to Cathie's amazing vintage shopping cart.  It was a great joke!! Cathie is shown here with Heidi, the Acorn Show's organizer.

 

The show was a lot of fun, but probably the sweetest moment was when my friend and blog follower Carole stopped by and fell in love with this pillow.  I had commissioned the pillow to be made from an antique quilt I loved, but which was falling to threads.  I displayed it in a guest room, which has since become my craft room ... so with no home of its own, I added it to my stash for the show.  Its just so lovely to see something that I so love, and hate to let go of, find a new home, with someone I enjoy and who I know will appreciate it as much as I did.  Thanks Carole!!  The photo was sent to me by Carole, showing the pillow in its new home.  What a charming shabby chair!!

Quick Acorn Antique Show Project!

Today was a busy day, in the middle of a busy week ...  Of course I always operate best under pressure, and with an antique show coming up this weekend I was casting my eye about for things that just needed a bit of tweaking to make them ready to go to the antique show.  In this case it was this sweet metal tall bucket below ... loved the soft green, just needed to be punched up a bit.

This French perfume label from Graphics Fairy, needed nothing but enlarging to make it perfect for the project.

 I printed it off, trimmed it and decoupaged it in place ... I thought it was very charming.  It is shown here with a couple of other French transfer items that are also going to the Acorn Antique show!  

I have done many different Antique Shows here in Utah, over the years, and the Acorn Show has always been my favorite (flea.o.logy excepted, of course) both as a seller and as a buyer.  There are lots of great sellers, many from out of state, with some of the best antique show prices you will see anywhere.  Come by and say hello if you manage to sneak away and visit the show!! Thanks and have a lovely weekend. 

A Romantic Jane Austen Regency Ball!

... and we are off to the Ball!  The Regency Valentine's Ball, that is, sponsored by the Jane Austen Society of  North America, Utah Chapter at the Masonic Temple in Salt Lake City on February 9th.  My daughter Becca and her husband Brady attended with us.

 

Dance instruction, in classic period 'Country Dances', was provided by the group, Old Glory Vintage Dancers.  Some of the dances were confusing, some were a ton of fun, but all were very pretty to watch.

Then, given the fact that the ball was hosted by the Jane Austen Society, I was not a bit surprised to run into Uncle and Aunt Gardiner during our first set.  What charming people they are, just as I had always suspected, and perhaps the classiest people in the room, even given the talk of their living in Cheapside ... (errrr was it St. George?)

Of course meeting Bingley's sisters was definitely the visual high light of the evening.  It was also fun to stop halfway through the evening for dinner, just as we would have at a real regency ball.  Kudos to Aspen and the Utah chapter of JASNA, for 'A job well done."