I shared a recap of my day shopping the Lucketts Spring Market this year HERE, but I wanted to share what I purchased and where it ended up in my house.  You can see my wish list for the day HERE and, I must say, I did pretty well on my list!  Lucketts doesn’t disappoint.  The number one thing on my list was concrete pieces for my garden.  I already have some beautiful antique planters that belonged to my Oma and great-grandmother along with some other pieces I’ve acquired over the years.  I love concrete furniture, planters, fountains, birdbaths, and statues in a garden.  To me, they are timeless and I love how they get better with age.  The more staining and lichen the better!  I don’t even mind chips and missing pieces as long as they are still functional. So, before I even got to the event, I was

The day after my birthday earlier this month, Jeff and I went to breakfast together and headed to Carlisle to find some birthday goodies at one of my favorite antique stores – Bedford Street Antiques.  I had a few things I was going to keep an eye out for, but I really just wanted to find something that made my heart flutter and would be a memorable present.  I used to spend my birthday money on clothes or little things here and there, but I’ve decided that each year, I’m going to spend it on something special that I would likely keep for years if not decades.  I have several birthday presents that are some of my favorite things – an ironstone cake stand, a custom leather art bag, an antique watercolor box, and Jeff even got me a tattoo for year 39.  I had picked up a few fun

One of my sweet readers has been asking me for several weeks to share more about the antique wicker market cart in my kitchen and I looked for a blog post about it and couldn’t find one!  I have had this piece for several years, so I thought I wrote a post about it at some time, but I haven’t.  I decided I would fix that today and share the details about this charming antique shopping trolly. I bought this particular wicker market cart about 10 years ago at one of my favorite PA antique shops.  I think I paid around $90 for it, which I thought was a good price for the condition of such a functional antique. A wicker market cart like this one would’ve been used during an age or in a culture where you walk to the butcher, then the baker and the greengrocer to hold