When I hit some antique and second-hand stores with my mom a few weeks ago, I found a lovely set of vintage flatware.  It was petite in scale and had green handles and forks with three tines.  If you’ve been hanging around here for a while, then you might know that flatware is a weakness for me.  I held the set, wrapped in a rubberband, in my hand for a few seconds as I contemplated.  I remember looking at my mom with an expression that said who am I kidding?  I took them up to the front of the store and put them on the counter. I have a similar twelve-piece set that has blue handles and gold-colored blades & tines and it’s one of my favorites.  These have a very similar feel even though the colors are different. The first thing I do when I unpack things from a

On Thursday afternoon, my mom and I set off for Northern Virginia to visit old friends and spend a day at the Lucketts Spring Market.  Throughout the weekend I thought, this is why we moved back…  So I could go to Luckettts again.  Just kidding!  It’s so we would be close to family so we can do things together and be there to support one another. We were invited by Chris Tigges to stay at her bed & breakfast and wedding event, Zion Springs, on Thursday evening so we would have a quick 30-minute drive to the Lucketts Spring Market in the morning.  The Clarke County Fairgrounds is almost exactly an hour from Hagerstown, so we could’ve made that drive pretty easily, but this makes the event more of a treat for us.  And, staying at Zion Springs is a treat. We stayed there during our last Lucketts Spring Market