Yard sale people are like any others... some pushy, some annoying, some rude. But most are kind and friendly and even some are gentle, sweet and make you feel like almost family or at the least a potential friend. Yesterday at a beautiful home on the lake, two unassuming tasteful older ladies were holding a sale. They kindly answered our questions honestly and had quite a large assortment of memories and household items which prompted me to ask if they were moving. The tiny grey haired lady with pink lipstick whispered quietly that no these were not her items but they belonged to a friend of the homeowner who was staying there, ill with cancer... she had to sell, move south and these ladies were helping her. Suddenly I could see the soul of the woman inside the home probably laying in bed... the tasteful items... the Wyeth prints, the old silver and vintage linens, a Luneville pitcher I’d never heard of. Everything became humanized and personal and now possessing them was an honor. I saw a similar affection for the items that lived along side her throughout her life...A life well lived and curated, and I hope her remaining time is without suffering... she eased a bit of mine with this short view of her life. It’s not always about the deal.
#connections #heartmovingmoments #onlykindnessmatters #luneville #wyeth #wedgewood
Yard sale people are like any others... some pushy, some annoying, some rude. But most are kind and friendly and even some are gentle, sweet and make you feel like almost family or at the least a potential friend. Yesterday at a beautiful home on the lake, two unassuming tasteful older ladies were holding a sale. They kindly answered our questions honestly and had quite a large assortment of memories and household items which prompted me to ask if they were moving. The tiny grey haired lady with pink lipstick whispered quietly that no these were not her items but they belonged to a friend of the homeowner who was staying there, ill with cancer... she had to sell, move south and these ladies were helping her. Suddenly I could see the soul of the woman inside the home probably laying in bed... the tasteful items... the Wyeth prints, the old silver and vintage linens, a Luneville pitcher I’d never heard of. Everything became humanized and personal and now possessing them was an honor. I saw a similar affection for the items that lived along side her throughout her life...A life well lived and curated, and I hope her remaining time is without suffering... she eased a bit of mine with this short view of her life. It’s not always about the deal. #connections #heartmovingmoments #onlykindnessmatters #luneville #wyeth #wedgewood
I will make everything around me beautiful - That will be my life. .....Elsie De Wolfe . . #simplelife #vintagehome #livingwithvintage #cottagestyle #paintbynumbers #farmhouse #bemis
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Hawk feathers seem to appear every day in the field lately! They’re so striking with their Zebra patterns. I thought I’d stick them into an ironstone pot of Rosemary and Lavender and an old aluminum champagne bucket of Russian Sage since their raw and stunning organic beauty seemed to match up so well! #itfelltoearth #giftsfromthesky #theshabbygardener #livingwithvintage #ironstone #lavender #backporch #lifeoutside
Billy Hector rockin a packed field at the Sparta Summer Concerts! Great show, beautiful night with friends!! 🙌🏻 #spartanj #outdoorconcert #lifeoutside #billyhector
A common sight down south, but right here in Oak Ridge NJ on this beautiful farm there’s a bbq sweetening up the morning air! Funny how certain aromas can evoke memories and stir a hunger you weren’t even aware of! #bbq #oldtimetradition #pitbbq #familypicnic #countrylife
Some people look at life through rose colored glasses.... I tend to look through rose colored roses and purple colored morning glories!! Happy Friday!! #morninglories #roses #sunrise #friday #barnscape #lifeoutside #stopandsmelltheroses #theshabbygardener
So I Googled what to use for rusty bolts... like the one that’s Supposed to keep my patio umbrella from flying off my deck and aiming like an arrow towards my head in the yard. Up comes a list of products, none of which sounded familiar. Then I went out to the porch and WahLah there’s this little handy can I got at a yard sale a month ago!!! Validation for a junk picker!! Ha!! Liquid Wrench!! 💪🏻🙌🏻 I’ll follow up after the job is done!! **update** worked like a charm, that umbrella is not going anywhere, bolted in tight! Unless it takes the table and cast iron stand with it!! 🤔 #oldtools #handyoiler #mustlovejunk #therighttoolforthejob #yourtrashismytreasure #rustneversleeps
It must be summer if there’s a Jersey Beefsteak tomato ripening on the windowsill alongside a Ball jar with wildflowers. Things our Moms did are engrained in us... you just know how to tie your shoelaces, change your underwear everyday in case you’re hit by a bus, and put the extra tomatoes on the windowsills. It’s the natural order of things. #farmhouse #heirloomtomatoes #windowsill #balljarbouquet #simplelife #country #countrykitchen #farmhousesink #kitchenjunk
“And the songbirds are singing like they know the score”.... Fleetwood Mac Bird feeder placement feels like musical chairs around here! A pretty *galvanized* roofed feeder from Tractor Supply had to be moved this morning and replaced with this one - the big heavy squirrels were swinging around on it and scraping holes in the porch screen! Frustrating! I know they need to eat too but I give them plenty on the ground. The songbirds are a resilient sort though and they keep up with the game of moving the feeders around the property... I’ve tried the expensive squirrel proof aluminum feeder but the bears knocked that one off the barn and bent it beyond repair. The struggle is real, people. #birdwatching #birdfeeder #countrylife #wildlife #songbird
My home town of Ogdensburg New Jersey is celebrating 100 years of our Fire Department this year and we will host the Sussex County Fireman’s Parade on October 6! We started work on our poster project for display at the Sussex County Fairgrounds and we have so much to be proud of!! Including the Gemology exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History where a slab of our fluorescent zinc ore from the Sterling Mine will be prominently displayed in the coming years. Small town life!! #smalltownlife #history #ogdensburgnj #sterlingmine #firedepartment #sussexcountynj #firemansparade2018
Queen Ann's Lace, a farmer's field, a blue sky, an old wooden fence and some cows. The simple every day sights that make life in the country so special. When the summer sun bounces back in your face from some wildflowers and a cow turns up their chin to see you - It's Magic I tell you, Magic! #farmcountry #cows #summer #wildflowers #countrylife #country_features #lifeoutside #simplethings #sussexcountynj #newjerseylife #countrygirls
From light to dark and windy to hot and humid. The farm stand at the end of Pidgeon Hill Road has pretty awesome tomatoes though. #farmtotable #sussexcountynj #country_features #cornfield #silo
those moments when you're dashing to the car to leave for work and you get distracted by some stack of loveliness that followed you home, and you smile and say "hi stuff"......... I didn't get the time yet to explore that huge steel box with the key but it has a cool beveled lid and the key is very old with that old key patina. The flat box on top is a vintage photographic slide holder which I paid $2 for and later in the day came back to look at lawn equipment - they were closing up for the day and the Huge box was now in the Free Pile. Nice. Next door was the single Antler too. Free. #freepile #industrial #mustlovejunk #itfollowedmehome #thrillofthehunt
The “free pile” at a yard/moving sale usually has torn clothes and broken toys! Not today! Love the graphics and colors on these vintage Eagle gasoline cans! #freepile #petroliana #mustlovejunk #yourtrashismytreasure
This beautiful creature was wandering all around my mom’s yard tonight; eating grass, immature pears off her tree, hydrangea leaves. She was not afraid of me at all, just a bit curious. I tried to approach her just to steer her towards the woods and not the street. I was really taken by those coal black eyes and those tiny black hooves. So graceful. Right at this point she started to back up very timidly on those pointy little feet that looked to be dipped in ink. #wildlife #bambi
This antique Thermo-Scope advertising thermometer still works! Made for The Consolidated Feed, Coal & Lumber Co., in Sussex NJ. I was born in Sussex and work there now too! I really need to branch out! Picked up this brass cow trivet last week at #northwoodsantiques ! Always a great place to crawl through... !! #vintagethermometer #vintageadvertising #farmhousestyle #farmtable #brasstrivet #mustlovejunk #cow