Phew, May has been insanely crazy

Not only have I been busy with revising MH, and end of school proms and graduation flowers, but we bought another estate full of antiques . . .  Basically, my blog has had to take the back seat.

But I had to stop by and post some pictures from a  photo shoot. As most of you know, I write for Vermont Bride Magazine ( Read more... )

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Today I was valuing a stack of Saturday Evening Posts from the early 1900's when I came across this cover. The main character in my WIP is the daughter of an antique dealer. I suspect if she could, she'd step back in time and be this cover-girl.


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As many of you know I’m not just a writer, my husband and I also own a country store which combines a full service florist with an antique business.

A lot of TV shows make antique dealing look easy and glamorous. What they don’t reveal is what happens after you pick the stuff out of barns and houses, and pay for it.

Last week, we purchased the ( Read more... )

One of the things about being an antique dealer is that sometimes you buy large lots of stuff--the good and bad. Getting everything cleaned up and sorted is fun, dirty and plain cool-and tiring.  This week, we bought the contents of an attic. It was a mix of furniture, kitchen stuff, barn junk, and boxes and boxes of books.

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