Berry Sweet New Consignment

No I haven't opened a bakery, or a sweet shop!

But what I have just received in the shop is a "berry" sweet bit of consigned novelty candles... Amy of Red House creates the cutest lil fruit tarts and ice cream sundaes, and iced cakes you have ever seen...and they smell as good as they look... check them out below...

Here are some of the small strawberry tarts and they even come in lil foil pans!
Check this one out! It looks like a bowl of ice cream and peaches!!

Displayed in this cabinet they look good enough to eat!

Yummy!

The bottom shelf holds a cake smothered in peaches,

the second shelf holds a frosted cake with blackberries and a strawberry tart!

Here are some close ups of the cherry tarts!

This shows a cross section of the different types available.

I don't know about you but I'm getting hungry just looking at them.

More close-ups...you can also smell them cant ya?

Here you can even see the lil glass dishes with the strawberry shortcake type candles.

They are selling fast!

Ummm...now wheres my cool whip???? LOL

All these candles would make sweet (pun intended) Mother's Day gifts...don't you think so too???

This Weeks Treasures

I am happy to share some of this weeks new treasures with you below....

This beautiful spring table arrangement was created by Terry

today for a local church's Mother's Day dinner.

Julia created this crackled finish candle holder.

Julia also brought this cute light in too.

This pic shows another little lamp with a sheep on it from Julia.

Lisa brought in three beautiful quilted bags today. They are awesome.

This striped bag has some really nice colors in it.

These two rooster prints arrived this week.

Local craftsman Terry from Red House created this sweet lil doll or pet bed

and brought it in today. He is making some other neat pieces in a similar style this week!

We have had this vintage cabinet for a short while but until today it was covered up.

This vintage cabinet was also loaded up and is now

displayed better so you can really see its potential

This is another view of the cabinet above.

This is our newest hand crafted display.

Ron of St. Albans built this one for us, and Terry primmed it up.

We installed it today and it will be showcasing all our food items from now on.

This includes all of our Rabbit Creek, and Savannah Cinnamon items,

and will include some WV jams and jellies as well in the near future.

We hope to even have some yummy samples set up on it's counter to enjoy soon!

This lil outhouse is actually a birdhouse and its tooo cute!

We had to display the lil mini washtub soap dish next to it!

This framed print was created by Julia and features outhouses.

This lil light was also created by Julia and features one of the outhouses as well.

The picture isn't so great but the crackled finish white shelf created by Darrell is.

Darrell also crackle finished this lil shelf unit!

Last but not least Terry primmed this sofa table created by Ron.

Its a neat piece and would look great in anyone's home!

Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

Just sharing some info I received in the mail this week.

The National Association of Letter Carriers ( Postmen & Women to us) are conducting their annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 9th.

All you have to do is place a bag of non-perishable food items by your mail box with the note below and they will pick them up and they will go to local food banks and soup kitchens.

How simple can a random act of kindness be???

All you do is put the food in a bag and share......

Sounds like a lovely way to share our bounty from the Father with those less fortunate huh???

Let's all help!!! Let's give the mailman a hernia lifting all the donations!

Please feel free to pass this along and if you need a better copy of this clipping to add to your donation email me and I will send you the jpeg, www.countrygatheringsdeb@yahoo.com.

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P.S. The GREEN TAG sale in the shop is continuing by popular demand! We will keep it going through Mother's Day as requested by our customers! Lots of furniture items have been reduced some drastically as well as many other items!

Better stop in soon and grab something wonderful for Mom for Mother's Day and grab yourself a little treat while you are there!

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P.S.S. On a personal note, no news today from my CTA Scan yesterday, results not ready until Monday so my surgery has been canceled for tomorrow.

Hopefully it will back on track next week!

Say a prayer that there's nothing in the test results for me to worry about and another prayer that I will give it all to God and quit worrying about it!

To those who are already praying and sending hugs love ya all! God Bless!

Much Love,

Deb

Creativity Flows at Country Gatherings

We started a new advertisement this week in the local paper in celebration of the upcoming Mothers Day holiday. And if you know anything about our shop you know we kinda dance to the beat of a different drummer...if you don't believe it check out our half page advertisement below...

Yes it says "Your Mama Shops Here You Should Too!"

LOL Yep sounds like us huh???

Then on Saturday our "guest artist" was my daughter Miranda. She spent the day with me in the shop and painted some items for us also.

Uncle Sam was getting a vintage treatment and he seemed to be handling it well!

The artist hard at work!

And the finished product...with a cute lil artist I must say!
Vanna White eat your heart out!

Then Tina brought us some more wonderful artistic amazing stuff!!!!
These two painted canvases depicting florals are awesome!

This Rise & Shine piece is unique also!

You have to see this "toolbox" to appreciate its painted finish, my picture doesn't do it justice!

This treenware scoop is just awesome!

Another sweet lil collaged and painted canvas from T.

Just a couple of the collaged vintage bottles she brought in recently!

This theatre chair just rocks!!! I mean totally rocks! The painted back on it is amazing! It would look great with any decor!!!! These are just a smidgen of the new pieces received this week!

Just sharing some of the ways we get creative at Country Gatherings....how do you express your creative side???

Heart Tests and Headstones

Sigh....yep had more heart tests today!!!

In case I haven't shared all the info with you ( forgive me my wee brain is a bit strained as of late) I will update you now. I had been scheduled by my doc for some routine outpatient surgery coming up this Friday. The doc wanted to make sure cardiology would give me an all clear since I did lose my Dad recently of a heart attack, so they scheduled me for a routine stress test and echocardiogram on Monday.

But on Monday during the routine stress test they saw a "blip on the radar screen/something in my EKG" and stopped the stress test in the middle. A bit scary since I thought these tests were just one more thing to be endured in preparing for a routine procedure.

So they scheduled me for further testing including a CTA scan this morning. For those of you (like I was) who don't know what this test is let me tell ya. They inject radioactive dye into your veins and then take multiple pictures of your heart and surrounding arteries and etc inside this funky noisy tube you have been inserted into. The dye makes you feel funny, (not funny ha ha either) and the nausea isn't nice... but I am to call tomorrow afternoon for preliminary results to see if my surgery can go off without a hitch on Friday or more procedures have to take place with my heart first.

Wow, talk about an eye opener...I never even dreamed I could have a problem with my heart! Granted the tests may show I don't but just going through all this so close on the heels of losing my father to a heart attack is really scary and tough! I have always wanted to be more like him but not sharing heart problems, this wasn't the way I had in mind.

Then to top this fun stuff off my Dad's headstone was delivered and set on his grave this week which just adds the whole cherry to the top of the sordid sundae for me...

It seemed like we (the family) were just starting to get a grip on our loss of Dad and not crying at the drop of a hat and now whammmmm we are right back where we started all over again! My sis, Mom and I have spent the better part of several days this week crying again...doesn't get any easier does it???

Have you lost a parent??? How are you coping with it???? I would love to have any golden nuggets of information you can share to help us get through this.... and also any prayers for getting me through this whole crazy medical craziness!

Thanks for letting me vent my friends!
God Bless!

Our Thursday Stew

Spring Sale! That's what the sign in our shop window says currently! "Look for the green tags! "

Yep nice lil sale if I do say so myself...lots of neat items marked down, some drastically!!!!Why???

Well some of the items are consigned items that their artisans have said need moved out so they can bring us new stuff....

some of them are items we have decided need new homes...

some are seasonal and need changed out.....

and some of them are just items that have been covered up for awhile with other merchandise and need moved out to make room for new stuff coming in...

Like this vintage red trimmed enamel topped table. It has two leaves and would make an awesome addition to someones home with very lil work needed. It was $249.99 now its $119.99....We sat it out front and it was measured twice today by different customers, it wont be here long!!!

Then Terry finished two birdhouse sign stacks, one with a prim theme, one kinda beachy.....too cute... but you oughta see the table she is currently primming...wow....its gonna be a good one!

Then we got this neat idea to pair Scott's library cabinet, Mikes bench and a vintage 1959 government issued steno desk together to make this vignette!

I have to say sometimes we hit on a good idea...or as my Dad used to say "Even blind squirrels get nuts now and then." LOL

Darrell brought this neat wall cabinet with towel bar and screen door in just before close tonight! You have to see this one, its priced to move! I bet it isn't in the shop through the weekend.

We have also added a line of scripture bracelets this week and man are they going out the door like crazy! I have been wearing an armful forever and customers saw them and now we had to start stocking them too! Better stop in soon and see them! They make great last minute gifts and the price is sooo nice!

Today we made new friends, and loved some old friends. Wept with a couple of special friends and laughed with many more.

Today was a mixed bowl, kinda like a stew...some parts we love .....some not so much but they all come together to make it what it is.....and what it is is LIFE......

What kind of day did you have??? Was yours a stew???? Or just a pot of hot water????

Ive learned sometimes it depends on what you put in it and how ya stir it how it turns out!

P.S. Say a prayer for me tomorrow I go for some pre-op testing....sigh the old girl has some defective parts, some will be removed next week! Yippee!!!!

See ya soon!

Deb

Us - Uncut - Uncensored- Uncorked

Ok ... ok...... so I will let you in on a secret......

sometimes when my sis and I are in the shop, and we get bored...

and there aren't any customers, (which isn't often)...

we do crazy things...

...how crazy????

Really really crazy....

But is that any different than we have been

at any other time in our lives???

Or different than other members of our family have been???

...in any combination?????

You be the judge......




WE' uns is nutz!!!!! But we is fun!!!!


We are always laughing and having a good time...WHY???? Because God gave us family and friends and food on our table and a roof over our heads...and a shop we love.... and the ability to smile and laugh....

Because we know all to well that this life on Earth is soooo precious and soooooo short!!!!


Laugh...do something crazy...it's good for the soul!!!!


Try it...you just might like it!!!!

( Now hopefully my family will laugh when they see these pics and they won't kill me for sharing the pictures!) ;)