Visiting Lucketts Store and Design House

I love to visit Lucketts Store in Lucketts, Virginia.  Lucketts is located about 5 miles north of Leesburg on Rte. 15 heading north to Maryland.  Leesburg is one of those beautiful historical towns that has kept is colonial look in the downtown area.

I love this tree that was in bloom!  Just beautiful!

 Here is Lucketts Store.

It's a wonderful old store that has been converted to an antiques shop.  Lots of wonderful displays and antique items are inside.  And there are three floors to roam around in!!

Outside on the grounds of the Lucketts Store are various sheds that hold all sorts of wonderful items for your home or yard.

Inside, the store was packed with wonderful displays and lovely things.

A pretty dresser.

Torso forms, mirrors, eggs, metal cages, and a lovely black dresser.

I love that storage piece in the back.  Do you suppose that at one time hens were busy laying eggs in there or was it a hardware storage piece for a general store?

I love the decoration on this burlap pillow!

See the doll leg, old coin and the photo?

Outside was this basket full of Easter bunnies that were for sale!  They were all scrunched up inside this basket to keep warm.  It was very cool and breezy that day.

More pretty room settings

More of the lovely rooms in the Lucketts Design House.

I love this dresser.  The lamps are pretty and I especially like all the polar bears.

 That sunburst mirror on the wall was gorgeous!  I see lots of gray and silver -- shiny as well as dull.

A gray coffee table complete with fake cups of coffee.  Also love the fabric on the couch.  I know it's Waverly because I found scraps of it while thrifting one day.

Purple and deep gold!  How royal.  And wouldn't it be the royal treatment to have a bedroom like this to retreat to every day??

This chair upholstery is really shabby!  Too much so for me.  But I liked the gray wood and the big pillow with the ampersand printed on it.

Lastly, these chairs had slipcovers made of canvas and burlap.  I love the burlap fabric, but I don't think it is actually burlap.  It is much smoother and a better choice for something you are actually going to sit on or use.  I am going to do some investigating into what this fabric actually is called -- unless one of you already know what it is called.  Perhaps it is actually unbleached canvas -- like a painter's drop cloth??

I'm headed home soon.  Hope you enjoyed this pictoral trip to Lucketts Design House.  Back to reality soon!

More little journals added

This week I have been making more little journals but with a Christmas theme.  Also put in a new cowgirl collage done on an old log cabin cutter quilt piece.  You can check them out on my Etsy site, Vintage Recycled, or just view them by watching the Etsy badge on the right side of my blog.  Here is a sample for you.  More are ready to be listed very soon!

This is one of my favorite images.  A mother and daughter in front of a white Christmas tree with the new doll that the little girl has just received.  So pretty!

Here is the Kris Kringle journal I just listed.  I have more of these and will list them soon, too.

Lucketts Design House photo

The only time I wish I still lived in Virginia is when Lucketts General Store sends me an email telling me about their next open house in their Design House.  What a wonderful house it is, too!!  I try to visit each time I go to Virginia to visit my family.  What I love about this photo are the old paint brushes in that turquoise colored bowl.  Also love the feed bag pillow and the picture with the bird and bird cage.

Lucketts Design House photo

This industrial look is beginning to grow on me.  I would LOVE that storage unit!  What a great thing to store fabrics in and you can see it all!  Also love those two hats on the dresser as well as that great painting behind them.  Wish I could "beam" myself over there this weekend and take a look first hand.  Where's Scotty when you need him??

Know what drives me crazy?

Putting something down somewhere in this house and then spending a lot of time looking for it just a few minutes later!  That was yesterday!  It was a small tag for a new journal I am doing as well as the embroidery needle to add a few french knots to it.  I finally found the tag on the floor in the closet where I was looking for the needle.  Haven't found the needle yet!  Not good!!

Today I looked all over for a silver bracelet I know is here.  I just cleaned it.  Do you think I can find it??  It will show up, but not right now. I quit looking so I could do a few blogs.  It'll turn up!

Today I want to share with you some things I love that don't drive me crazy -- in my house as well as in a favorite store.

One of my favorite places to visit in Virginia is the Old Lucketts Store in Lucketts, Virginia, a small burg several miles north of Leesburg on Hwy. 15 (a treacherous piece of road, I might add!).  I get emails when they are going to open their Design House.  They are having a big Open House this weekend.

Design House photo

Old Lucketts Store, Lucketts, VA

I just want to sit down and read!  Also featured was this:

Design House photo

Old Lucketts Store, Lucketts, VA

I love turquoise jewelry.  I have some, but I discovered I have more silver bracelets than those with turquoise. 

I also recently saw a picture of Mary Emmerling with a lot of Indian bracelets on both arms as well as a silver dish full of them.  So, in keeping with the picture I saw, I dug out my only silver tray, polished it and added my silver Indian jewelry.  I spent a few minutes looking through the magazines for that picture.  Now, please refer to paragraph 2 above!

Design House photo

Old Lucketts Store, Lucketts, VA

I love these santos.  It took me over a year to acquire the two I have.  Finding them is not easy.  And when you do, they are not cheap.  But, yesterday I found an ad in the latest issue of Somerset Home for Santos Dolls Angels Busts Art here.  Well, where were they when I began looking for these 2+ years ago?

These are my santos draped in rosaries (which I collect) and jewelry.  The angel on the top is in the great room.  The santo just above is in my bedroom.  I made her pointy hat!  Just the right touch!

Last is my entryway niche.  It used to hold a huge flower arrangement which I never liked -- but the decorator did.  Now it is to my liking.

Thanks for visiting.  Hope you enjoyed the pics of the Design House at the Old Lucketts Store as well as a peek into my my house for a look at some of my favorite things.

Lucketts, Virginia

This antique faire was going on across the street from the Lucketts General Store. Mouth-watering goodies to be had here! I didn't eat any of it, but that crabcake sandwich sure sounded good! Funnel cakes!!! I miss those! Used to have them at every antique show I went to when I lived in Virginia.

This is the community center in the tiny town of Lucketts, just north of Leesburg, VA, about 7 miles. It is well maintained. That's what I like about Northern Virginia.

What I couldn't get over was all the old furniture, antique as well as shabby chic! Wished I had a truck and unlimited funds to shop this faire! We can't find that kind of furniture here in Arizona. I was green with envy!!!

Another pic of one of the aisles at the faire. Again, note all the furniture. There were few "smalls" available. Most of those were used as decoration.

Annie Oakley on a quilt square

I am having an absolute ball with the techniques I've learned from KC Willis' Collage Camp. This has been such a great experience for me. I am jazzed again about creating! If you haven't taken a look at the camp site, please click here or click on the camp button at the right.

Here is Sureshot Annie Oakley on one of the cutter quilt squares. I love this one!I am out of town now enjoying my grandchildren and getting ready to celebrate little Ryan's third birthday. Am also looking forward to a shopping trip to Lucketts General Store. Will post again after my return on June 3rd.

Happy Trails!!

My doll Jane

Here is my latest fabric collage. I have wanted to incorporate this doll dress into a fabric collage for a long time. I actually transferred the tiny picture to the dress and then hand stitched tatting and tiny buttons to the picture over a year ago. It is a picture of a little girl beside a chair with her favorite doll all dressed in white. There is a tiny doll bib that I attached to the dress and made a pocket out of it. From the pocket I draped a tiny pink pearl necklace. Perhaps you can see (it's awfully tiny!) that the little girl in the picture has on a pearl necklace. I used lots of vintage trims and old fabrics. The lacy piece on top of the ticking is an old dresser doily. The coffee dyed it up great.

I am headed to Virginia early on Thursday morning to visit my grandchildren. June 1st is little Ryan's third birthday. The festivities begin next Saturday. What fun!

Also, while I am in Virginia I am going to visit my favorite store, Lucketts General Store, located in Lucketts, Virginia about 7 miles north of Leesburg. It has been a favorite place of mine to visit and shop for years. They are having a spring sale next weekend! Shabby and chic!!