About a month ago, Colin and I took a Friday off and went away for the weekend! : ) Yay! Friday morning we headed out on our trip. We checked into a cute B&B. An actual B&B where you stay in someone's house and they make you breakfast! The house was so nice, with a big foyer and wide plank wood floors. Swoon! I didn't take any photos but I stole a few from the website.
souce- B&B Website
Before we hit the town, we warmed up with some hot beverages and zipped up our rain coats! Sadly the weather didn't get the memo that we had gone away and it was supposed to be lovely out for us!
We spent the day popping in and out of lots antique shops. It was super fun. We didn't find any treasures to bring home Friday but we had a nice time spending the day together. : )
Colin loved this giant wood door with the front of a car mounted on it. Perhaps for our next larger house with a man cave basement! ha!
For lunch we hit up a Mexican place and drank a few too many blood orange margaritas! Opps!
We hit a few more shops while we walked off our burritos and booze, then went back to the B&B to relax. Since we were only staying for one night we splurged on the largest room. It was so nice and bright and roomy and lovely. And the bed was so cozy! (Normally I hate sleeping in any bed other than my own.)
Colin is pretty lucky this piece below to the right had a sold sticker on it. Otherwise I might have had to try and figure out how to bring it home!
I had my eye on work benches since I was still trying to figure out the best furniture piece to use as my outdoor buffet/bar. They had a lot of fun options if I had it under a covered porch, but not outside. I didn't want to buy anything that would get ruined.
I wish I had brought my camera down for breakfast Saturday morning since we came down to a lovely table set with nice china and silverware, white place mats, coffee, tea, fruit, yogurt and granola. You can see a similar set up in the B&B images above. Colin asked if I could have the set up ready for him every Saturday morning! ha!
We were undecided on what to do our second day, but we decided lounging around our lovely room and hitting up a few more antique stores would be good, so we did just that! Next time we head up this way, I want to check out some historical sites and wineries, but I figured that was best saved for better weather. (plus we kind of had sour stomachs from drinking too many margaritas for a wine tasting!)
I had read about an antique barn that wasn't too far away and then we found a few places along the way to stop at too. These pictures are from a junk store on the way to that barn.
Whoa Junk!
The barn had SO MUCH STUFF! Sadly all my pictures came out terrible, so the one below is the only one I posted. I spyed a bench/coffee table I did not need, nor have a place for, but it was calling my name...it said..."Megan, buy me, buy me and paint me".
I caved and bought it! I think it is time to give that Anne Slone Chalk Paint a whirl! : ) All the blog ladies have these fun homes with funky colorful antique pieces and I think the key is just getting stuff when you find it, and not waiting to you need something. (Obviously within reason haha)
I also got two insulator caps, since they are cheap and turquoise!
Sorry the above picture screams "flash" but it was a rough place to snap photos. I will give you more pics once I actually have time and energy to clean it up and find a home for it. : )
Ok, here are a few more pictures from our first day. I really really wanted 1 (or 10) of these bronze asparagus. BUT I wasn't sure what I would do with them, so I stayed strong and didn't get any.
We need some folding/stacking chairs for extra seating for parties. I figured at some point I would just order some padded folding chairs. BUT look at these lovely bright colored chippy paint options! This was also a hard item to walk away from. Sadly they were just a bit too expensive to buy 4 to just have them in the basement in between parties. I did however take his business card, you know, in case I change my mind! : )
We had such a nice time. We got home Saturday late afternoon, so we got away AND we still had time to relax at home, clean, food shop etc. We had a great time and we are definitely going to do this again! : )
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