Highlights of the Duxbury Antique Show

What an amazing and fun and tiring time we had at the Duxbury Antique Show.

As you know, I’ve been gearing up for this for a few weeks.  Painting like crazy and running around.  It was all worth it. Here’s Dan (of Gentleman & Daughter Antiques) and I in our booth right before the show started:

People loved the Grantham Bedroom set and swooned over the lions head pulls.

It was hard to get great photos due to the fluorescent lighting, but I think you can get a feel for our booth.

It was so much fun catching up with other dealers.  I loved chatting with Colin and Beverly of Bent Nail Farm Antiques.  I love their barn sales and Harry McLoughlin from Echo Lake Antiques who I met up in Brimfield last May.  He had the booth next to us:

You can see little Charlotte in the background (she is the “daughter” in Gentleman & Daughter) and was such a big help.

My little mermaid dresser was one of the first items to sell!  A teacher at Duxbury High School bought it and it is going to go in her bathroom.  It is so funny because I was picturing it in a little bathroom or a little girls room.  I’ll write a before and after post soon on this one!

Many people who follow the blog also stopped by! So it was so lovely to meet people “in person”.  I chatted for a long time with Sarah who blogs over at  Pewter and Sage about painting and she picked up a little driftwood boat for her son’s room.

On Sunday, I also got to meet Jenna who actually lives down the street from me and has followed the blog for a while, but we’d never met.  Isn’t that funny?  She has a fabulous etsy shop and makes sailors’ valentines:

Our booth was a wonderful mix of antiques, painted furniture, love letters from France and all the dealers were eyeing Dan’s cage doll.

I love the bird cage, especially the color and the glass feeders.

The 19th century school house desk has found a new home at a Montessori School in Duxbury which is fabulous:

Pennants, artwork, ball jars, our Boston postcards, oars and driftwood boats were all very popular.

Dan and I also found a few treasures while at the show from other dealers.  I got a lovely grainsack pillow from Kathleen Fortuna that will go on my couch (when I finally save enough for it) and a beautiful sea fan from Bliss Farm.

We had such a successful show!  Some of the bigger pieces didn’t sell so if you had your heart set on something and couldn’t make it to the show let us know.

A HUGE thank you to all who helped Dan and I get ready – our spouses, our kids and family and friends for stopping by.

I had to share this photo of Dan and his daughter, Charlotte.  She was so proud of her Daddy!

Right, now back to reality.  Sadly no painting today.  I have to tidy my messy house and get rid of this skunk smell…..  Oh, and get ready for the snow storm that is coming on Tuesday night.