The putzing paid off at Polly Ann's...

The front room at Polly Ann's after three days of putzing...

I adore the color pink and am thoroughly in love with the combination of pink and green. Aqua is hangin' in there tight, too... 

Centerpiece is Bobby's wonderful 8 foot long harvest table with two wonderful cement urns and the trees I got from Hill's Bank (the best bank around) for our store's 20th anniversary...

This sweet little corner is brought to you by the color "PINK"...

Wicker table with glass tops and layered cloths, 4 wicker chairs, a sweet little fireplace built by Bobby, a window project copied yesterday from pinterest, hankies, red glass, Haviland China, pink paper doilies and pink flashed beer mugs.  Oh, yea... and don't forget the sweet little Typhoon pink pitcher on the center of the glass shelf for the window...

More pink on this unique fringed table that was once the center of attention at home wakes... you guessed it... it's a coffin table, thus no finish on the top and someone upholstered it along the line.... a great server!

Close up of the project from pinterest... 

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Mirror, mirror on the walll... Love the soft yellow wingback I did in a Ralph Lauren fabric with a red and white mini check for trim.  Isn't the mantle Bobby built wonderful?

Did I mention I LOVE pink and green together?  This display of roses plates and accessories makes me so very happy...

Pink and green Haviland and other European pretty dishes... and one of my favorite saying plates... "My favorite place is in your hug..."

 A sweet colonial maiden on a really big plate with perfect fading around the edges...

Georgian Eggshell dishes by Homer Laughlin...


Polly Ann's... because there's no place like home...

A new slogan...

Polly Ann's... because there's no place like home...

this is my new slogan for Polly Ann's... my 20 year old antique store... I'd love to know what you think!

So... this is the house that our house is designed after! It was Country Living's House of the Year in 1992... Someday ours will look more like this, but for now, we are on the 13 year plan and aren't finished yet. Our siding is vinyl and is a creamy color. Someday my door will be either magenta or red (haven't decided yet) and we will have close to the same design on our porch. I've got the stonework half finished (it's been that way since Bob's mom got sick in 2004). My goal is to get the porch and door done this summer. Wish me luck... So many projects, so little time!!!

Anamosa Antique Show Bound... This Sunday, January 22nd

I've been framing prints like crazy and trying to put together a fun, feminine, romantic array of goodies for the show this Sunday. Bob made me the awesome display shelf from a couple of ladders and some salvaged wood. He'll have one of his salvaged materials harvest tables there, a 7 footer with walnut legs, and he made me three trenchers/troughs for the middle of a table. He's getting into this creative stuff, and I think he even actually likes it. That makes me happy.

Hope to see you there!!!

Another custom harvest table of vintage materials... made by Bob :0)

My honey's latest custom harvest table. Another beauty! He's got two more orders in the works and then we have to sit down and evaluate how much of our wood stash we have left... she's a dwindling fast.

The tops and skirts of these tables are made from old floor boards out of a house in Lisbon, Iowa. I wish there had been more! The legs are old table legs that we have been stashing for years. We're getting low on those, too... time to go a hunting again ... my very favorite part of this business...

This one is just over 6 feet long... a very popular size. Doesn't he do nice work? :0)