Yesterday I started to move into my new space in Concord at Thoreauly Antiques. I am so exited to be back in Concord. As I left the shop for the day I took a walk over to my other favorite shop Nesting On Main up the street. While I was looking around the shop I met a young woman named Karen Harvey. We soon discovered that we both had blogs and in fact I had actually been on her blog sometime ago.

Karen is an amazing artist who inspires me each time I go on her site with her whimsical paintings and digital artwork. I told her that I had just set up shop in Thoreauly and she went there soon after and purchased one of my Parisian black and white architectural lithographs. Out of the print she created two amazing digital designs that I have included here for you all to see.

Karen’s blog is a treat to stop by and see. You can visit her here at karenharveycox.blogspot.com or in my links bar on the side. Thanks Karen for continuing to inspire me and countless others with your beautiful artwork. Enjoy her designs and have a fantastic weekend. Stay tuned for pictures of my new completed space in Concord!!

I spent the past week in Maine for our vacation. I have been going to there since I was a child. I wanted to bring my new son up there to show him all the things and places I love about Maine. Despite being a tad hot we had a great week filled with antiquing, going to the beach and just exploring, although my son is only three months he seemed to soak in the atmosphere and really enjoyed just being outside looking at all of the new things to see like the ocean, trees, and the sky. It really brings you back to the basics and lets you be a child again experiencing everything for the first time all over again.

During the week I managed to go to the Monsweag flea market in Wiscasset. The antiques market is held on Weds and the regular flea is during the weekend. Wiscasset is filled with pristine antique shops  with many beautiful yet pricey things. I manged to get a few shots of the flea as well as some scenic views of Maine.

Tomorrow I am going into Sterling to move out of my old space and will be moving into Concord next weekend. I am  exited to start in Concord but a little overwhelmed with all of the moving. I hope  to be posting some new pics when I get the new space set up. Until then enjoy the pics of my  trip to Maine!!

After much debating I have decided to leave the Cider Mill space and continue on to Concord in the fall starting in Sept. Amy and mutually agreed that while we both love the space we are in right now it’s just to big for the two of us to maintain with her having three kids and myself just having my baby. Amy and I continue to be good friends. I will miss sharing a space with her because our styles mesh very well together and she is a great person who I admire and respect not only as a creative lady but as a great mom to her kids!!. We are hoping to possibly do the May Brimfield show. Amy will be moving her space to The White Home Collection in New Hampshire. This place has very cool furniture and cottage styled items for your home. It has become a favorite place of mine to shop as well.

On a separate topic I have been having a hard time finding time to blog. The past few weeks my son has been having a hard time and has developed some food allergies. We are working hard to get him and his belly better so he will get back to the happy little guy that he is!! Right now he is  my first priority!! I know antiques will always be there, they have survived hundreds of years right!!

I will try and post some pictures soon of some new finds that I will be bringing into Concord in the fall. Stay tuned and as always happy hunting!!

Much to my pleasant surprise I was recently asked to join Thoreauly Antiques in Concord MA.  This great little shop is right across the street from where I used to be in Concord right on 25 Walden St. It has always been one of my favorite antique shops in Concord and now I am so exited to be a dealer there. I will be moving in in early Sept and will be located in the front room to the left when you walk in the door along with a few other fabulous dealers. Thoreauly offers an eclectic collection of period and vintage antiques including ephemera, Wedgwood college plates, fine antique linens, as well as shabby chic cottage garden decor to suit any home.

In fact tonight while watching the local show Chronicle they did a feature on antiquing at Brimfield and stopped by Thoreauly Antiques too!! I tell you it must be some sort of good karma!! The shops hours of operation are 10-5 Mon-Sat, and Sun 12-5, 978-371-0100.  So come stop by and see my new space in Sept!!

I will continue to be at the Cider Mill in Sterling along with Amy my partner from Thistlebees for whom I share the space with. I am hoping I am not in over my head taking on a second space being a new mom and all, but I figured I would give it my best shot and see what happens. As I said before it has always been a favorite antique shop of mine so I am thrilled to see where it will take me!! Who knows what lies ahead, the possibilities are endless!!

Recently a friend of mine took a trip over to Paris for the week.  Knowing she was headed over I asked her if she wouldn’t mind exploring a few french  flea markets to find me a few goodies to sell or to maybe keep  couple of things for myself as well!!

Much to my delight she was happy to go and check out the flea market, in fact my friend Cindy runs a travel tour company called Art History Alive and regularly take people on tours of Europe. Cindy has been to Europe many times and is I believe fluent in a few languages. You can check her site out in my sidebar links under the travel link. Not only did she find some cool things for me but she actually incorporated it into her tour for her clients as sort of a scavenger hunt. So cool!!

Before she went I gave her a list of things to look for while she was in Paris. The group wound up finding some interesting french ephemera including some great old chocolate advertising cards along with an old Paris steamer trunk label,  a couple of theater brochures and two old paper doll fold outs. Here are the pictures of what she found. I am thinking of possibly enlarging some of the ads in the theater brochures because they are just so cool looking and would be really neat framed and hung in a grouping.  Thanks so much Cindy!! I adore all of  it!! A few of these items will be for sale in the shop. Enjoy!!

Recently I was asked to participate as a guest blogger on a site called blogs.com The site features different people including everyday bloggers such as myself as well as celebrities and any other people who have a passion in a certain area.

Each person is asked to list ten of their favorite blogs. I was asked to list ten of my favorite blogs about antiques. Here is my list. Each of these blogs that I chose are here in my sidebar links section including blogs.com. Again I can’t get my links to work so you will have to go to my sidebar!! The address for my page is www.blogs.com/topten/antique-therapys-top-10antique-blogs/. When you get to the page click on the link up top that says top ten blogs and you will see Antique Therapys top 10 list!! Enjoy!!

1.) Thistlebees Home

2.) Sadie Olive

3.) Shabby Nest

4.) Vintage Rescue Squad

5.) Time Worn Interiors

6.) Velvet and Linen

7.) Roundbarn Potting Co

8.) Garden Antiques

9.) Marley and Lockyer

10.) European Antique Market

I am truly flattered to be apart of this site and I hope to give more exposure to my other friendly antique bloggers!!

This weekend I had the  pleasure to attend the Grafton Antique Show. Usually the show is located in downtown historic Grafton, but due to some rainy unpredictable weather they held it indoors at a local school. The show was much smaller this year but still had some quality dealers with some cool things to look at. I took a few shots of some of my favorite things that I saw including lots of beautiful mercury glass. Enjoy and I hope you had a good weekend!!

On May 28th I gave birth to a healthy baby boy. After a long labor I finally wound up having a c-section.

For those of you who have children you all know  that shear joy of the first time you see your child the emotion that runs through you and the over abundance of love you feel for something that you created and carried for nine months. I never envisioned motherhood so cool. He truly is a blessing in my life!!

Needless to say I am hoping to resume some sort of normal lifestyle in the near future and continue to focus on Antique Therapy. Due to some complications the last few weeks it’s been a tough road and I haven’t been able to go to any yard sales or flea markets or let alone go into the shop to bring in any new  items. From here on out I pray that my health continues to get better and better each day!!  I will try to post as often as I can and am hoping I won’t loose all of my readers.  Until then happy hunting!!

I have just added some new garden chic items to the shop including two cool architectural pieces, white rustic terra cotta pots, shabby white mirror, small baby bird handmade linen pillow, shabby silver salt and pepper shakers, and a cherub garden statue suitable for any posh home!! Enjoy, and come on in to see whats new at Antique Therapy!!

Today while on my way home from my weekly ultrasound and then a quick jaunt to the mall, my husband called me up to tell me that there was a movie being filmed in Southborough.  When I got home I googled it to see who was in it and if they were still there filming. I assumed that they were probably done since filming started early this morning, but much to my surprise when we got there they were in full progress at a local church downtown.

The film is called Grown Ups and is staring Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Selma Hayek, Chris Rock, and David Spade. My mom and I were lucky enough to get a couple shots of Rob Schneider when he came out to sign some autographs. Amongst the chaos my mom managed to squeeze in and get his autograph. I asked him if he would take a picture of me and the baby and he jokingly said…. ” Oh that’s way to much evidence”. Needless to say I didn’t get the shot but I got a nice one of him as well as a few of the surrounding film crew and scenic church in which they were filming!!

Although this really has nothing to do with antiques I just knew you would all like to share in on all the fun too!!