We are Moving!! Nashville Tenneessee...here we come!

What a weekend!

Many, many years ago I had 'a' garage sale...

and swore I'd never have one again!

But seeing we have decided to pull up stakes

and move back East....

the 'Guitar Man'

promised me 'new' whatever I wanted...

if I wouldn't make him haul all of 'this' stuff 'here'

across the country.

Can you believe...I made $7,700!?

I'm still in shock!

My dad has always said that I could sell ice to eskimos.

(I guess it comes from being a single mom for so many years,

raising 4 kids on my own...

and to feed them...

I had to go and knock on the 

'society of the elite's' doors 

to convince them they needed my design services even though I didn't know what I was doing!

I was a stay at home mom 

with no college education...

but I did know how to sew curtains!

 A momma bear will do anything to

care for her little ones!

So on Saturday....

people were running in and out of my house...

pulling pictures off the walls...

begging me to sell.

It was crazy...

the more I said 'No!"

The more determined they were to change my mind.

They wanted my antiques...

They wanted quilts, sheets, pillows,

lamps, gadgets and on and on.

Finally....

I named my price...

and they gave it to me. 

The hardest thing for me to sell...

was my first ever purchased antique...

a ladies secretary

and

the buffet and table and chairs 

I bought that the kids grew up around.

But as the 'Guitar Man' says....

everything has a price!

Girls....the surprising thing....

it's kind of been therapeutic...

to get rid of sooooo much stuff!!

Boxes of fabric scraps...

that I was going to 'someday' make a quilt from...

(don't worry...I still have my stash!!),

yards and yards of designer upholstery fabric

I was going to 'someday'

recover my antique couch and chairs with...

etc...etc...

Now think of all the work I've saved myself! 

Awww...just thinking of a simpler...

clutter free....

life....

makes me smile!