What have Brenda and I been up to....?????

What, oh, what, has been going on here on the Oregon Coast? And where have we been? And how could we be gone so long......??? Huh? Huh?

Well, we have a dandy excuse....really, we do! Here is a tease:


And here? Another glimpse:

A more direct approach, maybe?


Can you read the window? Here is the final shot.....

(We haven't gotten to the flower beds yet.......but that is coming soon!).

YEP!! We did it!! After 12 years of talking about it, we now have a SHOP!! On the Oregon Coast!! Primitives, Folk Art, Vintage Wares, Candles, Soaps & Altered Art. We are officially open now, and we are loving it!! Every minute of it! So, you see, we haven't forgotten about you all, we have had our nose to the grindstone for the past four months!

We actually started this in December,but it took awhile to get it together. We found the perfect little shop, and then had to wait until we could take possession of it, then they had to do some inside work.....then we finally got to it! After a lot of cleaning....lots of painting.....and lots of sewing, and making candles.....well, we opened up, and are busy, busy, busy. We have stocked the shop totally ourselves, and plan to keep it that way, if at all possible. It will take a bit, but we hope to have it stuffed to the gills before the start of summer. So, if any of you are here on the Oregon Coast and hit Florence, come and see us! We are the only Primitive shop here!

Well, I will share more pictures with you later! I just wanted to let you know that we are here, and that I am back in Blogland! I have missed you all, and will be busy catching up on everyone and everything. I tried to keep up as we were working on the shop....but, it seems that I would just get lost? And then I would read and read and read? And nothing would get done? I even timed myself one day...and turned the timer off when it rang, and read and read and read....needless to say, I got nothing done!

Brenda's Home!

Yep, she's home again! She had to fly home to do some work on their house, and while she is here, she popped up for a bit on Friday. And you guessed it, we headed right for Bay Street in Old Town Florence!

The plan was go get coffees at our favorite place and catch up...but when we got there? It was FULL! And I mean full!! And most of them were over the age of....well....they all had white.......well, I know that I have white hair, but I am not.......okay, maybe I am.........well, I am.......okay, I'll just say it! It was FULL of WHITE HAIRED OLD people....and they weren't sharing the seating. I mean how rude was that? So we got our coffees, and grabbed a raspberry scone and had to sit OUTSIDE in the car. It could have been worse, I mean we could have walked down there, and then not had a car to sit in....see, I can always find a bright side.....and it could have been raining instead of just gray....but it just threw the morning off! We have a routine, and we like to follow it!!


After coffee, we roamed a bit, she needed to find something for her Mom's birthday, and as I hadn't been there since before Thanksgiving, it was fun seeing some new shops. And there were quite a few new shops. The sad thing was.....Brenda knew about the Herb Shop, and I had no idea it was there!!! Our Health food store had gone out last year, and I had really missed it. Now, what is really pathetic? I LIVE here, and the Herb Store had been opened for 10 MONTHS!

I took the camera so I could photo the coffee shop, but since we were only there for a few minutes, and, it was full of, well, you know...those people....I snapped a couple shots while we wandered the town. It was gray and dull looking, but, I snapped away anyway!


This is one of the oldest buildings down there...it used to be the Bridgewater Restaurant, but now has new owners, and they call it the Zebra something...(no idea why......it doesn't fit, but then no one actually asked me what I thought.....so there you have it....):

This is looking down the street towards the bridge:

I do wish that all those electrical wires were underground!! They really show up! It is hard to imagine, as I look at these pictures, but at Christmas, Old Town is just magical...twinkle lights everywhere, the street lamps lit, they have a old-fashioned band in the gazebo playing Christmas Carols....really, now that I look at it...is is kinda blah!!! Oh well, on with the tour!

This is looking Eastward:

Brenda and I took photos of us, on the dock, below the gazebo...here is Brenda.....

And, okay, this would be me....I hate photos of me! This is the view from the dock:

This is looking up the river:
This is a shot of under the bridge: I guess I will have to take photos this summer, when town is full, and the sun is out....it is actually quite colorful!

Well, we are headed down to my folks' house...Dad is cooking dinner for me for my birthday, which is actually tomorrow....but in this family? We celebrate for the whole month sometimes!!!