Surprise Pop Up Sale!

As many of you know, Life's Patina had their last Barn Sale hours this past Thursday. We saw many of our loyal customers there as well as some new faces but we had many requests to open by appointment so we thought we would hold one more Thursday sale...this Thursday the 26th of June, to offer ALL of you a last look at our Summer merchandise while it is 25% off !  Come in to stock up on some fabulous beach decor and hostess gifts for those weekend trips down to the shore. We have a couple of our well known crab and lobster paper place mats left as well as some beautifully simple table decor items.

If you have some remodeling that you are doing at a beach house, why not choose navy, tan and white as your new color palette?

To fit right in with that color combo, we have a beautifully detailed desk/dressing table that we painted and distressed with a wood relief ship on it and a matching navy and white shell bench.

Come check out the beautiful signed prints by Colleen Spicher that would fit right in!

As well as beautiful photographs by photographer Julie Gerber.

If a softer color palette is what you are craving, we have that too!

Beautiful blue glass and many accessories that compliment that soft shade abound.

Pair that with burlap table runners with cream ruffled edges and linen napkins and a simple elegance pops!

All of our prints will be 20% off,  

including Coleen Spicher's artwork. 

We have a couple of our handmade chalkboards and bulletin boards available and as always, we can customize one to fir in with your own decor.

Of course the ocean is not our only focus. We have a fabulous array of equestrian themed items,

animal lover goodies,

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" stylized accouterments, as well as many different stylized vignettes of "rooms"of all different varieties.

We could never forget our unique gift and entertaining products. Have you seen these Book Doc's that charge your i-phone or i-pads anywhere else? We have them!

We also have Letter books

which make a wonderful Graduation gift with a gift card or money enclosed inside.

We could not forget to highlight some of our favorite entertaining products like our fabulous oversized bread boards...just a couple are left,

and our Cake Vintage papers which always make a beautiful addition to your table.

Last but not least, we could not forget to include the 4th of July!

Lots of goodies to bring the festivities to your back yard!

or favorite cook out spot!

We have just a couple sets of these melamine dishes that look like paper plates left!

Any way you want to look at it, you don't want to miss this Summer Sale for we are only open by appointment after the Sale Day this Thursday for we will be busy trying to keep cool in the barn as we become busy little bees dreaming up, making and planning the Fall season. We have some really cool and exciting things coming this Fall and the barn will look very much different in September so come and get a last look and some great deals!

See you this Thursday from 10-2! If you cannot make it between those times, send me and email or message me on Face book and we will work something out!

All the best~

Meg

The Laughter of the Flowers

This woven basket of cut flowers from the garden contains all you need to create wild beautiful displays of natures bounty. All you need to add is a container and water. I absolutely adore going out in my yard and cutting blooms, leaves and any interesting foliage to assemble home grown flower arrangements. I got hooked 18 years ago when we moved into our first house. After years of living in a townhouse our first neighborhood yard felt like a state park. I took tons of books out of the library and perused magazine after magazine and started our first "cutting" garden. I have been hooked ever since and my gardening (as well as my animal exploits) have caused my husband to label me "a hearty woman." Somehow the imagery created by that "endearment" is not flattering. Anyway, this time of year excites me for it is pay dirt...literarily.

Purples,

oranges, fuchsias,

pinks,

and yellows

as well as all shades in between are blooming prolifically. It is as if winter had bound up these pale lifeless living objects to resemble the dead and then Spring has caused them to erupt in wild abandon.

Beauty is in the eye of every flower and its beholder.

One can bring this wild burst of an art palette inside quite easily. All you need is a scissors to cut the blooms, a container or two and some fresh water. I love free from arrangements and quite often I just stick the cut blooms in water after stripping off the leaves that will be submerged below the water line.

You can do an arrangement with all the same bloom in various shades. (Peonies)

This bouquet contains two shades of purple from Russian Sage and Salvia, punctuated by a small pop of yellow from Knockout Roses and Hosta leaves.

This one is a riot of color from Honeysuckle vine, Ladies Mantle, Peonies and Pea shoots.

All of these were assembled from the first basket of flowers that I pictured at the beginning of this post and literally took five minutes (once I found the containers).

"The Earth laughs in flowers."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why don't you go out and pick a handful so you can join in the laughter?

~Meg