Ain't Nothin' Like a Good Ol' Antiques Barn Sale

I don't know about you... 

but the words "antiques" and "barn sale" make my shabby little heart skip a beat.

So I was a very happy chick when I took a field trip this past weekend...

Met my mom, dad and sis on a pretty farm in the Virginia countryside...

home of Ekster Antiques.

With more than one barn... 

literally bursting...

with European furniture, chandeliers, lighting, china, stoneware, urns, decorative objects,

mirrors, baskets, architectural elements...

it was the shopping trip of my shabby little dreams.

From the photos it appears that nobody was there...

but an hour or so before, you couldn't move in these rooms without saying "excuse me".

There was no time for blog pics..... you had to stake your claim.

You can just imagine what it looked like before they all took their treasures with them...

I found some treasures too...

which I will surely be sharing with you.

{Hint: one of them came from those cabinets against the far wall, above ;-}

It was a fun thing for this family of antique shoppin' fools to do.......

And since I didn't get to properly fête my mama on her birthday last week...

I brought along a little birthday picnic.

There just happened to be a shabby farm picnic table waiting for us...

and our Rhubarb Pavlovas....

It was a great Shabby Family field trip!

more soon,

oneshabbychick

P.S. For those of you who are just getting here...

here's the post where I show off my barn sale loot :-}

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