~Retail Therapy and some Summer Inspiration~

Happy Friday everyone~!  The weather is very strange here in Southern California...It's cloudy and we have some rain forecast  for today!  Not complaining~just saying~!  When the weather is like this outside, I want to redecorate something inside..I've been scouring over Pinterest and reading all my Jeanne d' Arc Books, redecorating my booth space at AM&G...ahh retail therapy!!  I thought I would share with you some of the AH MAZ ING  FINDS the dealers have brought into American Home & Garden.

First I re-did my entire booth (I get bored so fast) and I'm so happy with the results~take a peak

This AMAZING sofa and chair with custom cushions just SOLD!

Update this sweet wooden glider with the custom cushion SOLD!!

These awesome Antique Italian Corbels SOLD!

So as you can see my booth is nice and bright and WHITE~!  I love white in the Summer~

Here are more pictures from around the store~ We are so packed right now, there is so much to choose from~

Awesome Armoire with doors that fold all the way back to the sides..great green color~!  This beautiful armoire SOLD!!!

Loving the beach look here at the entrance~ French hand blown cloches in 3 sizes, sea shells, and beautiful colored glass bottles~

This is one of my FAV vignettes~a great spring mattress with bird picture and Rusty statue..succulents in a chicken feeder~Update the spring mattress SOLD!!

Blue chippy French Day Bed with custom ruffled cushion SOLD! ~GORGEOUS garden arch and Italian iron chandelier~Update that chandy SOLD 1 hour after hanging it!

This is an AMAZING Antique iron chaise lounge with a oak leaf pattern, old iron wheels beautiful color~  Hand painted beach cottage sign and custom pillows~Update the antique chaise lounge SOLD!!

Bookshelf made from salvaged doors~tons of storage~ Cute little curio cabinet~

Hand made baby dresses and a cute dresser with embellishments~

  I love this gigantic chicken feeder!  You can plant a garden in that one!  Cement urns and lots of garden themed items in this booth space~

 Another view of that antique iron chaise lounge~love the French Nordic look of this vignette~Mary Statue~

Hand painted Swedish Bench~antique cast iron urn and French market cart~

 Vintage French iron bistro set and a vintage Dalmatian Dog statue ~

 Antique sugar mold with the iron stands (very rare)...painted cabinet, and iron chairs~

WHEW~I love me some retail therapy~ I hope you enjoyed another tour of American Home & Garden...my home away from home...LOL!~

I will be linking to Kathleen's White Wednesday over at Faded Charm here come and join the party and see lots more inspiration!

Also joining Cindy's Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday here

Linking to Little Miss Maggies Hot Fun in the Summertime Party here

Come follow me on Pinterest here 

Please stop by American Home & Garden when you are in the area we are located at

64 South Oak Street  Ventura, CA 93001

(805) 648-6818

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 I hope you all have a beautiful weekend~xok

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This weeks YARD sale finds!~

OMG you know that IKEA commercial where the husband is in the car and the wife comes running...start the car!  Start the CAR!  Well that's how I felt this weekend when I went to my friend Cheryl's vintage yard sale!  Cheryl has AMAZING taste and when she has a sale...well...you just don't miss it!  I came home with several goodies, this 8 foot farm table and 7 chairs being one of them....

 I love the size and the patina~especially the knotty pine top!  I added some of my vintage European bread boards and some of my French enamelware and of course fresh roses cut from the garden~

My next find..was this amazing 3 tier Antique Victorian wire plant stand with the crown....I seem to be collecting more of these lately and it went perfect on the porch with my wire bench purchased the weekend before~

 I also found an antique chaise lounge with a custom Shabby Chic ruffled cover (don't have a pic yet) and a lovely yard long of pansies~Such a great day~  Thank you Cheryl for the invite!  Your sales are a MUST for me!  

Linking up to Kathleen's White Wednesday at Faded Charm...stop by and check out all the lovelies HERE

Linking also to Savvy Southern Style: Wow Us Wednesday HERE

Also Linking to French Country Cottage~Feathered Nest Friday HERE

 Linking to Cindy's Romantic Home ~Show and Tell Friday HERE

Last but not least joining Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration HERE
 
You can also visit my favorite vintage/garden/antique store and BEST kept SECRET in Ventura CA  American Home & Garden~ at 64 S. Oak Street, Ventura Ca.  93001~Where I have a booth space!

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You can find Cheryl's booth spaces HERE
Go take a visit...you will be in AAHH~

Have a beautiful week~xok

thank you so much for taking time to leave me a comment!  I love hearing from you and will visit your blog as well~

Roses and Iris~and a Flea Market Garden~

Doesn't it make you happy when Spring rolls around..?  Having a cottage garden you know when Spring is here.  The roses start blooming like crazy and the Iris pop up everywhere.  Probably my most FAV time of the year!  Still cool enough, that you can enjoy all the blooms...  before Summer comes.  My garden is best viewed and enjoyed in the months of April, May and June....the Summer months are still pretty but the Spring months are breathtaking!  I love decorating the garden with antique and vintage garden pieces. I love flea market gardening...I'm at a flea every week, sometimes 2 times a week..and right now I'm crazy about French wire garden pieces and Victorian Plant Stands~Here is a recent Flea Market find~PS you can click to enlarge any photo!

Yes this was a keeper!  I just happened to be one of the first ones at the market and just about died when I saw it.  As I was asking the price another woman was pointing at it and I knew I had to scoop it up!
Here is another flea market find...going back about 5 years...I found this beauty..a green 3 tier crowned plant stand.  The watering can is from Germany...I collect those too...:)

 I love decorating the garden with TRUE antique garden pieces.  Here is another Victorian Bench I picked up at a flea market in Oregon, while I was at a horse show...luckily there was room in the trailer for it to come home!

I titled this post Roses and Iris...I guess I should show you some!!

Roses and Pride of Madera...I just started some white Iceberg roses on the arbor...still haven't bloomed yet..can't wait!!

Another Pride of Madera (varigated) just starting to bloom. I love their blue color.  In the background another flea market find an old rusty garden arbor bench with dove bird statuary.  I try to match the Adirondack chairs to the colors in the garden...on a future post I will show you my PINK Adirondack chairs!


I hope you enjoyed the garden tour today!  I'm linking up with on of my favorite linky parties at Fishtail Cottage...Thank you Tracie for hosting such a fun party!  So hop on over to Tracie's and see all the other garden party animals HERE


Also linking to French Country Cottage for  Feathered Nest Friday...click HERE  to see the fun!


Find me at Show and Tell Friday at Cindy's Romantic Home HERE


Linking up to Cedar Hill Ranch Cowgirl Up Linky Party HERE


And last but not least~Chic on a Shoestring Decorating~Flaunt it Friday HERE


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You can visit my "other" flea market finds at American Home & Garden in Ventura CA.  where I have a booth space!  (Ventura's BEST KEPT SECRET)
64 South Oak Street 
Ventura Ca 93001
 
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Thank you for coming to visit today~I really enjoy your comments and would love to visit you also~
xok

MAY Jeanne d' Arc Living Magazine, New Arrivals, and Snuggie Found a New Place to Crash

So much to share this week~two posts~and two White Wednesday entries!  I love it~so to get started the May issue of Jeanne d' Arc Living Magazine will be at American Home & Garden and Agoura Antique Mart today....and here is a sneak peak of the cover and inside.  Don't forget the new price of only $13.95..

Always such beautiful images and always without advertisements~

I'm loving Spring at American Home & Garden the store looks amazing and full....and changing everyday!  We just re-did the window and look who found a new place to hang out....
(click on any picture to enlarge)

Snuggie thinks this is a perfect spot for him this Spring~ he can see and greet all the customers as they come in.  He just curled up and was loving be admired by all walking by the window~

 In the window we added an iron sofa and chair set with custom ruffled cushions, iron fleur de lis fence, shutter window box, vintage iron table, wicker chair ~ you gotta come see it~you're gonna love this window!

I'm loving this double wash sink on castors~what a great coffee table..with loads of storage!  Look at the old perfectly rusty  bicycle basket~perfect for your books and magazines!

 Here is one of the best industrial carts I have ever seen~look at that color!  Perfect for out in the garden or even used as a kitchen island~and can you spy the old wooden seed box up above?  I could find a hundred uses for that piece!  Can't not mention the 1/2 wall French bottle dryer rack~  

Have we got a sink for you!!!  This is an AHmAZing  double zinc sink from an old dairy!  Perfect for a greenhouse or a mud room, or even just a garden statement piece!  I personally have one of these sinks here for my garden and LOVE it!  Charley is building me a green house for it. 


OmG~so many great pieces are here now~hurry in things go very fast around here~

Joining the great linky party again this week over at Kathleen's Faded Charm...a first for me... two post this week to join in the FUN!  Hop on over and check out the other entries here


Also joining My Romantic Home linky party for Show and Tell Friday click here to follow along and see the other entries!


Please visit our Facebook page to keep you updated on all the happening here at AM&G here  
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Come visit us at American Home & Garden (Ventura's Best Kept Secret~where the dealers shop)
64 S. Oak Street
Ventura CA. 93001
805-648-6818
 If you ever see anything you LOVE~give us a call!

Have a beautiful weekend lovelies!
xok 

PS..we all appreciate your time and your comments.....thank you! 

~Caught by SURPRISE~ HGTV Rate MY Space~ Kathee's Cottage Gardens~

This morning I was caught by surprise!  I found an email from a lady who wrote a comment on my HGTV Rate MY Space.  She was very sweet and asked a question about the rocks in my garden.  The funny thing is I had forgot all about my rate my space page!  I had put it up over 4 years ago!  It was a nice surprise and made me go back through and look at my pictures...it is amazing how fast a garden grows. Back four years ago, I didn't have a blog, I didn't do facebook, I wasn't an antique dealer, so I shared my pictures on HGTV Rate MY Space.  It was so fun to read all the comments and see all the gardens.  So it was a nice surprise that someone found my page again!  If you would like to see it click here.  I would love it if you would leave a comment and rate me...
You can also click on the other albums to see my kitchen and my more garden photos. 
 Today I was planning to do a new post on the garden.  Seeing it is Spring and everything is blooming like CRAZY around here! :)  We had a down pour the other night...and it left my flowers and garden so happy:)!!!  Here are some pictures of the garden yesterday...

 my koi pond Iris (hard to see, but had to show you how hardy this plant is!)

A better shot of the koi pond with multiple Iris' blooming...You can click to enlarge the pictures :)

You can see I love to use Iris and Rose combinations...

This year...I think I will have to start dividing the Iris (Yay free plants)

Last week these Roses were not even blooming.  These are my favorite Roses called Royal Bonica.  Do you remember my post of those gorgeous cast iron urns? (flea market keeper) :)  I have a pair of them and they are across from each other on the driveway.

up close shot of my flea market find...heavy cast iron urn

Another flea market find is my tall bird bath with the little girl..just put her in the garden last week

Isn't she sweet?  The birds sure do love her...I love the Rose and Lavender that surrounds her!


So that is my post for today, I will be linking up to Kathleen's White Wednesday to share...be sure to take a look at her beautiful blog...here

Linking up to The Shabby Creek Cottage for the first time today for transformation Thursday here 
Hop on over and check out this amazing blog!

Also joining Debra at Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration...OMG this is such a great blog!! click here to visit

Linking to Cindy's My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday here


 I'm always on the hunt for beautiful garden antiques...you can find my booth at American Home & Garden in Ventura CA.  
The store is full to the brim right now with amazing garden pieces...come in for a visit...:)

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If you would like to see my albums on HGTV Rate MY Space click here 
I would love it if you would rate me :)


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Have a beautiful day..
xok

Just Arrived~ French Atmospheres in The Nordic Way by Jeanne d' Arc Living~And new Spring arrivals at American Home & Garden~

One of my Favorite books of all time~back in 2007 I purchased this book, it wasn't even written in English.  I just loved the pictures~you know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words"~well that is how amazing this book is!  Arriving this week at American Home & Garden in Ventura and at The Agoura Antique Mart in Agoura CA.  This beautiful coffee table style book written in English now, is an indispensable guide to decorating your home in the  French Nordic Style.  The book is 400 pages of inspiring pictures.  If you love Jeanne d' Arc Living Magazine, you are going to adore and treasure this beautiful book.  I purchased 20 books last summer and sold out immediately~these books are now back in stock for the spring and summer and I will have them in both locations.  You can also email me for a copy and I can send it to you.  (forty4caliber@yahoo.com).  Here are some pictures just for a tease~

 The amazing cover~simply stunning~

 So many beautiful pictures fill this amazing book~you will want to send everyone away for the day and curl up to a nice fire and dream of Spring!  Time for some inspiration~Spring is only 2 weeks away~

Speaking of Spring~come visit American Home & Garden and see what all of the amazing dealers have been bringing in.  It's beginning to look Spring and Summer~my favorite time of year!  

 Beautifully weathered chippy and GORGEOUS pair of shutters, the perfect garden chair not to mention that French mirror with barbola accents in the background~ That very vintage plant stand is an awesome piece also~

 Sweet French Gray/Blue dresser~and a beautiful dress form came in this week~

 Another beautiful dresser~black and gold with glass knobs~and another Robins Egg Blue dresser in the background ~

 A pair of very hard to find and RARE Art Deco Style motel chairs that have that PERFECT patina that we all love in the best shades of blue and turquoise!~

 This is a vintage wooden glider from the 50's with a chippy green paint loaded with gorgeous pillows.  Iron bench's stone urn and lantern all just arrived this week!

There is always an Amazing selection of vintage garden statuary available...isn't he sweet?

A few more new pieces arrived this week~a lovely cabinet with glass shelves and wire front, a book case in the back~ beautiful tall vases with rose designs~ and European shutters.

European Baby Bathtub with an assortment of vintage tablecloth pillows~

So head on over to American Home & Garden in Ventura CA...to pick up your copy of French Atmospheres in The Nordic Way and see our amazing selection of vintage pieces.  Thanks for visiting today and please leave me a comment if you have time...I love reading from you!

Hooking up with Kathleen over at Faded Charm for White Wednesday~hop on over and be inspired~here 

Also linking up to my new FAV~Cedar Hills Cowgirl UP Party here

Please visit American Home & Garden on Facebook~like us~and find out more about our new arrivals, sales, and all the happenings! :) here 

Follow me on Pinterest here I always update my American Home & Garden Pin Board to include new arrivals, and give you an idea of what we have at the store~

Thanks so much for visiting today :)  have a wonderful rest of the week~xok