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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 02 2006 : 05:58:31 AM
gotta' tell you about the fun day i had today! Went to town to take some wunnerful antique children's cupboards, beds and such .. walked through the door .. and customers stopped me to ask the prices .. i sputtered a little and replied: a MILLION DOLLARS .. CASH! oh goodness, i went out in that big red schoolhouse this morning and just told hank to load the van up .. i didn't even take time to price them .. and .. they are so primitively-adorable!!! (will go next week and take some pics to show you). well, when i thought .. oh lordy! .. am i really parting with these .. i just froze up and could not bring myself to put a price on them at that very moment! did that ever happen to you?
all i could think of was the happy, happy memories of hundreds of tea parties at our home in Maryland .. "Yesteryear's Children" ... where little girls would come to experience what it was like to be a little girl in various eras of American History. I have all of the American Girls Dolls and all of their clothes, furniture and accessories (all packed in boxes in the schoolhouse) .. and i had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of precious children's antiques (ha! a lady once called and told me she had heard that i had a 'children's museum .. and served tea! i laughed and told her .. "no museum .. this is my home!)" they did come for a tea party and tour!!
am going to desperately try to price them next week though .. since these little cabins just cannot hold all of them!
i met Pamela from Beehind Thyme and her mom who lives across the road from pamela and her sister who was visiting from Mississippi .. we 'gathered' at glovers' station .. and oh honies .. i wanna' tell you .. those chillun did spend some pennies!!!!!!! pamela's truck was so fulla' stuff .. i didn't think she'd make it down the road!
Beehind Thyme will have a marvelous and wonderful 'open house'
to celebrate her new shoppe .. that will make TWO shoppes she has now .. and they will be overflowing with her wonderful folk-art painted treasures and delightful dolls (from Sister Mercy's Foundlin' Home for Rag Chillun) .
and things you will reeeeeely reeeeeeely want for your home .. Pamela's Mom is such a terrific folk artist too .. she creates fabric primitive wunnerfuls! I will be demonstrating 'doll making' during part of the day of her open house. If you'd like to come .. just e-mail me and i'll give you directions!
then we all ambled up to lucy tuckers for a yummy lunch .. and into plaid peacock where i got the MOST adorable little lamb for my soon to be born grandchild .. will take a picture of it tomorrow to show to my Kentucky Ramblers (jus' e-mail me and sign up!) sorry .. but if you fall in love with it .. i did get the only one they had! i swear .. he looks REAL! (and no sheepie-poop to scoop!) as always .. i laughed and giggled with the gurlfrenz ... oh how i do love the people of kentucky!
then we ambled on up the road for a visit to Cabin Creek Farm .. the girls wanted to see all the marvelous changes and additions we are making ... Kathy (Sugarbucket) and her husband and son were finishing putting on the tin roof .. and painting the rafters and floor ... a yummy mustard shade .. slightly darker for the rafters .. (DIJON mustard) .. and slightly lighter for the floors (French's Honey mustard shade!)
OH MY! what a wonderful difference these porches have made .. Kathy, Annie and their 'boys' .. have so wonderfully and primitively added a screened in side porch off the lower cabin (usta' fall 4 feet to the ground if you walked out that door!) .. they increased the size of the front porch of the lower cabin .. so i can now fit a table and 2 chairs .. for sittin' at and snackin'! AND .. it holds my delightful olde tobacco stick barn too.
They added a tin roof to the barn porch.
They built that awesome 'shower deck' off the back of the barn.
AND now .. the crowing glory .. a HUGE back porch .. with tin roof and log railings (trees cut right outta' the woods!) Ha! also .. if you walked out the kitchen door .. you usta' fall three feet to the ground.
We'll be putting some furniture out there ... i'll take pictures of everything to show you!
Sometimes i sit and ponder what the family that built these olde cabins in the mid-1800's were like .. what did these venerable olde homes look like way back then? I am truly thankful that they chose this little valley .. and oh my .. i wonder HOW they chose this little valley .. as there were no other homes way back here then that i have heard of.
One of the cabins is original to the property .. the other one came from Sonora, Kentucky .. what was THAT family like. I wonder (but doubt) that the two families knew each other. Some day, i am going to go down to the County Court and research the original and early owners of this land. our cabins sit a short ten miles from the log cabin that abraham lincoln was born in .. that cabin gives me an idea of what these cabins may have looked like ... dirt floors .. no glass windows.
I did meet the Bradshaw Boys from Green County and they came to visit one day .. and walked through and told me what room was where .. it had been added onto and covered up by a much bigger house they told me. And there is an olde abandoned house in the woods not far away .. that had belonged to their grandparents. It is my understanding that about 20 years ago, a young lawyer moved here and removed the outer shell to reveal the log cabin. Oh to be able to go back in time and hear their stories!
I am leaving our stories of all the changes we have made .. for future generations. I've already tucked into floorboards and behind walls (in the addition) stories and poems and my rag dolls .. for future generations to find. So they will know we were here and that our love and spirit will always remain and be a part of those who come after us. (I did the same thing at our former home, Crooked Tree Hollow).
Pamela and family (and me) are going to roam over to Sugar Bucket's olde log cabin shoppe on Monday .. i swear .. the woman has the most wonderful, wonderful early primitives! IF you wanna' go with us .. oh do e-mail me sometime Sunday .. and we'll meet up and go together!
OH DO COME VISIT US HERE AT OUR BELOVED HOME!
AND GUESS WHAT!!!! .. i think i might just open a little 'shoppe' in the schoolhouse .. "almost" have one room cleared of treasures (gonna' stuff the rest behind a curtain and just take it out little by little and put it in the School House (which is what we call the red building .. am looking for a big olde school bell to put on the roof) ... and lots will go over at Glovers' Station too.
Will do occasional 'sales' .. or just call me when you feel like coming for a little look-see and a big tall glass of lemonade (or hot tea in the cooler months). I'll be happy to show you all around Cabin Creek Farm .. our home is always open to you ... and you honestly, honestly, honestly, do not have to adopt a thing! Would love to meet you if you haven't been here before .. and would love to also see you if you are a new or olde friend! xo, frannie
True Friends, Frannie
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| junebug |
Posted - Jul 04 2006 : 11:09:26 AM
Frannie, do it!! I little shop on your place would be so perfect! And you must take photos of your treasures before you sell them, to go in a book of childrens storires maybe? I'd love to see them too! Thanks for sharing a sweet day with us!
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| rabbithorns |
Posted - Jul 03 2006 : 7:32:08 PM
oh, I wish I could come see the special things you've collected. I wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder so I love wandering through "olden" things and just dreaming.
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Jul 03 2006 : 07:45:46 AM
What a lovely day, Frannie! My sister,daughter and I stopped at Abraham Lincoln's cabin one summer on the way home from my youngest sister's in Chicago. What a peaceful little spot it's in. It's hard to believe that an entire family lived in that tiny space. 
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| farmgrlchick |
Posted - Jul 03 2006 : 07:05:06 AM
Frannie,
YOu sure have a talent for written word. So lovely to hear about your fun day!
Farmgirl Blessings,
Theresa
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| happymama58 |
Posted - Jul 03 2006 : 07:02:00 AM
Frannie, I'd love to buy some of these items and sure wish I lived close enough to do that. They sound adorable!
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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