True Blue

First of all....

Thank you for all your support as I come clean

 about my collecting issues!!!

I can always count on you to make me feel like I am not alone

in my slightly embarrassing, unfettered yet joyful pastime

 of searching for and amassing hoards of wonderful stuff!

True blue friends! :)

Back from Chicago...now here in Florida

 with Dad and Sister Lynn close by.

We have been unpacking pods and finding space

 for Lynn's furniture and all her pretty things 

in her sunny Florida home.

But yesterday morning...

...a beautiful, sunny, warm Florida morning...

Sister Lynn and her always ready for adventure husband Steve...

...took me to the Webster Flea!

I am so grateful for my two sisters...

...both are also true blue friends!

I miss you Mr. Flea!

Sorry you had to do all that snow shoveling.

I am making do...the best I can...here in paradise.

:)

Photos to follow of sights seen in Webster...

...and an update on that old Abandoned Southern Charmer...

(to read my previous post about this grand old house click here )

Be back soon!

:)

Abandoned Southern Charmer

 The day after Halloween, after my sister, my brother in law and I went to the flea market...we stopped for lunch and then took a walk and came upon this beautiful, stately abandoned home.

Oh, would I have loved to have lived in a home like this!

My brother in law is fearless and as we walked closer to this gracious old home he saw that the front door was wide open ...

...without hesitating...he walked up the stairs of the old wrap around  porch and right in through the open door.

 Now those of you who know me...know that I am a fraidy cat....

...but curiosity got the better of me...

 ...and I went right in the door after Steve!

 The place was a mess. There were odds and ends of furniture upended...remnants of wallpaper...peeling plaster, a rusty claw foot tub...wonderful old doors and windows...although most of the windows were boarded up.

 We ventured upstairs...

 There were fireplaces with old mantles in every room.

Some of the floorboards were soft so we had to be careful where we stepped so we didn't fall through to the first floor.

 Beautiful architectural details...

the railings along the porch and banisters on the stairs were lovely and all intact...

 Steve thought that the house had once been set up as a

"haunted house" for Halloween...

...perhaps even the night before we were there!

 I was thankful that the sun was shining brightly that afternoon.

I wish I knew the history behind this old home...

...who lived here and their stories.

 

My visit to this old southern charmer was exciting but a little bittersweet as what was once a beautiful gracious home was now in such a terrible state of disrepair.

Would you have dared to go inside?

:)
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