Christmas is on it's way....

So it's been awhile...Halloween has past and now were onto our final holiday for the year, Christmas is such a great time to celebrate with family and friends. Here at Not Just Country we have pulled out all our Christmas inventory and laid it out throughout the store. We have hand made snowman, stockings and pillows arriving soon....winter greens will  be planted into urns and window boxes, now if I can only get someone to put up the lights we'll be ready!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Sorry everyone...It's been a crazy couple of weeks. We have had a great response to our re-opening, everybody has been so supportive lots of old and new customers. Can't wait to do the change over with some great antique pieces on the way. See our great pics from the local pumpkin patch/farm and our carved Halloween pumpkins..I hope everybody enjoyed their treats!!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!!!

Well it's been an interesting weekend we picked up an old wagon cart from an antique dealer and went to our local farm and decorated it with bales, corn stocks, gourds and pumpkins what an amazing find it's perfect for seasonal displays. Thank goodness for the old stuff nothing beats the character and the cosmetics of an old farm wagon!!! See pictures below....

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

So it's almost turkey time and were full steam ahead we've got one coat of primer on and ready to paint our first coat of color. I went with Benjamin Moore 2162-40 (is there any other???) Peanut Shell it's a warm and inviting color that can be match up with any complimentary color. I've  decided this year I would host Thanksgiving dinner at our house we've got 20 friends and family member coming over for dinner, I wonder how they would feel if I handed them a paint brush??? Hmmm I don't think that would work. All kidding aside it looks like we'll be able to open on time....

Looks like a painting weekend!!!!!

So we 2 coats of mud on the walls and it's ready to sand tomorrow, guess who is painting this weekend??? I wonder what other projects I can think up? Like I don't have enough to do.

Count down is on 16 days left to re-opening....

So were down to 16 days and there's so much still to do, what was I thinking???? Oh I know, SHOPPING!!!! The locals in town are excited that were re-opening the store there response has been overwhelming,  I had over 20 cars stop on Sunday when I was painting the front of the store asking if we were re-opening there so excited and so am I.

It never ends!!!!!

So I decided that the paint on the outside needed freshening up so I took a scraper and started chipping away at the loose paint, well that in itself was a colossal undertaking. One scrap lead to another and another and another, you get the picture and before you knew it the walls were bare. So I took the paint brush and went to town......I got 2 coats of primer on ready for the final coat. We got the corn stalks up on the posts and bales of straw stacked. Pumpkins are picked and mums arranged and now we just got to get the inside done.

Who says drywall is easy?????

Okay, so for the last 2 nights we have been hanging drywall, difinitely not something I could do for a living. Do you realize how heavy these sheets are??? Who needs a gym, when you are lifting drywall up onto the wall. I have a new respect for drywallers!!!!!!!

Getting started....

So we've decided to forge ahead and get the store ready to re-open mid Oct . 2010, wish me luck.... so much to do so little time.Won't be long before the plastic is off the windows and the paper is off the door, full steam ahead...project beautification of Not Just Country take two.