RIP Mr Gene Wilder

my number 1 and 2 favorite movies are Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (the original version) and Young Frankenstein  (Frank en sht een)  and they inter change in order too.   Young Frankenstein is still so funny every time i watch it.  My hubs and i still say at certain times  "Put ze candle back"  and when something is super fabulous, i may sing, not as well as Madeline Khan, "sweet mysteries of life i have found you"  or the hump on Marty Feldman moving or Abby Normal. 


Grandpa Joe was my dad eventually and Charlie was the sweetest kindest angel.  And when Veruca Salt became a bad egg, i couldnt believe they removed her so quickly, she was brilliant! tho i never understood the boat trip that got crazy it still was such a magical movie for a 10 yr old to see on the big screen, oh the place where all could be eaten!


Thank you so much Mr. Wilder,  for the joys and the laughs.  I imagine your riding in one of those magical helicopter glass ceiling smashing things up in a wonderous place in heaven.

redoing my living room

one piece got me moving things around. i did a trade with my good friend Andrea and got a large metal garden stand so of course i had to find a place for it.   btw she got some 1800 brown transfer ware dishes that we only used for very special occasions but we both fell in love with the others item sooooooo 


i moved stuff around and this is what i have so far. still needs some jujjing

here is the metal plant stand in all its chipped paint and rustiness

Here's my old smaller planter, i'm so happy around the old garden things

and another metal planter, added this vintage French apt sign to it, now i'm waiting for weather to cool so i can plant and dry flowers to fill it up with

moved this from one side of the room and added the items on the top added the seeds sign and of course my vintage concrete chickens

gardening and birds

and of course bostons, Obsessed!

 looks like Dan is wrapping up something for shipping in the background! (bubble wrap in background)  




any suggestions are appreciated but what i'd really like is a large chipped up painting of white and pink roses, oh a girl's gotta have her dreams.

have the best days possible!

Main Street Gallery

WE ARE FEATURED ...in an online Georgia Mountain Laurel Magazine article describing the founding of Main Street Gallery and some of the artists we met along the way.  gmlaurel.com CORNBREAD! We have plenty of new paintings to share with you by popular artist, John "Cornbread" Anderson. NEW PAINTINGS ...by Georgia artist Leonard Jones. We recently visited Leonard and returned with a nice selection of his wonderful oil paintings on tin. SO MUCH FUN ... are the imaginative figures made from paper mache and found objects by artist, Carol Roll.  Take a look at the new pieces she just sent us.  THE DOWNSTAIRS GALLERY'S ...featured artist until September 20, 2016 is Amy Payne. Amy is a memory painter whose colorful scenes are loving reminders of the Georgia mountains where she grew up. www.mainstreetgallery.net