Two new features start this week!

We'll be starting two new features on our blog to give you more inspiration and a chance to link up and share your blog posts.

On Wednesdays, join us for "Pin it Wednesdays" with the Lucketts Store blog. 

On Fridays our feature post will be called "Store to Abode Fridays." 

The jubilant cherry {drink recipe}

Life's a bowl of cherries for our resident mixologist, Kim.

Today she's sharing her recipe for a delicious drink that features cherries and red wine...and it's perfect for Valentine's Day too!

Here's what you'll need...

Groundhog Rules! {and the rules}

Our biggest and only sale of the year is this Friday, Saturday & Sunday, February 3rd-5th, 10am to 5pm each day.  Yes, we can say this sale definitely rules... 

...and yes, the sale itself has its own rules {it's true, we really have Groundhog sale rules}.

After doing the Groundhog sale for all these years, you could say we’re kinda Groundhog Experts. We learned that to keep all our customers happiest and hooked up with the best stuff, there are a few rules that everyone needs to follow.

Wine tasting room

Taking pictures around the store each week for Fresh Off the Wagon is just like going shopping - except it's with a camera, and it's free.

Sometimes I come across items that I just love, and I tell myself I'll put them in my "Dream ______".   I fill in the blank with any and all of the following:  bedroom, living room, bathroom, guest room, great room... and today, I'm filling it in with wine tasting room.

Here are few things I would put in my dream wine tasting room.

Why the groundhog?

Coming to the realization the Groundhog sale is only a week away.

I was laying in bed the other night and as the usual ten thousand thoughts were flying through my head...

What do I have for school lunches tomorrow...
Crap, it's raining, I hope I didn't leave anything good outside...
Need to get my tailgate fixed....
Where should we go on vacation...
and I hope it's not too muddy for the Groundhog.........
THE GROUNDHOG!   OMG!   It's next week!

My brain started running down memory lane and wondering what started this event in the first place.  Before I knew it, it was midnight,  and I was laughing myself to sleep ......

The votes are in!

We just got the news that The Old Lucketts Store was voted Best Antiques Store in both Leesburg Today and Ashburn Today. 

We're very excited about this honor and thank everyone who voted for us in 2011!

We appreciate your business last year and look forward to seeing you at the shop again in 2012.

To see the full list of winners {click here}.

Antique dress form love

{1} Dress form holding scarf at our Design House.

We're totally in love with dress forms today and every day.

We get vintage dress forms in the shop, but even for us, the really old ones have just been getting more and more difficult to find.  Usually when we do have them, we're sure to post them on our website for Fresh Off the Wagon, since they're highly sought after by our customers.

We love looking at all the variations over time; you can really find some beautiful pieces with great age and patina.  We use them at the shop to display scarves and wraps, jewelry, and they just plain look cool in a room by themselves - so we do that too!

Where can you go when you want a vintage dress form fix?

Love is in the air

A few new items in the shop in time for Valentine's Day, and a sneak peek of "Lucketts before" at the end of this post.

A comfy red sofa from Anne

Artfully arranging books

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A collection of books can really transform the look and feel of a room.  Warm and cozy to bright and modern, their spines and covers {not to mention the pages} can be so exciting.  Here are few favorite looks and a link to a tutorial to help arrange your bookcases at home.

Celebrating collections

We are great finders, and many times great keepers too.  We love to hunt for bargains and unusual items for the shop, but we also take a fair number of our treasures home to enjoy.
 
Many of us have some pretty impressive collections at home.  Some of the things we like to collect include silver, bread boxes, old books / prints, vintage clothing, and ironstone.  Since wrangling everyone around here to take pictures of their collections and send them in so we can post them on our blog would be a near impossible feat to coordinate, we've decided to feature a few of our favorite pictures of collections we'd love to own. Enjoy!