I am still trying to figure out how to post pictures. I shall master this soon I hope! It is a gloriously beautiful day here at Pumpkin House Primitives. My day off but alas I find myself staying at the shop and painting walls with Beverly’s help. We are redoing the part of the shop where you now enter from the side porch. I found my colors of choice and you will just have to come by when you are in the neighborhood to see how it is progressing. I have decided that a shop keeper must continually change things to make one’s shop worthy of frequent visits. With that in mind once the painting is complete then we start the task of bringing out fall merchandise. I am excited too because all the treasures that keep arriving are wonderful. With so many new faces walking through the doors I have to have Pumpkin House well stocked for the remainder of the year and always….I think this season coming will be a good one too for us. The outside of the shop is complete and posies and trees planted and the porch swing is hung and the porch out there decorated. It is a welcoming place to pass as you come into the shop. Oh do come see us soon and see all the changes coming. The Pumpkin Queen herself….Me

Well I had hoped to post some pics on my blog. Forget that as I just am not computer literate enough and running into problems. So I shall instead write about our busy day here at Pumpkin House Primitives. Last week of course was a busy one as we had to get ready for our annual yard sale. Normally we would have already had the sale but too many things have been going on in my life since summer started. I had to just say, “We are going to have this sale on July 12th regardless!” and that is exactly what Beverly and I did. The week leading up to the sale was one where I decided to change the entrance to the shop starting tomorrow, July 15. You have to know me to know that I can not do just one thing at a time but my day has to involve many facets of painting or gardening or rearranging or unpacking boxes or whatever else a shop keeper is supposed to be involved with. We decided to not only do the sale but get the side yard all ready for customers to start coming to the porch entrance again. That was where everyone entered Pumpkin House before but after my hubby passed away and we moved back to our present location from across the street…well we just started coming through the front door instead. It made sense at the time but just doen’t now. Not when that nice porch was being wasted and I needed to use it again. We dug posie beds and planted flowers on each side of the porch. We moved all the galvanized planters over and placed them in the yard by the winding sidewalk. We pulled garden stakes up and placed them around the side yard. We hung a porch swing with quilt and pillows and decorated the porch and believe it or not we did all this this week while we were getting ready for the yard sale. I mean to tell you Beverly and I are plum exhausted. The yard sale was a little slower this year but we sold so much stuff that was out there. What was left we brought inside and it is now on the clearance shelving units and will remain there until we have to start decorating for fall in August. Now I said in the opening title that it is indeed a hot day here in West Virginia and it was a scorcher on Saturday when Bev was out there working selling earthly treasures at the sale. The weather reports call for this week to also be hot and perhaps several days in the 90’s. Some may grumble but hey…this is summer and so with summer you get hot weather. I love it. I also love all the changing seasons. But for now we deal with what God gives us. I am signing off now and going inside to think about what another busy day tomorrow will involve. Until the next post. Hugs. Patty

Well this is official I suppose as I am making my first post to my blog. It is Sunday afternoon and I am wondering what is going to be going on at Pumpkin House Primitives this week. The weather has kept some from coming out to shop lately so lets pray this improves as Monday begins and with it a new week. I am new at this blogging thing but it may prove to be a good venture for my website. I will be taking pics of new merchandise at the shop and of activities I have planned like our open houses and on July 18 I will even be teaching a class on how to distress and paint those country furnishings you have but just don’t know how to give them that old look. I have mastered a way of painting furniture that truly gives it an antique look and so customers are signing up to take the class that evening. I will take some pics to post later to show you who came out for the class. Then Saturday, July 12 from 10-2 or 3 we are having our annual yard sale. I am determined to clean out my storage building of old shutters and other treasures I have collected through the years. It is a soul searching time for me as I near my 57th birthday later in July. I find myself cleaning out stuff that I just don’t want to hold on to any longer. Yes, they are treasures that I loved enough to buy in the past but this country girl just does not have time to do anything with them and better they end up in the possession of someone else who can appreciate them than to collect dust year after year in the building. I shall be posting news periodically on this blog that I hope you will come back to read. Ideas for decorating…ideas for painting…just ideas that may somehow help you around your humble abodes. So I shall bring this post to a close and start preparing for the next one. Keep posted and keep loving country good stuff. Patty