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Round Top, the Designer, the Shopper, the Tourist | September 26, 2014

New Finds in Round Top

We are back from another awesome early weekend at The World’s Best Antiques Fair in Round Top, Texas!  Even though we’ve visited twice a year for about 6 years, this trip was full of wonderful firsts.  These firsts have qualified as “FINDS” worthy of sharing with your neighbor!  So before you head out to the shows this weekend or next, jot down these finds for a SWEET experience!

First up, Shivers Shaved Ice.  Forget the antiques, I will drive to Round Top tomorrow just to have another one of these bad mama jamas.  It’s the Junk Sho’ Jo consisting of cold brew coffee shaved ice and sweet cream topped with whip and chocolate drizzle.  I also had the Brown Cow, root beer shaved ice stuffed with vanilla ice cream and topped with sweet cream.  My sister said it’s the best sweet treat she’s ever had and I’ll have to agree!

Just look for their Air Stream trailer at the top of the Round Top square.  One more thing about this, you know that shaved ice texture that everybody talks about and everybody wants?  Shiver’s has it, tell it to your neighbor.

Next is a new rug source with amazing prices!!!  The vendor is called Djem and the guy we worked with is Talat, I really liked him and I was his first sale of the show!  I bought the rug pictured above, it’s made of pieced together rag rugs, they look like the Swedish rugs in my Grandma’s house, so it’s nostalgic to me.  I love how the overall look is white but it still has a lot of color.  It’s an 8′ x 7′ size rug.  He said $400, I said $300 and then he said, “Because you’re my first sale, sold!”

Check out his patchwork Union Jack made of over-dyed antique rugs, love it.  I was impressed by the quality (the backing was black felt), price and design of his rugs.  Talat is located in between Arbors Antiques and Chelsea’s Meadow and his stuff is split between two tents.  So you could park at either show and walk to him.

Jumping back to food.  My sister and I were talking on the way home about how our favorite foods in Round Top are becoming just as much of a priority as our favorite tents/shows, maybe more exciting!  This sandwich stop was suggested to us by Paige Hull, the owner of the house we stayed in, more on that below.  It’s the Texas Rose Cafe located in the Texas Rose Antique Show, across the street and catty-corner from the Marburger Farm Antique Show.   It’s in a temporary building where orders are taken at the window and then tables and chairs are outside, we went and ate in my car it was so hot in the sun!  Anyway, the chicken salad sandwich was soooooooo good!  And if you’ve ever tried to feed kids out at Round Top you’ll be happy know she has a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich on the menu, served with apple sauce and veggie straws, tell it to your neighbor, this is a huge find!

Murielle with French Influence located at Old Henry Farm has become a new favorite for furniture but this time she had amazing lamps, too!  I brought these horse head lamps home, they are huge and awesome!  BTW – If you’re looking for Jeffree with Lone Ranger Antiques, the Swedish fella, he’s not at Old Henry anymore, you can find him nearby, across the street at McClaren’s Interiors (look for red telephone booths).

Next, a natural new favorite is Recycling The Past.  They are located at Ex-cess in the back right corner tent.  He has an amazing collection of geodes, petrified wood, agate accessories, sculptural blobs of glass and sinks carved out of river rock.  The most amazing thing was a giant bathtub carved out of a giant river bolder.  I think these white geodes from Morocco were $10 a pound.  I scooped up the small matching set in the bottom of the picture, it’s beautiful and sparkling!

Great news!  Blue Hills has a new restroom building, this makes two on their property!  It’s located at the end of their newest building, furthest from the highway.  When I left this restroom with clean hands I thought about how nice it was to not feel disgusting like I had earlier after leaving the porta-potty.

Last BNL, where we stayed, The Vintage Round Top.  We lucked into getting to stay here and it’s all because we connected with the owner on Instagram, ha!  There was a cancellation over the summer and we grabbed the spot as fast as we could!

I loved this house!  The 2400 square foot renovated home sleeps 6 and is located on the main highway driving through Round Top.  We could take a walk out the front door and cross the street to an antique show, this upped the ante for our next Round Top trip, ha!  I felt like Round Top Royalty being able to do that!  This home felt like my home, I was comfortable enough to actually sleep in!  That’s not easy these days!

The care and the details the owners, Paige and Smoot Hull, have put into this house do not go unnoticed!  Take a look at all of it!  We had a great stay, made great memories and I loved drinking my coffee on a swing under a tree.  Oh! I should mention another first, for dinner on Friday night Paige hooked us up with Melissa from The Bake Shoppe in Cypress, Texas.  We were able to order family style dinner from them and she met us at 290 and Spring Cypress, loaded us up and we took our food on up to Round Top.  I wish you could have heard us devouring the Chicken Spaghetti, homemade bread, green beans and cookies, delicious!!!

As an update to those that follow on Instagram, I decided not to get the pink sofa.  I put my ‘no impulse buy’ rule into place.  If I’m still thinking about it in a week, I’ll call the guy.  I have several projects I want to complete before tackling another one!  If you want to grab the pink for yourself, it’s at Chelsea’s Meadow.  He said he’d sell it to me for $300.  Go for it!

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Round Top, the Designer, the Shopper | March 27, 2014

Round Top Round Up Plus…

Last weekend we went to Round Top and stayed at The Prairie again, in The Manor House.  We had a great trip!  For the first time I was looking for something to refurbish or turn into art and maybe sell.  After my decluttering success this past January, I'm trying not to add to my house right now. Continue Reading

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outdoor chandelier, outdoor party lighting, party, Round Top, the Designer, wedding inspiration | October 29, 2013

A Wedding on The Prairie

Every time I post about something I also begin following it on all social media outlets.  For example, after being so impressed by The Prairie, I decided to do a post on it.   Then I started to follow Rachel Ashwell on facebook and Instagram.  I do this so that if anything new or Continue Reading

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The Prairie By Rachel Ashwell

B&B, girls trip, Round Top, the Tourist, Travel | October 1, 2013

The Prairie By Rachel Ashwell

We'll never be royals but we sure felt like them at The Prairie By Rachel Ashwell.  Everything about her B&B in Round Top, Texas was beautiful!  My sister, my cousin and I stayed there for just one night and we fell in love with The Prairie. May I please give you a tour of the grounds and our Continue Reading

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Instagramming From Round Top

Round Top, the Designer, the Shopper | September 23, 2013

Instagramming From Round Top

Last week my friend was instagramming while on vacation in New Orleans and I was enjoying it so much!  She made me want to visit New Orleans more than ever, I've never been!  Anyway my C. Style sister was loving our friend's instagrams as well.  So I thought I'd give it a shot while we were in Round Continue Reading

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I took this photo to send to my sister @cstyleblog I took this photo to send to my sister @cstyleblog back in January while on vacation in Miami Beach because she styled my outfit and I felt 👌💁🏼‍♀️. But now I’m posting it to the internet because I got an email saying these favorite street leggings of mine are on sale only for today!!! (I love them and I sized up.) And now I have this whole exact outfit (every item is available and some items on sale) linked in the @liketoknow.it app, use my profile for a short cut to it 👉 @tellittoyourneighbor or find a link only to the leggings there, too! Thank you and have a good night! 😴 
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These three companies are so extraordinary to me, These three companies are so extraordinary to me, for one they have supported me personally more than I’ve promoted them professionally! 💞 They’ve also each had a historic moment with me here at #TITYN, see below 👇!

But first, the photos (above) are from a #boxwoodbreakfastclub back in January. 😬 I get behind on things I want to devote a lot of time to, don’t we all?! 🤦🏼‍♀️ The event was an excellent media workshop with STREETE MEDIA at the Memorial Green LAM BESPOKE location. (Thanks @laurensmills for putting these three greats together! 🙏)

Now, what’s in it for you? I think just knowing about these 3 favorites of mine, checking out their Instagram accounts and keeping them in your back pocket for when you’re in need of their services! 

Here are their moment’s in @tellittoyourneighbor history 📰 !👇

1) @lambespoke was my very 1st monthly feature 2 years ago! She said yes to a new idea I had been hesitant to try and kicked it off with a successful start! 🤗 Cathy!

2) @streete_media gave me the skills and confidence to interview people on Instagram Live for the 1st time and twice more after it!  It was something I wanted to do but I thought I would “never” be able to do. She’s a media marketing idea generating gem! 🤗 Megan!

3) @tresmarket_foods is in my Top 3 most interacted with posts of all time! Our whole neighborhood and beyond was excited at the chance to win a happy hour with them! 🤗🤗 Julie and Jeannine!

I’m most of all happy to call all of these women friends, tell it to your neighbor! 

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Love is resurrection and love is a trumpet sound. Love is resurrection and love is a trumpet sound. 🎺 There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down.📣 @bethelmusic 

My first time to hear this 👆song with a lot of history including @johnnycash! Have you heard it?!

Thank you @chapelwoodumc and @thejohnstephens for an #Easter service outside (even if we weren’t in a pandemic) and for the introduction to this song! 

Love to you, neighbor! ♥️🎺

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How do I get everyone to listen to last week’s e How do I get everyone to listen to last week’s episode of Connecting With @drkimswales? “ADHD with Dr. Ned Hallowell.” Coaches, parents, teachers, managers... well I think we are all working with or being mystified/maybe frustrated by someone with ADD. Or the term ADHD has been so misleading that it’s prevented you from seeking help for yourself or a child. 🙋🏼‍♀️ In a nutshell the episode clears up the confusion, explains the advancements and Dr. Swales asks THE question that has kept me up at night and made me question. Her guest, @dr_hallowell, is the author of the book I recommended last summer. Now he’s written another relatable book with the latest science. I’m only on the intro and it’s opened my eyes again! The more I learn about ADD, the more relief I feel and it makes me think a lot about my first job out of college (swipe left), a job I loved and a job I had to work a ton of overtime for because of a condition I didn’t know I have. I’m curious about my billable hours compared to my coworkers or on second thought, I don’t think I could handle that comparison. And I may have tweaked my hours to appear “normal” so a comparison might not even be accurate! But I would like to speak up for myself and others today for my experience back then. A co-worker once said to me, “Most of the time I think you’re really smart but sometimes I feel like you’re in elementary school.” 😳 I think this person was trying to be funny but it came out horribly. In that moment I knew they were just experiencing ME and the way I operate, it’s how I’ve always been.  Sometimes there’s so much to focus on and take in all at once that I look frozen or I get distracted. Luckily, because of the temperament I was born with and the way I was raised, I had no doubt I was smart. I also knew this was why my Mom tried to protect me by telling me to keep my pace to myself.🤫 By the way, I knew my Mom’s suggestion wasn’t okay, it’s just how SHE was raised. Well, I’m hoping for a future with less of all of that and more of focusing on people’s strengths and understanding of ADHD. Take a listen to Episode 24 of Connecting With @drkimswales 👈, it helps and you will enjoy it! Thank you!
Howdy Neighbors! We are back from our trip to West Howdy Neighbors! We are back from our trip to West Texas and I am currently downloading our trip highlights on stories and saving them to highlights, too. If you’re interested in taking a trip to @historic_alpine_texas, Marfa, Big Bend and Fort Davis, I’m sharing our recommendations and lessons learned. In terms of pandemic/small town/national and state park travel, this was a last minute trip and I’m not good with reservations anyway but we made the best of it! We loved it, it was a grrrrreat trip! Check it out and tell us if you’ve taken this trip and loved it, too! 👇

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