Now that the holidays are finally gone (leaving a wake of destruction in the form of storage boxes, Christmas decorations and a few extra pounds around my mid section), it's time to get back to regular routines and that means antiquing adventures!
For the first excursion of this new year, I stole my mother away from her domestic chores and drove to one of our favorite places in Augusta, GA, Mema Had One.
If you've never been to this little piece of paradise, take a day and visit...you won't regret it!
We had two motives for this mission: to find architectural salvage and household items for a new art venture (a new mother-daughter thing...more to come on that very soon!) and vintage jewelry for my current art project, Vintage Wonderland Designs; we successed on both accounts. Yay for us!
Upon entering the store, you are transported back into time.
The cashier's area is setup like and old general store complete with mid-centery music, a Coke machine (that works!) and old fashioned candies to name a few things. From the beginning, this place has you hooked!
As you start to move through the old rambling house, you'll stumble upon lots of fun items...
It's the perfect place for those that want fun project ideas and those that would rather buy the ready-made items and save some time.
One of my favorite parts of the store is Sweet Ludie's Vintage. It's all vintage clothing (men, women and children's), shoes, purses, hats, sewing patterns, etc. Vintage vixens from all over to come Sweet Ludie's to find the perfect vintage gear...don't you want to join the "in" crowd?!? 
Throughout the store, I saw SOO many things I wanted (and still may go back for) but they weren't part of the plan...for now. For instance, wouldn't this be the hit present at a bachelor party?
We did our rounds and found some great pieces.
My new 1950s evening gown from Sweet Ludie's (it wasn't in the "plan" but she was having a sale!).
Our other items included two vintage platters (just wait til you see what fun things we have in mind for them),
Vintage pasty tins, for miniature scenes (we use them a lot at Christmas time for ornaments...I feel a DIY post coming on), and
two beautiful new brooches for my jewelry designs! Mission accomplished and then some.
Hope you've enjoyed my first blog post for my adventures and I really hope you will visit Mema Had One located at 2328 Washington Rd., Augusta, GA http://www.memahadone.com/
