Saturday Art Saves: The Gathering of Old Things

The Gathering

 

 

 

Gathering old things was a way of life for my mother. It didn't matter where; barn, shop, dump, side of the road, a friend's yard sale, a hand me down… If the color, or texture, shape or whatever made my mother's creative wheels turn, she would stop and pick it up, take it home and unlike Rapunzel turn it into gold.

Our home didn't have valuable treasures,

or old master paintings,

or hundred year old heirlooms,

or something recognizable as trendy or new.

Nope.

And yet my Mother is known for having a knack of making anything look like something.

 

 

The Gathering

 

A few years ago my mom and her friend Holly opened up a fabulous shop in our hometown. Then Holly expanded the shop across the street and other vendors rolled in.

If you like rustic, country chic, mixing textures such as burlap, hemp, zinc and wood with golden harvest hues this shop, this gathering is not to be missed.

 

 

The Gathering

 

 

Their shop is a pleasure for the eyes, a brilliant simple sense of design, good ideas to take home, a common expression heard;

"Why didn't I think of that."

 

 

The Gathering

Gathering Better Junque

Main Street

Willows California

for more information contact Holly at:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gathering-Better-Junque/191428010894754



Comments

8 responses to “Saturday Art Saves: The Gathering of Old Things”

  1. Shelley Noble

    Your mum is an artist of life, making connections in pattern, shape, texture, color, that fill the viewer with creative inspiration.
    Your mum is one of the rare talented jewels that makes a home strictly from her enormous heart.

  2. nancy Doherty

    Thank you for sharing! I will be checking this place out soon!

  3. Corey, where do you think your mother learned this — from her family?

  4. Can’t wait to stop in the next time on my way through Willows. I’ll let my friends that live there know about it, too. Maybe they already do. 🙂

  5. Karen Carson

    I got to shop at both stores earlier this year when I passed through Willows on my way to Chico earlier this year…wonderful things! Plus I got to meet your mother and Holly!

  6. I adore that shop…and all the family members I have met through that and Roses and Rust shows. Every single one extraordinarily warm and friendly…that says a lot for Willows! But I have noticed that people that present or visit those places are pretty awesome in general.

  7. It use to be that our only stop along the highway was at the Olive Pit, but now the Gathering is on that list too. I can’t wait until March when I will traveling that way again.

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