{Virtual Coffee}

Good morning.

Happy Tuesday everyone.

It is a beautiful morning and it is my dad's Birthday.....so many
 Birthdays in our family this month. Today my dad, tomorrow Eric's grandpa and
then Thursday Miss Charlotte. A good week to be born.

So, if we were really meeting for coffee this morning...

 I would tell you to prepare yourself--for lots and lots of pictures and probably lots and lots
of rambling about my weekend away.

So,  go pour yourself a hot cup of coffee, or whatever sounds good this morning, 

grab something to eat and get comfy.

A pretty drive,  just a few hours north for me, and we are here at Na-Da Farm.
What a perfect weekend for a road trip, I got to see all of the beautiful trees changing
 colors along my way. This is what a lot of my drive looked like.
Pretty and peaceful and I got to listen to music as loud as I wanted in the car....
that doesn't happen too often, so I took full advantage.

Vendor's tents set up outside the barn 

This is just outside the big Barn where the sale was held, love those posts lining the path to the barn.
My pictures do not do the inside of the barn justice, not at all.
Anne Marie has an amazing eye for detail and such creativity, seriously.
The inside was decorated in burlap and white and tree branches and feathers,
chandeliers and bales of hay...it was so cool.
It was hard to get good shots of the whole inside though because it was so crowded.

I know, right? Look at all that cute-ness. 

Every tent was filled with the cutest handmade and vintage items.

Love, love, love.

I'll have to do a separate show-and-tell post later this week on what I got there.

If you are in Illinois, or nowhere near Illinois for that matter, this is worth your trip.

We met people from Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Georgia.

The Barn Sale, the classes, the whole weekend...definitely worth your trip.

We have already made plans to be there next October.

Just a few shots of the classes.
Oh, the classes.
Yesterday I said that the weekend far exceeded our expectations and it honestly did.
Before we went, we talked about how if it all wasn't all that good at least we had a weekend
 away just to hang out. And that would have been true, it would have still been worth it,
BUT it really was all that good.
All of it.

If we were really meeting for coffee this morning.... I would have to ask if you are even still listening?
I think I will have to save the rest about the classes for another day.
I have so much to say, it was so good you guys.
It was the best feeling to be surrounded by so many creative people, I felt so in my element....
and left there feeling inspired and encouraged and happy.
Thanks so much for joining me for coffee this morning and listening to me ramble.
How are you? What is going on in your little corner of the world?
Hope everyone has a great day.