New & Unusual

Picked out some wonderful items at market in January! Expecting arrival of new items each week-on it's way and in now are beautiful & bright Spring florals to freshen up your dreary winter home. Great lamps and art-wonderful linen script pillows, bright pottery, fresh and bright table linens and so much more!

Antique Chinese Chest

Love this fresh new display with this wonderful old and scrubbed Chinese chest with hues of burnt orange, greens and blacks. The red tulips pop with the red Vietri in the shelves in the background! I can see this chest next to a chair with one of our great lamps on it or used as a great nightstand-the options are endless! It's a great size and has such personality-great price too!

Spring Cleaning

Spring cleaning at the shop has gave everything a fresh and inspiring new look. New items arriving in daily-we are awaiting Spring florals, new and creative lamps for your home and office, and beautiful new artwork. Oversized aged maps, beautiful landscapes, large blossom prints and much more will be arriving soon. Need help refreshing your home for Spring? Stop by and let us help you!

Our Shop Bonnes Amies

In the Spring of 1988 I was looking to open a business in Plainview, Texas. Going up and down 5th Street quite often I'd always notice this sad little house standing alone and dreary. It inspired me and thoughts of possibilities streamed through my head.
It inspired me and thoughts of possibilities streamed through my head. I bought it and spent four hard long months with a carpenter everyday transforming it's inner beauty into what it is today.

This past year our shop which was built in the 1920's and was originally a tiny farmhouse got a well needed face lift. Stucco on the outside covered the old yellow paint that was chipping, we painted the shutters a bright and vibrant peacock blue...the old lattice fence was torn down around the store and replaced with these painted beam fence. Every spring we plant a row of tomatoes, basil, and rosemary down this fence line. Maybe this summer they will do better pray for rain!

The great guys that did the stucco also placed these beautiful flagstones in various patches to give our shop that European old look. The trim was painted the same color as the stucco so that the whole building would flow together. New awnings were ordered in black and screen printed in cream with Bonnes Amies...

This picture was taken in early November just when the large pear tree in the front started to turn. How seasons come and go...Let us help you with your design and decorating ideas. Remember our goal is to service you...bridal registry, take telephone orders, mail your gifts, and delivery in town...and add a little inspiration...continuously. With gratitude we look forward to seeing you soon.

Antique French Pieces

Here is another one of our antique pieces-a very old marble top French chest. This piece could serve a variety of functions in any home. A buffet in a kitchen, a beautiful entry piece with lamps, or a chest in a bedroom. It's patina is so pretty and the price is quite nice!

Antique French Hunt Cabinet

This large antique French cabinet has such beautiful and detailed carving on it. What stories it could tell and what a grand piece it is. Maybe you would have the perfect spot for it in your home? It almost appears to have family crest carved on the doors and has very old stamping on the back-perhaps the previous owner years ago? We also have some antique French nighstands and in-tables, a petite china cabinet, and some wonderful French chairs. We are just waiting to slow down to make room for them!

Suitcase Suprise

I can see one of these interesting suitcases filled with wonderful goodies for a Christmas gift. Even filled with some of these great horn frames-come check out some of the great picture frames that we have displayed. I think a picture framed is one very personal and thoughtful gift myself!

Winter Inspiration

Love our collection of Spode Woodland and so beautiful to pull out and enjoy for this Christmas and winter. We have in a variety of the game bird dinnerware in along with some beautiful serving pieces!

Christmas Glitz

Love all the glitter and mercury glass on this table! So many beautiful and wonderful things in-love the brown & white transferware, glass script trays, and large brass hurricanes.

A Wonderful Time...

It was time for our Fall get together and Miss DD outdid herself again! Always a lovely time and fantastic atmosphere in her English Manor...(I went home and immediately starting cleaning and trying to teach myself to be detailed)

Oh say it ain't so-this beautiful Thanksgiving book neatly bowed up with chocolate satin ribbon. Her horn pewter tableware displayed, her husband got these for her he must have an eye for the good things!

Behind her kitchen farmhouse table this wonderful plate rack of blue & white-she also collects cow creamers-love!

Island in the kitchen-fantastic bread boards, wonderful jams, and scotty shortbread cookies(her Scottie is named Maggie), it's the details that makes a house stand out.

Woodland spode full of twine-we love twine it's beautiful to display and convenient to use on almost everything!

This is her "English Manor with a Texas Twist" room-the hereford hide on the floor mixed with the hide draped across the antique table. Love the large Indian book displayed in the background-so charming!

What a fantastic mount with the Spode Woodland displayed around him...

Thanks again! The breakfast was wonderful! Happy Birthday Kieta!

Christmas Inspiration...

So the store is decked for Christmas-Kathy, Kieta & Roseanna did an amazing job putting it all together so beautiful!

Please stop by and see us so many beautiful ideas and gifts for your special someone this Christmas....love all the beautiful gleaming ornaments hanging from pine garlands and trees. Red berries and pinecones are tucked here and there.

Love all the whites and greens on the farmhouse table-green suculents, pine garland, and white tulips...

The white Juliska dinnerware collection in this room pops and is so refreshing for a new season!

Our little antique bed in the back is so precious glittered up for the holidays-we already have a few gifts tucked here and there-ready to be taken home and put underneath the tree. Remember we have complimentory wrapping in-store with our beautiful papers and ribbons...

Just love this vintage-inspired Santa(notice he is in cream). He looks like something my grandmother might have had in an old cardboard box tucked away in her closet. Each year pulling out to admire and decorate for her house for Christmas...

Goodbye Europe...back to West Texas

This beautiful park that we visited is just beautiful. To me this is what the pathway to heaven would look like. It is just a picture!

Look how the trees are astoundingly perfect looking down this walkway...Every leaf leading the crunchy steps...

Could our trip have been more charming? The cobblestone streets we explored, falling leaves and crimson and gold trees turning for fall, and beautiful quaint little shops? Even the horses have that certain whimsy to them.

Until next time-Au Revoir!