Hello, from The Retro Flamingo Studio, where we are Creating in the Breeze on the Balmy Gulf Coast!!
Over the next few months, we will be transitioning all of our Broad Street Market website information over to our new business, The Retro Flamingo Studio, where we will also offer a new shopping cart system!!! We are still not sure what we are going to do in the building downtown, for right now cleaning and straightening, and getting rid of stuff, we have toyed with the idea of opening it, again………that’s still in the discussion stage. For now we will be out and about on the road, participating in several antique shows and events, some of which will be alongside our daughter and her hubby, Sarah and Nick McIntyre, with Exaggerface!
In the coming weeks, I will be blogging about a cottage that we have been referring to as the Purple House, and is now lovingly dubbed, The Lavender Cottage. Its a lovely old two story duplex, which was moved onto the site of the Old Hospital in the 300 Block of Broad, in downtown Freeport, several years back. We have finished the structural phase of moving and putting in new supports, and porches, and Mr. Wonderful(Frank) is replacing the front steps this week (I hope, there’s lots on his to do list!!). Now comes the fun part, picking colors and flooring and landscaping…… once completed it will be available to rent for events and as a vacation rental. We will be asking for suggestions and opinions on paint colors, and furnishings, along the way as we work through projects, so there’s lots to do there. We are hoping to have that up and running by the spring if not earlier, I’m pushing for earlier if my Mr. Wonderful and I can get it all finished, I have visions of sugarplums dancing around and perhaps a Christmas Party if it’s ahead of schedule!!
Lastly, over the next few weeks, if you drive by, our yard is getting a much needed update, to make way for a new urban flower and plant farm. It may take me several years to choose the best type of flowers to farm for cutting, but hopefully it will evolve from the hot mess of single pots set into the beds for watering purposes, to something of beauty….. and the fins are up for our new greenhouse so hopefully that will be finished by the winter!
Retirement from corporate life is grand, I plan to take those who follow along with us on the ride that is our life… of family, and business, and travels, all of which we love. So welcome to the next stage of our lives, I’m sure, as always, it will be busy!