Do you like shopping with girlfriends?  I LOVE it, and I am wayyy . . . past due for a girlfriend’s shopping day.  In fact, it is one of the things I miss the most since moving from Washington State to South Carolina last year. I had the bestest shopping buddies back home and my hubby never worried about our shopping dates because we had more fun being together and laughing with each other than spending a lot of money and having to pack around a bunch of bags (though that can be fun too)!

Well, I haven’t found new shopping buddies here in SC yet so maybe y’all will come with me.  Or maybe ALL y’all will come with me, because that’s the way we say it here when there are more than a few people.  Are you in?  Great!  If you don’t mind, I’d like to make a stop at Starbucks for a Grande Soy Iced Caramel Macchiatto.  Maybe you’d like something to drink for the road too?  My treat!

Today’s shopping trip won’t be for clothes.  My buddies and I used to love going to Bellevue Square and spent a lot of time in Nordstrom’s shoe department (Roses’s favorite).  Today, since I’m doing the driving, I’ll be taking you to a very special place that I visited for the first time while on vacation this month.  The Old Luckett’s Store!  Now this would NOT be Roses’s favorite place because she isn’t fond of used things, but she was always a sport and went along for the ride.  I don’t really think it was Debbie’s thing either but it grew on her, and since she and her hubby bought our old house she’s been seen frequenting places like this more and more.

Anyhoo, let’s get started.  When we enter the doors of Luckett’s you are in for a real treat.  Enough talk already.  Explore away.  And be sure to let me know if you come across any old corbels!

Oh look!  Here’s Mr. OTN holding a shutter to match my eyes. He is the sweetest and I never know where he might turn up!

He also found the very corbels I’ve been searching for!  Muah!

Did you find anything inside the store that you couldn’t live without?  Let’s head outside for some more shopping.

Amazing yes?

Can you say PERFECT PATINA?

The sweet ladies working at Luckett’s showed me this before and after picture of the store and I would be remiss not to share it with y’all.  I’m as much in love with the house as it’s contents.

 Thank you SO much dear friends for indulging me by going along with me on this virtual shopping trip.  I wish I could have you here in person so we could “Oooh” and “Ahhh” together.  After a morning of shopping we’d find a fun place to have a light lunch followed by a heavy dessert (shared of course).  Then we might indeed find a Nordy’s (a native Seattleite’s nickname for Nordstrom’s) where we would look at all of the pretty clothes, and maybe find a great pair of new shoes.  Once we were done there we would need another coffee or tea before hitting the road back home.

It’s been a great day with friends whom I adore.  See ya’ soon!

Blessings,