Being single again, I have loved gathering up new and old friends in my life and it seems that since I moved back to Georgia, my friendship factor has exploded. I have some wonderful women in my life, single and married. This past weekend, some blog friends and I headed up the the North Carolina mountains for a little weekend get-away of hitting the Cashiers Showhouse and the antiques stores in Asheville that I’ve shared before, Screen Door and Tobacco Barn. It’s always a fun visit to Angela’s cottage (if you haven’t seen my post on it, click over, worth it, this cottage was featured in Cottages and Bungalows last year) and I never get too much of that sweet place. We visited the showhouse last year too with a mostly different group. Angela was out of the country this time and couldn’t make it, but she let us use the cottage for the weekend.
Morning view at the cottage, isn’t that the best? Never get tired of seeing this view of the mountains in NC.
Here’s our crew: (L to R) Edie, Lisa, Lori, Sherry and me)
We headed to Cashiers on Saturday morning and wanted to be sure to get there early enough to avoid the crowds. This was opening weekend. The house sat up on a mountain bluff and had some fantastic views. This house was about 10,000 s.f. of rustic beauty and definitely worth millions. Way out of my league, but it was fun to see all the rooms decorated to the hilt by many different designers. We weren’t allowed to take pics inside, so I made do with some outside shots, which were also outstanding. These ladies were all so fun to hang out with for a couple of days.
The exterior is pretty impressive. Unfortunately they don’t allow pics inside, although I did sneak one or two. But, suffice it to say, that is is gorgeous inside as well.
The pond in the front landscaped area was just beautiful as well.
Sit a spell in these rustic tree trunk chairs.
These hydrangeas were just breathtaking. I’m not sure what variety these are, but wow, were they stunning.
Phoebe Howard was there signing books that day and Lisa got one autographed.
Here’s one small shot inside, just a corner of a room.
From the back porch, this was the view. I know, couldn’t you get used to this??
We left the showhouse and headed over to Asheville and Tupelo Honey for lunch. They bring out these buttery biscuits and blueberry jam for starters. We were famished and just about devoured them.
Then it was time for a little antiquing and browsing again at the Tobacco Barn. This place is chock full of goodies and you have to dig through rows and rows of stuff. All the girls bought something. I’m still on self-imposed non-spending on décor items until I get in the house. If you saw my storage house, you would understand why. It was fun to look though!
Lots of goodies everywhere you looked.
Edie and I bought liked these candle thingies, would look great on a back porch.
Edie lives on a lake in TN and found herself an oar. Love that it matched her outfit. Have you seen her house? I’ve featured her before on Feature Friday and it’s SO gorgeous. Edie is precious and I enjoyed getting to know her better.
Lori found a nice big box of books.
Lots of furniture everywhere.
Edie and I.
Loved the color on this old door. Doesn’t it look like my kitchen and office color? Yep, that’s why!
We then headed to nearby Screen Door and this pair of chairs caught my eye right in the front door.
The Screen Door is always fun, lots of eye candy everywhere.
Pretty blue sofa.
So, that was our fun girl’s weekend in NC. I hope you enjoyed tagging along with us as we ate, relaxed, toured and shopped. I love taking you all along too!
Beautiful! Sounds like a wonderful weekend…would love a girl’s weekend trip like that – NC mountains, delicious food and shopping – nothing better.
Next time you are in Sylva, NC please stop into a new store in town . The name of the store is Finders Keepers and it is always full of items like you pictured in this post. Also another great place to visit is The Nichols House Antiques in Sylva. Both places have Facebook pages you can go to and see photos of some of the store items. Love your blog! DiAnne
Rhoda, what a wonderful trip you must have had! The house is just beautiful. Wasn’t Kathryn Greely part of that showhouse?? Those are Vanilla-Strawberry hydrangeas, and those are so beautiful!! Mine did not do well in the heat but I’m hoping for better next year.
Love your trips! Thanks for sharing them with us! I now have another “must go to” place for my “Places to see” travel list. I’m born and bred in the South and as much as I’ve seen and done…there is always so much more to explore. Too bad you couldn’t take a full array of pictures of the inside of the house…so we could drool along with you!
Thank you for this wonderful blog! Can you please email me more information about the Cashiers Showhouse and the different antiquing haunts in the area? You have inspired us to make a trip up there in October!
Thanks soooooooooooooo much for sharing!!! I absolutely LOVE that area… We try to make it thru Cashiers / Highlands every year as we are “Smokie Mountain” Bound!! 🙂
Rhoda,
Is there anything better than treasure hunting and looking at ‘designer’ homes? Yes — doing it with friends! Looks like you had a wonderful time.
The blooms you shared look like pannicle hydrangea.
Your Friend,
Deborah
Your trip sounds wonderful! I would love that!
The hydrangeas look like Limelight hydrangeas. White & coneshaped like that.
Liz
I don’t know which would be more fun – seeing that gorgeous house, or antiquing in that fab store! To do both with friends was AMAZING!!!!
Glad you had fun.
Funny story – some girls and I went from the mountains of NC to GA to visit the Southern Living house this weekend! I was talking to someone else at the house and she asked if I blogged – I said no, I just love blogs and she mentioned yours – she went to college with you! Small world – also we probably passed each other on the road! On your next trip to NC – come on up the road to the Blowing Rock & Boone areas – it’s beautiful here!
HI, Michelle, that is too funny, now I want to know who it was?!
Rhoda, your weekend with the girls looked like so much fun. I had the pleasure of meeting Lori at Haven. And that view from the cottage where you stayed must have been very restorative!
That Tobacco Barn store is huge! Wonderful you had such a nice time.
I’m going to a new place thrifting place tomorrow and can’t wait to report back. I found the most amazing thing for $60 yesterday – will make the next Thrifty Treasure post 🙂
My favorite find is the oar. I really want an oar {old}. Thanks for the pictures! I have added the Tobacco Barn and Tupelo Honey to my ‘Bucket List’ – thanks for sharing!
What a good looking crew!!! I just checked out both houses. Holy talent! Edie’s office?! I die.
Have a great weekend Rhoda! Don’t work to hard!
xo
Jennifer
You always do the most fun things Rhoda and I enjoy living vicariously through you! The view from the cottage is beautiful. I would never want to leave…except maybe a tour of Tobacco Rd might lure me away :).
Great post! I love the Tobacco Barn…haven’t been there in years, but every time I went there, I always scored some kind of unique treasure!
Rhoda, I enjoyed this post! It looks like you had a fabulous time! What a fun group and such talent! Thanks for sharing the Tobacco Barn; I really want to visit this place!
NO WAY! We were in Waynesville, NC late last week. Maybe I could have finally met you. I remember reading about Angela’s cottege when they first bought it and started to work on it. I had no idea it was in Waynesville. We stayed in a very nice cabin and of course enjoyed the views. We were in Tennesee for the first part of the week with our main goal being to see the Smokies.
Why…Oh…Why…dont we have antique places like this in Northern California?!? I am just drooling over all of the items I see in your pictures. Looks like such a fun day…wish I was there thrifting with you girls!
I went to Angela’s cottage in June and it was fabulous! I saw your last post about it and I told my husband I had to go!
So thank you for what you do! Had I not seen your post I would have never found it!