Good Old Days Country Shop is located along the Seaway Trail in the Historic Hamlet of Pultneyville, NY. The Good Old Days is a 5000 square foot country shop comprised of Antiques, Primitives, Home Furnishings, Custom Reproductions, and Needful things for your home. Visit our website at www.goodolddayscountryshop.com.
Here you will find all the primitive things you love for your home including antiques, stoneware, ironware, redware, treenware, floorcloths, lighting, textiles, and much more.
Print that depicts an old general store in a small snowy town, in 12″ x 16″
A few words about the artist – Charlotte Sternberg is a wonderful artist who brought a smile to faces all over the world through her art. Charlotte is known for her New England scenes on Christmas cards and her paintings of Americana. Looking at her work you will discover the world that Charlotte created in timeless seasons – Summer and Winter, Harvest Time and Christmas, too. Charlotte’s paintings were done in egg tempera in the traditional Renaissance methods. Charlotte learned how to paint in egg tempera at Yale Art School.
Our Luminara Candle is a battery operated pillar candle that operates on a timer. Once you turn it on, it stays on for 5 hours and off for 19. It then turns back on again at the precise time that you turned it on. If the slide switch is turned to “on” instead of “timer”, then it will simply turn on and stay on until you turn it off again. What is great about this candle is that you can turn it on and off by means of a remote control, that we offer FREE with your purchase. This means you can put the candle high out of reach and still easily turn it on and off with your remote.
These hand poured country candles are made with blackened beeswax and dusted with cinnamon to give it that primitive grungy look we all are looking for.
Print of an blue star on an old barn in winter Blue Star Barn Winter
A few words about the artist – Bonnie Fisher. Finding and painting old barns and rural scenes was the first thing she did when she got her driver’s license and borrowed her parents’ car. In the following decades she went to art college, raised a family, and did freelance artwork. Three years ago, she returned to her first love, old barns and rural scenes! Bonnie has gone back to the earth, the sky, animals and the country roads. She loves to paint the old buildings that represent endurance, hard work and independence, and the old churches that represent faith and service to God. She tries to capture the feelings they evoke and share them with us.
A few words about the artist – Bonnie White. Bonnie spent 30 years living and working on her family’s horse farm in Canaan, N.Y. The barn closed in 2002 and the youngest of her three sons began kindergarten the following year. With more time on her hands, she began something she hadn’t done for more than 20 years – she began to paint again. She also began attending craft shows and fell in love with folk art. Life on the farm, the mountains, valleys, historic homes and villages that surround it gave her unlimited ideas.
As the time draws near to the Holiday season, your mind naturally turns to decorating your home. Much of our attention often falls on the dining room table, as this is where we are drawn to when guests come over. So it only makes sense to try to make your table as appealing as possible. One way of achieving this is with centerpieces. You can purchase centerpieces already made up or you can attempt to make one yourself. At the Good Old Days, you have many options for a Holiday centerpiece. We have many types of containers to start with including wooden bowls, pewter trays, wooden trays, baskets, etc… Plus, we carry an assortment of various decorative wreaths, picks, etc.. to start as a base. Then to build on that, you might consider one of our Luminary candles as the center of attention or perhaps some battery operated lights. There are so many options you have when you shop the store and look around for these items. I urge you to take our virtual tour either by looking at the photos or by looking at our videos. This will give you inspiration as well options for a Holiday centerpiece.
If you decide to build one yourself, there are a multitude of decorative items you can add to it from fresh cuttings of the trees and bushes in your yard to fresh flowers to artificial items.
Homemade Centerpiece
If you are so inclined to create a centerpiece completely by yourself, here is a helpful guide I found that might get you started with some ideas. http://tinyurl.com/p9246f8
Whatever you decide to do to decorate your table, please share with us your creations so that others can see and learn from your experience. Have Fun!
