Blogging Buddies

Last Friday I went to Birmingham to meet up with Rhoda. She posted on her blog about how we've been e-mailing for about a year and how much we have in common. On top of that, she lives only a couple of miles from my son's home. After meeting her hubby, she gave me the "grand tour"! Girls, let me tell you, while the pictures you see of her house on her blog are great, it's nothing compared to the "real thing." What a treat it was to finally see it in person. But I think the best part is what a wonderful lady Rhoda is....all I expected and then some!

We left her house to go junkin', antiquing, eating (of course), shopping....in other words, a day of retail therapy.

There is an area we went to that I'd visited once before called Cahaba Heights. Rhoda posted about this area in one of her previous posts. Ohhh, a lot of eye candy!

We're both loving this color green....and look at the front of this chest

Another vignette we liked featuring that yummy green

I'm finding myself being drawn to the shabby chic, chippy, worn look of furniture so I really liked this tableOutside are a lot of wrought iron pieces...I thought the prices were a little high

I would love to have this table and chairs (minus the blue fabric). I have a friend who has this table on her patio and I'm hoping she'll sell it to me soon!

There goes Rhoda around to her patio area with my iron candelabra

Hey Rhoda, come back here!

Here is the entrance to her back yard....so pretty!

We had an absolutely wonderful time talking and getting to know each other. I think I've found a new shopping buddy and it's too bad we don't live any closer (on second thought, it might be a good thing cause we'd probably get in a lot of trouble!) We are planning another little shopping excursion this coming Friday. There is another blogger opening her little antiques/flea market shop in a small town about an hour away from both of us. We'll let ya'll know all the fun we have checking that out.