Thrifty Thursday: Cobblestone

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Cobblestone
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address : 712 South Austin Ave., Georgetown,Texas 78626
hours :  Monday - Saturday: 10am - 5:30pm | Sunday: 12pm - 5pm

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This shop is another one in Georgetown, TX, just up the road and across the street from Gatherings.  It's in a strip of old shops just across the courthouse.  The area is just gorgeous!

Now, I have to tell you.  My main reason for visiting was because I'd read that the upstairs was haunted.  I've got this thing where I want to meet a ghost and I really don't want to meet a ghost.  I can't remember if I talked about the ghosts we heard in the old bed and breakfast we stay at in Michigan...but I swear I heard them!  Anyway...this place was too intriguing so I stopped in for a peek.

I did another instagram tour, like with Gatherings, so here's a peek at what it's like to get your feed blown up with cool old stuff...

And on to the rest of the photos!

Player piano!  Chairs on the wall!  It's hard to know where to start when you walk in, but just dive in and you'll be happy.

The front has a few glass cases full of super cute jewelry, brooches and knick knacks.

OMG! The stairs that go to the haunted attic!  I was sooooo silly nervous to go up.  The lady at the counter even mentioned it was haunted and said you never know what might turn up in the pictures.  I don't know that ghosts show up in digital photography, though. Haha!

When you go upstairs, they've got fans going to cool it off which end up rustling the tags and giving this great background noise that really gets you pumped for ghosts.  But then you get distracted by all the awesome stuff.

This absolutely gorgeous spinning wheel was in the middle space, with a skylight shining it's heavenly beam upon it.  There really should've been angels singing when I looked up and saw it.  Incredible.  I think it was under $200, too.  I'm still getting acclimated to the lower antique and thrift prices in Texas!  

There's lots more furniture upstairs and it's just a really cool space to visit.  The quiet of the air, the creaking of the old floorboards, and the vague anticipation of encountering a ghost, just give it this kind of magical quality.  I'd love to know what the space was before it became the shop.

So, by the time I had gotten to the front of the attic and was walking back, I was kind of freaked out by how far I was from the stairs in the back.  At that point, I was convinced there was some kind of presence near me.  I couldn't see anything, it was just a feeling.  Then, not two feet away from me, something in the corner shifted and scared the snot out of me!  There were no fans in that area, it wasn't something I touched, or the floor boards.  It was a ghost!  I mean, probably not, but still.  Totally a ghost.  I scooted back downstairs so fast and didn't look back haha!

Now that this antique store piece has dissolved into a terrible ghost story, I have to say that this was a cool shop.  Cobblestone has a very eclectic selection with good prices.  Definitely take the time to look around.  This is a place where you might have to do a little digging.  But if you do, you'll find something like the Singer sewing machine from my instagram tour and just want to keel over.  Love it!

***If you've got any shops you love, or own, that you'd like to feature, just shoot a note over to becky@thepinksamurai with the name, website/facebook and why you love it, I'd love to take a look!!!***

Thrifty Thursday - Gatherings

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Gatherings
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address : 1009 South Austin Ave., Georgetown,Texas 78626
hours :  Tuesday - Saturday: 10:30am - 5:30pm | Sunday: 12pm - 4pm

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I went outside of Austin for today's Thrifty Thursday.  Georgetown is about 20 minutes north of us and I had heard good things about the thrifting and antique shops there, so I took a trip!  Gatherings was first on my list.  I love when I pull up to a place and there's awesome stuff just waiting for me outside.  This shop has a lot of shabby chic, and lots of fun girlie antiques.  The shop owner takes great care in the displays and vignettes, which make walking through so much fun.  Each shelf has it's own personality.  I went through twice and saw tons of amazing things I missed the first go around. 

There's some new items and crafts by local artists in with the displays, so if you're looking for antiques, be sure to look at your item carefully.  But I think it's pretty easy to tell the difference, and I think the displays are so cute, they just add to the fun discoveries you'll make here.

I did an Insta-Tour when I first walked in, just taking lots of photos with my phone and bombing my follower's feeds with all kinds of goodness...and lots of me freaking out about what I was I finding.  As I am want to do :P I'm easily excitable in places like this haha!  Here's the pics from the first walk through!

And the rest of the photos!

I love how walking into big antique stores never ceases to amazing and overwhelm me.  I want to soak in everything immediately!

The bags!  So many gorgeous bags!  Art Deco was all up on the chevron trend ^_^

If you need any fixtures...any at all really...come here.  There's a whole section of hardware in the very back!

I also found a lot of children's toys.  There's so much variety in what Gatherings stocks, but it's all curated so well that everything is very true to their brand.

So. Many. Figurines.  I cannot stress this enough.  there's tons and loved every single one of them.  Lots of pups in particular.

I had so much fun in this shop!  The displays were just the best I've seen while thrifting.  If you're in the Georgetown area it's definitely worth stopping in.  The prices were a bit higher than I expected.  But the quality of the items was so high, I could absolutely justify spending a couple of extra bucks to get a really gorgeous piece for my home. 

***If you've got any shops you love, or own, that you'd like to feature, just shoot a note over to becky@thepinksamurai with the name, website/facebook and why you love it, I'd love to take a look!!!***