I come from a long line of creative mountain women who rescued and salvaged things and saw their potential, so antiquing was a natural fit for me. I started my career as a vintage dealer when I was a little girl and took walks around the neighborhood with my aunt on "garbage day." The druggist threw out a little oak medicine chest, we can sure use that, right, clean it up and fix the knob! Being an English teacher for many years was nice--those skills help now when I write descriptions of items--but it was not the same as finding and buying treasures and passing them along to you...
