Asheville, N.C. Blogger Day

This past Friday hubby and I headed up to the North Carolina mountains to the city of Asheville.  It was about a three hour drive for us, and I was so excited to be going.  Asheville is a beautiful city, very diverse, lots of artists, beautiful scenery, and a lot of good food.  However, even though all of that sounds good we were going to a blogger get together meeting at the home of Penny http://www.lavenderhillstudio.blogspot.com/ and http://www.thecomfortsofhome.blogspot.com/.

So Saturday morning we left our bed & breakfast to head out to her home.  When we were all gathered together, and there were quite a few husbands who gathered in their group, Penny took us on a tour of their home that they have been working on for quite a while.  If you look at her blog you will see how it all took shape.  What a beautiful home they have too.

Even though the whole house is beautiful, I think all of us could agree we would like to have this bathroom!

The dining area waiting for us to have brunch

Penny and Diane posing for a photo

In the back are Melinda, Jennifer, Angie then Diane and myself

Here we are in Penny's studio, you really need to check out that blog, oh my goodness, beautiful work. There is Mary with camera in hand as so many of us were

Now check this out! Why didn't I think of this when I had a bonus room?  Look at all of the dishes

I think I positively drooled over the dishes, there were so many of them

Isn't this gorgeous?  Love the color

This one is too cute!

Getting us ready for our brunch

Check out this rooster that Penny decoupaged.  As she said with the scarf it does look like a French rooster!

Oh, the food!

Ok, girls, we have to get the photo of all of us together.  That was the husbands responsibility.
In the back row - Ulrike, Angie, Kim, Mary, Sherri,  Jeanne, Melinda
In the front row - Sam, Penny, Rhondi, Diane, Penny (our lovely hostess),  Jennifer, Donnie

Getting excited for the day

Ok, lets go get some brunch!

After the  food all of us ladies took off to savor Asheville antique shops while the husbands went to lunch, and waited for us to come back.  I will show you some of the places that we went later where we bloggers were busy snapping pictures.
It was so nice to meet all of the bloggers especially the ones that I have known for a while.  It was a wonderful time, and so great to meet all of you.  Penny, my hubby and I thank you and your husband for such a truly lovely day!