Moving To The Square In Lawrenceville, Georgia. Open October lst

We Are Moving!

New Location

Downtown Historic Lawrenceville
162 Crogan Street
Lawrenceville, Ga. 30046

Open October lst

 

We are moving from Old Town, Lilburn, to Downtown Historic Lawrenceville, Georgia! The shop space is larger and a little more elegant, with a comfy rear room for our writers guild, book club, and writing and art classes, to all be under one roof!  Our selection of smaller antique and gift items, vintage clothes, cowboy boots, vintage and one-of-a-kind handmade jewelry, vintage silverplate. old lace and linens, and other necessities to make shopping fun have expanded! Love to have your feedback on what you are looking for in gift items! If we don't have it,we'll find it. Online store coming soon!

The Little Shop Of Arts And Antiques, 162 Crogan Street, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046. Located across the street from the free public parking deck! Our sign will be up shortly, but you can find us next to Sparkles Jewelry.

I will miss Old Town and hope all my friends come visit with me on the square in Lawrenceville. Lots of places to eat and shop! And as always, a fresh pot of coffee is always ready.

More details soon!

Vintage Whites

Large selection of gently used cowboy boots, all sizes, original condition. I don't polish them. Sometimes the old scuff marks add that character called patina. Variety of vintage tooled leather Mexican handbags.

Current Shop Window

Garden Items

Lovely gift items and vintage clothes

Events room for classes, book club meeting, writers guild and art exhibits.

Open evenings!
Wed/Thurs 11am to 6pm
Fri/Sat 11am to 8pm

Vietnam Era Book Signing/ Reception With Author Gerald Gillis

Posted on Patch August 24, 2011

Gerald Gillis' book Shall Never See So Much has received all five star reviews on Amazon. Reviewers have called this book -- Captivating! Brilliant! Insightful! Gillis truely captures the year 1968, the war in Vietnam and all of its ramifications.
Book Signing/Reception 1 - 4 PM Light refreshments.
Books will be available for sale at the shop.
 
U.S. Marine Lieutenant Tom Flanagan is serving as an infantry platoon leader in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, his sister Kate works on the staff of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as RFK begins his ill-fated quest for the presidency. The brother and sister are estranged and their reconciliation, along with Tom's own survival in combat, becomes uncertain. Shall Never See So Much is a story of heroism, tragedy, and triumph.  

Reader's Favorite Award for historical fiction - Oct., 2010. Book of the Month from the Military Writers Society of America - Feb., 2011  Nominated for Military Writers Society of America Award for historical fiction - TBA, 2011,

 

Free Block Birthday Party, Live Music, Watch "The Find", 7 Minute Film Made On Main Street

Posted on Patch August 18, 2011

You are invited to a free birthday party on Main Street. Shop owners Barbara Barth (The Little Shop Of Arts And Antiques), Hugh Wilkerson (Antiques In Old Town), and Lilburn hobby photographer all have birthdays this weekend and we are having an event in celebration. Greg is not only having a birthday, Saturday is the final day of his 365-day photography project, which he has been writing about on his Patch blog. 

All August birthdays will be honored. Do you have a birthday in August? Bring your driver’s license showing your month of birth and receive a $10 gift certificate from . The gift certificate is good for 30 days. Great start to holiday shopping.

At 6:30 and 7:30 PM there will be a screening of “The Find”, the entry for Atlanta’s 48 Hour Film Project that was filmed on our very own Main Street. This 7-minute film is a romantic story showing off the best of Old Town. Meet the filmmakers and hear their story. 

Live Music by Larry Joe Hall. 

Light Refreshments.

NO PRESENTS. There is a donation jar if you would like to give to Animal Action Rescue, a non-profit animal group. 

Come by and say hello. Open to the public. The shop is open beginning at 11 am. Party is 4 PM to 8 PM. Film will be shown at 6:30 and 7:30.

Read more about this event on the Old Town Lilburn Merchant's Association blog spot.

 

 

 

 

 

Old Town Backdrop For "The Find" Filmed on Main Street. Come See The 7-Minute Film This Saturday, August 20

See "The Find" filmed on location in Old Town for the 48-Film Project. Showings 6:30 and 7:30 PM.

Posted by Barbara Barth on the Lilburn Patch , August 18, 2011 at 02:03 PM

Original post can be read here.

 

 

 

This is a partial repost from my blog on June 13th. It is a great opportunity to see how Old Town and its shops were stars in the seven-minute film entry for the Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project. Come see this film at a on Saturday, August 20th at The Little Shop Of Arts And Antiques on Main Street. Meet the producer! Film will be shown at 6:30 and 7:30 in the Old Town Lilburn Center For The Arts, 92 Main Street NW. Family friendly film that casts a spell of magic!

This past Saturday, from 8 a.m., to almost 8 p.m, Main Street was buzzing with filmmakers from the Atlanta 48-Hour Film Project. 

Filmmakers Jayson Palmer and Chris Ethridge cameramen, to work on their entry in this annual contest. Main Street and its shops will be the backdrop for the short movie they completed for this amazing event. Antiques In Old Town  is featured in one of the major scenes.

Just what is the 48-Hour Film Project? It is a sleepless weekend in which filmmakers make a movie. They write, shoot, edit and score it, in just 48 hours.  No sleep, no rest, just a crazy wild time of creating something unique to enter into the contest! It begins at 7 p.m. on Friday night and ends at 7 p.m. on Sunday night.

All entries have to be received by 7:30 Sunday evening to be included in the contest. The finished film must be 4 minutes to 7 minutes in duration—not including credits. 

Last Friday night, approximately 55 groups received the information needed to begin. The entries receive a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre. All have to be included in the movie — 48 hours later, the movie has to be complete and turned in by the deadline set for the competition. The following week it is shown at a local theater. 

In 2010, nearly 40,000 filmmakers made 3,000 films covering 80 cities on five continents. This year the event is even larger with filmmakers around the world taking the challenge. The prizes range from local and international awards to the screening of the winning film at the Cannes Film Festival. 
The mission of the challenge is to get filmmakers, and would-be filmmakers, to make films. The tight time frame for the project gets everyone into action, instead of just talking about ideas, they have to pull together and get it done. Teamwork and creativity are in the spotlight for the weekend. 

The competition began in May 2001. Mark Ruppert, and his filmmaking partner, Liz Langston, called on several other DC filmmakers to form teams and join in a competition to see if a good film could be made in only 48 hours. The answer was a huge “yes”!

Old Town Lilburn is featured in the short film, "The Find."
REMEMBER YOU CAN SEE THIS FILM FOR FREE ON SATURDAY AUGUST 20 SHOWINGS AT 6:30 AND 7:30 PM AT 92 MAIN STREET.
This is a birthday party for August birthdays. Donations accepted for Animal Action Rescue. Live Music. Read about the event here.

Posted by  Barbara Barth , August 09, 2011 on the Lilburn Patch

Saturday, August 13


Saturday will be rockin' at The Little Shop Of Arts And Antiques. Live music by Lilburn's own Bruce "Headrock" from noon until 3 PM.

Also on Saturday, book signing, art exhibit and Atlanta Woodcarvers demonstration.
Come have some fun.

"Country Boy" Artist Brad Dorsey, 3-D Art From Nature - TREE DIMENSIONAL Art

Posted on Patch 8/12/2011

"CountryBoy" a name we all have become accustomed to Love.  You can take the Boy out of the Country, but you cannot take the Country out of the Boy---  a phrase we have always heard! Artist Brad Dorsey is just that "CountryBoy".

"CountryBoy", aka Bradford Dorsey, is a native of the beautiful Alpine Village of Helen, Georgia.  "CountryBoy's" creative design ability introduces fresh, exciting expressions, through the use of multi-media, that ranges from water colors, crayons, acrylics, pastels, oils, torn paper, melted candle wax, rocks, broken glass, tin cans and most recently, wood pieces.  Pieces that "CountryBoy" says he borrowed from Nature's Library.  Tree stumps, broken limbs, and other bits of nature that are often overlooked, but are perfectly shaped, are repurposed into a piece of art.

"CountryBoy" is a visionary, using Nature's own to compose those majestic pieces into mind boggling creative works of art which he calls TREE - Not Three - TREE DIMENSIONAL ART. 
  
Every single piece of artwork has been created from re-cycled forms of some kind and every piece sold, someone else gets blessed.  Churches, schools, colleges, non-profit organizations, are a small list of the groups that benefit from the sale of his art.

You can view "CountryBoy's" art beginning Friday, Aug 12 through Saturday, August 27, at The Little Shop Of Arts And Antiques gallery.

"CountryBoy" is offering a piece for silent auction to benefit the 'Patti-Jo Shapiro Scholarship Fund' created by the Lilburn Womans Club.

Visit this exciting exhibit and see how a "CountryBoy" creates!
Gallery Hours: Thurs and Sat 11 am to 5 pm, Friday 11 am to 8 pm.

 

 

 

Book Signing Meet The Authors Reception "Ready To Go"

Posted on Lilburn Patch by Barbara Barth Aug 9, 2011

 

 

 

Saturday, 13 - 1 - 4 pm. Book signing/talk. "Ready to Go: The History and Contributions of U.S. Public Health Advisors". Authors Fred A. Martich, Gerald Naehr and Beth Meyerson tell the stories of  public health advisors, federal employees sent on local, state, and international public health assignments by the Centers For Disease. An interesting insight into the professionals who share unique stories. Books will be available for sale during the event.

Also at the shop, live music, Country Boy art exhibit, and Atlanta Woodcarvers Demonstration and exhibit.