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Blog postTwo weeks ago on our couples weekend to Jekyll Island, the junk posse and I shopped an excellent junk sale at an old plywood factory. I brought back a beat-up bamboo tiki bar, purchased for only fifty bucks. But the wooden veneer on the front of the bar was peeling off and looking pretty sad. I spent most of Friday scraping off the rest of the veneer, NOT a fun job.
Then, last night, Tacky Jacky, who has single-handedly slipcovered or curtained almost every surface in The Breeze Inn, came -
Blog postSusan and MKA--A couple of cupcakes!
Mermaid Madam Diane and her junk haul
My sweet new armchairs
Oh, it was a fine, fine day on Saturday. I met Diane of Mermaid Cottages, and Susan of Seaside Sisters at the ungawdly hour of 6:30 a.m. We motored into Savannah to hit the laundry list of sales I'd compiled by cross-referencing Craigslist, The Pennysaver and The Savannah Morning News. Of course, we had to make the ritualistic drive-by at Krispy-Kreme Doughnuts. I pu -
Blog postHi. Welcome to the porch at The Breeze Inn on Tybee Island. According to informed sources, today is "Thirsty Thursday." So I'm serving up a little 'sumpin on the porch. The derby's right around the corner, so we could have some mint juleps. Or maybe you'd prefer a mojito? I've got my blender fired up in the kitchen, so with all that lime green on the porch, maybe you'd prefer a daquiri? Or how about the yummy concoction I had recently at a Mexican restaurant in Houston--a sangria swirl
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Blog postWith temperatures in the '80s, this past weekend was the unofficial home opener for garage/estate sale season. There were at least a dozen likely prospects listed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Craigslist, but since we were co-hosting an engagement party for posse member Shay on Saturday night, I only had an hour or so to spare in between making the tomato tartlets and polishing up the silver trays they were to be served on. Like any seasoned estate sale pro, I have my favorite territo
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Blog postMaison 21's blog is one of the funniest ones in the blogosphere. This week he's been sharing his reaction to the "estate sale" at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. He's calling his posts "The good, the bad, the ugly and the creepy." And from the looks of things, the Prince of Pop really had some, er, questionable taste. Life-size statues of butlers, nasty leather Laz-E-Boy chairs, bizarro golden King Tut harps, the list goes on and on. And don't get me started on the childre
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Blog postBob Gross, Fourth of July 2007: Photo by JOEL TRESSLER
I saw my neighbor Joanna on Monday at the Kroger. She was glancing down at a grocery list, mumbling to herself and weeping softly. So I knew Bob Gross had died. We spoke briefly, cried a little and exchanged hugs. She went off to look for sunflower seeds for the bereavement dish she was fixing for the family, and I came home to think and write about my neighbor Bob, who died Monday, April 20. He’d been suffering with cancer, and had be -
Blog postI was a newspaper reporter for 14 years, the last ten of which I spent as a features writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Most of that time I loved my work and my co-workers. But then one day, newspapers changed, and I wasn't consulted. When I left journalism 18 years ago to write fiction full-time, I had no idea how much more newspapers would change in the years to come, or that one day, print journalism would be considered as a dinosaur. Today, newspapers are under siege, from the eff
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Blog postWicker alert!
Posse members Shay, Mona and Jinxie at The Breeze Inn
Vintage treasures at St. Simon's antique fair
Sunset view from Jekyll pier
The old mister and I joined three other couples for a golf outing weekend on the Georgia coast. That is, the guys went golfing and the gals went...out. The gals got a jump on the weekend by heading to Tybee and The Breeze Inn on Wednesday. It was the first time we'd had friends down to the "finished" house, and e -
Blog postThe Easter weekend weather was wonderful, sunny, warm and breezy. The family was all here--Boomerang Boy in the truck that won't back up, Katie and Mark, and even Tybee, the pound puppy. I say they were all here, but that's not quite accurate. Wyatt and Weezie, our English setters, had to stay home because Wyatt and Tybee refuse to play nice together. Boys! Mr. Mary Kay and I came down Thursday evening to finish up some projects. The first thing I did was paint the shell-back motel chairs I'd pi
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Blog postNo scary wabbits, I promise! Just me, at Seaside Sisters on Tybee Island, Georgia, Saturday, April 11, signing copies of DEEP DISH. Did I mention there will be candy? I'm not above a bribe. Not at all. I'll be there from 11am-2p.m. Who knows, I may even wear my Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it. Also--enter a drawing for an absolutely free Easter basket full o' my books--including an advanced reader's copy of THE FIXER UPPER, which doesn't publish until June. Be the first on your block
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Blog postPretty maids all in a row--maybe at the Jersey shore? Love these three--especially the Al Capone type on the right with the dangling cigarette!
For a couple of years now, I've been hoarding vintage black and white beach snapshots. My collection started with a snap of my mother, at the age of 17 or 18, standing on the Pass-A-Grille Beach in our hometown of St. Petersburg, for a small-time modelling gig she did around 1950. As children, we always believed she'd been Miss America! Then I foun -
Blog postThe weather was perfect, sunny and warm, and seemingly every single soul in the city decided to come out to play on Sunday in New York. I got in around noon, dropped my suitcase at my hotel and hotfooted it over to Hell's Kitchen to wander around the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market for a couple hours. Here's how you know you're in New York: an elderly lady in lilac lipstick calls you "bubbe". As in, "that's a great deal, bubbe. You should buy." Hampered by the fact that I could on
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Blog postYou say you miss all your old friends who used to write for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution? Do you pine for Piney Woods Pete? Want to know what Eleanor Ringel thinks about movies? Want some thoughtful coverage of the South and Southern issues? We've got just the cure for your AJC jones. Join me and a bunch of other wonderful writers at a brand new online newspaper,
LIKE THE DEW. It's fun, it's free, it's fat-free. And I've got my first piece posted there today. So check us out...leave us -
Blog postBoomerang Boy's crib
Home is where you hang your hat--on your hall tree
Andrews party? Table for six?
My eBay find--1920s bathing suit
The breakfast club--Tybee style
Screened porch---walking in a wicker wonderland
Yikes! Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
We're almost there...After a long work week at Tybee Island, I came home last night for my signing at the Atlanta Junior League Kitchen Tour, just as Mr. Mary Kay and our son-in-law Mark were headed -
Blog postAt 7pm tonight I'll be doing an online chat and podcast and discussing DEEP DISH with the very cool Book Club Girl. Follow this link to get the details.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/AuthorsOnAir/Book-Club-Girl/2009/03/26/Mary-Kay-Andrews-Talks-about-Deep-Dish
It'll be a relief to get away from the paint fumes. I'm down at Tybee, painting my arse off and fluffing the house. Pix soon, I promise. -
Blog postHere I am with the two co-queens of the Lakewood 400 Antique Market, Lauri and Lulu of Chippys. And yes, those are vintage permanent wave pins that Lulu is wearing on her lapels and in her hair. It's workin', don't you think? My Saturday signing was so much fun it shoulda been illegal. So big thanks go out to show owners Ed and Barbara Spivia for letting me come out to play. My friend Cathy Blanco of The Book Exchange in Marietta sold what seemed like bazillions of books. I met loads of fellow
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Blog postOkay, call me spring feverish--but the first five people who show up to my signing at the Lakewood 400 Antique Market tomorrow and mention they saw the offer online get a FREE paperback of DEEP DISH. And the first ten who buy a copy of DEEP DISH get a FREE copy of SAVANNAH BREEZE. Not to mention you can enter a drawing to win a big-ass basket of free MKA books and goodies. So what's keeping you home? See you there tomorrow, 1-3 p.m.
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Blog postFound today on Craigslist Atlanta: 16' Dunphy 1959 Vintage boat Very Good Cond Beautiful and runs great. Everything rebuilt. 1970 40hp Evinrude Lark Good trailer new tires,rims,bearings. Ready to cruise! email for more pics. $4200 obo 352-591-2372.I picture Mr. Mary Kay at the wheel of this classic beauty, tanned, (he stays tanned), in an open-collar shirt, myself seated beside him, with an icy adult beverage, cool vintage Jacky O sunglasses, perhaps a flowing scarf fluttering in the breeze, as
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Blog postIf you're anywhere near Greenville, North Carolina, please join me for a luncheon event to benefit Literacy Volunteers of Pitt County on Weds., Mar. 18. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. with a book signing, followed by lunch and my talk. Later that afternoon I'll give a mini writer's workshop. Y'all come!
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Blog postVery old pressed board trunk and glass cake stand
Vintage luggage, ledger book and spatterware bowl
Walking in a wicker wonderland
The line to get into the Savannah estate sale
Okay, I'll cop to it---I totally junked all weekend long--and a little last weekend as well. But it's been what seems like a long cruel winter here in Georgia, and I really had a dry spell, what with signings for DEEP DISH and working on The Breeze Inn down at Tybee. Last weeke -
Blog postOkay, how's this for one-stop shopping? Next Saturday, March 21, I'll be signing copies of the new paperback of DEEP DISH at the Lakewood 400 Antique Market in Cumming, Georgia from 1-3 p.m. You can junk and catch up with me (and buy books) in one sweet trip. All you folks in North Georgia who've been complaining that I never get up to your neck of the woods can now cruise on over to say hey. And junk. And buy books. We'll even have a drawing for a big, beautiful basket of autographed MKA books
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Blog postThe weather promises to be beautiful in South Georgia tomorrow. Sunny and warm. Why not take a cruise over to Baxley to meet me--and buy books? Or come to Savannah this Monday night for my first book signing (and cocktails) at a restaurant? And stay tuned: I went to a fabulous estate sale in Savannah this morning and shot more video. Maybe I can get it downloaded, edited and uploaded before the end of March.
Here are the signing details:
Sat. Mar. 7, 2:00p.m.: Reading a -
Blog postThere are lots of perks to being a published author, but one of the nicest ones is meeting so many fascinating people. Today I was a guest at a coffee given by some of the board members of Georgia Women of Achievement. Next Thursday, I'll have the privilege of speaking at the organization's annual induction ceremony at Mercer College in Macon. My hostess's mother founded this organization--and guess what? She just happens to be Georgia's first and only Miss America--Neva Jane Langley Fickling--
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Blog postI'm just learning how to shoot, upload and edit video with my new Flip videocam. Geez--I need a second grader to teach me this stuff. Seriously, my friend's third-grader son can do this backwards and forwards.
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Blog postI was thrilled to see my friends Tad and Erica Wilson's gorgeous Tybee Island home, called Amazing Grace, featured prominently here in this month's COASTAL LIVING. The house, in my opinion, is the most beautiful on Tybee, situated on a large lot on the Back River, and preserved and restored by the always amazing Jane Coslick, and furnished with love by Erica, who, like me, has a serious jones for junking. I met Erica and Tad through Jane a couple of years ago, and eventually scammed an invitati
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