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home, she has added several paintings and other pieces of art, all on consignment.*
Mrs. Stamps said she has no shop experience, hut her art-school education has come in handy. She created and made the decorative tags and the sign that are Morning (dory’s trademarks.
She said her store is a “wonderful medium for creative expression."
The shop’s name, Morning Glory Antiques, has an interesting history. “It’s sort of serendipitous,” she said with a smile, recalling the story of the morning-glory-blue 1955 Ford truck she brought, several years ago.
"I always wanted an old truck,” she said, adding she told her husband, it was for their “antique shop. And we had no plans for this shop.”
Though the first months were slow and customers infrequent, Mrs. Stamps said her optimism has not faded and her hopes for spring are blooming.
Mrs. Stamps said she has “an idea of prices. I am a collector.”
In one corner of the shop a drawing table stands. Mrs. Stamps hopes to do sketches of the town and area for visitors to buy.
She also has plans to add furniture on the patio for a summer rejtose in the shade.
“It’s just so pretty here,” she said, adding there is nothing that’s "not pretty in Washington. Why, even the jail is pretty."
The shop is open weekends under guidance of Darryl Atkins of Washington.
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