About Us:
Three Speckled Hens Antiques and
Old Stuff is brought to you by the Three Speckled Hens. A fateful antique
junket got our wheels spinning. “Why don’t we bring a fun, unique antique
show to our home town?” The three of us have backgrounds in business
and community leadership and more importantly we LOVE to antique. A
few lemon drops later and we had formed a business plan and the Three
Speckled Hens was born.
We met through our children and their various
school activities. We became friends through hours of booster meetings
and endless committees. We formed a bond through our "joy of country, love of antiques".
Our mutual passion is producing our annual "Three Speckled Hen" Antique
Show. We live in an ideal place for ah antique show. Templeton is
on the Central Coast of California, half way between Los Angeles
and San Francisco, and a fabulous vacation spot for the whole family.
It is in the heart of wine growing region, with golf courses and
beaches near by. Templeton is a small, quiet town with a strong community
spirit and a vision to preserve its colorful past. If feedlots, grain
mills, cattle, barns and farms sound like something out of a movie,
you need to visit! Weekends are often filled with specialty wine
events, art shows, farmer's markets, and livestock auctions.
Our Three styles are as individual as we are.
Carrie didn’t
‘catch’ the antique bug until she escaped city life and moved with
her husband and kids to Templeton twelve years ago. She had always
told her husband that one day they would live in a small country
town, in a house with a white picket fence and they fell in love
with Templeton. Her tastes are a mix of traditional, French country,
and garden antiques. They have also spent the last six years renovating
an older home to give it its own country feel. She looks forward
to traveling the country in search of antique treasures.
Kathy spent part of her formative years living on the east coast
where she fell in love with American History and the idea that all
old things hold the mystery and dignity of past lives. In homage
to this spiritual connection, she reveres and collects all old things
from button hocks and pewter, to crocks and old spurs. "I wanted
to see if I could "feel" the history, so I was one of those
kids who leaned over the red velvet ropes and stuck their finger
in the crack in the Liberty Bell. No wonder it's behind glass now!" Kathy's
still waiting to meet her first ghost, however, presumably while
dusting one of her many antiques. Kathy and her husband live and
work their family owned cattle ranch where their three sons are the
fifth generation of the Marquart family to be born and raised.
Susi is the junker in the group. She lives on Willow Creek Farm with
4 generations of her family. Junking is a natural for her as her
home is the original 100 year old + farm house. It had been neglected
for many years when Susi and her husband came upon it fifteen years
ago. After years of hard work, little money and a big sense of humor,
it is now an eclectic mix of country, modern and farm, with a touch
of whimsy.