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.