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Have you ever gone shopping for furniture and felt like you’ve seen the same thing in another store?
What about the quality? Was the back of that bookcase really made of cardboard?
Here’s your chance to buy a piece of furniture made out of real wood. A chance to find something unique for your home that will make it stand out in a world of cookie cutter interiors. A chance to find a gift for the impossible-to-buy-for person.
It’s all at the 34th Annual Bayou Lafourche Antiques Show and Sale Friday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Sept. 12 in Thibodaux.
“Country Home” magazine has called the show one of the 100 Hot Antiques Shows in the country for good reason.
With more than 40 dealers from around the country, antique collectors, interior designers and avid home decorators will find something for everyone and something in every price range.
Shoppers anxious to discover that perfect treasure can browse through extensive collections of furniture, books, paper, glassware, architectural and garden items, oil paintings, pottery, oriental rugs, china, country baskets, quilts, silver and folk art, jewelry, collectibles, linens and much more.
With so much to look at bargain hunters are bound to work up quite an appetite.
Nicholas’ Catering will be on hand whipping up mouth-watering dishes. Those as serious about their Cajun cooking as they are about their antiques will not be disappointed.
The annual event will be at the Warren J. Harang Municipal Auditorium (formerly known as the Thibodaux Civic Center) at 310 N. Canal Blvd. in Thibodaux.
Hours are Friday and Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 on all three days.
The Ta-Wa-Si Women’s Civic Club sponsors the show and sale.
The group was founded in 1947 and chose its name from an Indian word meaning friends or helper. The club lives up to the name by donating show proceeds to local projects, schools and charities.
The late Martha Sowell Utley organized the first Bayou Lafourche Antiques Show & Sale in 1975.
Utley had a dream of building a library and cultural center in Thibodaux and much of the proceeds from those early antique shows went toward fulfilling that dream.
The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center and the main office of the Lafourche Parish Public Library are now housed in a restored warehouse refurbished with the donated funds.
The Ta-Wa-Si Women’s Club has also donated funds to local students attending Nicholls State University. So far over 50 full-tuition scholarships have been awarded.
Show proceeds have also enabled the club to establish an endowment at Nicholls to ensure future scholarships.
The women’s club has also donated a new piano lab with 20 keyboards and instructional materials, science lab equipment and a bus trip for talented and gifted students to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Other beneficiaries include the Bayou Country Children’s Museum, Chez Hope, Boy and Girl Scouts, Hope for Animals, the Thibodaux Playhouse, Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross.
For more information call (985) 413-1147 or visit www.tawasi.net.
The Ta-Wa-Si Women’s Civic Club is hosting its 34th Annual Bayou Lafourche Antiques Show and Sale Sept. 10 through Sept. 12 in Thibodaux.
