“What lovely hand-painted glasses these are! Each one so unique!” I exclaimed as we sat down to the beautifully set table on this farm north of Northport. “I found those at the Samaritan’s Closet in Lake Leelanau,” Kathy Garthe told me with pride. Whenever her daughter Nikki comes to visit they go thrifting, and are sure to stop by the local consignment shops, The Roost in Suttons Bay and Jaffe’s Resale and Consignment in Lake Leelanau. I remember noticing the elegant purple satin coat dress Nikki wore with such flare a couple years back, from The Roost, as I stroke the soft cashmere of my camel twin set sweater I had found myself at The Roost last winter.

