New Beginnings

Fifteen years ago, our kids were in elementary school and had become a little more independent, which made me start thinking…I know I can do more than load and unload this dishwasher!!!!

I started a little handmade sign business called “Mom’s Sign Company"!! I sold signs in lots of Small Business stores in our area. One of them was Vintage 615 in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

Little did I know that five years later after my hubby was retiring from General Motors and praying for God to show what He wanted us to do…we suddenly had the opportunity to own Vintage 615. 

Vintage 615 was the cutest little warm and fun boutique, gift shop and vendor marketplace. It was always more than a store to me. It was a place where people were seen, heard, valued and cared for.

 It was also a time when we joined the Spring Hill Chamber of Commerce and began a history of being involved in the community and making friends who are family to me.

One day, a year before we bought Vintage 615, my Mom (Rose) got sick. I am an only child and we moved her and my Dad in with us that day. They had lived 45 miles away and that was to0 far for me to start my season of taking care of them. My Mom passed four months later and life continued on with Chris (hubby), Zach, Meg (our kids), Shelby (our dog) and PawPaw (my Daddy).

PawPaw just blended in with our family and we did everything together, going to the beach, running errands, helping with projects, watching the Atlanta Braves and Gunsmoke, and what he loved most of all, taking Shelby for walks and mowing the lawn.

Two years later we opened a furniture store in Spring Hill…Living615 that my hubby ran. So there we were two stores, kids growing up and caretakers.

At Vintage 615 we went through our store flooding, a pandemic, car crashing into the building, businesses around us closing, a jump in the economy, an economic slowdown, PawPaw passing away (at 97). Then, recently our landlord decided to sell the building we were in at Living615.

Suddenly this cool building in Columbia was available and when we checked into it to our surprise, no one had rented it out. Our dream was always to be under one roof. We had looked at many other buildings that would only work for one of us but nothing that would work for both. (I did pray to GOD that if it wasn’t for us, to close the door and did he do that!!!)

Now all of a sudden, my Dad is gone and a new opportunity comes to us and guess what…if was enough room for both of our businesses.

We closed both stores (imagine the work!!!…Thank God for our Amazing Team) and moved Living615 to the main floor and set me up on the second floor to convert my Vintage 615 brick and mortar into an online store and to have a PopUp Shop monthly in the furniture store.

What wasn’t in the plan was when we announced we were moving was our Spring Hill community was so sad that we decided to open a booth in the local Spring Hill Antique Mall so that we could continue being in the community.

So after owning Vintage 615 for seven years I am off to the next Small Business Adventure with my hubby and the new name of our furniture store…Living on 6th, located on 113 E. 6th Street in Columbia and the rebranding of Vintage 615 to “Sweet Maggie Rose” named after my Mom (Rose) and her best friend Maggie which represents Fun, Friendship and Fashion!!!

And Away We Go…To another New Beginning!!!!