Archive for the ‘Amelia Island Activities’ Category

Ten Year Anniversary of Magna’s Salon

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Current ride of Magna's owner Tom

 

Why a motorcycle as the lead picture for a blog on the 10th anniversary of a local salon?  With good reason, since the inspiration and name for the salon “Magna’s – A Full  Body Salon” came to Tom Hughes as he was riding his Honda Magna motorcycle in the days before opening (his current ride is pictured above).  The Latin meaning for magna is large, great , powerful or mighty and Tom felt it captured the concept he had in mind for his salon and spa.   Tom and his partner Stacye chose to match their decor with this theme and create a space that would appeal to both sexes.  Hence the decor includes light hardwood floors, recessed lighting,  earthtone colors,  Roman style columns and a mixture of both masculine and feminine decorating.   Tom and Stacye  recently celebrated their 10th anniversary on Amelia Island and held an open house for clients and friends.  We utilize Magna’s often for weddings and spa packages and Deborah has been the beneficiary of several of their relaxation packages on birthdays and anniversaries.  It was a nice evening with the opportunity to meet their staff, visit with other locals and see the full range of the spa and salon at one time.  Wine, beer and treats were available and enjoyed by all.  It’s great to see local businesses succeed and we appreciate having the services available to provide for guests of the Williams House.  Come to Amelia Island, stay at the Williams House and enjoy a trip to Magna’s!  Our congratulations to Tom and Stacye and our hope for many more successful years here on Amelia Island!

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Tom greets Deborah in front of Salon and Shrimp art

 

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Magna's waiting room/retail shop

 

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Front desk view of Magna's salon

 

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Guests enjoy Magna's hospitality

 

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Deborah enjoys snacks while Tom chats

 

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Relaxing space inside Magna's salon

Fun Scrapbooking Retreat at Williams House

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
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Conference room is set for start of scrapbooking retreat

The Williams House hosted its first Scrapbooking Retreat. Deborah’s  daughter, Jaime is a Consultant for Close To My Heart scrapbooking & stamping supplies and leads Scrapbooking workshops and shows in Virginia (jaime_llewellyn@yaoo.com).  Our meeting room located in the Carriage House is the perfect space. Each Scrapper gets their own table to set  out their supplies and tools which they can leave in place for the duration of the Retreat.  The cost of the retreat included some free “goodies” and lot of prizes were awarded throughout the weekend  for various projects completed. Jaime also offered classes during the retreat. There was lots of laughter and fun.  Close To My Heart has a complete range of tools, papers and stamps to make any scrapper happy and lots of projects were completed by the end of the weekend.  The male half of the family enjoyed some golf and dinners out with the scrappin’ ladies.  It was a great weekend and Jaime is already planning for the next retreat. Come join in and have a great scrappin’ time!

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Jaime, Elena, Kathy and Shannon are all to get scrappin'

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Close To My Heart has lots of supplies for great scrappin'

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Ladies enjoy making a recipe box from one of the CTMH kits

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Hard work scrappin' yields good results

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Picnic Lunch was provided each day for the scrappers

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Recipe boxes that each scrapper made were a big hit

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Deborah shows off her first photo pages made from a CTMH kit

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More great scrappin' results from retreat

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Ladies show how great scrappin' projects can be done

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Jaime provided great prizes at the retreat for completed projects

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Scrappin' ladies enjoy lunch in Williams House courtyard

Sailing Adventure at Williams House-Amelia Island

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

williams house owners try out windward sunset sail

Deborah’s daughters were staying at the Williams House this week and her older daughter, Jaime led a scrapbooking retreat.  While they were here, we took the group out on a sailing adventure with Windward Sailing for a sunset cruise in the Amelia River.  It was a beautiful evening with a nice sunset, calm seas and warm temps.  We took along some subs from our local Fernandina Deli on 8th street and a few beers and wine.  We enjoyed seeing fort clinch from the river side, shrimp boats at the docks, Cumberland Island, porpoises( or dolphins ) and learning a bit from our experienced captain about sailing.  He even let Deborah steer the boat for a while as he rigged the sails.  We’ve had several guests take this private sail and all have enjoyed it.  We can now add our own reccommendation for a fun experience and a great calming end to a day.

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all-aboard for sailing in Fernandina Beach

shrimp boats docked in Amelia river

shrimp boats rest in Amelia harbour

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deborah and daughters relaxing on sailboat

deborah and daughters relax as we sail

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deborah's daughters hang on in a turn

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Beautiful view of Cumberland Island from sailboat

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Deborah takes a turn steering

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Sunset on the harbour near fernandina beach

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The sailboat's american flag highlighted by sunset

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Beautiful sunset nears end on amelia island

Magical Firefly Paddles

Friday, March 26th, 2010

People who have never experienced the night aglow with fireflies are amazed once they do. It is ethereal to stand among them and watch their glowing dance.

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Like stars dancing among us.

Guests of our Fernadina beach inn next month may walk among the fireflies thanks to magical Firefly Paddles through Kayak Amelia. These special trips will take place April 9, 10, 16, 17, and 23, 2010. (more…)

Concours D’ Elegance on Amelia Island

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

A williams House guest, Jan, has her eye on this beauty

If you like cars, at least older well preserved cars, the Amelia Island Concours De Elegance was the place to be this past weekend.  With record cars present and around 18,000 visitors to the show it was a grand event.  The Williams House was filled with car enthusiasts including one from Puerto Rico who was showing his car.  Discussions at breakfast, wine hour and in betweeen was pretty much non-stop car talk with some showing pictures of their prized cars and others taking in every minute of the activity linked to the show.  It was I believe the first time we have ever had a Rolls Royce parked in our driveway courtesy of a guest from Charleston.  With all rooms filled we weren’t able to see the show but guests happily shared their pictures as you will see below.  It continues to be widely enjoyed by everyone who attends and the weather finally cooperated with sunny but slightly cool days on Saturday and Sunday for the events.  On Sunday, all of the cars registered for the show are displayed on the Golf Club of Amelia  fairways, a great golf course near the middle of the Island.  Some called it a field of dreams for car enthusiasts.  As the name says in French, this is a “parade of elegance” when it comes to rare automobiles. If you are in to cars come join us next year at the Williams House for this great show….but book early, the show is very popular!