Backdoor Primitives

Christmas Time is here!

2011-11-26T16:38:00.000-08:00

Well I've been decorating my little heart out. I started deep cleaning a couple wks ago before hauling all my Christmas things down from the attic!~ Ive got a basket full of bells here on the hall table.

Here's a picture of my beautiful girls on Thanksgiving Day! Chelsea my 19 yr old niece, Taylor my 16 yr, old daughter and Brooke my 15 yr old niece.

Aren't they just model beautiful!!! I can remember them one Christmas not to long ago doing a Christmas play right here in the living rm.! Now their all growing up! Taylor hates it that she's the shortest, (note her standing on the hearth just to be up there with them)

This is Tyler her boyfriend spending the weekend with us!!

Love all my snowman!! Got him perched on a picnic basket.

The fireplace is all treed out!

This is my candy cane station. I saw this idea in the new Country Sampler Christmas magazine and decided to create a nook for our home! The girls were already into the sweets on Thanksgiving day.

Santa underwear hung proudly on the front door!

A little garland on another cabinet.

My top hat trees in the living rm with some of the antique toys I've collected through out the summer from tag sales.

Some of my handy work on some pillows tacked in a basket.

I made a few wooden candy canes out of dowel rods one summer. Try and eat those girls!

Some antiqued tags I have on the trees.

This is the best thing I got this summer. My cousin was such a great fried this yr and has continues to tag sale for me even after school started and I could no longer go. One day she texted me and had bought this for me. Isn't it cool! Its an old tool box of some kind and I had such fun decorating it for the holidays. I knew the first time I saw it I was going to put it where I did for Christmas! I love the pillows and rolling pins tucked in it! I've already gotten so many complements on it! Thanks Towanna!!

A stocking hung on an old window frame in the dining rm.

This is the cabinet in the dining rm. where I have alot of old jars displayed.

A chalkboard I picked up this summer. I love it too sitting in the dining rm. entryway with a greeting written on it.

Another pic of the wooden box!

The old mail slot cabinet above the sofa, all deep cleaned and dust free now!

Sorry a double pic:/

Looking into the dining rm from the living rm.

Well that's all for now. Elf the movie is on and I love that show. Have a great week ladies!!

Autumn Gatherings

2011-10-15T20:14:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd take some photos of some of the fall decor I have put together. I don't feel like I went all out like I have in the past. I don't know why, I used up almost all my fall stuff in my tubs. Anyway this is my fireplace and mantle area.

A few pumpkins atop a freebie cabinet I found on the curb one day.

My entry way table.

I use alot of sunflowers in my fall decorating.

Some great pumpkins in a big old wooden bowl.

My tool box painted barn red makes a great fall display on the kitchen island.

Porch junk!!!

I love this corner. I made the Neewollah sign, sold a slug of them last yr. at school. Neewollah is Halloween spelled backwards. Its an annual celebration we have here in Independence Ks. Carnival, street acts, kiddie and grand parade. Google it, its a fun time for families!

Still getting good use out of my summer ferns and geraniums.

I have been so fortunate that my cousin has been out scouting around at fall Friday morning sales for me. I will come home and find many treasures in my yard that she has picked up for me. I think I have her hooked on "picking". This is an old chicken nesting house I think. $2

My fav find of the day was this old tool box. It just spoke to me. You can't duplicate this "wear and tear" on anything. I love it. It may find itself on my entry table this winter. $3!!!

These were great finds too! The big galvanized tub has a hole in it but for .50 its mine. The rope was $2.00 Ill use that around my pool area next summer. I'm so loving the two galvanized buckets for .50 , yes .50. I love the graphics on them.

This twin bed was a find for $10.00 I plan on painting it black and scuffing it up. Need to buy a twin mattress and will put it in the computer rm. for an overnight guest. The star from the same tag sale was $2 and the old royal blue roasting pan was .50 Great finds this weekend!

Last but not least, met Ollie, our new dapple dashand puppy. Sadly we lost our 13 yr old Scooter to a coyote a few months ago. So we felt we needed a new baby around the house. He's been alot of work cleaning up after him, but he is a joy!!

He wants to chew on everything even Taylor's nose here in this photo. We miss you lots Scooty!!!!

A trove of Treasures!

2011-08-28T14:01:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm snoozing away on a Saturday morning, as I said before the tag sales around here have terrible all summer because of the heat. So I'm snoozing away and my phone rings, its my cousin, she says she's at a sale that has my name written all over it. Get up and get here! It was about 20 min. away she started describing some of the things she was looking at and I scampered right over there. It was a pickers delight. An entire trailer house full of junk. Snake nest and all! I managed to pull out some things that interested me a whole lot!

This is a few things I came home with!!

They had three of these old black ones I could have kicked myself for not buying all but this one was the best.

This old well pump will go out in my newest burem( spelling?)out by the driveway. I brought home about three old pulleys and love the old rope. Two wash boards for the laundry rm.

I know!!!! Look at the milk cans and oil cans. I love the big old glass jug. Didn't have a lid but I can look for one or cover it with some old cloth

This old wash tub I traded my sweet neighbor for a sink Ill show you farther down in to this post. She was going to use it to ice down soft drinks on her deck!

Another shot of the old pulleys and a great colander!

This, my cousin thought was some kind of pulley system from a track over a door or something. I'm thinking I see a hanging basket from it.

Love this old grinder, I have a plant in it now on my deck(farther on down this post) The blue caught my eye on it old gas can and this small wash tub ringer will also go in my laundry rm.

Red gas can was cool. Always pick up those Folgers cans, they work anywhere during Christmas decor. The spur looking pulley was to twist rope with? That's what the lady said. An old green enamelware wash tub has seen better days but the green is so hard to come by and I love enamelware. And finally and old gardening tool is always a find.

This oval galvanized tub is hanging on a tree in my driveway now. The bottom is rotted out. I think the grid thing is a seed separator? And a great old pump.

Love that enamelware!!!!!! I have hung some with S hooks on all my washtubs around the yard!

I found this big old flag in the bottom of a box there. It will come in handy next summer for sure!

This is an enamel light fixture. I sure want to find a place for this maybe out by the pool!

Ok, here is what I traded my neighbor for the wash tub! She has had this awhile and her son has just finished and outdoor kitchen for her. Stoned the front and cement counter tops and she wanted to go with a different look on the deck so she traded me. After I got it all decorated, Mike suggested next summer we make a water feature from the red well pump going into the sink!!! Yea, I loved that idea! I put some of the milk cans under the sink too.

Here's the old tub on the tree.

And the old pulley and rope in a wagon on the deck. I found the old oil sign at Hobby Lobby this wk. 50% off too.

And finally the old wooden grinder with a potted grass in it. I love the look. Well it was a great weekend for finds at least at that one sale. I've had fun this weekend playing around in the yard with all of it. School starts for us on Tuesday, hoping the weather starts to cool off. Have a great week everyone!

Kansas Sunflowers

2011-08-19T10:25:00.000-07:00

I just love sunflowers, like anything else the old and ready to discard type. I hadn't found seen any sunflower fields for two yrs. until we drove out by the lake the other night and there it lay. Got the hubby's pocket knife out and ran out into the field and started cutting all I could carry back to the car. I love to use them displayed around the house for all seasons really.

These are a few drying out on the deck and with the temps in the triple digits they are drying fast!

Some from many yrs ago in an old milk jug!

I love the small ones too they look great in and old ice cream bucket in an old crate.

The tag sales have been far and few between. I hoping when the fall weather breaks people will feel like pulling all their old junk out of their sheds. I've not bought much of anything for a long while now.

Well school starts up in about a wk and a half. Kind of ready to see some little people. Taylor's dance team practices have started up for the new football season and work is keeping her busy. Mikes on vacation this wk and we have painted the new carport and it looks nice. Ill have to take a pic of that soon for you all to see. Stay cool I'm dreaming of getting my fall pumpkins down!!!!

Sit A Spell

2011-08-04T19:44:00.000-07:00

I picked up a few old metal chairs the other day. The tag sales have been terrible lately. I think its the weather, I mean who wants to have a sale when the temp is 110. Thats what its been here in southeast Kansas. But one morning the Mike called home and he had been listening to open line. Its a local radio station that you can call in to sell any item or if your looking for an item to purchase. He called me tto tell me someone had four old metal chairs for sale for $40. I tried the number many times and just got a busy signal. So I cross referenced the number and headed for the address across town. The guy hadn't sold them yet and so I bought them! I love the old blue one!

The yellow one matches the glider. All for $40. I haven't found a home for them in the yard as of yet. It is just to darn hot to do anything outside but be in my pool! Somedays I spend 3 hrs out there. I know I shouldn't be in the sun that long.

Don't you just love the colors!!!!

And the rust!!!!!!!!

I did spend a few minutes on the deck this evening, the hummingbirds are back. They were here and left and in just the last few days Ive seen about three of them fighting for nector. I have two feeders right in front of my kitchen window. And if you sit real still they will come up even as you sit on the deck!!!

Mike came home with this boat the other day. You never know woth my husband what he will be pulling into the yard on any given day. I was hoping to be in the water with it already but he has to replace the motor mounts on it. So for now it sits under the new carport. Well Ill have to take a picturre in the morning of the huge tree that fell almost on top of my pool this evening. Its huge, more pics tommorow!! Have a great evening.

My Dancers

2011-07-09T11:39:00.000-07:00

I found the picture!! Taylor and Brooke in their first dance recital at 4 and 5.....

and Taylor and Brooke at High School Dance Camp at age 15 and 16!!!!!!!! Read onto the next post!!!

My Dancers are back!!

2011-07-09T11:10:00.001-07:00

We picked the girls up from Dance Camp this morning. They had a great time, they are tired and sore but made some great memories I hope. Here are cousins Taylor and Brooke, if my memory serves me right, I may have to dig out a picture of the two of them in this exact poise only in too toos at the age of 4 and 5. Brooke the taller of the two is a yr. younger that Taylor.

"STRIKE A POISE"

Sid, the good boyfriend drove down with me to pick her up, she was excited to see him!!!!!!!

These fab four were roomies together, I'm surprised anyone got any sleep.

Good job!! IHS Dance Team

Off to Dance Camp!!

2011-07-07T14:57:00.000-07:00

Just sent my daughter Taylor and my niece Brooke off to high school dance camp Wed. morning! They were very excited to go. Taylor is third over from the right. Brooke is right above her!

Brooke Tay and friend Riley! They all took those pillow pets. Mema got them all one for Christmas, Who knew they'd love them so much!

The mothers of the dancers have been meeting regularly to get their daily gifts bought and packaged up. We sent them off with a shower caddy, monogrammed towels, personalized water bottles, dorm door decorations and hair ribbons. Today they should have gotten a t-shirt and lanyard, tomorrow a necklace and picture frame.

We went down last night and watched them preform their routine. She called before she went to bed, their having a great time, tiring but fun. I miss her so much. But at least her room is going to stay clean until Saturday when she comes home!!!!!!! It's so nice to walk by and see it looking so neat :)

Our little dancers!

No Fishin.......Just Swimmin

2011-06-26T07:24:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd show you girls a few signs of this sweltering summer heat we're having here in Kansas. We got the pool open and it's been really nice after mowing to cool off in the local fishing shack! Ive showed this before on my blog but this yr. I changed a few things under the corner shade up a bit. I've even added a new duck to the pond. Thought the one duck looked a little lonely floating around out there by himself.

I added a couple more crates and tried to make it look like an old dock setting. Found an old net rolled up in the corner.

Still love my old boat I found a couple yrs ago right under my nose. Had been looking forever and my sil said her parents had one covering their woodpile. I brought it home to rest here! recently I have been running across some large galvanized tubs! Love those, and I thought to hang them form the railing of the pool. I love the looks of it, don't you?

Just a view of the covered deck on the south side of our home.

The newly built not quite done, but almost carport Mike is building off our garage. My daughter is driving now and with his car and hers were always scrambling when it storms to get their cars under something, we decided to build a two car carport off our two door garage. We are going to work on finishing the siding on the peaks today as a matter of fact. Mikes really handy around the house. We built the entire house several yrs ago.

This is another pic I have showed before, its the garden shed. I found and old chicken coop a couple yrs. ago and love any old galvanized hanging over the tomato plants!

The swing and hammock :)

Now for some pics of the things I get at tag sales and never show you girls what I do with it all. This is the flag Mike brought home for me for Mothers day this yr. I have it in the corner by the TV cabinet and several yrs ago I found this old cool picture of an American flag.

Just reminds me of one you might of seen in my Elementary school days!

Well this is what I have been looking for!! The minute I laid eyes on this flag I envisioned an old flag stand for it. And I knew just the guy to find me one. I had been looking on EBay but they wanted $95 and up for one. So I ran into the maintenance guy at for our local school district, he is a friend and a fellow junker. We see each other at all the tag sales. I mentioned to Ken what I was wanting and he said he had just what I needed. So one day he pulled into my driveway and opened his trunk and there were three perfectly old flag stands! Gasp!!! and he's telling me to pick which one I wanted. One was huge but awesome one was square and awesome and so I choose this one because I thought it would fit well in the spot I needed it for. Still have to have Mike turn down the flag pole to fit into the stand. So I say Ok Ken what do you have to have for it. I'm hopping he says under $30 bucks. He stammers around for a few seconds and says OHHHHH, $2. WHAT!!!!!!!!! I say oh Ken there is no way, its worth so much more that $2. He says ya but that's what I gave for it and from one picker to another that's what I want for it.

Now for a few pics of some of the other treasures I have drug home and have found a place for. This is the old fishing tackle box I bought a few wks ago. I have it sitting on the hearth of the fireplace with some dowel rod firecrackers I made.

And the old red box I bought last weekend with an old flag and more firecrackers, I have it on a table in the entry way for the holiday!

The old green plant stand with a fern on it on the deck.

One of my many summer projects was to chalkboard paint a couple old cabinet doors I had picked up for $1 each and an old mirror for $2.

On Saturday I hit a good one. I had been to a few and found a few things, a tall black plastic set of drawers for my daughters room and heading home I stopped at another and saw this lady hauling to her car and old gas can and I hustled right on up there. The home belonged to an older gentleman (103) that had passed and his nephews were selling the contents of his house. Well I started in the garage and spied this old red pump under a table, I picked it up for $20 the bigger bucket was $3 but it has some really cool red printed wording on the side of it. The little bucket was covering an old lawn mover, which now I wish I had gone back for:(

Loved the old oil can for $2, the glass jar .50 I mad my SIL an old black cat fireworks label and will fill it with firecrackers tomorrow when the stands open and give it to her.

Was thrilled to find this old tire pump for $1 and it still works along with the old rack or $1.

These I'm pretty proud of. I was walking through a doorway from the garage onto the backyard and saw one old wire flyswatters on a nail, and a few minutes later I spied three more on another nail. I love them they look so vintage!!

The old ladder is going to my daughters boyfriends mother. She has been wanting me to pick up a few things for her yard when I run across them. I think she can use this by a tree and I have a few pieces of enamelware for her to plant some flowers in.

My last pic is the goods I found when I went back to that same sell to find a watering can I thought might still be there, but wasn't. This old box had been marked down to $1, I brought i home and had to put a few more nails in it, but I love the color. And the old canning rack I will put some flowers in the jars and set it about somewhere! Well I know I had alot of pics this post, hope I haven't bored you to long. Today my plan is to go out on the screened in porch and move out an old white cabinet and either nail some old crates on the wall or use some old shutters I have had. Anyway I see it I'm probably going to sweat!

Tag Sale Goodies

2011-06-11T10:18:00.000-07:00

I was playing around on the deck today. I have so much junk! These were not my original idea, I saw this somewhere on Blog land, but I have wanted to try this for sometime. Just old strainers with a little Gerber daisy added to the post of my deck!

Another one on another post!

The rest of the pics are of my tag sale finds this weekend. I found alot!!!! Isn't this little enamel dipper just precious!$3.

Also got this bucket and cute little enamel cups for $3 each. thinking of hanging the cups from a window frame I have.

Hit a sale outside of town that was great! this green stand is holding a fern on one of my patios! I love the green chippy paint.$3 The lady said she loved to junk but had accumulated to much stuff. Oh, honey me too, but I just keep buying it!

This I so didn't need don't even have a place for it, but $5, I thought I'd put it under my bathroom window all painted up black but it sticks out to far in front of the toilet :(

This little red box I pd. $5 for I could see some of my red white and blue dowel rod firecrackers in it, or a strand of black cat firecrackers tucked in some greenery! The flags I snagged for $1 each!

I love the brass corners and the handle on it!

This is a vegetable bin the lady said, it has holes on the sides. $1

All this galvanized stuff for $1 each! How can you just leave it for that?

Loved this old mailbox, I'm guessing it is? Its big but I thought id look good nailed to the wall on the front porch. $2

Yesterday I found these chicken feeders, the long one for $3 and the big ones for $4 each there where 3 of them. The old farmer wanted to know if I was going to go into the chicken business? No, I said just going to sit them around the yard!

This I also got from the farmer, $8 love this!!

Another feed, one of the 3, I just loved the colorful graphics on them. Well on going out to play in the yard and find some spots for my new junk!!

First Summer Tag Sale Finds!

2011-05-31T07:01:00.000-07:00

Well it was my first Friday off of school for the summer break and I was going to sleep in but was awake at 6:00 am as usual. I had marked the tag sale ads the previous night, so I got up and went. I try not to have any expectations in finding anything, as to not be too disappointed. However, this morning I hit a great one!! I was going to hit some local ones in town first, but decided to go for the one on the outskirts of a small town nearby. So in about 10 minutes I was there. Antiques were advertised, but that saying you never know what that may mean? could be somethings that aren't so old and not my kind of stuff or it could be great stuff but so high nobodies going to buy it at that price. I was the first one to turn into the old farmhouse. Yea! an old farmhouse. A young looking lady was just bringing out the money box and her chair. ya, it was 30 minutes before her sale was advertised to open but, " Sure, she was open and ready!" At the first glance around the place I noticed an old sled, Ah! But I'm thinking how much will it be? $3.00, Id take it, entering the garage, I noticed a couple old suitcases, But I'm thinking How much? $1.00 each, OK! I like how this is looking!

I mentioned how she and I appeared to like the same things! Yea, she was a junker too but just had no room. NO ROOM? in that big old farmhouse. Boy would I like to go in and look around then? I found this cute little primitive mirror for $1. Several green handled utensils for $3 each. An old jar with zinc lid for $3.

I was tingly when I spied this old basket for $3! It's a great size. I can see geraniums in it on my porch!

And this old wooden barrel for $3. She had a smaller one she was using to put her plastic bags for the sale in.

These two great old bowls were priced for $3 each as is. Love them, have already used both of them! I just love old bowls:)

Here is a pic of the old sled, now an old sled is the last thing I needed. I have just a few already hanging around the porches and stored on hooks in the potting shed, but for $3, I couldn't pass it up.

I love love love the chippy paint. Well I headed home stopping at a few more, not even caring if I didn't find one more thing that weekend. And it was only Friday! Well I worked in the yard this past Sunday, Mike rode his motorcycle to Joplin Missouri with a few other thousand bikes to participate with the Patriot Guards to protect the victims of the tornado from the protesters from that radical Topeka church. He said it was unreal, the damage. Much worse than what you see on TV. I can't imagine what it would be like to loose everything, like so many of those people did.

Grand Old Flag

2011-05-13T09:35:00.000-07:00

This is what I got for Mothers Day from my husband!! Isn't it awesome! He got it right this yr. He went to a swap meet in Lawrence Ks. and came home with this. The vendor said oh you could clean it up some. He said no my wife will like it just like this. Its an old flag that was used in parades carried by veterans.

Came with a great old pole. I actually have it standing in a corner of my living room. Didn't even think to take a pic of that. I will soon tho! I just loved it!

My daughter and her boyfriend helped his mother set up for a craft fair that weekend and she bought me this old can. The vendor was painting on them and trying to peel off the label. She bought it unpainted just the way I like them.

She also came home with a couple baskets of flowers for me and I put them out by the fountain out on the deck. I got it going a few weeks ago. I'm off today for a personal day I needed to take before the end of the yr. Its cloudy and cool today, 60 something. Mikes on vacation this week building onto the garage a two car carport. I hear the nail gun now. Ill get some pics of that too! Tomorrow they are calling for sun!!!!!!! A good roofing day it sounds like. Have a good one!

Some new finds and flowers

2011-05-01T06:03:00.000-07:00

I have made a few hits at tag sales lately. A few weeks ago my neighbor called me and said she was at a presale at a dry cleaning business and would I like to come over to look. I went, not finding much and as I was leaving and noticed a rusty frame under a bunch of clothing.

I started digging and realized it was and old laundry cart. Now not much at all was from the laundry business, most of the stuff was the lady's personal junk, but this had been left behind. I asked her what she had to have for it? $12.00 bought it!! I was thrilled. the canvas is really tattered but I like the looks of it. Have no idea what I'm doing with it or even where it's going to sit. For right now its on my covered deck.

I do love the looks of it though!!

One day I also had an idea for this chicken feed that I had out buy the potting shed. I have always loved it, so I brought it up to the house and added some geraniums and nesting grass, stuck in an old aged flag and I have it hanging at the patio doors. I have gotten several comments on it already!

Yes, its time for those geraniums to come out. I use them almost exclusively. I pot them up and start scattering them around the yard.

Here's a grouping on the other side of the patio doors, I love anything galvanized!

This is another find I found yesterday at a tag sale. Love the speckled blue deep dish. I pd. $2.00 for this one. Well that's all the pics for now. Its cooler today and suppose to rain most of the day. A good day for laundry catchup and grocery buying. I have a good book I may pick up and read a little bit of today! Have a great day!

New Pics of the kids!

2011-04-29T20:14:00.000-07:00

I have had a hard time uploading some pics we had taken on Easter Sunday. Here are just two of my daughter Taylor and her boyfriend Sidney. A family friend came over and took a few of the girls. I am hoping to get the rest of them up loaded on here soon. I just love this one of them. It was taken by Nancy out in my back yard. It was kind of an overcast day. I love the colors. The vivid greens and blues!

This one was taken out buy the swing in our Chinese elm tree on the north side of the house. Don't they make an adorable couple! I will try to get the rest uploaded. Nancy took some really good ones of my nieces too!

Prom 2011

2011-04-06T19:49:00.000-07:00

My daughter Taylor and her boyfriend Sid all ready for his Jr. Prom! Don't they make a beautiful couple!!

They had dinner reservations at a beautiful resturant in a nearby town and Sid drove the corvette!

My niece Chelsea and her date Nick. Chelsea and Nick are seniors!

Chelsea, Brooke, (sister to Chelsea) who is a freshman, they can't go to prom as freshemen:( and Taylor

Didn't Sid do a great job picking out the corsage? I was so proud of him. He went to the tuxedo shop and flower shop and did all this on his own! I just love him!!

Drive safely and have a great time!! They attended an after prom party put on by the parents of the students. We have been having fundraiser for awhile now. It lasted from 12:30 till 4 am on Sunday. They had tons of food, gave away tvs, ipads, scholarship $, weight equipment, dorm refrigerators,tons of other great giveaways. They had inflatables, games, a machanical bull, more dancing and just lots of fun things to keep the kids entertained and safe!

Taylors' 16 and Spring Break!!

2011-03-18T16:54:00.000-07:00

"Sweet 16 Birthday Girl"

My daughter Taylor turned 16 last weekend! We had a little family ice cream and cake to celebrate. This is her boyfriend Sid!

Tay and Whitley, her best friend since preschool. On February 25th they were cheering at the last home game of the season and Taylor was dismounting from about 6 ft. off the ground and someone had to readjust their hands which caused Taylor to loose her balance and she fell landing on her hip. Long story short the ambulance was called to the gym and she was rushed to the ER for MRIs, CAT scans and xrays. We stayed overnight for observation. She was on crutches for 2 wks. She bruised the inside of the bone in her ball and socket. Och! Thank God, she has since recovered and yesterday tried out for the IHS dance team and made it!! She had wanted to try out for dance before the accident. We are very proud of her for this. My niece Brooke a sophomore next yr. also made the team. So were so excited for them both!

Mike bought her a newer car for her birthday, a slate gray 2004 PT Cruiser!!

We have been wanting to get her out of the Sunfire, it's a smaller car and wanting to get her something bigger.

Friends tagged her car the morning of her birthday. Here she is on her way to school!

For along time she has wanted to get her belly button pierced. Dad wasn't crazy about it. But I took her up and had it done for her 16th!! She said it hurt! But she loves it now.

I was on Dots blog this morning and she had purchased these glass canisters from Walmart with scoops and added beans to it. I loved the idea, so ya I copied it! I do love it tho, they are sitting on an old dishwasher I found at a tag sale sometime back. I have it in my kitchen

Today being the first of Spring Break I got busy and changed a few things up. I added an old screen door to the living rm.

Changed the display in the hallway.

Got out some carrots for the big old bowl on the dining rm table.

Added some to the stove board along with some great Kansas sunflowers I dried a few yrs back
. I sure hope to run across a field this yr. I missed them last yr.

I found a new quote for the old chalkboard on the attic door.

And one on the old door I have leaning up in the kitchen. Thanks for looking girls. The weekends suppose to be a wet one. But next week is looking beautiful. I have some projects planned. Ill try to take some pick of my progress!

So ready for spring

2011-02-06T16:13:00.001-08:00

Uggggg, I'm so sick of snow! We've gotten almost 20 inches since last week, maybe more this week. We did get 3 snow days out off of school. My poor little back porch is covered with a foot or more of snow that blew in from the north. This swinging bed now has a ft. of now on top of it:(
I want the sun shining on it again.

I want to be able to go out and lounge on it with a great book.

I want to be able to grill again soon!

I want red gerainuims hanging from my covered deck!

I want spring!!!!!!!!!!

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

2010-12-07T14:33:00.000-08:00

Finally, some Christmas pics! my computer was being testy with not wanting yo upload from my camera!YUGH! Anyway, here we go. My mantle is decorated with scales this yr. I didn't use lighting up there, and I do miss it. But wanted to mix it up a bit this yr.

My deck porch area has some of Santa's wet dripping clothes a drying there! Along with a note from a little one named Taylor who HAS been a good girl!

A little candy cane.

More Santa underwear!

This is my curbside find this summer. Brought it home and painted it black.

Love my trees in the wooden ice cream buckets. I leave these up most of the winter!

For the past several yrs. I have used two pencil trees and decorated them together. It leaves alittle more rm. in the living rm.

Some goodies I made and had left from last season that I took to school and sold most everything!

I loved my BELIEVE blocks I made. Wish I'd saved one for myself!

Here are a few signs I made, those went quickly, too! Well, it's a cold evening, I want to get dinner over with, I have had my eye out for a few new pillow samplers to make and I want to get started on them. Happy Holidays!

Neewollah Celebration

2010-10-28T09:01:00.000-07:00

I got lots of pics girls. We are celebrating our annual Neewollah Celebration this week. Halloween spelled backwards. Go to Neewollah .com for great info on it! In a town of about 10-12,000 we experience a crowd of over 75,000 for our week of fun! My daughter was selected to be a Neelah Deb 2010 which is a chosen 8 sophomore girls who preform the duties of serving the Senior Queen Candidates at many events during the week. This photo is the finally to the Coronation of the crowning of Queen Neelah the 69th this past Tues. evening at our Memorial Hall. the 8 Senior guys are also chosen by a committee as the escorts for the Queens and Debs that week. My daughter Taylor is the one on the right of the escorts shoulder. My cousins son Peyton Botts in the escort on the left holding Whitley the best friend of my daughter.

This is the beginning of the Neelah Deb high kick course line. The play this yr. was The Music Man and their costumes were a Soldier Kick line.

Here is Taylor presenting the 1st Runner up her trophy.

And here is my beautiful niece Chelsea Dawn Mundy taking her walk down the runway. She was Candidate #1! All Neewollah Queen candidates must be a senior in our high school. Isn't she just stunning!!!!

After the crowning of our new Queen all Candidates,Escorts and Debs and their escorts are invited to the Country Club for a Grand Ball. It last until 1am. ( and yes, the poor kids have to attend school the next day) This is Taylor and her boyfriend Sid as they were getting ready to leave for the Ball. Don't they just look perfect together!!

These are the balloons and flowers she received on congratulating her on her performances.

She served many Pop parties, a Tea and a Brunch as her role as a Neelah Deb. This is the sweater dress she wore to the Tea.

I was on a committee to help decorate for the Brunch held one day this week for the Queen candidates and judges. It was held at our local Masonic Lodge and we had a Shabby Chic theme going. I brought in along with several other ladies some of our fall decors and we had so much fun putting this all together. I made a couple Neewollah signs for the occasion. This was inside the entryway coming in the door.

A black chalkboard greeting the ladies at the brunch table with a menu sign and pictures of fall pumpkins.

This is the breakfast brunch table scape.

The place settings for each of the Queen Candidates, note my nieces name here!! Inside the little bag was a charm to add to each of the candidates charm bracelet. They received a different charm at each event held in their honor.

Love this sign my talented cousin Kathy printed up. It sits next to a picket with a witch on a bicycle.

Isn't she cute for a witch!!!

We had many settings around the room and this is one of my old wagons filled with pumpkins and one of my Hayride signs.

Love this old wooden wagon, it belongs to another lady that helped decorate.

Love this. This old helmet and football belongs to my cousin Jed, who played on the IHS Bulldog team not so many yrs. ago. It made a nice touch on one of the window seals!

Another setting with some great foliage and am loving the old Jon Deere tracker touch, good idea Kathy!! Well it was fun decorating with you girls and I look forward to doing it again next yr. We are having a fun week. No school the rest of the week YEA! We have a big football game tonight and then on to the carnival rides and corn dogs! Had a great pulled pork last night. Sid and Taylor shared nachos and a fried Milky way. Yuck! They said it was good! The food vendors just line both sides of our downtown streets for about 4 blocks. We have 4 blocks of big carnival rides, a huge bandstand set up in the middle of downtown for all the street acts and everyone brings their lawn chairs. It's a great great time. Lots of people come home for Neewollah that have moved away. It's just a good time to catchup and see old friends!~

Hay, it's Fall here!

2010-10-10T15:19:00.000-07:00

I had been doing some tweaking to some of my fall settings. I bought a bale of hay from Walmart, I won't do that again. I got it home and most of it was moldy inside. It had gotten wet.

But I added some here on my porch.

A little close up. I had made a 'Hayride sign to sell and I liked it so much I just kept it for myself!

Now this wasn't my idea, I saw a smaller version of this on Faded Prairie. A great blog I have ran across. She has cool ideas!! Anyway, I thought oh I could do that to one of my ladders in the tree. I added some hay and a few mini pumpkins and I have gotten many comments from guest coming in the drive.

Here is a little metal pump I picked up at a tag sale a few weeks ago. And I added some pumpkins to my sink on the porch! We worked on putting some pegboard on the walls of the garden shed today, before it started poring buckets of rain. I headed for the house. Mike finished up and Sid, my daughters boyfriend brought over his 4-wheeler for Mike to look at. It hasn't been running and they tinkered around out in the garage for awhile. Taylor is at dance practice and will be home in about a half hr. I threw together some Hillbilly Spaghetti Pie. I found a new recipe for from another blog this week. Ill let you know if its any good!! Have a great week ladies!!

100 Mile Tag Sale!

2010-09-15T17:24:00.000-07:00

Well first of all I'd like to thank each and everyone of you ladies for remembering my daughter and her boyfriend Sid in your prayers. He's doing remarkably good tonight. Hoping to return to school one day next week. Returned to the surgeon today and had the staples removed from in chest and the skin graph is doing well. Thanks again for the prayers. God is good!
I had a many great finds last weekend at our 100 mile tag sale. Very good prices too. Got three of these darling milking cans for $1-2.

Aren't these darling? They are stove pipe tops I guess? I thought they looked like bird houses! Love the little doors. Thought they might look good in a flower garden.

I found a couple of olde bicycles. This one for $10.

The little wooden ironing board was $5. I hung it in my laundry rm. I is just the right size. The drawer, not sure if I like it or not. I grabbed it up and now I might not hang onto it. The old wash tub I bought for a friend of mine who has been looking for one.$5! And I love the old light fixture, may put it out by the pool next summer.

Got the old wagon for $8, she wanted $10. Threw in a spare wheel!

Love the old wooden folding chair. Just an unusual shape seat. And I ran out to Orschlands and bought some beautiful mums for $5.

Aren't these two lanterns neat? $2 each!! I know I couldn't believe the prices!

Another old bike for $5, it's really rough. The handle bar broke off as I was unloading it from my suburban. Mike fixed it for me with some tubing. I loved the old worn baskets. I can fill them up with fall mums and spring geraniums!!

I also got a basket of these cool flower labels. I can see some primitive labels in these for next season! Well I had a great time finding all of these treasures. It seems you find the most when you expect the least. I wasn't even going to go at all. The first yr. we had this Mike and I took off work on Fri. and went again on Sat. and didn't find much at all. This yr. was fabulous!!!! Have a great week everyone!

God's Grace

2010-09-10T17:09:00.000-07:00

Well we have had a miraculous week. Monday evening about 7:15 my daughter and her boyfriend and his little brother were shooting birds out in the pasture of his house, when Sid went to lay down his 20 gauge shot gun. It slipped out of his hand and accidentally shot himself in his right side. Little brother was standing beside him. My daughter was in the bed of the truck nearby. Staying as calm as the situation could would be Taylor managed to get Sid in the back of his truck and drive him up to the house where his mom took over and sped them to the ER. In a matter of less than an hr. he was being airlifted to St. Francis Hospital in Wichita Ks. about a 2 hrs from home. We followed his family up and waiting for him to return from a 3 hr. surgery. It honestly didn't look good at first. Surgeons prepared the family for a bowel reconstruction. But by God's grace they got in there and no major organ were affected!!! He has 60 buckshot pellets in his body, some in the liver and spleen, many in the chest muscles, but miraculously nothing life threatening!!! He had a lg. open wound but today had a skin graph procedure to cover that and they did cut him from sternum to just below is bellybutton. We visited about every other day and he had a couple rough days but last nights visit he was feeling wonderful. Walking moving well. He is just so blessed to have survived and we are just so thankful none of the three were injured more or worse. Thank you God!!!!!! Please pray for him, he still has a recovery time and needs to keep his studies up but we are just elated that he's ok. My house and laundry have stacked up and we need to catch up on some much needed rest but thankfully he will be home this weekend. Taylor can't wait to finally get some alone time with him. Have a great weekend. It's the 100 mile rummage sale tomorrow. Ive hit a few today and got some great finds Ill have to post later!!!

Signs of Fall!

2010-08-29T14:30:00.000-07:00

This past weekend temps were so cool. Cool enough for me to get out and start some decorating and make a few signs!

I've made several Neewollah signs I think I can peddle. We have an annual fall Neewollah celebration, cleverly enough Halloween spelled backwards. it's a big event here in Independence. this yr I am on a brunch committee to serve to the senior high queen candidates and I made up a few signs to decorate the room we are having the event at. I made up a few more to sell.

It was good to be outside in the cool temps. I think I made about 13 signs last week.

I have been bringing in an arm load of summer decor and heading to the attic and bringing down an arm load of fall things. I have so much fall stuff. My interior colors are so fall friendly. I have tons of stuff.

Away with the red white and blue and hello harvest orange!!

Looking forward to Fall decorating...

2010-08-25T21:10:00.000-07:00

Ladies, I'm looking to buy some faux bittersweet garland. Any good suggestions on where I could spend my money? I need some for my fall decor!! Thanks a bunch.

Finally, I have a computer again!

2010-08-24T15:22:00.000-07:00

Boy you just don't know how much your on the computer until you don't have one. We had a virus. Now just why does someone have to set out there and make these up to infect us all? Just tell me why? But were back on track now and I'm posting some tag sale finds I got this weekend. I have been anticipating this sale all summer. She always has a great one. We have the same taste and here is a great old flag picture that I'm thinking may have come from some old school house, at least I'd like to think. 'll use it next fourth!!

ii have been so bored lately, its too hot to do much outside but one day I managed to get a couple of signs made.

This great basket was $5. The little box was .50 and the tin was $2, a little more than I like to pay but I got a good deal on some other things there. So it all evens out.

This wooden box I almost left behind but it was only $2.

These are what I think I got a good deal on. Each wire egg crate was only $3 each.

I got a few tins from her as well to round out my collection! The baking soda tin is huge! Never seen one this big.

And a couple more I put in the Hoosier cabinet. Well I'd better get supper cleaned up, the boyfriend has been over for dinner this week his folks are gone. So I fell I have to fix a descent meal. I have just given them $ to go out. They like that too. Have a great evening!

My little Neelah Deb

2010-08-08T15:50:00.000-07:00

Taylor has been chosen to be a Neelah Deb during our Neewollah 2010 celebration this yr. My niece Chelsea is going out as a senior for a queen candidate. We crown a queen and her court for our week long celebration. Carnival, parade, concerts etc. Taylor was chosen as a sophomore to be a Neelah Deb. Their responsibilities are many. They learn a dance routine and preform at the talent and coronation. They serve the Queen candidates in serving at the Tea and Brunch. They ride a float in the grand parade. It is quite an honor to be chosen and we are so proud of her. She's headed here in the photo to have her picture taken as a group for the local paper. Her boyfriend is home from a horse show in Iowa from a week and she can see him after pictures. She can't wait! Pretty proud of her!!

Junk Store Finds

2010-07-28T15:47:00.000-07:00

I hit a favorite junk store today. It was a good day, I hadn't been there in a while and I found some nice things. This is actually my AFTER picture of some enamelware I picked up for $2 each.

This is a darling little red chair I got for $8.50, its only 24inches tall and I love the patina of the paint. I'll find a little spot for it somewhere! The chalkboard behind it was $2. Mom wants it painted black and scuffed up for her kitchen.

The little chair is missing a spindle but it was so so cute, I couldn't resist.

This is a little red wagon I picked up for $7.50. I have several big ones in my yard. I even thought about placing it on my island in the kitchen. I may play with that this weekend!

And another picture of the enamelware before I found a place for it!!

Giveaway in the mail!

2010-07-27T20:18:00.000-07:00

The daughter brought in a package from the postman the other day and it was from Sandy @ the Olde Country Cupboard. I was one of the lucky winners from her giveaway and this is what I got. I just love all of it. Good smelling stuff. You ladies should stop by her blog and see what she has been making. Yummy! Great fall scents.
Today I took Taylor and her boyfriend to band camp. His mother and myself drove them to Pittsburg State University and tucked them into their dorm rooms for the week. UUUGGGG! I walked in the house and thought, OK, now what do I do? I hadn't been home two hrs and I thought I would bawl! I miss her so much. She's got a friendly roommate and she's two doors down from the hall bathroom. Got her bed made up, clothes hung in the spacious closet. Found the shortest route to the dining hall. We even ran them to Walmart and bought them tons of junk food. Oh but saying goodbye was so hard. They do have each other. Sid, the boyfriend plays drums, Taylor, the flute. So they have been separated into different sectional for practices. But they do get the eat and hang together, there is a recreational time each night before returning to their respected floors. They practice all week for a concert on Fri. night and a grand parade and half time performance on Saturday for the Shriner's Bowl featuring area chosen football players and honorary band members that have been chose and sponsored by their local Shriner members. It is quite an honor to be chosen to preform in this event! Oh I miss her tho. She texted me a little while ago and said she was having fun. I am hoping for a call before she falls asleep!! Tomorrow I'm going to a great junk store. Hope to post some great finds!

You've Got Mail!!

2010-07-24T13:43:00.000-07:00

As promised in a past post, I said I'd take some pics of some of the mailboxes I have collected over the summer! This is the picture that started my collection. Don't you just love this idea??
I think the article said it was in an enclosed porch, I just love the idea. Geraniums and umbrellas.

This is what I have put on my new patio off the front porch. It's just some ivy for now, this fall Ill put something live in it. It's so hot now, I'd never get anything to grow in front.

The rustier the better. I bought one of these last weekend and it had set on my porch a couple days and I looked in it and it had the lady's mail in it. I had to run it back over to her:)

This one sits on a stone bench out front of the house.

Another stone bench in the oval of our driveway.

Sorry this one is so blurry. The humidity is so high, you step outside and the camera lenses fogs right up.

On my deck I have one on a wooden bench with some greenery in it. So ladies start picking up those old mailboxes at those tag sales and put them to use.

I bought 5 old ladders this weekend. These are the tallest ones. They are old too. I had to wait for Mike to help me hoist them up the tree last night. my cousins husband is putting in a new septic system for a guy who just bought an old house on 5 acers and he gave us some old clay pots and in the old barn he had these old ladders. I bought them all for one price and we hauled them home the other night. They stuck way out of Mikes truck, but we got em here!!

Look how tall this one goes into the tree. This one has an old pulley and rope on it way up there. I put the rest of them out on the side of the garage. Mike has a car lift inside this garage and the building is really tall. Ill have to post that some day! Have a great weekend, it's so super hot here in Kansas. :(

Garden of Fire Hose Reel?

2010-07-18T13:18:00.000-07:00

Ok, ladies, here is the hose reel I spotted last night in a yard. Stopped and bought it for $10.

Here is another one I bought a yr. or so ago. I have this one by the pool.

This is our potting shed today. We have cut a hole in the side of the building to put a garage door in. I've bought pegboard to line the rest of the walls. This is what I have left after my tag sale this summer. Old sink and cabinet screen and old doors, shutters, sleds, window frames.

I had a view of windows on this wall and Mike bought a garage door to put here. We have another door to the left of this one in which we house the mowers and gardening tools. This is where I had planned on putting my little someday shop. Someday!

Bought this at a tag sale Sat. $10, the wheels are froze up on it. Something a little W-D 40 can fix.

I hit a tag sale on Fri. morning and Mike hit it on Sat. morning and I had missed this treasure for 50 cents. Yes! Mike thought it was $5 and he was going to offer them $3 but 50 cents was cool! I love the roundyness ? of the seat and back!!

I found this old mailbox, I have been trying to pick these up where ever I can find them. I guess I need to do a post of some of my mailboxes. I have many around the house. I saw a cool pic of them standing on end with flowers and umbrellas in them. Anyway, I was going to take a pic of them this morning and I opened up the lid and SURPRISE! You've got mail. I need to run this back by to the lady I bought it from!! How funny is that?

I also found a whole box of utensils for $2. I wanted just the wooden spoon but for $2 I could pass up the whole thing. I love the little red handled scoop up front.

Same sale had this great little enamel bowl for.5 cents. Always love them!! It is so hot outside. Only place to be is in the pool! That's where I'm headed!!

Was Monday wash day?

2010-07-17T20:55:00.000-07:00

Ok, I am sitting out in the driveway in a lawn chair watching cement dry, literally! My husband was finishing cleaning up from pouring cement for a small patio off our new porch and we both glance up about the same time as a pickup and trailer goes by with a load of scrap metal on it. We both I swear at the same time say, was that an old washer?? Yes, it was and he was more than likely headed to our local scrape metal recycle center, way on the west side of town. Mike says, go chase him down. I sit for a few more seconds thinking, no I'd never catch him in time. But I race for my suburban and go....... I think I see him up ahead and yes it is him. I catch up about the overpass and roll my window down and ask if he would be interested in selling the old washer. His boy nods his head YES!! I pull in front of him and pull into a parking lot. I said what would you have to have for it. Oh, what ever you think. I offer $10. He tells the boy to load it in my suburban. Now I am jumping up and down inside. Now it must just be the thrill of the chase, because now I'm thinking is it going to fit in my car and where am I going to put this thing?

Well it fit with room to spare and I for now have it sitting by a tree out front. I think I might move it though. It's in really good shape. All four wheels are there and the porcelain is good! I loved the rusty cabinet it sits on! Tonight we were driving around and I found this old hose reel, Mike thinks it might be a fire hose reel. Ill share a pic tomorrow. I have it on my new patio!

Americana and the 4th!

2010-07-13T09:19:00.000-07:00

We have just recently redone our front porch. Away with the old flooring and wood railing. We went with decking and vinyl post and railings. We still need to treat the decking with a sealer but I had to add some pretties to the porch until then! I love my window frame hanging from the ceiling.

I used a chalkboard window frame with the pledge of allegiance on it sitting by the door.

On the other side of the door is an old table the neighbor was going to throw out. We reattached the leg and I love it!

I have used lots of enamelware on the porch this redo. Even hung some on the front of the house.

An old glider for sitting.

We are pouring some cement for a landing off the steps. And yes, those are wire bread trays. A breadman uses what he has. We had the steps coming off the center of the porch before and with the redo we moved the steps of the driveway. Hoping more people will use the front door. It will be uncovered, but I will decorate it up by setting some chairs and something galvanized on it!!

Old Scootey is sitting at the door watching me take some photos~

Here's a few shots of the kiddos have some fun on the 4th. Sid( the boyfriend).

It was so hot that evening. They shot off most of the big stuff. Note the wheel barrel.
while we watched. This was the first yr. Mike didn't do the honors. Sid had a lot of fun doing that!

No more had we finished our fireworks and it started pouring down rain. We went in for some ice cream and cake. the big citywide was postponed until next yr. We had a fun time anyway!!

Needing a Fall idea!

2010-07-11T16:13:00.000-07:00

Ladies, I am on a "Neewollah" committee this yr. for our Huge annual fall celebration I have blogged about in the past. I am helping with the Brunch that will be attended by the Queen Candidate's themselves. I need a really cute fall name tag idea for any of you scrapebookers out there! It would be much to easy to buy the self adhesive labels and print their names on them and use those. But the chair person wants me to come up with a cute idea to maybe pin on the ladies. I am coming up with nothing so far. Any help out there? Anything pumpkin? Fall? But would have to have room for their names to be printed on them. I have been scouring google for ideas and I'm blank~ Thanks!

Fourth of July Decor and a Makeover

2010-07-02T05:20:00.000-07:00

This is an old cabinet I made over. It was a freebie. I was tag saling and I went to turn the suburban around in a culdisack and this was sitting out by the road! I hauled it home and...

sanded it down. I always for get to take a before picture of my projects until in midway into them.

All I really had to do was pull out the old ugly shelf paper someone had placed inside the drawers and cabinet area. As I was pulling the paper off. I could just hear the old cabinet breathe again~Ahhhhh, it said.

I flat blacked it and scuffed it up after the paint dried. I have it sitting in the entryway of my front door. I have had to move the two auditorium chairs out to my potting shed for now. I'm just running out of room~

Didi a little tweaking around the fireplace mantle yesterday for the 4th! Added an old American tea stained flag and some white enamelware along with some flags in the crock.

I tried another old flag on the table as a covering and I love it!

Went out and bought some black cat firecrackers and made up an old label on the computer. I even placed some in the big wooden bowl.

Have a Happy and Safe Fourth of July!!!!!!!!!!!!

A weekend at the lake

2010-06-30T18:35:00.000-07:00

We enjoyed a fun weekend at Grand Lake in Grove Ok. My uncle has a home there and my moms side of the family goes down every yr. for a get together! My daughter Taylor and her boyfriend Sid spent sometime on the wave runners!

Smile at the camera!!

Those wave runners turn out great hair dos!!

Time spent just hanging out!

Late one night we took a couple of the little kids ( and big kids) to a water park. These two had too much fun. I didn't think they were even going to get wet again. I think they had more fun then the little ones!

Daddy Daniel and little Daharmonie playing in the water!

By the end of the weekend even Uncle Elton's dog Max was tuckered out~

Here are a few of them getting the grills ready for a big country breakfast! That's my brother Shawn at the far right in the blue shirt.

We always have alot of time to sit around and visit. A few moments after this, my cousin Kathy in the pink, Aunt Marilyn in the blue and Aunt Wanda in the pink sitting began to sing. That happens alot in our family.

Taylor and Sid spitting sunflower seeds at each other

Cousin Tammy frying up some hash browns for breakfast. Her family is the host of this event. They work very hard getting ready for all of us to descend on them for the weekend! She has a beautiful boat she always has available for us all to ride in.

The kids, their all growing up. Chelsea my niece, Sid, Taylor's boyfriend, Taylor, my daughter, Brooke my other niece and TyLynn my cousins daughter.

HOw'd that happen? Oh their just so cute I thought I'd show them again?

The family slaving over the hot grills! My hubby in the gray shirt and hat. Cousin Tim and his wife Terri. We had a great time. It was hot, but we all enjoyed ourselves. Some of them camp out. We always head to town to our motel room. Ruffing it to me is a Motel 6 with black and white TV! I like my air condition and a shower to much for the camping side of it. Town is about a 15 min. drive so it's not to bad. Thanks Uncle Elton for a great weekend!!

Night Pics of Barn

2010-06-14T10:49:00.000-07:00

Just a few night pictures of the barn dance. Sorry they are not very good. The old barn did glow from the hill tho!

This was the flatbed trailer that we used for serving the food from. We threw some red check table cloths randomly over it and added a few crates and vegetables for a center piece and it worked well.

It was lighter than this there. (not a good pic) The young kids were dancing away and having fun!

Glass jars with cracked corn and candle lite the walkway to the dance floor. FYI cracked corn will burn, had a small flame in one!!

Even young pup Rocky had his red bandanna on for the party. But it was "doggone HOT" Everyone seemed to be having a great time and the bride and groom and their families had a blast!! What a time!!!!!!!!

The decorating is almost done!!

2010-06-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

OMG! What a few days I have had. Nancy and I have had so much fun playing in the barn the past couple days. we are exhausted but it like we said today, it is a BIG highlight of our summer. This is the front of the barn. The office entrance.

Right beside the entrance where everyone will enter is this big old pickup we came up with after a few phone calls! Love the colors! Note the saddle on the side and the chalkboard in front with a wedding message to the new couple.

This is the entrance they will use Sat. evening. I used old shutters and I borrowed the gunnysack with geraniums and a flag from someones new blog! I wrote Welcome to Rutland Horse Ranch on an old chalkboard to greet everyone.

I love how this turned out. It's not the best pic. Ill try to take a better one Sat. night of the back of the truck where the drinks will be served. The old window frame is chalkboarded Just Hitched Abby and Bryan! Loving the saddle on the side of the truck.

Beside the truck is going to be the cups and sugar for the tea. Iced down water in the tub!

This is a grouping in front of some of the stable. Oh, the horses will be in their stalls right there by the guest! It's so cool to hear them whinny and snort around.

Now this is going to hold the wedding and grooms cake. The ladies went out early this morning and picked almost a whole van full of wildflowers! Sunflowers, queen anns lace, wild lilies. Just beautiful Kansas wildflowers.

We displayed quilts all the way down the stalls behind the wedding party's tables. Some more flowers and hay bales. I haled more hay bales than I can remember and Guys! I applaud you for those hot summer days in a field tossing those around! Oh my gosh!

We had a cinder block wall right behind the flatbed trailer which we will serve the buffet food from. So a few ladies hung quilts from this wall and we added some country treasures.

Threw in a screen door and a few bed rails. We had tons of geraniums in bushel baskets.

Loving the wash tubs with ferns. Most of this stuff came from my yard. I still can't believe I have all of this and still my yard looks full. People where so nice to offer their flowers and the comments we have gotten from different folks coming in to look has just been incredible. They comment on how hard we have worked. It has been hard and so hot but it has been so fun!!! Nancy and I worked so well together and bounced ideas off each other. It really gets those creative juices going when you have someone Else's eyes to create with. Nancy is so talented with her decorating. We both have the same taste in style.

Love this setting with the saddle on the fence behind the hay with another window pain chalkboarded. Tag sale find last week for $5. Wrote a cute little saying on there. Really used the American flags I stain up.

This is a setting up high above the cinder block wall. It hides the air conditioning stuff.

Another little area in front of some stales.

This is the gift table. On the table and bales of hay I can see gifts for the new couple. Nancy had a great idea to place pictures of the couple on an old clothes rack pined with mini clothes pins on twine. The guest can walk in drop off their gifts and take a gander at the couple as children.

This little setting is a favorite of Nancy and I. It hides the silo and grain tubs. We loved the saddle and the old American flag on the metal chair!

Now we are not a fan of the scary white trees but the grooms mom thought we needed more lighting by the dance floor. After dark I think they will be a pretty addition but I wasn't digging them in the daylight. They will serve popcorn in the old wash tub new the dance area.

This is the stage where horse auctions where held yrs ago in the Rutland Horse Ranch Barn, go check out the web site to see the barn in her younger days. www.rutlandranch.net Guy Ray Rutland the grandfather of my daughters boyfriend built this awesome barn I think holding 148 cement floor horse stalls. This barn and rancher was nationally known for his breeding and training of Quarter Horses and now is youngest son Jeff is carrying on this family business. Its really an amazing story and legacy!! This is where the DJ will be stationed.

Another small setting near the dance floor. Well I just wanted to send a few pics to you all before the dance Sat. night. I will try to get a few more of the lights tomorrow night and the tables set up. Its really been a transforming process. The owners Jeff and Laurie Rutland have been so gracious to accommodate the family to whatever we needed to decorate. It is after all still a daily business they are running with all of us running around there with the horses and dust. Jeff teased us many times today about the decorating of the barn and all the flowers. We told him once if he left the 4wheeler parked there too long we'd pop a flower there beside it and hand a bandanna from it! Jeff and Sid ( Taylor's boyfriend have worked their tails off helping us get this reception going and have been so generous! We'd love to see some business come their way maybe for all they have done. So if you need a new quarter horse for your barn give Jeff a call and visit his web site. It is amazing!!!! More pics to come tomorrow with all the glitts!!!!!!

I'm staging for a barn wedding reception!!!!

2010-06-09T20:29:00.001-07:00

YeeHaw!!! I've have been so busy girls! I was asked to help decorate a huge local horse barn for a lady who's son is getting married! The bride and her mother and the grooms mother came over one evening last week and looked at my house and yard decorations. I gave them a few ideas I had thought of they picked out a few they loved and said "do whatever you want with the rest" !! We loaded an entire horse trailer full of junk from my yard and house this evening and headed for the barn. This barn is also my daughters boyfriends family business. Rutland Horse Ranch is located out south of our town and is gigantic. In the 60's -the 80's it was the largest auction and breding of quarter horses in this area of the country. Check it the history of Guy Ray Rutland and this ranch he built for his family at www.rutlandranch.com Anyway,

we head out there again at 7 shape in the morning to start staging this barn. They are having it catered with chicken, baked beans and the fixings. With horses in the stalls next to the dance floor. They have an old flatbed trailer for the serving table. I'll take lots of pictures to show you all. I have awakened at 2 in the morning thinking of this barn!!! Wish me luck.

Summer Colors

2010-06-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

Just a few shots of the front of the house. I decorated for the Memorial Day red white and blue. I will probably just keep it all up for the summer. My Mom has a fit when she sees the old red quilt my grandmother made me on my front porch. But I just put it out there for the holidays and I love the red on the porch.

Here is a display I made up yesterday. I found this old tool box at a tag sale and have had it out in the potting shed forever. I painted it up red and antiqued it. I put a flag in it and added some firecrackers. I have it sitting on the island in the kitchen.

This is an idea I got off of someones blog. I loved the well pump at the kitchen. I found one for $10 from an old junk man and Mike attached it to a board I had painted up. I love it by the sink and it can be moved when I need more counter space.

We worked on this project on Sunday. I may cut back on the dirt pile. I have plans to plant the maiden grass and add some old junk to it. It is at the entrance of the driveway.

This was the hot sweaty project from yesterday. A new garden area. Now mind you I only wanted a spot for about 8-9 tomato plants. No, we had to go and make it much bigger. I have had a garden before and lost interest in it fast. I have never had a raised bed, so maybe the weeds would choke me out!

We got the pool up and running. Put in a new liner this yr. The daughter has already had two late night parties in it. It's nice that she's older, not so much supervision.

I made some antique tags and wrote some sayings on them. I also made the little tag holders. I have a pot sitting on every section of the deck! It says A weed is not but an unloved flower!

Here are a few tag sale finds I found last weekend. School was out Friday for the summer and I hit a few sales. These are longaburger baskets got both for $5. for both. I love the shape of them.

This is an old laundry basket I pd. $10 for. I'm going to put the beach towels on the back porch in it.

It came with the original Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval! paper with it.

We took our daughter and two friends to a driving school last weekend near Pittsburg Ks. and hit a couple flea markets and tag sales. I bought this cooler for $3 and at the flea market the same cooler went for $23.99. I got a great deal!!

I bought these from a friends tag sale. They belonged to her grandparents and it would have cost alot to powder coat them. I told her I liked them even rustier than this. Got them for $16 for the pair. Well the daughter is home from watching her boyfriend at his tennis match and we need to run up to the DMV and check into getting a licence so she can drive to work this summer. She started at the pool on Sunday. She like it alot. Have a great week!

Lazy Days of Summer

2010-05-20T18:34:00.000-07:00

I guess it's been awhile since I last posted. I have just been busy wrapping up the final days of school. I spend so much time running my 15 yr. old daughter around. 5:30 am, yes am, cheerleading practice. wow, that's early. Six more days of school for me. Only 3 more for her. a new policy was adopted a few yrs ago. If you maintain an A-B and don't miss more than 3 days of school all yr. you can skip finals, so she should get out a few days early!! Good girl!
Last weekend I got an idea to place a few of my screen doors on my back porch. I just stood them up on the walls of the porch and secured them with screws.

I like the looks of them. Just plain old screens!

This is my favorite one. I love the old gingerbread decor of it.

I love my hanging bed my husband made for me last yr. for my birthday! The sun shines onto the porch in the evening.

I also thought of taking down the picket window boxes I have had up there since we built the potting shed. I had some chicken feeders and thought those would be perfect there.

this one is my favorite! I love the wire onto. I just screwed them to the wall. Ok, my husband did. I told him one evening after work. I have a little project. He said does this involve me? Well yes, of course!

We planted yews here yrs. ago when we added on the car lift onto the husband garage. That is what is in the tall part of the building. The yew shrubs had just gotten overgrown and looked bad. I bought some maiden grass and until it gets bigger I filled in with some junk I had behind the garage. I love the movement of the maiden grass.

Just a hanging geranium with my bells on my newly covered porch.

I've posted a picture of my water feature in the past. I just love it. You can hear it in the kitchen window.

This metal bench sits in the oval, our circle driveway.

And this bicycle and planter sits in the oval too, under the cedar tree.

And just a picture of a wooden church chair with another geranium in a bucket. Well I think we are going to get the pool opened up this weekend. It's suppose to be warm. We have had alot of rain this week. Have a great weekend everyone!

Spring has arrived...

2010-04-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

Finally we have had some beautiful spring weather here in S.E. Kansas!! I got outside and pulled some weeds and rearranged some things in my yard. I had planted some English ivy under a number of trees and I do love the looks of it but it had started to climb up the entire tree and I have heard it could choke out the tree so I pulled most of it out of this bed and put an old bicycle here that I had over by the playhouse. Now this is the view as you turn the corner of the driveway!

Went to Lowe's last weekend and came home with way to many flowers! I mostly pot up geraniums but I couldn't pass up a couple of the Gerber daisy's!!

I think I'm really going to enjoy my new cover on the deck this summer. Usually the potted flowers have to be moved around as the summer sun used to beat down on the deck most of the day. Now the front half is covered and the other half has the slatted coverage. It's going to be so much cooler up there for the pots. Plus I have added so many more old pieces up on the porch because of the protection. Two yrs ago I pulled out the overgrown Yews in front of the lattes and planted maiden grasses in its place. I love that stuff! It comes up to the top of the lattes as it gets bigger.

A few pics of the daisy's and potted geraniums, and all my junk!!

Nothing prettier than a red geranium in an old rusty pail!!

Love finding those kiddie goulashes!

OMG!!!! Woke up at 8:00 didn't think I'd hit any tag sales today. It's a little cool and cloudy but thought Oh I'm up. Read the adds and decided to hit this one out north of town first since it was closer to me. I had been there to a sale a few yrs back and walked around with the guy and bought just a bunch of junk it the yard. Galvanized things and crock things. made a pile and offered him so much! Well this was the same place. The daughter in law was selling today and had a bunch of the old mans collectibles. Just want to get rid of it all she said!!!! First thing I spied was this great bowl! It measures 20inches across. I'm thinking oh she will want so much for this. 2$, Ill take it. Love the old jar shape, and I always buy up string!!

Just look at this bowl. I'm not sure what Ill do with it. I can see it on my coffee table with nesting in it. I can see it on my kitchen table with faux vegetables in it.

Then I saw the bells!!!!! Again, I thinking if she wants alot for one Ill just take a couple. I already have two red ones on my pie safe. Even two more would make a great addition. .50cents each, I'll take all of them! Sorry the pic is so blurry.

Then I spied the oil cans. Now my husband has a few of these on a shelf as a collection in the garage. And I did have him in mind when I picked these up, BUT..... I may find a place for them in the house. I really like them!! I felt really good about my finds this morning! I came home without stopping at another one cause I was so please!!!! Now I'll go play and find a place for everything. Enjoy your weekend!

My First Tag Sale of the Season

2010-03-28T19:47:00.000-07:00

I hit a pretty good one on Saturday. I have stopped at this little lady's sale before. Her son was there selling some things. The garage was packed from floor to ceiling. He had no lighting and you couldn't see anything. I noticed an old sled and pulley hanging on the far wall. Of course he didn't want to sell those. Hadn't seen much and I saw this old twin bed spring he was using for a gate to keep in his lamah, yes a lamah! I asked if the bed spring was for sale. Sure he said, 3$, sold I said! Walking back through the garage I noticed this set of tub. It was full of mason jars, sure he'd sell it too he guessed~ 8$ sold I said.

The two old rakes were so cool looking I thought. $2~sold I said.

I also found these items for $5. I love the enamel bucket. Think I see some red geraniums in it this summer! My hubby ended up buying some old car way out in his field for $50. said we'd come back this summer after it has dried up and pull it out of the weeds. So he made some good money just off of us that day!

Actually this bed frame I saw coming from Walmart the other day. This old guy who scrounges for metal and then sells it to our local scrap metal place drove by me and I flagged him down and asked if I could buy it from him. He said sure but its not a complete bed. I assured him I just wanted to set it out under a tree at my place. I offered him $5 and loaded it in the suburban. San Antonio was fun. I'm 90% sure Ill never do it again. 12 hrs one way on a bus is too much for me! We had good weather the first two days the last day at Six Flags was about 45 degrees and a wind advisory!! That was no fun. Headed home and hit Oklahoma with snow and freezing rain. Hit home at Kansas to about 8 inches of snow. Glad to be home still trying to recover~~

Spring Rearranging

2010-03-16T07:24:00.000-07:00

I ran up to my craft booth yesterday and had been looking at this sale for awhile. It was $12.50 and hadn't wanted to pay that, but it just kept calling my name. You ever had that happen? I'd look in a magazine and there would be a picture spread of a whole collection of scales on an old cabniet! Or a pic of a scale on a stove board. Every once in awhile I'd just think of that darn scale, so I thought what the heck and I just went up and brought it home! I do love it, it's very slim line.

I also found this great old lantern for $5 and of course the enamel pan for $2. The other day when I was in there a new lady was moving in with her new wares and I spied this pan and thought I need to go back and take a look at her stuff!!

I did some rearranging on my newly covered porch a few weeks ago. I had this sink and cabinet on my screened in back porch because I didn't want the cabinet getting wet, but now with my covered porch I drug it out here. I love it here. Everyone uses this patio door as our entrance so it will be greatly seen. Note my new lantern!

This is a view from the other side of the patio door. I brought my chalkboard from around the back porch too. Brought up an old green metal chair . Now I only need the Sanford and Son theme song playing!!! My dad says it's beginning to look like a junk yard around here.

A few gardening tools hanging out in an enamel pan.

And yesterday only because the sun came out for awhile. I drug this table out of the entryway and put a coat of good old black paint on it. Scuffed it up and added the things back on it. It really looks good because I have a black table and chairs and a black pie safe in there also. Well the hubby took today off to have about 5 loads of chipped up asphalt delivered for the circle drive. Now he will get to play with his little red tractor again today! Taylor and I leave for San Antonio TX. tomorrow evening. A chartered bus band trip, about 75 of us. Yippee! It is suppose to be 75 degrees there compared to 45-50 here. I'll take it!

My Birthday Girl

2010-03-10T16:48:00.000-08:00

Taylor turns....15!!!!!!!! on Thursday!

Where do the days go?? March 11th, 1995 Taylor was placed in our arms to be ours forever. We were blessed by adoption that day and she has been the greatest joy of our lives. We waited for 11 yrs just for her. Many many times we wondered what God had in store for us leading us down this journey of infertility. Wow, many many tears were shed for many yrs wanting to be a family with a wee one. But she has been so worth the wait. For many yrs I wondered what I did to deserve this path of not being able to conceive. And then she was placed in our arms and I again wonder, Wow, what did I ever do to deserve this gift.

She fit so perfectly. She was such a good baby. Such a smart toddler. She is beautiful. I always had naturally curly hair and always wanted straight hair. She has the straightest hair I had so much fun styling when she was little. She looks so much like our family. She acts so much like me, and ladies sometimes that's not a compliment. I would swear she came from me. We have so many of the same mannerisms. God knew what he was doing when he picked us to be her parents. We have always shared with her, her adoption story. We have always told her she was ours from her conception. Even in her birthmothers womb she was meant to be ours. I so believe that. God is good!!!! Happy Birthday Taylor, we love you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A little stitching...

2010-02-22T19:25:00.000-08:00

I've been working on for my booth. I went up a few weeks ago and changed up some Americana things for my wintery items. I've sold a few pieces already! These are a couple pillows I've done.

And I made a couple more of these. They can be hung from a peg shelf as I made them with a curly wire hanger. I enjoyed making them as I watched the Olympics. I attended another parent meeting in preparation for the spring break band trip my daughter and I are taking together. I signed up as a chaperon. What have I got myself into. I am a homebody. I do not like to be away from home. I like to sleep in my own bed. I am a worrier. I do not travel well. An here I am going on a band trip to San Antonio with 54 teen agers. We do have 18 adults going. And it's a chartered bus trip! And we travel all tho the night. I keep telling myself it's just two nights on a bus and two nights in a motel. We do the Alamo, the Riverwalk, a band clinic, Six Flags and Sea World and lots of stuff in between. The daughter and her boyfriend are going, they are excited about that. They will have a blast I know! We leave March 17th. I'm hoping it will be warmer!! That I am looking forward to. I am so ready for warmer weather, at least some sunshine!!!

A little spring

2010-02-11T15:40:00.000-08:00

I finally got to Hobby Lobby and found some daisy's for my new jar that I received from Dot. I added some black check material for a bow and added some pebbles.

I love it and can change out the flowers every so often. We have a long weekend due to parent teacher conf. I plan to pick up the house and maybe get some projects done around here. I switched out my booth uptown last week with some patriotic decor. Maybe that will move some things. It's been slow. Have a great weekend.

A "Dot" of Spring

2010-02-02T16:51:00.000-08:00

Wow, I received a great package in the mail today from Dot, over at Picket's Place!! A very generous giveaway. I opened the box and started unloading all the goodies. My hubby said, "is that all from one giveaway?" That's Dot I said. I love it all. Look at the color is has added to my kitchen. Th e red canister set just pops! I'm going to put some staples from the pantry in those and put them in my Hoosier cabinet! The little custered cups I know for sure I will use for the 4th of July as condiment dishes. I may put some salt and pepper in them and set them by stove. And look how well the towels match everything. The browns go great in my kitchen and now this red just adds to it~

I'm so excited to put this to use. Dot has placed small pebbles in hers and has some beautiful spring flowers on her post today!~ I can't wait to get to Hobby Lobby and purchase some spring buds. Thanks so much again Dot for your generosity and thoughtfulness you put into this giveaway. I love it all!!!!

Here's what I collect...

2010-02-01T14:59:00.000-08:00

Char, over at Pickled Pepper Patch suggested we find things we collect. Other than dust... I do have way to much I collect. I love crocks of all sizes and in the pst few yrs. I started collecting rolling pins to put in the crocks.
Of course, my jar collection I posted on not to long ago.
And my love for enamelware!! I cant seem to pass this up. I have way to much and yet I keep looking?????
This set is on the back wall of the screened in porch.
More enamelware in the laundry rm. along with a small collection of whisk brooms.
My whisk brooms I made into a valance in the laundry rm. No, I didn't come up with this idea. I think I first saw it in the Junk Beautiful magazine by Ki Nassauer, love those books!
More enamelware and jars.Well that will do for now on some of my collections. I'd love to part with the collection of dust! Any takers??????LOL

Snow again

2010-01-30T08:45:00.000-08:00

Ok girls I'm not sure what I did but everytime I download my pics I get all this gibberish wording instead of my pictures. Now I cant post between my pictures. any help out there?

A long week

2010-01-15T18:41:00.000-08:00

What a long week, my baby girl had to have an emergency appendextamy last Thurs. She came home sick from school on wed. and I thought she had the flu. A CT later showed her appendix was bulging. She's back to school and feeling better. Scary tho. It's hard when it's your kids. That's kept me busy caring for her. Not done much else. Ready to play catchup on the laundry and house. Finally the snow is melting and the temps are milder. Have a great weekend

The Trees Are Down...

2010-01-02T10:24:00.000-08:00

but I'm leaving my winter garland up. I found some great garland after Christmas and I love the looks of it.

Well we had a great Christmas. Here are a few shoots of the wee one opening our Christmas on the Eve.

She"ll not like this pic, she loves the hat tho.

Christmas morning we all get up and meet at my parents house and open gifts in the jamas. Here are Taylor and my niece Brooke in a pile of wrapping!

My niece Chelsea has found another corner of the living rm. to open hers.

We were busily opening presents and I said" Dad, why is there a snorkle firetruck in your front yard? It seems the neighbors chimney fire had got out of hand. Quite exciting. We felt for the firemen would could not be spending Christmas morning with thier families.

Yea!!!!!!!Taylor got into the DMV and passed her book portion of the test. Now she may drive with an adult anywhere. She just snuck in because as of Jan. 01, 2010 she would have had to wait until her 17th birthday to get the divers liescnece. She is excited. Now she wantes to go to Walmart with me all the time. These slick roads has not been the best. But I have let her drive on them.

More of my garland and I found these adorable little red birds that clip onto the trees and garland. I think I bought 5 and have them all around!

Love this. I perched a few in teh cedar Charlie Brown tree. I will keep this up until it starts to look pewney.

I was suppose to have this done for Christmas but I got so busy. My mom had seen this saying and wanted it for her home. I finished it up last night.

These are a few of my favorite gifts I got for Christmas. We found the srainer and pan at a flea market and then on another trip found a matching roast. I just love them. I haven't found a place for them. I'm hoping to place them ontop of my cabniets.

More garland and red birds.

I took down the Santa underwear and left up the snowman stuff. This is outside my patio doors.

Well some winters we don't get much snow to speak of. And we have had this snow since the 25th. I'm sick of it already. Its been so bitter cold so it isn't melting much, just to refreeze and make it extremely slick for the next morning. It's hard and crunchy now and mostly it's that ugly frozen sludge. Is it to early to say I'm ready for spring? I have enjoyed feeding my birds and squirrels. My husband is in the bread bussiness and we never want for bread so I'm constantly throwing out day old stuff. The birds gobble it up!! Well the daughter went to church with the boyfriend to help with the taking down of the Christmas decorations and I need to get some things done. Still need to get the galand and lights down off the kitchen cabniets. Have a great weekend!

2009-12-24T07:12:00.000-08:00

Well it looks as if our "little girls" who aren't so little any more were on the nice list?? Hey am I kidding, to be them! It's Christmas everyday for them. They are given their every whim. It's pretty sad when their asked what they want for Christmas and they don't know. I know, it's because they already have anything they want! But Santa will be "nice to them again this yr. They are good girls, good grades, polite manners, good hearts. Chelsea, Santa does know about that fender bender~Looks like we will be getting a white Christmas this yr. in southeast Kansas!! In about an hr. it's suppose to let loose with some flakes. We are under a severe winter warning. I see all you girls pics with snow covered roofs already. We here haven't had a white Christmas for yrs. I am headed to Blockbuster for the movie and need to get the turkey in this evening. I think we will try to make our way into church with Taylor's boyfriends family for a candlelight service tonight.
May you all have a Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Yr. with your!!

Jingle Bells Jingle Bells

2009-12-23T08:25:00.000-08:00

Well we are off for Christmas break, two wks! I had made a list of things I wanted to accomplish and I have started on it. Yea! One of the things was to switch out my pie safe for all the odds and ends I had in it to include mainly my old zinc lid jar collection. Ok I had the TV on Hoarders that show that features all the people that collect uncontrollably. I told my husband if I come home with another old jar just to shoot me!

This is not even all of them but I want to save the lower shelf for a collection of old tins I have started. I filled them with staples i had in the cupboard.

I have purchased a few new gentlemen for my many trees I have this yr. I seem to have mostly the Honey and ME collection. I just love them.

I found a local restaurant that had many of them for sale. This little gal has cute decorations and her house is darling.

They will live happily on my trees!!

I stuck a few in some garland I have on the coffee table along with a flame less pillar candle I discovered at Hobby Lobby.

This cute little pail I found at a flea market on sale for $7. I added a to and from prim tag to it for the holidays!

and I splurged for this old child skate board for $25. I didn't want to pay that much but I know I could use it under the tree and all yr really. I love the old rust wheels.

Added a new picture of Taylor to the fireplace.

The Hoosier cabinet in the kitchen I added some new garland.

My main goal for the day after is some new garland. I see many of you ladies have the real thing gracing your tables and cabinets. I don't have the luxury of running out my backdoor and clipping some from a pine tree much here in Kansas. So I am on the look out for some realistic greenery this Dec. 26th.

This little tree sits in a cheese box on my kitchen window sill with a couple of old enamelware lids.

More greenery on the entry table.

And surprise I must have added another few pics of the pie safe. Well I think today I will get my sweet potato pie ready for the oven. The turkey is defrosting in the fridge. I'll wait on the two cheese cakes and the salads. Everyone is coming here for Christmas dinner. May you all have a Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year with yours.

Last minute projects

2009-12-11T22:08:00.000-08:00

Hey, this is a late night post. I took a picture of a couple pillows and a matching candle hugger that I made up to take to school today. I literaly sold them before I got them to the break room. It was actually the second sleigh bells pillow I had sold. I sold the first one in the parking lot to a teacher before getting into the building. So I made another one along with the Santa pillow and sold them today along with a matching candle. I have two more orders to get done before Monday. I'm hoping for 4 pillows made before Mon. I'm out of muslin and need to get to Hobby Lobby tomorrow( guess that would be today now) Just picked up the daughter and her boyfriend and took the boyfriend home. My house looks so pretty with only the Christmas lights on! Well Ill try to post the pics of what I get done this weekend. Need to finish up my shopping on Sat. just a few last minute things to get.

Sleigh Bell Ring..

2009-12-04T20:28:00.000-08:00

This is a new sign board I stenciled up. I have it sitting on the old dresser in the living rm. I love the garland of jingle bells around it.

I made a Santa and wrapped a sash of gingham with a bell. It sits on the table in the dining rm.

We are off shopping today so this is a short post.

And finally a pillow I put together. I may take it up to my booth. I have done extremely well over the holiday season so far. The owner has called a couple times and ask for more of this or that, as I had sold items. It keeps me too busy though between running a teen here and there and work. Sat at a basketball game for Taylors cheering and the nieces game and boys game for 6 hrs. We won, it was a great boys game!! Happy Saturday Shopping!

Christmas Time Is Here...

2009-11-26T06:42:00.000-08:00

The inside of my house is somewhat mostly done. The outside still looks fallish. The sweet potato pie is in the oven, the cherry cheese cakes are chilling in the fridge and the salad is ready. This tree in the living rm has a old black hat theme. Lots of snowmen with the tall black hat topping the tree.

This grouping is to the right of our fireplace. I love to display in my collection of ice cream freezers. Some wooden candy canes drape this tree along with the candy striped snowman.

On top of the dresser in the living rm sits the snowman with a prim lantern. He sits on an old makeover stool

Thanks for the hints on the old tin taper lantern I had been looking to purchase. I found a place that still had them and I got it in the mail. Now I almost wish I had ordered two!

These couple of lazy guys sit to the left of the fireplace on another makeover stool and I just love them! A couple of sampled pillows cozied up in an old crock, next to some dried sunflowers.

I tried a pair of Santa's long johns on the front door this yr. I will have another pair in the laundry rm. but I kind of like this.

Some greenery and lights nestled up onto of the TV cabinet along with some Kansas sunflowers in a jar, a few wire baskets and a wooden house. It looks so pretty at night all light up.

This tree is in the dining room/entry way. It has a stocking full of goodies at the base of the old crate.

Many of my trees have these small coffee tags dangling from the branches. I enjoyed making them and thinking of different wintery saying to put on them.

Love them!

My old ladder is full of some of my graniteware I collect. Old Santa is here to greet anyone at the door. I placed an old screen behind the ladder and I love little trees in any crock. I wrapped some old rusty wire around the mouth of the crock to give it a prim look.

This tree is in a large crock outside my laundry rm in the kitchen. Just decorated with some old coffee stained muslin and tags. Well I need to get around and head over to my parents house here soon to help Mom. Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving! God love all of us that WILL be out there tomorrow shopping! Yea!

Semi-Formal Pictures

2009-11-21T02:27:00.000-08:00

Can you say group hug! Here are some pics of the kids going to semi formal last night. Ok, I did go ahead and put up some trees and lights. It started with the mantle and it just grew! I ended up putting up all the trees with lights, no Christmas yet just a wintery scene.

They all had a great time. She said they danced the night away! Sail Away was the theme. Here is Taylor and her boyfriend Sidney.

Don't they make a nice looking couple!!

They had dinner reservations at 6:30 at a local Italian restaurant. Then onto the dance at 8:00. This is one of her best friends. They started preschool together and have remained best friends since. Love ya Whitley! and her date Evan.

He leaves on Sunday for Mississippi for a family reunion during the Thanksgiving break. She will be so sad not to see him all week. Thank God for texting hu?? What did we ever do before that!
Thanks for letting me brag.

Im looking to buy...

2009-11-20T05:09:00.000-08:00

Does any of your ladies out there with shops have any of these candle scoops to sell me. I have been looking for one. I am wanting the taper grungy candle to go with it!

I'm so ready for Christmas decorating

2009-11-15T07:53:00.000-08:00

but.. Taylor is attending a semi formal dance on Friday night and her and her boyfriend and another couple are coming over at 6 on Fri along with their parents to take pictures in front of our fireplace that is decorated for fall. Ill post pics of them!!!!

I haven't posted for awhile but I haven't been idle! I have a number of stitches made up. Last night I finished up on one of these and will make a few pillows of of them.

I took a spin off of My God Jar and made a few snack, dog treat and cookie jars to sell at school and my booth.

I have had request for some candle wraps to be sold separate at me booth so I made up a few this weeks. Along with a pillow and some candle mats. I have had the sampler done just didn't have it framed until last night.

Another stitched I have done. I like this one, maybe it won't sell and I'll keep this one! Mike was gone last night with his brother and nephew to buy a new motorcycle in Joplin Missouri. Taylor also spent the night in Joplin. Her and a best friend celebrated the friends birthday buy shopping all day. She came home with a pair of very holey jeans, a pair of Ugh boots and a very cute long gray sweater from Hollister. Anyway with them gone I got alot done last night.

I have had these table runners done for a few days too. I love the black. I think they will sell well at my booth. I have gone in and switched out the fall things for a few winter and Christmas items. It's going pretty good.

I have pulled down a few Christmas trees every time I come down from my craft room. I bought another pencil tree yesterday at Hobby Lobby for behind my dining rm table. Last yr. I used a lg and med. size pencil tree grouped together and didn't use my big Christmas tree. I really liked it. So I think I will try that again this yr.

Some of my little trees I place around my fireplace and here and there.

And then the mass of stuff I have collected. I try to hit a local downtown crafty store every yr the day after Christmas so the following yr. I have many new Christmas treasures to display! Its so fun to get it all out and think Oh I have this to use this yr!!! So after the pictures on Fri. I will begin to decorate. We are having Thanksgiving at my moms this yr. She just got new carpeting this week. And I will have Christmas at my house. Well I need to go to the grocery store and I want to start on some holiday signs. I will post the pics of Taylor and her friends for semi formal next weekend. Have a great week!

Another Neewollah Celebration

2009-11-02T16:18:00.000-08:00

has come to an end. It was a lot of fun for alot of people. We had a great carnival. Taylor and her boyfriend enjoyed the rides downtown. It's right on the main street of town.

Some of my pics are in the wrong spots. This is Taylor in a police car. The cheer leaders were so cold the police man told them they could sit in the car before the parade began. She said they were arrested for being too pretty!!

The cheerleaders holding the Neewollah banner at the beginning of the Kiddie parade.

Taylor is the second one from the left in the hat.

The food stands are set up along the street of our downtown. Any kind of food you could want. The BBQ is my fav.

This is Taylor second flute from the left.

Our 68th Queen Neelah and 1st and 2nd runner ups.

This is the Doo Daah parade that is for adult entrys only. This is our dentist and her staff with thier EAT MORE KANDY signs!!

The Indep. Middle school marching in the kiddies parade. My niece is the flute with the orande bandana on her head.

Some cute kiddies on a float.

We were just playing around with my camera!!

Taylor is a freshman this yr.

Her and her car!!!!! Have a great evening!

Just when you think

2009-10-24T08:37:00.000-07:00

all the good tag sales are over for the season you run across one! I had slept in for once and the neighbor called and said, "get out here, theres a good one! I head out and she was right. She had saved this old chicken feeder for me for $2. But my eye caught a few more treasures!

The old black boots will be cute in the yard for $1. Love the old church chair for $1, the old small wooden box for $1, table legs he wanted $4, I think I gave him $3. The old picture frame I can make a sampler for.

Just fell in love with these two vintage bedside clocks for $3 each. The old red can is a coffee can and a couple enamelware things.

I bought all of this inside the bucket for $5. It came with lots of lids!! I rented a booth at a new consignment shop uptown late last week. The Country Calico Cat. Ill have to post some pics of it. I fell into a great booth. Actually a bigger booth that I'm sharing than a booth for one. It's #2, great location. I set it up with lots of my fall things and with the Neewollah celebration starting this coming week I hope to sell a few things. I did well with selling them at school. I ended up bringing in stuff three times there. I like the looks of my booth. I go in every so often and do some arranging. I'll see how things go through the holidays. It's $35 a month rent and 10% of sales. Well see. Well the husband is on a long weekend bike run. Left Fri. morning with several guys for a run down into Arkansas. He had called and said the leave where beautiful. He will return Sun evening. It's gorgeous weather today. The leaves in my yard are stunning, all around town they are perfect. It will look nice for the Neewollah festivities this week. Hope the rain stays away. The daughter and her boyfriend went to the play last night. It will run until tomorrow and then on Mon. the talent show and Tues. the coronation of our Queen, may local senior girls will go out for this title of Queen Neelah!! Wed. starts the down town carnival rides and many great street acts. We have a huge stage and feature many local talents and some are brought in to sing each evening. The street are lined with great smelling food vendors and on Thurs. we have a Doo Dah parade, many adults dress up to a themed parade. Fri. we have the Kiddie Parade with thousands of kids and their parents dressing up, many hours are spent on float decorations for the kiddies. And on Sat. is our Grand Parade, people coming from miles away, bands attending, it sometimes last 3 hrs.!! Our population will grow for the day from a small town of 10,000 to as many as 80,000. It's really a fun fun time for Independence. You can check us out at www.neewollah.com Well it's to pretty for me to sit here much longer. Outside is calling me and I could find tons of things to work on. Have a great weekend!

More fall signs

2009-10-11T07:30:00.000-07:00

Well this is what has been keeping me busy. This and running the daughter around. This is my third batch of goodies I have made. I sold out twice at school and these I have made for my sister in laws beauty shop. She always lets me stick a few of my goods out there. My neighbor and another friend want to shop before I take them out to the beauty shop. I really sold the BOO signs well. I can't tell you how many of those I made.

I like to cut them out and paint one night and then stencil, sand and stain the next. It just takes that stain so long to dry. I do use a blowdryer to speed it along.

I aged some tags and wrote little things on there. I think it adds to the primness.

Oh here is my buy of the week!! I am so excited about these two platters. We have this beautiful bed and breakfast about 2-3 blocks from our home. It is called Glenclift Farms. I think in its day it use to be a dairy farms. It is a sprawling acreage of land with a huge beautiful home. Just huge. a stable and barn that I swear I could live in. Split rail fence and even a few horses. My daughter went to a halloween party out there a few yrs ago and it was decorated so awesome. It was lite up and there were kids in the loft and it was just all aglow. anyway, they had a tag sale out there sat. and I went early of course. They had these two enamelware meat platters for sale. She wanted $20 each. Well I didn't want to give that for them so I asked her bottom dollar. Well I bought 1 for $15 and got her number to see if she still had it at the end of the day. Called her back about 2ish and bought the other one for $10!! I was so excited.

Look at the great patina in the enamel. I myself have never seen big platters like this before in enamel.

I think I will really use them alot!

This was my Sat. night project. We went to the Friday night football game and it was so cold. We about froze. Great game but we lost. It was 34-34 in the final second, had to go into sudden death and we lost. Bummer. But so many people had these flannel lap blankets and I told a friend that I always sit with that I should whip us up one of those this weekend. So I did!! Our mascot is a Bulldog and I found this paw print material at Hobby Lobby. We should be a bit warmer next Friday evening. Well I'm in there making Italian spaghetti and doing laundry. I bought some boxes at Hobby Lobby yesterday and I will try to put a coat of paint on them. I also want to mow if it dries up. I love to mow. It's my therapy. Its been so damp out and its about 50 degrees and cloudy today. Well enjoy your weekend. I will have to post about our annual Neewollah celebration we have here in Independence Ks. Our town is starting to scamper around in preparation for the week of fun!!

Trick or Treat

2009-09-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

I've been working in my craft room at night, making a few things to take to school this week. Sometimes I make a few things up and take them into the workroom at school and the kind ladies I work with buy them up. This yr. I made some of the cute candy corn blocks. I tied them together in a bundle and added a prim tag. Then I had made myself some fall signs and had some scraps of wood left over and thought I'd make some small signs. I added some curly wire and scraps of material to some and I like how they turned out. I tried a few fall candle mats too!

More stenciling on fall signs. I also made some prim sunflowers I think I will take. I hit a few tag sales this morning. Last night I thought I'd just sleep in and once again I was wide awake at 6:30 so I got up and got the adds out and away I went. Lucky I did. The first few I didn't find much. I did find 4 small decoy ducks for my pool. A darling little metal lunch pail and a few old metal funnels. And then I thought I'd head home. I wasn't going to stop by the last one. I didn't figure from the add they wouldn't have anything I needed. Listed a lot of baby stuff. Well I drove by and there was the dresser I have been looking for for Taylor's room. Solid wood and priced at $12. I bought that puppy up fast and loaded it and off to the paint store I went. It was a nice light shade but I wanted to paint it white to match the rest of her furniture. Her old dresser had seen better days and one of the drawers was off the track. It was the dresser we used with her crib! So I primed and painted it today and got it loaded up with her under clothes while she is gone this evening. She left to attend a Kansas City Royals home game tonight with her boyfriend and his parents. She wont get back till late tonight. So I cleaned her room, changed her sheets, swept the floor and dumped out her trash. Something gross was growing in that trash can. It had attracted fruit flies, what ever it was. Oh! Why does she choose to live in such a messy room? I have placed clean folded clothes on her bed to be put away before she goes to bed and she will just sleep right on them! Sometimes you cannot see her floor because of all the clothes on it. I know its my fault, my mother tells me I let her get by with it all the time.

Here is a God jar I made a friend at work the other day. we where talking the other day and she said, hey when you are sitting at home with nothing to do and you are thinking, What could I make Vicki today, could you make me a God jar, to put all my prayers and worries I have over to God? Well sure, so that evening I whipped up this God Jar for her. Well it's late but I'm not going to bed until Taylor get home, so I guess I'll go read some post from you all today. Maybe I'll post some pics of the dresser tomorrow and some of my finds from tag sales today. Enjoy your Sunday tomorrow.

100 mile Rummage Sale

2009-09-13T05:25:00.000-07:00

Well I've been back to Hobby Lobby and bought more pumpkins. I love these. I played around a little yesterday in the kitchen with them. Made another display on my stove board. Won't be quiet so heavy for the daughter to lift off when she needs the stove. That has been the big complaint with her. It's to inconvenient when she wants to cook.

I moved the board that sat on the table over to my cabinet and swap things around. I gathered some acorns from the yard to put in the small wooden bowl for fall.

On Fri. Mike and I took off of work and headed on the 2nd annual 100 mile tag sale. we left the house at 5:30 so we could be in the next small town north of us. We traveled most of the day. I spent a total of $3. No not $3oo. or even $30, just $3. Not including breakfast and an occasional pop. Mike spent $15 I think. We were so disappointed. I don't know if it was because it was Fri. and many people were working or what. So I had planned not to go back out on Sat. Well I slept till about 7 and my SIL called and said oh I had missed a good one locally. My neighbor had called and said she had bought me a couple things at this sale too. So I scurried around and made my way over there and found a few things left. A couple bushel baskets and this great old metal laundry basket, and some sewing drawers. Well then I thought I might as well heard back to the town about 45 min. away. Taylor needed some black and orange ribbon for her hair for cheerleading on Mon. night. So off I went. I passed up a few and then I hit the mother load!! This family was selling off their dads stuff. Mom was there to price all the treasures but dad had loved auctions and never wanted to part with any of it. Oh the stuff I got!!!!!!

There where just outbuildings full of things. You could go pull stuff out and the lady would price it. there were some things I put back because she was to high for me. But I dug and dug! Watering cans and the big water jugs I found in an old shed. The wire rack she wanted a dime for. Old pulleys, I love the little old mailbox. And the red light works!

Here is a good shot of the laundry basket, it has holes in the sides of it with wooden handles. The utility table was holding a bunch of junk and I got it for $1. My neighbor bought me the kettle and oil can on top. Oh, and can you see the string of bells on the watering jug? They have the prettiest sound. the first time I heard them I thought of an old general store.

I found more bushel baskets. like three for .25!! And of course I love that galvanized!

This is the bargains I got on Fri. i love the grater. And this box of three compartments I have been looking for forever. I want to hang it and place three bowls in it. I found some prim material for $1

I have been doing a few repurposing a few weeks ago and just not posting them. These were a few things I have got at tag sales and redone. Love the little stool. Ill be saving them for my someday shop. There were many road side vendors out on the sale but many of them were dealers and so to high for my wallet. I loved what they had but I like to find it before they get to it! Well lst night I started working on a few more fall signs and I'm trying my had at the Pickled Peppers 2x4 wooden candy corn. Got a set painted black last night so I'm ready to paint in between laundry loads! Have a great Sunday!!

Bring on the rain

2009-09-09T16:36:00.000-07:00

Well here is our new rain chain we have been pondering on. I didn't want a traditional downspout sticking out here on my porch and our gutter man suggested a rain chainI had never heard of one before. Mike got on the Internet and found a few copper ones for a pretty penny. So we thought we could come up with something fun.

The down spout drops into an old bucket with a whole cut out of the bottom, into a big funnel I found at a tag sale. Then it falls into an old cistern pipe.

From there the chain flows into one of my old chicken feeders I got this weekend. We have holes drilled into the feeder to allow the water to drain onto the brick pavers and onto my beddings. The water follows the chain during a rain shower. It is fun to watch it. And believe me we have had plenty of opportunity to watch the rain the past two days.

Theres a view of the covered deck to at the patio doors. I can now decorate more area without to worry of rain or weather on my treasures!

And connected to that is the pergola side. I wanted to have one side open where you could still look up into the trees. It is still shaded in the afternoon!

We can enjoy the humming birds here. It looks out of the kitchen window. The humming birds fly under the pergola now!!

Sorry same view!

Ok, these are the goodies Mike brought home from a tag sale up north of us. He had some business up north by Wichita and just stumbled by this sale where,"Grizzly Adams" was moving. He said the place was just a junk pile, you know, my kind of place!! He had these tubs filled with flowers. Mike dumped them out. The old boy wanted $10. each!

Then he found these jewels. Chicken feeders, a great old pulley I may use on my porch. A couple more galvanized tubs there. The big one was full of flowers. Theold guy drilled holes in it. I may just hang it from my someday shop. I'm nt sure what the fluted tin pans were for? Any guesses?

One of the washtubs had this old wringer attached to it. But I will probably hang it in my laundry room. I have been wanting one of those for awhile. An old watering can, pitch fork, some enamelware and the old guy said the tall can was an old milking can! A great haul Mike brought home! He made a pile and offered $50. Yea! I was just thrilled. I played all weekend in the yard with my goodies.

Mike also had his new (junk) antique toy to play with this weekend. He purchased this old 1938 Cadillac from California on EBay and it was finally delivered this weekend. So he started tearing out the old interior and banging around on it. He is going to lower it, and put some custom paint on it. Fun Fun!! Well I just got rid of the entire JV cheer leading squad. They were practicing a dance for half time in my living room!! Just dropped them off at practice. It was picture night too so they were in the bathrooms and bedrooms primping!! Ohhhhh. I need to go in and pick up the trashed living room and clean up the pop cans and subway wrappers!! Have a great week you all!

Autumn Harvest

2009-09-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm slowly getting ready for fall. I started earlier that usual because the cool temps have put me in the mood for autumn. I love this display on my deck with my new roof and pergola. I have found I can put things on the porch now without them getting wet and weathered so I have new square footage to play with now! I found this display idea from the new fall Country Sampler. There is a display like this in it and I fell in love with it.

I took three bushel baskets and stuffed them with newspaper and stacked them. I placed some greenery in the bottom one and raffia in the middle one and pumpkins on top. I found these pumpkins at Hobby Lobby. They look so real!!

On the other side of the patio doors I have this display in the old black chippy chair.

I love my dried sunflowers. I keep them out all year and added Mr. Scarecrow!

Took down all my flags and put up some acorns and pumpkins. I made some stained pumpkins from the dollar store from Chars tutorial!

The mantle has the old antique scooter under it.

I put up my shelf I bought at a tag sale and repurposed. I found these scales the other day for $2.

In my entryway I have his table sitting and I replaced my galvanized bucket with another bushel basket full of pumpkins.

This is the dresser I found on the curb a few yrs back that I repainted and I placed a rusty basket full of greenery and pumpkins. I will try to post some pics of our new porch roof this long weekend. We are still working on our rain chain for the downspout! I think alot of you will love this idea!! Happy Fall Y'all!!

Hot "TOP"ics

2009-08-22T20:47:00.000-07:00

I have been out of the loop for a while. Mike took a week off to work on the new roof and pregalo for the deck. We have been thinking about putting on a roof for the deck for a while. The patio door was beginning to weather a bit . It was either spend a $1000. on a new door or $1500. on a whole new topper. It would get so hot out there. The far end is to be the pergola and this end at the door entrance will be a covered roof. To get in out of the rain and snow, and SUN!

Before~ We worked hard all week. It rained on us two days so hopefully tomorrow we will finish up the sheeting on top and I will post! Of course I've already started to put the things back on the deck.

We just finished up our first week of school. Here is Taylor starting for her first day of high school! It wasn't long ago she stood on this same porch poising for her first day of kindergarten. She had really enjoyed this week. Band practices and cheerleading practice starts on Monday.

I hit a tag sale this morning. I found this old bowl for .50. I loved it! Well it's late and I'd like to catch up on some blogs. I miss reading them every day, but where has the time gone since school started? Have a great weekend! Its some beautiful temps here this weekend!!!

MOre chicken feeders from a week ago!

Friday Finds!

2009-08-07T16:33:00.000-07:00

Before~

After~

This is a makeover I did this week. I love how it turned out! So much I'd love to keep it, but put it where?? I sprayed it black, sprayed it cream, sanded it and stained it. I added an old rusty wire and I think its so cute.

A town close by has this cute cute prim/craft shop that I love to visit. She had a add in the paper that she was having a yard sell! I got some fun things. The cream star bucket is lighted. The flat box in the background is rough but she painted on it and I pd. $3. I thought I could use it in my someday shop to hold small samplers or material. The old watering can is really rough but she painted on it and I pd. $5. The wire rack was $2. I thought magazines or paper plates would be fun. The red stripe can is an old paint can I think,$3.

I love the little rabbit guy holding a bag of carrots. I paid a pricey $14 for him. The wire rack behind was only $4. and the white cabinet front with the cut out star was $4. I didn't get a good shot of the feeder in the back, Love it. She painted on it too. $12.

This piece I just bought about half hour ago at a tag sale for $2.50 Thought I'd paint it up prim.

The green hinged box would be cute painted up on a desk. More zinc lids. I pd. .25 per jar. I mainly wanted the lids. Rolling pin was $1 and the box I might paint up to put in Taylor's room. She has things on her dresser that end up on the floor all the time. I'll paint it up one of the three colors of her room.

More goodies. I got these Thurs. night at a tag sale. The canisters were all inside each other. I pd. .75 for all this!! I'll paint up the canisters and hanging thing. The bread box is to cute to paint.

Well I have been having such good luck on Friday sales. It's been so hot. Taylor finished up with band camp tonight. They just had a pool party and now are going bowling tonight. I helped during lunch this week. We feed them in the high school cafeteria. My first yr. experience with band booster. We are looking into several fundraisers for a trip to San Antonio Tx. this yr. It's going to get very busy with her schedule I think. Well I've mowed this afternoon and I need to go water. Better get out there. Have a great weekend.

What a junk weekend!

2009-08-02T20:44:00.000-07:00

I had a pretty good tag sale weekend!! I found tons. This was a bargain for $10. I didn't need it, I have one almost like it in my yard. But when the old boy said he just have to have $10 for it, I couldn't leave it.It folds down into a bed!! I drug it home and a fellow junker stopped by to borrow a tool and she just had to have it for her new deck they are building. She can do something with these old cushions that are shot. She'll have it looking so cute. Junk Camp has one posted that looks just like it and I love her cushions she has used on it! She will have to let me come over and post some pictures of her finished deck. She has been collecting treasures for it for awhile.

These I also found at the same sale. The mans son had just moved into an old farm house that has a dairy barn. He had two sets of crates for sale. I paid, (get ready) $5 for two full crates with bottles!! I know! I took the two and he said oh I have more! So I asked for two more sets of them for my fellow junker that bought my glider! She loved them as I did. She thought of a great idea~can't you see flags filling each bottle or I thought of Gerber Daisy's. I just love them and I think two crates stacked on top of each other just makes them. I could even label the milk bottles!Also from this sale. I know!! I bought the old galvanized tub, it's got a hole in it but I put it up on the side of my someday shop. The circlely thing is an old light fixture that I am going to have Mike hook up out on my porch area of the pool. I have been wanting an old light fixture out there. I have a fixture with two spot lights now , but this old one will be perfect. It was laying under a bush as we were loading the pickup and I pulled it out and asked if it was for sale. He said, anythings for sale. Well that's just what I like to hear. Mike and I went on down to the barn and found a couple tubs and buckets with the old jars in them.

I also found this table top and a piece of a door. I took it and used it for a dough board on my new washer and dryer. You can see it further down on this post. It was the perfect size and patina already!!

This is a little drawer I found at a tag sale for .25, painted it up black. I'll probably save it for my shop.

I love this. I downloaded the pics backwards. This is my after. I love the color. I painted it black, then brick red and sanded the heck out of it and stained it with dark walnut and wiped it off. I have it sitting in my laundry room on my new dough board!

This is the before. I cut off the little legs a bit.

This is also out of order. This is the after of a bread box I bought at a thrift store this weekend for $2. The top rolls up. I'll put it in my someday shop. I do love it but I don't have much room left on my counter tops. I will just enjoy it for awhile. I again painted it, I actually spray painted it flat black, (so much faster) then spray painted it an almond color and stained it with the dark walnut and wiped it off.

The before, and a cute little candle holder thingy I sprayed flat black and scuffed up. I don't think I took a pic of this finished yet.

I know I took a lot of pics today! Here's more goodies I found. The grater was $1. I love the old refrigerator jars(.25) I have one already, they keep tea so cold. A wooden bowl I have painted up already and the black thing is a candle holder.

This is the old white mountain ice cream freezer I told you about the other day that my mom bought for $3. It was in pieces. I actually thought it would be harder to put back together. Some nice old soul had numbered the slates and it went right together. I wired it and glued the bottom.

This I pd $1 for, I might just leave it this color.

This is a cool little retro bread box. Paid $2 for it. I will just clean it up to resale.

We bought new washer and dryers the other day! I love them and I love my new space to decorate! I have the whole top of the appliances to use now. Mike thought I might want the drawers that go under them to make them taller. But I think I might either leave the dough boards on them or get some wooden crates to put between the cabinets and the appliances. I like the looks of all my treasures on top thought! The dough board on the left is the one I bought this weekend( the part of an old door)

A little closer view of the new boards. Oh, the one on the right, I made about a week ago. I cut the board myself with Mikes saw, I even used his nail gun for the first time. It was so easy! I stained it and whala!

I'll finish up this long post with a few new pics of Taylor's room. I have had these three framed cork boards painted for months. I just hadn't hung them yet. I had made a list of things I wanted to get done this summer and hanging these was the last thing I have to do!! I should have done it sooner. She now could hang up her Jonas Brothers posters that she bought. I had painted them the three different colors of her room. Olive green, rich brown and light blue to match her bed spread and curtains. She doesn't have a headboard so I thought these could kind of be used as a focal point. She likes it. That's all that matters! Well sorry I have rambled on in this post. I really got a lot done this weekend, have found places for most of my treasures I bought. It was a great junk weekend here!

Wash house curtain

2009-07-30T15:46:00.000-07:00

I finally finished the curtain in the bathroom. I don't know why I have been dreading that. I really don't like to sew with the machine. I really thought I'd do it after school started, but yesterday I just went for it. I had my sign done for a while and I wanted it up.

I took the mini blinds down. I'd like to eventually get them all down in the house. I still have them in the bedroom. I'd like to have plantation shutters like in the living room. Those mini blinds are just dust collectors.

I found this old watering ladle yesterday at a junk store for $8.50, a little more than I wanted to spend but I liked it.

And this was next to it in the same booth. Love this. These old soap dishes just speak to me when I find them!! I pd. $8.50 for it also. I put it in my bathroom.

I bought some plank boards to make a dough board for my new washer and dryer tomorrow. I'll post them later. But as I left the garage, my daughters little car was sitting out in the driveway. Her dad bought her a car this summer, now granted she is only 14 and can't even drive yet. Hasn't even gone up to take the learners permit test yet. He got a really good deal on it, so he bought it. I've been driving it here and there. Well I have a few projects to work on tomorrow. I bought a couple repurpose things to paint up and my mom bought me a old white mountain ice cream freezer in pieces that Ive got to glue the base back together and try to put back together. I'll try to post all that. Have a great evening.