The Perfect Pear!!

When I see a sign that says FREE I stop! I picked up a bag of the most perfect pears on the side of the road today!! I love the aqua and the green!!

I've wanted a Flobee forever...and look what I found today at the thrift store. SO FUN!! Now I just have to find someone to let me cut their hair!! (evil laugh!!) Oh and I forgot to mention they are selling on ebay for 80 bucks. So I'll have my fun and then make some money!! Fun and money making...is the perfect pair!!

Other options...

Here are some of the ones I left on the shelf!

Don't push PULL!!

I have been working on "The Hutch" for over a month now. I have had my eye on the most darling glass knobs at Hobby Lobby for almost as long. This week they were on sale. I marched right up and bought them w/ my hard earned "Vintage Sale" money. Then I hopped on over to Michael's...and are you kidding me...look what I found in the DOLLAR section!! The Hobby Lobby knobs will just have to go back!

Oh and lest we forget the 39 cent ring that is gawdy and large and LOVELY!!

Favorite Friday!

Today was a hot 88 degrees for October 1st! I for one will am looking forward to cooler weather!
I have decided because I heart Fridays and I Heart Blogs..I will share one of my new and favorites on each Friday! Here is a new blog I happened on that I really heart!! Happy Fall!

Flat paint and a few letters short!

Can I just say I hate flat paint!? It should be banned from the earth!! After spending hours painting the hutch..I gave in and used semi-gloss. Flat paint has no coverage. Sighh!

I popped to the thrift store to find a doily so I could make one of these:

They wanted 3.00 for something that should of been .75. I'll keep my eyes peeled and find something great and cheap later!

While thrifting I ran into these little babies!!

Look at the cute box!!

They are brass!

I thought they would be cute to make words and set around. Alas not all the letter are there and really only a few numbers. DUH! I should checked....but I was to excited to think.

For .50 I can think of something cute to do. Any ideas?

**While I am venting I want to add...Self tanner can make you look like a pumpkin!! Also never assume you hair dresser "knows what I mean". I think I didn't explain my self very well and I feel like a Fraggle!

I heart Google!

I worked on the hutch for a couple hours today! I thought I'd just paint the hardware white because it had been painted a million times and was thick w/ paint. On a whim I decided I'd strip it...I'd remembered reading somewhere in blog land about and easy way to do it...but then I'd quickly forgotten! A little google power and I learned...Boiling painted hardware in a pan on the stove and adding backing soda is the magic trick!!

I left a little paint because I like that look!! Happy Fall!!

Just a visit!!

I love a good blog!! I love to meet those blog ladies in person!! These ladies are coming to my tiny home town!! Can't wait!

Skirt'n around the matter!

Today I wore one of my new Down East Skirts! CUTE!

Cheap Chic! Weekend Edition

I love this sweet little (tiny) thrift store in my tiny town! Things are CHEAP! That is FUN!

Look at this darling stained glass leaf 5 cents!

Raw wood bracelets (I bought all of them) .25. Love!!

I happened on some yard sales while in SLC I also popped into NPS! Yard Sale: Cute hat for my Mary Poppins Haloween costume! Mineral shimmer foundation .50 and a brown stamp pad...I have been needing one for awhile! .50! You see those eye drops? I go through eye drops like no other women and they are COSTLY!! a 2 pack 99 cents at NPS...I really should have bought more!

After a highly crappy day I needed a little something something to bring a smile back to my face! See what I found at the Centerville DI?? Rachel and she was only 1.00!!! I was so excited..I almost passed out!

We have a wood salvage yard in my fair city. They use the salvage to chop up and make mulch...there is some good stuff there but they don't like you "pick it". Rude! I went and asked VERY nicely if I could have some trim from the bottom of the pile...I honestly said "Pretty Please" to the burley construction man. I used it here:

Read along!

Right now I am reading this book. It's super! You should read it too!

I love a Down East skirt as much as the next girl but it hurts my soul to pay 30 bucks for (anything) a skirt! Today at the thrifty thrift store...I got two brand new Down East skirts for 4 bucks each. It pleased me to no end. I almost feel like the darling women on "For the LOVE" ! She is so cheap and sooo HIP and Fashionable and SHE LOVES THE D.I. too!!! Happy Fall!

FOR SALE!!

Here are some FUN left overs from the sale!!

Vintage wall cupboard 50.00 (it's on it's side in the picture)
Boxwood 1.5" tall 5.00
Sideboard (needs top attached!)100.00
Sm wood mirror 10.00.
Robins Egg Blue Mirror 10.00
Vanity set Depression Glass. I got this baby in England!! 20.00

Costume

I told my little friend Syd (5 years old) that I'd help her make her Halloween costume! Today I called Syd to see if she had decided what she wanted to be. She informed me she wanted to be a "Butterfly Ballerina with a Princess crown"!

Come wallow in the JOY!!

Thanks for come'n!!

Autumn

Tag Sale!!

We are having a SUPER FABULOUS!! Antique, Vintage and Junk sale THIS weekend!! If you are local leave a comment and I'll send our address!! This is one not to be missed!!

Skate

As a child one of the elementary schools I attend was over 100 years old. Because of it's age it wasn't state of the art but it had some great perks!! One of them was a "Skate Closet". What magic there was in the skate closet in which there were rows and rows of skates. We'd get our size and then spend an hour skating in the gym. What a great memory!!

A few weeks ago I saw these babies sitting in "my" thrift store. These are "my" skates! From "my" skate closet. Just another thing deemed unsafe after years of childhood joy!!

The day of the PEACH!!

Here in my tiny town we love a good peach!! Rather then just shout it from the mountain tops we have a whole "day" or weekend devoted to our favorite fruit!!

We also have "rides"! I do all in my power to by pass them though!

I got a tip from a friend that mentioned that they have a FREE flower arrangement class I could join in on. I did and I loved it...but I love most things that are FREE!!

My feet are sore and my cheeks are Rosy!! I love when "fun" come to my corner of the world if only for a weekend!

Don't "MOCK" me!!

This is just a "mock up" that I did at Sherwin-Willams.com! So fun!! I think I might go aqua..the green is so pretty...but so boring and so used by me often. I want something new and diffrent and FUN!!

It rained all day today and so not a brush was touched!!

Paint anxiety...