Potting Shed

Hi everyone, I haven't posted in a wk. I hate that. Yesterday I hung around the house cleaning up and finishing odds and ends. Don't you just sometimes have to do that? I finished putting butcher paper on the back of my samplers. Cleaned my craft rm. up a bit. Ill have to post some photos of that sometime, its a mess tho. Ive made some snowmen for my booth this wk. Mike took a wks vacation last wk to work on the potting shed. He will about double it when finished. The back part will be for mowers and the 4 wheeler and garden stuff. The front I'm going to make into a shop this next yr. Its in the back part of our property. Its pretty bare right now. the studs of course show and we have peg board on on wall, and a potting bench. When we get ready to fix it up we will tear all that out. I do like the walls bare. I have been saving pics of some of your shops to show Mike. I want it "old shed" like. It has a cement floor, not sure what I want to do with that? The third photo is a Santa I bought from Country Sampler with my prize money. Well better go and get something done. Have a great Sunday!!

Dried Sunflowers

Good Evening Ladies,

You know come along Thursday and I haven't read everyone's post I tell myself, Ok, I'm going to sit down at that computer and spend the evening reading and it just doesn't happen. Here it is Sunday evening and I still haven't caught up with everyone. I hate that. I need a longer weekend! i have been working on stuff for the Christmas Craft show Dec. 6th. I have never done this before, and of course I'm nervous. I will have a booth 10 ft x10 ft. with two tables. I'm hoping to have a screen door or window on legs to showcase some things. We can sit up the night before! I don't know if I have to much or not enough. If I have made things that wont sell or will I sell out and should have made more? Ill make myself silly before this is over. i did read in a blog site where she had a harvest sale in her yard. I like the sound of that idea. maybe I could do that next yr! i guess i will just keep working on things until the date. The first photo is of some sunflowers I "found". Most of them were dried up but some I have hanging on my back porch drying. Today I sprayed some with a matte spray to protect them. i put some in a big jar and made a label "Kansas Harvest Sunflowers" I painted the lid black, Ill have to post that. i can see some in a wreath or on a shelf or in an old bowl. The second photo is of some of my tag sale finds sat. morning. The two crocks I pd. 4.00 each, the ladders were .75 each, the little stools were 1.00 each, one is black but I might prim that other black also. The galvanized tub i bought at my favorite antique place, pd. 6.00 for it. really was to high but I liked the shape. I put it on my bathroom wall. I will have to post that too. Well its late and I need to get up early tomorrow for school. The week of the 20th is Neewollah. we don't have school on the 23-24th. I will try to get photos of the festivities and post them. have a great week everyone.

Saturday Morning Treasures

Hi ladies, the hubby and I hit the neighboring town of Caney and found these goodies this morning. We actually woke up to thunder and rain so we got a late start. The old bicycle was worth the trip. He wanted $25.00, now to know my husband! He will never pay full price for anything. And me,well I don't often haggel with anyones price. So I tell Mike I would pay $15.00 for the bike so Mike offers $10.00. The guy says, take it home!! I placed it by the playhouse for now. The old water cooler and galvanized tub, along with two brand new wooden cutting boards I paid $ 1.50 for all 4 items. I had been looking for a couple old metal chairs to paint on. i had seen two at a sale today but we didnt go back. I get home this morning and these two old chairs are sitting on my deck. I still dont know who they are from? Could be a girl from work. I will find out Monday. I want to paint on them! The second photo is of the two cutting boards. I will post what I have done with them later. The small old galvanized pan came from my neighbors rummage sale today. We stopped by a flea market on the way home and I found the two old tins. the two bottles, I want to make labels for. the old crock I pd. .25 cents, and the 10 zinc lids I pd. $5.00. All in all it was a great day! Then my cousin Towanna came over to show her friend my shutters in my living rm. and I showed her my witch hat on the spring. She mentioned she had an old scrap pile at her house with an old mattress spring in it to be hauled away. I made a bee line out there and salvaged 8 springs!! She will call me sometimes to look through her burn pile. Its so true, one womens junk is another womens treasure!!!!! Well tomorrow I want to chalk board paint something i bought at a tag sale.. I will try to post that too. I am at or almost at 50 post. Another 50 and I will have to have my first giveaway!! You ladies have a great Sunday tomorrow!

Fall Decorating

Hi girls, just a few photos of some of my fall decorating outside. It still can get pretty warm through the day here in Kansas. Our evenings are cool. My ferns are loving it as well as the mums. There are a slug of tag sales in the paper for Sat. morning. Even a small town north of here is having city wide. The hubby and I plan to be there. Our annual Neewollah is about two weeks away. The flags are up on the street and the ticket sales to the events have started. Ill post some later. Have a great weekend. My daughter is needing the computer for a school project.

Dads Favorite Hobby

Hi everyone, well back to work tomorrow. It was a beautiful weekend though. Dad did begin to paint their house. They chose a cafe cream with white trim. My folks live in a log house. Its been red and blue and now cafe cream. His plan is to paint one side every week. His cars keep him busy. Both my parents retired the same day 9 yrs ago. My mom was a hair stylist for 30 some yrs. and my dad is a welder. He keeps busy in the garage customizing cars. He tries to build and sell one a yr. This is the one he just finished up and as you can see he has one already started. My husband and brother also have the "custom bug" they also share the hobby. Ill have to post our car and garage sometime. The neighbors refer to Mikes garage as the (toolshmahall) Well I had better turn in for the night. Everyone have a great Monday. Ive got a crate of Carmel apples to take to school tomorrow. Thanks Pickled Peppers Patch!!

Fall Harvest Treasures

Good morning ladies, It is a beautiful crisp fall morning. The hubby and I have been out tag saling today. There are still lots of goodies to be gotten out there. My plans today are to mow, once the dew dries and Mom just called and Dad is painting the house and needs my option on trim color. Maybe Ill take my camera an post some of his cars he builds. My first pic is of all my goodies. Found another crate and a bottle crate along with the apple sign, gave $5.00 for those. I love the apple sign, especially this time of the yr. I got a little red cow bell, I thought was precious. A ladel, jar and galvanized tin for .50. The greenery and basket for $3.00 My favorite find today was the old milk can. I guess that's what it is? I love its shape, Ill have to find a place for it inside! She wanted $8.00 and I gave her $5.00. Ive been working on more samplers. Got an order from my cousin, she wants two that say Nana Loves You to The Moon and Back for her two granddaughters for Christmas. One of my favorite samplers has been the Black Crow Woolin Mill frame. I like that one. Well better get something done today. The weekends go by so fast, why can't my work day go as fast??

Happy Fall Y'all!!

Hello Ladies, I found the tutorial on the Carmel apples and ran to the $ tree. It only took a few minutes to make them and they look so real. I just picked up my daughter from volleyball and on the way home I said your going to love what I made tonight. She ran in and said Yum!! I said don't touch it, its not real and their wet! I'm going back out tomorrow and buy up the rest of them. I also bought some pomegranates, don't they look real! i took my goodies to school and sold all 10 witch hats with 3 more orders and 3 of my stockings and almost all of my pumpkin baskets. The teachers really like my stuff when i bring it in. I took a pic of the chalk board I have hanging on my upstairs doorway. I found 3 of these at a tag sale this summer, and the last pic is of a large frame I found. I want to hang it on the wall with a primitive doll inside of it, but I'm running out of wall space. well just a quick post for today. Its late, but I just watched the 2 hr. of Grays Anatomy and I'm still wired. Well have a great Friday!