What I've done today

We built a new fence at our driveway this weekend, so while out there I took a picture of the front of our house.

This is my birthday/Mothers Day present. I wanted a split rail corner fence at the entrance of our driveway. Mike rourtered out our last name and I painted it in. It really makes a great addition to our drive. The minute it was done I was adding my junk touch! It was just way to bare!!!

I coffee stained the banners I put on the fence and a flag my mom wanted put on her front porch.

This little project I have been wanting to add to my yard decor for awhile. This is the laundry lady! She is made from my tag sale sign Mike made for me. I added my Grandma Botts house dress and apron, an old hat and a sign advertising her most recent prices.

I was going to add an old galvanized tub at her feet, and remembered I has this double washtub set in my shop, I had been missing one square tub and the other day I found a second one! I had a mop bucket and old iron out there too. I added the American flag and I love it. I can look out my back porch and see her! Tonight as I was calling for the cat and dog to come in for the night after dark she was kind of scary looking!! My neighbor called this evening to tell me how cute she was!

I also found this old cabinet at a tag sale this weekend. Sink and all I paid a whole whopping $2.00 for!! The sink was in my mom and dad's neighbors garage and they said I could have it. The cabinet was a great find, it was missing the two drawer pulls, so I added a towel bar. I need to be looking for some faucet handles now. The cabinet is in pretty good shape, and I'm wanting to put it out in my yard. I really haven't found the right spot for it yet!! Well I found the perfect door pulls in my bathroom and I finished putting old screening in my pie safe. I'll have to save those pics for another post. I also finished up my firecrackers that are a little different. Catch ya tomorrow!

Great tag sale finds and border

Well my post pictures are a little mixed up tonight, please bare with me. I got my bathroom border up last weekend and I love it! It's a Billy Jacobs barn prints. I ordered it from www.kpcreek.com I love this company. I've ordered from them alot. It had been back ordered, but I finally got it in the mail.

I got everything placed back on my cabinets and all my galvanized back on the walls.

I'm very pleased with my shower curtain. I still need to make a curtain at the window. I had a tag sale this weekend. I picked the hottest weekend of the yr.! Triple digit this weekend with hardly no breeze. I just about died out there. Got rid of alot, but it was too too hot. I had many people who wanted to go in and see all my treasures. I had fun doing that!

I had my sale Thurs. and Fri. evening mainly because I didn't want to miss a Sat. rummaging. I'm glad I didn't, I would have missed out on this great find. I have been looking for a glider for awhile. This is from a local lady who had a great business and has been liquidating her things a little at a time for awhile. I hit her Christmas sale and found alot. I got this for $38 and a friend was there and got a double wash tub. Those too are hard to find. We were the only two there. We went early and luckily she was open early!

These are a few more things I found there. The green tall shelf I pd.$4 and will prim it up in black. The chippy oval frame I got for $3. It's very nice. The old spoon was $1 and the tins were a nice .25-.50 I will add them to my icebox display! Sorry, I left a minute, the neighbors were setting off a nice display of fireworks!!!

See this is where the mix up on my picture downloading happened. I quickly made a little mat for the back of the toilet.

And I found another brush this weekend to add to my wash bucket. I am beat from my sale. Today Mike and I hit a few tag sales. Oh I found a cabinet for my porcelain sink, I'll post it another day! today I put my garage back together. I always have to remove alot of things I don't want to sale from the peg board in the garage. You know all the seasonal decor that hang there. I've collected alot of shutters and wooden crates. So I put them back in their spots. Oh it was hot!! and I am beat. Have a great Sunday.

Primmed up the laundry room

Ok, this has been one of my inspirations for my new look in my laundry room. I love the washboards and old laundry hanging up.

This is a few of my new enamelware that I placed on the kitchen counter.

I switched out my bright bowls for some old crates, jars, stitchery, and of course the enamelware! Because of my new purchases this weekend, I added a few more pans up on the wall. I still enjoy my whisk broom valance.

The refrigerator containers all have lids on the top shelf, goodies from this weekend!~Some of my labels and wire racks I've bought at tag sales~

I'd love to try a paint technique on the cabinets to make them look old and all chipped up . I did add a brown glaze around the edges awhile back.

My washer and dryer are white and the wall paper is white, but the bottom wall paper looks like an old picket fence. I've picked up several old washboards lately and I have an old sleeve ironing board to the right hanging on the wall. Well I've been working on a small tag sale for myself this week and of course it is 99 degrees!! I usually don't wait this late to have mine, but we worked on my moms for a couple of weeks. I'm pretty much set up in the garage. I need to go through the pool/play house in the morning to see what I've stashed in there over the winter! Have a great Wednesday!

A Pile of Enamelware

Hello Ladies, this was my centerpiece I made on Sunday. We had a Father's Day get together of homemade ice cream and cake with family and friends. I had bought this old jar at a tag sale and a friend said she would put flags in it, so I made up a label and primed up some flags and here it is!

Now I have said it before, I cannot, cannot pass up enamelware. Well on Sat. in the pouring down rain I hit a sale and she was selling almost all of her collection of enamelware! I bought all she wanted to sell, about 20 pieces for $50. I was shaking as I paid her I was so excited! I went right home and started playing with my new toys!

I loved the measuring pitcher and all the refrigerator pieces had matching lids. I got several sizes of pans

and I love the baby bathtub!! I bought some other goodies on Sat. too that I haven't taken pics of. The weather was rainy on and off and I more than once thought about going on home and calling it good. But later on in the day the sun came out and it ended up a great day!! I have pics of were I placed all my new pieces but as I have said before I can't figure out how to download more than 5 pics per post. Ill show you another post then!!

No Fishin Allowed

Well this is our fishing hole, or as the Clampits called it their cement pond! I have a fishing theme going on out here. It started with an oar. It used to get so hot up here without some protection and we had some home from Branson one weekend and had seen some decor like this and thought that's what we wanted.

In one weekend we built the slanted roof with a corrugated roof and added the rope and pulleys. Lots of crates and nets.

I love the galvanized water jugs and fishing traps. We even have a rope to swing off into the water!

Love my big pulleys and nets!

And of course the boat I found last summer. I planted maiden grasses around the perimeter. I love to go out in the evenings and read. We enjoy the pool alot!

Red, White and Blue

I thought I'd take picture of my pool. I think I got my boat added late in the summer and not sure if I have posted it before. I looked and looked for a boat last summer to add to my fishing shack theme and I found one right under my nose. Mike and I rode around on Sunday evenings driving through alleys and rough neighborhoods looking in peoples back yards for an old boat they might want to get ride of for my yard. we came up with nothing and my sister in laws mom and dad had one they were using as a wind break in a car port area! It was just perfect. We secured it with old pulleys and added nets, oars, baskets and a life jacket. Maybe I'll go out and take some pics and have a whole post on my pool. I love to go out there and read in the evenings. I was mulching tonight and it was so sultry, when I was done I sat in the swing to cool down and I thought what am I doing here? I'm going for a swim clothes and all! The current of the water is set so high that it's like a lazy river and you can lift your legs and just be taken around and around the whole pool! We have a couple of bats in the treetops around the pool area and they dart around your head at times, recently I have heard the owl that lives in the big sycamore tree!

I went junkin alittle today found a few things. Got the stool for $7.50 I may paint it black. The old washboard and galvanized bucket I only paid $1 each for but they are pretty rough, but good enough for my purposes. The material I got at Hobby Lobby and I want to make some pillows for my back porch. The material in laying in a big wire basket $6.50. It's pretty good size. The bread box was only $1 and the enamelware was $3, can't pass that stuff up!! There is a little step stool under the flat enamel ware I got for $3, I have several, they are cute tucked here and there. And the old bucket has some geraniums from HL. My sister in law was admiring my geraniums in a claypot on my front porch so I made her up a couple of pots for her porch. I ran over tonight and placed them on her porch and just left. She called later and said she went out to get the paper and found them! I think she loved them.

I coffee stained some flags from walmart the other day. Took them from the stick and painted the sticks black, hot glued them back on. I placed a few in the old cabinet on my back screened in porch and a few in the meat grinder hanging from the table top. I made the wreath down on the floor with an old flag and a rusty star but haven't found a place for it yet. I tried it on my front porch but didn't like it.

I put a couple in a watering can next to my wonderful old TG&Y basket( I bought for my husband) I love the red white and blue together! Next time I get to Walmart I will buy some more flags. I placed a couple on my mantle of the fireplace too!

Well I had a pretty good day, this evening it was so hot and I decided to put some mulch down in those darn flower beds. Sometimes I think why did I ever make those beds so large. They are so hard to care for. I hadn't added new mulch for several yrs. I had bought some several weeks ago and it has been stacked out by the garage. the other night they had it on sale at Orshlands and I got more. I was out there buying more dowel rods for more firecracker. I have so enjoyed making those. I'll have to post some of those. I tied some up in bundles and I love them!! Anyway, I mulched all my beds tonight and just yesterday had my neck and back popped back into place. I feel so much better! Have a great Thursday ladies!

Summer Goodies

This is a child's chalkboard I bought at a tag sale for $3. I brought it home and primed it up and repainted it with chalkboard paint. I thought I could put it out front when I get my little shop open!

The tall white lattice came from my parents neighbors house. They are putting on a new porch and these are the lattice trim under the porch. They had these beauties in the trash pile. I said oh I have to have those. Can you believe they were more that glad to help me load them!! The little green shutter I pd. $2 for this morning at a tag sale.

These stacking boxes I bought at Hobby Lobby on sale a while back and painted them up and added a few old labels I have. I was going to do a This And That, but I like this so well!

These are my buy of the day!!! My old shutters for $10. for 5!! I'm really proud of those. I put those in the suburban and thought Oh, who could I call and share my great finds with! Today this lady stopped by my moms rummage sale who must have the same taste as I do in old things. Every time I see her at a sale before me I think Oh she probably got all the good stuff. Today I told her that and she said Oh I think that about you too!! We laughed. I thought she might be a shop owner somewhere in another town, she isn't. She just likes old things too. She asked where I lived and I told her and she said oh I have drove by that house and wondered if you didn't live there. I asked where she lived and she told me and I said Oh I love that old place and always wondered who lived there!! I think I made a new friend today. She said well Ill see you around at the next tag sale just hope I get there before you!!!!We had a great laugh. Well mom made almost $900 today. I know, just with her clothes and junk. You think why don't we just throw that away now instead of later and here comes someone to buy it. She had nothing we would like, just cutesy stuff and tons of clothes, but hopefully we won't have much left. It can go to the curb, we gave almost all of our free stuff away today. Had a bunch of pots and pans and mismatched lids and bowls and odds and ends. My mom did more PR (public relations) than work today. Every time dad would come out of the house, we would send him to help someone to their car with their bags. He suddenly had somewhere to go! Well I need to be over there at 6:15 so I better get to bed! Have a great tag sale day!