Tag Sale Goodies

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!

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

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

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!

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

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!!

"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!