Neewollah Celebration

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!

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!

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

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!

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...

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!

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!