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Friday, May 24, 2013

Yardsales at Pike Days

I do love it when there are so many yardsales that you can’t decide which one to go to first. That’s what it was like last weekend.

Yardsale after Yardsale!

Here’s what I found…

An Ironstone gravy boat, I saw it on a table surrounded by other glassware and picked it up keeping my fingers crossed that it might be ironstone. It’s very used and grazed and I’ve been having fun putting it here and there.

Like here with the old bottles.

Or here with the tarnished silver plate, btw it only cost me .25, can you believe it?

For some odd reason I have these four vases, every time I see one I have to get it, I think it’s the little handles on the sides of them that gets me.lol

I found this one at the estate sale along with the McCoy Pottery'.

I’ve been looking for these type of pictures for a while and got them each for .50 a piece! One is labeled April and the other is July!

I leave you with this pic of my summer vignette for the coffeetable. Ironstone bowl filled with shells from Marshall’s, white wicker tray from a church sale and the blue glass jar with jute on sale at TJMaxx!

I’m joining these great parties:
Feathered Nest Friday
Home Sweet Home
Show and Tell
Be Inspired
Catch as Catch Can
Frugal Friday
Flaunt it Friday
Friday Frugal Finds

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Cloche and Something Industrial

Happy Hump Day to you! The weeks seem to be flying by, beautiful weather but we are supposed to get some really bad storms later, hopefully not like OKC, I pray for those people! I’ve never been in a tornado and God willing I never will but from the news showing the devastation it is mind boggling!
My new cloche!
I’ve used Dollar Tree chocolate, candy candles in it with a DT dolie, plus the cloche itself is from the a yardsale this past weekend.

It was never taken out of the box.

Only paid $4.00 for it!

So cute and petite!

Thanks for stopping by, always glad you do! I hope your having a wonderful week!
Whoops! I almost forgot Smile

I bought this file thingy at an antique mall in N.C. last February and just painted it with Valpar / Polar Star and distressed it!

Cloche Party Time
House Party
Wow Us Wednesday
Open House Party

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Estate Sale & McCoy Pottery

Hello everyone! Did you have a great weekend? I know I did because we had National Pike Days here. I was out Friday and Saturday. What was great also was the weather perfect for yard sales!
While out I found an estate sale…

I spent $11.00 while there! I found three pieces of McCoy pottery… #1

I put them on my mother’s end table that I have in the diningroom…

I added to my clock collection too while there, I was lucky to find the darker face one.

Next post I’ll show what I found at the yard sales, it was a glorious two days, so stay tune for that!
I’ll be at these parties:
Nifty Thrifty Tuesday
Inspire Me
Budget Decorating
Tuesday’s Treasures

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Chalkboard Paint Backsplash

Did you ever want to try something but didn’t know if it would work out but knew if it didn’t it would be easy to do over?
That’s what I decided to do with the chalkboard paint, I thought why not, I still have the beadboard wallpaper I can use over it if I don’t like it. So here it is…

Just fooling around with the chalk

Than I got a little fancy with the chalk! I’m not very good with it but I love the look of it!

I just threw this up there before I took pictures:)

I still have the other side of the kitchen to do but have to wait until Stush tapes it off for me. We also have to get trim for where it ends.

This is what it looked like after I had seasoned it.

I’m liken it, even my husband likes it too!

I’m partying at:
Redoux Interiors
Feathered Nest Friday
Frugalicious Friday
Fabulously Creative Friday
Show and Tell Friday
The Inspiration Gallery

Suburbs Mama Sunday

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Alex Sings at the Hard Rock Cafe

Monday evening Stush and I went to see our granddaughter Alexandra sing and play keyboard at the Hard Rock Cafe , Station Square! Here she is…

She sang a song from the movie Les Miserables and I wish I would have got more pictures of her but I wanted to enjoy the moment with her. To be just 9 years old and have the self confidence to get up on stage to me is an accomplishment in itself!

Alex takes voice and piano lessons…

She was the youngest participant to perform that night.
This young lady sang a Shania Twain song and was very good at it!

He played the drums. All of the students were good and entertaining and the place was packed!

Alex and Nicholas with dad!

With mom too!

Thanks Alex for giving us such a nice evening and watching you soar!

Sharing at Wow Us Wednesday
Open House Party

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother’s Day

I hope you are having a wonderful one, in a short while we will be going to my daughter’s for dinner. Next Sunday we are celebrating Mother’s Day at a Pirate Game in Pittsburgh, we will be in a box so if the weather is chilly like it is today, it won’t be to bad. My brother and sister-in-law will be there plus the kids and grandchildren so it should be a happy time for us!

Happy Mother’s Day to all you bloggers that stop by my blog, as I’ve said before I always appreciate it Smile

If your mom is still with you give her a hug, mines been gone for almost 12 years, but I still remember everything about her and think of her everyday!

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Summer Items for the Front Porch

Hi everyone, how are you today? I hope your enjoying the wonderful weather this spring has brought us.
Recently on a trip to Target I found some items for the front of the door and the rocker that sits on the porch every summer. A welcome mat and a pillow, the mat was on clearance…love when I get a deal like that!

I haven’t filled the window boxes yet because I think I need new ones and DH said he would build them for me but I have to get rid of the couch that is still sitting in the garage first.

I did get some flowers/hanging baskets at a nursery.

The one basket I may just keep on the plant stand by the door. I just hope that they don’t die on me. Do any of you use a fertilizer on your flowers? If you do what brand and how do you apply it to the plants?
This is the mat, love the colors blue and green!

Isn’t this one pretty? Two combinations of flowers, wish I knew what kind there wasn’t any imfo on the hanging baskets which irked me!

I know this one has a red geranium in it I don’t think I’ll hang it though.

I love Gerber Daisies and picked up two pots at a roadside stand and planted them in the green Dollar General pot. The little heart stake is from Annapolis made out of pottery.