Bloggy Yard sale

My sis , Cass over at Mockingbird Hill is having a BLOGGY yard sale, neat vintage stuff. She has so much that she made a new blog just for stuff to sell...go here .

Holy Moly I'm Tired

This weekend is the last Renningers Antique Extravaganza for this year. They have three per year starting in November, then in January and the last one in February. It is an amazing gathering of dealers from all over the nation. You cannot finish it in one day and it is grueling...I am whipped

This is a pic of one of my favorite primitive booths, it belongs to Pam who had an awesome store in orlando known as Cranberry Corners.
Another Cranberry Corners display.
My friend Michael went with me and we were measuring this two sided sign for his kitchen...only $500!!!!!!right...don't think so....not today......
Here's my sis Cass from Mockingbird Hill and my friend Michael being wacky in front of some awesome old stained glass windows...they were huge and beautiful!
We had fun and we ate our way throught the market....I swear, way too much fun, food and cool stuff. I'm going to bed......

THE YARD SALE...OMG!!!

All hail the yard sale.... when we went out to set up the tables at 6:00 am for a sale that started at 8:00 am I SWEAR there were this many people waiting at the end of the driveway even though we clearly stated in all ads that there would be NO EARLY SALES...notice the raised glasses...I am sure they were drinking because they were the MOST obnoxious group of yard salers I have ever encountered......do I have stories to share. Cass and I were heckled while we were setting up...I am telling you it was unbelieveable! And once the clock struck 8:00 and we let them at the stuff, this is what ensued!
Friggin' animals...one guy actually knocked another guy to the ground and didn't even stop...I was like you have to be kidding me!!!!They were snatching and grabbing at things like it was gold or the answer to world peace.....completely nuts, it's just stuff......
But we had a blast my sis and me. I loved spending the day with her and my neice. Cass's friend Jill came and we all had a good time.
I definitely had my grumpy pants on, those people put me in a mood.....

Going to my Sissie's

This weekend I am going to stay at my sisters house to help her with an ENORMOUS estate sale. Two members of her husbands family passed this year and she has all of these wonderful antique things to decide what to do with...so they decided to keep what is most important and estate sale the rest...whew!! What a job...there is this one problem....when she posted pics on her blog, Mockingbird Hill this morning, I promptly decided I wanted it all....except for the gazillion glasses, don't need those....do you think she would be mad if I asked her just to keep it all in her garage for me until I can find a place for it and to hide it from my husband?? If she would do that for me then we could just go shopping Saturday instead of having to stand around and sell stuff....just a thought.
Go look at the pics...cool, shabby stuff.....I'll take more pics when I get there and throughout the day...should be fun.....

And the winner is.............

Ames over at We owe how much?.....congratulations!You are the winner of the Rock n Roll book in my bloggy giveaway. Thank you all for entering! What fun this has been!

Another Awesome Giveaway!!

Catherine Scanlon is offering this awesome book. All you have to do is go to her site and comment. Go for it!

Easter Basket Giveaway..So cute!

Visit Nancy's Blog to enter an awesome Easter Basket Giveaway featuring her incredible ,original work! Spring is on it's way...thank goodness ....this really puts you int he mood! Thanks Nancy!Go sign up...now!

More FREE Valentines

Came across these vintage Valentines and thought I would share. Can't believe that it just around the corner...better get busy if I am going to try and make something.

I am having so much fun with this Giveaway Carnival..click on the link in the post below to check it all out. So much cool stuff being offered...lotsa fun!

My butt has been in front of this computer redoing my blog...what do you think??

Holy crapoli this is crazy...I have to get off of this thing!!

Feel free to use the Valentines, just right click and they are yours! Enjoy!

Giveaway

This is my first Blogger Giveaway Carnival that I am participating in..vist Rocks in My Dryer to learn more about the Giveaway....wasn't sure what to offer

...so I came up with this...this book is AWESOME...it has the entire history of Rock & Roll on a detailed year by year basis. Great coffee table book...leave a comment to be entered and make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you if you win. The winner will be chosen Sunday, February 3rd. Good Luck!!

Treasures

Here's a look at what yesterdays thriftin' adventure brought forth. I had an awesome day just running around from thrift store to thrift store with my Mom. Key phrase of the day....."What do you think we could do with this...???" We rounded out the day at Joann fabrics buying the supples we needed to turn these treasures into something.....I'll let you know if it works.....see anything you like?

When Pigs Fly

We be famous my sister and me! My sister, my Mom and myself had a folk art and primitive shop called When Pigs Fly in Mount Dora for several years. We sold it about 6 years ago. We were lucky enough to be featured in Country Almanac Magazine.....it was a very exciting and rewarding time in our lives. Mom was so excited she had the article framed, see pics! Even though we have moved on to other careers, we still are drawn to that style and the treasure hunting that goes along with it. You can visit my sisters blog at Mockingbird Hill and my Mom at Pie in the Sky Studio.

Who knew?????

If only I had found this book 35 years ago instead of today at the thrift store I could have been slim and STAYED slim for life. Looks like Ida Jean and Mildred knew.....just my luck!

Vintage Valentines

So sweet! Thought I would share. Don't you just love the coloring and fonts?Feel free to right click if you need them for projects! My darling sis who started me on this whole blogging thing informed me that I needed to get on the stick and start posting so she could start sending people over from her page, Mockingbird Hill . She also said I needed Valentine and Easter stuff....whatever... she always tells me what to do! Ha Haaaaaaaaaa!

I am going to sneak out of the office later and go thriftin' to see if I can find some stuff, if I am lucky I'll post pics later..........c'ya!

Mustard Seed Sign

This is one of my most favorite things, saying that, you will find as time goes by that I have MANY MANY favorite things.......anywho, I bought this sign while flea /junk marketing in Waldo, Florida. A handicapped guy had this little booth set up with just these wood burned signs. Many of them had mistakes and he just burned an "x" through the mistake and kept going. (I think there is definitely a message there!!) I bought two signs from him and the other is packed away somewhere and I will share it when I find it. But this one is on my pine hutch and I look at it everyday...I like it, I hope you do to.

I made my banner!!

I sat down today and thought about how I could do it...and surprised myself and did it! I can't believe how "girly" it came out or that my blog looks so...so...girly....It was easy once I got started. I have this greeting card program called Print Shop 20 by Broderbund and I do everything in there...I just kept adding to it and saving as a jpeg then adding more....surprised myself...I hope it doesn't look too dorky...what do you think?

Can I tell you that I love my kid...

I am trying to be a good little blogging girl and post everyday, but I couldn't think of what to share. I know that you are not supposed to think about it, just do it...
Anyway, I just want to say that I love my son. Not that all Moms don't love their kids any more or less, but I love my son. In my profile I tell you that he is a miracle, and he is just that...Tyler is adopted and the journey of him coming to me is an amazing tale that I will share in time to come.I wasn't able to have kids and when I was younger I couldn't understand why, now I know why, I was meant to be Tyler's Mom. It's always so hard to just let go and not question what happens in our lives, like we know how it's all supposed to go.
I am just thankful, blessed and happy to have him....just wanted to tell ya...

Maebelle Park

Well everybody's asking so I guess I gotta tell...These two sweet little girls are my Aunt Vonne and my Mom Abby, (she's the little one). Their given names were Etta Mae Von Holten and Anna Belle Von Holten. Our family has this wacky way of calling you anything but what your given name is, so for the rest of your life your tormented by people saying, "Why don't you use your REAL name?". Like from the crib we could make that request!?...okay I am off track....When they were little Mom and Aunt Vonne had a vacant lot next door to their house and they decided one day that it was going to be THEIR park so they named it Maebelle Park, get it? Etta Mae and Anna Belle = Maebelle.... That's another thing that runs in our family, all of the women believe in their heart that they ARE the Queen of the Universe and if an overgrown plot of land is going to be their park then by golly it's their park!This pic was taken when a roving photographer came by when they were playing in "their" park and asked if they wanted a picture taken, note their dirty knees! So I have taken on the awesome responsibility of keeping the story of Maebelle Park alive, it's a real place, even if only in two very special little girls minds...

This sign

This sign hangs over my breakfast room doors. It comes from Ohio or Illinois or some state up there where they grow stuff. Anyway, supposedly it was from a nursery where they grew trees that were....you guessed it...everbearing. However, it has never meant that to me...depending on my mood or whatever is happening in my life it has meant different things but it never has had anything to do with growing trees, maybe just growing myself.

My first time...

Well, my wacky sister has dragged me to the blogging field. She swears by it, she loves it , she lives by it....wacky, wacky wacky.....anyway here I go.....
Why the sad angel on my big introduction day? It is who I am for this moment... My very best friend died almost three years ago and he called me before he passed and made me promise to spread his ashes at the ocean. His "real" family could not bring themselves to let his ashes go until now. They had spread part of them in the woods up North, he wanted that...and then he wanted me to bring him to the ocean. I promised. I have to. Now that his ashes are here and I can finally do it I feel a very big hole in my heart filling up. I did not realize that I have been carrying this with me for three years, pushing it down, waiting, waiting , waiting....well now he's here and it is time...I think I'll wait , keep him near a little while longer until I am ready to let him go....