Seating Arrangement

For 2 years I've been watching and waiting for just the right chair for the living room at the farmhouse. I think I've found it!  On Craigslist, I ran across this cute shabby chair and ottoman for cheap and the lady lived about an hour away from me.  I emailed her and she answered  back and it was done!  Hubby hauled me over there after work and we scooped it up.  I thought I was actually looking for a leather chair, but it hasn't materialized and i thought this one would fit the bill.  I'll get Tony a leather chair/ottoman when we get our new house at the farm built.  Whadaya think?  I've been piddling around with how to arrange everything as the room is small and there are two antique china cabinets I'm keeping and some other stuff that has to stay...

This little farmhouse cottage is a mish-mash of texture, color and style.  Not quite Shabby Chic, not quite Cottage, not quite all antique, not quite all vintage, not quite all primitive.  It's garage sale stuff, estate sale stuff, some antiques from the family, hand-me-downs from family - mostly grandmothers' stuff on both sides, and last but not least, some treasures pulled from the dumpster at my work at the storage facility (you'd be surprised what people throw away when they get tired of hauling stuff around...) 

Yes, I admit, I AM A DUMPSTER DIVER.  Actually, a dumpster "fisher".  I refuse to actually get into the dumpster.  I have a couple of long sticks and a piece of metal that I've fashioned a hook of sorts on one end  that can reach most stuff.  Anything I can't reach that is absolutely, positively a MUST-HAVE, I get my husband or son to come and dig it out for me.  Sometimes you can use a box for a scooper.  I can get real innovative when it comes to digging a "treasure" out of the dumpster. 

Only thing is, our dumpster sits just across from Ewing Irrigation, and they are a busy, busy place.  They sell lawn sprinkler stuff.  Landscaping, etc.  I have to be a great joke to the fellows working there and their customers.  I could probably sell tickets to this show. That's another reason I'm not getting into the dumpster.

I've actually found quite a few really neat things that I've taken home and used. Books, lawn chairs, boxes of office supplies, a sweet antique floor lamp (in my living room), antique dishes and pottery, a nice farmy painting print that is hanging in my bedroom, some power tools for my husband, this list goes on...

Found these two little antique/vintage prints at a garage sale recently - I thought they were sweet and they're in their original frames, too.

Well, I'll wind it up.  Princess is back at school, and we are back at work and our regular schedules.  Three weeks til we leave for Mexico.  I'm really looking forward to a break AND having all my kids with me.  First time in a few years to have that.  And our best friends and their kids are going.  I'll be sure to share pictures of their vacation home in Akumal so you can feel bad for me.  It'll be just terrible I'm sure...

Keep yer gown down!

Our Little Corner SALE!!!

Our Little Corner is behind the Blue Store in Noonday Texas.  Just a few miles south of Tyler on Hwy 155 S.  It's a neat place - all sorts of vendors and all sorts of goodies there ripe for the pickin'!  Make it YOUR FIRST & LAST STOP for the day's shoppin' for lotsa good stuff, vintage, antique & quirky!  My friend, Margo at Margo's Junkin' Journal has a booth there and she'll be there all day. Go check her blog out for some sneak peaks! Great folks out there!  Hope to see you there, too!

My Weekend

'Mornin' to ya'll.  I woke up too early with a sinus headache & couldn't go back to sleep so's I thought I'd just tell ya a little about my weekend. Went to see darling daughter off on her spring break mission trip. We had a fun afternoon in Fort Worth, went to a Super Target (wish we had one) and scooped up all her little last minute items for her trip to Canada, went to dinner downtown and then crashed at her apartment.  We had a wonderful visit and it's always fun to get all snuggly in bed and talk and catch up and visit until we fall asleep. I LOVE those times!

(This'll have to be the first of a two-part post...)

I left early as she had to get to her van ride to DFW and decided to spend some time in Granbury. I LOVE Granbury - it's full of antique shops, foo-foo shops, bed/breakfasts, a beautiful lake with gorgeous homes and good places to eat.  I was going to stay only a couple of hours, but after talking to hubby I decided to linger and just ENJOY! The weather was absolutely perfect and there were alot of people there. Downtown is wonderful. If you've never been there, it's a great little weekend getaway with plenty to do!  Following are photos I took of several local funspots and a few of the neighborhoods. There are TONS of little old cottage type homes there!

And some fine old German architecture right here in town! Lotsa Germans down in the central parts of Texas. Texas is such a BIG STATE, as you know... (puffing up chest...)

Next I have a shot of the Hood County courthouse on the square... Granbury is the county seat...

The streets around the courthouse itself were being re-done, so the fence draws away from its beauty - there again - a little German architecture.  And last but certainly not least, a shot of a beautiful quince bush that was busting at the seams showing off its color ~

Tomorrow I'll have a few pics of the downtown Granbury area. I gotta git ready for work. Ugh...at least my head feels better - I think it feels better just looking at these pictures again and remembering what a nice I had all to myself ~ no husband telling me to hurry up and sighing deep sighs of boredom while waiting on me to amuse myself in the shops!!! 

GOOD MORNING USA!!!

Here's what we dealt with this afternoon about 5:30 or so. Hail - marble size hail. Didn't last too very long, but I'm glad I had my car parked in the garage and was already home from work. Last time I got caught in a hailstorm, I had dings all in my car!  We had a series of strong storms pass through east Texas and up through Arkansas & Oklahoma. It's tornado season 'round these parts, ma'am.  Well, they did have a couple of twisters touch down somewhere, but we lucked out this time around.

In other news, Princess H is leaving for Canada on Saturday from her college youth group on a mission trip. They will be working with inner city youths in the Toronto area, I think. She's looking forward to going, but I'm praying for her problem with motion sickness. She has it real bad, and I hope it doesn't flare up.

Now, it's 7 a.m. here.  I just got a comment from Kathy B. over at Spot on Cedar Pond directed at ME. Silly girl - she posted a video about moles and gophers. What a hoot she is - you must go over and say hi! We have this ongoing battle with yard varmints and I'm afraid she's ahead at the moment. Actually, I'm in a race against her husband, and now I think she's helping him out!  Hmmmmm.... was this in the rules of the game???  Hahahaha!  Looks to me like Texas does NOT have the biggest moles! At least the ones in my yard are much smaller & harder to catch - wait!  Does that mean I can have a mole handicap???  Anyway go visit her and see her funny videos!  Kathy - thanks for the belly-laugh this morning!!! (I AM glad you got another mole!)

I took a couple of photos of my MIL's camellia bush yesterday afternoon when I went by the house. It's always been beautiful and it's been blooming for awhile now. It's starting to drop its petals but it looks sorta pretty on the ground, too.

My MIL used to take a single bloom and float it in a pretty little teacup. She loved camellias. I'll never see a camellia that I don't think of that....

Ya'll have a great and wonderful and spectacular day! I gotta get ready for work, and I'm hoping to stop at one of the handful of garage sales that I've picked out of today's newspaper before I get to work!  Yes, GARAGE SALE SEASON HAS BEGUN AND IS NOW COMING INTO FULL SWING!!!  Three cheers!

Garage Sale Finds

Sunday night, a quick review of Friday garage sales.  I only went to one this week, squeezing it in between bank runs and post office.  I've been looking for something to help me organize my little garden shed at the farm and I stumbled upon the neatest thing!!!  No, it's not pegboard. You know how you stack all your garden implements in the corner and they all slide eventually and fall down and you step on them and they're in the way, or you get too many in that corner and then you can't find anything you're looking for cuz you grab a handle and have to follow it down with your eyes to see what you've got ahold of, and dirt and hay collect behind them and you have to move every stinkin' one into another corner so you can clean out from behind it? (how's that for a run-on sentence?)

It's THIS!  Can you tell what it is???   Or once was???  Here's another picture...

Now, do you know what it is???  It came out of an old lumber yard.  It used to house WEATHER STRIPPING of all different sizes.  Isn't it a cool color?  Vintage green.  Must've been a really "with it" color back then, because I see SO many different things painted this color.  And it was only $10.00!!!

Anyway, I thought it would make an excellent storage place for all my garden tools.  There are slots in the top that you can slide your hoes, shovels, rakes, etc. down into.  It has a cool lid, too, but of course I can't close it with the stuff in it.  I thought it made quite a unique storage place.

Also, I found at the same sale, all these wooden boxes, made from pieces of old produce crates.  Some were small with lids that swung open sideways attached on only one end by a nail.  Some were old drawers with dividers that had been used at the lumber yard to store different size nails and hardware.   I thought some of them might be of storage use in the garden shed or I guess could be used as planters.  $ .25 EA!I'm open for suggestions on these boxes - what do ya'll think could be done with them?  I'd love to get some more ideas for them. Would you paint them different colors or would you leave them alone and let the old produce marking show?  That was mostly on the bottoms. It wouldn't show anyway. 

Some of the drawer pulls were made out of old coke bottle lids with a screw.  It was definitely a make-do situation on these little boxes.  I love how frugal people used to be and would just make do and be creative and use what you had on hand to make things work.

Anyway, we worked all day at the farm. Sorry I didn't get any fall pictures taken. There is so little time on the weekends - we have THREE houses we're trying to keep up right now - our home, my in-laws' house, and the farmhouse & land.  It's running us ragged.  We've got to do something with one of the houses QUICK!  I'm going to have an estate sale at my inlaws' house ASAP.  Gotta do it before the holidays or just wait until maybe February or March.

Well, girls, Ya'll have a wonderful Monday - I 'magine I'll be staying pretty busy this week.

Keep you dress down!