Tolentreasures

The bedroom was bugging me, and I was getting company.  Mom and Dad  and  Amber, my neice.  TWO bedrooms were needed.  What to do... Search the stash!  So,  the "headboard" was found in the garage.  One of my cupboard door benefactors  had insisted that I take it.  I whined that I didn't want it,  I had no use for it.  However,  I was told if I didn't take it,  I could not have the rest.  So, it has sat,  in the garage  for a lot of years.  The nightstands were a $5 each yard sale find.  Chalk Paint it all and  add the little shelf on top, complements of JWS and it was good to go.  The frame  and  cute little wallhangings, yard sales.  The quilt,  a long ago pass on from a friend.  The shelf unit,  yard sale find. Bentwood, caned rocker, another long ago yard sale  find,  refinished by me and caned by a very dear friend.  The painted cupboard in the corner, pai

...or pound. We have all heard it.  1-800-ONE CALL But really, who would have thought you needed it for  simple garden stake pounding.  It was the typical day.  (typical last three weeks days) Work Pounding Amish More work Who's delivering?  What's for lunch? Did you get this sign done? That ball team needs their shirts today! Wait it looks like it is going to rain! Drive home and get that load of clothes off the line. Did anyone call that guy and tell him his shirts were done? Deliver shirts Hit a yard sale on the way Load up treasures What's for lunch? Phones ringing More pounding Lumber Delivery Who is going for the power trowel?  Wait, you can finally get to the saw? Cut sign boards While the saw is out, Can I please just have one stake? (In retrospect, failure to cut this stake would have  avoided a lot of problems later) Is my car fixed yet? Is Jenn's car fixed yet? Who is taking the Amish

A couple of weeks ago  I bought this bed  at a yard sale.  The price was right!  $20. And now it is finished.  Of course, it didn't fit like I thought it would in that room but,  the one wall is shelves that will hopefully come out at some point. For now though.  who really needs in the closet?  Before

So, for those of you that have been around for awhile,  you know that I have had a few Pinterest Gone Bad items.  Mostly food items.  But this one.... I think I nailed.  Garren's birthday present  but shhhhh,  don't tell him.   He doesn't get it until tomorrow. It started with this... and the picture below,  that Shawnee sent to me as a suggestion.  JWS was a little disturbed that I got  the picture  and  immediately  went and retrieved a table.  What he did not know  was that I had four of them to pick from. This was one... and the match to it and  another that I lost the picture of somewhere.  I keep telling him,  "You are only a hoarder if you refuse to part with it!"  My next Pinterest project?  I am thinking these books. Now where might I have a stack of bricks?   

That's all we were going for.. honestly.  Saturday morning in the frantic preparations for the  annual  Dayton Fair Gun Raffle,  someone  wanted half and half.  You figure it out.  Saturday morning Yard Sales Two Women One large pick-up truck waiting to be filled and... Fill it we did!  With TREASURES!  How could you possibly leave these items behind? But the best piece... This bed.  It is already on sawhorses in the garage with the first coat of white paint on it!  My Car Sitting out in the rain.  Hey, it needed a bath!  We did get the half and half. Regular and Amaretto,  and  a dozen doughnuts  for good measure! 

Yesterday was Career Day at Preschool. Kendall went as a princess.  Who wouldn't want to be a princess?   She is 4, I am 56. I still want to be a princess!  What I am not,  is a foodie. Or a cook,  chef, or anything else food related.  What I have been thrust into,  kicking and screaming, is  a part of preparing food for  about  500-600  people. Not to mention shopping for it. Have I mentioned that I despise grocery shopping? JWS loves it.  But I went along, because I like the  Strip District and  we had dinner at one of my favorites places, Roland's. Lobster roll!  Mural in the Strip District However, while we were eating, the car sat closed up, and we had a rotten onion.  I think that the smell is stuck in my nose!  And finally, some organization to my paint shelves.   Wonder how long that will last?  And really,  wouldn't a princess have someone to

Some before and afters of the work Dad and I did today.   It always fun to work and explore this great old park.   Today we were able to work inside the bumper car building.  Nice day, fun projects, great time with Dad! Tomorrow, if the weather cooperates, bubbles on the tubs of fun.