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These are goodies heading to the shop...

Friday Finds and Saturday Treasures

'Twas a good weekend for junkin'

Mind you everything goes to our house first, anything glass is washed either by hand or in the dishwasher, tin things and silverware are scrubbed clean, linens are all laundered in detergent, borax and bleach, yes bleach. Furniture is generally hosed down if need be, or wiped down and polished. If it smells of smoke or musty basement, it breathes outside with shots of Lysol until its no longer stinky. I go through oodles or Clorox and Lysol wipes. Not forgetting to mention the increasingly large pile of goodies awaiting a fresh coat or two of paint. Its then and only then that it makes its final trip to the shop where it waits for someone to fall in love and then I have to say goodbye...Parting is such sweet sorrow...

As an aside my seven year old, often comments: "I hate riding with you, I know there are spiders on that dirty cobwebby junk in the back." To which my response is always the same, "get a hold of yourself, I brush everything off before I put it in..."

...this morning on my way to my big girl job, a big juicy daddy long legs made it's way to my shifter, smiled at me as I nearly drove up a tree, I got a hold of myself, pulled over and by one of his long legs flung him out the window...Rob you were right!

This story will not be told but if you see a boy riding on the roof of a Hummer you'll know that somehow he found me out, and or Big Daddy's got friends...

Before and After

How about a little before:

Ug! Right!, the chairs came from one place the table another but all the same dark yucky green!

After:

Oh how I love pastel colors!!! It looks like a yummy bowl of sherbet, not all together very practical but it brightens up the front of the shop... And three customers said they had to stop because of it and its only been here a few hours..... yippee!

Friday Finds and Saturday Treasures

A sneak peak...

David and I took turns throughout the weekend keeping a watchful eye on our sweet pooch.

I did manage to sneak out for my fill of junk, I mean goodies...

Tragedy with our pooch...

I have fallen behind posting this week due to a very scary incident with our dog, 'Cuse. My husband was throwing the ball with her just after midnight on Wednesday, (Weimeraners are very high strung and exercise before bed does us all good, trust me,)when we heard a very strange cry and then a yelp that sent me bolting out of bed running down stairs to see what could have happened. I met our sweet baby shaking as she came in the back door, when I got to her I saw that her whole side had been cut open. I grabbed towels, my husband started wrapping while I called the Vet, terrified, our regular Vet's recording gave Cornell's number and after trying 2 other local vets realized that this was our only option. We called Cornell, gave a brief description to which they responded, "get in the car and start out, call us as you get closer and we will give you directions." I grabbed our son out of bed while David got in the back with the dog and off we went. Cornell is at least thirty five minutes away, I know we all said a little prayer on the way that we would make it in time.

We did make it, her surgery went well and our baby is home, looking a little like Frankenstein, however surviving this with just a scar is amazing...

We have no idea how this happened or can be sure what exactly caused it, but what we do know is that we are very lucky that it turned out as well as it did.

A special thank you to all of our family and friends that visited, called and brought gifts for the poor sad girl. And for those of you that have never experienced Cornell, WOW!!! David and I are both in the medical field and the animal clinic was more impressive than most human hospitals. They did a great job, her drain is out and she is getting perkier every day.

Friday Finds

I love Fridays!

Junking is a total addiction, for those of you that "get it" you know what I mean, for those of you that don't I would love to take you along for the ride!

I plan out my hunt on Thursday evening, and go to bed with shear anticipation of the goodies I may find in the morning. I'm generally not satisfied until my rig is totally filled. I look for anything that has good bones, things that can be transformed into something entirely girlie and of course the usual sparkle.

I have a master list of fav's like:

• linens
• anything galvanized
• pearls
• rhinestone jewels
• ephemera
• old books (especially known titles)
• dainty furniture
• anything that can be distressed to its shabby beauty
• ice skates, and recently added roller skates
• vintage Christmas ornaments
• canning jars (don't ask me why, I have tons already)
• children's furniture
• vintage fabric/anything with those great old roses
• floral frogs...love me some frogs!
• tea cups (becoming very hard to find in a reasonable price range)
• fancy dishes/ cut glass (it sparkles like nothing you've ever seen when laced with lights)
• vintage picnic baskets
• chandeliers
• and anything, I mean anything French...

Just to name a few!

I'm sure you get the idea.

This Friday was a great day, I came skipping home with all kinds of treasures.

You know what they say; one mans junk is another crazy, obsessive, wildly creative girls treasure! (hee...hee...)

Oh the plans!

Oh my poor garage!

Oh my poor,poor family to put up with such nonsense!

New Creations!!!

These are a few of my latest custom goodies:

This was for Rob's teacher, I have had the silver engraved cup for months, it has her name on it but it is hard to see in the photo, the usual sparkle and the quote reads: "Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."

This was created for customer to give her grand-daughter in medical school. It is perched on a vintage Taber's dictionary. The quote is from Mother Theresa.

This was a gift for a master gardener, her Web site quote reads, "Gardening is the slowest form of the performing arts!" All attached to a vintage hand cultivator.