antiques/junking

Another trip?  I seem to have something every week, whether house guests or a trip somewhere.  We’ve had a houseful 3 weekends in a row, went to Minneapolis last week and today we are heading to a cabin in the Ozarks.  I wonder how I manage to get anything done besides have fun…..  Well, if you think about it, all I do is fun stuff anyway.  Junking, painting, playing with the fairy grand baby, more painting, making jewelry, painting.  Not a bad life.  Company, trips and painting roses on junk!

Thanks for the inquiries about the green doodads I rescued from the bonfire and painted flowers on.  Heather of http://prettypetalsboutique.blogspot.com/ and Becca of http://bluebirdroses.blogspot.com/ have asked to purchase them.   I love to save things that were destined to be trash and turn them into a piece of art that someone wants to have in their home.  Thanks to Heather and Becca for helping me on my quest to prettify the world by recycling!

Michelle Ward’s crusade challenge this month is interesting, "Say What?" http://michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/.  I didn’t do an art journal page and enter, but here are my family phrases anyway. Maybe I’ll get around to illustrating them???? Sure I will.  I’ll get my floors mopped too, I’m positive.  Any way, thanks again, Michelle for a fun project, even if I only get half way through it!

Porker Mommies- hidden candy, usually bags of chocolate on clearance after a holiday.  My family always knows there is a stash of porker mommies somewhere in the house.

Dorkies- what we call our Yorkshire Terriers. 

Leash Kids- children of our houseguests who are entranced by our Dorkies and want to drag them all over the house on leashes the whole time they are visiting.The dorkies go along with it, but glare at us over their shoulders as they are drug away.

Waller Worting- Rassling and tickling and snuggling with your small child,  usually ending up with one person blowing a razzberry on the other’s tummy and making them giggle so hard they snort like a wart hog.

Speaking of small children, my only good find on the Big Kansas City Junking Day was a pile of books for my fairy grand baby, Sugar Wings. Here are a couple that look pretty in her room here at my cottage. 

Beth, http://bethleintz.typepad.com/gathering_dust/ and I had a good time, though.  A day out with a buddy, whether you hit the mother lode of treasure or not, is always fun.  Well, that goes right back to  what I said earlier- all I do is fun stuff!

I am trying to decide if I want to go horseback riding on this Ozark trip. I used to keep horses here at the old farmhouse cottage, (well, actually out in the barn behind the cottage) and fell off one and broke a few vertebrae.  I am a bit shy of riding now, but might muster up the courage to give it a try again. A broken back isn’t much fun, but years of pain taught me to enjoy every minute and make the most of everyday. Probably not a lesson I need to learn again, so maybe I won’t ride this weekend……..

One more thing before I go and pack for my weekend getaway- Kelli at http://www.kellishouse.blogspot.com/ is hosting a show and tell Fridays (just like in grade school!!! It was always my favorite day of the week). 

So I am showing my find– this cute vintage toy piano I bought for SugarWings.  It was $12  and ugly, I sanded, primed and painted it a pale sage green, then added a touch of crackle for age and texture and finished with a top coat with a hint of stain in it for depth. The fairy grand baby pounds away at it and it seems to be her favorite toy here.

OK, now I am off for my fun weekend.  hmm, wonder how I can convince everyone to let me stop at a couple of roadside antique shops on the trip???

Oh it feels good to be home again, we drove through a blizzard all day to get home from Minneapolis!  The weather was too bad for me to sweet talk Rich into stopping at any roadside antique malls so I could browse while he waited outside with a book, or doing emails on his Blackberry. 

I was thinking about him not recognizing his own home in the magazine (posted on April 8, Clueless but Cute), and I have decided that maybe it isn’t his fault.  Here is a photo of my living room for an article I wrote for Paint Magic Oct 2005.

This photo was taken maybe a year later.

(Both photos taken by Bill Mathews and styled by Gloria Gale)

Well, maybe he is right to be confused?