Vintage travel trailers..

I have become enamored of them. It is a whole sub-culture that I only recently discovered. I'd like nothing better than to find an old one and restore it. Now that I'm 'looking', here is what we discovered at the lot next to MDH's work building, hiding in the bushes from embarrassment. We're going to ask if it's for sale :-)

The weekend...

Had a blast! First we hit this yard sale..
Wow! They had a ton of stuff! The little old lady lived there in this...
Cute, eh? And , no, all of the stuff for sale was NOT hers, it was her daughter's. No way it would have all fit in that wittle twailer.

Then we went here to deliver some Gusto magazines...

Brasada Ranch

While there, we saw...




Clydesdales!! They are very sweet, and came right up to the fence for nuzzles!! Wow! They are huge!! (I'm 5' tall).

Then we went to this yard sale...
then we went to the Senior Thrift Store. All told, we came home with this...
Once I have it all sorted, I will post my favorites.

Archiving August Quote

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

Green Kitchen..

...has a tutorial to make a darling wrist pincushion and it's also Giveaway! To enter for the Giveaway you need to leave a comment and link to the tutorial. Very easy! The pincusion looks easy to make and, boy, are they handy!!

Taking a break...

..from loading tons of stuff on Etsy!! MDH and I went to a local "junque shop" , Pakit Liquidators, yesterday. It is not known for it's collectibles, but rather it's old doors, appliances and rickety furniture. We find the occasional small treasure, and yesterday we hit the mother lode!

It was the remnants of an estate, stuff the 'kids' didn't think was worth anything. There were boxes and boxes of stuff that had sat out in the weather and were FILTHY!! After 20 minutes of digging, we came up with two HUGE piles of VINTAGE kitchen stuff!!

This is what I kept...

a cute turquoise silverware tray for my Exacto knives and stuff....

a red potato peeler for my collection...

this awesome tub...

this cute tiny pancake turner...

pretty plates to hang on the wall...

this little sauce pourer/butter melter?...

this adorable little chair for my studio…

and these for my sister's blue house.

As for the rest...check out my Etsy Shoppe and see all of the wonderful vintage goodies I found!!!!!!!!!

And this is what happens when...

...you go and blog about the demise of your kitchen timer while dinner's on the stove.

This is what happens when...

...you mistake the kitchen timer for the oven thermometer. R.I.P.

Thought I should post about...

..our camping trip last weekend. We play in the SCA, and last weekend was our branch's annual Harvest Tournament where we choose our defenders for the year. It was incredibly HOT!!! 107 where we were! That is so unusual for our area. I thought I was gonna die!! Don't know how our fighters did it in all their armor!! Here are some pics...

Belly dancers!

ME..trying to stay cool!!

This is the beautiful site where we were...Petersen's Rock Garden.





It's a beautiful place, and would have been much nicer if the weather had bee 30 degrees cooler!!!

Couldn't resist...

..posting these photos of my beautiful baby girl, Violet.

Last weekend on our camping trip...

And here she is last winter in the snow...
Isn't she precious???

The on-going quilt project...

Still trying to amass enough nice cotton fabric to start my quilt. Got these, already washed and cut from two different sellers on Ebay....

and got all of these lovely fat quarters from one seller on Ebay...

Won't be long now.....

Did I tell you....

..that MDH and I play in the SCA? This weekend we're going camping with about 100 of our friends!

Very pleased...

While it may not be a big deal to some of you blog mavens out there, it is to me. I've just been accepted for inclusion in the "Delightful Blog" Directory. WHOO HOO!

@#$%&^$#*&^%

Got my CERTIFIED Marriage Certificate in the mail yesterday. Toddled on down to DMV after doing hair and make-up. After all, I'll have this license for 8 years so I wanted it to look good. There were only THREE people there. SCORE! I'll get in and out quickly. GREAT, as we're trying to get ready to go camping. WELLL... a nice guy comes over to see if I have any questions and what I'll be doing. I tell him I need to complete my license renewal. He gets this "aw, I'm sorry" look on his face and tells me all their cameras are down statewide and I can't get my picture taken. I'll have to come back. 'nuff said.

Word for the day....

Raillery
1. good-humored banter or teasing repartee

butt butt butt...

Isn't this the cutest doggie butt you've ever seen?

Vacation...

...is almost over and I didn't get all the sewing done that I anticipated I would. The ding dang laundry room took WAY longer then we thought. I did manage to make this last night. Sewn by hand while watching an old movie on TV.

It's a dispenser for plastic bags made out of a vintage kitchen towel. If I had it to do over I wouldn't have used such wide elastic, but it's still pretty cute. We never get plastic grocery bags as we use our own, so I save bread bags to use for cleaning kitty litter box. It hangs on the rack with my aprons right near the litter box. Very handy!

Yesterday I took all of my aprons down and washed and hung them on the line (except for the one I was wearing). I just stood and stared at them 'cuz they looked so purty out there! Don't you agree??

Celebrate Tasha Tudor's Life

Click on the picture to take you to Storybook Woods!!

Now that...

... I am "slapping 60 in the face", as my Grandmother used to say, I am waxing a tad nostalgic. I'm going through some old photos and unearthed one that might make you smile. Me at the Rollertorium Skating Rink in Buena Park CA, circa 1959 or maybe 1960? We actually lived two blocks from Knott's Berry Farm...back when it was small and FREE!!

EGADS!! I look like Barbara Stanwick in my 'bubble cut' and red lipstick!

My birthday...

Spent most of the day trying to get the laundry room finished. Got the first coat of paint on and carpet shampooed. Would have loved to just take it out, but can't afford a new floor. Who puts carpet in a laundry room? Bad news is it's going to need another coat of paint, but we're going to put W&D back in and do the new coat just on the visible places. I just want the project to be o-v-e-r! When we're finished, I'll post before and after photos for you.

Went to my sisters for dinner in the evening. She had found and downloaded the birthday song from Sheriff John! Boy was I surprised! We grew up with that show in Southern California! Anyone else remember it???

All in all it ended up to be a pleasant day, and I still have a week of vacation left!! Yea me!

I'll leave you with some photos of my sisters house. Looks like it could be staight out of the pages of Country Living magazine!

POTTING SHED