Garage sale finds

Hope you all are enjoying the sun we have had it a few days here and my car thermometer said 96 Tuesday parked in Target parking lot facing the sun !!!HOT and I never did like hot weather.The local TV station said 82 ?

 I stopped at a couple yard sale Saturday  and found some treasures. First I found this pretty decanter to put more white vintage buttons in and I found this pretty gold ornate wastebasket and tissue holder from the 1960's . Which I don't know why I bought it, don't need it and I have plenty of vintage wastepaper baskets around, so it may go in my yard sale LOL but I can't pass up a bargain, will pass a bargain onto someone else

                                                     

 my stash of buying this week

 Here is the pretty decanter , first one I have with a pouring spout, olive oil would work in this also, its a large one

  and for some reason last summer these large shells started coming to me through friends and yard sale so now I have about 7 of them plus a huge bowl of fancy shells

 I was shopping at Michael's to get a gift for someone and they had all the cardboard boxes and suitcases 40 % off so I got these hat boxes and I will have to get pictures of the cute suitcases I got to put treasures in and try and straighten up my studio, it looks like a big wind storm went through , however I know where everything is .

 This is the inside of the hat box , LOVE it, it should be full of lace before to long

 Question? I am the only one getting a lot of anonymous spam comments these days ?

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Before & After paint

I have had this candelabra for a few years I got it at a yard sale once where a lady had died and her 3 daughters were selling everything in the house for a quarter !!! yes 25 cents each. People had piles 6 ft tall in the yard and don't get in there piles !! either. I did not knowing what the heck was going on.

I got this candelabra and lots of jewelry at this sale,I bought a lot of clothes for someone then ended up donating them  because the person didn't like the clothes.

This is the candelabra I had on my table at a ladies luncheon I previously posted about

Before painting white

                                                               

This is how it looked on my table 

   

I like my birds nested in it 

After painting white 

My crystals prisms  are pink from mod podge glue and pink food coloring I mixed a little of both till I got the color I wanted then hung on sides of a glass to dry

Then I brought it in my studio and set it in my east window on my silver wedding cake square which I bought off of a florist that does weddings, he said after a couple years using them he sells them, so I picked it up at Kent's Florist side walk sale one year 

I like it both ways painted and unpainted , what about you ?

For the first time I got a complete body spray tan the liquid one,not laying in a roaster tube 

so far I like it I went light my first time and in a couple weeks I'll go back and get it a little darker,all I need is mascara maybe some blush LOVE IT 

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I Got Flowers

Sort of reminds me of the movie I got Mail filmed in Seattle with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan  anyway I got flowers delivered for Mother's day from my youngest daughter and her family who lives in Missouri. Pretty roses, carnations and daisies.It was so fun to get these. They are just so pretty and pink. I will have something for Pink Saturday post this week  LOL

                                                                           

I had to take them outside this morning to get enough light for a good picture it is so dark in my house especially since its cloudy and going to rain AGAIN today, we are in a drought no more I would say here in Missouri

Anyone can always make me happier by giving me fresh flowers

Then my daughter who lives out around Portland Oregon sent me a cookbook and the cutest 3-d card 

She knows I like tea,we use to buy Summer Pudding up in Seattle in a store buy Public Market,they don't carry it any more so we order it from London 

Then the sweet cookbook  for  tea biscuits and bite size treats to have with your tea 

I am thinking this came from Powell's bookstore downtown Portland Oregon, we always go there when I visit my daughter out there in NW

Hope you all have a sweet Mother's day 

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Vintage Bowl Terrarium

Well we have had some unusual weather for central Missouri, it was 80 degrees one day this week I think Monday & Tuesday then this morning  Friday, it was 35 and a very cold rain. Up in Kansas City they has snow and sleet , Rick Cantore from the weather channel was there playing in the snow, he was on early this morning about 6am. Was you up watching his cute bald head? LOL

Back to my vintage bowl and flowers. I bought these little flowers before the cold weather

                                                       

I was reading a blog where she was in a flower shop looking a huge terrarium's and I got the idea to make me a little table top terrarium

                                                

I used an old pressed glass footed bowl and some small  dainty

tea cups

I did all this the day it was so nice before this cold rain

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Pretty

Good Morning

I don't have any new pictures for a new post this morning and so just going to show my Rose Chintz plate I have. I guess  this is the set of dishes I would like to have next, I have a few pieces mostly bowls. I did see an 8 place setting for $150 however didn't want to pay that price, now , since I really don't need any more dishes for me and my cat LOL

The more I look at it the prettier it is, it goes well with my red & white transferware plates

                                                                 

I have a busy day working 1/2 day at my day job then going to a school program, Grandparents Day , then going to a play tonight with a friend. Them tomorrow going to visit a special friend and her sister from Paducah Kentucky. We are planning on eating a lot , doing pedicures , laughing and a lot of relaxing . we always give each other hand me downs, so I need to get my white elephant pile ready for them to pick through 

Richard at My Old Historic House said things are looking a little better, pumping water out of his basement, doing yard work and the city is going to have the special city wide event Saturday May 4th 2013 

So my girl friends and I are planing on going  to tour his house, I can't imagine him getting all things back in order to have his house on tour along with the mayors house 

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Special Report on Cottrell House, Flood in Clarksville Missouri

Hi all great bloggers

I know most of you have read Richard Cottrell blog , My Old Historic House He lives in Clarksville Missouri on the Mississippi River . His wonderful house, mansion is looking right in the eye of the high river., flooding really

This morning on ABC Good Morning American they did a special report right there in Clarksville in front of Richard's shop at the arch ways he is always showing.

Then last night Fox news was there and Richard was on Fox news thanking all the volunteers and guardsmen the Governor had sent in for helping, also corp of engineers

He had help caring all his first floor furniture to the second floor. Look at this web site of how beautiful his house is and imagine moving all those treasures

I called him this morning and he said his basement is full of water , he said the Methodist church ? I think is providing food for the workers and he was helping there as he could.

I felt we need to help Richard , he is so upset about his beautiful home and business, and loss of business.  I sent a card with a little money in it to help in some small way . I hope he isn't offended

If you would like to send Richard a card, he has a post office box

Richard Cottrell
P O Box
Clarksville Mo 63336



                                                                     



UPDATE on facebook Richard Cottrell 4/23/13

Basement pump is up and running. Yard mowed. i'm going to pull weeds and watch it pump. Hope to have electric, gas and a toilet by tonite. And my own bed.

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Vintage lamps & Pugs

A friend of mine Lorene,  from church who is 98 years old is selling out and moving to Florida next month has some vintage items for sell and I bought this lamp from her.
I thought the painted shade and the white milk glass bottom is so pretty.It doesn;t go with anything in my bedroom but wanted it anyway since it belonged to Lorene.
I wanted her vintage french provincial chest and night stands that matched and she bought in Texas years ago maybe back in the 1960's, they  has glass tops, love them

                                                       

I know its hand painted because of the stroke marks of the paint. I also know they aren't what the young shabby chic vintage gals wants today but they are back bedroom lamps LOL
When I had all antique and Victorian bedrooms they would have been perfect


                                                                     

I hope she isn't said after she sells all her items, she is moving in with her granddaughter

             

Here is a lamp I bought in 1971 when I lived in the Paducah Kentucky area, my friend from there is coming 

 up this weekend to visit her sister , so we will all get together 

This is not the original prisms on it I change them around once in a while since I have about 4 large containers full of old glass prisms. I always liked it's base

 Then here is my pug pillows in the same bedroom, I use to have 2 pugs and miss them so much ,these pillows looks just like Ollie & Sissy did 

  

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