This Past Week...

I got all crafty!  The insanely cool bakelite button was an antique store purchase and the key came from an estate sale a few weeks ago.  It's the perfect kind of statement necklace for me.

 More keys!  They are quickly becoming about as bad bountiful and awesome as my button collection.

 I bought these milk bottle lids from  Vintage Rescue Squad and decided to make some magnets out of them.  Inspiration for these came from magnets that Heidi at Vacuuming in High Heels and Pearls made, though hers were way cuter.

 Ok, so this really grinds my gears.  This Pyrex is in the case at the thrift store and priced like it's at an antique store.  And that Forest Fancies is dishwasher damaged beyond repair.  THEY HAVE LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS!!!  Ok, now remember I said that...

 Another one at a different store!  It's a conspiracy I tell you.

 National Siblings Day was on Thursday so I posted this picture of me and the brothers from a year ago.  I love those two big butt heads!  Ugh...look at that bad hair cut!  What made me think I could pull off a pixie...frightening.

The Little Dude has been waking up before the butt crack of dawn (yeah, that's an actual time of day...just ridiculous) lately, and let me tell you, it's totally wearing on me.  I'm usually already up, but just not quite awake, and have yet to grab the life nectar that is coffee.  He talks a lot in the morning...  ; )  Needless to say, I felt like I deserved the beer and cupcake Friday afternoon.

Does anyone have any tips to get my 2 year old to stay in bed a little later?  

This key cabinet!!!  OHMYGOSH, I freaking love this thing.  It was priced a bit high, but the vendor was willing to drop the price since it had been crowding her booth for a while.  It's going to get a fancy turquoise paint job this week and it will be glorious!

 See that set of Primary bowls sitting on the right corner of the table in my booth?  Those are the over priced bowls I was bitching about a few pictures up!  They were still in the case on half off day and I snagged them up super fast.  It turned out to be a very good deal for me, which is awesome because Pyrex is getting pricier and pricier lately.  *Inserting foot in mouth*

That spool is my very favorite find of the week...ok, the year!  This one is super cool because it has nice graphic lettering on it and is in pretty good shape.  I think I'm going to keep it where it is and use it as a little table.  

These colors are so fun together.  Spring has arrived in my house dangit, even if the SNOW outside disagrees.  Yup, it's snowing right now...

Do you Instagram?  No...come on man, we're all doing it!  

The Past Few Weeks...

We went to Florida to go spend some time with my mother-in-law and she had these waiting for me!  Squeee, I think I'll keep her.  : )

 This spider was the first bug to greet me.  He was dubbed Spike.  Terror Spider from Hell would have also worked.  He was pretty cool though and respected my space.

 This was on the way down to a lagoon in Juno beach.  I've never seen anything like that before.  It was so lush, it felt like a rain forest.  

 We drove across Florida to Tampa to visit my family for a day and saw this awesome little spectacle of Airstreams. One day I will have one.  Oh yes...she will be mine.

 Meet the highest looking goat in all of Lion Country Safari.  

 Fancy Flamingos!  I just love these.  Living kitsch!

 This is a pond behind my MIL's condo on the golf course.  If you look really close, you can make out an alligator head in the middle.  In all the years I've been going to Florida, this was my first gator!  So cool!

 Oh man...that kind of a view never gets old.  This was on Hutchinson Island.   

Obligatory lizard picture.

 So we had the screen door open and I was standing in the doorway taking pictures of these Sandhill Cranes and their baby.  The Little Dude went out to grab a toy, and didn't notice the birds.  They were pretty far away so I didn't think anything of it.  Well they felt differently apparently.  They yelled some horrible noise and ran at us, right as I was taking this picture.  The Little Dude screamed and ran inside while I struggled to get the screen door closed.  One stopped a foot short of the door and just stared at us, growling.  Crazy ass birds stocked us for like 10 minutes before finally moving on.

 My new business cards were waiting at home for me.  I think they came out pretty cool.  What do you guys think?

 Look at this globe!!!  It is AWESOME!!!  That base, the colors...perfect!  The Mom asked if it was for the booth, and I said, "hell no!"  I don't have space for another one though, so I'll have to trade one of my others out and send it to the booth.  Maybe...

 Really?!  I'm so over this ridiculous pricing.  OUT OF CONTROL!

 This gorgeous old necklace came home with me at half price.  Does anyone have a guess at what the stones might be?  The stones are more purple than this picture shows.  I was thinking lab created Bismuth or maybe Peacock ore (though it doesn't seem heavy enough for that).

 A few weeks ago I purchased a bottle of wine for the label and won.  This week it was beer, and I didn't win or loose.  It was just meh.  Cool label though! 

Have you jumped on the Instagram train yet?!   Come on, it's fun!

This Past Week...

It was finally nice out, so we took the kidlets to the zoo.  We were about as happy to be outside as this smiling hippo.  Spring has finally arrived...

I got to work photographing and sorting the enormous amount of frilly stuff that my aunt brought over.  I was drowning in pink...it was kind of disturbing.

 The Little Dude loves my bakelite bracelets.  It's so funny when he wheres them like this.  Got a nice stack going there buddy!

 The booth got a little bit of love.

 I sold my first item via Instagram!  Yeah!  

 Mmmmm... cinnamon rolls.

 These vintage pearls belonged to The Husbands grandmother and I had totally forgotten about them until the other day.  They made me feel all fancy in my dirty sweatshirt and jammie pants.  

 That 70's Show!  I recently started watching it again on Netflix  and am loving all the good stuff!  I actually just sold the lobster recipe tin in the corner.  Lara at Pretty Quirky commented about how fun it would have been to be a set designer on this show.  That would have been so AWESOME!!!  

 I take comfort knowing that I'm not the only one of us that this applies to...  : )

This wine was so yummy!  Another successful, "oh, that label is cute" wine purchase.

 What the hell spring?  WHAT.THE.HELL?  We're sick of getting teased over here.  We ended up with almost three inches before it was done with.  SO OVER IT!!!

 A lot of the Barbie stuff sold on Instagram, but I was still left over with the dream house, bus, two cars and all kinds of other bits and pieces.  I posted it to my Facebook and ended up selling the whole lot to an old friend from high school.  Score one for me!!!

 This estate sale wasn't super fruitful for me, but it sure was fun!  I wish everything in this picture could have come home with me, house included!  

A fire destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of acres last year in the same little town where the estate sale was.  I'd hate to be a resident of this town and  have to drive this road all the time.  What a painful reminder.  You can see in this photo that the tires on the truck melted away completely, along with the house that used to be behind it...  And those trees aren't just back-lit, they're burned.  So sad all around...

Do you use Instagram?  It's usually much more cheery than my last photo!