A few of my faves

Card Catalogs are my fave.

I have one more that I am working on to bring into the shoppe next month. 

New unique display pieces are my fave. 

I picked up this metal tiered piece to house my smalls in the store and at shows. 

Baker's Dozen Jammy is my fave.

I bulk a few when I find them on sale.

My fave photo of Betty.

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New Miche shells are my fave. 

Instagram collages are my fave. 

Some pictures of my garage sale finds from the weekend. 

Completely Random

Warning! 

The following blog post is completely random. 

I will start with this awesome old Denny's sign from the 1970's that I found at a yard sale on Saturday. 

The other side reads, Section Closed. 

I now have this in my kitchen.

These also came from a yard sale. 

They are from an old car repair shop.  

I love that they are red, metal, vintage and awesome! 

I found this today on my way to the shop and had to have. 

Sorry this picture does not do it justice. 

This would be cool in a front hallway, laundry room or playroom. 

It is a great shade of turquoise and sturdy.

I must confess. 

I am a bad mannequin mom. 

Betty came and worked the shop with me today, I was halfway home and realized that I left her in pieces in the shop. 

Sorry lady.

I was helping Kennesha from Restoration House unload her U-Haul and look at this beauty she scored. I am so stinking jealous that she found this! She says she is going to use it as a display piece. It looks to be an old bakery cart. I just love it! 

I hope you had a fabulous weekend! 

Sneaky girl

Silly Betty. 

She has never once (that I know of) gotten up on the couch to sun herself. 

Jay and I were doing some projects outside with the sun shining and we came in and saw this. Who does the silly girl think she is? After telling her to get off the couch she sulked back to her bed.  Thirty minutes later we walked past again and low and behold she was up on the couch again. 

She is now for sale to a good home. 

Oh Ging-ivitis

Our sweet little Ginger experienced a lot of firsts this Fourth of July weekend.  

1. First fish I (I mean Doug) caught

2. First fishing lesson from Robby 

 3. First ever canoe ride with Hannah and Joey

 4. I love to feel the fresh breeze on my face and the fact that the kids paddled me around the lake.

5. My first close up - self portrait.

How do I look?

 6. First canoe ride on someone's lap.  

 Why is this in here Devon? I guess she just liked this shot. Silly lady. 

 Seriously?  How many times did I manage to get myself in that canoe?  When can we go back?

 7. First paddle boat ride. 

 8. Not my first swimming lesson but first time Josie actually had patience with me. Haha!!

 9. First NOT flattering (but pretty funny) picture of me trying to dry off. 

Off to my suitcase bed.  Nighty night humans.

Oh Betty!

Just had to share some of my favorite photos of Betty.  I just love her. 

Thank you for putting up with us.  You are a good girl.

Oh Betty!

It's finally Friday (well 11pm on Thursday is close enough)  but I wanted to dedicate Friday's post to our dogs.

For those of you that may not know, my family and I like to give not only one name to our dogs but rather 2 or 3.  And the funny thing is that both dogs respond to any name we call them by.  

Ginger  Aka:  Betty, Gingi-vitis & Tramp   

Bear  Aka:  Pepper, Baron von Bach & Lady

 (yes he is a male and we call him Lady)

Silly you say?!? Yes it is but it brings us joy.  

Here comes the craft portion of this post. 

Ginger's Suitcase Bed 

I had seen a few ideas online for these adorable suitacase dog beds and thought to myself, "I can make that." (I seem to always say that for just about anything.  Oh well. )  So on my way home I stopped in at the local Salvation Army and looked for the cleanest and cheapest suitcase.  Found this brown beauty.

Next I found a fabric remnant and proceeded to use stitch witchery to make a nice cushion for the bed.  I wish I knew how to sew but I just don't so I use stitch witchery or hot glue.  

Our local wood shop had a few different legs to choose from, these happened to have a nice shape and were not too expensive.  I painted them with oops paint that I had in the garage.  

Here Ginger Betty is trying out her new suitcase bed.  We put her favorite blanket inside and gave her a few treats so that she would actually stay in there.  Haha!  After walking around the house looking for pictures of Bear and a postcard of my favorite saying and of course some framed silhouette pictures (all were hot glued into place) it was starting to look like home.  

At first we tried to use the saying, "Get out of town!" so that meant she would be heading to the suitcase, she didn't really like that to much so now we just say "bed" and she knows right where to go.  

Jay found the Jack Russell luggage tag at TJ Maxx on clearance and I found the Betty keychain at Goodwill.  We think it adds a nice touch!



Let's see how much this project cost:

Suitcase (half off)    $2
Wooden Legs   $16
Keychains    $1
Pillow Insert   $1
Paint, knick knacks and fabric   $0

Total Cost   $20