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I told you a week or so ago that my search was over. I didn’t tell you which search. Some of you left a comment and guessed. Someone suggested that Jerry and were engaged or even married. NOPE. We are not. We’re giving ourselves time to marinate to ensure we can get it right. I’m …

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So readers…did you guess what I purchased at the junk sale?? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, last night in the blog post I showed pictures of the junk sale I went to and encouraged you all to guess what I bought. I bought five things but four of them were shown in …

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I’ve told you before about the junk sale I go to whenever it’s open. Typically they host a big clean-out garage sale in February, a sale in the spring, one in October, and a more Christmasy one in November. I go every time if I possibly can. The gals host my favorite kind of sales…decent …

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Last week I did two different posts about the antique/vintage sale I went to. In the first post, I showed you many pictures of the goodies that were at the sale and then I told you to pick which piece I bought. I had left you hanging and encouraged you to guess which piece I …

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Last week I told you about the awesome Sewing cabinet I foud at the thrift store for $5. At the time, I told you it needed a little work.  You can see the top doesn’t look pristine and there there were other problems too. See how the…veneer is lifting away…UGH. I took a tooth pick …

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On Friday Kalissa had a doctor’s appointment in Waterloo.  She had worked an overnight shift the night before so I offered to drive her to the appointment.  I hate for her to drive after working the overnight shift especially if it’s a long trip which it is if we go to Waterloo.  I told her […]

Friday was my antiquing day.  You all might remember there is a bi-annual sale in my area that I love going to.  They have all sorts of decently priced vintage stuff.  I just love going.  I’ve gotten some pretty neat things from there too.

Sadly the weather was terrible.

But…the picking was fun.

I snapped some pictures to share with all of you.

While I shopped it rained and rained and rained.

I checked out the linens and fabric.

There was a great old phone collection.

There were many different styles.

Salt and Pepper shakers anyone?  There was ...

You all might remember the two paint-by-number pieces that I had framed recently.  They were painted by my husband when he was in fifth grade.  He had his appendix out and his Aunt Ann gave him a pint-by-number kit with the hopes that he would have something to entertain him and he’d sit still.

Neither is completely painted but mostly painted.  I love them partly because I love dogs but mostly because he did them.

The other day Kalissa said to me, “Mom, I wish you would somehow put a paper on the back of that so when you ...

You all might remember that I left you in the middle of my story about the barn I bought at the vintage store in Sumner, Iowa.

I know lots of you were upset that I didn’t show pictures of the barn.  There’s a reason I didn’t do that.  You see when I bought the barn…I bought it straight out of the window.  I saw what the outside was like but I didn’t really see it up close.  I really didn’t get to touch it and feel it so the next day when I went ...

I think this is going to be a fun blog post.  I know I sure had fun exploring.  Here’s the story:

I already told you that on Sunday I went to get my Covid shot.  I already told you that when I was in town I stopped at Goodwill.  I already told you that I found this…

It is an old sewing basket/stand.  I saw it and I have several of these already.  I didn’t need another.  I don’t even know if I have a place for one.  Ah…but what’s a girl to do ...

You might remember me telling you about a junk sale I always go to.  There is a pair of sisters who host a junk sale at their place a couple of times a year.  You might remember me redoing my sewing room with a few pieces of “junk” I bought from them.  If you missed my sewing room tour, you can find that HERE.

This dresser houses my batik fabrics.  I painted this dresser and Karl cleaned the handles.

The piece hanging on the wall I bought from them and Craig helped me hang it.

This metal cabinet in the ...

Remember back in April I was at the vintage sale when Kelli called me and told me her water broke.  Well, I never showed you the goodies I got or told you about the sale so here, one month later, (Yep the boys are a month old as of today) I’m here to tell you about the sale.

I bought this magazine rack.

My idea is to keep my cross stitch projects in there like this…

I’m a sucker for old vintage… wooden boxes.  This was an old box that once some type of cigar box.  Someone saved ...