Where is that little chair I put in the flowerbed?

Do you see that shabby little vintage child's adirondack chair in the middle of my flowerbed? I know, you can hardly see it..This is a picture taken in summer 2008........I place that little chair usually somewhere in the flowerbed . Most times it ends up almost hidden by the end of July!

As I was working away planting my flowers this morning, I remembered I had to leave a space for that little chair.

Which made me go searching for it. I thought I'd stored it in the little red barn storage shed......no...not there!

Well, I remember putting it somewhere where it would be protected from the elements, maybe under the deck..........

aack! what a mess!

Waaaay too much stuff in there piled up, alot we never use, and just store, just in case, you know......

Husband had been wanting to get at some bits of lumber way at the back and some other things and started shuffling things around.........

Well, at least I found it! See it? ...underneath and behind all that STUFF!

It's going to take me half an hour to move all matter of things outside the door so I can get at it!

Too hot and sticky today........maybe tonight? I'll take a good picture of it when I get it dug out of there.

Well, I have the camera out so will take a couple of shots of work in progress.

You know, I never plan my flowerbed. I just buy what I like, keeping in mind short and tall, and then just start plunking them in wherever!  I love a mixture of color! I'm never disappointed.

Hoping that in another month it will have filled out and bloomed enough to make it look as happy as my 2008 flowers.

 

Or my 2009 flowerbed.......

Meanwhile, at the back of the yard........needs some tidying there too....always wanted to do something with this old iron bed........have the head and foot of it.....have you ever seen a flower "bed" .....I'd need the space in the veggie garden to do it up proper......

What's this doing just laying on the ground?....Have to get it propped up and do something creative with it.

A patch of ornamental grass, it's finally amounting to something pretty! Don't ever plant in the flower bed without containing it.....it is like a very BAD weed once it gets going!

This little guy never stops working! I plunked those chives in there a couple of years ago and he just keeps on pushing them around in his wheelbarrow! In the shade and seldom, actually closer to never...watered, those chives still survive! I've been trying to rid my flower bed of them for the last few years and I still get them coming up there too!
Well,enough of a break for me, I should really go back to the greenhouse for a couple of things so I'll be ready to get back at it after supper when it cools off a bit.
Have a great day, no matter what you're doing!

Vintage PINK Garage Sale Goodies!

I did well again! I had found the Kromex spice set at the thrift shop on Thursday,..... walked in and there they were! Must have just been put out! I couldn't pick them up fast enough!
I see the odd set here and there with the black tops, but PINK!!! Wow

Seeing as my walls in my kitchen are a pumpkin color, these will be ebay bound!

If you wish hard enough?....Well, once I had found the spice set, I was really wishing I had a desirable vintage tablecloth with pinks! We hardly ever find nice American made tablecloths here where I live in Canada, they have to have been a gift or brought back from a holiday in the USA.
Found the "Chicken Today Feathers Tomorrow" tablecloth at a garage sale Saturday a.m.

Love it!

My luck held! A gorgeous fluffy PINK vintage chenille bedspread, and a lighter weight AQUA one...both in excellent condition! I get so excited when I find a nice chenille, as that doesn't happen too often either! I'm on a lucky streak!A few more trinkets, love those big old buttons!

I also picked up a couple of pairs of lovely pillowcases, which I'm washing right now. Haven't found any nice vintage pillowcases for a long while!........a few other linens, some vintage kitchen items....a variety.

I just missed out  on the most fabulous old white wicker rocker and a very old...early 1900's dress form! I specifically went to a sale early as it was one I'd been to a few weeks back and the lady was having another one and  said she would have her linens out by then. Well, no linens, although she will phone me, and I was probably 5 minutes later than the lady who got the rocker and the dress form, plus more!

Nobody else came along all the time I was there poking around after the that lady loaded up and left!

Well, that's ok, I've had my share of good luck and I do own a very wonderful old dress form, but I sure would have loved the rocker, it was a unique one!

I'll try to get some pictures up of my other "junque"......

Oh yeah!..........My last post showed  the flowers I'd picked up at the greenhouse and they were sitting just outside the back garage door. I went to do some transplanting today and discovered that one of the bunnies that's been hanging around the garden has decided he/she likes petunias and pansies!

They were eaten down to a bit of stem and leaves! ...grrrrrrrrrhhhhhh!

Have a fun week!

Friday already and a trip to the greenhouse

 

$85.00 later.........a few tomato plants and flowers for the back flower bed and the leftovers for some pots!

I did splurge (19.95) for the little urn that's been planted and I can just put out.

That big flower bed in the back is getting full of weeds from all the rain! Got the front beds done, but left this one and it keeps raining! Good news is the perennials got bigger so I won't be putting my flowers in too close to them and having them hidden in another couple of weeks!

The garden looks pathetic! Too much rain, it washed alot of my seedlings away. Oh well, I'm usually amazed at what becomes of it regardless by the first or second week of July. I'm missing my lettuce though, it didn't come up too well and the rabbits have been enjoying it lately! I replanted, so we'll see!

I'm looking forward to tomorrows' garage sales, there are so many street sales and community sales, I don't know where I'm going to go first! I'm hoping for my good luck finding treasures will still be with me!

Have a great weekend and good luck to the other treasure hunters out there!

I don't think I'll golf this evening

I look forward to my Wednesday night golf (look at the fun we have in this post from last summer) with my daughter Kristine and friend Maggie. Last Wednesday night was picture perfect, a beautiful calm evening, perfect for golfing.

Different story this week, wet, rainy, they say tonight will be cloudy with sunny periods, but the course is probably soggy and it won't be too warm.

 

I just may not go, but happy I took my camera last week.....sometimes we have to shoo the geese families out of our way. The gosslings are growing up so fast! I didn't have my camera when they were just little balls of fluff!

too cute!

There we are, Kris on the left, Maggie at center and lil ole me. Our 4th couldn't make it last week.

Looking forward to a summer of fun Wednesday nights, but maybe not tonight!
Focus, focus.......I can't seem to focus on any one thing on this rainy day, I hate when that happens and you have a whole day ahead of you that you can spend at home!

Well, maybe I'll go iron some pretty linens, that might get me going!

Have a great day!

A busy weekend, finds, country fair

I didn't go to many sales this last weekend, but managed to fill a box at an estate sale I found.

A few of the prettier things I found there, I couldn't resist that tray and mirror. They are so "like new".....and those hands, which someone made in a ceramics class...they will look nice displaying some pretty rings!

A little Wedgewood Jasperware trinket box and a pretty 40's silhouette.

We took our grandaughter Kiera to a country fair...."ChickenDaze"....we had a ball! They had chicken races, rides, barbeque, face painting, talent show...all that kind of fun, but it was a small town so the whole thing was in a small enough area, friendly people, just a really lovely atmosphere.

Kiera had been the day before with her mom and dad and wanted to go back. Those chickens were just being taken over to the "race track"......notice the egg?.......Kiera (9 yrs old) thought that the chicken shouldn't be racing just after giving birth!!!.....

I have been spending some time outside catching up with the yardwork and planting the flower beds. Can't wait til they fill in with color!
Well, off to the ironing board! Gotta get some more linens and doilies washed up and ironed and listed on Ebay!  Have a nice evening all!

Last weekend's haul, almost! More of my Garage Sale finds!

Well, we're going into another weekend so thought I'd post some more pictures of my great haul from last week. If you missed those posts you really should go look. You now know why I didn't mind wading through the water up to my knees into a few garages to get these goodies, so much really GOOD treasure! A couple other things I put in the picture that I had previously found.

I can't even show ALL of it, there's more jewellery, more linens, some lovely Royal Albert bone china cream sugar sets and cups and saucers, and some different odds and ends.

I actually just picked up the "doyley" keeper this afternoon at the one and only garage sale I went to today. Just fit into this picture perfectly! A beautiful lacey tablecloth, and above it a whitework linen one! Some of the doilies I got, not all, the rest are in the laundry basket.

These were not from the garage sales, but I got them a couple of weeks ago at a thrift shop and forgot about them. They surfaced when I was moving things around to arrange for taking the pictures, still in the bag.

Handmade smocked satin pillow/cushion covers with RHINESTONES...!   It must have been a sign of things to come!

 

So! Had to spread out that victorian beaded applique in the front, even though I bought that at the antique sale I was in, I hadn't shown a picture of it laid out..

Alot, but not all of the jewellery from last week,.......... some minty bone china roses bouquets, keepers....Royal Winton chintz sauce/gravy pitcher with stand........ a most gorgeous pale green with pink rose Royal Albert china cup and saucer. The picture in the background...$3.00... is a Gozzard print in the most gorgeous minty gesso frame, I'm gonna keep this one.

The lace tablecloth I also got last weekend too and just draped it over the corner of the picture
Honestly! Don't think I always get these kinds of goodies at garage sales. There is many a week that I drive around for 2 or 3 hours and come home with nothing!

I put most of the rhinestone earrings and pins into this nice old jewellery box.....

 

Got this nice shawl at the thrift shop, I just liked it very much!

Old lidded picnic basket...........my last purchase in the rain last Saturday. Great for storing "stuff !"

Well, ...rain......and hail......this afternoon.  Took this out of the window, but should have had a video camera, it was pounding down and the hail was just a-dancin'! That is white hail on the garden, although it was only mothball size and melted promptly

I was going to put out some petunias in the flower bed this morning, I'm glad I didn't! They may not have liked getting pounded by the hail!

As I'm posting this, the sun is out and the sky is blue and it's going on for 9 pm.....forecast is rain on and off tomorrow, so we'll see.........

I'm hoping for at least hitting a few garage sales, wondering if my luck has run out!

Have a great weekend!

BLING! Pics Garage Sale Vintage Jewels, I'm so lucky!

Here you go! I still can't believe I found all this jewellery this weekend!Wading through the knee deep water was worth it! Look here! I was just hoping to find some broken odd rhinestone earrings and lookie!

All pairs of earrings and only one broken screwback in the whole batch!

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The blue and silver is really interesting.......that's some kind of blue glass.

Love the reddish pink rhinestone set which looks like earrings but are a pair of little brooches!

Alot of really interesting and unusual pieces.

That flower pin is a silvery mesh......the lighbulb type earrings (do you think they are recent) are hallmarked in a strange way and I can't make it out, but they appear to be sterling.

The soft green beads are ? not glass. Those white and rust colored ones are glass, and most interesting!

Love that chartreuse pin covered with rhinestones and a teensy little rose made of some type of mineral or glass. Click for sure, you'll see some sweet greenish rhinestone earrings resting on the broken string of pearls. They're so pretty but wouldn't "pose" for me .........the blue stoned (turquoise?) little pair to the right have the neatest setting.

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Can you believe it?........Top set is signed Lisner, earrings and necklace.........brooch and earrings are a signed Sherman set, ooh lucky me! I love the other set which is unmarked but just gorgeous!

Below are the earrings I picked up on Friday at that one garage sale I posted about.

Lucky me, lucky me, lucky me!

I sometimes go all summer garage saling and don't find one pair of rhinestone earrings........some odd ones but not a pair.

I had to wade through knee deep water for garage sale finds this weekend!

........but did I score! I went out in the pouring rain on Saturday morning, as there was a community sale at a gated 55plus condo development not far from me. They hold it once a year and I usually pick up a couple of things, not too much. Well.............it was well worth wading through knee deep water with my shoes on to get what I got!

 

Believe it or not there were alot of people at this community garage sale event. I took the above picture on a little strip that were no sales, but the cars were lined up along the street wherever there were garage doors open!

I got my feet wet when I crossed the road to this sale...........I was in there for about 10 minutes and it started raining buckets! The drainage couldn't keep up and the water was a foot deep across the road  so what was a girl to do?...........just walk through it to the car!

Shoes, jeans, up to the knees.

I DIDN'T CARE, I WAS SKY HIGH ON WHAT I GOT AT THAT PARTICULAR SALE!

Other enthusiastic and hardy garage salers were taking off their shoes and rolling up their pants to get into the sales! It was only in the odd area that it was bad like that, but it was contiunally pouring rain, so not much chance of staying dry!

I continued on and 2 more sales I also was on a high when I took my goodies to the car.

I looked like a drowned rat when I got home but I was loaded!

MORE  jewellery, rhinestones galore!

awesome china, even chintz!

linens!

old lidded picnic basket

beautiful old print in fab gesso frame

I will post pictures probably tomorrow, the rest of the weekend was busy, busy, and yesterday was the last day of the antique sale, so I have to unload the car yet, and I am in a real mess in the house.

Spread out all over the place.......gotta start putting away and cleaning up.

Watch for my finds, and enjoy your Memorial Day holiday, all of you in the USA!

We have a winner....Cottage Charm Giveaway

Congratulations Ramona! The Paper Princess over at Create-With-Joy......
This has been so much fun and I met so many lovely bloggers and saw so many beautiful blogs!
I'll be sure to take part in this wonderful giveaway next year too! Welcome to my new followers too!
Happy Memorial Day!
Meanwhile, I'm going to email Ramona right away and let her know the good news!

I have lots to tell you about my weekend, so check back!

Beautiful Finds and some funky ones too! Don't forget to enter the giveaway, it ends soon!

I am thrilled that I found these at the antique sale I'm involved in (see post below) .....I wasn't even really looking.......just standing talking and there were two little bags in a basket near the floor that caught my eye.
This was on Wednesday, the first day of the sale, when we finally could take a breather, it was as usual, extremely busy. I'm glad nobody else saw the two little bags....$2.00 each....

One bag contained  a length, at least 2 yds, of beautiful beaded trim, and a little bundle of floral wreath trim, both must be 80 or 90 years old! The beads are faceted and have a coppery metallic coating. I pulled off a loose one and scrubbed it with a scouring pad and some powdered cleaner and it looks like they are black glass or jet that have been coated with the metallic finish!  I love the coppery shine!

 

The other bag contained what I thought was just a bunch of black beads, and that fabulous old metal capped tassel. Ends up that the "beads" is actually a long Victorian black jet glass beaded applique, it would have been attached to an article of clothing, probably a very glam dress!'

It's all there, just gorgeous, I will have to get a shot of the whole thing layed out and post it at some time.

 So now I'll show you what I got at a garage sale I happened on today when I went to the post office.

 

I bought all but 2 pairs of earrings for 25 cents a pair, 2 pair were 1.00. They were all in little plastic bags, pinned to a big board. I might go back and get some more, but I did take all the rhinestone ones.

 

Aren't these wild? ....and that's not all of them! At least 8 more pair, some more stripes, and some others that are just really neat! I'm probably going to use them in a crafty project or two....

And if you haven't yet entered my giveaway that is part of the Cottage Charm Giveaway (link on sidebar), you still have some time! Last day is May 29th to enter. Scroll down to find the post for the giveaway.

Come see the antique sale I'm in this week!

 So many treasures, such great prices! Wish you could all come, but it's probably a long way for you seeing as I'm in the middle of Canada!

See that cream and green woodstove? Well, it used to be my mother-in-law's, then came  to our home when we were out a bit in the country. We had to sell it when we moved away from there and that's how I met the gal who started having these sales twice a year. It makes a great display piece doesn't it?

The sale (only twice a year we do this) takes place from Wednesday to Sunday at a friend's place in a lovely old barn......2 floors plus more outside! I don't pick up alot for the sale like I used to but a couple of the girls gather from auctions all year and we all are also picking things from our own collections, making room for more or just plain making more room, lol!

Below is an a slide show, so you can get an idea of how it's set up, etc.

Slide show below, is another friend that's out of town. Her sale is in a double garage, you'd never know it from the way she sets up. It's on today til Sunday.