People keep the strangest things

Hi everyone! Heather here.

So I have this terrible obsession that I started partaking in this year.
Estate Sales!
I am an addict.
I would go every day if I could afford to,
who am I kidding,
if I could find one every day I would go anyways
Just to see the weird things people have in their homes.

This week though, I hit the jackpot.
I found awesome stuff,
for ridiculously awesome prices.

And I saw some really weird and creepy things.
I could not take pictures of ALL of it though,
some of it was just too creepy.

First Im going to start with the AMAZING deals I got this week;

1. My new spice rack.
Shelf= $1 at an estate sale
Brackets= $3 at Home Depot
20 Minutes of placing the brackets and attaching to the wall
Totally worth it

 

This helped me free an entire cupboard for other things,

like Tupperware.

I also learned that we do not need to buy;

parley

paprika

italian seasoning

or oregano

for a long time.

2. This Wine Rack
$12 at THE COOLEST estate sale

 

It holds 6 bottles of wine

and the glasses.

I thought it was gorgeous,

not to mention how many nice wooden wine racks,

can you buy for $12?

Exactly.

3. At the same Estate Sale
I bought a few books
For a combined total of $5
I feel like I robbed them

 

Books 2-5 of the Game of Thrones series,

which are at least $17 a piece on their own.

Coincidentally,

I had put the first book on hold at the library,

my mom picked it up for me yesterday

and found a copy of it for 50 cents

I also bought a few necklaces this week, which I plan to spruce up a little bit.
Oh and I bought a couple things for my mom,
I will post those later!

This house was amazing though (where I bought the wine rack and the books).
It just kept going and going and going. Every time you turned a corner it went other places. Huge bedrooms and bathrooms and dressing rooms and libraries and porches and IT NEVER ENDED.
These people must have been real characters too, because who keeps these things?
(Sorry for the blurry pictures)

  Yup its a clown suit.  

Puppets, like hanging on strings. And they were creepy looking!

AND WHY WHY WHY MUST EVERY OLD PERSON HAVE THIS IN THEIR HOME!?

I have now seen it at over a dozen estate sales, all in old people's homes!!! WHYYY!?

Now onto some other AWESOME things I have purchased this year from garage and estate sales;

This is MY FAVORITE! purchase so far.
It even made an appearance in the first few pictures of this post!
$5 at a garage sale. . .

 

The worlds most comfy chair

It is Epic

And Tom made sooo much fun of me when I bought it

now he also thinks its awesomely comfy

The rest of these are as equally awesome, just not nearly as useful!

 

My Anchor necklace

I went back the second day for this one

I decided I HAD to have it

 

I bought this lighter for Tom

I thought it was neat.

He buys lighters at these things all the time,

and it has proven to be a good idea.

We bought 4 for $10 at a sale once,

and 2 of them were worth about $60 a piece,

now if only he would sell them instead of keep them all.

 

This mirror was awesome

at $10 I could not pass it up.

Only one problem.

I bought it with the hopes of being able to see my outfits when I get dressed every day,

but there is no place to hang it right now where that is possible.

This saturday though,

I plan to rearrange the bedroom

AGAIN!

 

DISNEY TRIVIA!

nobody will play with me though :-(

 

Walt Disney's Happiest Songs

Circa 1967!

AWESOMENESS!

We also got winnie the pooh songs from the '60's as well.

The next two items have stories to go along with them.
My friend Geoffrey was in the Military,
and while over seas he started a cigar bar called the Tiki Hut.
This is now what we refer to his back porch as.
Well we helped him put a new couch in the Tiki Hut, and proceeded to break the door in the process.
So there was now a lot of bugs in there.
So I kept talking about how he needed this bug zapper that looks like a Tennis Racket
And then I found one. Within 2 weeks of this conversation.

 

The Bug Zapper

and Geoffrey

Then its our Tiki Hut artwork,
or my Tiki Hut artwork at least lol.

 

This light bright artwork took FOREVER

but that is because I have OCD.

But these were both Epic

 

Wizard of Oz Barbies

Did not buy them

But thought they were awesome

 

My mom bought these last week at an estate sale.

Mushroom salt and pepper shakers,

I am jealous.

 

This is a lamp. . .

Yup I had a similar thought.

First of all who bought this to begin with?

Second of all,

who is going to pay $8 for it second hand?

 

The house these hats were in was also amazing.

It was huge,

and had the coolest layout.

And apparently the owner was a sailor,

because these 2 hats Char and I are wearing

(baby james did not want to keep his on),

were 2 of like 50.

And this is the epicness of my new found obsession. I wish Mary lived here so I could drag her with me. It is sooo much fun. People start to recognize you if you go to enough of them, its hysterical. Oh and if you get there early enough to get a number before it opens, the sight is just ridiculous. People are crazy. Next time I get there that early I should record it all on video.

What are some awesome things you have bought/seen at garage and estate sales?

And once Again. . .

It is in fact Tuesday, although after the long weekend it definitely feels like the Monday it has become. We all know what Tuesdays are for here though don't we!

I am doing my post rather early today :-) I need to put some sanity back into my life after the weekend;

I always knew this made a huge difference, 

but I guess I never realized just how much of a difference.

http://pinterest.com/pin/298731799/

So excited that it is officially fall

Now to lose 10 pounds

Buy a pair of Skinny Jeans

And then 3 new pairs of boots

Oh its happening

victorias secret

Panera Mac and Cheees

Oh this will be made in my house this fall/winter

VOD Kitchen

This is going to be over my bed before the end of the year

Im not sure what medium it will be in/on

But it will be up there

Eh maybe I will paint it right on the wall :-D

I have 16 hours to myself this saturday

Maybe I can actually get something done

Other than rearrange the entire kitchen

And this is where I leave you

<3 Heather

And this is where I take over! Heather is more of an early bird than I am - I always seem to be getting the Tuesday post done right under the wire!

This is only to remind me of how adorable Siamese kittens are. My "kitten" is now 14 years old.

I have so many tutorials on sleeves...but I LOVE the look of these - and so easy.

This link has a ton of cleaning tips - all in one place! Amazing. Now, if only I can remember to look up this site when I am trying to clean...

Pesto Stuffed Shells Yum. Will be trying these this week!

 

Every year, my mom does a cookie exchange. Even though I live in Florida and the party is in Tennessee, I still make my 6 dozen cookies every year. (I'm sure the postal service loves us!) Maybe this will be my cookie this year - Peppermint Cream Bites.

 

And those are my pins for this week! One of these weeks, I will beat Heather at posting first!

~Mary

Stepping out of my comfort zone...

I will admit it. I am most comfortable in front of a sewing machine with a pattern in hand. I also like being able to make mistakes and easily undo them. The seam ripper is my friend.

That being said...I did something completely out of my comfort zone this weekend. I painted a canvas.

I dragged another of my best friends (Megan) to a shop here in Tampa called Painting with a Twist. In this two hour class, a local artist took us step-by-step through recreating the featured artwork.

As with any art class, there were a few rules.

And then it was time to start! Our teacher, Becky, was very patient and kept reminding us to breathe and to not stress about our painting. It wouldn't look completely right until we were done. And she was totally right. 

The finished project was on the left -  Becky was demonstrating each step on the right.

Taking a break about halfway through.

Our finished projects! Mine is on the left.

It was a completely fun class, and I was so happy with my painting - mistakes and all! Megan and I are planning to do another once the Christmas schedule is posted.

Pin pin pinning

ITS TUESDAY AGAIN!!

We all know what that means!

Time for. . . 

I had a really hard time deciding on my favorites this week
Mainly because I have an unhealthy love. . .
of food
I pin a lot of food.

But here are my top 5 for this past week

 

From weheartit 

I absolutely adore this picture

I may need it for my future kitchen

But as I have posted before I am a huuuge tea fan,

in fact I am drinking some right now.

Pumpkin Scones

LOVE

It is fall, and I love to cook with pumpkin

What better recipe than a Pumpkin Scone?

 Recipe Courtesy of The Shoebox Kitchen

 Gnocchi

I have ALWAYS wanted to learn to make gnocchi

this is the EASIEST recipe I have found

not that I have made it yet ;-)

Recipe Courtesy of Handle The Heat

I am posting this one not because of its use or how it looks,

but for the fact that I love all the "uses" and "remakes" people are posting

for things to do with old baking sheets.

My favorite? Turning them into magnetic boards hanging on the walls.

I do love the colors of this one tho,

and of course because it is brought to you by none other than

Martha Stewart

And last but not least

By far my favorite book ever growing up

I still have my same copy of it at my moms house

Used, Abused, and Loved

Im Remembering

Much Love

-Heather

Miss Heather pins much more than I do - it takes me a few days to compile my favorites. :)

Today's theme is "Clearly I Need to Sew This Weekend."

First up is this cute iPhone sleeve. I am forever losing my case in my purse - I hope I can attach the key ring to my purse strap. Worth a shot at least! Tutorial at this link.

Next we have a hand towel tutorial. We have all kinds of towels around our kitchen - but they are always slipping off the towel bar or oven handle.

This blog has a ton of quilting tutorials - from how to cut your fabric all the way to the binding. Just in case my mom isn't answering her phone when I have a question. :)

These hairbows are super easy to make. I should put some in my etsy shop...

Confession. I have never knitted before. I have never had a desire to knit. Until I saw this hat. My (distant future) child MUST have one of these. New life goal.

And that's it for this week! -Mary

Crafting with the kids

I am a nanny, that is what I do full time, and it makes me wonder how people are stay at home moms.
I would neeeeed the time away that going to my full time job gave me.
This is all especially true, after spend two entire days with five children under the age of 8.
I have 3 that I nanny for.
A 10 month old boy, a 6 year old boy, and an 8 year old girl.
Next door is a 4 year old girl, and a 7 year old girl.
Oh how I wanted to rip my hair out by the end of friday.
The one thing I did manage to get everyone to behave calmly during,
CRAFTING!
We prepared this house for Halloween like it was our jobs.

 

Ellie and I made pumpkins out of coffee canisters

and we decorated the house with Bats that we drew and cut out

Then the 3 of us made the front door into a Frankenstein

which sparked a mass of "what other windows/doors can we put things in"

The entire house is Monsters.

This is Ben and Ellie

And their Frankenstein door

 Ghosts and Vampires!

Pumpkins and monsters

This is how we spent our 2 days off from School last week.

We also went to Powers Farm Market with the girls next door and their Aunt and Cousin

But alas I failed to get pictures, which sucks.

We got to feel the goats and the donkeys

Run through the tee pees, which are decked out on the inside with tons of Jack 'O Lanterns

Eat giant cookies covered in excess amounts of frosting

Get Apple Cider

Have a picnic lunch

And all in all, have some much needed fun and running around time.

Direct quote of the day;

Ellie "I keep feeding the same Donkey he wont go away"

Me "Ellie that is a goat"

This was one of the funnier moments of the day.

Then we all went home and cleaned up our messes, it was proximal to pulling teeth.

But we had lots of fun in those 2 days, and I greatly enjoyed my relaxing Sunday after it.

Hope everyone else has been having a blast!

Much Love

-Heather