Showing posts with label Vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vintage. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2011

'Tis the Season....

We spent the weekend celebrating the Christmas season.
We started with our Church Christmas banquet and finished with Mr. D's work Christmas party.  

The Girl was a champ.  
Taking in all the festivities.  
Unfortunately, Sunday morning she had her little seal cough back.  
We spent the day nursing her back to health and hope she is back to normal ASAP. 

Next weekend is a busy as this weekend was.   
No time for sickness.

This year I helped with the decor for the banquet.  It's always a fun time to get in the Christmas spirit and spend time with some other great women in our church.  I'm not going to lie, I enjoy the lead up as much as the actual event.  The decorations for the banquet are always tricky.  We have next to nothing for our budget and a large naked room to work with.  The theme was "Old Fashion Christmas" so the tables were decorated with lanterns from IKEA, burlap, glittered pine cones, red ornaments and gingerbread men at every place.  





To go with the "Old Fashion Christmas" theme we strung popcorn strings on the tree.  This was a fun project.  We got a bunch of women around a table with Christmas carols, treats and lots of chatting!


My friend even convinced her husband to make a snow globe...that's right a snow globe!  This man is every DIY'ers dream!  They saw something similar at another Christmas event they were at, next thing you know he's building a better version for his wife.  Isn't it amazing?  


We also painted a winter scene (by we, I mean, I painted a few trees and the yellow windows...another one of my friends was the master mind behind this...I was impressed)  It was the perfect background for families to take pictures.  There was also a fake tree and a life size frosty made of newspaper and a white blanket.  


Here's a view with the shoes and Frosty!





Monday, June 27, 2011

Free-Sale

Last weekend I attended one of my favourite bloggers garage sales.  Since I love her style I figured I would probably love her junk as well.  Her and her Mom gathered their stuff and set up shop.  They were lucky enough to have a beautiful day as well as take advantage of all the buyers attending a sale next door too.  I was right, I did love her junk.  While visiting her sale I picked up a few things, and the best part...they were FREE!  Apparently my money was no good at their sale.  Family doesn't let family pay for each others junk!

I grabbed this cute frame.  It has a scratch on it, but thanks to my new love of spray paint I see no need to buy new frames.  There is nothing a good coat of spray paint can't fix, not to mention the benefits of up-cycling!


I also picked up this awesome vintage suitcase.  I have no idea what I am going to do with it.  I want to do like 20 things with it.  Hare Styling and I were trying to decide what the best use of this awesome "vintage" case would be, when my Aunt piped in, "It's not that old I got it for my honeymoon!"


It's not that old but I still love the look of it!  Some great finds if you as me.  Now I just have to decide what I want to do with them!