Thrift Store Finds and Garden Pics

Hello!!! I felt the need to hit the thrift store today and I'm glad I did!!! I found the cutest hand painted daisy picture for $3, a salt shaker for 29 cents and a milk glass sugar and creamer set for 58 cents. They are all so cute! I had been striking out the last few times I had gone thrifting but had fun today!

Everything all together.

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A close-up of the daisy print. I may spray paint the frame black.

An even closer shot so you can see the painting detail.
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The salt shaker has a plastic yellow top and the glass is greenish, it says China on the bottom. I thought it would be cute filled with white and yellow buttons. :-)

A close-up of the the cream and sugar set. They are rimmed in gold. I'm not usually a gold person but I really do like these!

Here is a picture of how the garden is coming along...you can mostly see the pumpkin plants. I will have to take a pic of the other side soon!

There are 6 pumpkin plants and it looks like we will have a good number of

pumpkins again this year.

Ok, I am off to craft. I have some things to make for the Berry Swap. Hope you're all having a great day!

Hugs!

Kim

A Winner and My Week Away

Morning!!!! Thank you to all who entered my giveaway and for sticking with me this past year through my blog fogs and all!!! I love hearing from all of you!!! The WINNER of my giveaway is....DAWN of Dawn's Daybreak!!!! Email (dkccv@comcast.net) me your address Dawn and the bag will be on it's way! CONGRATULATIONS DAWN!!!!

This last week I got to get away with hubby whom I don't see very often! I have a photo week in review...

Emma and Cocoa sound asleep on the drive to our Chicago apartment. Poor Cocoa was really sick again but she is doing much better now!

This is my favorite restaurant when we head downtown! Yummy food and it's beautiful inside!

The pretty colored walls and lighting inside Uncle Julio's. I forgot to take a picture of the food...I was sooo hungry!

Heading towards Michigan Ave. Sooo many tall buildings!

Love all the architecture downtown!

This a photo of the first apartment we had. Hubby's boss was renting this pretty place and he was transferred back to Switzerland so his company took over the lease and let us rent it VERY inexpensively. We had the penthouse with a roof top patio! It was so cool...OH THE VIEW!!! Wish I had pictures!!!

We ended our week in Caseville, MI. We mostly relaxed and did some metal detecting. I found 28 cents and some polished glass, my parents found 89 cents and a kid's mood ring. We don't mind what we find...it's really relaxing. The weather was perfect and the dogs had a blast too!

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Hope you all had a marvelous long weekend too!!!! Next up....pictures of the garden! I will be taking pics today! Have a great day!!!!

Hugs!

Kim

The Giveaway!!!

Hello!!! Here it is finally!!! I found some really cool looking bags that you take with you to the grocery store and KNEW they'd look so cute with yo-yo's, OF COURSE!!! I hope you like it too!!!

Leave a comment and I'll draw a winner on July 5! I know it's a long time but I will be in and out a lot that week.

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Have a great weekend and a big thank you to those who have stuck with me through my blog~fog!

Hugs!

Kim

Garden

Hello! Just a quick update! The giveaway is coming along, slowly! Emma just doesn't seem to understand that those things belong to Mom and wants to whisk them away!

My garden is coming along slowly, too! The crazy weather has slowed the process. I just came up from the garden and saw PUMPKIN blossom buds!!! Woohoo! Things are picking up the pace!

I will have new pics soon...and that giveaway will happen hopefully sooner rather than later! It WILL be worth the wait! PROMISE!!!

Have a great day!
Hugs!
Kim

Oops...almost forgot! Giveaway approaching!

Hello!!! I almost forgot my blogaversary which was 6 days ago!!! OOPS!!! Stay tuned for a giveaway! I must get cracking! Think GREEN and YO-YOS!!!! A very good combination!!!

Have a wonderful day everyone! It's gloomy here but I have laundry and cleaning to do any way.

Hugs!
Kim

Flea Market Finds

Well, we finally had a nice day for the flea market! It didn't start out nice, it was cloudy, windy and chilly BUT the weathermen promised a nice day. So, off I went! I did pretty well this trip. I have 2 pictures up with more to come. I found 2 old school chairs to spray paint for a little "secret garden-ish" area in my front courtyard. They were only $1 each! SOLD to ME!!! I will take before and afters of those. Then I went on the hunt for a bubble gum machine for hubby's office. SCORE!!! I found a brand new King Carnival gumball machine for $15 and came home to check the original price $49!!! Not bad!!! That will be his Father's Day gift and since I found the machine so inexpensively I ordered him the antique-look pedestal stand for it. :-) I will post pics of those after Father's Day. When I found everything I had gone to find...I decided to look for things that I just plain old liked! Here they are....

Skeleton Keys to hang from some pretty vintage ribbon....$2!!!!

Clip-on pearl-like earrings...50 cents (one has been repaired but that's ok they're just for crafting). Aren't they sweet?

I am excited to go back again! There were so many vendors and they had really nice stuff! In other news, the pumpkins are starting to really get going on growing. Amazing what some warm weather will do! Emma has been having pee accidents in her crate since her spaying. I hope that resolves itself soon!

Hope all is well with you all!!! Have a great day!

Hugs!

Kim

Catching Up

Hello! Yep, I'm still around. I've been having blogger block or just plain old lack of motivation! Let me catch you up a bit...

This is Emma over Memorial Weekend. She got so pooped out up north, she slept most of the next day! Yesterday, she got spayed. She's doing really, really well. She's my happy go-lucky baby girl!

A shot of Cocoa and Emma. Cocoa is 5 1/2 months post-op and still here! She was only expected to be here until around February 2009! We are very happy to still have her with us, Emma is too!

Our garden has been planted! The plants are all starting to get going. Unfortunately, we had frost this morning! It's June 5th...seriously what's up with the frost??? BUT it appears all plants survived!

Some pretty alliums (I believe) from my mom's garden in Caseville, MI.

A very pretty view over Comerica Park. That was a pretty sunset!

A view of Downtown Detroit. I hope the economy improves for us all! GM is very important to our area!

I will take more photos this weekend so you can see how the garden has grown! I always hope to feel crafty soon! I'm in such a craft/blog funk! Does this happen to you???

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Hugs! I've missed you!

Kim