Augustfifth

Vintage pretties.

I can't help myself  when it comes to vintage clothes and jewelry. My favorites are vintage brooches, beads, pearl clip-ons, old hats and wool peacoats. Last weekend, I bought three vintage hats from the 1930s for $10 and a box of vintage jewelry (including three different strands of real pearls!) for $5.00. That was also the same awesome sale I spent an additional $230 on Vintage Farm things. It took three truck loads to bring my treasures home that day. Mr. Keller was thrilled, as you can imagine.

{the Betty Draper}

Tuesday thoughts

It is Tuesday, my dears and strangely enough, I actually feel rested today, thanks to my wondrous soulmate who has let me sleep in five days in a row now. There isn't much I like better than sleep these days. And I know that I'm loved when Mr. Keller slips out at the first sound of waking children and shuts the door behind him.

Yesterday I went shirt shopping at the Goodwill and found four springy shirts for eight bucks. Not bad, but I may be starting to dress on the grandma-ish side of fashion. I'm twenty-six. Is that okay?

Sugar is ten months old today, that little fart. I think I'll find ten rolls on his fat little bottom and pinch-pinch-pinch them until he squeals. Gosh, I love that boy.

Grandma's funeral is on Monday and I'll have the honor of speaking at the service. I picked some grape hyacinths from my neighbor's yard and set out a few of her things that I have had tucked away for a while. I'm trying to remember everything so I can start writing it all down. Remembering things I haven't for a while makes me happy, then sad, then happy and sad. Then happy/sad. You know?

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."     

I love Emerson. Also, I wish I was still a girl.

Below:

Mr. Keller in pink and stripes? It was a handsome day.

My new/old shirts. Coral Polkadots, I know! 

For grandma

Happy ten months, you jolly little boy.

I went to D.I. and I cleaned house, son.

What $18.00 will buy you.....

{{{{ceramic canister with cute tin lid and milk glass knob: $2.00, cute vintage bottle: $1.00, vintage tin box (my favorite): $0.50, burlap: $1.00, two ceramic dishes: $0.50, large vintage bowl and lid (soup dish?) $4.00!!!!! shabby tin: $1.00, black goblets for halloween, baby, $2.00, three vintage necklaces: $6.00.}}}}

Yes, indeed. We came home happy.

did i mention this tin box was my favorite find? robin egg blue! so pretty!

Junk Store Shopping

Yesterday, Morgan and I made our thrift store rounds and found a few treasures.

The jars in the background are the Mason Ideal jars from 1908. I still can't get over them. I love them oh, so much! I mean really, a lot.

My favorite from yesterday is that adorable scalloped ceramic bowl. And, of course, that vintage pie tin.  

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And I've also fallen in love with peonies. These are from a lady's garden a few streets away. I picked them a week ago today and they are still gorgeous!

PS - I have this furniture set in my garage right now, (a custom job), just waiting to be sparkled and shined. If I had any sense, I would try to find a way to keep it for myself. Our client recently purchased it from the original owners who bought it in the late 1930's. If this isn't the sweetest thing I've seen in a while....I am in love with the mirror and dresser!

I Love The D.I. (Part Dos)

Here's our treasures

from this morning:

White Floral: $3.00

Hoop Basket: $0.50

Small cream pitcher: $0.50

Cream ceramic bowl: $0.75

Wooden Crate: $3.00 (I actually snagged this one at the D.I. in Boise last week!)

Vintage Wire Egg Basket: $2.00 (So excited about this one! It's identical to one I've been coveting for weeks at Vain and Vintage that is priced at $15.00.)

Cute teal pitcher I snagged at the TJ Maxx superstore in Boise.

And here are the vintage canisters from a few weeks ago. 

They were a $1.00 for the set.

Inside, they smelled sweet, like old chocolate, and the hardware had similarities with the hardware in my grandma dixon's kitchen! (I miss her house so much!) While the canisters were in desperate need a good scrubbing (and some paint), I kept picturing them coming from the home of an elderly lady that had kept them for most of her life. While I love a good vintage find, it always makes me a little sad thinking that the posterity of so many don't see the potential, the value, or the sentiment in things that are old. Some of the things I come across, I couldn't bare to let go of if they had come from my grandparents!

Remember the canisters before?    

and last, but not least, (and because this mother can hardly resist taking picture after picture of her little duckling):

Have a lovely Thursday!

I Love the D.I. (part one of one billion)

Vintage Canisters: $1.00 for the set

(imagine them cleaned up, if you will!)

2 yards of greenish/brown velvet: $1.50

Vintage beads: $0.50 each!

Leather purse: $1.00

More vintage beads: $1.00 each

Me sporting vintage beads.

PS: I'm in love with the color teal!

And a picture of the kitchen...

just so I can show you my collection of other recently found thrift store treasures (dishes, jars, bowls)...

and because I could never say enough how worth the time it was to paint the cupboards.

So, so, so worth it.

Daydreaming...

loving wire baskets these days.

love this one on etsy.

and galvanized tin!

did i tell you i scored two galvanized tin buckets at D.I. the other day

for $2.00 each?

i nearly kissed the store clerk when he priced them for me.

and i clapped and squealed all the way home.

I'm so living on a farm someday.

{picture via countryliving.com}