Happy Easter Weekend

I snuck away last night to do some Easter shopping for the littles. I also brought home some pretty pink tulips for our Easter table this weekend. (They are beautiful!) This morning we've been doing laundry and sprucing up the house with our spring decorations. Perhaps the biggest blessing of all is that the sunshine is still high in the sky and the air is so warm. This morning, Mr. Keller declared it feels like summer. Of course, we're hesitant until June. Still, it's coming.

This weekend, we'll be dyeing hard boiled eggs and watching a new Franklin Easter movie and Sunday, we're having scalloped potatoes and carrot cake. This is one of my favorite times of the year and it always makes me think of all of my grandmas - grandma tilley, grandma glenna and of course grandma dixon. It's such a feminine holiday. I'm even wearing an apron today.

Of course, I'm so ultimately grateful for my brother and Savior, Jesus Christ; for his atoning sacrifice and for the extending promise of the Resurrection, which is cause for greatest celebration. Here's to a lovely Easter weekend. 

Xoxo.

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And now, some springy pictures for you.

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Hey look, I got dressed. (My sweats were in the wash.)

Also, I became a mall kid and got a smart phone. Weeeeee.

Dreams being realized here...I'm finally the proud owner of a vintage dress form. Love.

Vintage quilt! I'm still so swooning over this flea market find from last weekend.

And the rest are things we set out this morning....Happy weekend!

Treasure

Look what Mr. Keller brought back from the lonely hunting fields! He said it was partially buried in the ground and he just had to bring it home to me! Right now it's in the front yard, but I think it will eventually make a beautiful headboard. Especially if I paint it a dark rusty teal color.

Now if only he'd come home with what he really set out to find....a nice set of antlers.

Love, love, love.

Well, here she is. My favorite score from my trip last week. I wrote about it here, and then told the story here.

But I wanted to tell it here too.

My mom and I went shopping sans child on Saturday afternoon. We went to St. Vincent De Paul's thrift store in Caldwell so I could see if I could find anything for VF Interiors. I scoped the little store out and on our way out the front door, I noticed the cutest little basket I had ever seen. Right away, I went to track down someone who could tell me the price, since it wasn't listed. Much to my dismay, the manager told me that he had had women trying to buy this cart for four years, but that it wasn't for sale. He needed it for displaying things. I asked him to reconsider, then we walked away empty handed. Twenty minutes down the road, I couldn't stop thinking about it. I called him up and asked if I found something else for him to use as a display, if he would think about selling me the cart he was using now. He said it depended what it was, but that he'd be willing to take a look, so I went and bought a shelf at D.I. and we turned around and went back. My mother thought I was ridiculous, but she's the best sport around. After a little coaxing and batting my eyes a few times, my mother said I charmed my way to victory and the cart was mine! I was beaming for the rest of the day!

I passed out my card and promised Manager Mike I would feature it on my website! So, MM, here you go! I cannot tell you how much this little basket speaks to me. I love it so. Don't you too?
I know you do!\

 

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.