Distressed Donna Down Home: November 2015

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Quickies

Yes, Quickies are back!

I have been working hard to complete unfinished projects left and right.

Also up and down and side to side and every which way.

Remember my found-that-way Jack O'Lantern buckets?

Well, they have outlived their purpose.

It took two coats to cover all that orange with a nice burgundy.

Grabbed this cute image of foxes sledding on a log from The Graphics Fairy.

Mod Podged.

Varnished.

And added the two foxy buckets to a Christmas vignette in the booth.

Gold candle sconces.

Now Navajo White.

A very old luggage rack with a missing strap.

The remaining one dry-rotted.

I loved the color - a pinkish tan with a crackled finish.

Just needed cleaning.

Stapled on new green and tan jute webbing.

Buckets? Done!

Sconces? Done!

Luggage rack? Done!

Back to work.

See y'all!

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Thanksgiving At The Lake

A relaxing Thanksgiving at the lake with family.

The first look at lake.

My brother brings his trailer down to the campground for us to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Olivia with her morning coffee.

A cool, but tolerable day - started in the forties and rose into the upper sixties.

Grandma Jo and Olivia.

Chucks and I in our official turkey outfits.

Salmon smoking on the grill.

(My brother is a heck of a good cook!)

A plate of macaroni, mixed veggies, and the salmon.

We like to walk the beach to find animal tracks.

A small deer with a larger one.

Ferris, me, and Olivia.

Dancing around the old fire pit.

One last walk down the beach and it is back to civilization.

And thrift shops!

See y'all!

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Friday, November 27, 2015

Friday Finds

I am back.

I had to take a brief break.

I missed everyone.

Here is a tiny peek at a few finds.

I found several boxes of old books including the Our Little Folks.

I love stove pipe covers.

Especially the snow scenes.

Probably part of my Christmas decor until I sell it.

I went to an estate sale and found dealer friends I had not seen in years.

We talked so much I only bought a few things.

The prize was this altar candelabra.

I did not realize churches were not allowed to have real candles burning.

At least not around here.

So there is many around, but this one caught my fancy.

It is old wrought iron.

Deliciously curly feet.

Once white, then black and now antique gold.

I started to distressed it with white.

But decide it was quite elegant like it was.

Now in Booth W-10 at Riverfront Antique Mall.

We are expecting huge crowds today so get there early.

Now the question: Did I really restrain myself and only buy these few items?

Oh, my, just how long have you been reading my Friday Finds posts?

See y'all!

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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving!

Some quotes for you to use while entertaining.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell

So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet

Thanks to:

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Friday, November 13, 2015

Friday Finds

Just a few finds - still sticking with my resolve to find items for a quick turnaround.

A gnome with a carrot to sit under your Christmas tree.

Really it was the first thing I thought when I spied him.

Another Brown Bag cookie mold.

I plan to list several on Etsy.

An Irish cream pitcher with delightful brown crazing.

I found bunches of old photos this past week.

Two small gold frames.

This photo album - so brittle it fell into pieces when I took the rubber bands off it.

The first page is a drawing of their new home.

Lots of photos of couples - these in front of military barracks.

I love group photos.

Dated 1940 but not sure what club.

At Riverfront I found a bag of old photos.

Many children.

Two of my favorites.

The baby is so bundled she can hardly sit in the chair much less bend her knees.

This family photo reminds me of my grandparents' family photos - oodles of children!

Most of this bunch had been removed from an album, and some person carefully typed whatever information she could find about the people in the photo.

See how the black of the album page has remained where the glue was applied?

I have had some success gently sanding with extra fine paper or sponge to remove the black.

A sturdy industrial look desk.

An English toffee tin.

A lovely round biscuit tin.

It is a Nabisco tin from South America - made in Mexico.

It will be on Etsy soon.

I have a request from an Etsy customer to find cricket boxes.

I found several last week and a few more this week.

I dumped the flowers from this one.

(Thanks, Pamn!)

The customer is looking for the biggest one I can find. With my friend Judy at Riverfront Antique Mall this behemoth of a cricket box will be going on Etsy if the customer does not approve.

It has lost its feet.

But the huge size makes up for that.