A typical Saturday morning in this distressed household. Chucks is having terrible allergy symptoms and I have tremendous jaw pain from dental work. He decided to go back to bed and I went off to find a nice soft omelet for breakfast.
After enjoying real food I drove around the corner to an annual church sale where they always have neat things.
All the furniture was outside. I spied this wicker desk in a beautiful blue-gray color, but hesitated. The top was sponge painted black and gray and I do not need or want another project.
The guy in charge said he could change my mind. Everything just went to half price. Well, yes, that did change my mind. I told him to start a pile.
I had to go back and forth between the inside of the fellowship hall and the parking lot, but finally gathered a decent pile.
-Embroidery hoops
-Santa elves
-Pair of leaded glass etched jars
-Money box
-Pair of Salina (not sure of the spelling here. I was not wearing my glasses.) small casserole bowls with that atomic turquoise and gold design
These three aprons were a great find. They have paper tags stating they were a premium (gift with purchase) from Swift Meats.
I do not remember an elephant being the mascot for Swift Meats. I plan to look it up.
The elephants appear to be dancing around with the different meat products.
One apron is stained and the other two in good condition.
Love the red, white, and blue graphics.
Dancing with luncheon meat and a hot dog advertising Smokies.
Are elephants really a good mascot for meat products?
I do not know what "cervelat" is, but the elephant in the back is happy about it.
Could these be Canadian?
Here are more products - Jumbolo Premium Franks and braunschweiger. (Not a clue about these either!)
If any of you remember these, please let me know.
Enough about the elephants - on to other things.
A child's small Sunday School chair was sitting all alone. Last year I had bought thirty of these from this sale. I did not know I left any behind! Love that bentwood back and the missing dowel does not matter to me.
I bought seven hymnals just because I love old hymnals. These were various editions of Broadman's. If you are Baptist, you probably used these.
Someone had made blue velvet covers for the ones used in the choir. They even added silk ribbons for bookmarking the pages.
I have been collecting a few of these metal file cabinets for storing craft supplies.
I cannot decide to paint them or not because in the future I do believe these will be antique collectibles. For the time being I am cleaning and waxing it to see how it looks.
As I was packing everything in the Blazer, the guy helping (by encouraging me to buy more!) asked if I saw the door beside the shed.
Why, no, I had not found a door.
Where, oh, where could that door be?
I missed that bright green door!?!
A door made of heart pine, paneled, and weighing a ton!?!
A door already distressed!?!
A door that turned to show me its backside!?!
A backside with wonderfully chippy, shabby white paint over the heart pine!?!
And wait . . .
What was that?
A beautiful summer sky blue under the white paint!
Yes, this was going home with me.
Of course, the slight problem was I had packed the Blazer to take several items over to the antiques mall and never made it there.
The men assured me they could get everything in the truck.
Now ladies out there, you know this is a fact. Men cannot pack a truck. They waste valuable space. They lean things that should not be leant (?). So I mustered my courage and told them I would direct. The door fit at a diagonal with the file cabinet and boxes on the front seat. The wicker desk sat regally on the tailgate tied securely with the telephone cable I carry for that purpose. We all made it home in time for the Carolina football game and our Saturday BBQ and sweet tea.
Life would be great if my jaw did not hurt and Chucks would stop that annoying sneezing and coughing.
See y'all!
On a serious side note: To those of you in the path of Hurricane Sandy, my thoughts are with you and please be safe!
NEW NEWS: CERVELAT IS A SAUSAGE POPULAR IN SWITZERLAND AND GERMANY. THE APRONS ARE FROM THE 1950'S AND GIVEN AWAY AS PREMIUMS.
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I do realize that it is late October and most of you have move on towards Christmas. I am slow - I like to enjoy each season. The calendar here may have read October, but it was more like August.
So I enjoyed my spring/summer mantel with just a few adjustments until last week when I dragged out the bins of fall decorations.
And I created this. (See photo left.)
From this (See photo right.)
Now do not start to judge my housekeeping skills. Well, actually you can - they are practically non-existent!
I spy with my little eye: a bag of Hobby Lobby stuff, paper towels, old hymnals, fabric scraps, and paper. And that is just on that small vanity.
This is the den wall. I have not forgotten about the dining room reveal, but I had to put up these fall decorations to get them out of the dining room.
This is the back side of our fireplace. We put the cherry mantel up and added a cherry firescreen that you can see if you squint hard enough. Then an ornate iron gate was placed in front of that. Next the small vanity and stool were put into place.
I am all for layering in clothing and in my decor. If there is a flat wall somewhere, there needs to be at least five different layers of things on that wall and maybe more - maybe a lot more. Now many of you subscribe to this theory. I know because I have seen with my little spy eye the layers you add.
Okay, off the soapbox and back to the mantel.
You will be happy to know everything was removed from this area and there was a great flurry of dusting, vacuuming, mopping, polishing, and packing away.
I even vacuumed the brick!
I will leave this stuff up until the day after Thanksgiving when it will be replaced by Christmas stuff.
Gourd pumpkins - check
Box of cookie cutters - check
Fake fall bower attached to the gate - check
Piece of vintage lace - check
The small vanity is complete.
Tool caddy turned on its side - check
Two fake vintage cat candy holders - check
One clay pumpkin - check
One $1 raven - check
Left side of the mantel is complete.
White iron cat - check
Green mirror - check
Pumpkins sign (painted by me on a shutter slat) - check
Faded silk leaves - check
Center of mantel is complete.
Metal pumpkin with a $1 raven - check
Goblin dressed as a cat - check
Another mirror losing its glaze - check
Faded silk leaves - check
(I seem to have a lot of these faded silk leaves. I think some will be making the trip to Goodwill soon!)
Right side of the mantel is complete.
Large grapevine wreath over the mirror - check
"I'd turn back if I were you!" pillow - check
This pillow was a gift - was that person (you know who you are) trying to tell me something?
$1 raven - check
Top of mantel is complete.
One witch riding a propeller-driven broom - check
More faded silk leaves - check
(Yes, they are definitely making that farewell trip.)
Top of the tool caddy is complete.
Any more fall decorations - NO!!!
There are a few in the dining room you have not seen yet. I will reveal soon -there seems to be a traffic jam occurring with the supplies all going to their proper spaces.
I wish to thank all of you who were kind enough to care about the feather pillows I bought at an estate sale. If you remember correctly, I was going to toss the feathers and clean the tickings because those were what I wanted anyway. See pillow pile here.
BUT NO! There were a few of you who sent suggestions of potions and special brews that would assure the smell would disappear. I decided to try it.
I chose three pillows and tugged at the seams - all secure. I gathered several bottles and jars of different cleaning products and mixed with warm water in the washer.
I gently placed the pillows in the water on the delicate cycle. When I went back to add another freshener to the rinse water, WHAT DO I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE!?!
Let me tell you. My washer looked as if the entire cast of The Birds had died in there and it smelled like it too!
I am too short to reach the bottom of the washer so Chucks earned some major points today for patiently getting all the feathers out. All he said was, "You know not to trust what you read on the Internet!"
Does he not know I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO GIVE ADVICE ON THE INTERNET!?!
So, I am apologizing now for past and future problems I have caused you with my distressing tips.
And I promise I will not come after the feather pillow savers!
See y'all!
PARTY JUNK #207 AT FUNKY JUNK!
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