Vintage Finds | Two French Hens - Bingo Cards

I love some bingo

Not like my mom and auntie do

but it reminds me of my granny

and how I got to spend lots of

quality time with her

at the bingo hall

I love the blotters

but I imagine

that if I would have had these

really unique, reusable

very sustainable

bingo cards

from back in the day

Vnacouver, WA antique bingo card

I would still find my way

to the bingo hall today.

Two French Hens

is a great little store

right next door to my

fave thrift store of all times

It is in Burien

right next to the Salvation Army

They also have a nursery

right next door

That I think I may have to visit

this spring.

What are some of your fave antique markets?

Thankfully Small Thanksgiving - 2010

Ahhh.

The one day of the year

where we are commanded

to be thankful

for all the stuff we have

and people we love

and just general goodness.

I'm thankful

that we don't

have a houseful of people

at Thanksgiving

All the better for me

to cuss my Cowboys out

all day long

with no one hearing the awful words

that spew from my mouth.

Carry on.

Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm truly thankful

that you take time to stop by

and humor my humor

every now and again.

Growing on me

A while back

I asked ya'll if I should

or should not

paint this mirror black

 Dining Room Mirror Original

Overwhelmingly,

ya'll said heck yeah.

Which meant that really,

I'd just be doing what everyone else

thought was cool

(I mean, really, that's what it means)

And I would be (potentially)

throwing away a perfectly good mirror

if it didn't work out right

A perfectly good mirror that has some really

good

deep

sweet

history for us.

And so I thought to myself

"Self, it really isn't THAT bad is it?"

And you know what,

it is starting to grow on me

Once I got through the

"with gray and charcoal walls, everything must be nickel/satiny/silver"

phase

I really started to like the idea of maybe darker gray walls

and keeping the mirror gold

Especially with the mustard colored curtains in there now

and maybe some gray trim on the curtains

(which needs to happen anyhow because the curtains are too short)

I think it might really grow on me

Thanks for helping me to see the light

I'm going to procrastinate hold off a little longer

and see if it really grows on me

Usually | My House

So

Most of the folks who follow this here blog

Are people who have actually been to my house

And met my puppymutt Ashley

And seen my house....uhhmmm...

"fully staged"

You know, for guests.

For photos.

For the heck of it.

But when they put two and two together, they're curious how we really live.

Let me show you

Main landing

Given that my chair/nook

are right in front of her fave window

the one she always spends the day at

to the point that neighbors walking their kids

past our house

are often overheard saying

"look, up there...see the puppy?"

First, I would come home to the chair tossed to the side

so that she could get to said window

Then she started exploring my fave world

(you remember the cool knickknacks nook post right)

with her little puppy paws and puppy teeth

And I had to remove all said coolness

to the bathroom

That we never use

Sigh.

How do you live when the camera and the blog

are not on?

On Deck | Scrap Room in a box

No,

it isn't like we don't have a ton of space

for a real sized scrap room

But the reality is that I do most of my scrapbooking

online

And, the more space I have, the more "stuff"

I acquire

So I'm going to relinquish the biggest guest bedroom

so that it can be a guest bedroom again

I'm going to organize my computer desk in the office

So that that can be an office again

And I'm going to squeeze all my "hobbies"

into a this closet

Scrap Closet before

Using pretty much the furniture already in there

and these shelves that I got off of Freecycle

(aka, for free - well, if you don't count the 97 tears

8 gallons of sweat and full tank of patience)

Freecycle shelves for scrap nook

I estimate that this project will only take me

half of forever

to even get started

There's the small matter that I cannot GET to said closet

because there is a whole bunch of baggage in the way

Physical and emotional

Drama

Design Around: Creamy White

Now we all know

the home bloggity world

is abuzz around all things

white

But not just white

The right KIND of white

Which, in this place is a challenge. 

I love the warm creamy white

that is my trim color

throughout most of the house

Especially against all the grays

(which, evidently, help the naturescape)

and the polished silver.

But downstairs

in the bloodroom,

I mean the red rooms

I'm trying to design a nautical

and/or beachy small bathroom

around these creamy whites

Beachy dreams, lower floor bathroom

I think I can make it happen.

Even though this room is right around the corner

from this

Lower Floor Mantle

I'm going to make that tomato soup happen

Believe that.

Around Pinehurst - November (Nautically Not)

I think the only thing

that maybe would have been worse

than the red walls we have downstairs

would have been orange walls

at least for 11 months out of the year

Christmas walls all year long - Lower level, Pinehurst

I really wanted to go with

a nautical theme down here

I've resigned myself to the fact

that wooden boats are nautical enough

wooden boats can stand a little red

and if I really want to go seaside

I'm going to have to do what I swore

I would never do again

Paint some walls

President's Weekend 2008

memories that just won't go away

my bones start creaking and aching

just thinking about those three

long

miserable

days

Happy November!