Little Vintage Pedestal Cake Plate I Made.

Okay, okay, so I went out junkin' again today! Ya can't keep a good chick down, ya know!! Now, for those of you who don't know my "story" (and I'm always good for a "story" for the women in my ebay group) we moved from 5,000 sq. ft. 12 room house on an acre to an 1800 sq. ft. house on a postage stamp yard about 3 years ago. When we moved here from California 15 years ago I shopped for an entire year buying things I thought we'd never see in Idaho. I was pretty much right with that one but we go back home to Calif. on a regular basis to see the kids.

Anyway, we were overwhelmed with "stuff"! I have sold or given enough away to furnish 3 houses, truly! I have "stuff" up in our "garage attic" that I have forgotten about. I have "stuff" in my cabinets I have forgotten about. Thus, I'm presenting a pedestal cake plate I made yesterday out of one of several plates of this lovely old vintage plate. Go over to my other blog, La Maison Rose, to see it if interested in buying it for a "great price"!!

And just you wait till I show you tomorrow what I got today! Whooooooohooooooo!!

I Went Junkin' Today!!!!

I decided to take a break today and go junkin' or shopping. I found a few little treasures and they sure are cute. This little hanging shoe that could hold a couple of flowers, a couple of candlesticks and a ring of "berries" I might use to make another pretty petal cake. The shoe was chipped but no matter; I'll give it a good and loving home!! :-) I give a "good and loving" home to a lot of stuff!! Just you ask hubby. He's my man!!

And what is it with candleholders that you can't find them any more except in flea markets and thrift stores?????? I thought I'd never find any again. I think it must be the trend of putting potpourri in pots or candle warmers. I do the same thing though. I'll go to Wal Mart and buy a little candle in a small holder and light it in the kitchen. I absolutely love Glade's Angel Whispers!! It is the most delicious fragrance I've smelled - outside of plumeria, of course. But Angel Whispers is a light delicate but definitely distinct fragrance I adore. You might try it next time you're at WM.

And while I was photographing the above items, I looked beside the area I have set up to do my photo shoots and saw this little drawer I snatched several years ago from a yard sale for 50¢ (!)....squeeeaaallllll as Jen says.......and painted it white. I haven't figured out just what I want to do with it yet but it was just sitting there and I've been sticking things in it that I'm putting on my other blog. It looked primed for a "photo shoot" so here it is. "Eye candy" for ya, chickees!

New Bird Bath and Water Fountain......

As Jenn would say....squeeeeeaaaalllllll!!!! Bright and early this morning I hauled hubs over to Lowe's and Home Depot to look at bird baths and he fell in love with a water fountain. Now, not to say his taste is bad but I didn't like his first choice (too rustic-looking for a shabby chic pink house) and there wasn't a big selection for what I considered a good deal. I did NOT want to pay $400 for a fountain so we compromised on this one for $169.00 plus our 10% discount for being military or retired military. (Hey, did all you ex-military or current military know you can get this discount at those two stores?!?! Yes, just show your military ID and you get it!)

Anyway, he installed it with my expert supervision, which he doesn't think he needs but I'm here to tell ya chicks he would never have gotten the flow of water right if I hadn't been there to nag.....uhhhhh "direct" him. They don't call me supervisor for nothin' ya know!! What do ya think???

I also took a shot of the back patio/yard area. We are retirees and don't want anything bigger than the yard we have so it isn't very big but we haven't - I haven't - finished with it yet. These things take time ya know. ;-) I'll be putting some curtains, sheers I think, at some point. But living in the high desert has its own unique problems with outside decorating in a style I loved before we moved here from California. I love bougainvilla and star jasmine (hope ours lives that we planted a few weeks ago), and the tropical kind of plants like that. Things that remind me of Calif. - orange and lemon trees. Ooooooooh, don't even get me started. But you can see the little bird bath for $55.00 plus the discount. I put some little glass pebbles in it so the birds could maybe stand on them. I think they'd like the sparkle!

Oh, don't forget the GiveAway further back in the posts of last week. Leave a comment on the La Maison Rose site to win something!!!! I am a very generous person, all your lovely chicks and you really don't want to miss one of my giveaways! Sometimes they're just spontaneous! Ya never know!!!!!! Hah

A "Rosey" Happy Fathers Day to All Men!

One more thing. I remember a poem on this father's day that I heard many years ago and I just cry and SOB every time I hear it again. Click to go there and read it from June of last year: Poem
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Happy Father's Day to all you fathers, grandfathers and future fathers. You're gonna love it, sweet men!
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Okay, I finished 6 little faux cupcakes yesterday and the day before. Hubby kept wondering what was keeping me so busy! But I just love them.......so cute for "eye candy" and we ALL know how I feel about "eye candy"!! And these I scented with Crabtree & Evelyn oil of roses and do they smell luscious, I tell ya.....uh huh!!! You should smell this house. I can only get her oils when I go to Seattle to visit with "gorgeous granddaughter" aka GGD or back to California to visit with daughter and son. So I hoard it passionately! Hah

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Oooooh and my Apple Mighty Mouse is working again! Dilemma solved. Now, as Ronda says, I can keep my $50 and spend it on yard sale finds or more roses of some sort for this house. Definitely my kinda chick!!

Are These Cute or What?!?!

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!!
Okay, all your blogging chicks out there, you'll understand this. I think I'm blogging too much. I know, I know! What?!?! You're saying about now. Yesssssss, I'm a bit concerned. For one thing my mouse is dying. It scrolls up but not down. I've tried everything to resurrect it but to no avail...... Sob....Sob.....Gotta run to the Apple store (not a real one in Boise, but one that sells Apple things.) I'll have to use the one on my laptop or one of the other computers we have here in this house until I can get there monday. Why do 2 senior citizens.......uuhhhh pardon me, "2 seasoned and talented and very young (!) adults", have 5 computers????

The other reason for concern about blogging is this. Ya know when you go to the blogs that have the captchas for security???? Ya know how the letters are at "random"???? Well, my sweet little chicks, I'm getting good at it. I can whip those letters out at such a rapid pace it'd make your sinuses blow out! Hoooooeeeeeey! I'm typing at something like 100 captchas a minute now!
Finished update..........!
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These are sooooo adorable, not because I made them but the fabrics are sooooo cute! They are now on La Maison Rose for sale. But just thought some of you would like to see more "eye candy." :-)