sometimes no just doesn't make sense to me

but, I've been know to do a lot of things that don't make sense to me, much less to anyone else

This soda shop table and chairs just spoke to me the moment I saw it.  $35.00.  Yes please.

I could so easily invision my three little grandgirls playing around it.  I might clean it up a bit, and maybe recover the seat bottoms, and maybe try to push it off on my DIL, but for now, it is on my back porch looking so sweet and cute .... and waiting for someone to come over and play

Thrifty Treasures

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a few Saturday mornings ago

 first up .... this lovely french chest that I found at an estate sale 

A great candidate for a make-over  - she is clean as a pin and in great shape

 I just knew my bestie would probably love to add this piece to her french collection

I picked this up at my favorite antique store in Slayden, Mississippi

I can't decide if I should paint it or refinish it.  I think I like the dark wood 

this would be easy to sand down and put a couple of coats of stain on it  

for $1.00 - I couldn't resist

and a buck for these flip-flops ...  they have already served me well

more on that left foot soon... brace yourself ... the pics are ugly scary

good luck "sailing"  this Saturday!
I am posting this to Rhoda's Thrifty Treasures party - check it out and see what others are finding

we went back

I have to show you the BLT we ate at The Tomato Place 

 and a little more funkadelic I noticed while we waited on our sandwich and fresh fruit smoothy

 I wasn't sure what to order, so I asked an ole man sitting around killing time, what was good?

Without hesitation, he said the BLT.  I wish I had taken his picture.  Features that stuck with me are that he was old, a little heavy, bald, smiling, and a toothpick.  You get the idea...  But, I felt silly asking him.  

However, after spending about 10 minutes with the man, I silently wondered if we would be eating our sandwich with him.   I should have just asked him.  He was a perfect live fixture to this joint.

This was the BLT club and it was so delicious

But, I love tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches, and bacon is a bonus

we stopped by after a hard rain storm and sat in the back of the place

windows open, cool breeze blowing through, Jeff across the table from me

yes please!

okay, enough about this place... hope you find your own little road side stand this summer

or at least fry up a pound of bacon and make BLT's for supper one night soon

xxoo

The Tomato Place

I will make a u-turn in the road for a roadside fruit stand  ... and "The Tomato Place" did not disappoint.  Jeff is working in Vicksburg, MS, and I motored down last Friday and spent the weekend with him there.  

this little place was listed in the local newspaper as a site to see - fresh produce, boiled peanuts, fresh lemonade, and fresh fruit smoothies.  We got a strawberry/banana smoothie that was so delicious

it was warm and sunny outside and bright and cheery inside

a wall of homemade marmalade

I wondered if these pecans were left over from the fall harvest?

peanut butter and banana anyone?  Occasionally they have live music - and you can eat a simple lunch or "get a bite to eat" as so often said in the south 

a shout out to my Ole Miss buddies

I think this is a Martin birdhouse.  One of those you would put on a pole up high in the air

it starts getting good for me when the funky and unexpected is just hanging around 

it was a cozy little place that had a radio playing in the back and was certainly worth the short ride over from our hotel ...  next time I want to eat a tomato sandwich, and corn on the cob.

Good times in Virginia

Amzie is a 1st grader this year, and wears these pink and brown converse shoes

Camryn loves to be outside, and loves her daddy

  

but she is crazy in love with her mama!

Marlena is adorable pregnant ... almost 6 months along here

We had lunch with Amzie at school

Evan goes to Kindergarden next year ... he sure looked small next to those 1st graders

Now I need to work on getting over to California to see my girl!

This little chest of mine

do you have things in your home that you don't really know what do with, or even what its intended purpose is?  But because it once belonged to someone dear to your heart --- you have carried it around with you from place to place --- until one day - you finally get the nerve to make it yours. 

 I did it.  

I painted this little chest of mine.

looking at the before picture probably makes you think why did you wait?

It really didn't look this bad to me, but maybe because this was my grandmothers little chest that sat between her chair and my granddaddy's chair, I thought it was pretty special. 

I've decided that if I have a little ASCP around the house, next to nothing is too sacred for a paint job. 

I used Paris Grey and Old White 

little bit of distressing

clear wax and dark wax

these are the original porcelain knobs

  

I won the Owl at Bunco

I think I won the Traveling Prize

my grandmothers' name was Murty Mae

her friends and family called her Murt or Murty

me and my brothers called her Baby

I think Baby would be just fine with this little chest of mine

Linking up to Kim's WOW party

check it out - - you won't believe it - - I was featured last week!

xxoo

we did it again...

a lamp shade, guts or light works from a brassy pendent light, spray paint, and my personal electrican = this DandyShandy Pendant light

I love it.  And you can get it here

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