Horsetrading, Thrifting, and Fiddling

I have been horse trading again. 

I traded my friend a little chippy blue shelf for this chippy bust and vintage frame.

 Horsetrading at it's finest.

Chippy for chippy.

She had painted the old frame white and that worked for me.

These mini teapots under glass make me feel six years old again.

Joe and I have been shopping all over the place to restock my inventory at the three consignment stores I sell at and we found these vintage watercolors above behind the fern. I am fiddling with the pair of them in the hearth at present. Not selling them right now. Perhaps another post on these later.

This is my second vintage clock and it does not work. 

It was one dollar at a garage sale.

I would like to amass a whole shelf of them.

The next two weeks at the yellow house are going to be busy as we are going to host ten Teenagers from our church for the entire weekend of March 2-4. I need to get going and clean the upstairs where they will be sleeping, on the floor and any place they can find. We are providing breakfast and our small group is providing supper. They will be at meetings during the day. We think this will be fun. We bought this house to share it with our family and others and this is one way to do that.


Linking with:  Nifty Thrifty Tuesday's

joy and peace

Olive

~~kitchen island~~

We have been looking for a long narrow piece of vintage furniture

 for our small kitchen. At every estate sale, garage sale, and consignment store I keep my eyes peeled for any unconventional piece that might possibly work.

Last week I was talking to one of my friends at a consignment store for about an hour before I saw it and then I realized this was the one.

 

 

It came from an old house and is old and quite humble. 

The price was excellent at fifty dollars.

Nothing fancy needed in this little working kitchen.

 We like pieces with history and a story.

The top is made of two pieces of wood and someone later added the veneer. 

The legs are a sort of catty wampus but I think that adds to it's charm. Joe at first said it looked "rickety" but it has grown on him although we just placed it in the room last night.

 In the middle of the kitchen and the dining room sits the enormous bar. 

It is not part of the work triangle and I plan to use the island to improve the efficiency of the kitchen.

 That bell pepper is about to be in our salad. 

Don't you love Clovis's cat bowl's?

Linking with:

 Table Top Tuesday

Wow Us Wednesday 

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

Unexpected

 One should always expect the unexpected.

The freezing temperatures last weekend have knocked back the blooming flowers, our lily of the valley, daffodils, and camellias are all burned by that freeze.

The lily of the valley and purple vinca vine are in the back yard at our old house.

 The ghost plant was thriving in a strawberry jar and was toppled over and smashed 

 to bits but is still managing.

You cannot kill a ghost plant.

When I arrived at our yellow house yesterday there was no heat.

 The heat pump was trying to come on but was not working. We have a friend and neighbor who knows the person to call for every thing and sure enough she had a heat and air man who was related to her son in law. He was here fifteen minutes after I spoke to him, on my cell, and repaired the heat pump quickly for a very reasonable fee. 

Of course we can always heat with wood in the wood stove and we do that often but we need the central system to work.

That was unexpected.

It is good to know people who "know" people.

Any unexpected happenings going on with you?

joy and peace

Olive 

Color Engraving

Another tabletop at the old house.

A milk glass bowl and some pictures of CC and other bits 

all put into the color engraving filter by Photoscape.

CC as the the bee looks like a cartoon character above.

The silver rattle is CC's baby rattle and the pink box with the lid askew

 was made for me by my big sister in the 1970's.

I am traveling today, with Clovis, to our yellow house for the long weekend

 where Joe will join me on Friday.

Linking with: Wow Us Wednesdays

joy and peace

Olive