Awesome Garage Sale Finds! 8/18/2010

My neighbor across the street from me was setting up for her garage sale tomorrow.  A friend of theirs moved to Arizona so they gave them a bunch of stuff they could sale.  My other neighbor Carol who was helping Courtney setup came over and borrowed three tables I had.  They also used my handy dandy rack I had gotten at Goody's when they were going out of business for $5.00. Nearly everything in her sale was $1.00 or less. She did have quite a few over but the big majority was 1.00 and under. Plus we swapped my garage sale signs for some of her goodies she was putting out for the sale. 

Isn't this a beautiful little dish.  It's now sitting in my living room waiting to have candy put in it.  Green is my favorite color so when I saw this beauty I just had to have it!

This was also in the exchange.  When I first saw it I thought it would be a great planter, but I am holding off on it to see if I can think of some other use for it.

This was also in the exchange.  I needed it to finish out under my kitchen sink. I had some white liner but run out so was really excited when I got this. Sure it won't match, but who cares!  It's a place 99.9999% of the people who come to my house won't see and for those who do it will be no big deal to them!! OR ME!!

These were freebies!! One of my favorite things.  She gave me two bottles of the lotion and a pump for it!  As for the billfolds the one on bottom I got three of them. She thought my girls might want one of the bottom billfolds so that's why I have three!!

But then when I went to my Mom's to wash one day (awe it's terrible when your washer is broke and you have to leave home to wash especially when it feels like you're in hell when you go outside--awwww Oklahoma summers!) we went to a garage sale close to her house. I got these two awesome items.

I love the green jars.  They were only $2.00 for the set and the silverware holder, well that's what I made it into, was only $.50. 

Now wouldn't you say these were awesome deals!  Love when I find good deals like these.

Music and Jango.com

Hello, guess it's been a while. Too much going on (LOL)for me to write. Now for any of you who truly know me you will know that is not true!! I guess what it boils down to I don't have much to say or let's just face it my life at this point is rather BORING! That I believe is subject to change this year!!

I did find something by accident on the internet that I really enjoy. It's a website called jango.com. It's free!! One of my favorite things. It allows you to set up a station and pull over artists you really enjoy hearing. Did I ever have a fun time finding a bunch of the old songs I grew up listening to. One's such as Neil Diamond, Journey, Phil Collins, Eric Carmen, Michael Bolton, Mr. Mister, Chicago, The Righteous Bros just to name a few. My children would remember most of the ones I pulled over. The only problem with the whole deal is once you pull over an artist it plays any of their songs, so you have to mark each song as they play as ones you either dislike or like. That's o.k.!! It just means you get to hear songs you might not have heard before. Like the Eagles Waiting In The Weeds. It's a catchy tune, so I had to go look at the lyrics. They're not bad just about a guy who loves a woman who left him for some one else.

Even though I mostly listen to Christian music sometimes I like to go back and listen to some of the oldies that I enjoyed. Now I'm not saying if you looked on my media player all you would find is Christian. Nope, not true I have Enya, Andrea Bocelli, Kenny Rogers, Simon & Garfunkel,etc. You probably could say it's 1/2 and 1/2 at this point.

I believe God loves music of all kinds. I'm not saying He listens to the music that has cursing or telling you to kill, have affairs, etc, or anything contrary to who He is, but I believe God enjoys music since He is definitely the creator of it. And I bet He rocks to Skillet, Tobymac and Don Henley's "Heart of the Matter", or even Neil Diamond's new song "Pretty Amazing Grace", which by the way is a really good song. I mean I believe He (God) is the one's who utlitimately gives people thier lyrics! Well, not those of the cursing, go have an affair type songs. Those definintely come from the hell!!

There's lots of awesome music out there that is clean and great to listen to. Course my children and I differ on what I consider great and clean versus some of the stuff they listen to. (LOL) But that's just part of the differences between generations! I tend to lean toward what I consider love songs but for me I can bust out into some music that for my generation of growing up in the 70's and 80's would be considered rocky. I like some of the old Guess Who/Doors/Creme, etc. Although I will not allow myself to listen to them very much since that's not what I want to get down into the depths of me!!

The thing is it's usually the music that grabs me first and then I have to listen to the lyrics. At times the lyrics are trash and it just ruins the beauty of the music for me. Ah, what can I say it's the world we live in today that can take the beauty of a well written score and screw it up with trashy words, which ruins the whole thing!!

I'll stop here since you've heard some of what I feel regarding music. Maybe it's my age and all but thank you I will stick to music that's slow and easy to the ear!! HA HA!!!

Feel free to comment as I know my darling daughter probably will. LOVE YA KIM!! You're just the second greatest thing God gave me and I wouldn't trade you for anyone else!!

I think I am finished editing this for the third time so maybe I'll just leave it as is!!

All, have a very blessed week!

My Reupholstered Bench

What a wonderful March day we had here in Oklahoma. Of course, the wind was blowing as usual so I could not stay outside very long. I have a problem with allergies. Tried that last weekend and spent the rest of the weekend with my head stuffy, nose runny and generally just feeling crummy.

This weekend I picked up a bench I had reupholstered. I know it would have probably been just as cheap to go buy a new one but this one was solid and had good bones to it. See the pictures above. I think it turned out beautifully. Just ignore the bedspread. That is only temporary until I repaint my room. I have a beautiful one that will fit right into the jungle motif I am going for. When I picked up my bench I also bought 1/2 yard of other upholsetry material for my dressing table chair. It's enough to cover my dressing table chair and plenty left over to do a pillow for my bed. I think it turned out pretty good!

Right now I'm in the midst of working on another bedroom, but when it is completed I will start on the above room. I just wish I didn't have to work then I could do stuff every day to make my home look beautiful. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I enjoy each of my rooms. As I've been working on each room I have dowsized and put stuff in my shed or garage so I can have a garage sale this summer. I'm not a minimalist but I don't want a bunch of stuff around either. Well, it is getting late in the evening so guess I'll close this one down and say good night or good day to some who may live on the other side of the world!!