Fun at the Junk Sister's Show

Every year Janae and I look forward to the Junk Sister's Show when it comes to Hillsboro, Oregon. I sometimes think I would like to have a booth at the show--but actually that would be work, and I don't want to miss out on the fun!

This lighted sign was hanging when we first entered the show and it is pretty appropriate because I loved everything at the show!

I took a bunch of photos so I thought I would share for those who didn't get to go.

I have never seen so many pretty chairs in one place. I just love a pretty chair. It was pretty hard to resist them! How many chairs can one person own?

My blogger friend Denise from Pink Postcard always has a beautiful booth. I always like to paint my own pieces for my home but I really wanted to buy this dresser she had painted in milk paint.

I just love it! $300 is such a great price for it too.

Denise had other beautiful pieces too...

There was so much furniture that I loved...

I would love to paint this piece!

I am also so impressed with the way the booths are decorated. So much work put into this show!

So many cute things and great ideas.

The really nice people at one of the booths remembered Janae and I from last year. They said we are easy to remember with our blonde hair. They had the cutest stand with clothes hanging on it--Janae wanted to buy it for her bedroom but it wasn't for sale--just a prop.

 

 

They were nice enough to tell us how they made it--the spindles on the top are salt and pepper shakers! The decorative piece on the top came off of a dresser. How creative!

The show was so much fun...and what makes it extra fun that Janae and I enjoy going to it together. I am so lucky to have a daughter who loves the same things I do! She is my mini me.

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Winter Formal and a Cute Curio

Look at me..I am posting again already! I meant it when I said I want to get back to blogging.

Tonight was Winter Formal--shortly I will be going to pick Chantel and some of her friends up. I was disappointed that we didn't get good pictures (stopped at a friends house, it was starting to get dark and couldn't find any place good to take pictures..) Anyway--memories are still memories even if the pictures aren't that great.

Chantel looked beautiful and her boyfriend looked handsome. The theme was fire and ice and they went for the ice look :)

They went with a group of friends and one of the girls went without a date. I thought this picture was funny her standing alone pretending to feel sorry for herself :)

I also thought I would share my latest project...when I got it at Habitat for Humanity it looked like this.

Then when I was working on it Janae took a picture of a couple of her dogs in it and posted it on Facebook.

One of my favorite customers said she wanted it after seeing this picture and she didn't even know what it was!

Here it is all done--and that customer who said she wanted it did buy it! I have been very blessed to sell things so easily.

That's it for today---thanks for visiting!

Catching up

I am so missing all my blogging friends! I feel so bad that I haven't been regularly posting or following blogs and I really miss it. Many of my blogger friends I follow on Facebook and it makes me lazy about my blog. I don't want to give up on my blog though so I am hoping to get back on a more regular schedule.

We had a lovely Christmas. I let myself stress out way too much every year which I am still working on.

Here is a couple photos from Christmas eve at my parents house...

One of the best things about Christmas is the little ones and since Jaxon has become such a big part of our lives we enjoyed him so much this Christmas :)

He was so excited about Santa and so thrilled with every gift he got he was an absolute joy. I hope his Mama was seeing from up above what a wonderful Christmas he had!

Then I spent New years day in a way that I didn't want to start the new year...

Gage had a massive seizure lasting several hours. They gave him so many medications that when they finally got it to stop they had to transport us by ambulance to Doernbecher's Children's hospital and we were in the Intensive Care Unit for 4 days until he finally woke up.

When he woke up and I asked him to smile and he did and it was so wonderful. It was an emotionally exhausting 4 days.

So all is well with Gage now--other than he seems to have a cold now--but I can handle that. No more Intensive care unit I am hoping!

I have been busy as can be painting. I so enjoy it and have a following of ladies who love my items. It is helpful to pay the bills and makes me feel good personally too. I feel like I really have this painting thing down pat now. I promise soon I am going to try some new ideas and I will try to do some tutorials again.

Here is one of my latest projects...

 

New pieces of furniture create new photo ops for my daughter's dogs! :)

I just love this old dresser! I love what I did with it too. It was hard for me to sell this one because I wanted to keep it for myself!

So that is what my days are full of...taking care of my kids and Jaxon, all of our animals...and painting as often as I can! Winter Formal is this Saturday and though Wyatt has no interest in going, Chantel has been working on getting her dress and everything for the past few weeks. Winter Formal pictures coming soon!

If you have just a second I would love to see who is still following my blog these days--I am off to catch up on other people's blogs now!

Thanks for visiting!

Adding Red to Christmas

At 50 years old I will say that until now I have never hung a red ornament. I have had pink trees, blue and silver trees, and all white, but never a hint of RED could be found on my tree. My kids this year mentioned they would like a little more color in the Christmas decorations...and I surprised them and myself and added some red!

My Swedish blood is finally showing in my decorating.

Wyatt's Nutcracker collection looks great with the new color scheme.

I painted some of the frames on the tree in my favorite Red--Emperor's Silk.

Jaxon helped us pick out the tree this year--we were lazy and didn't cut it ourselves but just picked one out from the Elk's lodge.

Kids just make Christmas more magical.

I have a really bad habit of really getting stressed over the holidays. I am trying to relax a bit--I just want all my family to have a great Christmas and I always feel like it is up to me to make it happen. My goal this year is to just relax a bit. It is easier said than done.

As I sit here at my laptop I feel so blessed with my beautiful little home and my loving family. My heart aches for those who do not have a warm and happy place this holiday season. I can't even imagine being outside in this freezing weather--both for people and for animals.

Wishing you all warm and happy December days!

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