favorite find

I had not shared this with you. I found this beautiful antique photo album a few months
ago at one of my favorite antique malls. I past it up a couple a times. Finally, one day when I was
ready to buy it it was gone. Well, I thought it was not meant to be. I went back again a f ew weeks
ago and OMG it was there again. This time I could not pass it up so here are a few pics that I took of it. It has more tin type pictures other then the ones I am showing. It is truly a beautiful find.

I am so amazed at it's beauty and can't help thinking about who these people are and what their
lives were like. I will never know. All they have to know is that I will cherish this forever......

Collections

I am sharing with you a few of my finds here that hopefully soon
I will have displayed on the wall of my kitchen. So far I have at least
ten plates that I would like to hang on the wall and have them displayed.

Highway 70 here we come!

Yes, we headed off early Sat to breakfast and then off to hit
highway 70 for an antiquing adventure. My friend Jennifer and
her family surprised me Friday by coming to visit this past weekend.

So her hubby and son hung out with my three boys.

Us girls went out and about on highway 70 stopping at every
little antique store on the way to Fulton, MO. I had a good time and
I hope my SCOUTS (as my husband calls my friends, Jen, Amanda and Michel)
had a good time as well.....

Michel you look good in that red ole hat... Look at that other feathery flowery
purply hat! WOW!

I will post more later of some of the finds..

Love, Just ME

baubles and finds, oh my!

vintage pictures and more stuff

Happy 4th to you

Happy 4th to you....

Like Linda Harre my main focus today is my
little family of four today...

Family and fun

Also in mind will be all the soldiers that have fought for
our freedom and the great sacrifices they have made and
the sacrifices of their families.

GOD BLESS!

more goodies to share

more pictures I found this weekend. I love the 1920s
so I really cannot pass up any pic of that era.

I always wonder if I was reincarnated from that time.

weekend find

on my way back from the lake this weekend, I spotted
a little antique shop past osage beach, mo. my hubby was nice
enough to stop so that I can browse.... I only bought a few pics because
to be honest she was way more expensive then some of the goods I can find
at my local antique store on 94 or the flea market. it was nice to stop though and
see some of the goods she had... overly priced and all.

I am planning a day trip this Saturday down highway 70 and I am going to hit all the
little antique stores I passed the other day...... love the country and maybe I will find a
few treasures I can show you next week.

home sweet home

went home to see my family. had not been to Chicago
in a very long time. here are a few family members having fun. My home life is filled with boys. I grew up with three brothers one of them posted above. My brothers have boys. I have boys.

So when I go home there are men all over the place. Nothing like a family
BBQ. Can you tell that the boys had some major sugar running through their
little bodies. More pictures below of my fun filled weekend.......

food, friend, fun......

What can be better then spending some time with
a good friend, eating some tasty food and maybe a little
shopping?

flower frogs...it's a good thing!

a girls best friend

meet my good friend JLO... She is a girls best friend. we have been friends for a very long time. these are some great aprons that she found at one of our stops. Jen I told you i would not post your picture, but you looked to cute not to..

thanks for a fun Sunday afternoon!

Antiqueville

while shopping around here are a few pics that I took
of some of the great places my friend JLO took me to.

the bottom picture shows a couple of our great finds.

Collectable!

The estate sale I crashed the other day had tons of these silhouette picture frames. To bad that I only had a few dollars on me. You can get them through ebay if you are interested. I love them especially the victorian images.

vintage seam binding

I love seam binding. It makes great bows.

I was so excited when I found this little bag full of this old vintage seam binding at the flea. The colors are so pretty. Martha is now selling it at Michaels. I did buy some of hers because she has some great colors as well.

I crashed an estate sale today during lunch.

Bummer that I did not have that much money on me
I was able though to purchase a few things....

They will be open again this weekend, but I am going
home to visit my mom.

Oh well, you loose some you win some.

mirror mirror on the wall

I was so luck to find this beautiful mirror at the flea this past Sunday.
I paid only $1.00. So now you see why I was so lucky. The mirror
part of it is damaged, but damaged in an interesting way.
That's okay because it's still beautiful in my eyes...

I have seriously contemplated in maybe opening my own little booth
at my local antique shop. I enjoy buying all these treasures. One of the main
reasons I have not is because I fall in love with everything I buy and don't
know if I can part with it. Same with the stuff I make. Kind of hard to let
it go. I put my heart into it.