More Thrift finds that were packed away

Well before I could finish Blog posted my post without me even being in the room. I walked out while a picture was downloading and I came back and it said my  post was posted, View Blog. Wierd! So here are the rest of the photos.
This is a picture that my sister gave back to me because well I don't know why, but it hurt. Such a childish thing to do, in my opinion.

Things I will be selling

Most of the silver ware is from Rogers and Rogers and Oneida and American silver company. I didn't want to clean them up because a lot of people like the old vintage look and these are old, I have already looked them up at Barnes and Noble.

This is the DVD cabinet I am working on and hope to have it finished soon, so I can put my DVDs away. I have it primed already, so just need to paint.

Going to take a few days off this weekend to work on some frames and the cabinet. The frames are some I did with gallery glass a very long time ago, so I am redoing them for my kitchen window. Al is going to join 4 together and if they don't fit in the window, he is going to put all 8 together and build a cabinet and use them as the door. He's is starting to dig up plants where my new walk in closet is going and that has to be done before he can start on the shop--I have to have a place to store the things that are in my small shop. The closet will actually be 2 parts, one half for a closet and the other half for a sitting area so I can watch the humming birds and other little creatures that stop for a drink of water. It will be a total of 20 X8 and he has the money saved to do the entire shell. I can't wait, because now my garden will look different also. That's the one thing I miss the most and going to beg my doctor and see if I can sit and plant things.

I hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day. Myself, I can't wait for it to be over with. It's very hard without my children here and my mom gone, so nothing special is planned. My youngest son and family will probably go to his mils, yes I come second, but I love my dil, so I see her a little more often than her mom. Love and hugs to all of you.

I went to Crowley on Wednesday and started going through boxes of things I have packed and found some things I totally forgot about. I repainted some of them to go in my pink bathroom and bedroom and then everything will be ready to decorate when I move back, which I hope is soon. I love the country but there is nothing like being back in a home you have lived in for 21 years. So here are some pictures of things I am keeping and the silver flatware will be sold.

This picture frame will have hooks on it to hang small ornaments for Christmas. When I first got it, I thought I had enough picture frames to last a lifetime and most of the ones in my living room have a silver/pewter look to them and I wanted something different to display my ornaments. I had a floor size, but got rid of it---duh-that was a dumb thing to do, but that was a brain "fart" as we call it.

More thrifty finds

These are picture that I found at a thrift store, but I am keeping them as they are too big to ship. They had a matching photo of the first one and like a dummy, I over looked it and when I went back, it was gone. Oh well that's life. I love the Mother and Daughter picture and the one with the little girl is just so cute, that the picture does not do it justice. The white frame was brown, but I am waiting to put a mirror in it, so I just put this pink heart in it for now---it looked lost and alone. The last photo is just one of my little table scapes with the couple at the top that was supposed to be my mil and fil, but I still think of them as though they were. I loved them so much and they treated me like family. My friend Bryan is their son and Garland (boyfriend killed in Vietnam) was their son also. They love Al also and treated him better than my parents did. Hope you enjoy my treasures as much as I do. It's all about the hunt. Hope you have a Great day. Love and Hugs, Pat

The photos below are things that are going into my blog store. The cup and serving dish are Sterling and the dish is made by Wakefield if you want to look it up.

I gave Al a scare yesterday!

 I have been busy crafting, but yesterday, I gave Al a scare then he scared the *%#@ out of me. I was very tired from the injections, so decided to go to bed early. He said he called 5 times and I didn't answer the phone, so he drove to the country and walked into my bedroom and scared the daylights out of me. I asked him what he was thinking, but the fear in his face was awful. I keep telling him, I will never harm myself and he should have known that I would be resting after the injections. I found many new items for my blog store including some sterling silver pieces. One cup has a date (1935) stamped on along with some letters and hearts. It's quite heavy and I also found some sterling flat ware and a small tray that is made by Wakefield.

I guess no one read my post when I asked for suggestions to name my blog store, but sweet Denise gave me one and I think I will go with that, unless you are reading this and can give other suggestions. I will be sending a gift to the person who gave me the name. So far it sounds like I may use Pats Thrifty Vintage and at the bottom it will say Old, New, and Handmade Vintage. I bought a several books with disks with some beautiful vintage pictures in them and even though I can use the ones in the book, I am going to get a laser printer, so I can make some in quantity. I hope you all visit when it's done. The pay pal account will be under Al's email that he uses for his stamps and things, so that will make it easier for me. It will remain on my sidebar.

If anyone knows how I can use the graphic and be able to click on Pay Pal and take you straight to Al's account, I would appreciate some help. My daughter will be setting up an Etsy account when she comes in the fall, so most things will go there. I have really found and made some neat things, including storage items for your craft rooms. I save the jars from our dip and they are all alike, but the lids will be the only thing painted, but I will probably put some roses and lace on the tops since I have soooo much of that.

A very sweet friend is going to make me a blog background and banner and I can't thank her enough for her generosity. I do hope this will be the beginning of a new venture for me. Craft shows are hard to do and with the economy here, people just don't want to pay my low prices. I have heard comments like "I can make that cheaper" and I just want to scream, go ahead and try and let me know how that turns out. They just don't realize how many tools a crafter needs and to make just one would cost them a pretty penny.

Well I am off to go through boxes here that I have packed away things that I can re-do to sell. Pink, blue, and off white will be the main colors of things I will sell, but when I find something thrifty, it won't matter what color it will be.

I do have a question for those that use crepe paper on their crafts. HOW do you keep it from getting wet and not bleeding, tissue paper as well???????? I have seen it bleed when it gets wet and I am afraid to spend a lot of time gathering it only to have it ruined. I will also be selling embellishment kits and angels. I hope everyone has a wonderful day. My prayers go out to all the families in Tennessee and Kentucky who were flooded like Iowa was. I saw the many pictures and it was horrible. God bless them all. Love and hugs, Pat

Pictures of rig disaster

Our fishing industry and animals are in grave danger right now because of the pictures below of the TransOcean rig that exploded. The oil has already hit our gulf shores and our wonderful governor has opened shrimping season 3 weeks early so some of the hard working men could save some of  the shrimp this year. They are building another rig next to this one in hopes to pump the oil in it but it will take 3 months to finish it. We have sacrificed our once beautiful shores and beaches so that other states could have oil and gas. The lives that were lost is horrible and the 11 who will probably never be found is sad. One family has already had a memorial service, because their son was near the leak with the other 10 and they know that their bodies will probably never be recovered. There were a few men from our are who perished in this explosion and it's really heart breaking to hear their stories. The rig is leaking 5,000 gallons a day and with the bad wind we had, it made things worse. Please pray for the families and for us because we are going to lose some valuable resources, such as shrimp, crabs, and oysters. This is a lot of people's lively hood and this company owned by British had no safety cutoff working. This is not the only one. There was another rig that collapsed in the gulf. Birds and dolphins are being cleaned and given antibiotics to help them, a lot of them have already died and there are dead fish along the shores. As a child we used to go to Holly Beach and you could walk out into 2 feet of water and still see your feet, but every since they started drilling, you can see nothing but brown water, so we no longer go there. I think the last time I went was in 1964, and spent 2 weeks on a beach front cabin. Our family and 2 others would go every year and it was so much fun and shell picking was great. Now you are lucky if you find a shell. So please keep our families in your prayers. I have family and friends who work offshore and when we hear of these things, it really hurts your heart.