Renuzit Holiday Fresh Accents

***Congrats to Linda @ AlaCarte, SvelteSTUFF and Annette!  Send your addy my way to: monkeybox@juno.com.  Thanks! :D

I am a member of the Purex Insiders.  From time to time, I receive products in the mail to try and to give my opinions here on my blog.  I recently received a box containing two new Renuzit Holiday Air Fresheners.  I received one Winter Berry Scent and one Festive Snow scent. 

Before I go on, I should say that I am very, very sensitive to scents.  Candles give me migraines, I don't like scents on my clothes from laundry products and I don't wear any sort of perfumes, body sprays or anything like that. But, I do enjoy certain scents in small amounts. I especially like vanilla and mild scents like that. I was nervous about these air fresheners because of my sensitivity.

I opened the Winter Berry first and it wasn't a bit strong at all and it has been quite enjoyable. We have it near our litter box where our three cats......well, you know. It can get a bit whiffery in there sometimes. The Renuzit Holiday Air Fresheners have kept that area smelling fresh and not overbearing at all.

*Renuzit Fresh Accents feature a two sided design in a festive holiday motif. 

*They offer 30 days of continuous fragrance odor elimination. 

*No plugs, batteries or flames are needed. 

I have three FREE Renuzit Fresh Accent Air Freshener Coupons to share with my readers.  I will send you one coupon for you very own free Renuzit.  Just leave me a comment saying where you would put your Air Freshener in your house. 

Winner will be chosen on Friday 10-21 and announced Saturday.

Good luck!  And, thanks Purex Insiders and Renuzit!

Paid Posts and G i v e a w ay s

Hi.  I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that in the next few weeks, I am going to do some posts about products and having some freebies for you too.  I try to do these sparingly as I want my blog to be about me and my junk and journies.  But, I have had a lot of offers to do posts that I just can't quite pass up this time.  Offers that will allow our family to have a better Christmas this year.  I would NEVER do a paid post for anything that I didn't think was a good product or worth your time. I have four lined up right now.

So, if you see a post like that, read it and you might win something good.  Or wait until the next post when I show my lates junk or journey. 

Thanks guys!

Christmas in October

Yesterday I went out to the Golf Course where all the big fancy NEW homes were having Yard Sales.  Big fancy new homes usually only have new fancy stuff, which isn't my cup of tea, but we usually do find DVDs, CD's and Video Games, so it is worth a trip out just to look around. 

I drove past the first six sales as they looked meager and they were beginning to box stuff up too.  The first house I stopped at was one I go to every year.  It is an older couple that moved here from Louisiana.  They have a three car garage and an attic full of things that used to be in their "Shop".  They put out a mixture of old and new stuff at their sale each year and I can usually find a couple of things.  One thing that she has is a collection of pristine gingham aprons in every color of the rainbow.  She hangs them out at every sale, but they never sell.  It could be the $12.00 each price tag she started at a few years ago.  Yesterday the aprons were down to $5.00 each, but I still don't think she has sold any.  Maybe next year they will be less.

I gathered up a few owl related items and a few other things and my total came to 65¢.  Apparently, she has decided to come down on her prices, because I bought several things for 10¢ each.  As she was wrapping up my purchases, I noticed a box of old tins so I dug through that looking for old tins.  The lady told me if I saw anything I liked to just take it, so I pulled out this old Santa Boot from under the tins.

It's vintage and it was free, so why not?

As I was putting it in my bag, I noticed a paper bag with some old Shiny Brite boxes sticking out of it.  The bag was in the back of the garage and peeking out from under a blanket and a few other things.  I don't usually ask, but why not?  I asked if those ornaments were for sale and she said, "Those are the old glass ones.  I didn't put them out because I didn't know if anyone liked those anymore."  I said, "I do!"  She went and got them and asked if $5.00 was okay.  I took a chance and bought them.  That one little box is a really great box.

The bag was crammed full of old Easter Grass, so I had to carefully go through it all looking for treasures.  All those miniature ornaments in the bowl where gnarled up in the Easter Grass, but were a happy surprise to find.  Love that old paper garland too. I had one ornament fatality shooting the photo, but I found a replacement in the bag.  So, I still ended up with four complete boxes.  Whew.

I told the lady that I just loved old Christmas things and it made my day to find these.  She looked me in the eye and said, "How old?"  I told her that I loved things from the 1940's and 1950's.  She waited a minute then said, "I have one of those old aluminum trees around here too."  Then she hollered at her elderly husband to come find it.  Luckily, he knew where it was, so he found it quickly. 

It was in the box and complete. 

The shipping label was even to where I live.  Perfection! Of course, I got excited, but then I told her, "I better not get too excited until you tell me how much it is." Because you just never know what kind of price someone is going to say, right? 

(Really crappy photo of my junky living room - but it was late last night and taken quickly...)

She told me $30.00 and that is more than I wanted to pay (I'm cheap, ya know?) but I knew it was a good one and a money maker. 

So, I was thinking and considering it. 

That's when she looked at me and said,

Wait for it..............

"I have a PINK one in the attic."

OHMYGOSH.

I didn't say anything, but I must have had big wide eyes and slobbers because she sent her husband up into the attic to get it.  (The Bean later tells me that when he say a glint of pink coming down the steps, he knew I was buying it.  No matter what it was or what it cost.)

She told me that she would take $40.00 for both of the trees.  I wrote a check, which I think is a first at a yard sale for me, but she took it no problem.  It is missing it's stand, but I have an extra one from another Aluminum Tree, so that is okay by me.  I also have a revolving stand, so it could go in there too.  Pink trees command a high price on ebay - some of the six foot tall ones can go for $600.00 or more.  Crazy, huh?  This one is only four feet tall, but that makes it easier for most people to use on a tabletop or in  a smaller area.  So, it might be worth that much too.  I like $600.00 a lot.  But, I like that pretty pink tree a lot too.  My plan right now is to sell the aluminum one and recoup my $40.00, plus a nifty profit (hopefully) and use the PINK one myself. 

As far as the Breadman knows, it's not worth a dime.  So, let's keep that between us, mmmmkay?

So, Garage Sale Gods, I am sorry that I bemoaned all year.  You made my day, my week, my month and my year by bringing this Christmas Glittery wonder into my life.  I will not complain any more.  Pinky swear!

**Sorry to the Facebook friends and YSQ members that already had to endure my Pink Christmas Tree Chatter.  :D

The War Eagle Craft Fair

Twice a year, barring flooding, it is time for the War Eagle Craft Fair.  It is held out in the middle of a huge cow pasture, near the river and the old mill.  It is about a seventy mile round trip for us to get there, and I know that isn't that far - but I don't usually venture that far from home.  First, there is the gas involved, the fear of a flat or car trouble (even though our car is perfectly fine) and the guilt I sometimes have from doing something "fun" while The Breadman is working.  But, you know what I have decided?  Life is short.  The Bean is this.close to growing up and leaving me.  I deserve to have fun too. (He is Mr. Season Football Ticket Holder afterall...).   So, this year I am all about getting out there and having FUN and enjoying the day.  Yeehaw.

So, this morning off we went to the War Eagle Craft Fair. We used to go when I was a kid and my relatives from KS even planned trips here during craft fair weekend. My Grandmother's house was full of many of the things she bought there over the years - burl wood vases, handcrafted wood inlay mirrors, wooden tulip carvings, a stained glass slag lamp and more. There are two sides to the Fair - one side is a Juried Craft Fair - by invitation only - it is fine art, pottery, quilts, photography, etc. All handmade lovely items. The other side by the Mill also offers handmade things with a mixture of booths filled with antiques and junk and flea market-y type items like tie dye t-shirts and personalized license plates.  People come from all over the United States to sell and to attend this fair.  I met a lady that had come with a bus full of her old college graduates from Louisiana and a family from Kansas that comes every year.  People are all friendly like while you are stuck in the bathroom line.



You are not allowed to take photos of any of the booths or the crafts/artwork, so I couldn't get any pictures of the actual Craft Fair items.  I've been to two local craft fairs this past month and seen my share of kitschy crafty what-the-heck were they thinking crafts.  But everything here was so nice.  I don't think I saw a single tacky thing.  Except the sign that said, "My Indian name is Runs with Beer", that was a bit tacky.  But, it was very nicely made!

We walked four huge tents chock full of things for three hours before we finally caught sight of the Mill. The actual War Eagle Mill. 

We had to wait in a lengthy line to cross the bridge to "get to the other side".  Just like a bunch of chickens.  I love to take photos of the Mill and the river, but the foot traffic was so fast, that I didn't dare stop to take a good photo for fear of being ran down.  My legs are shorter than most, so I have trouble keeping up with fast moving crowds in the first place.  Let's see how I did taking photos as I walked and did the old point and shoot.

The river and the dam - not too bad. 

The other side not too bad except for the guy that walked up beside me.  Oh, wait, that's The Bean.  Never mind.

The Mill itself.  Kind of crooked, but not too bad.

The highlight of the Mill is the Bean Palace Restaurant.  I am not a beans and cornbread kind of gal, so it humored me to see everyone sitting around eating big bowls of brown beans and cornbread.  Not your usual fair food.

Speaking of which - anything look good?  I'd take a turkey leg, roasted ear of corn and a lemonade.  But, I'd have to take out a second mortgage on my house to afford it.  About $45.00 for the two of us if I did buy those things.  (Cheapo me packed PB&J because I didn't want to spend $16.00 for a couple of turkey legs. Can you blame me?)

So, at this point, you are saying, "Well, Shara......what did you buy?"  I usually don't buy much of anything because it is expensive (and by expensive, I mean I saw an $8,000.00 carving of Jesus and a $500.00 witch on a motorcycle) and I do so love my yard sale and thrift store vintage finds.  I did buy an handmade scrolly letter "S" to wear on a necklace.  But that is all I planned to buy.  But, then I walked past a booth and I looked down and something spoke to me.  I swear!

I saw this face looking up at me and she said, "Take me home, please Miss?"  And I swear to you she has a British accent, although I have no clue why!  As I told her (in my head) that I really did not need a doll nor did I need to spend money on something as foolish as her, she said, "No one at this whole fair will ever take as good as care of me as you will."  She was right, of course. 

I whipped out my money, paid for her and carried her off like she was my baby girl.  I hadn't gone twenty feet and three customers and two vendors stopped me to see her.  But, they were out of luck - she was one of a kind and now she is mine, all mine.  I've named her Dawby in honor of Doby the House Elf in Harry Potter who also only had one sock to his name. 

Does any one think I have lost my mind completely this time?

Me and the cat love her.  And that is plenty for anyone.

Fossil Hunting

Last week The Bean and I embarked on a Fossil Hunt. Actually, we just went to the park and walked in the creek beds.  But we ended up finding a lot of nice fossils and other things.  We have had such torrential rains and flooding the past couple of years that the creek is full of more rocks than usual - rocks that do not belong in that particular creek bed that came from who knows where.  It is interesting to find chunks of Feldspar, Slate or Native Stone that you can tell floated in with the rains. 

We found a lot of really nice Fossils including this nice big one.  The actual fossil measures about four inches across - the biggest fossil I've ever found.  We also found a perfect evergreen leaf which I apparently forgot to photograph.  We also found a rock full of seashell fossils - those are raised up instead of being indented.  I love finding fossils - it was once a living thing, millions of years ago and it has been in that rock since.  When I discover it, it is the first time anyone has laid eyes on it.  We carried home armloads of rocks to be researched and looked at under the magnifying glass.

That's our street above the creek.  We've lived here 17 years and that is the first time I have ever been under our street, that is for sure. 

I could walk upright, The Bean could not.  Sometimes being short does not suck.

I have always loved rocks. Whenever we went for a walk when I was a kid, I spent the entire time looking down at the ground, looking for special rocks. It's a trait I still have today - always looking for a special colored rock or one shaped like something or a heart shaped rock or a fossil or any rock that speaks to me. I usually have trouble keeping my britches up because I fill my pockets full of rocks on our walks! 

In our usual junking frame of mind, we found things along the way that has floated in as well.  We played a game of "Man vs. Wild" thinking of what we could use things for if we were lost in the wild.  The Bean spotted a Coleman jug lodged under some limbs - a vessel for water would be a great find if we were truly lost and not a mere 100 yards from our own house.

We found pieces of white plastic - good for gathering rainwater, shelter from the elements, to wave at air crafts from below, tie on our heads for protection from the sun and wind.  A length of rope - good for hanging clothes to dry, dragging firewood, pulling ourselves up cliffs, combined with the plastic to make a tent, etc.  I even spotted an actual spoon glistening up the creek.  (Leave it to me to find silverware in the middle of nowhere).  The spoon could be used for digging looking for grubs (ick), a hole to take refuge from the wind or snow and maybe even to catch a sun ray and flash an SOS for help.

All in all, it was a good day - a day outside in the sunshine, a day scavenging for fossils and rocks and in a day of Homeschooling even if neither one of us really knew it at the time.  Those are the days I enjoy the most of all!

Stuff I've Made

*I hit a ton of sales yesterday, including four different Rummage Sales within 1/2 mile of my own house.  I haven't had a chance to take photos yet.  So, the junk shall wait.

I love to make things, but I really only make stuff during the holiday months.  Of course, the "holiday" months" means from Halloween to the 4th of July, so that only leaves a couple of months that I don't create.  I'd love to be one of those people that makes Halloween stuff in July, but I've never been that organized or clever. 

I participated in Sarah's Halloween Swap this year.  I had to make 11 Halloween ornaments.  I am completely enamoured of the old wooden beaded  Crib Toys from the 1940's.  Barbara at Oodles posted this pattern a while back and I have been searching for beads at thrifts and yard sales all summer.  I've made a crazy amount of them now in all shapes, sizes and colors.  I love them all.  Now, I see beads everywhere - just yesterday I found two great old garlands of pastel beads for an Easter Tree.  I cut them apart and now I have a nice bag full of pink, blue and white faded beads for making more beaded babies.

For Sarah's Halloween Swap, I made Black Cat Trick or Treater's.  I thought buying a big bag of black beads would be an easy task, but apparently no one uses wooden beads much anymore.  So, I had to do some thinking.  We have a $1.00 Jewelry Store here that has some seriously gaudy and tacky stuff and some not so bad stuff too.  I had remembered seeing some long strings of black beads with wooden crosses on them a few months ago, so I went back to see if they still had any in stock.  They had four necklaces, so for a total of $4.00, I got all the beads I needed to make all of my cats.  I added a pipe cleaner tail and ears and at the last minute, drew on some whiskers, which I think was the perfect finishing touch.  I ran out of black pipe cleaners, so I took white ones and colored them with a Sharpie and they looked just fine.  Now I am thinking of all the custom colored pipe cleaners I can make!  Stripes!  Patterns!  Colors!

I have two special little ones in my life - twin girls that are 16 months old.  Their Mom dresses them in tutu's nearly everyday and they are stinking adorable.  I like to send them little surprises in the mail like books, but I wanted to make them something from my heart.  They needed something for Halloween from Auntie Shara. :)

First, I found black tutu's at the store and bought white onesies.

Since I was already in a black cat making mood, I hand cut out these cat faces, trying to make each one the same.  Here is #1.

 And this is #2.  I think they look pretty similar.  I hand sewed them onto the onsies.  I've never sewn anything so tightly and with such small stitches before - I wanted them to be baby safe!

I also made black headbands with big orange Gerbera Daisies and their initial in the center of each flower.  I can't wait to see the girls in these outfits.  I hope they like them.  I had fun making them, but I won't be doing much clothing making again. 

I've got some things on the way to get me started on some fun Christmas crafting too.  It feels good to get my create juices going again!

What have you made lately?

More Junk & Bargain Prices Too

Boy, have I bought the junk this week!  And the week isn't over yet - there is a  big Boy Scout Rummage sale to hit in the morning.  I love Fall and the abundance of Yard, Garage and Rummage Sales.  The weather is beautiful and there are sales everywhere, so I am just enjoying it and letting my responsibilities slide for a few days.  Stay at Home Mom's need a couple vacation days too, right?

At the first sale today, I saw a Wal-Mart bag tied shut and the curiosity got the best of me, so I had to untie it and and have a look inside.  I was surprised to find these nice big chunks of slag glass in all these pretty colors. 

It reminded me of that gorgeous glass wall at the bluebird place, so I had to get it.  The magic price of one dollar made it even a better score.  Now, I just need about twenty thousand more pieces to make myself a wall o' glass.  That'll happen, right?

At that same sale, I got this interesting wreath made of Barbed Wire.  I plan to junk it up with some stuff - old sign letters, scrabble tiles, bingo markers - just a lot of random junk. 

I also got this old window, which I need like a hole in the head since I have about twenty old windows stockpiled in the shed.  But, I liked the lines of this one and think I will add rows of nails to in and hang my jewelry on it.  (Forgive the dirty house, power washing was not on my to-do list this summer.  But, it is this Fall, I promise!)

The rest of the day brought a few fun things my way.  A cool old dustpan to become a noteholder of some sort, a small yellow pottery pitcher and three old metal ice trays.

I was excited to see this nice tall thermos sitting on the table at the American Legion sale.  Nothing was priced, so I asked how much....after some thought, it was decided $2.00.  Which was fine by me it will go nicely with my collection.  When I went to pay, they looked at the Thermos carefully and announced, "Oh, wait...this Thermos is really old."  Oh, okay, now the price is going to go up, I thought.  The looked at it for the longest time and then said - "How about just a dollar then?"  OH!  OLD means old and yuck to them.  Yeesssss.  Then, just as I was handing her the money, she took the cup off the top of the Thermos and said, "OH!  The stopper is missing too.  How about 75¢?"  I think if I could have shown her the small scratch on the bottom, she might have paid me to take it off her hands! :)

I love this thing - this is an old handmade Woodpecker Door Knocker.  Pull the string and it pecks away at the board.  Love it.  I'm going to hang it in the hallway and pull on it for my own amusement.

I really don't know what these are - someone cut up an old quilt and made different shapes.  There are eight in all and each one if big enough to use as a placemat.  There are some great old floursack prints on them though.  They were on the 50¢ each table, but the lady told me she could "let me have them" for $5.00 (Math was not her forte'), but I said okay.  Before I went up to pay, she went in to eat and had her husband come out and take the money.  When I told him that his wife said they were five dollars, he replied "Oh, she's f*ing crazy - gimme $2.50 for all of it." (including the woodpecker and a few other things).  I got the heck out of Dodge before the Missus came back and realized what he had done!

More junk tomorrow after the Boy Scout sale!  Hope you are finding loot this weekend too!

Goodwill Hunting

( I had to use that title at some point, didn't I?)

I still haven't decided if it is good thing or a bad thing to have the Goodwill less than one mile from my house.  I haven't had the best luck at Goodwill in the past when I have visited there, the prices were always pretty high in my opinion and the selection wasn't vintage-y in the least.  However, this new Goodwill is pretty well stocked with a mix of old and new items, the prices are reasonable and things seem to hit the 50% off week rather quickly.

Yesterday I stopped in and bought a total of thirteen items for $9.00.  Here are seven of those items - I do buy non-photo worthy things sometimes too like games and clothes and kitchen items.  I don't usually buy baby planters, but that blue boxing baby was just too darned cute to leave behind and it doesn't have that overall pastel baby planer look.  I wish the spice boxes were all there, but I still think it will sell in the booth.  My heart did a skip when I spotted that Bakelite bird napkin ring in the center.  I only found the one, even though I know they were originally a set of six and that set of six is worth about  $15.00 or more ( more like $300.00 a couple of years ago).  I searched that store from top to bottom looking for it and even looked in the carts of merchandise being put out, but never found another bird. 

So, today, on the way to the Optometrist*, which is conveniently located right next door to Goodwill, I stopped for one more look.  But, I didn't find any more birds.  At least I know I gave it a good try and don't have to think that I might have missed them.  (I know someone else might have bought them, but I am trying to to think about that...). 

Even though I didn't find anymore birds, I still had to look around.....

I found a couple boxes of Shiny Brites for accents on some wreaths and the five HOMCO figures.  They are cute, but not really my thing, so they will go to the booth. 

I stopped in my tracks when I spotted an Easter Basket full of these flowers.  I scooped them up and hoped that no one would tackle me to rip them from my hands.  No one tried.  Shock of shocks.  Can you tell that the flowers are all made out of nut cups and pipe cleaners?  They are vintage and dee-vine.  I have them in an old milk glass vase and they look real.  These are on my "to make" list now. 

Goodwill is very handy, but I know I have to limit my trips in there or I will go broke! 

*Do you have your eyes dilated at the Optometrist?  I had my eyes done at 2:20 this afternoon.  It is now 11:00 PM and my pupils are still enlarged and things are blurry.  So blurry, in fact, I bid on something on ebay earlier and left a maximum bid of $11.00.  I checked on the auction a bit ago and I still had the high bid at $22.00.  I couldn't figure that out, so I went to My eaby and I had bid $111.00.  ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN DOLLARS.  Holy crap I was sweating bullets watching that auction end.  It ended at the $22.00, which is more than I wanted to pay, but man, do I feel lucky that some schmuck didn't decide to bid up the auction!  Yowza - that was a close one.  Lesson learned - don't bid on ebay when you can't see!

The Weekend in Junk

This weekend was the Grand Daddy of all weekends for yard sales in my area.  The Apple Festival and the Bikes, Blues & BBQ were being held and all the traffic going to and from each event leads right past my house.  So, that means lots and lots of sales everywhere plus just random roadside heaps to dig through.  In the past, I had a big sale every year on this weekend too and usually made about a thousand dollars.  But, now I have discovered it is more fun to go that to have one myself.  (Although, I could use a thousand dollars!)  I had promised The Bean lots of motorcycle rally time, so my yard saling time was limited.  But, in the short amount of time I had, I think I did prety good!

One of the roadside piles turned out to be an Estate Sale of sorts.  There was an old building that was chockablock full of stuff.  Mostly pottery and glassware.  They had about twenty pieces of pink pottery - McCoy, Shawnee, Haeger - all good stuff.  But, they knew it and had it priced accordingly.  Actually, it was all priced really high - starting about $25.00 a piece and most of it wasn't worth nearly that much.  I only bought a few things there since the prices were so high.  I'm hoping they will have the sale for the next few weeks and start lowering their prices. 

 

I did spy these two huge old chalkboards leaing against the wall without prices on them, so I decided to bite the bullet and ask how much. "Aww, two bucks each...I just want this stuff GONE", she said. Well, howzabout not pricing everything so ding-dang HIGH then....right? Anyway, chalkboards are all the rage right now, so I am either going to put them in my booth or put them on Craigslist. I think the one with the %'s on it is sort of Mathmatically geeky in some ways and might appeal to someone. I am kind of crshing on that smaller one with the chalk tray, but I really don't have the space for it. Would it be wrong to take down The Baby Bean's photos or The Stacks Wedding Portrait and put up the chalkboard? I kid. (Sorta).  (Since I wrote this, I found a spot for it in the kitchen.  Yeah, me!)

There is a certain lady that has sales at her house, her firends house, her sisters house, her son's house and at the Flea Market so I can usually find her sales about every few weeks.  She has cool old stuff and prices most everything a quarter each or a big grab bag full of stuff for about that.  I got this neat old sewing box for 25¢ and the big mix of bias tape, lace and ricrac along with a lot of buckles for 50¢ total.  75¢ for everything above - what a deal!

A few fun old Beistle Jack O Lantern cutouts and a vintage, albeit creepy mask sort of thing (there aren't any eyeholes) - I think it might be to wrap around an actual pumpkin.  Nothing makes me happier than vintage holiday stuff. 

Love, love, love this funny old doll with his big old wooden shoes. I htink I will doctor him up - maybe for Christmas, I don't know.  He just so darn cute - 25¢ at her sale.

Several old Pilot manuals from 1949, Golden Books on Fishes and Non-Flowering Plants, an old photograph and well, I really don't know what that other thing is - a paperweight, I suppose.  I don't know what "Adlake" is.....hang on, I'll Google it....Okay, they are in Elkhart, Indiana and they make lanterns, locks and latches.  Good to know, good to know.  Oh well, I liked the graphics of it - and it is 54 years old now.

Tiny globe for a craft idea, a pie bird, fun turtle inscribed "To Joe, Love, Mom" and a PINK Candy Thermometer.  (Pink, I say!  Pink!) 

I loved this "Mood Barometer" - Moody, Malicious, Very Loving, Tender, Affectionate - ha!  What shall I be today?   Hmmmmmm.  This reminds me of the set of dice The Bean picked up.  We like to buy dice and play Monster Farkle.  I don't know if you play Farkle - but it's a dice game that takes five dice and you play to 5,000 points.  Well, we like to play with oh, twenty or thirty dice and play to 200,000 or more.  So, the Bean picked up a pair of dice and threw it on my pile, only seeing they were DICE, not S-E-X dice.  Holey, moley, me oh my - when I opened them, I saw "Rooms" listed like the Kitchen, The Closet, The Bathroom and "Positions' like....well, I'm not going to say those positions, but Wow.  So, you do this postion in that rooom......okay........needless to say, those dice have mysteriously disappeared.  :)

Lastly, what I have waited to find all year long.  Vintage Christmas.  Not much, but it's a start.  And one of the items makes my heart sing.

A few miniature Shiny Brites in aqua, some bell shaped Dresden, a funny snowman and a tiny plaid stocking and...........

A Roly Poly Chiming Santa.  LOVE.  I found this at a digger sale and clutched it to my chest all the way to the check out table.  If I had only found him all day, I would have been a happy camper.  I'm hoping he is just a hint of what is yet to come for the rest of the month.  Cross your fingers and wish me luck!

So - what did you find this weekend?