There's just something about April 13th

People are sometimes superstitious about Friday the 13th. But I am becoming leery of April 13th. My memories on Facebook popped up this morning and as I glanced through them, I realized I was injured three times in the past on April 13th.

One year, I was changing a shower head because I am so independent and didn't want to wait a couple hours to hubby got home. I slipped and almost fell off the step stool and wrenched my back as I twisted. 

Another year, I was wiping down the kitchen walls between my upper cabinets and counter top. Apparently, I forgot there were upper cabinets and raised straight up and banged my head so Hubby had me stay awake to make sure I didn't have a concussion. 

But the worst was in 2014 when I flipped open my bamboo hamper to put clothes in and I stopped putting them in without the lid all the way open and I drove a piece of the bamboo straight up my knuckle. 

You can see where the start is by the hump at the top line of my knuckle and it ended in the hump under the third line of my knuckle. I tried tweezers, used a needle to try to open it up, everything but couldn't get it out. It was so painful I felt that I almost had a panic attack. Hubby was on his way home from work so when he got there, he tried and there was not way it was coming out. We went to the emergency room. A saddle block shot in the palm of my hand, a shot they called "a local" in the finger where the splinter was. That was almost as painful as it shoving in my knuckle in the first place. Then he used a scalpel to slice a cut at the top of the splinter so he could pull it out. His tweezers were to big to get it out. So, he called down to ER to see if they had smaller ones. I jokingly said "I have a mini Swiss knife that has little tweezers." He surprised me by saying "Great. Let me see them." 

Allen got them out of my purse. The doctor declared them perfect and grabbed the splint and pulled it right out. Whew, glad that was over. I felt such relief. Until he says "Now for a tetanus shot since you haven't had one in 15 years." UGH! 

So you can see why I am dreading April 13th. Going to walk very carefully, look before I put anything up, and basically stay in my seat as much as I can today. I'll be paranoid all day now.

A long week....

Is it Friday yet? I'm not having a bad week, I'm just having a busy week. I am so tired of my two spare rooms being a wreck. But I'm accumulating stuff for the big yard sale this weekend so the boxes are in the middle of the floor of one of the rooms. The other room I am organizing a closet as I go so stuff is piled on the bed and the floor as I pull things out and go through them. It's disaster city. But at least the rest of the house is clean and the laundry is caught up. My goal is to finish the yard sale stuff tonight and finish the closet by Thursday. I can't work on either project tomorrow night because it is business meeting at church. But my plan is to have everything accomplished by Friday. This is how my craft room is supposed to look but I can't even find my table for all the stuff piled on it while I sort.

My next couple of weekends is going to be crazy. The yard sale this weekend and then next weekend a wedding shower that I need to decorate for. I need to go sometime this weekend to get the rest of the stuff. But next Friday I am putting what doesn't sell at this yard sale into a sale at my friends house. I will be helping do that on Friday and then decorating for the shower on Friday night. Then the shower Saturday morning. After clean up at the shower, I have some errands to run. That Sunday after church, I think I will sleep for the rest of the day.

Loving my finds.

I am getting ready to be in a 10 mile yard sale this weekend. I've been cleaning out closets and trunks that I didn't clean out on my last yard sale. In doing so, I found a tablecloth I thought I had gotten rid of but didn't. I was thrilled. This is to me a true country tablecloth and goes so well with my color scheme in my "farmhouse" style kitchen. I had to take the leaf out of the table for this one to fit, but I can put it back in when the kids come to visit. 

 

When I was at Mom's she gave me some items for my yard sale that we found in her storage building. Needless to say, I loved all of it so it is getting a little shining up and going in my house instead of my yard sale. I love the wire basket. I am going to scrub it up and spray paint it country brick red and fill it with white plastic eggs a friend found for me on clearance.

Mom loves roosters and chickens like I do so she had this to give me as well. I am thinking about finding some pretty herb or cactus in artificial plants to fill these with. 

A cute tart warmer to make the kitchen smell good. Now to go find some tarts.

This is a cute little rooster plaque that I will hang somewhere.

In one box, I saw this white casserole dish and picked it up and it was vintage Fire King. I asked Mom where she got it and she said she didn't know but I could have it if I wanted it. Well, of course I did. It will be perfect for my baked beans.

As you can see, I got some good stuff. I also got tons of yarn and tons of books which I am going to put in my yard sale. Have a great week.

Sunday Songs

I never knew about these....

A friend of mine and I were discussing our mutual love of vintage items the other day. She was telling me she collect Vera Neumann Vintage Table Napkins. Well, I had never heard of those so she suggested I google them. And my oh my what beauties I found. Here were some of my favorites. She said the ones that are real vintage will have Vera's name on them. 

I love daisies so I really like these.  

These look almost like vintage hankies. 

My daughter needs to look for these. Her husband is a firefighter so this old firetruck would be perfect for her.

This one looks like you just stepped into a garden.

I would like a set of these and use them to have a tea party.  

I love, love, love the daffodils on the navy background.

These would go good with a table setting where I use my Town & Country Pyrex for serving bowls. 

But since my favorite flower ever has always been a daisy, I think this is the set it would thrill me the most to find. 

Several of our local antique stores have vintage linen areas, but I don't usually look at the linens because I was always just interested in tablecloths and the vintage ones never come in the length I need. But I will start looking at the linens now. I am a woman on a mission. 

Friday Foto Friends

Hooking up with Breathing in Grace for Friday Foto Friends

We have had our windy March weather this whole first week of April. It has rained and had high winds like crazy. But afterwards, we end up with some beautiful sky...even if the temperature has been cooler than I like it.

I always love to get a picture of the flag at Food City when the sky is beautiful.

When I got to work yesterday, one of the ladies there had bought me these beautiful yellow daisies to cheer up the room. Aren't they gorgeous. 

Have a happy Friday and a great weekend. Don't you just love my little kitty? She is my favorite ever .25 cent yard sale find. I have had her about 3 or 4 years. 

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