Weekend Wrap Up

I have had a very relaxing weekend. My house is still a mess because we are waiting on the carpet guy to come and put in new carpet after the hot water heater fiasco last week. He is supposed to be here the first of the week. In the meantime, my master bath and my office are piled up with everything from our walk-in closet. I decided to close those two doors and just enjoy the weekend. Garret and I had an awesome time playing some card games yesterday. And we had a long rousing game of Monopoly, which of course, he won. 

My new Railroad Denim Free to Be purse came Friday. I normally carry big purses, but I must admit this one held just what I needed for a quick run to Walmart and the store.

My sister ordered this little camper coin purse. It is adorable.  

There are some new puddings out. Hubby bought the Almond Joy, Hershey Bar and Mounds. I made him the Mounds first. It was very good, but the texture was a little weird with the coconut flakes in pudding. But he loved it. 

After eating a small bowl of it, he asked me if I could make it into a pie. So I bought a pre-made graham cracker pie crust, put the pudding in it and covered it with Cool Whip. I had a couple of miniature mounds bars so I used my nutmeg grader to make chocolate sprinkles on the top. I put it in the freezer and made it like an ice cream pie. It was delicious. Not to mention it turned out kind of pretty if I do say so myself.

While I was at Walmart, I decided to breeze through the kitchen section. I have been looking for a new tablecloth. I found one that had a matching rug and dishtowel. Now just to find time to put it all out. This has all the colors of my Pyrex collection.

I love beach themed books. Especially the ones from the Low Country in SC. My all time favorite was Sweetgrass by Mary Alice Monroe. Needless to say when a friend told me about her new trilogy regarding three sisters and that it took place in the Low Country, I had to have it. I can't wait to get started on it. 

Vacation Bible School starts this week. It is Ageny D3 as the theme. My granddaughter requested that our craft be glasses for disguise to go with the VBS spy theme. I found these at Walmart for just $2.50 for the everything. 

VBS officially started last night. It was a blast as usual. I am helping with the music & motions for the 2 - 5 year old. They are in three different classes. I would say all total we had about 40-50 kids in those age groups that came to activity time. The 5 year old class had 22 attending just from that age group.

God's Coloring Book

One of my favorite songs ever heard was God's Coloring Book by Dolly Parton. I hope you enjoy.

This inspired me to share some of God's beauty with you on this lovely Sunday morning.

Busy, busy, busy

I am heading out to the store this morning to stock up on groceries. Then I will be going to get my oldest grandson for the weekend. He is 15 and we are going to have a one of our game weekends. We play a variety of different ones. I usually lose, but I am hoping to pic up some Chinese checkers before I get him so maybe I will have a chance of winning at least one game of something.



I am pretty sure we will be playing a lot of Axis and Allies. Keep in mind my grandson is a brilliant strategist and this game is all about strategy. We have been playing it for a year or two and I still don't quite understand the concept and he has to help me decide my moves.....A LOT. Hmmm, that could explain why he always beats me. I may have to try it today without any help.



I am sure that supper will be Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza, breadsticks and wings. That is our favorite meal and since we live just a few minutes from Pizza Hut Express, I usually just run out and pick it up for us.



In the morning, we will heading to Sunday School and Church. Our Pre-K class will be decorating their room for VBS. Our theme this year is Agency D3 - Discover, Decide, Defend. It is spy related so instead of a craft we are going to play a Christian version of I spy for the kindergarten class.



Sunday night, VBS kicks off and will run for a week. I am going to make the angel food apple cake for Sunday's dessert. They ask volunteers to bring dessert each night and I usually try to take something simple.



Well, I'm off to go get my game partner. Hope everybody has a great weekend.

Friday Finds

These are some items I saw last week when I was at a few of the local antique stores. I didn't buy any of these items, but I thought I would share some of the more interesting finds our local stores have. Some had good prices; some not so good. The first think I saw made me think of Hanna and Erica over at Thrifting Sisters. They love vintage Christmas and this piece was exquisite.

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I couldn't believe I found an entire gooseberry set, but the price was $145 and I just don't pay that much at one time for something. 

This one booth was Pyrex heaven, but all the items I wanted were being sold in the whole set only. 

I love vintage. I love floral. I love pink. Guess you can tell this booth just hit all my sweet spots.

I love milk glass and my favorite is anything hob nail design. I guess I will be going back to the booth on more than one occasion. 

I am not sure why, but I fell in love with this picture. I think it is because of the old oil lamp. We have a couple that belonged to Hubby's grandpa and I just love them.

Another one that I liked. Same reason plus the yarn and knitting needles in it. 

Floral + teacups = I am in heaven. Love, love, love this display.

I love sandwich glass and have never seen such a huge display of it. 

More Pyrex heaven. The only problem was that I had almost everything on here that had a decent price. The things I didn't have but would like to have were too high.

One of those "I should have got these" moments. I may go back this weekend for these cookie cutters.

I thought of getting this for my beach room, but wasn't sure where to put it. 

I love Pyrex mixing bowls and I don't have this pattern. It was in great shape for the price and when you split the price between three bowls it wasn't bad.

More Christmas pics for Erica and Hanna.

These were really vintage lights.

I almost bought these little guys. Wasn't sure if $4.00 each was a good price or not since I haven't bought much vintage Christmas. Does anybody know? 

I just wanted to bring all this home with me. 

Check out that pretty blue. Does anybody know anything about these pieces. I think they said Anchor Hocking but not sure.

Lots of pretty vintage Christmas ornaments.

When we were little, we had what Mommy always called "What-Not shelves". We had a set of these. I remember them so well. She would sometimes get them down and we would get to set at the coffee table and play with them for a few minutes. I loved these. I should have bought them. I may go back and get them.

Being a Thirty-One consultant, we get excited when see something random in the wild that says 31 on it. So I had to take a pic of this to share with my Thirty-One sisters. 

Well, those were some things that caught my eye this past weekend. 

Some summer crafting

My friend, Stevie, is a very talented crafter. She is always coming up with great ideas for things to make. Her recent projects were to "summer-up" her back porch. She has a couple of chairs that she cover the cushions in a pretty material. 

She made these cute pillows to compliment the dotted pattern of the chair. She did the monogramming herself. (Check out her work at www.steviemaraies.com)

She painted a Mason jar and bought some pretty spring flowers to fill it with. 

She hung this sign she had bought.

She painted an old yard sale table and stenciled her last initial. She colored in the stencil using a sharpie. The result was cute. 

Now she has a great little relaxing area on her porch.