The Past is Precious

Here's a picture of some precious finds that I call shabby chic. I am happy when I can find this much in one trip. I see so many blogs with tons of pictures of what they find in one trip. Where I'm from, in the south, people didn't have a lot and tended to use up and wear out what they did have. Their few belongings were precious. Some families may be returning to that frame of mind in our own times.

Picked up a couple of these white paper wedding bells, but I think I can use them as Christmas decorations too, just as well. That's my cat, "Snowball" in the background. He thinks the bed belongs to him.

A crocheted potholder in a really light green and cream colors. A tin mold, some retro napkins that are for sale in my etsy shop and a piece of pink material with hearts all over it.

This apron is so delicate and completely sheer. I can't imagine this being very useful in the kitchen. It's just too pretty.

This is a bonnet I found. This was my favorite find and I was very excited about it. I can never find these and I've always wanted to collect some.

Constance Joy

Remember I was going to tell you about the bassett hound collection? Well, here she is, the reason behind them. This is Wayne's dog. Her name is Constance Joy, but we call her Connie. She's anything but a Joy to me. This dog can destroy everything in her path if you give her access. Of course, she acts like an angel when Wayne is home.

My adopted Road

I walk the road that runs in front of my house every morning or evening. Part of the road is paved and down past a corner, it becomes a dirt road. Even though a train track runs parallel with it and the highway beside that, it is very peaceful. I love walking out in nature and hearing the birds talking to each other. This is a picture of the dirt road part. You will see in the pictures below, a sampling of the piles of trash thrown on the side of the road. This bothers me everytime I take a walk and I keep thinking I need to clean it up. Dusty and I started the other day by picking up drink cans that we will take to recycle.

Dusty helped crush the cans so we could get more in our bag. It helps to do this before stockpiling anyway. We put them all in a barrel until it's full, then dump them in the trunk of the car to take to the recycling plant.

Dusty keeps thinking he can find something useful. Most of the time, it's all just trash.

This is me holding the bag as usual. Since I did most of the work, shouldn't I get the money from recycling these?

This is just a sampling of the trash along the road. I'm feeling very compelled to get all of this picked up. The road would look and feel so much nicer without all this to look at.

This is one of the bigger piles of trash that I dread picking up. This could be 2-3 bags worth. Oh, but wouldn't it be nice to take a walk without seeing this!

Other than the numerous piles of trash, we also found two piles of scallop shells. What can I do with these?

This and that

I've been without my laptop for a few days, so I haven't posted like I wanted to. I had to have my hard drive replaced, still don't know why. Anyway...I have my laptop back and thought I would show you my son on a local church's meditation trail and a few pics of some shabby chic items in my bedroom. Only look at the items, please! My home is sooooooo far from being even started. It's sort of like the car in the movie "Christine". Putting new windshield wipers on a busted windshield! Oh well, here is Dusty taking a short break on that trail I mentioned.

This is him a bit in front of me. He was fascinated with this trail. He loves the woods. I do too, but the mosquitoes were brutal.

Losing him near the end of the trail. Hey, this is supposed to be a meditation trail, not a race trail!

Here are a few pics of items in my bedroom. It's a work in progress so I'm only showing some items. Remember, this is a battle in my family. I'm pretty in pink, they're grease pit monkeys! Here is my beloved chenille bedspread. This is dear to me. I spent a whopping $3 for this beauty at a thrift store. Nothing around my bed is quite complete, so won't show you any of that just yet. Just showing you some of what I have to work with.

This is a favorite find of mine. I respect the work that goes into needlepoint pictures because I do it myself. This is quite old and yellowed, but still speaks volumes. This hangs in my bedroom.

This is the small collection of Bassett Hounds that has been started for my hubby. More on why this in another post.

This is a vintage mirror I bought from a stash of items that was donated to my mom's church sale they have every year. I had to rescue this little girl, she belonged with me. Notice the gray walls in my bedroom? Yeah, gotta do something about that.

This is the close up of the little girl image at the top of the mirror. Isn't she just so pretty?

This is a gorgeous feather wreath I discovered. The only thing I changed was to wrap a pearl strand around it. Would have loved to have found this in white, or better yet, pink!

And apparently, I collect purses. These are some of many that have caught my eye.