Rabbit Trails

I got this little mousy for 25-cents. I don't know where I'm going to put it for sure. I always like to think about it for a bit. After painting some in the hallway and doing the school book room, I'm going to be more careful about nailing holes in walls without thought. Of that I am guilty.

Kim and I re-did the purple shelves in the kitchen. We have been enjoying this kitchen for almost a year now. I'm thankful every time I walk into it.

A friend gave me this delightful fabric.........I wanted to use it for something that I would use and SEE a lot.........it worked perfect for a sink curtain!

So we had this blank spot in the kitchen. I found a yellow frame with a matted thing? in it. The top left picture is Lydia running in Aunt Nancy's back yard.......when we were there because of hurricane Ike. The next picture is what I called the birdhouse chair. I hung my old enamel pans on it........it kind of crumbled, so we had to put it on the side of the road. I'm glad a I have a good picture to remember it by. The next is a food smile. We were at a church camp out eating breakfast. I'm sure I ate the do-nuts, but I don't remember eating an apple slice. Why would I do that? The little doll belongs to my sister. It is a really neat little doll. I don't know if she has a name. I LOVE radishes, and I love my tomato salt shaker. The picture with the blue chair was also my sister's stuff. Just still life. A chair, a plant, a clock. The bottom left makes me smile.........I love that picture.........just like the bottom middle. I LOVE to see dark blue Aut...

kitchen drawer pulls

I hope you all have a great Sunday! Happy Day Happy Day Since Jesus Washed My Sins Away

I have been cutting and tearing out magazine pictures for around 3 years.........if I saw something that I liked and I owned the magazine, I would tuck it away in a folder......and hoped it would some day turn in to 'my' kitchen. Well, it did. The left picture was the color I liked, the bottom middle is like our sink.......above that picture are open shelves........which we have. The picture to the right gave me the thoughts to do something a little different......everything in a kitchen doesn't have to be the same color? Does it?

I had a neat little thing left over from the ORANGE kitchen that I wanted to use. James put it right above his coffee maker. I love measuring spoons.....plastic, coppery and silver.

While James was hooking up the stove and fixing up the vent hood above the stove, I was out front cleaning things up. I love old chicken feeders...........I like chickens, too, but they take up more space than the feeders, so I will just buy the feeders. I almost got rid of the yellow flower bowl, but I cleaned it up and kept it........just right for floating yellow flowers. my tool chest with the garden things I really use I put my old water cooler up on bricks it looks like somebody actually used it not too long ago it has a yellow rope tied around the lid and handle my $2 garage sale stool I bought new tips for the legs James oiled the twirl thing I hosed it down now it's in the house

garden tools, some old some new my old sprinkler......see the four choices you have, you just twist it and the sprinkle will change! an old cabinet with my 'outside' things dad gave me the little gray pitcher (on top left) the white enamel bowl by the pitcher was purchased somewhere on our Mineral Wells Vacation the cow on the left just will not break, no matter what kid plays with him, he still has all four legs you think being two faced is bad, the kitty planter on the bottom shelf has three faces. dad gave me the kettle, I had the coffee pot, and the little vase with a handle matches perfectly the bottle inside the little vase holds rocks from Bee Creek, a favorite vacation water spot I love old heaters. even if they're rusty

I found some adorable little nesting bowls at our SPCA thrift store today.......and some shiny crochet thread.......and an OLD vitamin holder. It's pink. I just love these little bowls. As Evelyn would say.......they're so pitty, they're my favorite.

this would be decoration for the kitchen it's been waiting in a box for a few months there's all kinds of cool things in the box on top you see a very old lunch box it was a gift to me from a church member on the right is a bag full of old aprons they were from my Aunt Sharon the plastic zipper bag is full of neat dishtowels and YEE HAW! lights and fans and stuff like that this is my humble bumble little light that will go above the sink isn't it the neatest thing you ever did see? and the new microwave jet plane style oh me

coming out of the car wash looks like this........it looks like somewhere you'd go on vacation......... above the table above the sink above the coffee spot We are thinking abut lights like these for the kitchen......we may totally change our minds........we have a little more time to think about it.

this is what Kimberly and Lydia got me for my birthday I LOVE it! I'm going to wait to hang it up........it might even go in the new kitchen.

my Mary Poppin's hat my wooden bunnies my beautiful violet coffee cup I used some fabric leftover from the curtain to cover the desk it has a varnish on it that has been sticky for 30 years it can't be ignored, so I always have to cover it with something my poem books this is as mushy as I get and sentimental these are my sentimental books sometimes I get a hankering to read a mushy poem or look at a flower this is the rocking chair James bought me a LONG time ago it is nice to put quilts on it isn't great for sitting it just isn't. the curtains in the background were made out of a cloth shower curtain yay my desk my old chair the old rocking chair do you see the purple quilted pillow....look to the left.......it matches a quilt it was a lovely present from somebody the old bear in the chamber pot is old, too I think it got it when I was a baby she is rather falling apart

This is an old sticker that was probably for the end of a baby bed........I put it on an old tin bread box........ I love it when I run across an old baby bed that DOES have these kind of stickers........now that was decorating!