A few of my yard sale finds, updated.

The little pink tin (.10 at the yard sale) holds my very favorite vintage green buttons. I {heart} buttons :D

This little picture (.10 at the yard sale) turned out way cuter in real life, I had a hard time getting a good picture of it. Anyway, I added a few buttons, some ribbon and a rub on. Cute, cute! :)
Here is the little picture in my kitchen window with the little glass (also .10 at the yard sale) doesn't it make a cute vase. I love the beading around the bottom. 
I knew the silver bowl (.50 at the yard sale) would look great when it was cleaned up and tarnish free. Right now it is on my fireplace mantel holding flowers, it would look cute this fall with pumpkins and gourds, and Christmas with ornaments or pine cones.

I'm off to Lowes to buy more spray paint and a few other things for my other projects. 

Hope you are having a creative day!

Coffee, bagels, beach and yard sales!

This morning we had no regular coffee in the house, oops, I thought maybe I could have some nice flavored coffee for a change, but the hubby said  "no way"! So I had a backup plan! :) Coffee and bagels on the beach! And some yard sales since we are out and about so early!
So after a stop at The Bagelry for coffee and bagels to go, we headed for Squalicum Beach. Yes, the sun has decided to leave us for a couple days, but that is okay with us! 

These are my finds  for the morning. I spent $12.00. It would have been less, but one of the sales was for charity, so I doubled what they quoted me.

Most of these pieces are going to be refurbished. Hubby has gone to play with his friends in the woods, Koko and I are headed to Lowes to finish refurbishing our goodies. I'll be back soon with the results.

Have a FUN day!

Lake Padden~ June 2009~ 88 degrees

We had a wonderful picnic at Lake Padden. It was full of people, walking, running, biking, swimming, and fishing.

The people at this picnic table were all taking an evening dip in the lake after playing guitar and eating dinner.
The wildflowers around Bellingham this time of year are just gorgeous. I love the color scheme here with the different shades of purple flowers and the little peachy orange berries.

This was the last shot of the evening, with the moon over the lake... breathtaking! 

New toys and Sara's Scrapbook

I got some fun new toys today in the mail to finish up some projects.

I thought I would share some pages from Sara's scrapbook here also. I kept it pretty simple, but I am happy with how it turned out. The photo above is the cover.

I asked Sara to bring a couple pictures of Dad working on the babies room. So I could include them.

That's it for now, I will show a few more later in the week. We are on our way down to the water for a picnic dinner! Have a great evening.

Relaxing day....

Well, after moving all the soil up the hill to fill the two garden boxes yesterday, we didn't have it in us to do it again today with bark. So we took a day to just enjoy the back yard, do laundry, clean house, run to Trader Joe's. Scott is taking Amanda and her family flying over the islands, I am hoping he comes back with some pictures. 
In the mean time, here are a few more peeks at the back yard! We have corn, pumpkins, cucumbers, zucchini, tomato, jalapeno, kohlrabi, cabbage, beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, carrots, cauliflower, eggplant, and cantaloupe. 
For herbs we have basil, chives, cilantro, parsley, mint, and oregano. We will probably add rosemary and thyme also.
I planted most of the pots this year in red, white and blue which is very different for me. Usually I am pinks, purples kinda girl. Which I still used on the front porch :)
Hope you had a relaxing day!

If hubby took pictures I will post again later!

Girls evening!

I spent an evening after work with two of my friends from work getting pedicures for Tandy's birthday. We had fun! It was nice to be pampered.
Thanks Alicia and Tandy! It was fun, wanna go again next month? :0

Have a great evening! Happy Birthday Tandy!

Lots of yard work!

Lots of yard work has kept us very busy the last couple weekends! Hard work, but will be nice when it is done. :) We rebuilt the pond and water fall, and discovered we still had 2 fish in there! We thought the raccoons had gotten them all. We weeded around the  pavers on the patio, planted flowers in lots of pots, built 2 raised beds for our garden, and planted the garden!

 We aren't done yet though so I can only show you some peeks. Tomorrow we will lay down some bark, and next week end build a fence around the garden to keep out the critters, including our little black one. And build a deck. 

We did sneak in some time last night to get Gelato (my first in months) and walk in Fairhaven to the ferry terminal. Oh, and look at the sail boats. :D

Hope you are having a great weekend!

First Sailing Lesson!

This was the view from the living room window when we woke up this morning! WOOHOO! Gorgeous day for sailing!
We drove to Fairhaven, to the Community Boating Center.....
This is us on the water! We learned so much, and I think we could probably manage a small boat ourselves now. We are considering taking a more in depth class next month.

The boat we learned in was a 14 footer. It was perfect for learning! We spent 3 hours on the water. It was beautiful..... I didn't take many pictures, I was learning to Jibe, and Tack ;) Our instructor's name is Sam and he did a great job. I am not the most mechanical minded girl there is, but I understood alot of what he was teaching. He pretty much had us do it all.
When we were done, we picked up Koko, and dinner and headed to one of our favorite places, the Marina!!! Zuanich Point more or less.
I hadn't had enough of boats yet, and I really wanted to spend some time drooling a little!
We walked all the way around the marina, but did not find a sailboat perfect for us.

Scott even let me drive him with the top down today, it was 77 degrees, then he washed my car for me, he's such a nice guy!

Hope your weekend was fabulous too!