Happy Labor day!!!

In the spirit of Labor Day Weekend Carl, Shawn and I have been working our tails off!!

We went to an auction early Saturday Morning and bought two of the storage buildings. One only had four heavy rubber mats and a set of therapy stairs. Carl needs those rubber mats so bad!! He's in a wheelchair and when he works on computers he shocks the heck out of everyone!! We've been looking for some good ones, but they are expensive. So those felt like a great score because we got them for so cheap. The therapy stairs we will sell on craigslist.

The other building we bought was full!! I could see a few things that looked nice, and since the manager of the property is a friend of ours he leaned over and told us there was some nice things in the back. So we bid and got it for a great price!!

For the past two days we have been going through all the boxes in the front. They are garage/barn type items. There's a saddle and all types of things for horses, and an over abundance of tools. Hubby and the kiddo are having cows about all the things they are pulling out. There's a chainsaw, a sawsall, three circular saws, and every other tool you can think off. We have dragged home three really big heavy boxes to dump out and go through. I'm still hoping for a chop saw somewhere!!

Today we will head back over and since we've gotten all the boxes out of the way we will be pulling out the furniture pieces to really see what we have! I know there's a four foot wide curved glass antique display cabinet. I have always wanted one!! It's huge! Also I have already pulled out an antique table that's going to go in our breakfast area. It needs a good cleaning and painting. I think it's going black.

This is a cabinet that I pulled out. It's going to get painted as well and get some glass doors made for it. This all is subject to change, depending on what we've got all the way in the back of the building!

We also pulled out a ladder that will fold into different positions and can act as a scaffolding. I've mentioned that I like to paint. I have painted several friends homes, guided them on colors and went to work. I love that I can be so brave and decisive helping them with color and the finished product always looks so good!!  This ladder will help alot!  Here's my new ladder!

In the next few weeks I will be cutifying all the furniture and the boys will be digging through tools and cleaning them up. Then we will be having garage sales for a few weeks, if they don't go well we'll get a booth a la pulga (flea market)and sell. Then we will also sell on craigslist. We are confident we will make our money back. Just the few antiques I'm keeping would cost as much as we paid for the whole thing!

Flower and I hope that you have a great monday!!!

Hasta  luego (see you later)

Sunday's Delights

I know God listens and is moved when we pray. I've been through some really tough things in my 40 years. I want to share with you something that was a moment of clarity and relief for me.

People say this, "God never gives you more than you can handle." They say this trying to make you feel better, and they mean so well. But let me tell you that it's a lie! A lie knitted together by satan meant to destroy. We get told this, then wonder why in the world can't we handle what we're going through. Why do we feel too weak to walk through, if indeed, God wouldn't give us more than we could handle?! This can lead to questions about God and about our own christianity.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:8-9a, "We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the senctence f deathl" Now if Paul felt pressed beyond his ability to endure, can't we? Yes! What God's word actually says that people misquote is this, " And God is faithful; He will not let you be TEMPTED beyond what you can bear." It does not say hardship! Now back to 2 Corinthians 1, but this time let's look at 9b, "But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead." God allows(not causes)hardship in our lives, that feel overwhelming and like too much, so that we will rely on Him. We can not handle these situations without fully leaning on Him, relying on Him, and trusting in Him.

Now this is my prayer for you :For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen" Ephesans 3:14-21


I left this as a comment to a wonderful blogger beneathmyheart this week and I felt that this would be a great Sunday post! I hope this leaves you feeling encouraged and strengthened to continue walking through your valley and get to the mountain top to fellowship with you Father!

Have a great Sunday y'all!

Everyone loves a cute pair of shoes!

Today I'm hooked on a pair of my cute shoes! I'm playing the roll of June Cleaver as I Dyson around the house in my Steve Madden's, purchased earlier this summer at DSW. I said a prayer before I left that house that day, becasue I know that God cares about the small details in my life, not just the big moments. I was there looking specifically for the perfect pair of shoes to match an outfit I had picked out to wear. I walked in and there was a beam of light from heaven shining down on a shoe display! Okay, maybe it was just the bright flourescents! But, there they were, the perfect green shoes. Now, my size 7 feet ran as fast as they could to see if there was the right size. AND there was! They had me at hello. Who could resist really? Ruffles, crayon green, wedge heel...*big sigh*
They've been worn so much! I had no idea how many outfits I would put together to go with the little babies, but everytime I go out in them I can always find my fellow shoe girls, they always stop me!


Cute, no?! What's your favorite shoe today??

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My First Tablescape Thursday

Hi! So this is my first Tablescape Thursday with Susan at Between Naps on th Porch. I am super html illiterate, so I'm going to try really hard to link to her blog, we'll see how this all works out!

Today I am posting pictures of a regular everyday tablesetting at our house. Nothing super special, just homey and nice, because having a tablecloth and cloth napkins just makes dinner feel more special! :) This is dinner for two, just me and you! Have a seat!

I love casual weeknight suppers. I've always called the evening meal supper. Growing up dinner was at lunch time, the big meal. Supper was leftovers from dinner.

These are my everyday dishes. They are Todd English from HSN. I love having the different colors.

The napkins are actually vintage kitchen towels. My Granny used them up until the day she gave them to me and most of them are still going strong.

The chargers are cute wicker rounds I found at Walmart for $3.50 each! I love the casual feel they add to the table!
That's just my everyday drinking glasses and silverware. The glasses I got at Sam's Club, but the flatware I've had forever and couldn't begin to tell you where I got it!

The cute little crystal tealight holders I got from Steinmart on clearance! I love me some steinmart!!


I think we all know all about these guys!

These little cuties were my Granny's and she had them for as long as I can remember, I don't know anything about them, except that they are so sweet!




There it is! Bon Appetite!! :)

Curtains on a front door?? YES

So, I talked a bit about this before. My rental home faces West. We have had 60 straight days of over 100 degree days here. Seriously! No, really. And this area isn't called the land of two summers for nothing! It's pretty much always hot here. We get cold fronts occassionally. Little bits of winter here and there. And I use the word winter lightly. What I call winter would make a Canadian wet their pants from laughing so hard! Hey, I need a sweater if it's going to be below 70 degrees!

The beautiful leaded glass door is topped by a beautiful window. We loved the light that flooded in. However, after living with it for a bit, well the a/c was running its poor heart out and we could not keep the front of the house cool. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

I searched for curtains long enough that would be in our budget. It took me all summer, but I found some beautiful curtains on Overstock.com. They were very affordable and then marked down for clearance. I bought four panels, two for the front door and two for the formal living area next to the front door. However, the formal living room is now our "warehouse" that stores all the product for our ebay business. I may still hang the curtains in there, just to help with the heat and light.

So here's a close up of the curtains:

They are a bronzey metallic color, nice sheen. I love the embroidery work on them! They weren't lined so I added black out fabric to the back so that we would have total light control.

So here's a picture with the drapes pulled back and light streaming in. This was taken in the morning, so in the evenings you can multiply the sunlight coming through by 100.

I hung them on an oil rubbed bronze rod. They were puddling on the floor a bit, I loved it! However, hubbys wheelchair wheels kept getting hung up and yanking the curtains out of the clips, so I have pinned them up. Nothing permanent though, so they can transition into a new home later. They just barely skim the floor now. We absolutely love them! I'm looking for a trim I like to add down the edges of the curtains so they have an extra bit of luxury feeling to them. Of course I'll show pics of that! So here's the gorgeous ending! I love being able to open the them in the mornings and close them a bit in the afternoons and then completely cut the glaring sun out in the evenings!

Ahhhh Fabulous! An extra bonus is now total strangers aren't sticking there noses on the glass looking in when they ring the door bell!

Tomorrow I hope to have my first tablescape for Susans Tablescape Thursdays!!!

Hasta!

Awesome blog giveaway!

Wow, I just discovered a blog that I'm loving! Here's a link to her blog called beneathmyheart http://beneathmyheart.blogspot.com/ Unfortunately I'm not html savy and can not make that look like it's supposed to. I have many of the same projects that she's done or is doing in the works at my house as well. Apparently we drool over the same magazines! Her style is very similar to mine! I'm even more excited to get started and I'm excited to try her mocho glaze on my salvation army find!! Y'all head over and check her out!!!

Talk to y'all later!!

Computer hiccup!

Hi to anyone who may be reading. I had a bit of a computer hiccup. My new laptop is acting up and I've had to go back to old faithful! My ginormous four year old cluncker laptop. My camera came in and I've been playing with it. I will have so many picture to share this week!!!

Bye!