Trevor and I are crazy garage salers. We get up early and map out the garage sales we can find postings for online and then hit the streets. I love garage sales and never knowing what we are going to find. We go almost every weekend unless one or both of us ends up working both on Friday and Saturday. But we have found good deals. Recently we hit up a garage sale where I swear everything was 5 cents. Best garage sale ever. I found a pair of Nike tennis shoes there that looked brand new and the perfect size for Trevor and we only paid 10 cents! How awesome! Also thanks to that particular garage sale I have started a collection of Children's books. We are NOT pregnant but decided we might as well start picking up books when we come across them. I love to read and really want my kids to love it too. So I am planning on getting as many as I can for as cheap as I can. It has become sort of a hobby for me. If anyone has children's books that they no longer need or use Ill take them!
When I end up with doubles (which has happened) I usually donate them. I just recently found a place downtown that is for troubled kids and so I think Ill start donating my doubles there now that I know about it. My favorite kids books to find are the little golden books, the little critter books, dr. seuss, bernastien bear books, and any and all Disney books of course :) Not that we limit to just those. If its in good condition and a good price and looks like a good read we pick it up. I just love books and am planning on my kids loving them too :)
Also at garage sales we find projects. I recently bought two chairs and Trevor got a little end table to fix up. Trevor starting sanding the little table and it already looks so good! I'm excited to see the finished project. For the chairs I got I plan on sanding them down. possibly painting them or maybe just staining them and then re-doing the fabric on the seats. That will be the hard part I need to find someone that can help me do it right.
My other project is I picked up a old bicycle. its one of the cruiser styles with the baskets on the front. I got it cheap! It definitely needs a new seat and a paint job but other than that and a rusty chain its a solid bike. I may sell it when its all done but at the moment I plan on keeping it because its going to look great when I'm done!!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Summer is going by too fast!
I haven't posted in way to long I know and I have so much to catch up on. First and best news of all is that Trevor has finished his first year at OIT and he got AMAZING grades! Made out with all A's and only 1 B and that was because he got lazy and didn't do his math homework. All this means that he has one year left of prerequisites and then he can finally apply for his program which will take two more years of school before he has an externship somewhere. I have no idea where that somewhere will be. It could be in Oregon, Utah, Washington, Alaska or maybe even somewhere on the opposite end of the country. We will just have to worry about that when the time arrives. Right now I am just counting down until we are out of Klamath Falls. I can't say I hate it here anymore, I guess its growing on me. But I think the main reason is that we have some friends here now. We have a pretty great ward, which is were I have met most of my friends down here. Come September I'm supposed to be running a half marathon in Newport with my friend Joni. Although we don't run enough so I don't think that I can be ready.... we will see. Here are some pictures of Klamath falls from our walks and other happenings.
I took all those pictures on our walks. We see pelicans and I saw a Ruddy Duck (blue bill) for the first time ever and would have been so disappointed if I didn't have my camera with me. I basically never go anywhere without my camera. Someday I want to get a really nice camera. I love taking nature shots but love talking pictures of people too. It would be awesome to really get into photography because I love it!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Klamath Community Craft Day- Fake Flower Hair Clips
Same thing happened with these clips. I signed up to make 3 but it turns out that meant 3 sets of 3. Which means I got to make 9 of them. I like this kind alot though. I think they would look adorable on a little girls head.
Klamath Community Craft Day- Silk Flower hair cips
An interesting story about these flowers. I thought I signed up to make 6 of these. But it turns out I signed up to make 6 sets of them and a set is 3 flowers. Which means I got to make 18 of these bad boys. They got easier as I went but they are suprisingly time consuming.
I made some bright colored ones, some zebra ones, some sparkly ones and some brown/more neutral ones. I think they turned out pretty alright. They all have hair clips attached to the back. Now I dont really know what to do with them I was only making them so I knew how to do it and now I have a ton. Maybe I'll use them as gifts. Or save them incase I have a little girl someday.
Klamath Community Craft Day- Menu Planner
This Project was much more time consuming and I'm not even completely finished yet. First you take a thin board and paint it a base color. When that is dry you modge podge the 3 1/4" inch strip of paper to the top and 1 1/4" strip to the bottom. Then when that was dry I took a ribbon and placed it where the paper meets the wood with a hot glue gun. Then I made the envelopes for the side. The top envelope will contain the names of favorite, common or easy recipes cut in strips so they can be clipped on the different days. The day clips are just clips with a decal that i painted and wrote the day of the week on. The bottom envelope can be used for actual recipes or your grocery list. I want to completely finish it eventually, but so far im liking it.Klamath Community Craft Day- Wooden Pumpkins
1. You need wood. A 2X4 works best.
2. Cut the wood into equal lengths. 3"-6" or whatever you like best
3. Paint the sides of the blocks whatever color orange you like best
4. Use a strip of Green fabric to tie the blocks together. Tie in a bow at the top
5. Add raffia or twin to give it some character
Thats it! And now you have very cute easy to make pumpkin decorations.
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