Saturday with Steve…

Woke up Saturday morning and looked at Steve and said “Wanna go to Chattanooga?”  He said, “Sure”.

So….off we went…

Nancy at Silver Linings had mentioned on her blog about a place in Chattanooga called Dwelling and it sounded like my kind of place….and it was…

Love the brick and plaster on the walls…this was upstairs…

This mirror was $35!  I wish I had gotten it!  Who cares I have nowhere to put it?  Does that ever matter????

Cute table and chairs….loved the green…

This place was FULL!  I saw a picture downstairs I wanted…when I got back down there…GONE!!!  I know better!!!  Should have carried it around with me!

Then we went to a place called Architectural Salvage…Stained glass galore…

columns, windows, pediments, you name it, they had it….

But it was HIGH!!!

I thought this big chest was interesting….

This was the sign on it…

I have to wonder….the Vittatoe children drag this HUGE chest home from the battlefield, it has been in the family since 1863…and now it is for sale?  Kinda sad….that was some feat…dragging this thing home off of a battlefield!  There could have been live ammo still on the ground for pete’s sake!

(Thought I would throw in a little history lesson for ya’)

Then we went to Knitting Mill Antiques, ate at Knitting Mill Food Works and it was awesome!  I got a Riverfront Cobb Salad with bleu cheese vinaigrette!  It was SO GOOD!!!  It had avocado in it and I LOVE avocados!

I went AWOL with the camera at Knitting Mill, I don’t know why, but it was HUGE!!  I think I was totally overwhelmed!  My purchases for the day included….

This cute potted Rosemary plant….thingy….

loved the moss on the pot…$11.00 minus 25%….

This corkscrew for $3 which both of the ladies who checked me out wanted!

Loved the lines….

These itsy bitsy silver mice….It said they were place card holders….I just liked’em..I got four of them…the box they came in said Fischer Jewelers….$10.00

The little iron gate….$4

And these brackets for $10.  I am going to paint them black and mount them under my cabinets by the sink…

And one cutie patootie husband….Priceless….I AM  a lucky gal….

Thanks for stopping by!!

Kisses!

Lou Cinda :)

TJ Maxx Finds

I LOVE T.J. Maxx!  I mean I REALLY love it!  I go in there on an average of 3-4 times a week, because you know, I gotta find the good stuff cos’ it doesn’t last long in there.  I have learned the hard way that if I see something I want, I better get it then, because if I decide to “think about it” and come back…it will be GONE!

So yesterday I went in and found a few things…the little domed pedestal is one find.  I mean, I kept thinking I really don’t know where I will use this but…I REALLY love it!  And at $12.99??  I got it!

Now my favorite part of this photo would be the TJ Maxx price tag still on the bowl! lol  I really need to pay better attention!!  Just sayin’

The marble slab, if you remember, I got at a yard sale for $2.  It is one of my favorite things….  :)

Yeah, I know….rabbits….but I already had them and I was trying to find something to put under the dome with a little color…

They really look happy in there…all smiling and all…

Cherries….a bowl full of cherries….

a rogue cherry….

I LOVE these dishes!  This bowl was $2.99 at the Maxx and I grab them every time I see one in this pattern…

My old flatware found at a yard sale for a dollar or two…

More Rooster plates!  Got these at the Maxx also and the candles were Laura Ashley candles.  I got four for $4.99 and just tucked three of them in the basket…in case of a power outage you know, they will be handy…yeah right!

Thank you for visiting…

Kisses…

Lou Cinda :)

Randomness….

I have not done a great deal on the inside of my house these past weeks.  We have been seriously KILLING ourselves outside trying to “maintain” the yard.  We have a hedge from the pit of hell and I ain’t even lyin’.  More on that in a later post.

However, I had previously shared the below little “vignette” and I liked it, but….it seemed sort of, I don’t know….BLAND?

So….that is what burlap is for right???  I just but a piece off of some I have in the closet…bunched it up…

frayed the edges….love that frayed edge…

I think it looks so much better…Texture….a good thing…

And you all know how I LOVE keys….

And of course, I have to throw in a couple of rabbits….

Can’t have too many rabbits now can you?

Or cats apparently…this greeted me when I walked into the kitchen this morning….Simon

And then of course, “The Bella”….

Also, I wanted to tell you guys about a new Blog….It is called Silver Lining.  Nancy lives right here in my neck of the woods and she has really great taste and her blog is also very funny AND informative.  She visited a consignment store called Dwelling, that is in Chattanooga.  I did not know about this place, but I can promise you I will visit!!  So, please check her blog out and make her feel welcome in this wonderful Blog World!!!  You will be glad you did….

Much love to each of you….and thanks for visiting….

Oh, and on a side note….remember the grasshoppers?  From last year?  Yeah, they are back…but this time I have Hot Shot and I ain’t afraid to use it!

Kisses!!

Fun on the Fourth

We have friends who have a place on the river and we are fortunate that we go just about every weekend in the summer.  We spent this past weekend there and had a blast!  But honey, it was HOT!!!  Upper 90’s everyday!

My youngest Cameron and his sweet girlfriend Malory came up and spent the day on Saturday!  Aren’t they adorable??  :)

The rode on the inner tube…they are brave…I am too afraid I might break something at my “advanced” age…

There they go….

We went out on the boat Saturday night to watch the fireworks on the water…so much fun!!  Though it really makes me nervous coming back at about 11:00 in the DARK!  Just you and about 200 other BOATS!!

Steve was our Captain and he got us home safely!  If it had been up to me, we would have had to wait until dawn so I could see how to get us back!

We made many wonderful memories…..A wonderful Day :)

Thank you for visiting…..

Where Have I Been?

I have been to the beautiful Gulf of Mexico….

Panama City Beach, Florida…

Isn’t it beautiful?

To those of us familiar with the beaches in this area of the United States…..there are none more beautiful than our sugar white sandy beaches…we love it….

Panama City Beach has been very fortunate…they have been spared the horrid oily mess….so far….

So far we have been able to go there and swim, and parasail, and bask in its beauty….

We saw these guys walking by everyday….they are the spotters….

They wore heavy shoes and boots….

Some wore long sleeved shirts and hats to protect them from the sun….

The walked by once or twice a day…they were looking for signs of oil, tar balls, a sheen on the water….

And at night?

We saw this from our balcony….

These are not children with flashlights looking for crabs…

These were men and women out on the beaches when the tide came in…looking for oil…signs of oil…

It was an eerie sight….surreal….

this couldn’t happen here…not to beaches that we love…that we have vacationed on for years….brought here by our parents as children and now we bring our children….these beaches which have given us so much joy and so many wonderful memories…

Our sister beaches in Alabama, Orange Beach, Gulf Shores…Louisiana…have been affected horribly by the BP oil spill…the thing that we never thought would happen…has happened….

My family and I decided to forge ahead with our vacation…to support the Gulf and go anyway, amid the fears of oil on the beaches….we decided if the oil came, we would sit at the pool and face the beach….but, we were lucky…

Panama City Beach so far, has dodged the bullet…

Linda at Coastal Charm lives on the Gulf and she and so many others are feeling the consequences of the oil spill…this tragic, tragic oil spill, which is affecting lives, livelihoods, wildlife, marine life…everything…

Please visit Linda’s blog…she has phone numbers listed that you can call to urge and BEG the President to waive the Jones Act for the duration of this crisis.  This would allow foreign vessels into our waters to aide us in the oil clean up.  Skimmers that are capable of doing so much more…to help clean up our Gulf….

Please help!

So these beautiful beaches will  be there for our grandchildren….and theirs….

much love to each of you….

God Bless and Keep those affected…..

The Cabinet Project

Well, sometime on Saturday I decided I was going to go ahead and paint my kitchen cabinets.  Now, mind you, I have wanted to paint them FOREVER!!  HOWEVER, my friend Jamie, said “OMG!! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU WANT TO PAINT YOUR OAK CABINETS!!!”

So…I got scared and didn’t do it!  That is how I roll….I want EVERYONE to be on board!  Crazy, I know!!

So every time I have seen a kitchen cabinet reveal in the blog world, I would think, I wish I could paint my cabinets…then last week when I saw Ruth’s cabinets at The Beautiful Life, I decided I was going to do it!!  Ruth gave me tips and suggestions AND encouragement, so I just made up my mind right there like a big girl!!  I mean, they are MY cabinets and Steve was totally on board.  SO!!!  IT.WAS.ON!

Went to Home Depot and got Behr Premium Plus Paint and it is THE BOMB!  Two coats is all it took!  The color is Oyster..

Before…oak cabinets…nice, but not me…

 

ALOT of doors….

I did have to take the doors off, which I was hoping I would not have to do, but my hinges are hidden and I couldn’t paint behind them unless I took them off…bummer…so OFF they came…

The ATFER…as you can see over on the left, I ain’t done yet!  I still have five MORE doors to paint!

I really do LOVE it!!  I am pondering wiping a stain on….or not….  We are getting new countertops and I am leaning towards a black granite looking laminate that I found at Home Depot…

Steve turned the panel on the dishwasher around to the black side. (Insert Darth Vader voice here)

I also spray painted all the knobs and handles oil rubbed bronze.  That part was REALLY easy!

Rhonda at Blue Creek Home also gave me great advice, encouragement and COURAGE!!  She even sent me some photos of cabinets she has done, which were gorgeous!! Because, I was thinking, what if I do this, and DON’T like it??

But I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!

What do you think??  Glaze, no glaze?  Leave it alone? Or not???

I will say that I started painting these hummers at about 1:00 ish on Sunday and at 11:00 p.m. I was washing out my brushes and hobbling to bed…started back at about 2:00 ish yesterday and at 10:00 I was washing out brushes and I am not done yet!  I was doing it by myself so it took longer, but People, I am OLD and rickety and all that up and down and in the floor and up on the ladder  and bending over the island painting those cabinets….Lord have Mercy!!  I am in some PAIN today…

Steve’s great advice was….get ready for it….

“You need to pace yourself.”  Seriously??? Did he say that?  Pace myself????  I looked at him like he had THREE heads and said, “You know what, I want to get them FINISHED!  And it would have gone ALOT faster if you had helped me!!!”

He looked at me like, well, I never thought about that!

MEN!!!

I am linking up with sweet Chelsea  at Room to Inspire for Be Inspired!

Thank you so much for stopping by!