Denise's Adornments Shop Owner Home Sale

I look forward to Denise's Home Show that she does at her pretty house.  Every Summer she has a vintage market sale of things she did not sell or has extra of from the shop.

All the things are at reduced garage sale prices and her stuff is the best so it is always a good sale to go too.

So Terry and I made a day of it and went to the sale and then to a special place for lunch.
The weather was 80 and sunny and a little breeze was blowing.  It was a summer perfect day.

If you would like to follow along and see the pictures I took as I was shopping.  They are from my cell so not the greatest quality.

This is Denise's cute farmhouse where she had the sale in her yard.

I wish I had gotten a picture of her front porch she decorates it like a room in her house.  I was just so excited with getting in line for the sale to start I did not get any more pictures.  I have been inside Denise's home and it is absolutely gorgeous.  If she has another sale I will have to take more pictures.

Again with the sun and cell phone not the greatest but you can see that there were a lot of chippy's and salvage.

I loved this three cherub statue lamp.  I have never seen one like that.  It was gorgeous.

That Vintage Sign came home with me.  It will find a new place in my grey and white bedroom.

Yep there were some brave men besides Terry that came to the sale.  Look at those cool clocks.

Lot's of fun chalk boards and lots of oh la la french items.

This lamp I got for my daughter Jen.  She has primitive and these colors in her decor.  She is excited to get this cute lamp for her family room end table.

Denise had the prettiest dining room table and chairs for sale.  4 arm chairs and two side arm chairs with burlap seats.  Gorgeous.

This sweet chair went home with me for a friend that saw it on the website and could not get to the sale today.  

Here are some of the treasures that went home with me today.  Her prices were fabulous.  That chair with the big hole in it wait until you see what I do with that.  I will have another post soon on all my treasures and where I put them in my home.

To end on a sweet note.  Today when we were out junkin we found this "Fear" Lunch Bag from the movie Inside Out.  Our granddaughter Abby has been collecting them and this was the one she was missing.  It is a hard one to find so we stopped at this out of the way Subway and Terry ran in and sure enough they had it.  She was so excited to have her collection complete.  So everyone scored some great treasures today.


I will be back soon with a post on my treasures and what I did with them in my decor.
Kris
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Shabby Chippy Treasure Market

Hi Everyone.  

Saturday Terry and I took a drive up over the border of Illinois and into Wisconsin.  There is the cutest little historic town just north of Milwaukee called Cedarburg.

They have cute shops and great places to eat and a winery.

Jeanine from Chippy Shabby lives right there in Cedarburg and was having one of her fabulous home sales.  

The drive is only about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Here is Jeanine's cute little sale sign she had on her blog.  Doesn't that cute chair just make you want to jump in your car and go to her sale.

It was pouring rain when Jeanine opened at 8am.  Chippy treasures galore.

No worries that never stopped us junkin peeps.  It did clear out in about 15 minutes so that was great.  I also meet a few peeps that follow my blog and that was really fun to be recognized from my blog.  So fun to put faces with the wonderful followers that visit my blog.

Photo from Chippy Shabby at her sale

This is one of Jeanine's pictures she took a better shot of the opening of her wonderful sale than I did.  That is Terry in the background in his yellow shirt in the rain!!!!

Photo from Chippy Shabby from her fabulous sale.

I really should have gotten that cute french pitcher.    It was a chippy sweet and fun piece.  Maybe at the next sale.  Love this cubby with her ironstone cups too.    I was junk drunk!  So many wonderful treasures.

Here are some of the treasures I got and am re loving into my home.

I have always wanted one of these mason jar holders.  So Jeanine had this one for sale and it came home with me.  I got some fresh flowers out of the garden to fill in the jars.  

Love this on my counter so much prettier than just any ole vase of flowers.  The canning jars and holder gives such character to my picked garden flowers.

Got this cute chippy wire gathering basket from Jeanine.

Love at first sight!!  I put the linen embroidered towel and lavender sachet from Rita in this basket.  I am sure I will be changing this basket up with lots of cute things.

Another sweet treasure I found at Jeanine's is this sleeping angel in the old enamel pot.  The angel was full of rust but I wanted her to be more a soft white.  So I gave her a little paint re do.

It was too sweet to pass up

I got this awesome potting table from Jeanine too.
Oh my chippy and wonderful to replace the dresser I took from under the picket fence to use in the bathroom for a new vanity.  You can see that post here.

So those are a few of my treasures. 

 I have one big treasure I scored from Jeanine and I will have that in a post soon.  Terry had to make a few adjustments to it so stay tuned to see this fabulous treasure I scored.

Have a great rest of the week.

Thank you always for your visits and taking time to leave a comment.  Makes my day.

Be sure to come back for Spotlight on Saturday I have a great blogger for you to get to know.

Kris

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Vintage Dresser Re Loved into Sink Vanity

Happy New Week.

Summer is flying by.  I am such a summer girl and this is my season.  Love when we have sun filled lazy days of summer.

I had this dresser and it is one of my favorite dressers.   I just felt it needed a change up so Terry got his wonderful tools out and made my vision happen.  

Here is my sweet little dresser with the antique door knobs we put on it for the drawer pulls.  Looked cute here in my dining room with the picket fencing above it but it was time for it to have new purpose.

This was the only before picture of the vanity I could find in my pictures.  I forgot to take a before picture.  It was a small skinny vanity that I chippied up some time ago.  I hated how the sink jetted out over the vanity.    I just wanted to repurpose my cute dresser into something nice for our bathroom instead of this stock vanity with the crazy sink.

So here it the space after Terry pulled out the old vanity.

Terry put in a new sink and we used the faucet from the other sink.

Terry hinged the middle drawer front so we could get at the plumbing if necessary.

Now if necessary we can get at the plumbing and I have some storage.  The bottom drawer was left the way it was and can be used for storage too.

So now one of my favorite dressers has been re purposed into a new vanity for our master bathroom.

Have a great start to the week ahead.

Kris
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Saturday Spotlight: Life Behind The Blogger

Carla from The River

 Saturday Spotlight: Life Behind the Blogger is a feature done each Saturday that introduces you to a blogger you may already know or a new blogger for you to get to know. This feature gives you a peak into the personal life of the blogger.  Getting to know the special person behind the beautiful blog.

There is so much talent and inspiration in blogland so enjoy getting to know these talented bloggers each Saturday.

Good Saturday Morning everyone.  This week in Spotlight I have a special blogger Carla from The River.  Carla is a wonderful blogger and outdoors kind of girl.   You will love getting to know more about Carla and her family.  Enjoy reading her feature and then hop over to check out her sweet blog.

Thank you Kris, for asking me to participate in your Saturday Spotlight.

My name is Carla.

My husband is Jeremy.

We are the parents of two boys, Samuel and Atticus.

We live in Northwest Wisconsin.

I was born and raised on a dairy farm in Northern Wisconsin.

I am a Wisconsin girl.

I love the outdoors.

My friend Bobby Jean shared with me about her cousin's blog Cranberry Morning 

I started to read Judy's blog and fell in love with the world of blogging

With the encouragement from my hubsand, I started my own blog, The River

 A few fun facts about me.

I will get this one out of the way...my favorite season is Winter!

I love to Cross Country Ski!

I have a Fresh Flower and Produce Stand in my front yard.

I love to garden. Last summer I opened up a Fresh Flower and Produce Stand in our front yard. I used a card table, a fun table cloth and some cute baskets to create it.  This year my husband  and boys built me a new stand, with a roof. I will be doing a blog post about it next week.

This garden season I have four garden plots at our local community gardens and one at home.

I named my garden, The Little Garden That Could.

I have a mailbox at my garden.

I love receiving fun mail from other gardeners and friends.

I also leave notes for other gardeners. The mailbox has been a lot of fun.

  

Atticus

He is 13.

Both of our boys are in Shooting Sports.

They shoot Trap for the Rice Lake Warrbirds.

  

Samuel

He is 15.

Sam passed his text portion of Driver's Ed this Spring and will start Behind the Wheel in October.

I am still trying to figure out how my boys grew up so fast.

When they were little I would pretend to give them a shot, to keep them little. They would laugh and say, "It will not work Mom"

Now as my handsome 15 year old, who is much taller than me, he bends down to  give me a hug. 

I smile.

 My boys, they are growing up and I am proud of them.

Rice Lake Warrbirds Trap Team

One last fun fact about me.

My birthday is 12/12

My husband helped me celebrate my 12/12/12 birthday in a magical way.

  

Thank you for reading.

High Fives from Wisconsin!

Thank you Carla for sharing yourself and your wonderful family and life with us.  Have a great Saturday everyone.  

Kris

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Sometimes It Just Takes A Word.

  I wanted to show you how a little word like LOVE can make your heart smile.

Terry painted up this little sign for me with an old piece of wood and some vintage salvage pieces.

Just was a sweet little surprise.

I also want to say thank you to a sweet blogging friend.  Rita from Panolpy sent me a sweet surprise gift in the mail today.

I was outside watering my flowers and my mailman (Terry teases me he is my boyfriend because he likes to bring my mail up to the door and say Hi)!!!!  Anyway my boyfriend mailman came up to me while I was watering and said you got a box in the mail.  I was so excited to get a surprise box in the mail I ran into the house and did not even flirt with my "boyfriend" the mailman lol!

Look how sweetly she had everything wrapped.

I unwrapped everything to find these treasures.  A beautiful vintage Friendship Tribute book Rita found on a recent antique trip.  Love!!! Note cards made by Rita's friend and a lovely white embossed towel and best of all the beautiful sachet pillow made by Rita's sister and filled with Lavender from Rita's garden. 

I put the Lavender sachet pillow on my 3 tiered desk lamp.  Ohhhhhhh smells so heavenly as I sit at my computer.

Rita's sister hand painted the button that she put on  this beautiful pillow sachet filled with the sweet scent of lavender.

Rita your lovely package just made my heart smile today.  I have found and been so blessed with beautiful friendships in the land of blogging.  Rita thank you always for your sweet friendship shared and thank you for this lovely surprise today.
Hugs
Kris

Hope your week is unfolding nicely.  Be sure to come back on Saturday for a sweet and talented blogger to meet in Spotlight.  

Kris

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