Vintage porcelain enamel table top

OK Now that's what I was talking about! This was in my plans for my kitchen island but I had NO IDEA that I would ever find it. This topper from an old table (dated July 1949 on the bottom) was found sitting by itself in an antique shop yesterday.
Looks vintage with the fresh goats milk being strained on it. Probably not the first time milk was strained on this table, right?

I did a little dance when I spotted this and went thru the looooooong store in almost a run to ask for a tape measure to see if it would fit and when it said 39" I just knew it was not long enough. I spent another 30 minutes trying to figure out if there was another piece of furniture in my house that it would fit on to make a kitchen island and couldn't think of anything. So I gave up and left it there, boo hoo.

I went on down the road about 10 miles into NC and called my hubby on his cell and asked where he was. He said "In the driveway". What? ..... Oh please run inside and measure the dresser in the middle of the kitchen floor. Ya know the one that really needs a white and black enamel topper to make a really cool island. He did and guess what it measured 38 1/16 inches long!!!!! I knew the width was 18" and this is 23" wide so I have a lip to pull a bar stool under. I turned that truck around on a dime I mean to tell ya and was back in a flash to get this!!!! It was $28.

I put it on myself too!!

I love it! I love it!

It has enough of a ledge all around that I could hang some nifty things under it, like maybe some spice jars hung by the lids screwed to the top and crocheted pot holders. Maybe some vintage red handled kitchen tools ? What ya think? Any ideas?

I also found 2 great white cotton chennile bedspreads, one twin size and one full size perfect for my guest bedroom upstairs that has those 2 size beds in there.

All in all a great day antiquing don't ya think?

Seeing Blue!!

And boy do I mean "BLUE" I got out and finally picked 9 quarts of blueberries this morning. It was lovely weather and the picking was easy! Cleaning them up is so time consuming though. I usually lay a few handfuls out on a terry dish towel and kinda roll them around to get the stems off and then pick out any bad ones and pickup the rest and put in a bowl then, of course after I have a good bit in the bowl I wash and drain them. Today I have put them on baking sheets in the freezer to flash freeze then into ziploc bags and froze them. With this procedure I can get out the exact amount that I need for a recipe without wasting too many berries each time.

I also have saved out enough for some kinda dessert
but I am not sure what it will be as of yet. I will now try each day to pick a gallon or so and
"put up" some more in the freezer and can them. I will make some jelly and pie filling too.

It is not hard work but I was really slow getting to them this year cause of my other projects!! Thank Goodness blueberries are OK on the bush for a good long while once they are ripe!!

We have started getting squash and zuchinni along with potatoes out of the garden too. I should get my first cucumber either this afternoon or tomorrow!! Looks as if there will be lots of cukes and that is what I wanted for lots of pickles!! Oh yeah swiss chard is now ready too.

Danny is on vacation from his regular M-F job this week but of course is on his own bulldozer but he will be home earlier than usual. (he says but we will see about that!!) I am thinking meatloaf, squash, swiss chard and new potatoes for supper tonight and maybe a blueberry crisp with vanilla ice cream for dessert!! Sound Good????

Take care!
Becky

Wet and Smoky Sunday

Well we tried yet again today to have an enjoyable sunny Sunday afternoon on the lake but no such luck. As soon as we launched the boat a huge cloud came over and we knew if we were to get any swimming done it better be done soon. As soon as everyone but me had gotten in the water the rain started coming down. So back in the boat.
And off we go down the lake trying to outrun the storm. Emma loves going fast so the wind is in her hair!!
OK for another quick dip!! He is such a little fish!!
Then Katie Barr The Door the sky opened up and we ran for shelter under Union Bridge, just around the cove from where our truck and trailer was but it was raining too hard to try to get there until the rain let up a little.
The boat would turn around and around and each of us would get our turn getting drenched by the steady stream of water coming off the bridge above us. We felt like we were on a water ride at Carrowinds that turns certain riders into the streams of water and some of the riders stay dry!!

We did however wait out the storm and the sun came back out for about 30 minutes of swimming and then another downpour. We had stopped by our land that is 2 miles from the lake, and had a picnic lunch on our picnic table by our camper and then went back by there and ate again on the way home. Good times!!!!

We made it home and backed the boat in to the driveway and was getting ready to open the truck door to get out and I think all of us noticed at the same exact time that the boat motor was ON FIRE!!! Well Danny may have been very tired but he was able to hurdle over the trailer and get to the motor asap and get the cover off and get it out immediately before much damage was done. Some of the wiring had caught on fire and hopefully after the wires are replaced we won't find any further damage. The boat had ran better today than it ever did and Danny was so happy with that. I was afraid we had had our last attempt at a sunny boat ride today when I saw the smoke!!

Yardsale is over!!

The dreaded yardsale was definately a success. About $1000 total sold between my 2 daughters, my granddaughter and I. My total was $385 of junk sold!! Danny was very happy that $385 worth of space is now freed up in his garage. He would have probably just paid me that much to take it to the Goodwill months ago!!!

It looked as if 4 new families were moving in to Robin's house when we each pulled up with truck loads of boxes and totes strapped down and loaded to the gills inside plus we were pulling very large very well loaded down trailers of goods too!! A couple truck loads were already brought in early. This is not counting the amount of stuff that Robin had herself. When we left out tonight we had well under one third of what we brought maybe even less than that. {{{SIGH}}} Wow it is so amazing to see the things just roll out of there like we were giving away gold!!!

There are definately some very well dressed babies on the horizon. Leslie had soooooo many baby clothes that still had the tags on them and all kinds of baby furniture and toys. Large riding toys and every piece was sold except a mere basketball goal!!! Sorry but it didn't find a home!!

Danny was so amazed himself at the type of things that I sold that he thought I wouldn't be able to pay anyone to take off my hands. We had a couple ladies fighting over a "Free" box of picture frame pieces. One lady asked for them and as I was going to mark them "taken" another stepped up and said "I have also got the box of "Free" frames in my car"!!!! She had to get them back out and give them to the other lady but I guess she wasn't too upset cause she bought every door, lattice board and anything else to do with building that we had and then sent her son back to buy more!!!

A few years ago the girls and I owned a ladies consignment store in Floyd and we were able to see soooooo many of our regular customers and get caught up with them and so many were begging us to start up some type of business because they love us. The girls and I have so much fun when we are together and we are each so social that people love to come around us and I am soooooo proud of that!!! We had really made a lot of friends and it was so good to see them this weekend!!! One lady "Jean" was our very first customer in our store and never missed a day coming in the whole time we were there and she came to our yardsale both days and bought others with her when she came back as she did with the store!! She gets the award for faithfullness!!

All in all I would say it was very successful but a lot of hard work!! I am sure we will do it again in the next 20 years!!

Goodnight to all!!
Becky

Shabby Bedroom Makeover!

The big reveal!!

Not!

It's only the first stage in the makeover completed at this time and I was really bored today because of severe thunder storms so I thought I would give a sneak peak!!

I am not in love with the quilt but it will do until I can find one that I do love. The double wedding ring quilt came from a yardsale and the sham from a thrift store. Of course that is the bed ruffle that I made last week.

The white mirror was a thrift store find that I painted of course. I have a really big trifold mirror that I purchased at a yardsale to go on top of the dresser but it is too tall. I plan to paint the red vanity/dresser white and put the mirror on it. I will get it in this room somehow!!

We added this room on and moved in a year ago. I love having a door out of the bedroom onto the deck but....THERE IS NO DECK!!!! (maybe soon :))

Close up of some of my little what-nots.

I do love my bedroom. Thank you honey!! I really loooooove my big walkin closet too!!! No pics of the closet cause it is sorta trashed while doing all this makeover stuff. I'll clean it up and show it off soon. I have two dressers in there that need to be painted white too!! The closet is big enough for my Dansko collection. While nursing I collected 15 pair!! I dearly love Dansko's!! For some reason my honey doesn't understand that. Go figure!!!

Thank's for stopping by!!

Becky

Just a quick update

Just wanted to let you know that I am still here. The hard work hasn't finished me off as of yet. I have been busy working on the bedroom for several days now. I have finished a bed ruffle for my king size bed that has been started for a year. Yes a year, that's nothing I have many more projects that have been started for way longer than that!!! At least I did get this one done. Right?? It was 36 feet of fabric to ruffle and took me the better part of one day to finish and get it on the bed.

I have been doing a lot of other little painting and decorating projects (none are worthy of pictures as of yet) and they are adding up. I almost have the bedroom finished. Well kinda finished. We still have one piece of trim work around the closet door that isn't up yet. We have bought the wrong trim 3 times. Yep the two of us together each time and our two peabrains couldn't pick out the right piece to match!!!

My biggest project for the week is getting ready for a yardsale on Fri and Sat at Robins house. Boy do I have a lot of goods to sell!!! I am in a purging mood too!!! I have to make room for shabby chic items!!!

I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the summer. God bless you all!! Thanks for stopping by!!
Becky

Before Living room makeover!!

I am soooo bad about forgeting to post a before pic so you can tell the difference in the makeovers. I am getting more accomplished since it has been put out here for anyone to see. I just hope not everyone decides to come here and see it in person cause it has been "staged" for pictures only. Just kidding !!! LOL LOL

now I am off to get that bath!!