Estate Sale Sights

I haven't been hitting the sales as frequently this year so it took me a little while to gather some photos to share with you! Here are some of the things I've seen around town in the past month!

How great is this card! It was with a knife set and if I had needed one I would have bought it so I could have this card! I would love to see more wedding theme cards like this, like a toaster and a blender getting married!

 I love a felt craft, especially when there are pom poms and styrofoam balls involved! 

 Pretty adorable dish towel. It was super stained though, or it would have come home with me!

 Gorgeous pink and brown bathroom! 

 Every time I see one around town I wish my house had come with some beautifully colored tile.

 So many cute planters. I ALMOST bought the little yellow dog at the top left, but left it behind. I have way to many plantless planters already.

 Little elfy. 

I went to this awesome/weird house this past weekend. The owner had built it himself and it was so strange! All kinds of long rooms and stairs that came out of no where.

 Would you think I was weird if I told you the whole reason I went out to this sale was because I saw these skunks in the listing? Haha, I love them! I was so happy they were there on the second day!

Such a threatening sign! I went through and used my phone as a flashlight. I didn't find anything cool though. There were three or four ladies looking through another part of the barn and they told me that was there space and I could look once they were done! Ugh, please.  I just went inside.

Weird little dog house. I won't like, I kind of love old dog houses like that and would probably put on in our yard. They wanted too much for this one.

 Look at that huge bird cage! How cute!

 Anyone in the market for a big hornets nest? 

 Some cute old toys that I resisted. That monkey!

And look at this beautiful knotty pine bathroom! I like the vanity area and that heart chair! 

I picked up a few great things at this last sale, I'll show you tomorrow!

What I've Been Up To

I said yesterday I've been super busy, so I thought I would share some instagram pics of what we've been up too. I'm still totally in love with instagram! It is such a fun way to share photos and see what everyone you know is doing all the dang time! 

Movies in the Park is one of our favorite things about summertime inNashville, but this year the movie list sucks! It was awesome to make it out to Grassy Knoll movie night to see Rebel Without a Cause! I got a bunch of people to go and I think I was the only one that enjoyed the movie. Ha! They are supposed to do Raising Arizona this month, I hope we can make it out.

We've been going to the movies a lot, which means we go to The Dog of Nashville a lot afterwards for veggie dogs! Their fries are SO GOOD too!

I got a ton of my hair cut off after growing it for almost 9 months! I think I am just meant to have short hair. I'm trying to keep up the short straight bang look. And I don't normally make Travis pose with me for a post haircut shot, this just happened to be on our anniversary so it seemed appropriate.

 Another sweet couple shot. 

 We went to Hayti to visit Travis' grandmother Betty. Her Christmas present from us was that we would come visit her for a weekend with Travis' brother and his wife too. I think she really loved it, and it was fun spending the weekend with her. Usually when we are there the whole family is around and it is so busy. They all love genealogy so we drove around to the graveyards in town and looked at their relatives pretty far back.

 While we were having dinner with Grandma Betty at the nursing home this little guy came through the door! I asked to hold him of course! He thinks I'm crazy I bet! I wish I could say I was posing, but no, I was just actually that enthusiastic about that little poodle.

 I have become completely obsessed with Star Trek. Can you believe it? I saw the new movie THREE TIMES in the theater! Haha, I don't know what has come over me. I'm making my way through Next Generation. Here I am watching Picard while editing some pictures for a friend.

There was a moth in our house and it was QUITE the event. These two followed it around and stared at it for hours.

 My good friend Thomas got a rad fancy projector so we've been over there to watch movies a few times recently. He made me watch Inception and I'll admit it was pretty good. He has lived in his house for MONTHS and has nothing on the walls, so I helped him hang up this gem the other day.

 Pricilla had her check up and it went great! Well, pretty good. She has gained FIVE pounds in the last year! I am really shocked. We measure their food and don't give them treats or table food! But I guess when we changed food brands we should have changed the amount they got. She has to lose two pounds before her teeth cleaning next month! And send us some good tooth vibes. Lets hope her bill won't be close to a grand like her sister's was. Ugh. Pugs!

I'm still into painting my nails! It is kind of like meditation for me. It means I have to be still and concentrate on one thing for a while. I'm still not great at it, but they are passable.

I'm still into making my bento lunches! My current obsession is making cucumber flowers. I didn't realize I liked cucumber until recently and now I can't get enough!

 These pandas are pretty precious too. I put Bragg's Liquid Aminos in them. 

 Here is what we brought to a bonfire/swimming party we went to about a week ago. Those vegan pies from Whole Foods are AMAZING, as is the vegan pizza from Mellow Mushroom. And I just found out that whole foods carries butter beer! How cute is that! It is really sweet, but fun for a party!

 I've been swimming a lot so far this summer which is awesome! The other day we had tater tots in the pool. Heavenly! And can you believe I'm posting a picture of myself in my bathing suit? You can't see anything but still! I got this bathing suit from Torrid and I love it!

I'll leave you with one last picture of this sweet girl!

Hen and Chick Success!

In the more than 13 years I've kept a blog it has never been as neglected as this space lately! I think it is a combo of my new job (which has made me so happy!) and summer starting and me spending lots of time swimming and hanging out with friends. My reader has over 500 unread blog posts in it! I'm home alone this weekend, for maybe the first time EVER so I'm spending the night catching up on all your blogs and watching every drag queen movie that I own (which is a LOT). 

 In other news, I bought some succulents at the  World's Longest Yard Sale last summer. I bought a couple tiny bunches of of hen and chicks and planted them in this great turtle planter that I from Travis' Grandma Betty. She was wearing boots but Travis broke two when he was weed eating. Oh well, it is still cute.

 I have been keeping this planter outside my back door and making myself ignore them. It worked! They have multiplied so much and were taking over Miss. Turtle! Since I took these pictures, that little sprout got really tall and tiny pink flowers bloomed! How cool! (I'm sure you can tell I'm really a plant noob, everything is just so exciting to me!)

I picked up this great planter from the Apron Strings Vintage booth (every time I go to that antique mall I pick up something from her booth. She has an AMAZING stirrup wester lamp right now that I am trying to resist). I got the sweet little deer from another booth at that mall. I love how it looks with the succulents in it. I've been trying to get some plain but pretty vintage things, since EVERYTHING I have seems to have a face, or animals on it. I tried to keep this guy on the kitchen tables, but the cats started digging in it. It has now moved to the windowsill.

 I'll leave you with this picture of Phyllis being the world's grumpiest sun bather. That is probably her favorite spot in the house! Can you see the turtle right outside the door?

The Sapphires!

We went and saw the greatest movie yesterday and I had to tell you guys about it! I hadn't heard of it at all until we saw a poster hanging up at our local indie theater. But I could tell that it would be right up my alley even without seeing the trailer. It finally starting playing last week and I got my chance to check it out, and I absolutely loved it!

It is the story of a group of Aboriginal girls in Australia in 1968. They audition to sing for the soldiers in Vietnam and the movie is full of sequined gowns and Motown music and amazing clothes and hair! Here is the trailer if you are interested: 

The movie has great reviews (even a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes!) The criticism is that it is nothing new, if you've seen a movie about a band in the 60's you kind of know what to expect. But that doesn't stop it from being a great movie with amazing music and a lot of heart! And Chris O'Dowd is adorable and I LOVE that Gail, played by Deborah Mailman is a plus sized woman of color who finds love and success without her weight being mentioned once! 

If you are in Nashville it looks like it is playing at the Belcourt at least through the rest of the week. And if you don't live here, maybe it will be playing near you soon! I highly recommend going to check it out!

1938 Wooster Yearbook!

I bought this yearbook last week in Chattanooga. I actually had two in my hands but decided to just pick one out when we got up to the counter to pay. This one was dog-themed so of course it won! I kind of can't believe this is my first vintage yearbook. I don't really ever come across them. 

 The plaid cover with the scottie dog is what drew me to it. 

 It is a college yearbook, and they really stick to the theme! As you can see the front page says "A scot's eye view of the warp and woof of life at Wooster College with college yarns unraveled over the page of the 1938 Yeakbook "The Index" . And yes, pretty much every part of this year book is that wordy.

 Each section starts with a photo of handsome Angus and kind of a description about what is to follow. My favorite is the page that starts the club section and mentions Angus trying to find out what students do when not in class. To the right of him there are two sets of feet, one a man and the other a woman up on her tip toes. Pretty cute.

 The photos of the senior class are pretty standard. I got lost in the hairstyles and old fashioned names for a while. Then as I flipped to the lower classes...

 All their photos are these great candids! I haven't seen anything like that before (remember, this is my first yearbook so forgive me if this is standard in old college yearbooks). I LOVE these pages, you can see all the beautiful clothes and get more of a feel for the time than you get from just posed head shots.

 There are lots and lots of photos of people pretending to use the water fountain. Ha! I wonder if there was a specific day and they asked people to get in groups and pick something. How did they keep all the names straight? This is totally fascinating to me! The scratched out number is from the person who this belonged too. In the back there is an index telling what pages each student appeared on.

 Check out that water fountain pic! So candid!

 I like that guys sharp little bow tie. 

 How cute are their uniforms with the little scottie dog on them? 

 There really are so many great photos in this thing! I love the leaping guys and how they placed them over different guys crouching, ready to leap!

 And oh those unfortunate basketball shorts. Poor guys look like they are wearing their underwear over their shorts.

 This section is a little confusing but I think it is pictures of the dorms and who lived where. There are different pages for different boarding houses around town. Doesn't that seem strange? I like how goofy some of these photos are. The boys dorm was apparently called "The Boy's Inky" by the students.

And last but not least, you know I love those three boys riding the bike together! Do you have any old yearbooks? I think I'll have to keep my eye out from now on! I hope I can find more that are this interesting!