Tolentreasures

How appropriate I thought these flowers were planted outside of Heinz Field. Black and Gold! The first part of today was spent at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. This was John's 2nd 5k Run. Our son-in-law, Chris decided to run it also. This was the "before" picture of the runners. Jenn and Chris The start of the race. There were over 3000 runners! Waiting for the return, Jenn and I took in some sights.... The entrance to Heinz Field. just in the event that some of you are not familiar, this is the home of the Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers! The city skyline, Duquesne Incline Heinz Field Architecture The Carnegie Science Center John crossing the finish line! He cut several minutes off of his last 5k finish. I missed a pic of Chris crossing. He had a great finish also considering that he had not been training. And then he had a "moment". Standing in line for the runner's snacks after the race, he said that it was not that long ago, just las...

My new blogger friend, Kim was having a yard sale today. She lives about 40 miles north of me and I wanted to go to her sale. John and I took off this morning on a much needed wandering day and found some great yard sales. Kim's was by far the best for "finds" I left with two ladders, several plates and bowls, ice skates, a half moon plaque, a sifter and two train cases. A great haul! We stopped at three Goodwills, and probably close to 10 yard sales....these were my finds. At one sale I was walking out and I heard the lady say that all the neckties were now marked down to ten cents. I did an about face and bought all 32 of them. I think that I am going to send them to Haiti with my pastor when he goes there next month. All of the pastors there wear white shirts and dress pants and neckties. How men here complain about dressing like that and yet for those men it has to be a symbol of respect for them. The next to the last stop was at Finders Keepers in Brook...

Before the texture part of the post, I wanted to show this little faux penny rug that I painted. These have always sold well in the past for me at craft shows. It is painted on the back of linoleum. You have to buy linoleum that has an allover pattern. Textured block patterns show through on the back. It is so nice to paint on though and will cut in any pattern. I had some of these cut out laying on the shelf since I did shows a few years ago and thought that I would paint them up for the Open House. So, I have been looking at these texture posts the last week or so and thought that I would like to do something like that, not sure when though. Last night we had the boys for a few hours and as usual I was snapping pics of them. Tyler's comment was, "Hey, I want to take a picture to you" As hard as I tried, I could not make him say OF you instead of TO you and finally I just gave up and thought it was cute. Now we won't be showing any of the pic he took TO ...

We are planning to have an open house at my home in November. My daughter and I are making things and stashing them in my attic for the event. I thought that I would show these before I made the trek to the attic with them. I think that she does a great job on them! Thought that I would show off her talent!

First of all, I have to show the pumpkins....I finished them! I really want to make some more of these. I like them and I am sure that I will be giving some away, so I will need some to sell also. Redo: This card box was in the big haul that I posted over a week ago. There are little dividers in it for all of your cards and although I have way more cards than will actually fit, I knew that this would help in the organization. I sanded off the painting and repainted it yesterday AM and last night I sat on the floor and sorted cards. They are actually organized right now! It even made me want to clean off my desk. A before and after pic of that would have been too embarrassing to post. Undo: The chairs from the yard sale, well one of the chairs, the other three are still in my car. This on is torn apart and has matchsticks drying in some of the screw holes. It needed some minor repairs. Now to decide whether to paint them as a set, or individually. They would be more fun and less boring...

What this item is? I think that it is a game of some type, I have seen them with marbles or beans in them. I found this at a yard sale the other day and for $1 could not let it sit there. If it is some type of a game I would like to clean it up and set it up and have the rules for it. I finished my pumpkins last night but the internet or blogger or my computer is running so slow that I could fall asleep waiting for the pics to post. Have tried to catch up on all of your blogs but I can load one, comment and then the next one won't load. Pics to come...pumpkins and chairs. Sunday was our church picnic at a local community park. After a week at the fair, sometime around 1 or 2, after lunch, I just was ready to crash. Shawnee and I had Gracelyn on the swings and suddenly watching her go back and forth was hypnotizing me into a sleep. We left and I thought that I would fall asleep before we got home, (only about a five minute drive) when I saw the sign....yard sale!!! Now I ...

Saturday mornings, and most other mornings I wake up planning my day in my mind. Why I do that I have no idea because the days rarely play out in the regimented, industrious way that I plan them. Early in the day they usually take on something that resembles nothing short of a Category 3 hurricane. Yesterday was no exception. My mind had me heading to Walmart by 7 and back before 9, early enough in my mind to avoid that dumb little vehicle of mine that thinks it needs to turn in to every yard sale it sees. I swear that one of these vehicles that I buy in life is not going to do that. This one is the worst and I blame it on my husband, the enabler, who said that a car did not fit my lifestyle, I needed a SUV, we settled on an all wheel drive crossover with a roof rack. What was he thinking? Now not only can I pull off the road in any wet ditch, I can load large pieces of furniture on the roof! The only thing that has prevented that from happening is that I refuse to put tie do...

Seriously Folks, real trouble! While most of the time I call my obsession with blogs, INSPIRATION, I am now calling it trouble. It is 7:30 AM and I have just taken pumpkins out of the oven, with a quick trip through the broiler. Char at Pickled Pepper Patch had these on her blog yesterday and I just had to try them. I ran up to my sewing room, well to be fair it was early and I probably hobbled to my sewing room, the knees don't always work well in the morning, and found this chenille bathrobe that I had found for $1 at a yard sale two weeks ago and started cutting circles, dinner plate circles, knitting loom circles, and the top of a ribbon reel circles. I sewed a couple of them before I had to go to work and then while Little Miss Kendall napped last evening I sewed the rest. This morning I ran (again hobbled) around the house to find a spray bottle and sprayed these and cooked them. Really, was this necessary? I have a 12 hour shift at the Firemen's Stand at the fair...