This is a revisit, so if you have followed my blog since the beginning you've seen this before, but if you would like to see more of my classroom go here.

I'm showing some industrial, maybe not so chic, teaching aides in my class room...I love to reuse junk, normally crowding  land fills, in ways that get the Jr. High kids to using their imaginations...

I made this mini thesaurus of overused words...we call them dead or extinct, so, 

"In other words, use these words" 

instead...

another favorite of mine is using a play on words.

 

Just an old keyboard and industrial time card holder...as time goes by us junkers need to  think of ways to use the more modern junk. I love the graphic quality of the keyboard and just think of all the ways you could use it for messages, names, team spirit, door sayings, (keep out or enter at on risk...)It would be cute if the messages were in text talk.

Endless possibilities, being magnetic, as is much of the industrial junk...my daughter has a time card holder in her sewing room, sprayed a fun green. It holds sewing notions and ideas. I sold one in a booth, as a memo board with pictures, cards, invitations stuck in it and number magnets on it.  Most places use computers for punching in at work, now, so I found two at Goodwill, for a dollar each!

I printed the words on card stock, but it would be cool to use old time cards.

Have fun at Margo's party, lots of cool stuff! 

Lezlee

Great Shopping Events in the Neighborhood!

First is Laurie Anna's in Canton on October 23rd.

 Here is some eye candy from her shop, just lovely...This pic is from Garden Antqs Vintage go check out her blog! 

 

Laurie Anna's Vintage Home  was recently written up in the Dallas Morning News...You will not want to miss her Special Event! 

 Robelyn (redneck.chic) & Mindy at Winnie and Tululah's

Next is October 30th, Mindy of  The Primitique... has moved her shop and is having a Grand Opening to celebrate...and I know it will be just that~ Grand!  

Mindy's website with all the info!!!!

Here are a few of her goodies, but I'm sure she'll have some never before seen items, as well!

Both Laurie Anna and Mindy are sweet, hard working shop owners, so head on over and support your local businesses, and even if you aren't so local, it will be worth the trip...  You won't be disappointed~ I guarantee! 


Shopping 'til I drop,


Lezlee

Here's a couple  chocolate pies I made for William's birthday, yesterday, these should give me energy, to shop...click here for a story and the recipe...enjoy!  Bye, now...Lez

Huge Heritage Hutches

How's that title for alliteration...

Well, these hutches are huge in stature, speaking to me through  paint layers and old panes,  used in "Prior" ways...Strong, sturdy, able to change, adapt...beauty only time  can give and only some may see...character to weather the storms ~ just as some of the people we know... a composite, yes, But not of pressed, pretend wood, but rather, solid wood from real trees planted deep.

 The sides were pieced together from our old window casings.

This hutch was made from this and that, by Joshua, my son...Even as a toddler, he drew the best stick figures...an artistic eye...Josh is tall, around six foot 4...He tends to build big, same as his dad.  The hutch is almost 8 foot tall and pretty wide and deep, as well.  

 See the old wheels the weighted ropes went through...to raise the windows...these could be a real pain to raise when the ropes broke and even harder to keep up...we usually just propped them with something...but these were the same as in my childhood home...

The whole piece is getting scrubbed, 

then coats of polyurethane...

The back is made from old siding,  removed, during additions.

                    I guess the house was originally green...

The windows came from this old house, too, not loving the handles, but they were some found ones. Nothing, but poly was bought for this hutch...even the newer pieces of wood added, were scraps from more recent house projects.

Some of the things said about this hutch...
"That would look really good painted" 
"Is he finished with it?" 
"Where are you going to put it?" 
"Can't we have new stuff?" 
...along with plenty of loving comments,
                                                       from knowing folks, lol...

 It don't look to bad from the backside, neither!

The yellow paint came from a room project we did...
I just love how this piece tells the history of our house.

Now, for heavy, old blue...Every male remotely kin swears they will never move this piece again. The shelves came from my Aunt Billie's garage. My mom asked for them and got her oldest grandson to make doors, using original bead board, from the old home place, in Prarieville, where she was raised.  Much to my husband's chagrin, when Moma was no longer using it, she said I could have it!  

In it's prior life it held my moma's linens, then my  husbands tools, but now might be incorporated into my entertainment center...and may get a new paint job, too.

side view and backside, too.

It looks like a beautiful old floor, to me.

Things and stuff are just that...

Things and stuff,

whether it's old, new, shiny, rusty,

or even wonderfully blue and crusty...

it's still just fluff and that's that...

Prior ities...

Lezlee


Joining Another Party!

Note Songs Cupboard Party 

Window Dressing

I've mentioned before that some of  the newer parts of the house lack the molding, of the older parts, so I've tried to add  character. 

In the master bath, we salvaged outside window trim. Now, for the kitchen I'm using a piece of old tin ceiling trim...

I just need a little valance to hide the blind.  We usually keep the blind pulled up, but like the option, when the sun is too bright. I had some spare clips around from the master bath, so just took them off the ring and someone actually gave me the tin trim which already had perfectly spaced out holes for the clip hook to thread through!  Pretty much a free deal, And...

Wa Laa! 

A few days ago, my friend, Laurel posted her one of a kind ideas for window dressings, and boy was I glad. You may already know Laurel, as a contributor on Junkmarket Style, but she hasn't been blogging long, so go check her out and give her some bloggy love! Laurel really inspired me to get busy.  That's why I thought this would be a fitting inspiration post for:

Debra's Inspiration Friday Party! 

Go on over and check it out, lots of inspiring posts, for sure! 

Now, to find the perfect little snippet for a curtain. Don't you just love these little clips? Potentially anything can become an instant curtain...

Well, it's curtains for me~hee hee, Good Night! 

Lezlee

Crowned At Last!

~Yes, after many years, the old girl, 

my Victorian dining room,

has been crowned at last, 

and the pictures don't do it justice~

 I'm a little worried, she's so uppity, with her new Coronation, and all, that my junk might not fit in, so maybe my junk will need a little sprucing up, before being fit, for the Queen!

Nay, she'll just have to adjust, 
along with the rest of her subjects family,
tee hee!

View, from the next project, 

our living room

View from the kitchen, 

&
YES, I know the fan is a hot mess, 

...looking into a new one, 

yet to decide...

For one, I picked, quite modern, light fixtures,

for the kitchen, 

so still pondering...

contemplating, the double fan at Lowe's, 

with a rubbed bronze finish and a white fixture. I don't particularly care for the white fixture, but I have a similar white pendant light,

on the bar, which separates the areas.

Wondering, if it will give off enough light?

And don't any of you Northerners, lol, 

even suggest not having a fan! 

Number 1. 

William wouldn't go for it, 
while he compromises ,
letting me do many crazy, 

at least to him, things around here, 

there is where, his line is drawn!

Number 2. 

For y'alls information, 

it is still high 90's 'round here!

Therefore, while I can envision, all sorts of lovelies, hanging from that ceiling, 

including, yet not only, an old rusty bed spring, 

THE fan wins out! 

Now, 

for just a little miracle, that makes me smile.

Remember my apothecary knobs?

While finishing up our kitchen, 

more cabinet doors were added.

Finally,making it complete. 

Without ever any counting or planning, plus all the years in between installing the first cabinets, until now, it just so happens...

We have four knobs left, 

just enough for the job! 

PERFECT!!

LoVe to all you cold weather dwellers,

Lezlee

Party's Over

If you've gotten used to my Party on the 16th of each month, I'm sorry, but can't do it for now... I don't have the energy to put into it and would not want to post the party and not be able to visit everyone...but hope to be back, sometime.  I've so enjoyed your posts and all the wonderful conversation, just the way a party should be!


I'm posting a picture of Moma...I have more pics on my blog, but some were asking to see her...She got a perm right after this picture and I'm sure she would have rather me post that one, but I want to show her with the arch my brother built her. It is a real Prior Life piece.  The posts came from the little farm house that raised her, and the top is a salvaged baby bed.  It means so much to her, if only those post could tell their story...

 Moma only wieghs about 95 pounds, dripping wet! 

Look at all the cars in the background, at my sister's house...I told you we have big get togethers!

Moma's lived the life many of you, on these blogs, are living right now, She sat up at Market and Edom, when it was a new thing, and various other places, including First Monday and Town East Mall.  She still dreams of doing creative things...and at 85 she still earns pay from work, through her weekly newspaper article, but of all the things she does, she will tell you the best and most cherished is the quiet time she spends with her Savior every morning, and all the day long. Let me tell you, as she ages, I am so comforted that she knows what the future holds for her.

Here is the other side of her "Smidgen Shop"

Now, here are a few pics of what we have going on...

This is my dining room ceiling...I know, I know, I need a new fan, but that's for later...We have been working on this old place for 13 years, While raising 5 kids,  but one of the first things my husband did was to tear down about three ceiling to get back to the, at least 12 foot, original ceiling...beautiful wide planks..Tomorrow, this dining room will have dentil crown molding, yee haw...I can't wait.

My laundry room, kitchen, dining room, and living room are all one  area, another thing my husband did years ago, but we never finished it out... Now new floors, baseboards and paint.

( blonde beauty ~ Olympic)

I wanted a light color, because, there is not much natural light, plus dark floors throughout, also dark ceiling in dining area part.


My house has lots of different ceiling heights and the living room part is sunken. I like the quirkiness, but I know it wouldn't do for some.

Dining room...this will look different all painted up!

Looking at kitchen from dining area...

We put these floors upstairs, too. Remember my little spot, upstairs? 

 

 

They are vinyl planks...and I love them!

 

I want to paint some of my wood floors, but that is another post... and another project.

So everything is a big mess, but progress is being made!~

Lezlee

Easy Peasy!

Just thought I would post a little something I used last year, at Thanksgiving. I know it is early, but it will be here, before we know it!

  

I usually have Thanksgiving for my husband's family, around 45 to 60 show up. 

Easy Peasy is the only way to go. While making a pea salad, the graphics on the pea cans caught my eye...

This year I am flipping with my sister in law, though, and will have Christmas, for both William's and my side, each are huge...I love our family.

This buffet was in my home growing up. I love the lines. I stripped it, but let part of it stay out in the weather, as a result the top  was split and it had a broken door front.  Josh fixed it and put oil based paint on it.

If you want to see more pics of the

"Fan of Photos" just click it.

We are doing some major fixing up around here, so if I don't post much~ Just know I haven't dropped off the Earth, lol.  

Full House,
Lezlee


DIY has a party going on!