Goodies from the Old House! & Ice cream too!

Good Morning on this (happily not raining) Saturday! The sun is shining and hopefully some of my plants will dry out a little! The heavy rain has caused our plants to really pop! and our lawn too!

Yesterday was a nice day for us. Our Daisy troop completed its year with an ice cream party and the girls all had a great time. We talked about how new friendships were formed and good deeds were done and the girls were smiling from ear to ear. Then we all had ice cream sundaes with marshmallows, m&m's, reeses pieces, hot fudge , sprinkles and more! They earned it! Me too!I also got to visit that house that my husband is working on! I thought the owners had cleaned it out but my husband said there was still stuff in the basement. I called my sister and we went to see what we could find. We're a tag team. The house is in very sad condition. A 92 year old woman had lived there and died two years ago and the house was just left! It's only now that the children decided to clean it out. Sadly, they just let the house fall apart so Christine and I were in a very MUSTY basement that had some boxes, some clothes and lots of broken stuff and spiders. Most of the items were trash and again did I mention SPIDERS? We saw a web that was so strong and secure in the corner of the basement that it looked like it was woven with fishline and polyester. I could just imagine what size spider was living in there. It was very neat to visit the house because each room had the 50's style wallpaper in it. I was sad that I could even cut a piece of it off the walls and frame it--it was musty and dirty. In the basement was a bright wallpaper with cardinals (!) and in the son's room there were cowboys and indians! I loved it! I had bought my son sheets like that when he was 3 or 4 years old. Seeing those wallpapers in person was amazing because I had only seen them in all my 50's decorating books. I love the 50's and the family values of that time. I'm a 50's style Mom so I can relate! Back to the hunt, we managed to find a few things so our mission wasn't fruitless. The real treasures are in the garage. There are boxes filled with good stuff that their elderly daughter is still going through. It was curious to me as to why the daughter chose to go through the contents of the house AFTER it was sold but whatever.... Anyway, Chris and I spied some old Christmas stuff, some glassware, and some retro home items but we only got to browse quickly. My husband is no longer tearing down the home; instead the new owner has decided to redo the entire home and use it as a rental property. That's gonna be a big project for Bill. SO the previous owner's daughter who has been procrastinating about these boxes is definitely getting tired of doing it (yeah for me) and Billy said they should be mine by early next week. Lets hope that holds true. Then Chris and I can find some treasures. We share our loot like two pirates. She knows what I like; I know what she likes. The items I found are a retro raccoon statue, some 50's plates and dishes, a very nice sugar/creamer set. The lid on the sugar bowl was missing but that's okay, a hurricane lamp (I found the globe, Chris found me the bottom), an old wooden shoe shine box, a vintage and complete box of dominoes, a 50's bird statue, a lovely white pedestal bowl and a cool rusty frying pan. So will be cleaning and painting the wooden box, shining up my frying pan , and I have already cleaned and added to my parlor the bird and raccoon. That room has my nature theme. If you look at the "pages" section of my blog, you will see my nature inspired parlor!

Anyway, have a great day! I will be working on that wooden box so I will post pictures as I progress! Oh, and when I came home from Daisys I found my Robin and his Mom, Mommy Cat, happily snuggling in Dutchess's new sleeping basket. I had to post the photo!