I Got My Wings

Last night my poor boy, Landon came down with a flu bug. He started complaining of a belly ache at 8:00 P.M. and by 9:00 P.M. he was upchucking. All the way until 3:00 A.M.! Oh, what a night! I had to close my daycare for business today, (I feel horrible about the short notice!) and have spent most of the day cleaning and disinfecting. Today Landon feels much better and will be back in action tomorrow for school. I am so thankful it was just a short little bug, with everyone all around us going through it for days on end, we were lucky! On the bright side... today the mailman brought me my wings!! My angel wings!! Let me tell ya, I spent way too much time rearranging my living room to make those wings feel at home. I'm still not 100% happy with it, but it will just have to do for now. The wings are perfect though. They are made out of solid wood, painted white and chipping just like I like. The top half is covered in little pieces of painted white, chippy tin. I was surprised the wings were made out of authentic old/aged wood. What makes me think the wood is authentically (is that a word?) old?

The cobwebs tucked inside!!

I love them too and might just let them be.

 

Tin.

I decided to try the wings on the ends of my window, family picture. I do like them there, but the trunk I just put up was now distracting. I also didn't like the little chair in the corner and decided to do a little rearranging. For some reason, the pictures make everything look like it is two inches from the ceiling. It is not! It looks perfectly fine, when you are standing in front of it, so I don't know what's up with that. Might be that I am just too short to be taking pictures of things that are up high. ha!



I decided to swap the clock and the trunk. I put the chair and light on the other side and brought the tea cart from the other end of the living room down to this end. My living room is long and narrow. the worst shape ever for a living room! I have tried putting the couches in the middle of the room, at opposite ends, half way in the middle, in a circle, you name it. Nothing looks right. The room is so long that it's impossible to fill it up in the middle. It's just weird. Also, neither the big window behind the long couch or the fireplace opposite of the long couch/window are even close to being centered! It gotta tell ya, it really messes up the feng shui vibe thing. It looks a little sparse here and the pieces are all wrong. I do like the walls though. I need to go out in my shed and get some of my other furniture and change it up. Only problem is, today it's 6 below zero (for real!) and I'm gonna have to let that one wait. I'm also not gonna be able to get out of spackling and painting this round either. Ugh. Not a painter. I'm so not a painter.



The other end. I had the tea cart and a gold chair sitting there. I moved the chair to vacuum. Gonna have to find something to fill that spot too. Guess I can always put the daycare baby's swing and pack and play there for now. It doesn't matter. I got my wings! I got my wings!!! I got my wiiiiings!!!!

Angel Wings Are Screaming At Me

A long time ago, someone posted a picture of a huge (they are three feet tall!) pair of wooden distressed/chippy white angel wings that were available for purchase on Pinterest. This isn't the original picture, but it's close. It's beyond me why I didn't pin it, as I loved them.



I mean LOVE THEM! I fell HARD! However a long time ago, I decided that if something was more than $25, it needed to not just speak to me before I would buy it, it had to scream at me, "I LOVE YOU!! TAKE ME HOME!! I WILL MAKE YOU THE HAPPIEST GIRL ALIVE!!!!" (I tended to be an impulsive shopper and this little tibbet here has saved me $5,876,445 bucks. Seriously!) Let me tell ya, those wings were hootin' and a hollarin' at me at the top of their lungs! (Well, wings.)
But, the price tag was over $300, and there was just no way I could bring myself to do it. Apparently the rest of the blog/crafters world fell in love with them too. But, not the price either.



Next came an Etsy shop that made/copied them and while they were in the "loud voice" range, they were not in the "screaming" range. They looked a little too big and heavy. Also, the price was $180, and that was still way too much for me.



Then someone made a pair out of pieces of cardboard. Cute, but that barely gave me a whisper. I was just going to have to accept the fact that they were not meant to be for me. Then one day I entered a contest. (No, I didn't win a set of wings. Although I would bend over backwards and follow 3,477 steps if there ever was one!) Part of the contest (I don't even remember what the prize was.) was you had to "like" the site, Decor Steals. I looked at the site and liked it, so I liked it, like they asked me to do. (Ya got all that?) I actually love that site! They have one or two items up for sale at a fraction of the price and only a limited number available. So, if something pops up that you like, you better be on the ball or you will miss out. I have never ordered from them, but if I like something, I check back to see how quick it sells in the event something should scream at me and it's always sold out quickly. So, the other day I was checking my email and up popped an email from Decor Steals. I clicked on it and there in front of me was....Oh yeah....



MY WINGS!!! MY FREAKIN' AWESOME WHITE CHIPPY DISTRESSED LOVELY LOVELY ANGEL WINGS!!! And....the price was....are you sitting down? $78.50 with $5 shipping!!! Oh my stars!! Yes, I screamed and flew off the couch and grabbed my purse (cats darted under the couch, and fur went flying!! Luckily no one else was home to scare the goobers out of) and ordered those wings before anyone else even had a chance to consider it. And I was a winner!! I made it in time and my wings are on their way!! Where am I going to put them? I haven't a clue. I'll keep you posted when they arrive and I figure it out. I'm so excited! I got my wings!! I got my wings!!! I got my wiiiiiings!!!! I think I might have just peed a little.





Fergus Falls Family Expo

Looking for something fun to do this Saturday? Head on over to the Fergus Falls YMCA for their Family Expo. There will also be plenty of vendors and shopping! Hope to see you there!! (Yes, I am getting on the phone and telling them they left out a very important event. Shopping!)

*UPDATE
These were the fliers that were sent home with all the school kids in Fergus Falls.
There are other POSTERS that were hung up with a list of all the vendors!
Yay!!


Etsy Update

ETSY UPDATE.... I know I've been going on and on about my Etsy store "Coming soon..." for a long time now and I've decided to put it on the back burner for now. I keep running into so many restrictions and it's causing me a little unneeded stress. So....on to plan b, c, d and e! I will be selling my vintage/funky junk/stuff on... Traverse Country Rummage Sale Facebook Page, Wheaton Farmer's Market, Expo/Craft/Purse Shows, and Ebay! (Ebay will pretty much let you sell anything!)
I am waiting for Ebay to do a special on their "stores" and when they do, I will open one. You will be the first to know! Thanks for bearing with me. :)

Pinteresting...

Have you checked out Pinterest yet? If not, you really need to do this! It's a wonderful place to get lost for 3,444 hours and acomplish nothing, and still feel good about it. Ha! Anyway...I had this piano piece that I picked up at a church garage sale. I don't know what to call it. It's the front of an upright piano. Where one would place the music to play. Here's a shot of it.

I hung it up above my fireplace, and while I love it just as it is...
I had to see what Pinterest thought I should do with it.
Man, oh man...
Now, I want a whole piano!!





Gives new meaning to the words...
Piano Bar.



This was another cool idea,
but I'm not too crazy about drilling holes in it.

Think it's just gonna be what it's gonna be.
What do you think?



Cafe Press

Have you guys heard about Cafe Press? Not only can you buy cool stuff with funny sayings on them there, if you have a cool/funny saying of your own, you can tell them about it and if it sells, they will give you 8% for every item that sells! I gave them a few of my own funny thoughts and if you are looking for a funny gift for someone or are just bored, you can check them out here. Also feel free to share with your friends or try it out yourself!

http://www.cafepress.com/sk/theswedishcowgirl

 

 

What's Hangin' On Your Wall?

Last August I posted about an old trunk I had purchased. Here is a bit of that post.


A couple of months ago, I stopped at a yard sale. I spotted this old off white trunk. It wasn't in the best shape as the hinges were no longer attached and the box inside of the trunk was starting to peel and fall apart a bit. But, I loved it. I wanted it. I was determined to talk the owner down on the price no matter what it was. I asked the owner what she wanted for it. She said, "Five bucks." SAY WHAT??? I had to force myself to not let my jaw drop. I casually said, "Yeah. O.k. I'll take it." Inside my head I was screaming, "It's miiiiiiiiine!!!! Whooo hoo!!!!" I was so happy! But, here's a crazy thing. The top of the trunk isn't flat. It has a rounded dome like top. I didn't really think about that at the sale, as I was just too busy drooling over it's prettiness. So, because it was rounded, I couldn't set anything on top of it. It had to just "be." I didn't like that. It didn't look right. So, after rearranging my living room 3,466 times trying to find a perfect spot for it, I gave up and it sat in the corner. Then yesterday Landon sat on our coffee table. For the 4,333rd time, I told him to please not sit on the table because the center pieces are glass. I have a quilt over it, so it is easy for him to forget. Then inspiration ran over me like a freight train! I've been wanting to make a coffee table out of pallets, like the 5,444 pictures I've seen in Pinterest, (Have you seen Pinterest? It's a MUST!) but just didn't have the time to get around to that. But, I had a beautiful old, patina'd, trunk just sitting there waiting to be made useful! I took off the lid and took out the box inside. Then I took a wood board hanging off the wall that I had, that were just nailed together to look like a fence. I laid that on top for the table, added a table runner (Actually it's a fire place mantel scarf, but it looks pretty cute!) and bam! I had a new coffee table. Landon doesn't get to sit on this one either, but at least I don't have to worry about the glass anymore. Check it out.

My beautiful new table.

Table top. I wanted to take the hardware off,

but it wasn't painted underneath and didn't look right.

So it stays.

Those books, are my old posts from my blog.

I have them made into books each year.

The lid had a divider in it.

So, I propped it up on it's side and made a shelf!

I love the paper picture glued inside.

I wonder who she is...

 

 

O.k. back to the present. I like change. Change is good. While I liked the top of the trunk as a shelf, I had run into a new problem. I had taken down my shelves from the two walls when I hung up my new/old window picture frame. Here's a shot of that.

 

 

 

 

The picture was taken by Erin Martinek who is the best photographer in the whole wide world!

If you would like her contact info, just shoot me an email and I'll hook you right up!

 

 

Anyway, I was going to hang up a tin tile that I had on the other wall where I had taken down the other shelf, but it was too small and looked dorky. So, I had a problem. For a few months, I looked at the holes in the wall and wondered what to hang up there. (I could have spackled and painted, but I knew sooner or later I would find something big enough to cover it all up. I am not a painter and if I can get out of it, I will!) Then a couple of days ago, I was looking at the trunk cover/shelf and decided it might just look much better up on the wall! And you know what? I think it's perfect there.

How 'bout you? Wadda ya think?

 

 

 



 

 

When I asked our son Landon, what he thought, the only comment he had was...

"You need to put some more candy in the candy machine."

 

The little red machine sitting on the chair is the candy machine.

It's prefect for peanut M&M's.

And he's right. I do need to fill that baby back up!