Words with Friends

Just craziness!   Words With Friends.

TAKE I - ACTION!
 My teenage boys introduced me to it over a year ago.  I felt like I was communicating telepathically with my "I-don't-have-enough-time-for-you-Mom teeanagers"!  Just a great summer bonding with my boys!  Until they realized,,, I thought...I was bonding with my boys!!

TAKE II - ACTION!
Then I started playing random opponents.  AKA - figments of my imagination because it seemed a bit wierd playing "Bob"...who is Bob!  But, Bob and I became "close".  I thought it would help me find my keys...my phone...my purse.

TAKE III - ACTION!
A phone call from my sister in Washington State gets me back on track with blood - no more neighborhood of make -believe!  And she is good!  Though, it's a bit insane...we play 12 sometimes 15 games at a time.  She also is looking for her keys.

Ohhh, but there's 8 more games not showing!

TAKE IV - ACTION!
And after months and months of egging her on...We now got our 70 year old mother playing!  She really wants to find her keys!! (My mom is the pretty lady in the first photo.)

loading'er up for lucketts

It's a weekly event preparing to bring more goods to the shop. It's more like a 24/7...365 days a year hunt for great things for the shop. Clean them up, make them pretty, and if I'm lucky...no painting required. Items sell very quickly...we are very lucky to have such great customers,..but we're always trying to stay one step ahead of trends and I don't know about the rest of the Lucketts girls but I think in vignettes! (More about this later.)

Tuesday morning I was rockin'. By 7am the trailer was hitched, pancake batter ready for the boys and the list...scrunched into a ball and tossed into the trash can. ..and NO More Painting! Whatever's in that shed is going to lucketts...AS IS! I'm turning a new leaf...so to speak. There are soooo many DIY'ers out there that would love stuff...can't find it and I want to make MY Life just a little bit easier. So...here's what I did:

Pulled out this awesomely shaped, old wicker chair and did not paint it! (See "blogger deals" for this and other items!!)

Found upside down on another table...bringing to the shop....unpainted! Great game table and sturdy, but needs love'n and PAINT! I'm selling it as is...to the DIY'er!

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Pretty obvious where this WAS going but....

saved the springs! (Add a vintage napkin, pistachios or such...and viola! Snazzy holder!

Then I pulled this out...I started painting this for Ground Hog's Day...but the drawer was stuck.

Now almost June...it was time to get that drawer ...UNSTUCK!

Hmmm? How come I didn't think of this in Feburary!

AFTER!

I didn't repaint it..but sanded it a bit and waxed it with ol' faithful - Annie Sloan dark wax - Voila!

Picked these up at a yard sale with big plans of new seats...yadda yadda but..Nope selling as is...will they sell? (See blogger deals on items like this.)

So, here's a small load and a 1/2 days work ready to take to the shop. Added a dish rack, an old metal display shelf, a vintage blackboard and some ceiling tins and it's time to load it up.

Still a heck of alot of room in there but a good day's work nonetheless - ready for drop off on Wednesday!