Under the Weather

Last night after we had dinner I felt awful. i had spent over two hours ironing. Why does it seem like I never iron winter clothes, but all the summer ones are always wrinkled? I hadn’t eaten much all day and then Donny went and picked up Jucys. It must have hit my stomach wrong because it tore it up. I ended up falling asleep on the couch and didn’t get a good rest at all.

Luckily Donny was off today so while he took the kids to school and ran by the radio station to record some commercials, I slept.

My thyroid is, as my doctor put it, very serious right now, so I’m thinking a lot of my symptoms are stemming from that.

Around noon I took a quick shower and we decided to get out of the house for a little while. We ended up at an estate sale. The house was gorgeous and since it was the second day a lot has already been bought. I did manage to find this pretty, gauzy, tie dyed maxi skirt and sleeveless T-shirt, so it wasn’t a totally wasted trip.

Donny cooked dinner because I’m still feeling puny. I’m going to try and get a full night’s sleep tonight. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll feel better.

Pillows

Yesterday when Jackson and I were leaving our favorite thrift store I saw two pillows. They weren’t with the other pillows. They were on a shelf and I stopped to look at them, but Jackson was already headed to the door. I told myself that I absolutely did not need any more pillows.

Well, I kept thinking about them. They were only $2 each, had zippered cases and looked to be pretty high quality. I knew the chance of then still being there was pretty slim, but I drove over anyway just to see.

Sure enough they were still there.

It’s hard to tell from the picture, but the designs are appliqued on.

Then when I was checking the inside tag to see how to wash them I found out they were from Crate & Barrel.

I googled how much their pillows are and they run about $60. Not a bad find for four bucks. I’m surprised they were still there because the rule of thrifting is, if you find something you really like but don’t get it, it won’t be there when you go back. I lucked out.

i also found the perfect picture for the little frame I picked up yesterday.

My mom is on the far left. I have no idea where this was even taken, but I thought it was so cool.

Treasures

Today Jackson and I decided we needed a mom and son thrifting trip. Donny has asked me if I could make a quiche for dinner since we have so many eggs. Well, of course I can. Only problem was that I needed a deep dish pie pan. So off Jackson and I went to find one.

We normally have our three staples we always go to, but today I remembered about a store named Treasures that I went to about 5 years ago and then it just fell off my radar. I didn’t find the pie plate, but I did find some goodies. I hit the jackpot at the second one we went to and a few more things at the third and fourth.

Let me show you.

i got a cotton tablecloth for the outdoor dining table. I found what I actually went looking for, a deep dish pyrex pie plate and the best baking cookbook ever. I CANNOT WAIT to start delving into all of the recipes.

i hate paying full retail for ceramic pots so I’m always on the lookout for them when I’m thifting.

i picked up this heavy bad boy for 4 bucks. I love jewel tones so I grabbed this little frame for $2.

I don’t really need any more summer clothes, but Born Again thrift store always has such cute clothes and I found this chambray lined skirt and cute tank dress for a steal.

And Donny got his quiche.

It was really good.

New Lights

I was planning on being a hermit all day, never leaving the house, but then I remembered I needed an oil change. Got that done. Started working on chair number two. Ran out of paint so I had to go to Walmart. FYI, don’t try to spray paint on a really humid windy day. Anyway, I got chair two finished and decided to do something to make our flowerbed look a little better.

We’ve had the same solar lights for 4 years. They just recently quit working so well.

Not a bad run for 98 cent Walmart lights. I stepped it up this time and got $1.25 ones from Dollar Tree.

Because it was so cloudy in not sure how they look yet, but they are a little fancier.

I still need to weed. I actually want to put down new weed barrier and of course more mulch. Baby steps. It’ll get there.

And I picked up my favorite oranges at Aldi. If you haven’t tried Cara Cara oranges, you should. They are so sweet and juicy. I had two for lunch.

Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be very rainy. The forecast has been so wrong lately. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.

i just went outside and the lights are awesome. They are the flickering kind that I just love. I 100% recommend them.

Productive Day

I love the rare Sundays that Donny is off. Today was that day and we got so much done. I vacuumed, dusted, scrubbed the bathroom and the main thing was that I finished all of the laundry. It’s a chore I’m not very fond of, but I am able to get through it thanks to Supernatural. I had never watched it before and I was scrolling on Netflix and started it to see if I’d like it and now I’m hooked.

We have to keep a blanket on our bed because the cats like to take naps there. But anyway, gotta love those Winchester brothers.

We are always missing charger blocks and cables. Always. I did a round up in someone’s room while they were gone and look at what I found.

I still cannot find the big charging block to my laptop. I don’t know why hair brushes and chargers always disappear in this house.

My very favorite part of the day was Donny making dinner. He made brussels sprouts, homemade steak fries and grilled steak. OMG, everything was so good. I swear food you don’t have to cook yourself just tastes better anyway, but everything he made was delicious.

The only problem was that on his steak he spread black truffle butter. All he did was spread it on the steak before he took it outside. I smelled this awful smell from our bedroom and sure enough it was the butter. The smell literally makes me so nauseous. I googled it to see why that was and apparently there are a certain number of people who just can’t stand the smell. It’s kind of like people who taste soap when they eat cilantro. Super weird, but this saved me. This and staying in the bedroom.

And just because this cat is always on patrol at night saving our lives from stray neighborhood cats.

He was exhausted from all his hard night work. Milo is the sweetest cat ever and comes in the house whenever he wants, but he feels like he must be on duty at night. Ya know, saving us from all the bad stuff out there.

One Done

Today I finished one chair. I just wanted to see if I liked the colors we chose. If I didn’t, I didn’t want to keep sanding down all of the bases because that is hard work.

Anyway, I absolutely live the way it turned out. The warm caramel is more of a terracotta color. The oil rubbed bronze base plays off of it nicely.

Now only 3 more to go.

Hannah and I also created and ordered her graduation announcements today. I think they turned out fabulous. Go Walgreens!

Paint

This morning I woke up before 5 a.m. and that, coupled with the fact that I couldn’t fall asleep last night, meant I felt lousy. I need at least 7 hours of sleep a night. According to my Fitbit I only achieved 4.2 hours and it was fitful at best. Thankfully Donny took the kids to school and ran our errands after he dropped them off.

I finally started feeling a bit better and we were able to run to Walmart to pick out paint for the chairs. I was going to leave the bases plain metal, but there is a lot of rust on one of them and so we decided it would look better to paint them. I don’t like chrome or anything really shiny. I’m also not found of light wood. All of the wood in our home is dark. We settled Oil Rubbed Bronze for the base and Warm Caramel for the chairs. I was leaning toward a warm yellow, but Donny thought the caramel would work better. I only got one can of that so we are going to test it out when they are ready for paint.

We are also thinking of getting a new TV for our bedroom. The one we have is really big and we wanted something newer and smaller. We need to measure the chest of drawers that it sits on to make sure that it will fit. There are some really big TV’s out there. I feel like ours is way too big for our living room, but it’s what we have and it works so we’ll be keeping it. Our bedroom one only gets netflix. For some reason it won’t let us load any other of our streaming services. It’s old.

Because I felt not myself we decided to make paninis for dinner. The kids like them so that’s a win and it’s easy. Mine was veggie because meat has not been in my taste buds lately.

It’s 9:20 so I’m going to try and get a full nights sleep. I’ve got to much to do tomorrow to feel this way again.

Chairs

Normally, on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, Jack and I have a mom son date to our 3 favorite thrift stores. We haven’t been able to go lately, so since the kids were off from school today, we decided to make it a day. Donny was off today too so he decided to tag along with us.

The biggest find I found today were 4 chairs. Do I need dining room chairs? No. But they were so comfortable and I really liked the look of them. They were also only $5 a piece. That sounded like a deal to me so I had one of the workers take them up to the front. When I paid for them, they ended up only costing $10 for all four.

Now these chairs are rusted on the base, but I knew that I could fix that. So that’s what I started on when we got home.

Here are the chairs.

They just need a little (a lot) of love.

For being 20 years old, they aren’t too bad.

I took the seat off of the base and started sanding. I was surprised how easy the rust came off.

I can’t wait to see them finished. It will definitely be a labor of love.

Cheap Art

Today I had to run by Donny’s work to pick up my Aldi bags that we had put in his trunk when we went camping. He asked me to run by Dollar Tree since it’s next door to Aldi. I really and truly went in with the only intention of getting the bleach and spray bottle he asked for. But then, you know you just have to walk around the store, I found this really cool sun made out of metal. The metal was a weird silver that looked kind of awful, but I really liked the sun.

I brought it home and spray painted it. I didn’t know where to hang it, but then I realized it would look good against our turquoise door. So that’s where it ended up. For $3.00, I think it looks pretty good.

Aldi also had some good looking watermelons. We always leave some meat on the rind for the chickens because they love watermelon.

I love wild looking plants. The more unkempt the better. Aldi had some really pretty flowering ones. My favorite color is yellow so that’s the one I grabbed. I also had to re-pot the palm that was in the rooster because it was flat out dying. I think the metal gets hot and the plant didn’t like that.

It’s suppose to be nice tomorrow but rain the next few days after that. I’m planning on rearranging our flower beds. They are a little sparse right now. I’ll take some pics to show how it goes, hopefully.

P.S.

My brother in law sent the photos he took of Hannah. I can’t wait to share some of them. They turned out so good.

Family

All of our family members are scattered all over Texas. Since Donny’s weekends are Thursdays and Fridays, it makes it hard to get to visit any of them very often. Luckily we got to see some of them this past weekend.

Nikki, our oldest, lives in Dallas. We got to spend a few hours with her two oldest kids before they left for their dad’s.

I wish we had gotten to spend more time with Myles and Everly, but we are planning a weekend together when school get out.

We got to spend more time with Phoebe because she is Jake and Nikki’s daughter together. Y’all, she is the funniest kid. And she loves her PawPaw.

Donny was hiding his face from their puppy and Phoebe joined in.

We also were able to go visit Donny’s mom who lives in the Fort Worth area. I didn’t get any pictures because we were all too busy chatting.

Saturday Donny’s brother James and our nephew Justin came up from Austin to take Hannah’s senior pictures. It was so good to see them. We did a photo shoot downtown and boy was it windy. I can’t wait to see the final pictures.

I don’t think I can thank them enough for taking time out of their very busy schedule to do this for us. We all got to have dinner and then they drove the 6 or so hours back home. I wish they would have just stayed the night.

We closed down Don Benito’s.

When we were at Nikki’s we were looking through my old wedding album to her dad and this is one of my favorite pictures of my friend (much more like a sister since I’ve known her since birth) and me after she caught the bouquet.

Oh my Lord, we were so young.

Hopefully during the summer we will get to visit more of our family. Nothing like a little road trip.

And a bit off topic, but I found out that I could remove the candle in my lantern and my oil diffuser fits perfectly. No more ugly white plastic.