Not much to show today.  The boys only have 3 days of school left, and it seems like almost every day, I have to do running for some school function.  I’m sure I’m ours is not the only school to do this, but I ALWAYS hate the end of the school year.  They just try to cram everything into the last 3 weeks.  Today was Gannon’s Track and Field day, and instead of holding it at the school like usual, they held it at the local fairgrounds.  I had no idea why they would waste the gas to bus the kids down there, but then realized that they actually made a field trip out of it and the kids got to take a tour of the barns and see some animals.  I asked my friend to go along so we could scout out the area for yard sales after Gannon’s events were over.

He did good- but the hula hoop was not his thing ºÜº

We found one garage sale in the area (really only by accident) and decided to hit a few other areas to see if we could find any treasures.  It ended up being a lot of driving and I only found a few things.

 

This little brown crock was 25 ¢ and the mortar and pestle was

50 ¢.  I also found a brand new little digital video camera for $10.  It’s a pretty cheap one and doesn’t have a zoom or anything, but I thought it would be cool for the kids to mess with.  It takes still pictures too.  Besides those things and a few nice t-shirts for Brady, I didn’t find anything else.  Oh I almost forgot that I got this old green lantern.  I came right home and hung it up!  It was $1.

So not a huge yard sale day, but pretty successful.  And don’t get me wrong, there were other things.  Many, many other things that I could have bought.  I’m getting a little better about not snatching every single thing up that catches my eye.  I have so many things to make over so I’m not really scouting for more right now.

I took Timmy outside in his wire cage yesterday while I was sanding and base coating some things.  I got the sconces that I bought last weekend sanded and base coated and also the end table.  I have to decide what colors to paint them and hope to have a few done to show you soon.  I have the hardest time picking colors- especially if I’m not exactly sure where I’m going to use an item.  I did run out to the Depot today to get a few quarts of paint mixed.  If I’m going to paint some bigger items, I can’t be relying on craft sized bottles of paint!  I got my favorite color of blue and an old looking black.  Here are a few favorite shots from yesterday…

Sadie, lazing around…what’s new? ☺  She wouldn’t even lift her head to look at me.

And a boy and his duck….love these!

And then I immediately cut that boy’s hair!

Have a great weekend!