24 Olive Street

bad doggy

We've had a problem with counter surfing in my house. And the overall chewing of things when I'm gone. Never when I'm home...always when I'm gone. Even if I only leave for 15 minutes.

For the longest time I thought it was Copper (my golden). Because Tucker (my lab) has never done that before.

Until now that is.

I ran out for about 15 minutes the other day and came home to a package of flour on the living room carpet (that he grabbed off the kitchen counter).

And Tucker with his mouth & nose full of flour.

I have to say, it was the funniest thing I'd seen him do in a long time!!

I couldn't be mad at him cause I was laughing too hard!

Oh man, this still makes me laugh!

And thanks to this little fiasco I was able to nail down the real culprit...and he now gets to be in a crate when we're gone :(

But don't feel bad for him, it's only temporary. And honestly, he kinda likes it.

I also got some help cleaning up the flour :)

I sure wish that Minnie Mouse vacuum actually cleaned up the floors cause she loves helping me clean!

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I was up in Colville for Junk Drunk last weekend. Great show as always and I had great neighbors from Nebraska Lane. Check out this bag I bought from them.

Totes ma goats!! haha Had to have it!!

It was a great weekend. I wore my apron from craft weekend :)

My hubby made this bench for me out of a headboard. He's made a few now so he's getting pretty good at it! I painted it in Annie Sloan Duck Egg paint.

I got this old table from a sweet customer at Pickin' on the Prairie last year. She said "I know you can do something with it!" Yes I can!

I had my hubby chip away at some of the paint but I left some of it on there (hello, green & blue chippy paint?? Swoon!!). I sealed in the chippy goodness with some poly & added some old fence boards for the top & sealed those with poly as well.

I was a little sad to see this table go because I envisioned it as my new gardening table in my backyard but it went to a super sweet new owner :)

And my son came with me as my helper for the weekend so that made it even more fun :)

This is a dresser I dropped off at the store before heading up to Junk Drunk for the weekend...and my son's photobomb :) This piece actually used to be my oldest daughter's dresser and then we used it as an entertainment center before redoing the new one. I painted the exterior in a mixture of Provence & Pure White (Annie Sloan chalk paint) and it's sealed in clear wax.

After a few days away I couldn't wait to get back to this little one!

Cause these days of craziness and preteen hormones, this little one likes me best :)

And now it's back to baseball, soccer, flag football...and getting ready for the Fancy Farmgirl Vintage Market (name changed from "Chic" Farmgirl) on May 10th!!

this, that...and the other

I'm back from Craft Weekend. I literally had to take all of Monday to stay in my pjs and be lazy (with the exception of running to McD's to get the kids pancakes for breakfast). Cause I wasn't cooking after getting home at 1am.

The boy & I (and the pups) watched Back to the Future 1&2 and I fell asleep halfway through the 2nd movie. At, like, 2:00 in the afternoon. I was sooo tired. Spending 12hrs in an airport will do that to ya!

I don't want to share too many photos here cause I'm planning on doing a separate post on Craft Weekend....cause it deserves it :)

I had fun. And met a bunch of great people.

But as life goes I had to jump right back into things...soccer practices, baseball practices & lessons, vet appts...

A self-imposed time-out...cause that's apparently better than mom giving her one??! She screamed at the top of her lungs several times. At our vet appt. I'm sure the entire place heard her.

{sigh}

That's her latest "thing"...she's mad about something, doesn't get her way, you won't give her what she wants, whatever...she screams. And she.is.loud.

So now when I say "if you do that again you're getting a time out!" she pouts, shrugs her shoulders, crosses her arms, at puts herself in a time-out. Kind of like a "I'll show you" kind of thing.

Toddlers are fun!!! haha

Junk Drunk is coming up this weekend!

So excited for this show. I met so many great people last year!

My son is coming with me as my helper and we're gonna stay the weekend instead of driving back and forth every day like I did last year. That was too exhausting since it's over an hour just one way.

And they serve food. I love a show that has food ;)

I've been working on a lot of furniture for the show, my booth and my house.

Finished up the toddler bed for my little one.

Got this bed for 25 bucks at a consignment sale. But it was wood and the girls have white furniture in their room so I painted it with Pure White (Annie Sloan chalk paint) and used clear poly (I was not waxing all of those slats!).

Turned out cute! And Addie loves it :)

I also took a new vanity down to the store yesterday.

Originally this piece was going to go in my girls' room. But sadly it was just too big. It has a huge mirror on it which I just love! I sanded and refinished the top and painted the rest in Duck Egg (Annie Sloan chalk paint).

(I used the same paint & stain as I did with my entertainment center redo)

I also have a cute little vanity chair that looks cute with it!

So that's what's going on....lots of painting & getting ready to set up for the show tomorrow in between normal life stuff!!