Weekend finds

We went to Big Hat day's (a st fair) at Old Town Clovis on Saturday and found a few things. There were over 400 booths and so many things to look at. We weren't able to look at everything because.... well, the baby and my bladder were not getting along.... so we had to cut the day short. But we still had fun, it was the first time either of us had gone to it. Here are a few things we bought.




<------- a tea cup holder for the shabby room. Now I just need to look for some pretty tea cups and saucers (darn) I was thinking of putting this on top of the dresser. Or maybe on the night stand, not really sure yet!












A Fresno State Bulldogs pacifier for Ethan. We hope he will play football there one day! (not too soon to think about that is it?)

An October 2007 Romantic homes mag, picked it up for $2.00


We also bought a water bottle for Rambo and a pretty necklace and earring set for MIL's birthday. I will post pics of that later once I am done with the bookmark I am making her.

Weekend finds

Also picked up this book but at a different antique shop. I will talk more about Saturday later, just wanted to share my pictures before I forget.

Here is a fleur de lis thing(?) I would like to use it in the master bathroom to hold towels, but I don't think it is sturdy enough. So either it will be used as decoration in the master bath or a place for Greg to put his ties on.

The couple who the shabby place belongs to was featured in Romantic Homes..... but it isn't either of these :( But I picked these up for $1 each.

We also went to Shabby Heaven, that also needs it's own post which I probably wont get to tonight because I am babysitting my nieces. Anyway, we bought a few things for the room.

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Like I said he was having a yard sale, Greg bought a water hose for $1 and bought me 3 books for $.75! I was so excited, I love buying used books and for a quarter each book it just makes it even funner (it's a word...... in my dictionary) Greg didn't take a pic of them so I will talk about them in a different post.

Greg found these cute end tables on craigslist, they were $40. Thought these would look nicer in the shabby room than the wood end tables (which we still want will explain later) it had just been posted for 20 min's so we lucked out! When we got to his house (which was 40 min's away) he said his wife had already sold them, but he gave the customer (he was having a yard sale) their money back because he wanted to give them to us. He and his family seemed so nice. He also said his wife bought them at pier 1 for $100, so $40 was a good deal especially for night stands that don't look used. What do you think? would they look nicer in the shabby room than the antique wood ones?

not too shabby...

We found these curtains in the clearance section at Walmart for $5.00, it's a bit creamy but for $5.00 I'm not complaining! It has a pretty lace at the bottom, I will take better pictures once they are hung up in the house.... as for now they are staying in the bag so they don't get dirty. 

We found this great window pane with handle today for $18.00 We are going to hang this in above the bed in the shabby room. It was used length wise like the pic above, but Greg got the idea of putting it sideways like the pic below and hanging it by the hinges. I loved his idea and think it will add more character. This window isn't as beat up as the one's we saw on Wednesday, plus it was cheaper! 

antiquing we went!

Greg and I went antiquing after he got off work yesterday here are a few pix of stuff we might go back for tomorrow...

I love this window um...thing (?)  as soon as I saw it I thought it would look perfect above the bed in my shabby room. But it was $30, not sure if I want to pay that much for a window.

 

I liked these too, but they were $18 each, I really like the first one better. Still thinking about it, although I would love to see it in my shabby room!

Here are the night stands I want to buy (there are 2, but only one in the pic ;) ) they are $70 for the set. I want to sand them down, paint them white, distress them a little and put them in my shabby room. Greg and I are going to a few antique shops tomorrow so if we don't find anything there we will go back for these. 

We did buy a few little nick knacks, but my photographer AKA my hubby is playing xbox and has an intense look on his face, so he is either winning or getting creamed...either way I don't want to interrupt so I will post pix tomorrow. 

Oh so Shabby part 2

These are the matching accent pillows. I plan on buying white pillow cases and putting these in front of them. These were regular price $25 we got them for $12

Oh so Shabby

Here is a Shabby Chic quilt we got for the guest bedroom. Which will be my shabby/vintage room. The quilt was original price $100 we got it on clearance for $48.00 at Target. The colors are so pretty this is everything I wanted. The picture doesn't do it justice. Target had tons of stuff on clearance. Which made us feel better because we only went to Target to buy diapers! (just remembered we didn't come home with any)