GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

You're invited to enter my giveaway!!!
It's my blog's third birthday......

And it's my birthday too, but definitely not my third (the cake would be on fire)! But it's YOU, dear readers, who get the presents! I so appreciate each and every one of you that has ever read my blog.
I've been squirreling away things that I've found from estate sales and the flea market, and they're all vintage, my favorite word!
The winner will get a vintage tablecloth. You'll have to use your imagination here, because no tall people with long arms that could have held this up were home at the time I took this shot!
Two vintage kitchen towels. I especially love the one on the left and was so glad that they had two. One for me and one for you!
Two wee little vintage salt & pepper shakers.
And a fruity match holder. Now all you have to do is leave a comment to be entered. The giveaway ends at midnight on April 11th. Now if you'll excuse me, my blog and I have some partying to do!

MY WEEKEND FINDS and A SCARY DAY IN BLOGLAND!

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of My Weekend Finds, the continuing saga of one girl's quest for more junk!

Before I share my finds, I want to share something scary that happened to me in blogland a couple days ago. I was commenting on blogs when all of sudden, when I would click Publish, Blogger wanted me to sign in, even though I was already signed in. When I clicked Sign In, it said my blog HAD BEEN REMOVED!!! And that there had been unusual activity on my blog. My blog was gone, nowhere to be seen. Oh, the horror! Nearly three years of work down the drain. When I would Google this problem, I couldn't even read the answers because Blogger wouldn't let me log in. After several minutes of this, I noticed where it said something like Having Trouble Logging In?. When I clicked that, Blogger wanted to text me a verification code. After a few minutes of being paranoid to do this, I finally did, and the code worked and my blog was back. YAY! So, if this ever happens to you, don't panic, and let them text you that code!
Now onto the finds! I went to what was probably the filthiest estate sale I've ever been to. And I forgot to bring everything in the house to clean, leaving it all in my shed on wheels (my van), so I had to hurry and take pictures before the sun set Sunday night. Adorable vintage chickie s&p set.
A vintage Halloween blow mold and huge honeycomb punkin.
A filthy dirty vintage Fisher Price turtle pull toy. Honestly, I don't know why I bought it, other than that it's so stinkin' cute. And I'm reliving my childhood. And it was 50 cents.
An old plant stand. I kinda regret buying this, because I'm pretty sure our cat Cupcake will be knocking it over on a daily basis, just for fun!
A cute little Christmas elf.
Some of you wondered what it was that I found at this sale, that I had been searching for these past 20 years. You were probably expecting something reeeally exciting, and will most likely be very disappointed.
It's only an old gym basket! I remember seeing them in Country Living magazine, and by golly, they convinced me that I needed one. I've never ever seen one anywhere, except in school of course, until now.
And now it holds some of my vintage gardening tools. You know how I always say that if I wait long enough, something I'm looking for will eventually come my way during my junking travels? Well, 20 years is waaaay too long of a wait!
PLEASE BE SURE TO VISIT ME ON THURSDAY, BECAUSE IT'S GIVEAWAY TIME! I'M CELEBRATING MY 3RD BLOG ANNIVERSARY AND MY BIRTHDAY, BUT YOU GET THE PRESENTS.......VINTAGE PRESENTS!!!
So, did you bring home anything that you'd been waiting years to find?

IN THE GARDEN

Well I did it. I couldn't resist temptation any longer. I planted the first flowers of the season! Granted, they're only pansies, which prefer cooler temps anyway, but c'mon, it's only March!
The Bleeding Hearts are blooming a full month ahead of schedule. At this rate, there will be nothing left to bloom by August!
The Redbud is spectacular this year.
A little corner of the back garden. which still needs alot of work. The birds don't seem to care though, because they really love that birdbath. It's very private and secluded!
I wish the daffodils lasted longer. I'm going to plant lots more in the Fall!
I got out part of my vintage garden tool collection and sprayed a clear matte finish on them, hoping that it will stop the paint from chipping off of the clippers, and stop everything from getting any rustier. At an estate sale today, I found the thing that I've been looking for, for the past 20 years, to put them all in. I'll save that for My Weekend Finds!
During these past couple of weeks of unseasonably warm weather, I've found that if I just sit quietly at the patio table on the back porch, I can get pretty decent shots of all the wildlife that flies, runs or crawls by. Do you like my new roof ornament?
Hello Mr. Robin! You sing so pretty just as it's starting to get dark!
Mr. Old Glory once said that this time of the year is "my time", and I think he's right. I am in my glory, and I almost feel like I'm blooming too. Does that sound crazy? I think gardeners know exactly what I mean! So, what's blooming in your garden?

MY WEEKEND FINDS

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of My Weekend Finds, the continuing saga of one girl's quest for more junk!
My first find is that mid century pink pottery planter hanging on the wall.
I found it on Ebay, and I was supposed to give it to Mr. Old Glory so that he could give it to me for my birthday, but I have no self control and dug it out of the box today and hung it up!
I bought this old shopping basket at the flea market, and the seller says it was used at a grocery store in Ohio, back in the day.
Now it holds my gazillion kitchen towels, vintage and new.
As soon as I saw the word DEBUTANTE on that old lunchbox at the flea market, I knew I had to have it, and the haggling began! A word of advice for flea marketers: Always bring lots of singles, because it really helps in the bargaining process if the seller doesn't have to make change for you! Oh, and I did get the lunchbox at my price!
It's even cute on the inside too. I wonder what the thermos looked like. I'll bet it was sweet....
A vintage Easter card and two little bunnies inside a red mushroom.
Halloween Boy!
Another old hose nozzle for my Old Hose Nozzle Collection, and some vintage seed packets.
I was almost out of the parking lot of the flea market when I decided to go back and grab this pretty duvet. I couldn't even buy the fabric for what I paid for this. I thought it would make a nice cushion for that bench.
Perhaps something like this. But after the squirrels are done with their nesting frenzy. I don't want a repeat of what they did to the pillows I made for this bench a couple of years ago. I don't believe in harming animals, but this could push me right over the edge!
I think there's a little bit of red in every picture, so I'll be linking this to Rednesday.
So, did you find any treasures over the weekend?

In The Garden and On The Porch!

I am going to be honest with you all, and tell you that I am a woman living in fear. Fear that there is going to be payback for all of this unseasonably warm weather we've been enjoying, in the form of snow or a frost!
LOOK! The first tulip of the season! Surely Mother Nature wouldn't be so cruel as to snow all over these, would she?
Oh, and the cutest little blue flowers ever are blooming too! I think it's called Scilla, but I'm not sure...
I'm probably decorating the porch way too soon. But after I put the painted watering cans out, I noticed that it looks like there's room for one more can down there on the bottom. Darn, darn, darn! I have to buy another watering can now, otherwise that is just going to drive me nuts. Question is, what color would I paint it???
I even put a tablecloth on the patio table. I've been having my lunches at that table quite a bit lately, so it might as well look cute, right?
JoAnn Fabrics has some really cute tablecloths this year. This one has pretty much everything you could want in a tablecloth: polka dots, hearts, flowers, the whole shebang!
I've even started a little project, replacing the rocks around the lamp post/bike garden with that curvaceous brick edging. So far, it's: Edging-1 My Back-0. Must learn to pace myself, because there's alot of projects I want to tackle.
A shot of the hyacinths blooming in that little garden. They smell heavenly, and if only I was more limber, I'd be bending down to get a really good whiff!
Speaking of those projects that I plan to tackle, alot of them involve this paint. I stocked up big time during Menards' sale on spraypaint, and I just might go back and get more. I go through cans of Heirloom White like crazy. Sale goes 'til the end of the month. Hurry!
This is a shot of the trellis/arbor that Mr. Old Glory made for me for my birthday last year. I'm betting that this year, the thing is going to be covered by the clematises in record time!
So I know I can't be alone in my fear that this weather is just too good to be true. It's only March. What are your thoughts?