What can you make with yardsticks?

I don't know what I am more embarrassed about..
all the yardsticks or the wine corks.
I love me some wine!
I think that is why we spend so much time in California.
Not to visit the kids but to drink the wines!
 LOL

I love all the old an new sticks.
But esp the old ad ones.
I think I look like a stick hog now.

Yardsticks are getting harder to find lately.
Sometimes I can find a dozen or more and sometimes I can't find a
1.

Don't you love the awesome colors?

When we buy stools we generally make cowhide stools out of them.
Buy D does not like the round ones. They are def harder to work on.
So over the weekend I had a AH HA moment and thought.
1st to remake a picture frame with the yardsticks.
Then I went to our garage and found a few fun pieces that I thought would
look awesome with the sticks.
So here is the before picture and below is the after!

D was not to thrilled with this project because of the difficulty of it.
It WAS time consuming. 

But I love how it came out!

I varnished it with 5 coats of varnish and feels as if it turned out gre

Look at the cool words...love the person who
wrote Sewing Room on it!
More than likely from a school.
So sweet!

                                           

2nd project.

My son found this one day a while ago when we went thrifting.
I almost had him put it back. But I loved the wheels so I had him throw it in the cart.
So glad I did!
So this is the before and below the after.

We had to add a new board to it the original one was shot.
Would this not be a cute trivet? Or a board to put on the table and scoot around?
I just love it.

Aren't those wheels just the cutest things?

Mad about the words...Love the overall look!

                       

Love Wisconsin at the top

Hope your week is going great..
It is hump day so it should be getting better as we get closer to the weekend.

Cheers,
Shel

What's Behind The Barn?

The million dollar question.

A lovely rock fence.

A silo and old seed planter.
The last of the old planters we actually used.

A lovely morning behind the barn.

The building on the left is our
Machine Shed.
My dad kept a lot of his tractors and goodies in there.
We just have always called it the Machine Shed.
We are going to be redoing that sweet little building soon.
I have gotta take pictures of it and show you how much it needs to be revamped.

Here is the basement and doors of the barn.

We have a fence where we will be getting chickens next year after we build a coop.
So excited about that.
Growing up we always had chickens.
My mom would make a few dollars on her egg money.
My dad would take the eggs to work and she loved the little bit she made.
I still have her egg weigh machine. It sits in our kitchen.

This is from the field

Hope your week is going well!

Cheers,
Shel

Do you have a Favorite Number?

                 Do you have a favorite number or numbers?

For me I have two I love

Yep these are my 2 faves.

I have them all over my home.That is my mom and dad in the picture.
I took a small pic and had it blown up to poster size.
This picture was taken on their honeymoon.

Five is my fave because we have that many in our family

 3 because of my 3 sons. Yep just like the TV show
 My Three Sons.
We actually met Fed Murray years ago at our Country Club.
He came every summer and we saw him and his family.
I have red hair and one night they were sat by our table,his wife tapped me on the shoulder and we started talking about the color of my hair. Go figure why people talk to people?
They had adopted a set of twins and they had red hair as well. Their daughters were lovely as well.  Fred came home every year to Beaver Dam because that is where he grew up.

Yep love'm both. Not just the 5 and not just the 3. I cannot pick a favorite.
That would be like asking if I love one of my boy's more than the other.
Couldn't do it..no sir re bob love'm all equally.

&

I love you equally! I do not discriminate against other numbers I just love these 2.

So do you have a fave?

Cheers,
Shel ♥

Are you a Morning or a Night Person"

Morning or Night?

For me hands down morning.

Because of things like this.

Fog

Fog with sun

Love the way the corn looks in the morning with the fog.

Our valley looks so mysterious and when you can't see the train but you
can hear it through the fog...what can I say but ahhhhh.

Our flag looks so majestic in the morning with the
sun coming up.

Beauteous!

Goodnight Moon!

Something to think about isn't it?
Sometimes we just need to stop and think about nothing but how lucky we are to get up every morning an have another day on this earth to enjoy.
I mean really enjoy, stop, breath, take it all in and
smile that you got another day.

Have a great one!
Cheers,
Shel

We opened 2 new Etsy Stores

This is my new one.
We opened it because on our HighPointFarm one we sell bascially just antiques with a dab of art things or re-vamps as I like to call them.
In this shop we make
Cowhide Stools
Cowhide Benches
Cowhide Piano benches
Chalkboards made of:
Old vintage picture frames
Old Globes
Old Clip Boards
We made Coasters from:
Left over cowhide and wood
Vintage Yardsticks
We revamp old baseballs into bookends.
We make hat or coat hangers out of old baseball bats.
The list goes on and on...my mind just does not shut down.

This is our son's shop.
He moved home a few months ago from California and has not found a job yet.
So I helped him open a shop and it is doing really well. He has his own ideas as far as what he wants to sell and so far so good. With a little guidance from mom. I really do try and just sit back an watch. However when you all are living in the same home 24-7 it just becomes so easy to walk 20 steps to  my office and bug me.
He'll get the hang of it an will fly.

Well I hope your week so far has been a good one.
Short weeks just seem to zoom right by.

Cheers,
Shel

Have You Ever Made a Banner for Your Store or Blog?

Have you ever made a banner?

I started to learn more about it when I opened my 2nd Etsy store.

I hated the way I made my 1st one. 

I printed my name off the printer and laid it across my rug and took a picture.

Can you say tacky? 

Yep it was very icky and cheap looking. But it was all I knew at the time.

To be honest I had no clue what a banner was much less how to make one.

So I went to the Etsy forum and read what other people had used. But I still had no clue what to do

sooooo....I just goggled a simple question and Boom there was the easiest  way to make a banner.

Below are a few I putzed with and in the end I choose 4 that I liked and added.

I used Gimp. It is free and everyone knows free is good. I followed a gal's 2-3 min description on how to do it on You Tube and bang in less than 10 mins I made a awesome banner.

The You Tube Video I watched was:

Fast and simple etsy shop banner using Gimp.

Yep just type that in and make one of your own.

Easy Peasy!!

This is from my blanket store name

Wanted to incorporate the barn

Blanket store again 

This is for my new store on Etsy.
I took a picture of my rock wall one morning and thought ummmm.
I think it turned out great.

This is the banner I did for my mother store.
It is the top of our silo next to the barn.

This is my son's store.
That was my old bike leaning up against my machine shed.
That bike is over 40 yrs old.

This was for my blanket store as well.
Oddly I cannot find the banner I ended up with.
But you get the drift.

Now go off an play to make a banner for your awesome blog or Etsy store. I plan on playing more with the banners when the seasons change etc.

Now I need to know more about how to make my blog more appealing and worth coming to see.

Have a great rest of the week.

Cheers
Shel