The Mill and a Little Browsing

I had a few minutes on Saturday to browse. 

I was at one of my favorite shops and ran into the sweet lady

who helped design my home.

By "design", I simply mean, 

pick out light fixtures, brick and siding color, granite-

those kinds of things.

My home is certainly not a magazine design.

She has a booth in our local antique shop.

It was great bumping into her.

I told my children last week

that Nashville only felt like home 

when I was with them.  

I miss bumping into people I know.

It was nice.

She told me about a craft fair that was going on

just down from where I live, 

The Mill.

I wrote a post on The Mill when I first moved. 

It's an old mill that has been refurbished.

It was just a quick browse and I didn't buy a thing.

I was looking more at the decorating. It was a little cool inside and Christmas music was playing in the background.

The shop was called Urban Mills.

www.Urbanmillspromo.com if

you'd care to browse too.

They had the neatest ideas.

Shutters, a place to hang the wreaths and their stockings.

I may have to steal this idea.

The dressing room was made 

from refurbished wood

and sheets of aluminum.

The entrance was very inviting.

The merchandise was a little out of

my league, but I enjoyed looking anyway.

One more favorite to come.

Please pray for my husband and I. We have some decisions to make.

A Fun Halloween

It was a fun Halloween.

I thought I was scheduled to work.

My brain kinda flips things without my permission.

I saw the numbers 5 and 12.

I was thinking, yeah, go in at 5...

And then it hit me!

Get off at 12???

I looked again. 

It was 12:15 and I was late!!!

I don't know if I have ever been late for anything.

I got to spend the night with my family.

YiPpEE!

Look at those big smiles!

I tell you, they just melt my heart!

Have you ever seen a cuter Minnie?

The neighborhood Facebook page, 

(the present Mrs. Cravitz-the snoop from Bewitched???)

told them to prepare with $200 worth of candy.

Between all of family, I think they spent close to that.

I've never seen so many kids!

Never!

Mr. H stayed back and gave out the candy.

He loved it!

We ate chili and hot dogs and watched the girls sing and dance. 

They circled round and round to the tune of 

"Let it Go."

It's still very warm here, 

but God must have whispered, 

"It's Fall,"

to Trevecca Nazarene University.

The campus is beautiful as it prepares 

for Homecoming this weekend.

My girl is singing so I'll be there if possible.

Yesterday was my yearly mamo and exam, 

the pain only women can understand.

Ugh.  

I'm soooo ready for FALL and cooler temps!

Can you believe this was just a year ago?

And this baby girl was in the hospital last Halloween!

Hope you had an eventful festival or Trick or Treat!

Dress Shop or Vintage?

Good Morning or Afternoon or Evening wherever you are. 

I didn't go to church this morning.  Stuffy head, achy body, cough and no rest.

I'm listening to praise and worship. I wanted to catch up on my blogging. Have I said this internet is awwwwwful! I can't get blogger to come up or anything for that matter so I'm back to the IPhone and peck, peck, peck. 

Blogging on the phone is almost impossible for me. As long as I can type, I can sit for hours and read and write. Pecking and signing on and on and on and the ADHD kicks in. I can't sit still waiting. 

It's been crazy!!! I love my retail job with The Loft Outlet. My boss almost flipped out when I told her I had maybe ten outfits and only about 5 fit. When I told her that I wasn't a clothes, shoes or jewelry person she bout fell in the floor.  I said, "You probably would not have hired me had you known?" She said, "I don't know." She laughed! But truly I think I'm not what she expected. I think she likes me but putting outfits together has been a new experience for me. I'd just rather be thrifting junk shops. Give me a box of junk and I can pull together an outfit that is inviting but give me a mannequin and I'm lost.

I'm learning, but I don't know if this will be permanent.  I can barely walk or straighten up by the time I get home. I just don't know if my body can take it. I absolutely love my boss and the atmosphere is fun! But...

Just praying for David a better paying job or me a less strenuous job. I never dreamed that finding a good paying job in Nashville would be so hard.

Just thought I'd show you a few of the things I've picked up lately. Simple is what I do best.

I picked up this fabric pumpkin at my favorite vintage store.

Yey! It's gray! I pulled out my Southern Living ironstone cake plate to display.

Something's missing. Yes! A doilie. 

The fabric felt like felt. It's so soft.

That stem! Oh how I love!!! Natural beauty is the best.  

I prefer a vignette to a dress shop display any day! Which do you prefer, one to the other or both?

A Vintage Shop

There's a vintage shop that I frequent quite often. Well, it's been less often lately. Crazy, but I have no idea what the name is. It's a little house off the highway and if you aren't looking for it, you'll miss it every time.

The outside can sometimes resemble a junk yard, the kind I like to meander around. You'll find galvanized buckets, rusty iron beds, chippy painted patio sets, farmhouse tables with probably more layers of lead paint than you or I'd care to know about, rusted tractor wheels, bobbed wire and pitch forks, more yard tools and farm equipment. 

Inside are the more refined treasures.

I'm seeing a reoccurrence of Shabby Chic, and I'm loving it. 

I'm going back this weekend in hopes to snag some of this vintage pink stuff, Pom-poms and scraps of vintage fabric.

And maybe this lamp???

Is this framed ad not just the cutest?!

I could not pay a fortune for this drawer but I can find my own and make it just as pretty for little or nothing. Yes, the wheels are turning.

Remember my pink phone? It was my friend's and I gave it back when I moved. She didn't say,"Ohhhhh, just keep it!" So I'm searching for a pink one like the white one in the ad. 

True story...A few weeks ago a friend of mine was in the hospital. Her granddaughter was there for a few hours when the phone (the land line) rang.  

My friend: "Answer the phone."

Granddaughter:  "I don't have the phone."

My friend: "That phone."

Granddaughter : "That's a phone?"

Yes, dear that would be a phone. And it's a new one, a push button. We'd definitely have to teach our grands how to dial a rotary phone. 

This bottom of a canning cupboard had great bones, more solid than anything you'd buy today. 

This is the end of today's tour.

More to Come.