Weekend Happenings

This weekend was pretty low key. 

Friday night we went to a gender reveal party for an expecting friend.  And yes, that is a legitimate sort of party.  Any excuse, y'all, any excuse...

We all wore pink, guessing she was having a girl, and we were right!  Whoop!

Saturday I made a measly offering to my friend's yard sale.  I didn't make a bunch (because I didn't bring a bunch), but I DID get to hang out in perfect weather all morning, talk to my awesome friend and drink Santa's White Christmas coffee.  So yeah.  Good morning.  I didn't mean to, but I came home with a couple garage sale finds...

Oh yeah.  VHS baby.  We still got one.  And that's Anthony's Brook's Brothers polo he snagged for fifty cents.

Sunday afternoon my genius husband invented a way to pick up our leaves (quite possibly my least favorite part about this wonderful season we call fall).  He got a piece of thin, flexible plastic and kinda just scooped them up like a giant leaf taco.

 You'll notice my face is all squinched up here...there were little gnats swarming around my eyeballs at this particular time.

We hauled them over to "the woods" and dumped!  Then, we slid back down the hill on the plastic.  Yep.  That's how it's done at the Johnson Casa.

We also paused for a few obligatory Darcy-Frolicking-In-The-Leaves shots.  Those are always a win.

 What a cutie pie.

So that was the weekend.  How was yours?

Weekend Happenings

Keepin' it real.  That's what this is all about.  Sooo, here's the weekend recap:

We went to Trivia Night at La Reunion, Friday night.  This is our new favorite thing to do.  Perhaps because we are so boring, or perhaps because Anthony is killer at trivia, or perhaps because it always involves coffee (and sometimes chocolate cake). 

 

We went yard saling Saturday morning.  For the first time in a while!  As aforementioned, I'm trying to share our fabulous finds for a variety of reasons...not the least of which is to keep me from buying something ridiculous.  Here's what we ended up with this week...

Thrilling, yes?  I forgot to picture a clothes drying rack, buuut I'm pretty sure you can imagine.  It looks like a clothes drying rack.  Anthony also picked up a really nice receiver and speakers for a friend.  The lamp shade is a brand new Pottery Barn shade, the basket is a bike basket (but I shall re-purpose that in a heart beat), the cords are Anthony's...who knows what for.  The vase will be painted (no surprise), and hopefully I can scrape the schmutz off the candle pedestals (but if not, that's what the candle is for - to cover it up!).  Grand total? $21 - including the receiver and speakers.  Just the stuff pictured (and the drying rack) was $8.

As of right now, here are the candle pedestals:

Lookin' all fallish and adorable on my dining room table.  And the bike basket is corraling cleaning supplies above my washer and dryer:

 I can only hope that the awesomeness of the basket makes up for the terribleness of the picture.

We shall see about the rest of my treasures...I'll keep you posted.

Saturday night we watched the Alabama/LSU game (along with every other red-blooded Alabamian).  I tell you what.  Football is something serious around these parts.  I pretty much show up for the food...

I took Mexican Sushi and chocolate-covered strawberries.  I wish my camera hadn't run out of batteries the moment we got there...there was so. much. food.  It was lovely.  The manly men set up a projector outside and we snuggled up to a couple of fire pits and drank lots of coffee and hot chocolate.  It was highly enjoyable!

Sunday we had church.  In the afternoon I made Pumpkin Tea Cookies to take to a baby shower that evening.  These are Anthony's favorite.



That pretty much sums it up!  Oh, and Darcy mangled a pillow I made.  THAT sums it up.  Looking back, it seems most of our activities center around food...  Must be the cold weather :)

Garage Saling. It's What We Do.

One fateful Saturday morning, my friend Faith and I intreated our husbands to go garage saling with us.  Very reluctantly, they did.  Anthony wanted a stereo system...and that very morning, he found a receiver and two speakers for under $20.  He. Was. Hooked.  I created a monster.  Every Saturday morning he is nothing if not RARING to go.  This morning he literally did an incredibly accurate imitation of a velociraptor around my side of the bed until I opened my eyes.  I wouldn't lie about something this serious.

Most of our friends and family are aware of this serious addiction we have formed, and often ask, "What in the world do you buy?".  The answer on many occasions is nothing.  We may come home with a book or a picture frame.  Wop wop.  Or we may load our car up to the max!  I think that's really why Anthony likes it...it's an adventure.  You never know what you'll find. 

Ninety percent of the time we go out looking for something in particular - and we normally find it!  This morning we set off in search of seating.  We had ten people at our house yesterday evening and realized a little too late, that we didn't have ten chairs that we could pull up to a table.  Soooo...we wanted to find something that we could fold up and throw in our storage closet to have on hand for just such an occasion.  Enter, Garage Sale #2.  We got two fold-up stools that were completely perfect.  Here's the other stuff we picked up along the way:

Thrilling, no?  Not bad for about $25 in my opinion.  That marble end table is pretty cool...I've been looking for an end table, and my house runs a little too modern for my taste sometimes, so I thought this might set things back a notch.  I may have to spruce up that brass a little, though.

I got five of those drawer pulls.  We've been needing something desperately for the guest bathroom.  They were all in the original packaging and we got them all for a dollar.  The bowl is for Hobbes.  She keeps swatting her plastic bowl off the dryer and into the waiting mouth of Darcy.  Hopefully the heavier bowl with the grippy stuff on the bottom, will make that daily ritual slightly more challenging.  The cheese plate...well that's just awesome.  And a dollar.

We have no children at the moment, however, I'm a sucker for vintage toys!  I'm sure our friend's kids will enjoy this addition to our Tinker Toys collection.

Despite the plethora of free music all over the internet, Anthony still picks up CD's at garage sales.  Sigh.  He promises to throw them away after he loads them onto the computer.  Likely story.  The clay pot is for my new house plant.  Hopefully I can get it transplanted in there before I kill it.

That's it for the day!  That's the magic of the yard sale.