Weekend of fun

Well this weekend I went to an auction with my husband and father somewhere in the boonies of NC. Let me tell you, my dad and I used to go to auctions all the time when they lived in WV and we visited. We would bring truckload after truckload of treasures home. My mom really didn't see the possibilities in our "deals". She has since hated the term "deal" :)

I used to buy items that were such a great price then take them back to Northern Texas and wait until my best friend had her bi-yearly yard sale and truck them to central Texas and make a killing selling them at yard sales. Ahhhh the good old days. But since then we have had slim pickings on auctions since moving to NC. They just don't do them as often nor do they have as good of "deals" as WV does.

Anyway, we lost several hours of our life at this auction Saturday that we will never get back. It was not a great sale but it was fun to get back out into the thrill of the hunt.

I did get two items...a piano stool and a sink for our kids bath remodel. The sink was the highlight and it wasn't even in the auction- it was laying in a field near their burn pile. We asked the lady if we could buy it off of her for $25 and she said sure. What a deal as I have looked at them at salvage yards and they fetch about $200+ there.

 I spent Sunday shopping with my son. The middle child who needs some one on one time with mom at moments. We spent most of the day shopping for him go figure - skater boy shirts, shorts and books. He LOVES to read and as a mom can't argue with that one. Just wish books weren't so expensive. I can say he does reread them many times so they get their moneys worth I guess.

One thing he did was lock my keys in the car when we were at TJ Homegoods store- oh dang we had to spend a bit of time there waiting for hubby to bring us another set of keys. Got some fun stuff there. I love that store.. I got a wine rack with hooks. It is tin and I am not a wine drinker..so why buy it you ask? Hmmmm I am going to decopauge over the wine labels with either kids names or just numbers and hang it in the mud room..pretty smart huh?

Then on Monday my old fave auction house in VA was having an online auction and I got some goodies at that. The fun part is that now I have to travel up to VA to pick the items up...and shop some more. Going to try to time that with hitting another auction there. We will see. I will post those goodie pictures when I get them.

We also worked a bit on the screen porch but that is another post..

Until next time..I will be very busy now. I have decided to do a blog contest that makes us redo our kitchen in a months time. I figured if I had someone pushing me - a deadline so to speak I'd get off my butt and do it. We'll see how it goes..