Kewpie Vacation

 Went on a day trip out of town. I took Kewpie for some documentation of the trip.

 We stopped at McDonald's for breakfast

 Highway shot

 Arrived in the town of our destination and used the bathrooms at The Bay.

 Picture of me downtown, with one of the many painted buildings

 Taken from the window of an antique store (Obviously a antique window too) *heheh*

Baby Carriage

 Awesome chair!

 Kewpie could not have been happier ..... he found some relatives. TOO BAD they were locked up in a glass case in the Salvation Army.

 Stopped in at Value Village

 Walmart

 Kewpie did a little rock climbing!

 I purchased this fringe dress from Value village

 Accessorized with Yellow and white Jewelry

 I just found these last week. They are one of my fave purchases of the year so far right next to Beatrice my carpet bag purse.

 Bought these for a 5'er on Saturday morning at a garage sale. A little more than I would have liked to spend... but I have been trying to not be a total cheapo! *hahaha*

 

Vaseline glass dish purchased from Salvation Army.

 

It has been a month since my last post. The reasoning is because of work.

One of stores we clean was supposed to switch over to Spring hours at the beginning of April. And it STILL HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. I was so looking forward to be able to clean a little less and have a bit more time for my hobbies. It can't be much longer before we get the go ahead. I mean Spring did start here on March 20 "WHAT'S THE FREAKIN HOLD UP?"

 

 

My out of town day trip

*Blows bubbles*

Hello all!

On Saturday as you might know I took a out of town day trip to do some thrifting in new territory & see if I could find myself a vanity.

Mr. and I had alot of fun when you go to the same stores OVER AND OVER... it's really nice to go somewhere completely different.

Red square table cloth with a embroidered swan on every corner $1

60's eye glasses case $0.25

Key pendant $2


Bangle $0.99

Mr. Coco's Mom lives right near where we went. So in the evening before we headed home we had plans to go over and have a visit with them before heading home. When we got to their house they came outside while Mr. tarped my vanity to keep her safe from rain. Whilst outside I showed my Mother in law my purchases below..... I would love to know what she thought when she seen them.
If your son married someone who purchased items like this... you would??

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60's flower bathing cap $0.25

Vintage towel dress! (OMG I loved it when I saw it hanging on the rack in one of the Salvation army's there.)
Now if Coconut lived in the town she visited. She knows where she would be going to do her laundry...

(I was thrilled when I spotted this laundromat)

Here is me outside of a AWSOME vintage & antique store called Blast from the past. I could have spent hours looking at everything in this store. They have EVERYTHING you could imagine inside.
And the owners are quite nice too!

What do you think of Mr. Peanut? You know.. this guy

Picture from 1940's taken from http://www.freewebs.com/waterburyct/moredowntown.htm

Picture from 1950's taken from http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/index.php/rare-c-1940-s-hand-painted-american-prototypical-mr-peanut-promotional-product-costume.html

Well I think he is quite cool and guess what??
I GOT TO MEET HIM!!
*WOOOOO*

When we walked into the store and I saw Mr. Peanut I was SOOOO EXCITED. I knew I had to get a picture. But I asked permission first. The lady working was so sweet she even asked if she could take the picture for us and moved stuff around so Mr. Coco and I could get a pic with him together.

She said it was no problem... and then said "But had you asked to get into the costume... I would have had to say no" *lol* "Then I would have told people, Guess what a customer asked today? They must not have had anything important to do." *hahaha* ("Thank God I didn't ask") *wink*

So if I was rich and had extra money I think I would buy the costume and walk around town. Throw peanuts at people maybe?? *heh*

This place was closed maybe it will be open next time.

So after going to all the thrift stores I had on my list and only coming across one (Beat up) Vanity at a Salvation army for $300.00

we were about to go to the next town an hour away.

On our way to the highway driving though downtown... I seen a store on the street corner. And in that store window I seen a GORGEOUS VANITY. I yelled to Mr. "OMG we have to turn around. I SAW A VANITY in the front window of one of those stores." So we parked and went in... I ran into the store front area to see what I had spotted. Dear God it was a gorgeous bedroom set with a wardrobe, foot board, headboard & vanity for about $2400.00

It was absolutely stunning

(Part of the set, pic taken through window)

The store was quite large and hubby went to go look and guy-ish stuff while I went to search for what I was looking for....

I walked into a room where there was not one but three FREAKING vanities.

Omg!

My heart started to race and I had the hugest grin on my face...

I ran to find Mr. Coco

To be Continued....