Day two on the barns treasure hunt

That's a lot of Walnust!  Love the log beams.

Items laying in the walnut rubble.

Brought the items in the house.

small box found

some kind of tooth brush or something,  Says Dr. WEST'S Miracle Tuft

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Okay, well today began the second day of my treasure hunt in the barn.  Inside of the barn is a room (100 years ago it was probably a stall), I was looking up at the ceiling of the stall versus the ceiling of the rest of that barn and noticed there's a foot and a half gap.  So I climbed a ladder, pulled one old board off the side, and stuck my hand in to snap a few pics in the dark.  What did I find?  a couple thousand walnuts, a bunch more shreds of news papers, an old measuring stick, pencils, some kind of a toothbrush, a small black box with a label that says Detroit Tap & tool Co. , lots of old and different clothes pins.  There is so much more in there I'm sure, but I can only reach the broom in so far to drag it out.  Ya know, I've always loved the whole thought of "treasure hunting". 

Treasure hunt in the barn.

lifted this dark board to clean under it.

flattened it out as carefully as I could

Monday August 19, 1929

Going to the circus

A night of fun and dancing maybe.

romantic

Kids getting a "lickin".  they spelled parents "parunts"

Love the michigan stuff

Okay, we have lived in our house for almost a year, and I have decided to make our barn into my workshop.  It's all going really well.  The inside of the barn has finished walls, but I needed some character in there, so I took one entire Wall off to expose the original barn beams.  I love it.  The trusses/beams along the top of the barn are huge long tree trunks notched out like Lincoln logs.  Well, today I decided to do a little deeper clean up, and I pulled up one old board to clean the dirt out from under it and I found a long wadded up news paper!  TREASURE!!  Before I opened it to take a look, I had to get my husband out there with me to see it.  It is totally crumpled up, so I was scared, but wanted to be the one to open it up so if it got ripped I could only be mad at myself.  To my major shock, the date on the news paper is Monday, August 19th 1929!  It is the Flint Daily Journal.  There are some really neat articles and ads on it.








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Don't be so scared OUIJA

I think this is kinda cool.  Very easy to do.  Don't act all scaredy cat about it.......took a piece of wood, to the size I wanted, and painted it black.  I went onto Yahoo images and looked up game board printables, and a TON of these Ouija boards came up.  So I printed one out, and Mod Podged it to the black board.  You can also print one that says happy Halloween instead of the alphabet.  I put a dowel into the back, so it's standing up.  It makes a great game night decoration, or halloween decoration. This printable in particular is about 6 inches by 10 inches, but you can print them in many sizes.   

Scrabble your brains out!

    

  
This is probably my most favorite project I have ever made.  I think this truly was my first project that when I was done, I thought "I can make all kinds of SHIT".  So about 8 years ago I went to a thrift shop and got this ugly ass side table, brown and nasty looking, I think I might have paid a whole dollar.  I first spray painted it black.  That was it, I thought "wow, look what I did, I made it like new".  Then I went to Michaels craft store, and stumbled upon scrap booking paper in the scrabble board design, and a sheet of scrabble pieces.  So then I thought, "maybe I can glue the paper game board on that ugly table, cut out a bunch of the scrabble paper pieces and scatter them all over the table and it's one leg in the middle".  So I did that, and thought to my self "Holy Shit, I am actually creating something here", I went back to Michaels to tell the worker what I did, and ask if I should spray it with clear spray paint to protect it.......and then I was turned on to Mod Podge. Oh god, I sealed that thing top to bottom, probably three times,  I also added some crackle paint to it, just to give it a very oldish look.  I really love this table, I still have it, we as a family play scrabble on it.  It's a great conversation piece.  Of all the things I have made and repurposed, this table gets the most attention.  Very sad for me..........I have not been able to find that same scrabble scrap booking paper since shortly after I made the table.  I was told it was discontinued.  Bummer.  I would love to make more of these some day.

napping

I needed a nap before going to the Oprah show.

Dog and daughter, out on the couch.

my husband and son sleeping.  After the Buick Open.
Exhausted from standing in the hot sun all day.  
This is a real nap.

snuggle with a sugglie

napping is one of my favorite past times.  I don't seem to sleep very good at night, but I can clonk out at the drop of a hat during the day.  Alls I need is a blanket.  I like it to be dark, but it's not totally necessary. I can throw the crook of my arm over my eyes, or just use my hand like I have a migraine.  I also cannot have my nose covered, I need full breathing room.  What is so great about a nap anyway?  Why can't I sleep at night?  But can fall into a deep sleep in the day?  I can be stressed out, and take a nap and wake up with a different attitude.  Naps are good.  Whenever I want to take a nap and my husband is around, I tell him he just has to lay down with his eyes closed for ten minutes.  He, unlike me, can fall asleep within seconds, so ten minutes is plenty of time for him to get to sleep, so that I can take a nap too.  In fact, I just heard my husband Yawn, im going to take advantage of this Saturday afternoon, and get some daytime shut eye.

One of my first projects a trillion years ago

Alright, this is one of the first pieces of furniture stuff I ever re-did.  I bought it from a yard sale.  It once was an old radio that someone else had re done and made into a top drawer and shelf in the lower part.  It was in it's natural ugly ass brown state.  So, I sanded the crap out of it, got my good ol'can of spray paint out, and sprayed it black.  I took light sand paper and scuffed the edges to still give it an old look.  I have had this for probably 8 years, and I still love it very much.  The gun leaning against it is not a permanent fixture.  We had some squirrel problems to take care of.  

Plate rack

This is the plate rack I have in my dining room.  It was originally my moms, it was hideous country blue colored, and it is Fiesta.  After she was done with it, I gave it to my mother-in-law, and it sat in her garage for a couple years.  So I thought, I want it back, but I'm going to paint it and make it work for me.  So, as I do with almost everything, I painted it black, scuffed up the edges, and it looks really nice on my wall.  I personally think the thermostat and carbon monoxide detector really make it POP!  jk.  I found this old set of tin flour, sugar, ect... canisters many years ago, and I got them out, cleaned them up, and I love it.

Stupid cat house, but it's cool

Woah, this is weird.  Ok, it's like a diary, craft spot, therapy, swearing station, Whatever.  I am hoping to put all my crafty stuff on here.  What I make, how I make it.  I guess the first thing I will start with is the stupid ass cat house I made last fourth of July.  Why?  I don't know.  I like to do the dumbest shit.  I built this house for my kids cats (outside cats/barn cats) and It ended up being really cool, and pretty rad.  It is all built from scrap crap around my garage and barn.  The only things I bought for it was the little foofie decorations on the outside.  I built the whole thing, carpeted the whole inside including the loft , yeah it has a loft inside.  After the actual house itself was built I started to get a little crazy, feeling like I needed to add ventilation in the back, so I drilled a couple big holes, covered them with a mesh and the covered that with a vent cover.  After that was done, I thought "Jeeez, What if it is raining"?, so I built the covered porch on the front.  Finally, when I talked my husband into helping me level it up in a tree in the back yard, I decided to carpet the tree as-well.  SO STUPID, I know.  But it's really funny, a conversation piece, and the kids and cats like it.  And Yes, the cats use it, but they do have a heated room in our barn, so they have spent a lot of the winter in the barn, but the whole summer and fall they loved their "tree house".  It's been up for almost 9 months, it's still holding up great, dry inside, but I am going to take the carpet off the tree when the weather warms up.  The cats do not need carpet to climb a tree.