Waiting for SPRING

Flowers, puddles, birds flitting about looking for new nesting spaces, and the sweet smell of cut grass..  that's what we're waiting for.   Looking for days of  garage sales, road trips,  sunshine and preparing for... my most favorite gathering..   Vintage With Flair!!!!  3 months and counting. This year's booth design is around #The Adorned Garden!!!. #flowers #nest #birds #vintage #reloved treasures and pops of #color.    Look for Wow and Then at Vintage With Flair , #Priddis #2014.  June 20th   4 -8  and June 21st  9 - 4.  

 

ON THE HUNT

Spring seems to be when we at Wow and Then get the urge to go on a road trip for "hunting" for treasure.   Kind of like birds taking their yearly pilgrimage north or south depending on the season.  It is the season of change, renewal, new life and hints of color resurfacing, depending on which direction you drive.  We have our favorite haunts, that most often the unusual decorating uniquities  for inside or out, surface.  I like to try to see past the "same old" kind of pieces and dig for the unusual, or most unlikely.  Those are the pieces that inspire me or cause me to see another purpose.. It might be their color, or lack thereof and  crusty from time.   With summer planting just around the corner I will be watching for galvanized, tin, wood, enamel and painted finds to showcase the myriad of colors.   Decorating outdoors is popular for even the most novice of gardeners, and here in southern Alberta, portable gardens are a perfect solution to the very changeable weather patterns sometime within hours;  allowing for removal to shelter or cover.   As we are located in Cowboy Country, western memorabilia is always on our list of must haves.  So our sights are set on a treasure hunt of vintage, garden, rusty, western, and the unusual and of course just as importantly a  change of scenery.

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HIDDEN TREASURE

My hubbie loves to fix up vintage bikes and this one  is his latest re-creation.  Rust and flat tires were all you really could see and while in the process of  refashioning, cleaning and restoring it to its previous splendor, he made a fun discovery.


  A DOLLAR BILL TUCKED AWAY IN THE   HANDLE   BAR

It would be fun to know the story behind that dollar.  As you can see by the rust around the edge, it has been there a good long time, through many a rain or snow storm.  Was it being saved for a rainy day?   Seeing as the bike is from the mid 60's a dollar would have gone a long way if you were going to go to the corner store.  As well the dollar went out of print many years ago . Oh the stories that bike and bill could write.  The beauty of the bike is the fact that my hubbie saw beauty beneath the rust, and recreated it into a once again rideable beauty.  And just goes to show 

"You Never Know What You Might Find" when hunting or working with those old and discarded treasures !!!

Lists, not the to do kind but the, I like... kind

With Christmas a few short weeks away.. I was reminded by another blogger of lists... I remember when my children were little, that was the only way I could get through the season.. but now they are grown.. so rather than a list of things to do... this is a list of why I like.... This time of year.

~ the music of the season, fun kinds and the very melodic Christmas stories in music, they are reminders of the past Christmas's as a child and with my own children, church choirs and school choirs
~ the lights... there is a magical glow about Christmas lights... in the country  from a distance they are like beacons to travellers, welcoming them in..I wish they could be on all year
~ the aroma of the real Christmas Tree... nothing like it...
~ the house filled with the scent of cookies baking
~ the fun of finding treasures for my boys... now grown and my nieces and nephew

~ The Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph... even at my age
~ most of all I LOVE how that first Christmas came to be, and what it means to me

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