Vintage Purple Blog Party!

There's a blog party over at Etsy Cottage Style!

We're showing off our vintage Purple Pretties ♥♥♥

  A little Angel with Purple Dress

Purple Flower Decals I placed on .....

my favorite piece of furniture,

a corner cupboard that my Dad used to hold tools!

Yikes!

But received a lovingly makeover by my oldest son and me ☺

Thanks Brandon! 

This belonged to my Mom

My favorite dish by Homer Laughlin,

one day I hope to have a set.

Some of the vintage Aprons I repurposed as a valance

even have Purple!

I love Purple ♥

Mosaic Monday ~ Mental Vacation

Since so many of you are under snow,

I thought a little warmer "Mental Vacation"

could maybe help you through

till Spring thaw!

Be sure to visit Mary over at Little Red House

to see everyone elses mosaics.

Enjoy!

How to Type Symbols With Your Keyboard

If you are anything like me,

you've always wondered how to make those fun symbols

like you see others do....

You know, a heart, musical note, diamond, etc.

Well I stumbled across how to do it!

Several of you have asked how to,

so here ya go,

I am more than willing to share what little knowledge I have! LOL

This should work in any Windows word processor,

text editor, browser or email client.

1. Make sure your keyboard is in NumLock mode.


2. Hold down the ALT key and enter the number on the numeric keypad. (Note that many laptops have a blue FN key that changes a set of keys, also with blue numbers on them and usually in the 7-8-9-U-I-O area, into a numeric keypad.)

for ☺ 1

for ☻ 2

for ♥ 3

for ♦ 4

for ♣ 5

for ♠ 6

for • 7

for ◘ 8

for ○ 9

for ◙ 10

for ♂ 11

for ♀ 12

for ♪ 13

for ♫ 14

for ☼ 15

for ► 16

for ◄ 17

for ↕ 18

for ‼ 19

for ¶ 20

for § 21

for ▬ 22

for ↨ 23

for ↑ 24

for ↓ 25

for → 26

for ← 27

for ∟ 28

for ↔ 29

for ▲ 30

for ▼ 31

Cool Huh? Ok get busy,

I expect to see alot more of these around blogland now.

☺☻☺☻ 

Vintage Valentine Card Party!

Welcome to The Vintage Valentine Card Party

hosted by Joan from Anything Goes Here.

Thank you Joan for hosting this sweet party!

Be sure to check out the list of participants!

When we cleared out the farm there were boxes

of papers and cards from my Grandmother

that my Dad had saved.

Also some cards from my Mother.

It was fun going through all of them.

Here are some of the Valentine's I found...

Postcards were so big back in those days.

One of my favs

Gotta love this one!

I think these are from my Sister's era

Our 15 year old cat, Baylee, insisted on helping ~

On this one the little Engineer moves

To see more be sure to check out all the participants

over at Joan's Party!

Wishing everyone a Wonderful Weekend

and The Happiest Valentine's Day!

TGIF! Fertilizer Friday!

It's Fertilizer Friday over at Tootsie Time!

Be sure to pop over and see everyone's blooms!

We have been having some warmer weather and sunshine!

Feels good too.

While out counting birds for The 13th annual Great Backyard Birdcount

I noticed I had some botanical activity!!!

Yipeee!!

Buds almost ready to burst...

and even blooms!

ahhh, they made me smile.

I'll leave you with a few of my "counties"

Have a terrific weekend!!

The Old West

On with our continuing saga of the Ag Museum.

The Proprietor has built all the buildings here himself,

including this facade of old west store fronts. 

Now a Killer Whale doesn't belong in the Old West,

but this one is really cool.

 Originally a pontoon thingy, turned Killer Whale.

Ok Back to the Old West.

Cute, huh?

There is even a working Blacksmith Shop.

Take a gander at that gorgeous newel post on the left of the entrance!

Everything a Smithy could want...

Look at the size of that Bellows!!

There's something to look at in every square inch...

Even the rafters...

So much eye candy for us junkers ;~)

see the horse collar hanging upside down in the center off the picture?

I currently have one and am trying to decide what to do with it.

Any suggestions?

On the farm we had several of these scales..

Now that's a Newel Post!

More goodies around the perimeter of the Shop..

Loving those old trunks!

I think maybe that huge Newel Post

and this huge Coffee Pot belonged to Paul Bunyan..

My Uncles used Separaters like this

on their Dairy Farm in the Livermore Hills.

I'm enjoying this all over again looking at these photos.

A few more and we'll finally be finished.

So many memories are evoked seeing these things,

it warms my heart.

Mosaic Monday ~ Critters

It's time for Modaic Monday over at The Little Red House 

with Mary as our Hostess.

Thank for having this each week Mary, it is such fun to see everyone's

take on this.

I've been receiving much flack from certain beings at my house.....

 for not showing them off.  

hmmmm...

So without further adieu here are some of my furry, feathery,

and scaly friends in Mosaic form.

:~)

Oh and by the way,
I'm sorry but I had to add the word verification thingy back on...
way too many spamy comments.
:~(

Second Installment....

.....of our visit to the Ag Museum.

From the parking lot, this big guy welcomes you..

or maybe makes you second guess going in! 

There were lots of older and very much older cars to see.

My Dad had a truck that looked very much like this one

Can you say Bel Air??

I drove one like this my Senior year of High School!

NO, it was not new at the time. lol

Fresh sausage anyone?

The proprietor made this

'Solar Earth Dryer'

LOL

REO Speedwagon...

No not the band!

These next two pictures you really need to enlarge.

You won't believe the things this oldie has been 'embellished' with!

He's got old Tractors too.

Flanders?

Look at those tires!

Lots of eye candy for the car enthusiast here!

Vrroom vrroom!

More to come.....