This week started this way ... with me hanging a Mad Hatter Tea Party banner over our very own Mad Hatter's Tea Party table.
Where I had a personal pair of hot air balloons floating over me for my entertainment.
Dad and some of his favorite people, meanwhile, where just getting ready to run the Onions Days 5K.
Dad won third place in his category.
Happy boy....
Davin and Bri dropped off the girls to help me get ready for our BBQ/Tea Party later. Adi tries on my newest hat for the Mad Hatter's Hattery.
Then they found a huge mushroom in the lawn, which boded well for our Wonderland lunch, don't you think?
Adi and Nenna helped me set the table for the To-do!
I loved seeing Eva's modern version of a chatelaine.
and Charley enjoyed using Emily's swing.
Girlies waiting for the parade to arrive.
Brady and Becca brought their boy dog, to help his sister get used to being on her own. I guess she has some separation anxiety. Our neighbors, who shared the yard with us for the parade, came over to pet him.
The boys are ready for the parade to come ...
and so are the girls.
Loved Trevor's Bear Lake shirt. The special significance, is that we missed this parade for many a year, because we were vacationing at Bear Lake, on Labor Day weekend.
Three generations.
and of course, everyone wants to hold the baby .... I considered naming the blog, Holding Cam, this week.
Being shy?
Blondy girls.
Dad's cousin Jerry Dibble came to sit with us for a while, as her granddaughter was to be marching with a group.
It was so fun to have her stop by for any reason!
Here's the garden house turned Madhat Tea Parties shoppe. I liked the flamingos and red roses in the planters so well, that I think I'll leave them for a while.
Adi and Eleanor discovered the secret garden, before it even has a wall with a tiny door to enclose it.
Eva's new mural is in place.
Trevor found a new friend.
and a very handsome one at that.
We all ate our BBQ lunch in the back patio, due to the shade, but moved out to the Tea Party table to enjoy birthday cake with the boy who was celebrating a few days early with his cousins.
Happy Birthday Alex, AKA the Mad Hatter.
Did I mention that Bear came to the festivities as well? Everyone loves petting and snuggling these cute dogs.
Both fifteen for the moment, Eva turned 15 in July, and Alex would be 16 come Sunday.
Adi shows off the proper tea cup etiquette.
While Mac gets a kick out of drinking Papa's homemade root beer from a demitasse cup.
A new meaning for shades of gray ... (Thank goodness)
an unflattering candid shot of the birthday boy.
and some other munchkins.
Yummy red velvet birthday cake ... I took a sugar day because of that cake ... and managed to be major achy by bed time ... alas.
The rediscovery of Spencer's electric guitar made Alex very happy as he is to take "Temporary Custody", as Spencer prepares to move out of the country for 20 years.
Britt and the kids took time to stop and visit Ben's grave on their way home. That made me feel warm and fuzzy.
After the big events of the day, Dad and I took a short nap before heading to pick up the goodies I had arranged to buy at a buying appointment on Center Street in Provo, the previous Saturday. This old Indian blanket was one of the things I was offered, but would have been too expensive, since I don't really know much about them. We stopped at Treasures to drop off the old metal motel porch chairs on the way.
I started putting out my final advertising for fleaolgy coming up the end of the week.
Tuesday morning I met up with Ann again for some more Kayaking. This cute duck family was fun to watch, but hard to photograph.
Yep that's me.
Ann brought her dog, but I think she regretted it, he made her kayak hard to navigate, so we dropped him off at the car and headed out for a second hour.
When I got home Dad was painting the awning in preparation for hanging it. I jumped in and helped, and the paint dried so fast we were ready to put it up before we knew it.
Dad is positioning it here.
I thought this was a funny shot. We finally manage to get it somewhat balanced, on top of the ladder, but when Dad was putting in a support on the side, back on the ground, he bumped the ladder and it fell. Fortunately I caught it so it wasn't bent up by hitting the cement.
Unfortunately it also caught me ... yeah, but fortunately I am an adult and I can decide not to have stitches, unfortunately, like all head wounds it was a bloody mess ... ok, I am fortunately done with that line of thought.
Yep, its truly a thing of beauty.
Here is my project for the day. I bought this Eastlake washstand from my friend Vicky at a Northern Utah Vintage Market day last year. It had a burn mark on the top, and I thought it would be easy to sand it off ... nope, not so as it turns out. I knew I'd have to paint it, but even with all the interesting finishes people are putting on vintage furniture, no one is putting painted tops on natural furniture, even though they are doing the opposite. So I thought since Eastlake furniture often had marble tops, I do a faux marble on this washstand. Its not perfect, but I thought for a first try it was better than I hoped. Thanks to all those You Tube faux marble painters I have been hanging out will for about a week.
That night we met our friends Shaun and Aubrey McCauley to celebrate his birthday. We went for High Mex (At the old opera house) and I just loved our waitress' fingernails. They reminds me of the old hand painted Danish plates from the 1800's. We used a 1900's version of these plates when we lived in the Salt Lake house for the second time. Such a talented nail artist.
Wednesday dawned just in time to celebrate this Vandal's 20th birthday.
Dad replace our faucet that day, and it took pretty much the whole day. He found the lines had never been cleared when they replaced the leaking water supply while we were on our second mission. I guess that dirt had worked its way up the line until we had almost no water pressure at all in the kitchen. If you wanted a drink of water, you could leave your glass to fill and get out a pot and put it on the stove before the glass was ready. Unfortunately, that meant a lot of work and time for Dad.
I gathered a few antiques at work to decorate our theme table for our Relief Society Acitivity. The activity was called Family History is for Everyone. We invited the Young Men and Young Women to help us host it. Several young folks hosted three breakout sessions, that we then rotated. The picture on the far right was right off the staircase wall, Thomas Benjamin Clark. I actually got to tell the story about his time as a member of the Queen's guard back in the 1860's, of course the queen referred to in this appellation was Victoria. The second activity was to have them bring a food to share that was traditional from their family history. They told the story behind it and then everyone sampled everything. I took long-rice to share and told them how my Dad learned to love it while serving in Hawaii during WWII, and how Mom surprised him by finding the Siafun noodles locally and making it for him when he got home. It became pretty much our family's celebration food. Of course I also told how my Mom made it with pork, then trying to be healthier as a young married I had made it with chicken, until we became vegetarians and I started using mushrooms. Yep history is never static.
The third activity was having the youth teach the RS sisters how to use Family Tree and Family Search on their phones. The ward clerk came to dispense the membership numbers needed for registration. Then the kids hooked everyone up, and they got to do the facial recognition activity and relatives around me, just for fun. Of course my kids have taken good care of me, and I knew how to do it. It was super fun to see the love and concern the youth showed in tutoring us.
It really was a bonding experience for everyone.
At work on Thursday Julie came in and brought this silky fabric covered with ribbon roses or swirls. She added it to our haunted house display, that Kathy had done. I helped her style it on this chair adding a hat, antique boots, and a purse that coincidentally was made of the same type fabric. She asked me how much to charge. I told her that I, in good conscience I could not charge more than $10 a yard, there were 2 yards ... she thought it was worth more and marked it $50 ... Yep, within 20 minutes a customer came in and bought it.
Since she was wearing orange and I was in black and white, I thought we would make a good Halloween picture.
The day before I had bought a few things from a picker, including a 3 piece ceramic snack server. It had the pattern you see on the top above. Julie said that was almost the same pattern as a Corelle pattern. She's our specialist on Corelle, Corning and Pyrex. I looked it up and was amazed at how similar it was. I guess you can take a design and change it a certain percentage, and not have copyright laws apply.
A gal selling off her mother's items, sold me several Madam Alexander, Alexanderkin dolls, I told her I loved this old compo one too, but that I don't collect them anymore, as they are not too sellable. So she just gave it to me, and I made her into a witch. Julie let me cut off a piece of her satin ribbon rose fabric, where it was uneven, and that perfectly made her shawl. I found an antique decorative pin to fasten the shawl. Since her skirt was already sort of orangish, all I needed to do was make her a hat. And Voila!!
After work I stopped to pick up some things that Terry has culled from her collections to sell at fleaology. (They are getting ready to move back to Maryland) Its going to be hard when they are gone. Anyway, they showed me this picture that had been taken when a neighbor girl was taking a photography class and had come by for some pointers. (Megan Stringham for those who know the family). That was so fun!
When I finally got home, Dad had the van backed up to the garage so we could load it for fleaology. We were both exhausted but together we made short work of it.
On Friday we went out to Mosida to get the lodge ready for a leadership training that would be held on Saturday. The guys washed the trucks.
The ladies set up the lodge with displays for first aid items and pioneers clothes. Then we set up tables and chairs, they could use during instruction and then later during lunch.
We're missing LaVern Crump, Julie Smith and Robin Parker here.
Paula, Judy, Leslie, Cindy, Francy, Denise, Suzanne, and Patricia.
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Here's Cindy and LaMarr washing windows.
And here are our missing Julie and LaVern, along with Cindy again.
Meanwhile in Texas the Pottsborro Spanish Teacher, Sen'or Talley was getting famous on the local news as the school prepared for a big rivalry game. Even Bekie, shown in pink in the bottom right, got to come and prepare for the big game at the pep rally.
After our morning training session I headed out to the farm to set up fleaology. Dad unloaded the tables and tent and set them up. I dug into the pile of boxes and was pretty well set up when LaVern surprised me by dropping by to check out my booth. Here we are in our matching Mosida shirts with Sherri, the farmer's wife, between us.
Here are some pictures of my booth.
I stayed until it was too dark to see, then headed out to Cafe Rio with Vicky, who used to do fleaology at our house, all those years ago. Her husband passed two years ago, and she's not done as much selling of late. (Though I did buy the Eastlake wash stand from her last year). Dad had taken an extra shift at the temple, but managed to be at home by the time we got there. Yeah! I love having guests spend the night, and it soooo rarely happens.
Bright and early ... and so many customers.
Jenn Reed and her husband came by, around the same time as Wendy did. Its so fun to see old fleaology friends. Jenn is opening a shop in Pleasant Grove and I am so thinking of joining in the fun. She's done shows before, but this is her first shot at being a shop owner. She will, however do great, even though her's will be the third shop at the same local.
More happy shoppers.
I bought this lamp from out real live antique dealer. Isn't it stunning?
I think by then Sam was out mowing the lawn with Benny.
After we loaded up the van Dad headed home and before her knew it ....
He was at the BYU game, which ended with a win in a double over time. A win that took BYU from being rank at 21 to being ranked at 12. Yeah You Y GuYs.
So happy days are here again ...
So today is Alex' real birthday. We hope it was a happy one!!
This evening we went to a bonus concert in the park because 9-11 fell on a Sunday. We had the Lt Governor speak and our Congressman Burgess Owens as well, that was pretty cool. We also had a bag pipe band that played Amazing Grace at the end. Of course it was fun to run into Ginny Taylor and her daughter Coral and got to sit with them. Both had come to fleaology the day before, and we'd visited then as well.
So that was our week. We hope yours was full of good things that you enjoy as well.
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