Antiquing...again

Andrew's parents came down this weekend to see our new house and visit. We took them around our part of Ohio which included the most delicious restaraunt ever, Smokey Bones and the Air Force Museum. We even drove to West Virginia.
We also went to our favorite antique store, squee :)

It never fails that when we go to this store we find something. Even if we weren't looking for something.

We've been waiting to find a ladder of some sort to use as a blanket/quilt holder for the guest bedroom. It had to be tall, and rustic. Our downstairs ceilings are nine feet tall and all the windows are just under that.

We found this beauty and snagged it up! $25

And of course, we found some more paintings.

Another winter scape, with a barn. $14
And this more summer-y painting, $9.99

There were also some insulators we bought that Andrew's going to use for a project. I'll wait to show those until he's done with his fun.

Overall, it was a great weekend. We're tired, but it was so fun to show of our home!

Giant Ice Cream Cones and a Hail Storm

It's been wonderfully spring like, thunderstorms and warm days. Our heat has been off for close to three weeks. Woohoo for energy savings!

Well, when it gets to 65 degrees one day and Andrew just happens to hear about a dairy farm from one of his patients, you just know I'm going to be there.

Oh, and Andrew neglected to mention until we were almost there that there is a petting zoo.

And I didn't have my camera. : (

The petting zoo was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, those are necessary.

There were baby cows and goats and the dairy cows are Jersey cows. Which if you didn't know are my favorite cow. Fuzzy ears.

The ice cream, cheese and any other product made from milk they sell is all made there at this working dairy farm.

We both got a waffle cone with 2 scoops.

Bad idea...Say it with me, bad idea.

This picture is from day 2. I couldn't even get past the first scoop and had to put it in the freezer.

It was delicious! And inexpensive, for both our giant ice cream cones, $5 and some change.

Warm weather, passing thunderstorms and ice cream. That's all fine and dandy until you're on your way to a nursery to buy plants and get stuck in a hail storm and the temp has now dipped to a whopping 38 degrees.

I'm pretty sure I'm being punished for not bringing my camera to the petting zoo.

Art

We've been working on getting a lot of art in the house lately. I'm not an art snob by any means, I just have to feel drawn to it to buy it. What I love about a lot of the art in our house right now is that it's mine. All Hattie original art.

Well, except for this thing. We got this a few weeks ago at our favorite antique mall. We took a mental break from painting the office and I was rewarded with this pretty thing.

I love the frame, the giant circle to hang it from, I even like the dead plants in it. There's not much to it, but it was hiding behind another piece of art, laying on it's side and I was instantly drawn to it. Plus, the dealer was there and gave us $10 off, that sealed the deal.

This is one of those Hattie originals. I took this for my black and white photography class a few semesters ago. I developed it in a dark room and everything.

I'm not a professional photographer by any means, but I have so much fun taking pictures.

This is are big art project right now, a picture rail.

In a gigantic wood pile behind the garage we found the old rail for our garage. It's probably original to the building which makes it close to 100 years old. It was old, rusty and in need of some love so I sanded it down with my dremmel and we spray painted it.

Old metal rail + pictures = art only Andrew and I will probably love.

Oh, and I took all those pictures myself, too.