Weekend update!

My Mom and Kate, (above) Lilly and Kate

Here's a few of my front yard and little porch-Stay tuned for part two-more deck and backyard/trailer...

Had a fun but tiring weekend. Took Thursday off to watch my grandbabies while mommy and daddy went on a canoe trip. My friend came up Saturday from the lake (Ozarks) and we thrift shopped and garage saled til we dropped! Be sure to check out her great finds at retrocurbclimber. blog! Here's some random pix of the weekend, the lil trailer and other thrift store finds-

Friday at my son Jeremy's house

Above in my office, a tiny sized jacket from the Phillipines WWII, on the front is the name "Snooks"-must have been his girls' nick-name. 

I took a vacation day today to stay with my two youngest grandkids, Lily and Kaitlyn. Great-Grandma is here too, and being 83 and the "old school" disciplinarian, she worries about everything they do. Oh well, good thing Grandma (me!) is here to save the day! At least they have all the family that loves them, that's what's important. We spent the night, so Mommy and Daddy could go canoeing together. The last three years, Sarah (my daughter in law) was either pregnant or nursing babies, and couldn't go. Her dad and brother also take the annual trip, so it was nice that she could go. Plus, I don't get to see them as much as I'd like, due to work, school etc. So it worked out perfect for me!! I did manage to hit some thrift stores last night...though. And guess what I found? A telephone bench from the fifties (pix tonight) and a - drum roll please- boomerang coffee table ! I'm going to paint it, but not sure what color yet! And, I found a twin size chenille bedspread, very soft and colorful - It was half price day, so the whole shebang only cost me about 16.00! 

I also took some pictures of my office. I was so happy that I finally got my own office back after being crammed in like sardines for a year (3 in an office)! I try to do a WWII theme, because the older residents 

really like it (and me too!)

Note the army green metal desk and chair! and...more posters- Until later, sincerely Zootsuitmama

Thrifting in the Rain, Just thrifting in the rain...

Thought I'd show ya some of my deck. I am probably gonna change it, but right now, since I haven't had much time to rearrange, it's cabiny..I love these old signs. They remind me of going to the cabin at the lake when I was a kid.Pretty tacky, huh?!?

This old croquet set is cool mainly because of the lettering on it..All the pieces are there, if it ever stops raining, maybe we can play? PS - pay no attention to the ripped screen door, it's a future project!~

This is an oriental scarf I found tonight. Not much at the thrift stores. I did get several pieces of the "starburst" knives, forks and spoons. I also got a plaster pear for the kitchen. And this awesome (bad picture) cookbook from Cutco Cutlery! Very sixties.

Update , yes two in one day!

This is my hankie curtain going out onto the deck. I saw this idea at a shop called "Ya-Ya's" and loved it.

This rain is dampening all our spirits. Baby had the right idea! But then, so did Angel.Ziggy, man of the house and always "on guard" didn't , though.

Wanted to give an update on the herbs in the terrarium-they are growing!!!
A few of my flowers that I could plant without getting out in the mud - in a window box on the deck!
It's been kind of a weird weekend. I have water in the basement again. The sump pump kept stopping, then starting, now stopped again. Then, my new clothes dryer started making a crazy noise. I looked in the vent, couldn't see, turned it back on, it blew a fuse. I move fifteen boxes out of the way to the breaker that we had just moved there out of the wet part of the basement. Go back, it's still making noise. I stick a coat hanger down in the vent, drop the hanger, get another one and pull both the other wire hanger and a sock out. (No MORE WIRE HANGERS!!) Then - I get in the car to go to my Mom's for dinner, the engine light comes on and it sounds weird. So....I decided to eat an extra big piece of pineapple cake with cream cheese icing for comfort food!

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My friend over at Retrocurbclimber is trying to get her blog going. She needs friends! She has really cool taste in vintage. It's more of a "Down at the lake cabin look" but mid century none the less. Every so often, she does score awesome '50's stuff that isn't "cabin". She got an awesome mermaid lamp yesterday, and I love it!
So please-check her out! And for a teaser, the picture above is the new mermaid lamp. Dig those crazy stars on the shade!! Mermaids and stars..oh my!

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"Oriental" /Asian mishmash

This is one of my panther TV lamps.One wall has my bird pictures from Mexico, but I love the colors and they seem to go well.A few of my figurines etc. I've had the red and white flamingo vase forever!More figurines

Just thought I'd show some of my oriental living room pix, I got three of them from my friend Merilee, my retro vintage partner in crime. She looks for my kind of stuff and I look for hers. Although today she got an awesome mermaid lamp that I am lusting after. The paint by number is probably my fav. But the Lady is really old and I love her too. Now can you see why everybody calls my living room the Opium den??

Salvation Army Attack!!~

This is a rooster wall pocket planter, and I used to find this plastic stuff all the time I was excited, but it's so fragile I broke it right away...can you tell though? I think it still looks divine. What my sucky photography doesnt' reveal is, the planter is Turquoise. My fav.I also found this black ceramic Unicorn pen holder. I love all the desk stuff, and I may end up putting this on my desk at work. My office is retro/WWII/vintage, and my residents just LOVE the trip down memory lane! I actually got my own office back today again after a year of being cramped up like a sardine with two other Social Workers. Now, I can go back to mood lighting and music! YES!I couldn't remember if I have showed yall my atomic fruit basket curtains? As usual, not the best pix, but they are really unusual. The rest of the stuff I scored tonight on a quicky run through Salvation Army!These are my new trailer lights my beautiful daughter India  and her boyfriend Brian bought me for Mother's day, plus a really great candle and a fab dinner at a Mongolian Grill!

OK so I am stuck in the age of VCRs-but that's what I find at the thrift stores for 50 cents! I have been finding a PLETHORA of movies made in the eighties that are supposed to be in the sixties or fifties. Leonard Maltin sez,"What do you get when you mix T-Birds, Bermuda shorts, bubbleflip hair-dos and incredible dancing? You get Shag!" I get some kind of guilty pleasure in watching these eighties Brat Packers and if it's set in the periods I love, all the better!! I'll give you a thumbs up or down from Zootsuitmama, as soon as I "screen" it.

I'm trying to decide what will premiere at my "Drive In". I'm thinking Long Long Trailer, by the trailer. Thanks to Mick for the idea! Well, everybody, Schools Out for Summer! So time to have FUN!!

Trying to get back in the swing of things!

Ok, this Mother's Day weekend turned out really great! First, my oldest son, his wife  and the two baby girls came over, then my youngest son called, and my daughter and her boyfriend took us all out to eat dinner (grandma too!). I bought some more flowers, got 8 tomoato plants planted and one pepper plant, and have some more to plant tomorrow. Love flowers! Can ya tell? I'll post pix of my groovy mothers day gifts, but the best gift is just being with my family.

This is one of the dresses I found for .50 at a garage sale. It's perfect for work, with the little tie around the neck, very "JOAN"ish. Then I found another sleeveless dress, with black and white polka dots and a little belt, that will also be a good summery work dress, topped with one of my vintage button up sweaters.

Not the best picture, but you get it? Just a plain ole dress with shirtwaist and a semi full skirt. Whee!

It wasn't the most fruitful of garage sale weekends, but I did score a "cannister set"- silver chrome and black, the kind with the slide out "bins". And -last but not least- A VCR tape! (yes I still watch them)-"Making Mr Right"...a movies in which a very "80's girl falls for an android...Her house is to die for, all retro and vintage fifties! Remember, it all came back in the eighties!

John Malkovitch and Anne Magnusen are in it, along with a lot of great characters. If you have never seen it...check it out -it's very cool and hilarious! Well, more tomorrow, I'm getting sleepy with all this rain! Chow!