Pink Truck Trailer Toy

Darn!!!!! This truck I ordered is too small -Now what am I gonna drive????? I'm joining up with Beverly at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/ for Pink Saturday!

Clown Dolls

I've had these clown dolls for as long as I can remember. Way before I was ever into circus items(which has only been this year!) I don't remember why I bought them-but I'm glad I did. I like the long one with all the yo-yo body parts, but the little pink one is my favorite of course. They're just hanging out on my back porch taking a nap on one of my little doll beds my cat's use! Happy Pink Day!

I'm joining up with Beverly at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/ for PInk Saturday!

Pink Plastic Wall Cabinet

I'm sure you have all seen one of these at a garage sale or thrift store-I also have one in black, but wanted to do something fun with this one-something to put some of my circus collection in. I picked this one up for just $2.00 at a garage sale-I like how it turned out!

I'm joining

Debbie at http://debbie-debbiedoos.blogspot.com/ for Before and After Partay

Shabby Pink Cottage for Transformation Thursday at http://www.theshabbychiccottage.net/

Second Hand Collection Party -This Sunday

My best friend Tete is hosting a second hand collection event-where you can link up and post pictures of your favorite collection. I think it will be fun to see what everyone collects and how they display their collections. Come Join the Fun!

This is what she wrote on her blog:
the blog party begins this Sunday...this is a once a month blog party to share your vintage and 2nd hand collections...future dates are:October 10thNovember 14thDecember 12thMr. Linky is set to start at 12:01 am Sunday morning...hopefully, I did it right...I can hardly wait to see all your wonderful collectionshttp://tete-beyondthegardengate.blogspot.com/
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A Tribute to 9/11-Pink Saturday

I have a wall in my dining room with lots of crosses. When I received the email from Beverly this week about it being 9/11-it sure does come around so quickly. I can't believe the years that have passed since that day. I think we all can remember where we were and our thoughts as we watched for days. I am thankful that no one in my family was directly affected, but we were all changed that day. I hope that we never forget those that were involved and who helped for days, months, and even years later. I believe God is always there in every tragedy. And that is why I chose this picture.

Beverly over at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/ each Saturday has a Pink Saturday. This Saturday happens to be 9/11. To all the families and their loved ones.

My Pink Truck

Did I have you fooled? I would love to have a pink truck, but my husband uses both our trucks for the farm and they're under the farm account. Not so sure he'd o.k. one of them being pink. I have thought of detailing the Black Ford Ranger with pink striped to match the camper though. I was at an antique store a couple of weeks ago and came across this little fun toy truck for $6. Couldn't pass it up. It will be fun to use at the holidays for a little display-mini pumkins, little Christmas trees, maybe with a little dip jar on a dessert table. You get the idea.

I'm linking up with Beverly for lots more pink: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Lion Tamer Stool

I bought this stool(unpainted of course) at a garage sale this spring and just figured out what to do with it-it will be another addition to my circus collection! And I only paid $1.00 for it!

Fun Circus Outfits

As you may know, I suddenly started liking circus items this summer and have been using them at my barn sales. I put together the outfit (you didn't think I'd wear it-did you? maybe!) on the left as a kind of mascot. A few weeks ago I was at a garage sale and found this clown outfit with the same colors-what luck-my collection of characters is growing!!!!

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Prior Lives Party

I'm joining a new party-Prior Lives -where you transform something into something else-an old dresser mirror into a chalkboard!

For more:

http://priorlives.blogspot.com'

Another Pink Stove-I'm a Pink Hoarder!!!

I wanted to thank everyone who commented last week on my camper post-I am still so overwhelmed-thank you from the bottom of my heart. I was unsure of whether to post it because I am such a stickler about not being copied. I've been like that since I was a child to a fault -never wearing clothes again if people copied me. I've always liked to do things that are different and would probably go completely overboard except my husband won't let me! I've been trying to return comments but have had so many problems with our internet service I'm considering changing it. Anyway, thank you again for all the wonderful words!!!

Today is my husband's and I's 17 year anniversary of when we met-yes I know it's Friday the 13th. Some days I think it's a lucky number, some days I don't(you know how it goes). Anyway, we did something fun today and when antiquing, shopping, and out for lunch.(For pictures of where we went you can check out my Ella Mae's post). I saw this stove and just had to have it(or thought I did!). It came with a cord-how scary-even back then to cook something in there. The label reads Little Lady. I'll have to do some research on her and see what else came in pink!

So here they all are -do you really think I needed another one? I passed one up when I was antiquing with my mom last year(and I've regretted it ever since!) and I think the one I got today looked like it. I was going to do something really fun with all of them and my three dogs-but it's just too hot. Two refrigerators, stove, sink, washing machine and dryer and a cabinet -am I missing anything else?

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Pink Saturday-My Vintage Pink Camper

Here is my 1972 Vintage Smokey Camper. I bought it about 4 years ago and have continued to add lots and lots and lots of pink!!!!
I'm joining Beverly's Pink Saturday......................for more PINK...
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I'm a Pink Cowgirl

I decided to join the barn chicks blog party over at Brayton Homestead Interiors and took these photos yesterday. It was so much fun setting everything up(with the help of my best friend Teresa(tete-beyond the garden gate). My husband brought his 1949 International Harvestor C tractor over and I brought out some items from the house. My sale barn is in the back -Ella Maes Barn Gathering. Of course, I used lots of pink not to mention my pink boots and pink cowboy hat!

My Pink Camo Rain Boots

Here's my pink camo rain boots that I bought a few years ago before patterned rain boots got popular. I keep them in the camper because it has rained everytime we've went camping this year-I really used them on Easter weekend.

Vintage Pink Coleman Water Jug

I thought I'd share with you one of my earliest finds when I got my camper. I haven't seen many of these around-but I did find another one in perfect condition in the box-lucky me!

Work on the Camper

After our camping trip on the weekend of July 24th-we all decided that a lot needed to be done to my old 1972 camper. The lights didn't work-they kept blowing fuses in the truck so we took it down to our local KOA campground where Ron the mechanic there was able to figure out the problem was in the wiring in the small running lights and fix the problem for good-YEH. I won't have to worry about being pulled over by a policeman for no lights or rear-ended! Then I had one tire that wouldn't hold air(maybe it's all the stuff I have in the camper my parents said). Well, I love and need that pink stuff so my husband went and got me a new tire. Then last Friday we set off for another weekend of camping, only this time to relax(no more contests!). I had told my dad that I had a hole in the front part of the camper. As you know, he's my fix it man. He got all his tools and got it fixed from the outside for now and then added new white stripping to the front(it looks so much nicer). Thanks guys for all the help you give me-I really appreciate it- and so does my little pink camper!

Santa In July???? Maybe

My Dad-he would have made a great Santa-

My husband Well, maybe I would have won the Christmas in July contest(Post July 25, 2010) if I'd had one of these two guys playing Santa for me!!!!

My Old Fashioned Pink Bike

I came across this in a fellow antiquer's garage about a month ago and had to have it. She sold it to me for $75 -it still had the original price tag of $169.99(Target, I think) and looked to be almost brand new. I had wanted one of these when I bought my other bike but decided I needed something a little heavier for trails and gravel roads when I went camping. So when the opportunity came-I grabbed it up! I take both bikes camping and my mom gets to ride this one-doesn't she look cute on it-you should see her ride it!

I told her she could ride my other bike-but I think she likes this one too much!! I told her that I was going to buy her an outfit to wear when she's riding it -pink petal pushers for a start!

Circus,Circus Here I come

Well, here's my new tent-love that it looks like a circus tent. I'm starting to think in circus mode again. Trying to get inspired. I've been a little bored this week on vacation-too hot to work on projects or get anything done-but maybe after this weekends camping trip I can get back to myself!

Pink Sunglasses

How many pairs of pink sunglasses does a gal need? .......................As many as she can get her pink lovin hands on!!!!

Pink Christmas In July:

My family-my parents, sister and her family and I had planned to go camping this weekend. My mom had called a few days before to check and see how early we needed to get there to make sure we all had camp sites together. She also asked if they had any activities going on because when we camped there two years ago they had movie nite with free popcorn on Friday nite, Saturday-free kite making for the kids and bingo for the adults. The only thing planned was a Christmas in July event to get gift for needy children for Christmas-you had to donate a $20 toy to enter. I thought it was a neat idea but decided I didn't want to hassle with it. Friday morning came and I was packed and ready to go-just waiting on my folks to get closer to where I live. I only live about 20 minutes from this campground. Well, I ended up waiting about an 1 1/2 hours and got bored and about 2o minutes before they called to say they were where we'd planned to meet- I decided that -what they heck-I'd throw in my two pink Christmas trees. I should have know then what would happen. Anyone that knows me -know I do everything overboard-I mean really overboard-just ask my family. We get to the campground and get set up and I see 2 campers set up with a Redneck shindig. I thought they were doing the Christmas thing. They had an old junky couch(from the 70's), two recliners, a fish tank, an old radio console, and a toilet-yes a toilet. Not to mention the small stuff. Now I got into over drive mode and called my best friend Teresa- help me!!! She started planning and my sister and her twins drove back to my house to load up stuff. I already had my tent so that was a start. The redneck friends came that nite and they were dressed to the hilt(or whatever rednecks dress like) -I wish I had pictures-it was really something to see. They even all paraded(drunk) around the campground pulling a red wagon with something in it? How could I up them and all their friends in their costumes. This was Friday nite and I only got 1 1/2 hours of sleep from worry and planning. I kept the tent closed up so no one would see and begin the hours of sweat(I mean sweat-I changed my clothes at least 3 times each day) and worry. Little did I know that the Rednecks weren't even doing the Christmas thing-they just were having fun. They packed everything up Saturday afternoon.

I filled out the entry form with pink ballpoint ink and attached these cards I just happened to have and had picked up at a garage sale for $.25 in the camper-how perfect! I wrote inside-Come to campsite #44 for a Merry Pink Christmas and signed my name. I was getting my groove on to going crazy!

This was in the middle of my camp site so I decided to use it like a mascot. A pink bow and glittered Santa hat!

Here's the entire set-up. I had 4 of these suckers to give the kids. I made a pink fire in the fireplace with pink lights !

We placed pink greenery on each side at the bottom. I love my pink doll Teddy Bear(it's an old one) and my pink/black radio/CD player I use in the camper. I have an entire set like the pink stove. My sister's twin helped wrap so many presents in this cute pink paper with snowflakes!

The big pink tree -we had 2 big pink light up balls along with Victoria secret bags and a strand of colorful light up balls. The games under the tree-Babble On(one of my favorite and it comes in a pink box) and Bunco(also a pink box).

The right side of the tent -small Christmas tree-and light up vintage snowman(who had pink hat and wreath) I had 2 of them next to the fireplace.

This is one of my Ella Mae's Barn Signs that I grabbed to use. I love it in front of the beds-especially when the kids would have been sleeping in them!

My best friend Teresa(always there for help and ideas) suggested that I set the table up for a Christmas dinner. I loved that idea! Check out the fire in the background- pink Christmas lights!

Each of my sister's twins made a pillowcase snowman(also Teresa's idea). Allison wanted hers to be striped. ( I have a ton of pillowcases and sheets in the camper-we didn't even use 1/2 of them). We stuffed the pillow cases with extra blankets and sheets and proceeded to dress them up! I had only bought one scarf from home so we added this pink tinsel-I loved it. I couldn't resist adding the notes to make sure the judges understood they were snowmen.

This was Asher's snowman. He decided he wanted the rose pillowcases. I had only grabbed the one scarf and could only find the one mitten at home so his snowman got the shovel(I already had that in the camper). The sunglasses were an afterthought because Teresa wanted me to use junk jewelry for eyes and I forgot to get it. I thought the sunglasses worked out better anyway!

Here is my set up-

To the left is a table and tray for Santa with a sign saying cookies for Santa . I was just putting 3 kinds of pink cookies and all kinds of pink candy along with pink marshmallow roasting sticks(I just picked up at Target) and pink marshmallows and pink lemonade. I also had a sign saying Kids List-Toys, Adult List -70 degree weather.

To the right is 3 bed cots(which I always put up when I'm camping) for my sister's 3 wonderful kids-twins-Asher and Allison both 8 and Arabella-almost 2. They had planned on pretending to sleep until the judges got there. I had sprayed their hair pink and we had outfits for them.

This is the camp site that won 1st place - what do you think?

This is my outfit-minus any hat. We got a flood of rain about 15 minutes before the judges came around about 7:00pm (they could have checked the radar-duh!) I sprayed my pony tails with pink and my shirt I bought at Walmart within the last month for $1-it says Let It Snow with a pink flamingo with a hat and scarf. As you can see -I'm drenched-we all were. It took my whole family to help tear everything down. The back half of the tent was in several inches of water.

This is the final kicker- the certificate had white out on it with my name written on top. I don't know if I would have been 1st place or not placed at all. HOW TACKY!!!!

Needless to say-I spent two days planning and setting this all up(with my family), sweating my butt off(105 degrees index) in a hot tent(we kept it closed so no one could see until reveal day) and the winner just put up a few Walmart blow up toys and won a week of camping -did they know the judges ? Is everything rigged?