This Is Me Finally Getting Around to Posting…. {& A Giveaway}

But let’s be honest.

Spring is kicking my bum.

Which would be awesome if my gluteus maximus actually tightened up.

But it’s not.

There’s still a fair amount of jiggling going up and down the stairs.

True story.

It hit 95 degrees yesterday and I’m like, what the heck?

I’ve had enough time to barely get the absolute done leaving little remaining for anything ‘extra’.

What consists of absolute?

Laundry.

Putting Spencer in time out.

And meals.

Always meals….

The big to-do {and by big to-do I mean hours of manual labor from Bryce and myself, but mostly Bryce} has been the garden:

this what it looked like for the first couple of years.

And here it is today, mostly done.

Just needs more gravel in the paths and some rows of corn and fewer weeds.

We brought the doors with us when we moved from Colorado.

Which Bryce was not thrilled about.

 

 

 

 

 

It has a mini flower bed around the outside for cut flowers and marigolds.

It’s enormous and my favorite room in the house, well, until the weeds start up in full force.

Anyway, I did manage to stop at an estate sale a couple of Friday’s ago and picked up some vintage Radio News magazines from the 20s and 30s.

They were giving them away for free.

I like radio, in the sense that I almost never get to listen to it in the car and when I finally do it’s a song that I’ve never heard before, probably because I never listen to the radio….and so it cycles.

Moving on, I picked these up because I really liked the graphics on them and, again, they were free:

I dug out some frames that I got for Christmas two years ago.

Still had the ribbon and note and everything.

I’m pathetic.

I tore off the front pages, framed them and hung them on the ladder with S hooks.

I don’t love them there, but if we recap, it took me two years to do anything with the frames in the first place…so….

In addition to the radio magazines at the sale, I found this cute little book.

Which because of it’s vibrant pictures I thought would make a great paper bunting.

Like the one in the girl’s room:

So, if you made it to the end of the post, I’m giving you a chance to win the book bunting.

Leave a comment telling me your favorite picture book from when you were a kid.

The winner will be randomly selected and announced Monday, May 19th.

Katie