Fun Trip and Plunder Palace

Last week was  hubby and I's 35th Wedding Anniversary.  We usually don't do anything special, figure still being together and quite happy is special in it's self.  However this year we decided to take a short drive to  Arcadia Valley to check out some antique shops.    Our great room is decorated in a rustic western theme and hubby found some great western goodies in a really cute shop and an old movie camera for his home theater.

The most fun was Plunder Palace.  I was so amazed at the place I forgot to take any pictures.   I could not believe my eyes, it looked like it was about to fall down, junk everywhere.  It was full of everything you could think of, the rows were so narrow you almost had to shuffle through, shelves piled with stuff from floor to ceiling.      I started wandering,  the place went up, down, over, and under.  Thought I had lost hubby, then found him in a dark corner with record albums to the ceiling and 3 little kittens asleep at his feet.  I am going to go back in the fall with my Sis (no air conditioning) early in the morning so we have all day to look around.

I bought this little brass coal bucket and decided to make a pincushion out of it .  Never made one before so it was a learning experience.   Thought it should be simple since it is a coal bucket.   This is what I ended up with.

The hot days of summer are upon us here in Missouri, it reached 100 today, so thought I would share a collage I made  earlier this year with a summer theme.  I believe the second place winner thinks she should have won  from the look on her face. LOL