State Snoopers - Kaysville Adventure

We are now on a mission to discover near and far things in our state (and other nearby regions) Snooping the State for good scenery, cute shops, ancestral cemeteries, restaurants, events, and locations. Today we went to Kaysville, UT. We sent to some cute shops (I got a cute shirt 50% off wahoo) and to a good bakery for lunch.

The best adventures begin with a 32 oz Diet Coke-Coke mix.

Bun Basket n Bakery

The breadsticks I had with my cheesy bacon potato soup. 

  Image of an unexpectedly successful DI trip...we may have stopped in Centerville.

 Pictures taken from the moving car.

 

 

The Trio of the day - I was sitting in the sun, I don't normally wear tank tops in January. 

Downtown Risen

Remember all those "Downtown Rising" ads? Well we took my Grandpa downtown to sign some papers today and we went up to my Dad's office, where we had a great view of the almost-done City Creek development, and some other good views. 

Lunch in the food court.

 

The glass panels can slide over to form a covered arcade. Cool, huh!

 

 The creek...or at least some of it

 

 

 

 "....it's so cozy to ride in my dump-truck..." (only a select few will ever have heard that song)

 

 

Lydia's Birthday

 

 

 

 

Derek's Birthday

 

 

One thing about a snow storm

is that is sure look pretty the next day (once you hack your way into your car)

Olympus Cove Estate Sale

 

Earrings

I was cleaning, but I've been hankering to have a good solid jewelry session so I indulged myself and made earrings. Overall I'm very pleased with the results. I still have a good amount left over from my boutique sell, but I need to beef things up before my next sale at the JCC's farmer's market. I can I say I LOVE my new camera!!!

 

  

 

 

 

 

Splurge Spend

I was at an antique store in Ogden a couple of months ago, they had fun things, but everything was a bit over priced, so I wasn't going to buy anything, but I saw this and had to have it. It's a 1950's telephone table, but will make an awesome magazine rack or something. I'm in the middle of rearranging, so this isn't its permanent home or contents, but they look pretty cute for the present. I love how it's little legs just look like all those space ships cartoons from the 50's.

Postcard of the Day

Another think I've been looking at in my last couple antiquing adventures is postcards. I bought several today, but this is my favorite. I think we tend to think of certain periods of history as much more uh..discreet..civilized (I can't find the word I want). I think I'm conscious of this, but I jolted with shock when I came across several postcards with dirty jokes on them. Human nature is in large part continuous.

Anyway, this postcard was mailed in 1917 from Houston, Texas. 

Earrings

I indulged myself and went antiquing today. I always look at the vintage earrings for jewelry supplies, but over the past year or so I've gathered a little collection of clip-on earrings that are just fun and are too much fun to re-purpose.This can mean that they're simply rad, or ugly in a this-would-be-good-for-costume-jewelry way, or both. Two pairs I inherited from relatives, one from my great-grandma and the other from her sister, I believe. The rest I bought. Most of them aren't very high quality or anything, but they sure are fun! The box was my Grandpa's.

Dad's Un-Official Birthday Dinner

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

 

Working my Minuscule Muscles

I have a really good feeling about 2012. I feel that I am at the start of my new life and and a new me. In Phase I of my new life I am getting organized and trying to bulk-down on stuff. So far I have been going through all my papers (and getting rid of a lot). There's still a bit more sorting to be done, but I successfully met my goal of going from two two-drawer file boxes to one. Part of the paper project was going through all my magazine clippings and the magazines I've been hanging onto to clip and putting them in binders with sheet protectors (that was definitely the fun part of the paper project).

Today I worked on re-organizing the craft room that has been developing in Whitney's old room. I moved things in, out and around. Set the furniture up one way and decided it didn't work and then moved it again (and depending on the piece of furniture moved it a 3rd time). I guess my boot camp class is starting to work, while I'm still not great at moving furniture I moved a twin bed, 4' bookcase, night stand, 2 dressers, lots of drawers, 2 tables, and assorted other bits and bobs. I set a couple things aside for us to think about giving away and and moved the sewing machine in from the family room.

It's still rather untidy, so I'm going to wait to post a picture of the whole room when it's closer to being done (well, somewhat done, it is going to be an evolving project). But here is a picture of the one fun decorative thing I accomplished that was not simply moving heavy objects about. We're trying to mostly use things we already have and I was really happy to find a practical use for some of our cute things. After I brought the sewing machine in I cleared a space in the bookcase and grabbed an adorable old soda crate my Mom bought a couple of years ago, all the thread we own (new and old), and one of my glassware dishes, and set it up behind the sewing machine. I'm pretty tickled with it. We realized we probably should get more thread. Apparently we really like blue.