Thursday, May 27, 2010

MORE MATILDAS

  This is the last of my pictures

        for Matildas. 

Matilda will be posting pictures

  soon…but her Mommy and Daddy

   are off on a pleasure trip

           so ….

      I’ll keep you updated 

        when she posts!

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Great old mercantile cupboard

from a men’s clothing store

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      I Hope Everyone

  is having a great week 

PLEASE have a safe and wonderful

   Memorial Day Weekend!

My Best

Gale

Saturday, May 22, 2010

LES FLEURS A LA MATILDAS MOUSE

IMG02038 When our customers

are waiting to

enter the barn

this is what they

get to look at

AMAZING, huh!

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Or how about this…..

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Or this....

But when they walked

through the front doors

they saw….

oh, oh, I can’t show you

but only a glimpse…You’ll

have to wait until

Matilda

put her pictures on her

Blog

BELIEVE ME

you won’t want to miss this

It’s simply

AWESOME…

Here’s what I can show you…

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Just wait

until you see

what I am saying…..

it’ll blow you away!!

Continuing on……

Here’s my space

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Alexa’s Space

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Alexa can put a garden twist

on vignettes

in the most beautiful way

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MORE

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Karen’s Space.

Her shoe rack from Texas

looked so cool

with all the garden elements

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Margo’s Space

always looks so inviting

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And back to my Space….

Tomorrow I’ll be showing you

Lunette’s Space

and

Mike and Sue’s Space

Have a Great Saturday Evening!!

GALE

Friday, May 21, 2010

HERE WE GROW

      The weather was so perfect today 

         Matilda’s Garden Show  First Day

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    There were so many great

         vintage finds

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From the rust to the roses

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From the Primitive to the Refined

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                                  For the Artist

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  For the Bird Watcher

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    There were Old Botanicals

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     Old Railroad Signs

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             Birds, Sea Shells 

             and Mercury Glass

                 OH MY!

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      Old Iron Beds 

   for your dreamy Garden

and of course amazing Statuary

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If you’re close to San Diego,

please come to our Garden Show

      at Matidas Mouse

      10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

      Saturday and Sunday

It’s an unforgettable experience!

Gale

P.S. I’ll be posting so many more pictures in the next few days…Have a great week-end!

Monday, May 10, 2010

MAY DAY PLAY DAY

Since we knew that Bob was going to be out of town for Mother’s Day, we decided to sneak off one day during the week and celebrate us…our 41 years of marriage and the blessings of our three wonderful children and 6 grandchildren.

What, we thought, could be a better way to celebrate than to go where it all started for Bob’s family…Old Town San Diego.

For those of you who know me, my other passion besides junkin is my genealogy…I love love love it!!

After my Mother passed away in 1999, I took over her thirty year passion…I have to say I am hooked!

Up until about 3 years ago we knew virtually nothing about Bob’s Mother’s side of the family…only his grandmother’s maiden name and that she was raised in Old Town San Diego.

Well, with just that little bit of info, and a lot of hard work, I soon discovered the entire family’s history. His great great great great grandfather was actually one of the first settlers in Old Town and built the very first all wooden house.

So here is his history, right in our backyard……

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This is the Catholic Church built in the early 1900’s, which replaced the failing church where his

great great grandparents

were married.

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The famous Whaley House…some say it is haunted…

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Couldn’t resist taking this one for you Jodie girl!

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Most of the restaurants have women in the front making home-made tortillas…the smells are amazing!

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Fred says “come on in and take a load off” So we did!

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One of the original Mexican Restaurants in Old Town

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It was such a beautiful day!

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Now we’re talkin’!

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This was certainly a bonus!!

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Again, if you know me..then you know how I love going through cemeteries for my genealogy….This is a primitive monument for Bob’s great great great grandfather Julian Wilbur Ames and all of his children.

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A close up……

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This is a headstone for Bob’s great great

Aunt

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Not a lot of this in the cemetery. Most of it is pretty primitive and sadly not well kept.

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So, while we celebrated my Mother’s Day early…For me it was so rewarding to see how happy and complete it made my dear hubby feel…now that he REALLY knows his history.

I hope each and every one of you have the opportunity to trace your history. It really is life altering!

Gale

Thursday, May 6, 2010

WE’RE HOME

Hi everyone!  We’re home from our trip.  We had such a great time shopping, shopping, shopping!

Are you ready?  Wanna see some pics of the junk..er… treasures Marla and I got?Here goes……

First, here’s the truck Thursday morning before we started…All ready for those finds!!

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Of course Matilda and her brother Alex had to come to help us!!  And we couldn’t possibly shop without Keith!!

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Sir Alex

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Ms Matilda and Keith

My daughter, Heather, amazingly arranged a private buying for us with a wonderful retired couple in the Phoenix area. 

They were always going to open a shop, but never quite got around to doing it…

There were years and years of accumulation from Missouri and Phoenix in two garages, a shed, inside as well as outside their home….

      How cool was that!! 

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We enjoyed hours and hours of no stress buying from this wonderful couple, Ed and Carol.

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The truck after the first day…Yeh!!

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The truck after our shopping was done…

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Marla and I high-fiving after “our” loading was done….

               NOT…

       I can not tell a lie…..

          Thanks KEITH!!

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Now..we’re madly cleaning, fixing, etc etc for our next show which is May 21, 22, 23…It’s our garden show and it’s going to be amazing!!

Hope you are all enjoying beautiful spring weather and finding your treasurers!

Gale