hello urban farmgirl!

Hello!

come on in,

(cute decals for sale)

to the wonderful world of the urban farmgirl!

kathy(kate) chris and myself headed down to rockford, il

to find holiday treasures at mary's shop 

urban farmgirl.

she did not disappoint. 

we had a great time.

spent quite awhile browsing as there is so much to see -

 it's hard to leave.

we made quite a few trips around the shop,

mary laughingly said "your still here" on our maybe 5th or 6th trip around!

sorry for the not so good photos, my camera went kind of goofy

 and i had to take photos without seeing what i 

was shooting at.

see the letters top left of this photo -

mary posted them on facebook

and she said the phone was ringing off the hook, they were selling like crazy.

merry christmas to me : )

fudge and pasties

just back from vacation to michigan,

wisconsin's rival to the east....

snippets of the trip to come

as soon as i finish eating my fudge.

the end

to a fun day.  

i took friday off to hit the new glarus city wide garage sales.  new glarus ("america's little switzerland" and home to the new glarus brewery - famous for it's spotted cow brew) is a cute little town about 30 miles south of madison.  many years ago my friend kathy/kate and i had an antique booth in town, started it right when gas price went sky high and folks stopped venturing out for sunday drives so timing wasn't the best.  anywho, thought i would take advantage a beautiful summer day and venture south and visit the old neighborhood. 

on the way out of town i hit a few garage sales in madison and found the coolest vintage screen.

packs up in this handy case

pull the cord up

and ta-dah - it snaps in place and you are good to go.

not sure how old it is, the company is still in business.   

knew i was going to have a fun day when this was one of the 1st things i saw on my garage sale adventure. 

not for sale though.........

mother lode at the junk bonanza

 we made it!  but before we got here we had to go thru.......

this!!!
yucky snow.

i picked up my sister-in-law sue and we made the trek to shakopee, minnesota.  It should have taken less than 2 hours -  took us over 4 hours.  not fun but we made the best of it.

the next day was a much better day as we headed to the
 junk bonanza.
so much to see and buy.

the guy (on the left) is on the show "west end salvage" on hgtv  
we need to head back to iowa to check out his shop.  

cute booth, cute name

mama's happy display

sue's checking out this cute retro booth.

which had this blue typewriter - perfect buddy for my pink one.

sign #1 - need 

another way to use globes.

sign #2 - need

do you see that cool sign on the back of the shelf. 

 sign/shelf #3 - need

nice to see some friendly faces - here is jan from gracies cottage and kathy from down lilac lane.
it was great to catch up with them.  
 jan and my sister-in-law sue were sporting cool chucky taylors, i need to get with it. 

thought downton abbey would show up.

out-door arbor - ha!

 sign #4 - need!!! 
as you can imagine not in my price range.

artful junk display

 sign #5 - please!
 seeing a pattern?  i love signs - but again passed. 
  cute yellow bar/ garden/ craft/ cart.

cow - in a field - in a truck.

junk bonaza had a wedding lab -
4 booths filled with wedding ideas, very nice.

this booths specialty is turning vintage wedding dresses into updated wedding dresses.

junk bonaza was fun, but it is good to be home. 

on the road to state

we headed up north to watch football, kyle is a coach on the high school team.  we made a side trip to a little town, rudolph, home of the wisconsin dairy state cheese co.

 

 

you can buy bulk butter, of course.

making cheese curds.

they have a room full of pretty blue and white cheese keepers.

 

won't keep you in suspense, this is how the game ended, on to state!

happy team, fans and kyle.