plunder-rific

OK- I am sure you are all on pins and needles to see what funny funny funny things I have to share from my adventures at Granny's house. Please know that this fun can go on for months as we didn't really even scratch the surface of the "estate". For those of you who are new to my blog, or how can't remember here is a little key for you.

Patsy- my Aunt, my dad's sister, my granny's daughter- the person who I try to Aunt like most
Kim- her daughter, my cousin (4 years younger), expecting in a matter of days now (end of June-ish).


OK, I think that is all of the players involved. I also feel as though I have to put out a disclaimer. For the most part, my Granny was not senile. She had very logical reasons for everything you are about to see. I think Patsy put it best when she said Granny was one of a kind- except for you two girls (said to Kim and me). Kim and I freely admit that we are Granny Juniors and always have been. We both wanted to come home and clean house after our adventure at Granny's - but she opted for a nap and I opted for a vacation... so, hopefully we won't be dying before we can clean up our eccentric clutter.

OK- the first thing that had us cracked up is...........
The vacuum cleaner cover. Patsy informed us that we were not to fight over who got the vacuum cleaner cover. As we were laughing- she flipped up the dress and showed us that the cover and the vacuum were an attached set. Now- she told us that Granny had tied the doll to the vacuum cleaner because it kept falling off of the vacuum cleaner...hmmmmm, maybe because it wasn't actually a vacuum cleaner cover. This occurred early in the day- and it only get better from here.

The fabric... I know a girl who drives around with her hoarded fabric in her car (you know who you are!!)-- and she has nothing on Granny. Here is just a sampling of the fabric we found.
Oh- there is so much more that we haven't even seen yet. I know for a fact there is lots of fabric in the canning house (which never had anything canned in it). We even found around a hundred zippers. I have created in the back of my mind a cute bulletin board idea to uses some of the zippers.One treasure that we did find was the pattern to the family ABC quilt. Patsy and I decided we were going to be making them for the great grandchildren- Donovan, Kaleigh, Rylee, new baby and my baby and any more who follow. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I am still working (or better yet- not working, but need to be working on) Henry's blanket that I started on Spring Break. None the less, I had to come home and look at my blanket so we would know which fabrics we needed (# of colors, prints, etc). Hmmm... wonder where we will find some fabric. On a side note, I had to throw all of the pillows off of the guest bed (Meghan's bad) to take this picture. So, if something happens to me before I put them back on- know that we usually DO keep the pillows on the bed. On another note, I am not sure how old my blanket is, but a few years ago Granny put a new back on it for me since I had worn mine threadbare.

Lets see- where to go from here... we found a dress- but we weren't sure who it was for. It was not finished- but only lacked a hem on the bottom and the sleeves I believe. I tossed it to Kim and told her it could be her hospital outfit. Let's just say, it wasn't very flattering.. but looked mighty comfy!I also teased Kim about wasting her pennies on maternity clothes when we found several drawers of house dresses.

We also a package of antique looking stockings. We took one out and they were really long with the calf and heel built in.
Another things we found that cracked us up were some old timey pattern books. Who wants to look like this at the next cookout??

We did find more buttons. For those of you who may not know- Kim and I have a button collection. When we were little we "played" buttons all the time. When we got married (3 weeks apart) Granny split the collection in half and gave half to each of us (we also each got 1 alligator pump that we used to fight over.. but that is another story).

STILL READING??? Sorry this is a LONG one! Ok- you all know how I love the Pampered Chef- well, now I know another use for the quikcut paring knife.
Yes! You read it here first- if your toaster oven handle should break- just slip it in and voila!


And now- the moment you have all been waiting for- You have heard the rumors and now photo evidence of THE JUNK ROOM!!

Remind you of anything??

We didn't get too far into this room because 1) Mr. D. showed up with lunch and 2) we were tired, so this room is to be continued.... but here are 2 things I found that I thought were funny.

I thought this was a clever name of a doll company.
This paper stocking is nothing special - but at the top it is written "could be hung up". It struck us as the funniest thing. I don't know who- it just did. Maybe we were delusional at this point.

So that is that- it is WAY past my bedtime- so you will have to stay tuned for more post this week- including a special Thursday 13. I hope there weren't too many typos- (Meredith- I hope you didn't mark your screen up with the red pen!) - and that this wasn't too boring.