'The Wanderer' turns 18, 'Caveman' leaves home and other things

Days have been going by in a blur of confusion here!  Since my last post the cave dwellers have packed up & moved on to a bigger & better cave & 'The Wanderer' has turned 18.  I think I'll do two posts today in an effort to catch up (gives me a chance to eat the fresh scones Mr Vintage purchased at a Church garage sale this morning).


Speaking of garage sales......despite a busy day with the movers & birthday boys last Saturday we still found time to go out for our regular Saturday Sale-ing excursion.  It was an extremely disappointing day's sale-ing - I didn't even fill a foot-well!!  Everywhere we turned there were yards full of pre-loved modern toys while I was dreaming of yards of vintage toys, vintage anything would have satisfied me!  But there was one little sale right before pie time that gave me a little something to smile about.  :-)

Happy 18th Birthday to Blake (The Wanderer)

 beautiful baby boy

 tired terror toddler

cute cheeky child

 terribly trying teen

 Love my Wanderer!! 

In true wanderer style 'The Wanderer' wandered off again on Sunday (after calling in for some funding with a promise of repayment on Tuesday) leaving his phone at a mates house & the rest of the family worried about his where-abouts & safety (quite unnecessarily in his eyes).
Sunday also saw Mr Vintage off on one of his quick trips to Melbourne and me at the 'Caveman's' new cave helping them scrub the filthy kitchen.

part of the cleaning being done at the new cave

Mr Vintage arrived home late on Monday evening breaking the drive by calling into a couple of rural op-shops.

ORANGE pyrex .....straight into the cupboard!

cute yellow teapot

tragedy....who covers LIME with that colour I don't dare describe!

He tried to get the fur-babies to keep quiet as he sneaked through with my Mother's Day present from them, he was caught in the act so I will not be getting a surprise from them on the day now!

Scales for my new work-space

So much easier to weigh parcels of pre-loved treasures on their way to new homes with these beauties than swapping between my kitchen & bathroom scales.



Wednesday was the day of the big ironing pile catch up, a marathon 7.5 hours!!  Half of that time was spent ironing vintage linen (tablecloths, runners, doilies, napkins, pillow-slips etc) so that it could be included in an up-coming Linen sale I'm planning for my facebook page, goin-2-new-home (starting on Mother's Day evening).  You can find me/my facebook page here. 

a taste of what will be in store soon

Wednesday night the dogs barked, something they rarely do, just after I went to bed at around midnight  (Jeff was already asleep). Next morning I get up & there is a t-shirt I've never seen before on the stove, the bathmat is on the floor by the shower, the soap has been moved, there is a towel on the edge of the bath that I know wasn't there the day before.....so I prowl through the house thinking perhaps Blake is here sleeping somewhere......nope......there is no note, just a t-shirt on the stove........

My afternoon tea of fresh scones, jam & cream is calling me.....be back later to post about my the rest of our week & some more vintage 'finds'.    :-)