Big Memory Cans

I drive my Chelsey crazy...I save lots of things...I can just imagine needing it or using it or recreating something with it...some day....so I save it!  I have been hanging onto these "faux" milk cans that held a very big bunch of sticky sweet caramel corn purchased on a holiday aisle and given to inlaws of inlaws a few years ago. One of my children saw them empty and ready to go to the trash after the holidays as someone had thoroughly pigged out on all the caramel corn inside and of course sweet Erica thot of me.

So this week....as I was sprucing up and organizing my new kitchen in the new house preparing to 'inhabit' the house soon...I had this big empty space under my kitchen sink. I just despise closed cabinets that could hold creepy crawlies under sinks...so I had Carpenter make all my sinks "bare" in the new house.
I'm thinking...big space...under sink...perfect for those milk cans reclaimed from trash!

They had tacky plastic labels on them but upon closer inspecition I was able to peel them off. I grabbed my handy spray paint and gave them some squirts. They were fire engine red! ewww! a little too bright and shiny for me!  So on went some "mousey brown"  Apple Barrell paint with a damp paper towel.

Then I have this love affair with modge podge and suddenly it came to me that I could enjoy my momsy's vintage GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine (circa1944) all the time instead of having it collect dust on a shelf somewhere - so I got to clipping everything in it that made me smile. This was the only vintage magazine she had in her stash and I got it when she left all this trite earthly treasures behind for eternal ones...I know she really liked this magazine. I'm expecting she bought with some very hard earned savings from her piggy bank around the time she was just out of high school.  and.....I love the idea of being able to enjoy these same pages of her GH magazine (now so vintage) everyday - oh oh oh - some of these old ad-ver-tis-ments were so cute!

All I needed was my modge podge and some scissors and the magazine from yesteryear my momsy loved and treasured.

I now have 2 great big tin cans perched under my kitchen sink. 

I'll use one for cleaning rags - don't you just cringe when someone cleans up a big puddle of chocolate milk on a dirty floor with a bright checkered fairly new dishcloth!?!?  So the clean up rags will be handy - all the uglies that still have lots of good use in them and the other can will hold dish suds and dishwasher detergent.

Kitchen is almost done...still no cabinet doors but Carpenter put in my so long wished for Rev-a-Shelves so I won't have to crawl inside the cabinets and search for long lost items! love it!!!!!

Everyday Humdrum ho...ho

December danced by, January jumped past, February definitely is not floating by and we are still "camping".
I say that tongue in cheek as we definitely are blessed with this mobile home - it is just "squished in here" with all that we have going on in our lives.  We are do-it-yourselfers and have lots of projects going all the time, they boys and Carpenter are all into archery and that means equipment and equipment takes space! We run 5 home businesses from here and that definitely takes space!  But again the lessons in patience just keep coming.   The weather of snow like we have never had in these parts for a long many years and lots of rain have basically destroyed our winding driveway up to the new house.  It is slushy, muddy, deep with ruts and very nasty to be blunt!  It would take many 1000's of $$$ to make it nice and even many more 1000's$ to pave it....I am not asking for paving...I would just love it to be driveable.  It really is one of the main hinderances keeping us from actually moving up there right now!
Once again, the Lord has cared for us and provided us huge mountains of large rubble from broken brick and blocks only 3 miles from us and with the owner who is head of the demolition of the old mill wanting to just find anywhere to dump this rubble - we are jumping up and down saying, "ME FIRST!" -- after about 3-4 weeks of no phone calls being returned and not being able to reach the owner - we have the word from him that he will deliver and dump up to 50 rounds (20 tons per round) for us on our acres so we can put a good firm base on the driveway for literally pennies of what it would cost to buy large stones to give us a firm base!  Then son # 1 who is a skilled grader and can work some heavy equipment will come put a nice covering to that base and fix us all up.  I'm just waiting for the day.....snow is on the way again and more rain last nite...so I continue to wait....and I'll be posting just as soon as it comes to pass! We have such a beautiful driveway (if I can say primitive too) when it is in "good shape".  We have suddenly had the enlightenment that it must be the reason nearly every household sits right on the main roads -- who wants to go thru the expense of maintaining a mile long driveway?  I guess for us - we are so set on having our house in the middle of the wild acres that we are willing to take the bumps that go along with a mile-long drive! (9/10ths to be exact!)
Our long driveway when it was in better shape!