A New Year

I thought it was time to do a post since I have not written anything since October. Wow, where has the time gone? We have had our booth for 3 months now and it is adorable and we are having so much fun. With a family and work and all the other things going on in our life we don't have as much time as wanted to spend working on the booth. I want all of our family and friends to go visit Junkin Sisters at Grandma's Attic. You will love it. My girl Tracy, Bitsey, needs to let some of her stuff go so others can join in the love of junk, she needs to share the junk. Love ya Tracy. When I can figure out how to post pictures everyone can see we will have lots to look at. Stay tuned.

Our Booth

Into the first 10 days of having our booth we have made the rent. Mostly Tracy and her good ole junk. Thank goodness now we can just hope to sell, sell, sell for the rest of the month so we can go look for more good junk. We went to an auction on Saturday that was on site in Clarkesville. It gets really frustrating when dealers come and buy everything. Can we just share a little in the junk joy. I mean really. Everyone would like a little bit of it every now and then. Here you are bidding and you look over to see someone elses hand go up for everything or their number called out repeatedly. Oh, well. One day we will be there.

Come join us and visit our booth at Grandma's Attic in Cleveland, GA.
We are the second room on the left.
Junkin Sisters

A closet for a princess or two.......

So, Darrin is almost finished with my daughters closet upstairs. After 59+ hours it will finally be complete and I can mark one more project off my to do list. I absolutely love it, yes I love it. He had painted it a brown/tan color to begin with just like I told him and guess what, I changed my mind. I broke it to him last night I wanted to change the paint color to white and keep a pink ceiling. It looks adorable, I think. Of course Tracy likes the brown better but it is not her closet, right? The white makes the tin on a couple areas stand out so much more. If we can get a good angle we will post some pictures. Today he will hang the chandelier and hopefully do some shelving. Now, I just need to work a few more jobs to pay him. I guess his patience is worth all more than anything. He is very patient with me and understanding. Thank you, Darrin. Tracy
too. Now my precious girls will have a wonderful area to dress up and play. A closet fit for a princess.....

My Lovely Laundry Room

So, my friend Tracy told you all about her hubby Darrin that creates these visions in my busy head that is constantly thinking of other things to make. Well, here is my luandry room that he helped me create. I love it, I even do more laundry. We live in an 100+ year old family farmhouse. Unfortunately, the chimney is boarded up in the kitchen and "closet" aka laundry room. Well, as Darrin was taking down the walls that were there he discovered the beautiful rock chimney that I love. It looks just like the one on the outside of the house. Needless to say we had to expose it.

So, here are pictures of the process.

In the beginning.......

You can never have too many stacked linens......

Mossy Creek Cottage -Tracey's happy place to dream and create. Put together from an old barn Darrin tore down and some old lumber someone had laying around, old used chicken house tin of my grandfather's, a $17. box of nails and lots of work from my talented husband, we created this one of a kind retreat in our backyard. It is a cozy little place that my family can go and just relax or sit on the front porch and watch the day go by. Future plans are to add on a "sleeping porch" to the back along with a small courtyard with a seperate 12x12 or 10x10 little workshop. Darrin has his own workshop but he wants me to have my own so I want keep messing up his. I love my little cottage!
About my friend Leigh Ann, she is way more creative than I am, her house should be on the cover of Southern Living. I have enlisted her to make my house beautiful and she has enlisted my husband as her carpenter so that he can make what she creates in that head of hers. She and I have similar taste in junk which can be a good thing and a bad thing. Good if we want to trade furniture or something but can turn into bad if we junk together and find something we both can't live without. HAHAHA! I love brain storming with her over the phone about paint colors for my house or what she is going to cover with tin next. She is at that place in life where she is not intimidated by decorating with flair like using tin on her kitchen ceiling or putting a little chandelier in over her washer and dryer. I have always been so worried about permanently messing something up that it has been hard to get too creative but with Leigh Ann's guidance I should be transformed by the end of this year.
With this blog we hope to link up with other "junkin" folks and exchange ideas, pictures, stories, and how to's and so on . We will post plenty of pictures of Leigh Ann's southern living house remodels and my homes transformation into yesteryear. Shabby Chic, Country Cottage, Beach Cottage, with a little mountain cabin sort of covers the stuff I like so let's see what little "Ms.Flair" can come up with!!!!!

Even Mamas love to dream.....

We talk and talk about all the things we want to do but it is doing it that is the problem. With kids, jobs, husbands, homes, and all the other things life throws us it is hard to follow through with our dreams. Well, here is the start of two Mossy Creek girls that love JUNK.