Lots a pics-and a long post

We had the best weekend! It was so much fun last week. We packed up a cooler, picnic basket and an extra set of clothes- then off we went.

Our first stop was the tulip festival in Woodland. It was a gorgeous day and we had a great time walking through the fields, browsing at the vendors, and looking in the shop. Of course we took lots of pics. Darling daughter was the real shutterbug!





Our next stop was the Portland Saturday Market. By this time of the day it was a scorching 80 degrees. Can you believe that? It was the hottest day of the year. We got a little color in our cheeks by late afternoon. My favorite find at the market was some cool metal handcrafted hairsticks type of thing. I have fine blond hair so it's hard to keep it in clips and rubberbands break it, so I snatched up 3 of these cool hair thing-ys and LOVE EM! Dear hubby found a cell phone cover he wanted. And darling daughter was stumbling around in a bit of culture shock. LOL! She'd been before but it had been a while. She didn't really remember our past trips very well. We live in a small country town of about 3,000 people. Few of them have mohawks, dress like the opposite gender, smell from lack of basic hygiene, etc. So instead of focusing on the booths and crafts, she was stuck in horrorville. Lol! So on our way back to the car we had to stop and watch this guy juggle and then eat fire. It must be a man thing because my dh was the one all excited to watch and snapping the picture of the "show".



We left the Saturday market and drove out to Lafayette. We rented a hotel for the night and played cards until bedtime. It was SO RELAXING. Although I didn't sleep well that night because of the hard bed, I still woke so refreshed. We couldn't wait to go to the antique schoolhouse mall. It was the most awesome old building- built in 1912. They had keep it in beautiful condition and the coolest thing was this neat slide coming from the third floor on the outside of the building. It was an old fire escape.



Inside they had tons of wonderful antiques and it was an amazing place. We left and started heading home stopping at a few other antique dealers along the way. I told my husband how much I was enjoying our trip. At the next stop we saw a booth with old phones. We both thought these were SO COOL! So he picked one out and we brought it home as a little keepsake. It works too! This gal and her husband own this shop and they love old phones. They had quite a collection. So when she came over to us and was showing us the phones she explained that her husband fixes them. She said if we bought one it was garenteed for the life of her husband. Hehehe.



On the way home as we passed back through Portland, we stopped at the IKEA store. That was a lot of fun too. My head was spinning when left with all the neat storage ideas. I'll be heading back there this summer to organize the house on my time off.

That was our amazing weekend. This weekend is a completely different story. Today it is 30 something degrees and snowing. We are bundled up with the heat turned on and sipping hot chocolate. Looking forward to a nice cozy weekend inside. I feel some scrapping in my future. ;)

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you all have a wonderful wonderful weekend. I'll leave you with the one project I worked on this week. It's a hybrid project using Amanda Heimann's newest kit, MM flowers, Ana Griffen Stamps, VersaMark stamp pad... some buttons, ribbon and such. TTFN!