What's A Lean-To????

For weeks the corrugated sheet metal has sat on the driveway. The rain has weathered and yet has not bothered the cardboard box sitting underneath. Very durable stuff! Just what I had hoped for when I carted it through Home Depot.

When one is purchasing items non-stop from Goodwill there has to be a place to store the bounty! I came up with the idea of building a lean-to. At least someone would build the lean-to.....
Hubby comes to mind! Hubby has no inclination. Hubby seems displeased! Hubby waits months.... through rain, hail, heat, etc......

Finally it is constructed ~

In the beginning....

Have no fear - I truly can wield a hammer! I may not have done the initial tinkering, but I filled the thing! I had to do the furniture moving, stacking, packing and what-not! There's still room for more items. Have many months to go 'til Goat Hill!

Know what I want to do most though?? I'd love to be under this lean-to during a rain or hail storm! Among the many simple wishes that I have, one of them is to have a room of my own with a metal roof!! OOHHH YEAH! A country girl dream for sure!

Have always loved this song too....  do ya know the words during the chorus that most everyone can't figure are :  "TIN ROOF........... RUSTED" ? well, they are... and I sing them at the top of my lungs, as does Hubby! But then again, he didn't have to build that particular tin roof shed - else he may not be singing!!

LOVE SHACK next, please!!

Linens

There comes a time when you take a good hard look, and decide - hhhmmmmm - maybe I've got a tiny problem on my hands. A fetish, maybe? A hoarding issue? A collection gone awry? Whatever you want to call it - I'VE GOT TOO MUCH OF  - "IT"  ~  




cloths and cases and sheets, OH MY!


The linen closet is so full (as you can tell!) that I have to push with all my might to close the door. Spring clean-up 2011 began here today - here, as in THIS CLOSET! Notice the piles are starting to fall down around me.

Once upon a time there were neat piles of tablecloths. I used vintage postcards, copied them in sepia tone and then laminated them for tags. Well.... that was once upon a time....

I even have adorable one-of-a-kind embroidered edging on the shelves! See that sweet blue & white Dutch scalloped cotton?

Really? How many tablecloths does one girl need???

What a mess!




uugghh

 Now I've set aside a pile of cloths. These beauties are going to be sold off. Either they'll go as-is, or I'm going to have some made into aprons for the Goat Hill Show. I have my Grandmother's sewing machine, if I weren't so darn inept at threading the bobbin and needle I would give it a go myself! We'll see 'bout that - another story, another post!

the ones that are getting away!

For now there are organized little bundles tied with twine. Any time I need to choose a linen, I'll just pull down the sort of pile I need. Euro square cases - check!   Fitted sheets - check!   Napkins - check!

Tidy, for a little while! Remember - this is called Spring cleaning - come Fall, one never knows!  :-)