Flea Market Goodies And A Reno Start

I picked up some really great items at the flea market on Sunday that I couldn't wait to share with you. One of them is this beautiful hand made linen purse that was only $5!

 It is absolutely beautiful and so well made, I told the woman she should go into business!

Some other things I bought are a book of old songs and a small ironstone dish for a dollar each from a guy that had some really neat things.

But my favorite thing that I got was this old cutting board....it wasn't priced and when I asked the seller how much he wanted he said "offer me something fair". So I offered $3 and then bit my lip, and he said "that's more than fair"! Then he said "what are you going to paint on it?", in reply I said "Oh I would never paint this!". Can you imagine?! I mean look at the thickness on this beauty!

 And I am more than delighted to say that we started the demolition of the back part of our house (the room off our kitchen)! We spent the weekend taking off the cursed aluminum siding and the dumpster comes today so that we can start gutting the inside of the room. We will eventually be taking down the wall in our kitchen that currently has the stepback cupboard on it. We will be adding lots of windows and  a wood burner to the space. I LOVE demo work and I have been planning this space for 3 years now so I am really excited to get started.

We unearthed the original siding and are going to remove it very carefully so as to be able to reuse as much of it as possible. Why on earth you would ever cover it up in the first place is beyond me.

I will try to show our progress as much as possible, time permitting:)