Mod Vintage Life

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Winner of CSN Gift Certificate....

Not sure that I am doing this correctly....I generated a widget that you can check to see if you were actually entered in the contest or not. I know the winner is correct...but not sure about how the widget is to display. But the winner is....

The Chick

of TheSiscoChick.com

{huge applause}

Yay! Erin, I can't believe you are going to be able to buy that lovely vintage style poster you wanted for your newly feminine abode.

http://www.csnstores.com/Trademark-Global-V5011-C1824GG-TMK1899.html

I loved this poster when she included the link to show me what she would buy.

I need one for myself!

Ok, here is the widget.... for anyone who might want to double check it...I really am not sure how this thing works....I had to do it twice because the first winner was ... Helvetica!....Obviously I did something wrong because I don't have a follower named after a font. Craziness.

oops! I put in $40 on the generator but it is for $50.

Erin, I'll be sending your email address to CSN and they will email you the certificate.

You lucky Chick, you.

Yard of the Month

Sarinda's Magical Yard

I'm on my neighborhood's Yard of the Month committee. I and the other members of the committee chose Sarinda's house for the May Yard of the Month in Edgemere Park. I have to say that I'm scooping the neighborhood newsletter on this one. You are seeing it here first.

Sarinda's home is another one of the neighborhood's beautiful tudors.

Do you see the sweet kitties sitting on the porch steps? On of them begged me to pick her up and then got mad and started hissing and scratching. Turns out she craves attention but doesn't know what to do with it once she gets it. (I know exactly how she feels, silly puss).

Sarinda believes in making her home look like a party is always going on. She has a constant rotating display of lanterns on her front covered porch. When you drive by her house at night the deodora cedar in front always sparkles with golden twinkle lights as does the porch. It truly does look like there is always a party going on at her house.

Sarinda's backyard

Sarinda proudly announces that she's the kind of girl that keeps her Christmas lights up all year long. The afternoon we visited with her...she had them all turned on for us. This is making me rethink my clear twinkle lights in my own backyard. Maybe I should do multi-colored.

I have to say, stopping by Sarinda's was a lovely end to a beautiful Sunday afternoon. We all decided to do it again soon. Sitting on her magically decorated front porch was just too much fun. Sarinda declared..."I'm proud to be a porch whore!"

Oh...me too! Me too!

I'm joining in the party at

A Southern Day Dreamer

Sunday, May 2, 2010

New Chalkboard for the Weenie Condo

Message to the Weenies

I've seen lots of great chalkboards on many blogs. Most of the ones I really really liked were made from old frames and mirrors. Well, I needed a chalkboard now... to leave messages to the weenies on...I didn't have time to wait till I found the perfect antique frame or mirror...so a couple of weeks ago...I'm in Michael's Crafts and I see this on clearance for $10.

I really kind of liked it as is...but I'm not into red and the rust on it was too perfect. And it was almost the same color as my walls. So I bought some chalkboard paint and my favorite white spray paint.

And this is the finished chalkboard. Perfect for leaving messages to the weenies.

It now hangs by the back door in the breakfast nook or as I call it the Weenie Condo because that's where the weenies live during the day while I am at work. As you see....I left them their first message.

Although for this message board to really work for them....it needs to hang at about a foot off the floor. Because they won't strain their necks to look up to see what message I've left when it hangs this high. Oh...well I can leave messages to myself on it.

Here's a silly story...last year I had a water leak in the backyard. My plumber, Don came out to find out what was wrong. He had to go under the house at the little door that is on the west side of my house right under the Weenie Condo. He was putting on his coveralls and explaining that he'd forgotten his hat...and he didn't like to go under houses without his hat because of all the spiders under houses. But he'd go ahead because it had to be done. So I'm watching as he bends his over 6 foot frame to go under...he's very cute...I forgot to mention that. All of a sudden he comes backing out as fast as he can and jumps to his feet with a frightened look on his face. But then he starts to laugh...

He says...."I started under and I could hear the sound of lots of little feet above me and I thought - Those are the biggest rats I've ever heard....I'm out of here!" That is when he backed out super quick. But as soon as he came out he realized what he was hearing was the weenies overhead in their condo...he also realized that you don't hear the clicking of rat toenails on the floor...and made him realize exactly what he was hearing.

Anyway...we laughed and laughed that for a split second he thought I had an infestation of the hugest rats ever. Nope...but I do have an infestation of weenies.

I'm super late but sharing this over at

Funky Junk's Saturday Nite Special

There are lots of great projects this week. Wish I'd joined up sooner but I was just too busy.

Oh...and I'm having my first Giveaway if you'll go to my last post and enter.

Nita's First Giveaway!

All you have to do is leave a comment to enter once and be a follower to get two entries in to the contest to win a $50 gift certificate from CSN Stores.

Contest was to end tonight but I'm going to extend it through Tuesday night since I never got a chance to link up to anything this weekend. That will give many more people the opportunity to enter.

Again...just go to this link to enter....

Nita's First Giveaway!

decided to share also over at