Red Rooster Antiques (Part 2)

I am so enjoying this day off. I left work yesterday at 9:45 a.m. to begin my FIRST vacation of the year...seriously! So I tried to beat some of the last minute grocery shoppers and spent two hours fighting my through the aisles. Nevertheless, I found some dark chocolate K-cups for my Keurig...delicious I might add... and I added some Peppermint Mocha coffee creamer and my goodnes... HEAVEN!

This morning I got up and made a HUGE breakfast for Emil and the girls. Now Emils at work...last minute rush jobs. You should see some of these jewelry pieces he has been working on. Last week he had...get ready for this.... a 48 caret tennis bracelet. It had 24 2-caret diamonds and it was set in platinum. Who wears things like that? I would be terrified to wear it! Someone could bop me on the head, take the bracelet and buy themselves a house and a car and maybe even some furniture! Ha!
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Now, on with more of my Red Rooster Antique pictures.... Part 2!


I love pinecones. I try to hide them through out my floral arrangements and in the mantle arrangement. I saw these cute pinecones on display there. The tips look like they were dipped in glue and the dusted with green glitter. I think these are great for holiday displays and you can make them to suit the colors of your house. And, I think it would be a great craft idea for children to match the colors of their rooms or the tree in their room. You could then tie a cute ribbon to hang from the top and now it's a pretty ornament. These cute sparkly and glittery ornaments were displayed in a black plant stand. I loved the way it looked. I couldn't resist not taking a picture.

I absolutely fell in love with the distressed look of this cupboard. I can just picture it in an old farmhouse. I am sure if this cupboard could talk it would have many, many stories to tell. You can click on the photos to enlarge them and see the goodies placed inside!

This beautiful white chair held a white porcelian hand which held beautiful white and blue delft buttons and pendants. I wish I would have bought some.. they were all around $2 each!

This display was on an old vanity dresser. I loved the small red tinsel tree. The green tree and green ornaments just add to the vintage look. I loved the way this was displayed and just HAD to take a picture!

This lamp was beautiful. Sierra lived it. It has such charm!

Old perfume bottles and a small pink tinsel tree. Again, everything was beautifully displayed.

Am I the only one in love with this pink cabinet? I tried to get more pictures of the beautiful dishes on display but my camera decided to "error" them. Just click on the photo to enlarge it. You won't be disappointed. I think it would also look wonderful in a little girls room holding her dolls, nutcrackers, necklaces and books. Now I think I want it for Lena's room.

Now this section had the most unusual items. There were lots of these "rides" that must have come from McDonalds.. There was also a life-size Ronald McDonald in the corner. I didn't get a picture of him.. he was scary. On the shelf behind this ride was some old moving blankets and a beautiful chandelier. Click and enlarge and you'll see it. There was also some old rusty signs and old, vintage couches. I wished I would have gotten a picture of those.

I think besides that beautiful china cabinet in part one, this was my favorite thing in the store. It's a ceiling. The blue was just amazing. And the gold was so rich and luxurious. It is truly just amazing! I didn't get to see the price on it, as it was behind so many things, but I would just LOVE to have this in a room in my house!

I wanted to get a better picture of this red tree but it was about 12 feet tall and I couldn't get the whole thing. It was beautiful though.

This area had lots of old cookbooks and other neat displays. The cook book Sierra's hand is on was from some island (Rum's Point) and it included recipes on how to cook turtle! Seriously.. gross!

Another beautiful display area. The cabinet behind her had an old doll thingy and a beautiful old beaded dress. I thought of all the neat things I've seen on blogger with old birdcages like the one behind CC. I just don't have the talent or the time to create a beautiful birdcage creation.

A wall of old skeleton keys and lots of other iron pieces. Pretty neat...

This dollhouse was absolutely wonderful. The only problem, the back open area was facing the back of an old dresser so you can't see how wonderful it was inside. And it was impossible to get a photo of it. Each room was a different wall paper. I can just imagine the joy this brought to the children who played with it and the many "families" that lived there.

Me... taken by CC.

We found this wonderful distressed mirror. I wanted to take a neat reflection photo...didn't quite work out.

So we tried again.... you can see the camera... Sierra looks like she's growing out of my shoulder.. but we sure had fun!

I will try to post my last set of photos in a couple of days. They are some photos taken around the town square...and a scary story. Really!

I am going to enjoy the rest of my day off with my girls.. I might not post for a couple of days.. but I hope you all have a wonderful extended weekend!

Red Rooster Antiques (Part 1)

This Sunday Sierra and I decided to take a trip to New Braunfels to visit our favorite antique store... Red Rooster Antiques... for a girls-only trip. We love, love, love this store. They have so many neat and interesting things to look at!
You can look over the same display a few times and see something new each time! We love it! And everything is affordable...a HUGE plus! You can walk in there, look around, and find something for everyone in your family! And they have a super decilious restaurant inside as well that is also.... very affordable! Did I mention we LOVE this place?

Before each outting Sierra and I like to take a quick snap-shot of ourselves to document our little adventure! And this one was SUPER quick because the truck parked beside us was full of people getting out. HA!

So into the store we go! Sierra loved this vanity. I did too....

A close up of the display on the vanity. I was going to buy that vintage ashtray for my mother-in-law. I completely forgot about it until just now as I uploaded these photos! The price... $5.00!

Oh man... this chandelier... beautiful! Gorgeous! Brilliant! I wish I had a place to put it!

I love this blue. There are sooooo many displays like this through-out the store. Seriously.. it would take HOURS to look at each piece!

Another close up. Look at the beautiful blue on that charger! The antique perfume bottles and the vintage bag.. beautiful!

Even old flatware are beautifully displayed! Such a neat idea!

Sierra fell in love with this lamp. It's a mannequin leg in a fish-net hose, placed in a pair of black pumps, turned into a lamp. How original!

For some reason my flash was not working in the first picture.. here's a close-up. Are you not loving that red velvet stool?

I fell in love with this antique china cabinet. I wished more than anything I could have brought it home. First of all I don't have room for it ... second of all I don't have the $850 for it. But man, I think that's a good deal! It's beautiful, no damage, original hardware. Why can't it be mine?

**sniff sniff** I really, really, really want it!

Ok.. this chandelier was at least nine feet tall! Where in the world did it come from? It did have some pieces of crystal missing, some chains were loose.. but it was definately a show-stopper! And again.. of course... my flash just would not work!

Thank goodness for some natural sunlight!

IF the flash would have worked correctly you would see that the bulb-sockets were gold/brass roses buds. Too pretty!

Gorgeous!

This cute display held the sweetest tea cups with saucers, pretty plates and of course... Raggedy Ann and Andy!

I love the soft pink of the ornaments paired with the darker shades of pink garland. This would make a wonderful and whimsical decoration for a dresser or credenza. The pink floral plates were just beautiful too! Wouldn't this look pretty on that vanity I showed you earlier?

This bohemian decanter set was only.......$16.95!! Why did I not buy it? They sell on eBay for upwards of a hundred dollars!! This set was beautiful and I didn't see any damage on it! Now that I'm thinking about it, I kinda want to kick my self for not buying it! You can read about my bohemian bowl here. It was a gift given to me a few years back.

I've been wanting some simple tinsel trees for my girls rooms to keep up year round. I found this one in a corner. I guess it was for sale. I didn't ask.

This lamp was beautiful! CC loved it! It reminded me of Gone With the Wind!

Need a water fountain? Put your head in the lion!

I have many, many more pictures to show you of our trip and more inside the store. I will post more tomorrow! If I put them all in one post it would just take toooooo long!

I hope you enjoy and don't forget to stop by tomorrow for more pictures! What was your favorite item seen here so far?

Lena's in the Kitchen!

Finally I have been able to sit and post some new pics. Lena had been wanting to bake cookies so we ran to Wal-Mart and bought the necessary items. I DO NOT like having chocolate chips cookies in the house...because we eat them all! And that's really bad when there are four dozen cookies here ... that's a dozen a person! TERRIBLE! Hence, we don't do it very often.

But first... I went in to check on Lena the other evening. We did a late night Sonic run. She went to her room and was just too quiet. This is what I found.
My baby with her Purple Luck and Mimi knocked out on the floor. Too precious!
So Thursday after work Lena begged me to make cookies. We are practicing her writing in cursive, so to just add a little sugar on top, she wrote on her homework, in cursive, bake cookies. How could I say no to that?

My baby LOVES to cook and bake. She loves being in the kitchen and helping! I love that she loves it!

My baby loves to pose as well!

Just look at those chubby hands! Just like her Nanny Kia and her daddy! My mom said she fell in love with those chubby fingers! I love to kiss them when she sleeps!

She can crack the eggs perfectly!

With no shells!

One more pose...

It's a fight to keep everyone out of the ready dough...

My Lena-pooh... (wearing her cute shirt from Nanny Kia and Papa Vitaly from their visit to Jerusalem)

The finished product!

They are good!

The last batch came out around 10:30 p.m. Not fun when I have to wake up at 5:30 for work...but she was so excited and that makes it soooo worth it!

Next week we are supposed to go to Lisa's house for a small Christmas dinner. I think we will make shuba. Lena loves to make shuba. It's quite a process but we love to make and it we really love to eat it. Shuba is a traditional Russian cold salad. It's made with smoked herring, shredded potatoes and carrots, eggs, onions, shredded beets and topped with mayonaise. It sounds not too good I know, and it looks like a beautiful cake when it's done. But just the thought of a purple fish salad sounds scary, but lord it's not!

Thursday night we found a red bump under her right breast. Another spider bite! By night time it grew bigger. I put benadryl on it to see if it would get better. Friday morning it looked the same pretty much, just a bit bigger. I put more benadryl on it. When I came home from work at 1 it was HUGE! HOT! and RED! I went to the doctor immediately! The P.A. said it's her first time seeing a real spider bite. She drew a line around it and said if it goes outside the line to go to the ER or back to the doctor's office. They gave her an antibiotic. I filled it, she took her first one around 7 last night. By this time she was out of the line, but she hadn't had any benadryl or antibiotics so I wanted to get that in her and see if it impoved. Now, I'm not being lax about this. I KNOW it's serious. But I also know that it is NOT a brown recluse. Because.. when she was bitten by a brown recluse a few years ago, the bite area started turning purple and black from the necrosis, the death of the tissues. I see no necrosis, so I feel better about that. HOWEVER... she just woke.. the bite area is huge! At the doctor it was measuring 3.5 x2.5. Now it's measuring 3.75 long and 3.5 wide. It's not as red but it's hard and protrudes and it just scares me. She took her second antibiotic. I'm going to give her another benadryl and if I don't see a marked improvement she's going to the ER.

Ahhhh... this is the start of my weekend. I was planning a nice weekend with the girls, but with Lena's tummy and now Emil.. the stores keep calling him for rush sizings.... the love of being a jeweler's wife during Christmas... his phone NEVER stops... it just rang again now. Rush, rush, rush jobs...! I don't like him to go to the stores alone during this time of the year. So, I drop him off in front of the store, wait for him to come out and pick him up in front, go to the shop, size the ring, shorten the bracelet or necklace, engrave whatever.... rush back to the store, pick up whatever new they sold.. ok.. here we go. They just called... we have to go now and have it back asap! Uh! Christmas is just stress for jewelers!

I'm Still Here...

I know I haven't posted in over a week. I've just been so busy here. And not much has happened. I will try to run down some things real quick.

-If you live in the Stone Oak area and are wanting to eat out.. IF you've seen the new Mission Cafe being built and now opened up near Mays YMCA.... that pretty white stucco mission-style-looking restaurant... IF you're driving by and you're hungry and are thinking about stopping....
LOOK AWAY FAST!
This place is disgusting! The food is a joke. Seriously. I thought Tink-A-Taco was bad, or as my girls like to call it..Stink-A-Taco. Mission Cafe take the cake.. it is just terrible. The food had NO taste, no flavor. Lena's nachos were litteraly stale tortilla chips with the canned nacho cheese poured ontop. It wasn't even that warm. The rice tasted and looked like something from an instant bag of generic Mexican rice. The beans were STRAIGHT out of a can... the tamales were sooooo dry. You're sides .. you go to a station and put your condiments in a plastic cuppy thing.. think Taco Cabana. In fact, TC has better food at a better price. IF you're driving by Mission Cafe and want Mexican food, turn around and go to the TC on Stone Oak or keeping driving to Timberwood and eat at Aguascalientes... MUCH better food at MUCH better prices!

-I pulled out our wreaths two weeks ago. Tonight they are still on the ottoman waiting to be hung.

-I also took out my pointsettia arrangement that I love so much two weeks ago. I dug and dug and found it in the garage. It's in front of the fireplace, however I still haven't dusted all the webs off!

-It's been cold and rainy here for days already. I would like it to be cold and dry. This little constant mist makes it just nasty.

-I stated teaching Lena fractions. She is doing pretty well. I think next week she will do fractions all week to get a good base for her. I will also continue giving her multiplication and division.

-CC is doing really good in all areas. She was getting a bit upset with her Spelling Word Sudoku. We sat down together and now, come to think of it... it disappeared. I need to ask her where that is.

-Last night it was 42 and rainy. And ... like any other normal family, we went to Sonic.. for what else? Ice cream! I had a coke float, Sierra had the Hazelnutt Java Chiller and Lena tried the Peppermint Blast. And Luigi had a large cup of water, no ice.

Not much has been going on here. We had our Christmas party today at Chili's for the bank. I ordered the Bacon Ranch Chicken Quesadilla... let's just say I'm glad I wasn't paying for it! Emil liked what I brought home.. which is good because it was him or Luigi going to get it!

I did put up our winter tree.. and a few decorations but haven't posted any pics. I'm not sure if anyone wants to see it. I was thinking about joining the Nesters Tour of Homes, but I'm a couple of days late and many, many decorations short!

I'm ready for the weekend. Originally we were supposed to go to Dallas to Emil's parents to see the Nutcracker with my mom and the girls. I'm not sure now if we are going. I was thinking about going to Boerne and maybe do a little walking around there.. and then Santa's Ranch after. Who knows? I don't even know yet! I guess by Monday we will all know!

Next week our good long-time family friend will be coming to visit. He's done much research with AIDS and cancer. He's been published many, many times. Abdelkrim Alileche. You can go here to see the publication of the work that I had the privilege of helping him research in New York using lethal factor and non-lethal factor (with an inhibitor) Anthrax to kill cells, including cancer cells. That was truly an amazing experience. I fed cancer cells with Fetal Calf Serum. We watched them grow everyday and then depending which control they were given we would record the rate of necrosis, cell death.

Ok, ok.... I know I'm probably boring all of you with this.. so goodnight! I am looking forward to this weekend.. just to have this week over and relax. I know there are probably a ka-jillion spelling errors in here and I'm sorry! I'll spell check tomorrow! What are your plans for this weekend? Do you have family and friends coming or are you the lucky ones to be going?

I am in looooove! and a giveaway!

My new Keurig coffee maker arrived! I am so in love! It is AMAZING! It's fast, quick, quiet, easy, fun, delicious!.... I could go on and on and on but let me just show you the pictures....

You can make hot tea, iced coffee, regular coffee, hot cocoa... you can buy their K-pods or use your own coffee with the removeable filter.

Here I am making hot cocoa with one of the Green Mountain brand cocoa. This was probably the BEST cup of cocoa I have ever had!

1.) Put the pod in the filter

2.) Select the size cup you want it brewed in.

3.) Press the brew button and watch it fill up!

3.) Enjoy! I love the froth it left on it!

And now the giveaway....

I wish it was me giving this away but it's not. Five fabulous bloggers are giving away HP TouchSmart 600 PC. Anyone can enter... visit each blogger to enter their giveaway. Good luck!

The giveaway is being hosted by Stephanie, Jen, NieNie, BooMama and Kelly.

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You can also win a year of handmade vegan soap delivered straight to your door! These soaps are beautiful and come with names like Gardenia Chamomile, Rose Vegan Handmade Soap, Limoncello Handmade Soap with Coconut Milk, Lemon and Lime... and many, many more. Visit DeShawn's blog to enter until December 15!

Show and Tell Friday - Eddie Ross Pillow

Today Cindy is hosting Show and Tell Friday. This is always a favorite of mine. I haven't been able to participate the past few weeks, too much going on at home, but I couldn't pass up posting today! I am showing the beautiful pillow I won from Eddie Ross' give-away. Imagine my suprise when I clicked on Cindy's blog and saw his picture there!
I entered the give-away on a whim..never expecting to win. When I checked my email and saw the title "Congratulations" from the sender "Eddie Ross" I nearly died! I did start crying! This pillow is truly the most beautiful things I have ever seen....and definately one of the most beautiful items I own.

The pillow was handmade from a vintage dress Eddie found at a NYC flea market. It was for a story in Country Home about turning vintage dresses into throw pillows. The pillow also appears in the online magazine Lonny on Eddie's guest bed!

The beading and detail is just amazing!

The pillow is such a soft, almost dusty lavender. This is EXACTLY the color I want to use in my comforter. I have been looking and looking but still haven't found it. I was an almost cream color comforter, plush and soft, with this color accented flowers in tucks. Haven't found it yet.. I am thinking about hitting some fabric stores or something to try to find it.

I LOVE this pillow! NO ONE is allowed to touch it!

Eventually, this pillow will live on my bed. But.. I need that comforter. Ok, I want that comforter. So, for now it lives on my chest of drawers. I think this shade of lavender compliments my bedroom wall color nicely.

This is my first time uploading a video to blogger, so I don't know if it will work. If it does, it's just a better look at my beautiful pillow. That's my youngest in the background talking away.

I hope you enjoyed my pillow pictures. Don't forget to stop by Cindy's beautiful blog for more wonderful show and tell postings. I love coming home on Friday's, making a cup of coffee and looking at each and every show and tell link!

SA Snow....

The weather man is predicting snow tomorrow! They do this EVERY YEAR but nothing! As usual!! But this time they say 50%!!! We will see!!!!
What do you think?

Will it snow?
or
Will it not?