Olalla Valley Vineyards and Winery

Just wanted to share this diamond in the rough with everyone.  I recently attended my girlfriend Julie's shower here and fell in love with the place.  They are having an upcoming event  Saturday and Sunday July 23rd and 24th from 9a-4pm.  It a mult-vender antique/collectible and lavender sale. There will be an indoor bar and outside wine garden.  Hot dogs will also be sold and children are welcome.  It doesn't cost anything to come and it's way worth it just to look at everything.  The land is gorgeous.

 Check out their website here.

I cant wait to drag Jake and SJ here.  I plan on buying some of their Raspberry wine, so good and only $10.00 a bottle.

Awesome Day

Today, Sawyer and I needed to get out of the house.  The sun was shining and we were soaking it up.  Today entailed four in and out of the car seats, first stop was Silverdale Waterfront Park.  I love this park because of the beautiful view of the sound and the bouncing floor play ground.  This is a picture of Sawyer on the swing, from my cell phone.  She just giggled the whole time, every now and then...I thought she might puke because she just had that look. 

Second stop was this cute antique shop real close the the park called Tee Dee's Company, my mother-in-law told me about it and I had been curious ever since.  The owner was real nice.  It's open Monday through Friday 10-5. 

I especially love this yellow window frame with hooks and a shelf, I think I might print out their 10% off coupon from their website and go back and buy it.  I love places like this and just thought I would share.  They also have a facebook page like everyone else and their mother....except mine. 

Third stop was McDonald's for a happy meal, then we went to Goodwill and got some cute things for only $5. 

Then we got cupcakes at Bella Bella, a perfect end to yet again another wonderful day.

Something to share...

Vault Denim Jean Party

I had a great turn out at the jeans party.  It was great to see all my friends and I scored three awesome pairs of jeans.  If you are interested just let me know.  They get new inventory all the time.  A girl can never have too many jeans.

Apple of God's Eye

This is a cute funky antique store in Bremerton, right next door to Ralph's Red Apple.  Sawyer's grandpa and grandma scored this awesome chair for her, for only $5.00.

Cute right?  We thought so, it will stay at their house.  It goes quite nicely in their living room.

6722 Kitsap Way, Bremerton, WA 98312

(360) 479-1093

Our first Auction...

Some of our favorite shows are Pawn Stars, Auction Kings, American Pickers, Antiques Roadshow and recently Storage Wars.  So the other day we googled and found two auctions in our area.  One was Stokes Auction off Highway 16 in Port Orchard, which we kind of knew about but neither of us had been to.  The other one that we found is West Sound Auction, right in Belfair off the main highway.  And they just so happened to have their monthly auctions this weekend.  All the items are online to view before going to the auction, which is pretty cool.  West Sound Auction actually has an auction every Friday but they have one big auction per month with antiques and firearms, this one you can even bid online.  We had fun but after an hour and a half Sawyer was ready to go.  She actually did pretty good.  She played with another kids toys, we shared a hot dog, I actually almost had her asleep in my wrap.  Between the auctioneers voice, and me rocking her back and forth, I thought I had it, but no she's too smart to fall asleep and miss a minute with us.  So we left early, none of the items we wanted to bid on were even close to bidding.  We just wanted to get our feet wet anyways.  But this table caught us off guard and sold for a steal at $35.  We kicked our selves all the way home because we would have taken it home for $40.

It had some scratches but with some sanding and some stain it would have been beautiful.

There was a box of old napkins, crocheted table runner, handkerchiefs, and some miscelaneous cotton items, I originally saw online but when I saw at in person I changed my mind.  There was also a box of antique shakers, one set were a pair of owls (which are making a comeback) but ended up going for over $50. 

My mom collects salt and pepper shakers and I would have gotten them for her if they went for a reasonable price.  Now that I think about it, my mom doesn't collect s and p shakers, I just buy them for her.  She probably has over 20 pairs, all from random places I have been.  She almosts need another shelving unit for them.  This kind of reminds me of how my grandma, Nancy would make me lemon bars, and I don't know how she got it in her head that I liked them?  I would eat one, but there are other sweets I would eat over a lemon bar.  My poor mom, what is she going to do with all these shakers? 

There were two items I really wanted.  One was this antique thermos, in awesome condition.  We missed the bidding on this one, but went for only $12.  Makes me want to cry.  It's that beautiful Martha Stewart green.  All I have to say is bummer.

The other piece I really liked was this antique coffee bean grinder.  Which sold for $60.  Way out of my price range, but freaking cute.  That royal blue print will never go out of style, in my opinion.

Even though we didn't come home with anything, we had a blast.  We definitely learned a lot and plan to go to more.  We scouted and got a feel for everything.  There were also many guns too, which Jake is into.