There Are MAYBE 3 Good Things About Montgomery

…One of which is the Eastbrook Flea Market. You may have heard about it if you live in-state, and if not just know that it’s 3 floors of indoor one man’s trash/another’s treasure glory-ment. Being so large, it really is a lot like a treasure hunt. On Saturday, after I sold my garage, I decided to pass off nap time watching the kids during rest time (nap for Chase) to Michael. I spent 2.5 hours rummaging and found some GREAT finds.

Here are a few:

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I love how I’m starting out this post about stuff I found at The Flea Market Of Awesome with something my mom gave me. This was my “inspiration”. I claimed it from the items she brought to sell in my Redneck Sauna (then Conner offered her a $1 for it later… ::collective “awww”::).

The idea of vintage sports gear really spoke to me (I hate that expression. If objects are speaking to you, adjust your meds. Then, unfriend me on Facebook). The boys’ bedroom walls post-re-arranging are NAKED. Wait. They were naked before, but you were so distracted by the craziness of their rooms, you never got around to hating the walls (unless you are my mother - in which case - I KNOW ALREADY, GEEZE. NOW REFRESH THIS PAGE 5 TIMES AND CLICK ALL MY ADS. Love you!)

Priorities here, people.

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Oh man. Now I’m really killing myself. Another picture up - not one of a “find”. This cork board (came in a set of 4) (yes, I know you can count) is from Wal-Mart. I know, I know - I didn’t want to go there either. But something about having a garage sale means that you are required to visit Wal-Mart. I think that’s how you get your license to sell a bunch of shit no one should ACTUALLY need/want. It’s all on your receipt.

The idea here is to decorate these using some 60s/70s/80s/90s comic books I found at aforementioned and yet-to-be-shown Flea Market Finds.

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Conner wanted in on the action. This is my shocked face.

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Well color me crimson. I LOVE THIS THING! It’s an old (OLDDDDDDD - 20s/30s) wooden level (it only works if you have it on the “right side” which blows my mind for some reason). I wanted it in the kitchen, but I’m doing this HUGE “hang blue plates” thing on my walls, so yeah. No go.

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Adorabs. 

And I couldn’t get it to just HANG on the wall, so I spray painted 2 thick nails black, ruffed them up while banging them into the wall, and voila! It’s up and it doesn’t scream “hey! shiny silver nails over here! Amanda doesn’t know how to hang anything!”.

Talent.

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Tennis Racket - 1970s

Baseball glove - 1980s

These are above the bunk bed, which is now SINGULAR (<— see! not “beds”) (omg Amanda, they get it already), because part of The Makeover involved taking out the bed underneath the top part and putting it in Chase’s room. Now, that “hollow” area is a book nook/Man Cave and the boys LOVE IT.

See? Bed before:

(only picture I had. sorry)

And now:

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 See those shelves behind Chase’s little blond head in the “before” photo? Where half of them were blocked off by the bed being in existence? That bed is now in Chase room, and the floor has a mat, and the room is ONE MILLION TIMES LARGER.

Magic happened, in other words.

Chase’s room (and Conner’s too. They sleep in the same bed.) pre-flea market, but post-old bed out/new bed in/stuff moved:

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I think I just did this whole post backwards. Hm.

Oh and…

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Um. This bag is huge and it told me it wanted to go to NYC. I’ll adjust my meds tomorrow.