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Weekending and September Beginning

Labor Day weekend was a flurry of getting Coleen ready for an upcoming music/art festival, sleepovers, and seasonal cleaning of boys rooms.  This month I dedicated the calendar gnome to my eldest who has a September birthday and an incredible love of books as evidenced by the amount we pulled out from under his bed!

Yes of course I snuck in some reading time and trip to the fleas, but by far tackling the boys rooms for the fall clean was a big accomplishment.  I warmed the boys up by watching a few episodes of Hoarders with me and then when it was time it was easy to clean! Insert evil mama laughter whaaaaaa.  In the end we ended up with 1 bag of goodwill, 1 bag of trash, 2 loads of paper/box recycling and 2 very clean and organized rooms.  Good gravy!

Colene is officially, scrubbed, bleached, old stickers removed, re-chaulked, waxed, has new curtains, the propane system is finally working, bleached out the water tank, still tinkering with hand pump, and she now has a vintage tea kettle and the start of her kitchen wares thanks to the fleas today!

So we labored hard this weekend working around the home this weekend as well as the girls.  We are up to half dozen of our first eggs in the first week of laying, I don't think I will ever get use to the novelty on it!

So as the season starts to shift and we start to move towards fall, I made some of my more fall like scraps of vintage sheets into a table runner and added a new painted mason.  It is so so simple that I think I might have to ban myself from the spray paint isle!  Really could I resist a paint called pumpkin orange??  Night all!

scamp updates

Just wanted to share a little bit of the progress on decking out the Scamp.  Though I love the original vintage-esque interior of the scamp and parts of it I am retaining like the tweed cushions and avacado green ice box but I need some color pops so I have added:

handmade rug

vintage canister for marshmallows

vintage inspired knobs and fabric for curtains

granny afghan

of course some red and white gnome salt and pepper shakers

Just a few fun little additions.  This weekend it will be time to work on her exterior with buffing and waxing the fiberglass exterior- wax on wax off- hopefully it will be that zen!  

meet Colene

I would like to formally introduce you to Colene.  She is the newest member of our household.  She was born in 1983, is all of 13 feet long, 900 lbs, and we are so happy she is with us!  As you may remember I have come to know that I am really not much or a tent camper.  It is a realization that has come to be the past couple of years.  

Especially with some of the fall music fest we attend, I joked at my hubby that if he wanted me to join more often we should get a small, simple, retro-esque camper.  So for a couple of years we drool over these cuties, and stalk the local ebay and craigslist options.  That was when she popped up.  Not only was she in pretty good shape for being 30 years old, she was in our state.  Most of the Scamps we were seeing were all over.  Without having to take a big road trip singing Woody Guthrie songs, this seemed perfect.

We were super stealth with our Ebay moves setting our odd price point in the last seconds of the auction and we got her!  She hails from wine country of our state and was previously owned by a sweet 80 year old lady for which she is aptly named.  

Though we have tested out her sleeping arrangements in the yard when we first got her, she had her maiden voyage this past weekend and did great!  What I love about Colene, let me count the ways:

1-Scamp is USA made, we can still get all the parts we need

2- She required no upgrade in vehicles, she can be towed with a car

3- She is streamlined and simple

4- She seems to grab attention!

I think it is because we have a small house, my hubby and already sleep in a small full size bed, and we are all under 5"10 so our shortness is an advantage!  There is no bathroom to clean-up- yuck, but electric, a hand pump water sink, propane stove, and icebox.  

I am already gathering together some slight decor changes starting with new curtains!  So it will be a fun evolution indeed that I hope you don't mind if I share with you here.  

So to celebrate my independece from tent camping, just a sweet little journal as you hit the road this summer- one of my classic moleskine pocket journals- Colene inspired.  Just leave a comment between now and Sat at midnight for a chance to win!

I have more pictures here and will enjoy adding more during her evolution, and for those who would like to see more inspiration, check out this vintage Scamp re-do, and of course some Pinterest eye candy too!  It certainly has made for all of us to be happy campers!

Enjoy your 4th- good luck with the give-away!