Good Times With My Parents

My parents came for a visit from Washington this last week and stayed five nights with us. The night they got in we went to a local farm in our area who holds a Feast On Wheels with a bunch of food trucks and treated them to dinner. One of my personal favorite trucks is Waffle Amore! Who doesn't love chicken and waffles? Dad and I ordered that and my 

Momma and Mr. Darling got some Thai food.

The next day we went out to a neighboring town and went antique shopping, got a personal apartment tour from a lady who owns one of the shops and her apartment is above it...Her decor and antiques were awesome...wish we would have asked to photograph it!!! It was fun!! Then we had coffee in a little coffee house, went to the thrift store and some of the outlet mall shops.

The next day we went to Hollister, the birthplace of the American biker is. The local bar and grill was inspired by an old movie called Wild One starring Marlon Brando in the 40's. The town was pretty dead for the most part...We couldn't even find a shop to look around in so we decided to drive over to another town where a bunch of antique shops were.

We spent a couple hours there just looking around 

and took a peek at the Mission there as well. 

The next day we spent a couple hours at our local street fair/ car show in town. Mr. Darling had to help out manning our church's booth. We looked at the old cars, the booths and the Quilt Show which was also going on in the area. We went to church on Sunday, hung out and did a lot of visiting during the week. It was a good time with them...

Glad they made the trip to just hang out with us!

 Until next time!

Afternoon Alone

Today I had an afternoon to myself. Freckles was at school and Mr. Darling was busy working at home. I had to kill four hours...So off I went to "Not Too Shabby" in San Jose. 

It was really nice to browse slowly through the whole place.

 I wasn't in a rush. and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was me time! 

The old chippy, rusted, charm and goodness was complete eye candy. I actually went through some of it twice just to get a good look through every cranny. And how I wanted to take many things home...It just wasn't in the budget to do so.

After a time there, I went to a couple thrift stores an found some treasures that I could afford. I spent three hours in the thrift shops, went down every isle and almost every rack. 

I found a couple large tins...One I will use in something crafty and the other will be for my garden. I also found two little tart tins which will also be used in crafty goodness. I found a sweet yellow rose ring and yellow bangle, two cotton tops which were brand new from Old Navy, a sweet sweater, a lacy skirt for my sons girlfriend, two vintage books, a lace table cloth, a vintage yellow ceramic basket bowl, two granny square tops I am thinking maybe making them into throw pillows or crochet them together to make a purse. we'll see. I also found this funky, colorful piggy bank..which I think I may be using in my garden as well. I have mental plans for my garden...Will share soon. I also picked up some colorful plastic Easter eggs, a sweet Easter basket for Freckles,With all I bought, I picked sale tags and had a 30% off coupon and left spending $40 bucks. Now that is a deal for all I got!

It was a good day for popping tags!

Fun Friday Night

After a long week of being cooped up in the house, we decided we would get out a bit for a little fun, even if it was just window shopping downtown. We picked up Mr. Darling from the church and went to downtown Campbell. There are a few shops we frequent when going there. First we hit the Bookstore. Where Freckles found a book of course.

Next stop we went to Therapy. Therapy is a funky shop where you will find off the wall gifts, home decor, stuff and clothing. We love that it is different and some of their stuff is CUTE!!!

I may have to go back to get this fun mug for Freckles. She is my book lover! Even Mr. Darling found something he liked..... Little Moleskin journals. See the joy on that mans face? Priceless!!!

Then we went into a tea shop...OMGosh it was heavenly...The smells of all the loose teas... We even tested out a lovely iced tea the shop owner infused for us. Yummy!

Last stop we went into a vintage/retro shop called 23 Skidoo.

After walking around town, we picked up some dinner and headed home. It was great to get out together, it seems like we don't get to do that often, just the three of us since Mr. Darling is busy a lot. It just made it all the better that we were together. 

It was a fun Friday Night with my peeps.