A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

My LEAST favorite time each year is when Bob & Judy leave Wyoming. So this post will be a little short on words but as the saying goes, 'A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!'

These are some pictures of our last summer outing with them this year. Bryan, Me, Bob, & Judy took a Sunday Drive....

Judy & Bob 

When Fall Colors have Started to Appear.... 
It means the End of Summer is Here

True Love!

An Arizona Boy with a Cowboy Heart 

and his Southern Gal with her Gypsy Soul....

Of all the paths you take in life......

 a few should be Dirt!

Eternal Love  

Junkin’ at Mama’s

School was coming closer and it ended up being the one and only day I could get all the kids together to go school shopping at the same time.

Since we live a great distance from any substantial stores, travel is required and it is not something I wanted to do more than once for this specific purpose.

And... since we were already going to the city it was the perfect chance to get supplies for Camp Gypsy!


One BIG benefit of going to town, is that it means going over the mountain to my Mama and Daddy’s home.

Let's just say I got my Junkin’ honest!

The girls in my family LOVE garage sales, flea markets, salvage and discount stores, auctions, and even the occasional construction site dumpster diving (when given permission of course).

Last time I was at Mama’s, I noticed some cute little ornate frames in her ‘stash of stuff’, J so this trip meant we got to go Junkin’ at Mama’s!!!

What better than to spend time together with my 2 FAVORITE lady’s, doing something that all three of us LOVE!!!


One of the frames has a bubbled glass, so we get to pick some Wyoming flowers to dry and display in it... so Camp Gypsy will have a lil' piece of home where ever she goes!

A Chandelier in the Making

Any and every chance we get to go to another town, we just have to find somewhere to go Junkin'...

We are always on the look out for something or anything we can reuse, renew, or gypsy up!

In an earlier post I mentioned making a homemade, one of a kind, chandelier to put above Camp Gypsies bed.

This was our inspiration....

Well, these were our find of the day. Any one of them will be perfect for our little homemade chandelier! and we got them for a steal!!!

 And the Candelier just may get wired up into a bathroom light!

I think this is the one Judy would like to use! 

Another start to a project that I can't wait to see the finished product ;)

Flowers for Mama

With all those windows only two where broken. One in the back has a small crack and one on the side towards the front was missing completely and had metal covering it! 

In the new floor plan, the window missing towards the front, would become one of the bathroom windows. 

We started to look for frosted ideas and we found some crackled Plexiglas. Two layers with the bumpy side in should do just fine. Judy and I started taking about stenciling a design on it.

We found some Wyoming inspiration instead....

So I painted some Flowers for Mama....

If we painted the design on the inside the window could still be washed without damaging the paint.

view from outside

view from inside

It is a little hard to see in the pictures but there is even 

a little Love Note "Judy Heart Bob" painted down in the corner...

 

Go'n Junkin' in Your Own Junk

Some may not understand the "stash of stuff", the "almost but not quite hoarding", the "but I may use that someday" mentality, but there are those times when it really does pay off!!!

I have a few (a limited number to keep it under the defined amount of a hoarder) few totes of "stuff", crafty stuff, like fabric, lace, and ribbons. A few years back I had decorated the kids rooms and Britney's happen to be turquoise and brown and Brooke's room also had brown in the design. I knew I had some lace that might work for Camp Gypsy so I went looking for it. What I found was that I had kept all the extras from the girls rooms. 

While looking for something else I happen to look in one of my totes. A Junkin' we will go!....lol

We placed some of the items we found with the pillow shams and fabric from the dress to see how it would all go together.....PERFECT!!!

 

I also had some older cream satin perfect for another Glam addition ;)

Putting the Glam in the Glamper

Bryan works over three hours out of town, so through out the summer we will take trips to go stay with him so Bob & Judy get to visit him a little more while they are here. On one of these trips Bob found himself playing chauffeur to two happy Junkers. Bryan was working so we had some time to go play before he got off work for the day. We explored a couple second hand stores one town over. 

Our new fun game to play is to try and find things we can change 

and give a new purpose. 

This way the new things have an old story... we like stories!

In the very first store we went to we found this old (somewhat out of style) bridesmaid/prom dress. 

It is the perfect color!!!! 

Grandma Judy asked Britney to try it on before she started to unpick it so the fabric
could be used on projects through Camp Gypsy

Before we moved to Wyoming, I was at my sweet sister-in-law's home one day and I was admiring some things she had refinished. The fabric was so beautiful! I hadn't seen that print of fabric in stores. I asked her where she found it and I was amazed to say the least at her answer... she told me it was an old sheet that she had found that was in perfectly new condition. She had found it at a Second hand salvage store. Inadvertently she had taught me good lesson on worth and value. I learned even more to see things as they can be not just as they are. I am starting to see the mother daughter pattern in that...lol... remember that ability in Judy is what started to journey to find Camp Gypsy :)

This amount of fabric would have cost a small fortune!

A Clean Slate

 

By Judy's birthday, all but the kitchen sink had been cleared out! 

Judy & Bryan in the cleared out Camper

Interior Back

Interior Front

And Let the Paint Chips Fly......

When One Door Closes... Bob took off Gypsy's old homemade plywood door, and installed the door from Freebie our Free Find Trailer....

And shortly after with all the old paint removed new seal was applied to the exterior!

It looks like a totally different Camper!!!