We had our "Home from Haiti" garage sale on Saturday, and it was great! But I must admit that I have never stressed out to the point of hyperventilating until Saturday morning. It was crazy, but I had been up until 12:30am the night before...went to bed knowing there was still TONS to do. Alarm went off at 5am...and at 5:09, and at 5:18, and at 5:27...you get the idea...snooze is a wonderful feature! Then, just as I'm listing furniture pieces and boxes for Bruce to haul up from the basement, he gets called into work. Grrrrr! So then I started to freak out just a bit...chin quivering, eyes filling with tears knowing that I had furniture to haul upstairs, pricing of pretty much everything in my garage left to do, emptying clothes out of my own closet, and of course, I had listed "garden perennials" in my flyer...yet they were all still happily rooted in the ground all around my house. Not to mention I had four kids inside (yep...friend over) still sleeping, but knew they'd be up and needing some attention sooner than later. So then I started to hyperventilate...it was quite ridiculous, really. Then the phone rang....hallelujah! My aunt was calling to see if I needed any help. I started crying and said, "Bruce just got called into work." That's all I had to say...thank you Jody!! :) We sold so much stuff...it was busy all day, and several people were very generous in the process...I cried a few more times throughout the day, but we made it through and it was all good.
The planters have been a huge success as well! We've delivered 3 of them so far, and have 7 more to go. Now we just have to find enough old, weathered pallets...I've never paid so much attention to those silly things before, but let me tell you...there's quite a variety of them & I keep pinning more and more ideas on Pinterest that we can make from pallets. I'm pretty sure you can never have too many pallets!
Knowing what we can do with a seemingly ugly, worn out pallet, I have been looking at everything a little differently. I got inspired (or should I say distracted) today for a new project while folding laundry....yep, laundry. C had ripped the knee out of a pair of his jeans & just as I dropped them into the garbage can, I snatched them back out again. I may have several loads of laundry in baskets waiting to be folded, but I have two cute new denim wall pockets made out of holey jeans! I will try to get a picture posted soon.
