UnDer tHE bIg Top

(black and white makes it look like it was taken over 50 years ago)

a little traveling circus came to the town we live in this past weekend and we took the long drive of 1/2 a mile to see the show!! i just finished reading "water for elephants" (i highly suggest this read) so i was very excited to go and take my boys . although no elephants were present, i felt like i stepped back in time under the striped tent.

love the original artwork

the WORLDS GREATEST SONS on earth

 the tent was so tattered and worn...the sun shined through all the holes and it looked like a million bright stars. it was magical being under the BIG TOP!!

the WORLDS GREATEST DAD on earth

nathan thinks going to circus is what we do now after church on sundays.

the face of these boys watching..we should do this every weekend!! 

the ring set up for the jungle cat show..roaaarrrr

the original picture just as our eyes saw it and the memories it left on our hearts

i must omit..i am really loving..well loving doesn't even begin to explain my giddiness..with the vintage circus look. i am currently collecting (cause i have to always be collecting something you know) vintage circus signs and searching high and low for old circus letters and other funky stuff to decorate the boys play room. the font, the style, the color's are so dramatic and i am OVER THE BIG TOP with the circus indeed!! 

me + circus = decorating madness

here are some ideas i found....

wooden signs

pillow ideas


blue or red...what do you think?



just makes me smile


i can even start dressing the part of the crazy circus momma!!


circus whimsy birds
can someone make this for me please:)




the play room is an add on to our house so we also have a brick wall similar to this one...the circus pictures and old signs look so cool against the brick!!



that's it folks..i am packing up and joining the circus. 

FEATURING the GREATEST show 
LOVE on EARTH


or this....

jUnk OF tHE dAY

treasures i found the other day on the dirt backroads near the farm all in one shed just waiting for me and rusting. 

galvanized watering can, john deere oil can and craftsman metal tool box that is a pretty robins egg blue color under all that wonderful rust.

it had to go...

the plantation shutters was on my list of things to get rid of in this old house. this window is over 8 feet long, the main source of light for our living room area and it needed to be set free from all this wood !!! 

 old blue bench..but new to me

the shutters made the room feel so small and dark... this girl likes her sunshine!!

so i had to call in my handy boys for some help

i gave them instructions and they went to work right away..lucky for me they live "in house"

everything tasted well according to max

i purchased these curtains from world market and i am planning on adding a third panel in the middle for more privacy and making some pillows for the bench. i also need to paint the remaining wood trim white. much better don't you think..and yes that is a vintage mantle on the left..we will talk about that some other time:)

April 8, 2005...our wedding day

our wedding day......6 years ago.

mr. and mrs. moroney

-est. 2005-

mrs. moroney looking fierce

 the moment before he saw his bride

then he put his hands on her face and kissed his bride to make it official.

 our first dance as husband and wife

 our song..."one love" by bob marley 

i did a lot of lunges and cardio... just for this picture. worth it and one of the reasons i wanted a corset wedding dress for this exact moment!!

we look so young and so in love

happy groom

hello my wife

hello my handsome husband you look pretty spectacular in a tux

i heart vera wang

happy bride

one of my fav pictures of the whole wedding..my brother looking so handsome in this moment

about to sign my life away..and happy to do so:)

 now we are one

loved how my veil was forever long and puffy like a cloud

and they lived happily ever after.....

PuRvEyer of JUnk

these are really old farm homes that have been abandoned for years just sitting pretty in the fields

treasures to be found!!

so i have been thinking..due to my husbands potent home brew .i would like to add a little pizazz to our family blog..maybe one day it will evolve into its own blog (a very good suggestion from jan because my hub does have a lot to offer in the department of cooking, (he keeps the meat on my bones..more than necessary but i guess that is my fault ;0) brewing, being a fabulous husband, dad and taking care of the cows)  but as of now i will stick to one. i love blogging about our family and our new adventures here in texas but YOU'ALL GET IT, we moved to the dairy, surrounded by tons of cow doo doo, lots of fields and miles and miles from everything. and YES i plan to keep posting numerous pictures of my boys and husband doing the cow thing because i simply can't get enough of  my man and boys in wranglers and rubber boots covered in manure with some friendly cows in the background.

but as we know my true passion is cooking....let's start over cause that is a complete lie but i wish it was true in some ways...my true passion is the thrill of the hunt of antiquing for all things used, unusual, chipped, rusted, JUnkY or sometimes called dead people's stuff. either in a empty barn, house, old movie theater(true story), in the middle of now where (which is easy to come by around this neck of the country), an alley, goodwill, salvation army, all stores marked "antique's or vintage" or random piles of rubbish on the side of the road.  as you can see i don't have any type of standard's as to where i look, it is all about what i find that makes it worth it. i have my mom all to thank for this habit since she did start this while i was in grade school by getting me to start my own collection of vintage coca-cola items...and the hunt never stopped. it just ran it course to whatever and whenever i seek out today on my treasure hunts.. so the point of this is that i want to blog more about my daily and or weekly finds and how i transform our house little by little. i feel like i am starting from scratch and want to share my little projects with you. i have been consumed and inspired daily if not hourly (thanx to my handy dandy droid phone) with all the decorating blogs out in blog land and why not share a piece of my pie with you!!

until next time ...out picking, driving, looking, digging, searching, hauling, smiling and finding all things junk....

momma's birthday

“A Mom is honest, a Mom is true, a Mom is precious, My Mom is You. Happy Birthday to YOU.”

-Anonymous

 this picture really puts my age into perspective...yes i may be 29 now but i still feel like a 10 year old at heart..wishing i had the body from my senior year of high school...just dreaming!! and the fact that my 2 1/2 year old can pull me in a wagon makes me feel old again..because that means my first born baby boy is getting so big!! so i guess that leaves me feeling my age and that he can already take care of his momma when i am in my wheel chair someday!!

 anywhoo..
so on the day of my birthday we loaded up the boys and headed up to Amarillo for a fun day together at the local zoo.

had to purchase the shirt for lil nathan with #59 printed on the back..that was daddy's football number in high school..makes me think of being skinny again..still dreaming.

daddy and lil nathan checking out the animals...i on the other hand just checking out their bee-hinds!

smile boys! momma said so and it is her birthday!!

buffalo..or "horse" as to lil nathan..that is one weird looking horse child!

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my blue eye boy

 sorry max we are not playing with buffalo on moms birthday!!

 this child has no fear..remember me saying that before!! you can just see it in his eyes!!

these boys just love each other

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o look it is me the birthday girl!!

did you know..i got engaged on my birthday in maui 7 years ago. Fun fact i know!!

 max head first down the "big boy slide" without any hesitation (did i mention his older brother wouldn't even consider going down this)..o this boy is going to give me panic attacks!

 daddy had to catch max otherwise he would fly off the end of the slide!!

what are you looking at bear..did you tell me momma happy birthday..you should?

 us

the boys and us enjoyed this little zoo!! i really loved our time together and couldn't of had a better birthday..i have been waiting 29 years for this day!! sometimes it is the simple things in life...