Virtual Wedding Party!

Saucy is hosting a Virtual Wedding Party today. We are to share something about our wedding or a wedding we've been in. I have chosen to share my Valentine Wedding.

Kenny and I dated for 1 1/2 years before we married. By the time we got engaged, we had seven months to plan our Valentine's Day wedding. We chose red, as it is both of our favorite color, and the traditional Valentine color. It was beautiful if I do say so myself. Here is one of our wedding pics.
This is one of my favorite wedding photos! Gotta love the 80's hair and Kenny's full beard! hee hee

Here's my wedding gown, 21 years later. I pulled it out of my cedar chest to snap a pic for ya. I really do need to get it sealed.

Here's a pic of my train. It has all the ruffles that the neckline has. Gotta love those frilly frills! LOL
Closeup of the waistline. Sure wish I could still fit into it! LOL

I opted for silk flowers. Don't get me wrong; I LOVE real flowers, but I wanted this as a keepsake. The bouquet base has pearls and crystals. Can't you just see this on my 50th Anniversary table in the distant future!?

This is my ring pillow. My sweet little boy, Brandon (age 4 1/2 then, almost 26 now) carried this! So special!


Kenny and I both love the color red, and with it being Valentine's Day, it was perfect. We got engaged 7 months before our wedding but I didn't get my ring until Christmas Day before the wedding. He came to my parents' home for Christmas morning and he put my ring in my breakfast drink. LOL Thank goodness I didn't swallow it! hee hee It was awesome! When Kenny told me he wanted to marry me, he told me he wanted to be Brandon's father too. I knew he was the one for sure!! On our beautiful wedding day, we exchanged rings, and Brandon got a ring also. It was so cute! He was so proud. Ofcourse Kenny adopted Brandon, and 9 months, 9 days later, our sweet little Blake (now 20) was born! I have to say that I love this man more and more each day. He is always there for me, and takes care of us soooo well!

Well, there ya go. I hope you enjoyed my wedding memories and pics of things from my wedding on Valentine's Day 1987. Thanks for visiting! Be sure to visit Saucy's blog to see the other wedding participants!!

Hugs and Blessings,
Rebecca

Charmed, I'm sure.....

I have a lot of bits and baubles in my collection, so I dug through my boxes and bowls and pulled out some of my favorites. I have decided to make them into a charm bracelet. This is new for me; haven't done anything like this before. I haven't put them on the bracelet yet, but with hubby's jewelry experience he'll show me how to do this. Who knows, I may decide to pull out more old treasures to create more charm bracelets, if this one turns out well. I'll post another pic when I get the bracelet done.
I recently found these yummy laces in an antique shop. I spotted a mound of these on a bottom shelf. When I pulled out the basket, I began to squeal like a kid in a candy shop! Aren't the colors just scrumptious!?! SCORE!!
In another booth in the same shop, I found some wonderful crocheted pieces. I just had to have this sweet little red and cream dress! Precious!

Well, those are my recent treasures. I wish you a beautiful weekend!

Hugs and Blessings,
Rebecca

Happy Father's Day
I am a day late, because I spent the day with my family yesterday (and unfortunately with a migraine)!!
But I couldn't let this important day pass without recognizing two very special Dads!

Here's my Dad with his sidekick, Spencer. You have heard a lot about my Dad in the post of his 80th birthday. Such an honest, hardworking man! Happy Father's Day Daddy! We love you!

The next very special Dad is my boys' daddy, my awesome hubby, Kenny. He just amazes me every day, and is so strong!! He is always there for me and the boys. We love you!! Happy Father's Day sweetie!!!

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful Dads out there!!

Not only was yesterday special because of Father's Day, but also my great-niece, Corinne celebrated her 10th birthday! Happy Happy Birthday sweet girl!! We love you!!

Hugs and Blessings,
Rebecca

Show and Tell Sunday

This week is one of my FAVS.....Trash To Treasure!

I went through a period of loving to stencil. I stenciled old pieces, walls, you name it!

I love this little table. It now sits on my screened in porch. The drawers house many of my country magazines for lazy day back-porch-reading!

This jelly cabinet was once green. It belonged to my grandmother. My parents gave it to me years ago, and I painted it "my" red color. I then stenciled flowers on it. So sorry for the poor quality of this pic. This piece also sits on my screened-in porch and is the home of many wonderful throws for nippy back porch days. Can you tell why my blog is named Our Back Porch? Can you tell it is an important place for us?!? :)

Ok next, this is my FIND of a lifetime. I have to tell this story!!!!!
This is my favorite piece! When Kenny and I first married, my collecting was at an all-time high! I searched yard sales, thrift stores and antique shops in search of these special treasures! . I wanted a pie safe. The kind I wanted was ultimately the one I got. Here's how it happened.....
I was teaching preschool, and our cook happened to overhear me talking about my love of antiques, and my desire to own a pie safe. Later that day, she approached me and said that she had an old pie safe that she would sell me for $125. OMG, I was ecstatic!

So that evening after work, we went to her home to collect my new goody--OMG--a pie safe. I asked my Dad to meet us there, because he was going to be refinishing it for us, as she told us it would need. When we arrived, she invited us in, and proceeded to tell us that it wasn't in the prettiest shape. My heart sank, not knowing what condition we would find it in after all.

As she opened her garage door, she revealed my new-found treasure. OMG, no it wasn't pretty, it had layer after layer of paint on it, with green being the top coat. I looked it over, as did Kenny and my Dad. It seemed to be in good shape but it was ugly--hee hee. However, I could see past that "ugly" and envision how I knew it could be. Kenny and my Dad did not quite have the same vision, asking me several times, "Are you sure this is what you want?" "YES!" is all I could get out. So we loaded it in the truck, and took it to my parents' home for my Dad to begin the work on it. While my Dad began to work, I began to search. I found that my pie safe is circa 1800's. I didn't even get a chance to call them for a daily update because my Mom or Dad would beat me to it to give me an update on the day's progression. When my Dad found it was oak underneath, you would have thought we struck oil! Yippee!

Ok, so that's my story about how my pie safe came to be. You can see it in the picture above, or if you ever come for a visit, it will be Kenny who will show you the piece, like a proud daddy--hee hee. Now he can see before his eyes what I envisioned back in the garage that fateful pie safe day.
Here's a picture up close of the punched tin.


I HAVE to show this!! This is my clever son's trash to treasure! Both of our boys are avid rock climbers. When training, they work in the climbing gym. If you know about climbing, ropes have to be retired (I think that's the correct term--lol) so my son asked if he could have some of their old ropes. He brought them home and made this AMAZING rope rug for his room. It is a big oval that sits under his "coffee" table. I couldn't show the whole thing, because frankly a 20 year old young man's room is sometimes a huge mess. Imagine that! LOL Anyway, I just HAD to show his T2T too!!

Thanks for stopping by to check out my Trash to Treasure
Analise is hosting this one, so be sure to visit her blog for the other participants!

Hugs and Blessings for an insanely awesome week!!
Rebecca

Show and Tell Sunday


This week's Show and Tell is to show the way we store our goodies. So, I am going to show you my craft studio and also how I store some of my other vintage goodies.

I love my metal sap bucket and it was the perfect thing to hold all of my flowers!
I have to have a system so I don't spend so much time looking for what I need. So, on a trip to Lowe's with hubby, we ran across these. I snatched up what they had, and they work perfectly!
Here's an upclose of one of them.
Love my apothecary jars! They hold all kinds of bits and baubles.


I found this in an Etsy shop. I adore the little girl on it!
The inside was in perfect condition....and PINK! Yippee!
I found this one online as well.
And it was full of crocheted pieces! Woo Hoo!

And my hatboxes are the perfect places for all of my gloves, linens, and such!

Hope you enjoyed seeing how I store my craft goodies.
This Show and Tell Sunday is hosted by Cerri. Be sure to go by to see other participants!

Have a beautiful week!
Hugs and Blessings,
Rebecca