My Little Campground....

After having two of my gal~pals, come camp out with me on my property several weekends ago,,, I just did not have the heart to put my little Scotty back in the barn,,, so I left her out, and have enjoyed going out to sit in her daily....usually with my 2 kitties...

I keep the area around the "Gnome Home" (Scotty) cute like a little campsite, complete with Flamingos... The hubby and I can go sit out by her when we want to enjoy the evening... The fire pit, is always ready and so is the Citronella candle! lol! It's that time of season when we get hit hard and heavy with 'skeeters! I think in the next week or two I will pull out trailer #3,

aka~ Farmgirl on the Loose, set her along side the 'Gnome Home' (Scotty) and then it will look like the beginnings of a sweet vintage trailer park,,,after all, like they say.... "Build it & they will come (& park & camp) lol!

Happy trails!

Scotty Door...

I just could not stand the 'plainness' of my Scotty Door so out came the painters tape, & spray paint and here is the end result....
Clean blue door, framed chalk board and pillowcase door window curtain.....
AAHHH! Much better!
I had a 1/2 can of chalk board paint (left from another project), a can (actually I keep several of this blue on hand for trailer projects) of Ocean Spray Blue paint and a window of opportunity to get some painting done!
Gary miter cut the wood to frame the 'chalk board'... I can't cut an angle to save my life! lol!
Then I re-purposed an old pillowcase given to me by Juli, and am using it for the door window curtain..(Thanx Juli). I have a piece of pink ribbon that I will use to tie the curtain open when I want light in. I love when a moment of creativity & good weather hits! lol!
Wagons HO & Happy Trails!

Here Birdie Birdie...

I was at a Joanns Fabric & Craft store yesterday and was meandering through the Summer Lawn decoration isle when I spotted this sweet little 'trailer' bird house...well I did what any self respecting Trailer Diva would do...Bought it!
Wagons HO & I am ready to go...Glamping!

Farmgirl on the Loose.....2011

I just received my "Farmgirls on the Loose" T-shirt..... and I plan to wear it next weekend when I go camping with my gal pals next weekend.
Glamping is really catching on & ladies are discovering a whole new way to go out and play...
Like they say, "Making Girls out of Women".... Happy Trails

What do you do with ?????

What do you do with cute Birthday Cards? Well you frame them ofcource!
A dear friend of mine spotted this cute card and sent it to me for my B-day....so I naturally had to put it to good use....I bought a cheap plastic (light weight) picture frame,,,spray painted it pink, added a sheet of scrap booking paper (stripes) and Voila! instant cuteness....

First I sat it on the table, by my new trailer curtains...p.s. notice I spray painted the curtain rods pink?...

But the glare made it hard to view...so....I decided that it would look cuter over my chenille curtains above the sofa/bed...and yes, I painted those curtain rods a too!

The vertical stripes in the frame match the vertical stripes in the chenille fabric.

(I need to find a 'globe' replacement...this one is just too round & blah!)

I luv spray paint, bits of fabric cheap photo frames & re-purposed cards...

How Kool is This?

This is a little totable flashlight that my best friend sent to me....

It is small, has a single light, triple light & flashing light ability....Irmgard knows I love to camp & came across & sent it to me...I have seen big hand cranked flash lights but never the small ones so this is perfect. Just wind/crank the flash light to get the light...Turn it off & it holds a charge...How kool it This!

Who Say's I am to Old for a Slumber party!?!

Happy May, Happy Trailer Slumber Party....Happy Girlfriends Weekend!

Juli, Mig & I enjoying a fantastic lunch after a very successful day of Junktiquing!

And boy-o-boy did we haul in a jeep load of Trailer decor...a must for every trailer fashionista!

Juli admiring our 'Sister Trailers".... Juli's is on the left, a 1959 Terry and mine is on the right, a 1963 Serro Scotty....

"Sister Trailers" Let the Trailer Slumber Party weekend begin!

Mig enjoying the morning after a wonderful slumber in her cute beach themed 1971 Shasta.

"Glamping" is all about vintage trailers & friendships....with a little Junktiquing tossed in for good fun!

Left to right...my Scotty, Mig's Shasta & Juli's Terry...cute to the 10th factor!

Check out the window in Juli's trailer...(click on the pic to 'embiggen'...)

Here's looking at you!

Even a couple of Flamingos came to join in the fun!

Juli called and said..."we need to take a break from being an adult",,,,

so let the "Slumber Party " begin!

I called Mig and before we knew it,,, there where 3 trailers on my property and Gary was chopping fire wood for our "fire pit".

The weather forecast was for rain,,,but Mother Nature gave us a break & we had a sunny weekend with only a few sprinkles,,, Thanks Mother Nature!

We shopped till we dropped...my poor jeep was so full of "treasures" that there was barely room for our feet! Now that's shopping! lol!

We capped off the evening with pizzas and beer. Afterwards we settled in to watch "The Long Trailer" starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez....followed by more incredible edibles!

As always, Sunday was 'pack-up & head home'...but along with our trailers and all our must have junk finds, we take home wonderful girlfriend memories....

Lucky me, I had the shortest drive,,, just back into the garage! lol!

Happy May, Happy Trailer Slumber Party weekend, Happy wonderful girlfriends weekend.

You're never to old to be a little girl...So take 'Spontaneity' by the vowels & go have fun!

Camping~ German Style

I spent 2 weeks in Germany visiting my family & childhood best friend. Wowzers! seems like everywhere I went I saw trailers and motorhomes on the road....mind you the roads in the small villages are quit narrow, so to see these trailers & motorhomes navigate was interesting to say the least.

Trailers were everywhere.....Germany sure has changed since I was a kid.

And with the price of fuel,,, 1.49Euro per liter which equates to roughly $6.00 a gallon. Yikes!
Yet it doesn't seem to deter these die hard vacationers!

Talk about sleek...I met the owners of this mini and they let me see the inside...every inch was well planned & utilized. The only thing it didn't have was air conditioning....

I even spotted an R.V. Sales lot while driving on the Autobahn.....

First day of nice warm weather and our Euro counterparts are out en-mass camping & taking advantage of the wonderful Spring weather.

Camping in Germany is not a cheap hobby, but there seems to be a lot of German families who, like Americans,,,are falling in love with Camping....

Scotty's New Re-Do!!!!!

I was so board with my old curtains in my Scotty, that I decided I needed a 're-do'... so I took out my touristy~tropical themed curtains and dug through my stash of fabric & this is what I came up with.....

I had bought the 'Galaxy Diner' fabric about 4 years ago, when I was living in SO. CAL., I had bought 2 yards,,,,just in case....a bad habit of mine...I buy fabric because I like it and think I might be able to put it to use someday...well that someday was today.....

The lining/backing is actually a sheet that I had bought at a local Thrift.

I crochet rag rugs from old sheets, so when I come across a sheet I buy it knowing it will make a great rug, backing for a quilt or some other project, in this case, as curtain backing. I paid $1.99 for the sheet, and still have oodles of fabric left....not a bad deal!

Now all I need to do is make 22 YoYos in a soft yellow fabric to attach on top of the curtain tabs.

You would think with all my fabric stash,,,I would have some yellow fabric...nope! not a scrap,,, I can't believe I am going to have to go buy a yard of yellow fabric! lol!

I can hardly wait for May, when my lil Scotty w/a potty comes out of the ManCave and goes on her 1st camping trip of the season.... Come on May!

Almost Time....

Thank goodness, it is almost that time...to pull our vintage trailers out of storage, dust them off, fluff them up, add a few new deco-trinkets and hit the road.... Happy Trails! My first Glamping trip of the year will be to Prosser Washington for the 'Prosser Farm Girl' gather-up....and then just 3 weeks later, back to the Spokane River to camp with 24 other 'Sisters on the Fly' gal pals and shop till we drop at the 'Farm Chicks' show at the Spokane Fairgrounds. Wagons HO & Happy Trails to you until we meet again....

Petticoats & Pearls!

Petticoats & Pearls.................every gal needs a fun & flirty petticoat aka Crinoline.........
I bought this sassy red petticoat for our "Petticoat Potluck" to wear when camping this summer for the Farm Chick Crafts & Antique Show over in Spokane, Wa.

I can see it right now, my sassy red petticoat, cowgirl boots, Blingy T-shirt, Cowgirl Hat & Pearls! YeeHaw!

It's Ukulele Time...

Ok, what do you do with a cheesy Thrift Shop souvenir Ukulele????

Why you decoupage it of course!!!! and then add some pink & green rhinestones for Bling!

TaDa! kitschy Ukulele for my Scotty trailer....and if you pay real close attention you'll notice that the fabric I used on the Ukelele is the same fabric as my Bankette curtains!

Never throw away scraps of fabric!!!

Now to decoupage a guitar that I bought at the Thrift....

: > )

A lil Something for Gracie's Victorian Rose

As usual, I forgot to take a before photo of my latest Thrift Store find. Duh!

This is my old~new & improved step ladder chair.....

It is one of those mid 1970's Kitchen step ladder seats. It was dirty and had nasty vinyl upholstery....but for $4.95 I could not pass it up!

Then I bee-lined it over to Hobby Lobby and found this cool faux tooled faux leather, just needed about $5.00 worth.....

After giving the seat/ladder a good scrubbing I went to work. I did need handsome hubby's help to take the seat & back apart. My Hero!

After cutting, gluing & re-attaching I now have a toteable step ladder that does double duty as an extra chair.

Now to just get my old Aljo put back together,,,oh wait, I also need to finish up trailer #3.
Thank goodness the Scotty is road ready! lol!

Newest Fabric to Hit the Cutting Table!

Sister's on the Fly, sister Paige Bridges, has just commissioned a new line of fabric with her trailer art work....I believe there are 3 designs.....and they should be hitting the cutting tables at Fabric stores around Mid-May!
How cool is that!?!
I luv Paige's Vintage Trailer art work.
"Current" catalog carries her art work in the form of calendars, checks, addy labels etc..... or you can go to Paige Bridge's website to order scrap booking paper, trailer prints etc.....
Oh, now to sit & wait ever so patiently for May to get here.... Come on May!
(click on the photo to get a closer/larger view)....

Trailer Daze are Coming!

I have to post this funny cartoon for my vintage trailer towing gal pals whose trailers sport a tropical~flamingo theme!
Happy Trails Patty & Mig!

Is it time yet???

ok, so I have to fess up! I spotted this on a blog of a fellow-ette Sister on the Fly.....
And I just could not resist "borrowing" it! (thanx Cyndy)
This is the time of year that a lot of us Gal Pal Glampourettes start getting the urge to abandon our families, pets & household chores to take off for the high road and camp in our cute tricked out lil vintage trailers! And can ya blame us? after nearly 3 months of snow and rain,,we are ready to run for the boarder! lol!
My Social Camping Calendar is starting to get full.....I just hope the price of gas doesn't go up to high, or else I may have to start selling off some of my vintage mixers to fund my trips! lol!
Wagons HO & Happy Trails to you....

Just 147 more Days till Farm Chicks!

What do 'Sisters on the Fly' and 'Farm Chicks' have in common?
Why tons of sister fun! of course!

Only 147 more days till we 'Sisters & friends' converge on the campgrounds for the '2011 Farm Chick Show' with our vintage trailers in tow!
Glamping, shopping, good foods, good friends....I can hardly wait!
June 4 & 5th, Spokane Washington.....
You can check out the Farm Chick website for more info...
www.thefarmchicks.com
Happy Trails....

Wagons HO!

Is this cute or what!!!!
Blogger, Nancy, has several lil ol' trailers, and sets them up on her property like a little trailer park! complete with clothes line, push mower and passing by kitty....
Check out her blog at: http://nancysvintagetrailers.blogspot.com

Happy Glamping & Merry Christmas

Farmgirl on the Loose.....

My dear friend Bev,,,,,knows about my Trailer addiction and so for Christmas she sent me these wonderful little goodies to use in my trailer (aka #3)
I am going with a retro farm girl theme in yellows, reds & greens.....plus Bev sent me this sweet fabric to use for my kitchen curtains.....OMG! I can hardly wait to get stitching...
The retro fabric is a Michael Miller fabric and the fruit print towel is my Moda Home fabric line and notice the sweet ric rac & crochet edge.
My lil kitchen in my trailer is going to be bright & fun.
Bev also sent me the cool vintage wood handled kitchen tools & cookie cutters!
I am such a lucky Trailer Diva! lol!
Thanx Bev.....

A TeePee

While stopping off at our little Market in town, I spotted this kool trailer at the Christmas Tree lot. It's called a "TeePee"....I am guessing mid to late 1960's...

Sure wish I could have gotten a peek inside.....

I am guessing the springs have been flipped so the trailer rides higher......

It is so cool looking, I love the scrolly iron work at each side of the front window.

Update on the TeePee Trailer.

I got to take a peek inside the other day,,,oh my! it is just dreadful how beat up it was inside....some one had ripped out the interior and slapped together 2 sets of makeshift bunk beds,,, It has or should I say had a front kitchen,,,stacked & cluttered & beat to crap! But the original "Burnt Orange" colored mid 60's stove/oven was still in there...the interior walls were ruined from years of moisture damage and the floor was scary! It had been used for a typical 'hunters trailer' over the years (reason for flipped springs) & then bought by the current owner to haul up into the forests of Montana to live in while cutting down Christmas trees and then as a temporary living quarters for the tree lot sales man.....I got the phone number of the trailer owner....maybe I will give him a call in the Spring when he might be interested in selling? Who knows.

And like I say...."Show No Fear!".....besides, maybe hubby will have trailer #3 done and I can talk him into another 'project'! lol!