Hey frans! I am keeping baby Isaac today, so while holding him as he naps, I'm able to reply to your comments as soon as you type them! Now is a good time to chat! 😊
Such great finds! I'm excited to see what you do with them 😊My great aunt kept all of the things from past generations and we had the honor and blessing to clean out her house when she passed. All that to say, along the lines of finding treasures in old Bibles and books, she had an antique cookbook from my great great aunts, which had numerous treasures stuck between the pages. There were pressed flowers, antique cigarette cards (which is curious because neither one of them smoked 😆) a hand drawn Valentine Card made by my great grandfather, a library card and so much more. We took all of the loveliness out and created a shadowbox with them. It's currently hanging in the entry way of my mama's house 😍Blessing to you, friend!!
Oh, what a dream to find those precious personal momentos!! Especially the hand drawn card 💕 So special to now have them displayed in the shadow box! I love that!! 😃 ✨️
You can touch up your picture with powered eye shadow. Just get the colors you need, the eye shadows can be easily mixed like paint to get the colors you need. Just apply with your fingers. If you need pinks or reds, use power blush. For the clouds, you can use eye highlighters. I work at a Victorian home museum and that’s how we restore our pictures.
😮 I would have never considered eye shadow!! I did get it touched up just using my paints, and it looks really well matched but it wasn't easy getting there! Thanks for that professional tip! 😊👍
Fantastic haul Marla! Love your outlook on life and the delight you take in your amazing vintage finds. Love the way you style and refurbish things too. You bring such joy to my life! Happy Spring thrifting and crafting!
Kaitlin, it is a real joy to share with those who also love antiques! I appreciate that you let me know you're enjoying my finds and flips! Squeeze hug! 😊 💕
Love to see all the little insert pictures of how you vignetted all your finds! What a fun day to go thrifting and shopping with your daughter! I have a miniature blue rocker just like the one on the table behind you. I have a collection of miniature chairs on a shelf in our foyer. I set my little childhood ragdolls and teddy bears on them. Imagine finding that old dustpan tucked up under those shelves...I had one just like that in the early years of married housekeeping. In fact almost everything we set up housekeeping with is vintage now! 😂😜🤣.
I'm just over here making a verb out of a noun! 😜 and this time I was able to immediately use just about all of my finds. I tend to add my finds to existing arrangements until it gets ridiculous and I have to start over! 😄
I have two of my doll chairs on the wall in my Rose Room /craft room and I'm still looking for the right spot for the doll high chair that is tole painted. I'm busy as a bee 🐝 getting my house back together!
You are a precious woman. Love your style. Someone needs to be a curator of vintage things even if just for future generations. So thankful you are one. hugs Marla
What a sweet thing to say! 😊 I do feel like I am rescuing the old decrepit relics of the past! Give me all the old rusty crusty junk! 😄 I will soon look like the decor at Cracker Barrel restaurants! 😂
Thank you Marla for saying that about your nails. I try to have nails but the minute I garden or craft they’re ruined. Felt like a nail failure , now I know I’m not alone
😄 the only good thing about enduring a symptom flare with autoimmune issues is that my nails are gorgeous 💅 due to lying like a potato and doing nothing else 🤷🏼♀️ 😆
I run a heat gun on the top of my candles and melt a couple of layers. The pour off the excess from the top. Then my wick is exposed and works great. Hope this helps. ❤
I burst out laughing so many times throughout this video but the absolute BEST was when you said “ my husband is an ACTUAL rocket scientist “………. 😂 The rest of us just tell our husbands “it’s not rocket science honey, just do it this way”……I bet your hubby gets that a lot😂😂😂
What he gets is a lot of grief from ME, telling him he's too smart to be that dumb 😄 He is entirely left-brained and logical, we are literal opposites! But his logical thinking will be what saves our lives in any emergency, true fact! ❤️
I loved this Video and watching how excited you get over everything (I get the excitement), almost like Christmas Morning! You make it so much fun to see all the awesome things you got…. I really enjoy thrifting too, I love going through every booth and seeing what is there, like a kid in a candy store, lol….. Thank you so much for this video, I truly enjoyed it so much and the pictures of your family I really loved seeing too!!! Your Grandchildren’s pictures are adorable, especially the ones where you caught them sleeping….. Much Love, Marla from Missouri
I'm so glad you enjoyed watching, Marla, and that my enthusiasm was contagious! I realize not everyone appreciates old stuff, but it's super fun to me! 😃 I like to include pics of my family when I mention them. It gives you an idea who in the world I'm talking about! 😄 Glad you enjoy seeing them.
I really do think my local thrift stores are amazing! I do try to limit how often I go, since I surely do find the best stuff when I go! I rarely walk out empty handed! 😄 🛍
Good afternoon Marla, you thrifted some nice things. I love those old bibles, they are special. That vase was beautiful, and you find the prettiest pictures. Your photos of your grandchildren are sweet. Your makeup looks pretty, and that blouse is cute. You have a wonderful afternoon, and enjoy decorating your new finds. God Bless you and your family, until next time! ❤🥰Brenda now I have got to try and clean lol🪣dust pan loved it!
Melanie, I love Jesus with every fiber in me, AND I do still have to consciously choose to obey Him! I'm a sinner, standing in the need of prayer, but what is amazing to me is that He never lets me get farther than the length of His arm. He scoops me back up next to his heart as soon as I stop resisting. He is good, and I am trying hard to be a reflection of Him ❤️ 🙌
I absolutely love Olivia’s porch! I have Jambu shoes, too. The Demark plates are a pattern I want to go with my Blue Willow. Gosh, we have so much in common, we could be sisters 😂❤
We prob'ly ARE sisters, some kind of way!! 😄 I adore Olivia's back screened porch and she has it set up so cute. It's magical at night with her string globe lights out there. It was the perfect place to set up Isaac's first birthday party. I got the Denmark blue plates at a Cheaper Than Dirt store 10+ years ago. It's kind of a closeout store and I bought all they had, pretty cheap. Jambu shoes feel like little clouds ⛅️ and comfort has become more important than beauty these days, but I think the Jambu styles are so cute! 😊
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see you back! It brings me such joy! I’ve missed you so, and I’ve rewatched many of your videos again during your absence. I rejoice with you that you have your house back. I know you were glad to help your children get on their feet. We have done the same thing with our daughter and her family of 5, but we were in a small 3 bedroom home. I had to ask them to leave after 6 months. I was about to break. I know your creative juices are really flowing after being in survival mode for so long, and we are reaping the benefits! I can see the ideas just swirling around in your brain. It’s so wonderful to have you back!
Paula, Dec-Jan-Feb were a long 3 months for me. It's the worst symptom flare I've ever had. I missed my life and could only dream of doing crafts and flips. But now I have a new doctor and new meds, and I feel like a new person (or at least like my old self!) I'm so grateful to be back to making videos, and to have my creative gears turning ⚙️ 😊
We all survived the year of co-habitation by the fact that we rearranged (relocated) my sons from the lower level, and let Liv Ryan & baby have the whole walkout basement. That gave them a big living room, kitchenette, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. It scrunched us up, certainly, and we all sang hallelujah when they found a house of their own 🙌
My grandfather always had a nice sized garden and I remember he would grow some gourds out on an old wire fence Wish I had one of them. Please do a kitchen tour with your vintage things.! Lived in, well loved, cluttery kitchens are the best!
Ah!! I'm nearly brave enough to do a kitchen tour. I have been taking pictures of the cuter spots but a whole sweeping video has not been something I've done! I always have clutter and a sink full of dishes. On New Year's Day, Claire (age 3) pushed a stool up to my counter where we had 3 crock pots going and big platters of food, plus all the usual clutter. She solemnly told me, "Miggie, when you have too many things, it's time to give some away. It can be better next time I come." 😄 😆 🤣 She had recently been told to cull out some of her toys, so she passed along her wisdom... if you want to hear unfiltered truth, ask a little kid!!
You look exceptionally pretty in this video. I’m on my 50th video, and trying to get comfortable being in front of the camera. It’s hard, at my age! Fun video.
Use white bread to clean your picture and use soft pastels to add color back in where you’ve scrubbed too hard. I’m an artist and I have restored this old type of decorative pictures. 6:076:09
I literally said "me too" to everything until you said your husband was a rocket scientist. I couldn't find one of those at the thrift store so I had to make do. 😮
😄 Rocket scientists come at a price, often the price of my sanity! He is maddeningly logical, and after our twin grandsons were diagnosed with autism, we began to realize he's on the spectrum as well. His range would probably be called Aspberger's, but they now just say it's all on the spectrum. I love that man with all my heart, and wouldn't want him any other way! ❤️
I am at work right now but just got a notification that you posted a video. Am looking forward to watching this evening. Have a blessed day my internet neighbor. :)
@@marlacainraisingcain I really liked the picture you found. I'm sure everyone has a myriad of suggestions on how to clean it. But I once cleaned a painting using murphys oil soap. I used a soft cloth and rubbed a small spot. It took the nicotine right off and didn't harm the painting. So I did the whole thing with the Murphys oil soap. Also this is the 2nd time I've heard you mention the yellow kitchen project that has been put on the back burner numerous times due to other projects bumping it to the back burner. I have a "bumped to the back burner" project as well. About 15 years or so ago, I pulled up the linoleum in my dining room/kitchen planning to get new flooring within a couple of months. All these years later when I walk in my kitchen/dining room I am still looking at concrete floors where linoleum used to be. Since then, we've replaced a car, put a fence in the back yard, put in a new heat pump, yada yada yada! Always something that needs doing ahead of the floor. It's just life. I'm use to it. Can't say I love it. But I rarely notice it anymore. I think the Lord will return before mine gets done. And that's okay. Enjoyed hanging out with you this evening. :)
Julieanna, the bumped projects are more common and realistic than the 100% complete homes, I think. I'm ok with admitting it, because I've never claimed to be an interior designer or to have a high-end home. I have a cozy home full of real people and we really live in it and we really pay bills one at a time. I'm glad you found a channel (mine!) that you can see reality mixed with joy and hope and plans. After all, life happens while you're making plans ❤️
I'll have to remember the Murphy's oil soap next time I dare to touch or clean a print! I won't be touching that one again, since it took me a full hour to get those clouds to look like the original artist did them... ☁️ 😄
Marla, I love that painting and the lamp. I do watercolors, and when I have a frame that doesn't have any glass, I clear wax the painting and it comes out very nice. You could do that too your painting if you wanted to. Great haul all around.
I had no idea wax could be put on a paper/cardboard old print! Good to know! What I really wish I knew how to do is to lighten up an age darkened print like the children creek art I found recently. Do you know of any way? 🤔
I cannot understand why someone would take BIBLES to thrift stores! My grandfather was a Baptist minister and I have some of his and my Grandmother’S BIBLES I love the notes. My grandfather had put dates in his when he Baptize someone. I love it!
That large landscape art is beautiful! I got a little can food tin with handle on it just like yours, must have been from the same manufacture if its a reproduction. 🤷♀️ The bunny jelly mold is precious🐇 I know you'll mad the cbad dayc bunny beautiful!😄 I'm not sure what that twin piece is either, but I'm like you..i love old pieces that are just pretty. When they're grouped with other pieces in a little vignette or tucked in other things on a shelf, they're just so pretty, adds so much interest to the space its in. It almost looks like A light switch cover in a way, that one has me stumped. Google lens it, you'll probably find out what it is!! Then let us know, I'm curious😄 It took me forever to find a buttocks basket! I have one that's so old is cracking, but then i have a nice one. I get what you're saying about donating back out. We own A thrift store so i send things there all the time. The store helps support out non profit men's recovery home, we don't shop for it, Its all donations, estate sale left overs, garage/yard sale left overs and house & building clean outs that out guys do when called on. Its A large warehouse building & it stays packed!! Cool idea with the left over fabric softener! I use downy, but i could still do that and stop buying downy fabric freshener spray.. thanks for the tip!😊 I think most of my books are linen covered and 90% are religious rooster. Ohhh goodness the plant urn Is gorgeous!!😮 I LOVE the kids furniture.. I'd love to have a little rocker & a wicker bottom chair. I have a couple of kiss wooden chairs i use for plant stands on my front porch. Love the wood piece..i think i told you i love all wood pieces😁 Honey i will yell out loud if i ever find a copper colored dust pan like that! My mama had one & i'm trying to find things she had. I yelled out in the antique store not long ago when i had a little God wink happen. I looked down on a shelf & there sat a little round Merita fruitcake tin full of really old spools of thread. For as long as I can remember my mama kept that same exact tin full of spools of thread in her sewing machine drawer, with a tomato pin cushion. So I now have that, with my tomato pin cushion🥹 I'm Going to find my dust pan too! I love the cute bonnet! Ohhh wow the Hiawasse river runs real near our or thru the county i live in..McMinn cty Tennessee! Where do you go, what area? My soul sister for sure!!! We love thrifting & antiquing, collecting old things, our grandbabies, rollercoasters, and above all we love Jesus!❤ Google lens the glass bowl! I live just over an hour grin Sevierville, go thru on my way to NC, where I'm Originally from... and never been shopping there🫤 You must live somewhere near me! I'm excited to see your she shed when you get it done! Lol my kitchen had no back backsplash either & i use cutting boards to cover what i can. Ok.. the bible is definitely the best find!! My grandma had one like that! I love my old antique & vintage bibles!! Even my little testiments. My Oldest one is 1921 & 1923.. then i have 1940's and others (can't remember) buy my favorite one i hunted forever..a little chunky leather back bible Ohhh i just love it!! One of my old ones is just falling apart and that's ok too. I have a silver piece that you sit a rectangle casserole dish in and i have my old bibles lined up in it. I collect old hymnals and piano gospel sheet music too. I've framed some of the music sheets out of the old hymnals, one piece in a needlepoint hoop, and antique waxed it all! Girl over the last 4 or 5 videos I've written you an entire book.. ill do my best to be better next time🫣 i just get into everything you say & share!😄 And I enjoy it so so much!! Thank you for reminding of us why we collect & curate our things, and why we need to share. And I needed that prayer more than you could EVER know.. we're going thru a TOUGH season right now, hard choices to be made, terrible things have happened.. but i know Gods got us and there's a reason for it all. I pray many blessings over you sweet friend!🙏💕
If I had an entire thrift store under my authority, I'm not sure I'd ever stop shopping in there!! You must surely have strong will power to keep your collections under control!
We live in north Alabama, near Guntersville lake. When we go to kayak the Hiwassee, we stay in the Benton area, usually at Adventures Unlimited campground. When we go to Nantahala, we usually find a vacation rental home around Bryson City.
I love the Nantahala area! The rapids are beautiful! My son use to live in Ocoee before we moved up here so we went right through there on the way to visit him. We love sort of on the other side of the Ocoee mountains. On the way to our thrift store you ride right down by the Ocoee mountains range if that makes sense. I'm halfway between Knoxville & Chattanooga in a little town called Athens, our store Is in Etowah.. also less than 2hrs from Sevierville or Pigeon Forge/ Gatlinburg. Ohhh yeah.. do you have google lens on your phone?
Thanks so much for the prayers!! I try not to go to the store too often.. but i do have to go thru donations when its a large amount, that's when i find alot of my goodies😉😊
We must be distantly related, ‘cause I too buy an object that is cool, even though it I am uncertain of what it is! In my mind, I know it will become a treasure to me.
😳 now listen, my whole house is never all clean at the same time!! 😄 but I will do as much as I can. In this past month since I have felt better, and since Olivia's family has moved out, my house is getting better than it has been in a looooong time. Your challenge will be my goal! 🏃♀️ 🧼 🪣
Oh my goodness, Marla. I do love watching your videos, and I relate to SO many things you say along the way. But your little blessing and words of wisdom at the end of today's video spoke STRAIGHT to my soul! I don't even know how to describe (without writing a book) how specifically this spoke to me. I just know that only God can do that!! I am letting about 90% of my crafting things go - after the Lord has shown me that it just isn't serving me well in this season of my life. I'm 65, and there's only been one other time in my life that I have had trouble letting something (things) go, but I'm finding this one very emotional. Your words and your sweet loving way of saying them were exactly the encouragement God knew I needed right in this moment. He always has a plan, and His plans are always for our good. Thank you for being His vessel of cool water to a thirsty sister today. ❤
Ok, I'm now bawling 😭 🙌 If anything I share ever hits the center of your heart, you can surely give God all the credit. His unfathomable wisdom is able to weave a billion details together in such a way so that what is on my heart is what your heart needs to hear. And He knew you'd be listening today. And he knows your specific needs, before you even know them. I strongly relate to being in a place where you have to let go of something, and your flesh says no but you hear God saying "trust me." I don't know why it takes so many repeated lessons for me to fully walk in that trust, but He is patient and He is good. Whatever He's asking you to give up, He will replace with something far more valuable. Thank you for taking the time to share with me. ❤️ 🙏 🌞
@marlacainraisingcain1031 sorry Marla that wasn't a good description. Yankee candle makes them to go on your candle to better regulate burning evenly. It truly will burn clean all the way to the bottom. Then I put in the freezer to pop out the remaining wax. Save the lid. Decorate and reuse for storage of...stuff. it is heat resistant to put another candle in. Not pouring a new one. Just add a smaller one?
New to your channel, loving it. You have such a calming voice, and I love all your stories. Great finds on your haul, I do the same thing as you, if I find a piece I love at the thrift store I will cover it up, I have actually had something taken out of my buggy. I think its so special that you got your husband all those old book. I look forward to more video's. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Rebecca, I am so happy to meet you! 👋😃 Thank you for your kind words! I love sharing my thrift finds and how I redo them and style them in my home. I have lots of videos posted and I look forward to seeing more comments from you! 💕
😆 SPIT 💧 that is hysterical!! I've always said that most of my crafts could be used to identify my DNA, as I tend to lick my finger and use it as a paintbrush 🖌 😅
We have hardwood floors that havent been redone since 2003. We have always had big dogs so the shine is long gone. No point replacing or redoing them until we have no dogs and a life without dogs is no life at all. Whomever buys our house one day can replace the floors. Fortunately, I decorate with prims so the crappy floors suit the aesthetic 😂.
We have raised 5 children on these floors, multiple dogs and many many "extra people." Raising Cain is not kind to wood floors! 😄 I have discovered a product called Zep that I found at Lowe's which puts a gloss on my floors that will last a few months. Way past time to reapply!
That's true. That's when you don't go thrift shopping, but instead gather what you can donate and free up your space. Each person should find their own balance. 😌
I'll be honest, it sounds like you're saying you think I brought in crap to my home, but it's hard to read tone in the typed word... if you'd like to clarify, it might keep me from staying awake wondering what you meant 😉
Hey frans! I am keeping baby Isaac today, so while holding him as he naps, I'm able to reply to your comments as soon as you type them! Now is a good time to chat! 😊
Such great finds! I'm excited to see what you do with them 😊My great aunt kept all of the things from past generations and we had the honor and blessing to clean out her house when she passed. All that to say, along the lines of finding treasures in old Bibles and books, she had an antique cookbook from my great great aunts, which had numerous treasures stuck between the pages. There were pressed flowers, antique cigarette cards (which is curious because neither one of them smoked 😆) a hand drawn Valentine Card made by my great grandfather, a library card and so much more. We took all of the loveliness out and created a shadowbox with them. It's currently hanging in the entry way of my mama's house 😍Blessing to you, friend!!
Oh, what a dream to find those precious personal momentos!! Especially the hand drawn card 💕
So special to now have them displayed in the shadow box! I love that!! 😃 ✨️
You can touch up your picture with powered eye shadow. Just get the colors you need, the eye shadows can be easily mixed like paint to get the colors you need. Just apply with your fingers. If you need pinks or reds, use power blush. For the clouds, you can use eye highlighters. I work at a Victorian home museum and that’s how we restore our pictures.
😮 I would have never considered eye shadow!! I did get it touched up just using my paints, and it looks really well matched but it wasn't easy getting there! Thanks for that professional tip! 😊👍
Fantastic haul Marla! Love your outlook on life and the delight you take in your amazing vintage finds. Love the way you style and refurbish things too. You bring such joy to my life! Happy Spring thrifting and crafting!
Kaitlin, it is a real joy to share with those who also love antiques! I appreciate that you let me know you're enjoying my finds and flips! Squeeze hug! 😊 💕
Love to see all the little insert pictures of how you vignetted all your finds! What a fun day to go thrifting and shopping with your daughter! I have a miniature blue rocker just like the one on the table behind you. I have a collection of miniature chairs on a shelf in our foyer. I set my little childhood ragdolls and teddy bears on them. Imagine finding that old dustpan tucked up under those shelves...I had one just like that in the early years of married housekeeping. In fact almost everything we set up housekeeping with is vintage now! 😂😜🤣.
I'm just over here making a verb out of a noun! 😜 and this time I was able to immediately use just about all of my finds. I tend to add my finds to existing arrangements until it gets ridiculous and I have to start over! 😄
I have two of my doll chairs on the wall in my Rose Room /craft room and I'm still looking for the right spot for the doll high chair that is tole painted. I'm busy as a bee 🐝 getting my house back together!
You are a precious woman. Love your style. Someone needs to be a curator of vintage things even if just for future generations. So thankful you are one. hugs Marla
What a sweet thing to say! 😊
I do feel like I am rescuing the old decrepit relics of the past! Give me all the old rusty crusty junk! 😄 I will soon look like the decor at Cracker Barrel restaurants! 😂
That urn with the bird on it just made my heart sing it is so lovely, what a good find!
Mine too!! I nearly didn't get it because it was 8.99 but I'm so glad I went with my heart. It's gorgeous on my table! 😃 ❤
Love the big tabbed bible so much as well as the big cutting board which you could always turn into a tray by just adding handles!❤😁
Good idea! 💡 hadn't thought of that! 😃
Thank you Marla for saying that about your nails. I try to have nails but the minute I garden or craft they’re ruined. Felt like a nail failure , now I know I’m not alone
😄 the only good thing about enduring a symptom flare with autoimmune issues is that my nails are gorgeous 💅 due to lying like a potato and doing nothing else 🤷🏼♀️ 😆
I love the Lord and roller coasters, too! Great video!
😄 🙌 🎡 good combination! ❤️
I run a heat gun on the top of my candles and melt a couple of layers. The pour off the excess from the top. Then my wick is exposed and works great. Hope this helps. ❤
Oh that's GENIUS!! I knew there had to be a trick to it. Thanks a bunch! 😃 💕 🕯
I burst out laughing so many times throughout this video but the absolute BEST was when you said “ my husband is an ACTUAL rocket scientist “………. 😂 The rest of us just tell our husbands “it’s not rocket science honey, just do it this way”……I bet your hubby gets that a lot😂😂😂
What he gets is a lot of grief from ME, telling him he's too smart to be that dumb 😄
He is entirely left-brained and logical, we are literal opposites! But his logical thinking will be what saves our lives in any emergency, true fact! ❤️
I loved this Video and watching how excited you get over everything (I get the excitement), almost like Christmas Morning! You make it so much fun to see all the awesome things you got….
I really enjoy thrifting too, I love going through every booth and seeing what is there, like a kid in a candy store, lol…..
Thank you so much for this video, I truly enjoyed it so much and the pictures of your family I really loved seeing too!!! Your Grandchildren’s pictures are adorable, especially the ones where you caught them sleeping…..
Much Love,
Marla
from Missouri
I'm so glad you enjoyed watching, Marla, and that my enthusiasm was contagious! I realize not everyone appreciates old stuff, but it's super fun to me! 😃
I like to include pics of my family when I mention them. It gives you an idea who in the world I'm talking about! 😄 Glad you enjoy seeing them.
You got one good haul thanks so much for sharing. ❤
Happy to share and chat! 😊 ✨️
You have great thrift stores! It’s my kind of thing also. Thanks,Terri
I really do think my local thrift stores are amazing! I do try to limit how often I go, since I surely do find the best stuff when I go! I rarely walk out empty handed! 😄 🛍
Great haul Marla. I love seeing all of your goodies and how you use them.
Thank you, Sandra! 😊 💕
It's a joy to share with those who appreciate thrifted treasures! ✨️
Good afternoon Marla, you thrifted some nice things. I love those old bibles, they are special. That vase was beautiful, and you find the prettiest pictures. Your photos of your grandchildren are sweet. Your makeup looks pretty, and that blouse is cute. You have a wonderful afternoon, and enjoy decorating your new finds. God Bless you and your family, until next time! ❤🥰Brenda now I have got to try and clean lol🪣dust pan loved it!
😄 we must clean so our homes can be cute and not nasty 😆 🤣 😂
Thanks for all the sweet compliments, Brenda. You're precious 💗
Marla.... An amazing woman of God!
Melanie, I love Jesus with every fiber in me, AND I do still have to consciously choose to obey Him! I'm a sinner, standing in the need of prayer, but what is amazing to me is that He never lets me get farther than the length of His arm. He scoops me back up next to his heart as soon as I stop resisting. He is good, and I am trying hard to be a reflection of Him ❤️ 🙌
I absolutely love Olivia’s porch! I have Jambu shoes, too. The Demark plates are a pattern I want to go with my Blue Willow. Gosh, we have so much in common, we could be sisters 😂❤
We prob'ly ARE sisters, some kind of way!! 😄
I adore Olivia's back screened porch and she has it set up so cute. It's magical at night with her string globe lights out there. It was the perfect place to set up Isaac's first birthday party.
I got the Denmark blue plates at a Cheaper Than Dirt store 10+ years ago. It's kind of a closeout store and I bought all they had, pretty cheap.
Jambu shoes feel like little clouds ⛅️ and comfort has become more important than beauty these days, but I think the Jambu styles are so cute! 😊
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see you back! It brings me such joy! I’ve missed you so, and I’ve rewatched many of your videos again during your absence. I rejoice with you that you have your house back. I know you were glad to help your children get on their feet. We have done the same thing with our daughter and her family of 5, but we were in a small 3 bedroom home. I had to ask them to leave after 6 months. I was about to break. I know your creative juices are really flowing after being in survival mode for so long, and we are reaping the benefits! I can see the ideas just swirling around in your brain. It’s so wonderful to have you back!
Paula, Dec-Jan-Feb were a long 3 months for me. It's the worst symptom flare I've ever had. I missed my life and could only dream of doing crafts and flips. But now I have a new doctor and new meds, and I feel like a new person (or at least like my old self!) I'm so grateful to be back to making videos, and to have my creative gears turning ⚙️ 😊
We all survived the year of co-habitation by the fact that we rearranged (relocated) my sons from the lower level, and let Liv Ryan & baby have the whole walkout basement. That gave them a big living room, kitchenette, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. It scrunched us up, certainly, and we all sang hallelujah when they found a house of their own 🙌
My grandfather always had a nice sized garden and I remember he would grow some gourds out on an old wire fence Wish I had one of them. Please do a kitchen tour with your vintage things.! Lived in, well loved, cluttery kitchens are the best!
Ah!! I'm nearly brave enough to do a kitchen tour. I have been taking pictures of the cuter spots but a whole sweeping video has not been something I've done! I always have clutter and a sink full of dishes.
On New Year's Day, Claire (age 3) pushed a stool up to my counter where we had 3 crock pots going and big platters of food, plus all the usual clutter. She solemnly told me, "Miggie, when you have too many things, it's time to give some away. It can be better next time I come." 😄 😆 🤣 She had recently been told to cull out some of her toys, so she passed along her wisdom... if you want to hear unfiltered truth, ask a little kid!!
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Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Mehri! 😊 💕
Love you videos. Hi from Western Australia 🎉
Hi, Sharleen! I am so happy to meet you, all the way from Australia! 👋😃
Thanks for watching! 💕
Great finds !!!
I'm so excited to have found the engineering books and the painting and that vase! Well all of it, really 😄
You look exceptionally pretty in this video. I’m on my 50th video, and trying to get comfortable being in front of the camera. It’s hard, at my age!
Fun video.
I just subscribed to your channel and am going to enjoy watching! 😊 Thanks for all your kind words! ❤
Thank you, sweetie. You and I like the same things.
Use white bread to clean your picture and use soft pastels to add color back in where you’ve scrubbed too hard. I’m an artist and I have restored this old type of decorative pictures. 6:07 6:09
What sensible advice!! 😃 of course it makes sense to use pastels. I need to get a set! And never would have known to use bread! 🍞 😲
I literally said "me too" to everything until you said your husband was a rocket scientist. I couldn't find one of those at the thrift store so I had to make do. 😮
😄 Rocket scientists come at a price, often the price of my sanity! He is maddeningly logical, and after our twin grandsons were diagnosed with autism, we began to realize he's on the spectrum as well. His range would probably be called Aspberger's, but they now just say it's all on the spectrum. I love that man with all my heart, and wouldn't want him any other way! ❤️
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I am at work right now but just got a notification that you posted a video. Am looking forward to watching this evening. Have a blessed day my internet neighbor. :)
😊 I'm looking forward to your comments after you watch! ✨️
@@marlacainraisingcain I really liked the picture you found. I'm sure everyone has a myriad of suggestions on how to clean it. But I once cleaned a painting using murphys oil soap. I used a soft cloth and rubbed a small spot. It took the nicotine right off and didn't harm the painting. So I did the whole thing with the Murphys oil soap. Also this is the 2nd time I've heard you mention the yellow kitchen project that has been put on the back burner numerous times due to other projects bumping it to the back burner. I have a "bumped to the back burner" project as well. About 15 years or so ago, I pulled up the linoleum in my dining room/kitchen planning to get new flooring within a couple of months. All these years later when I walk in my kitchen/dining room I am still looking at concrete floors where linoleum used to be. Since then, we've replaced a car, put a fence in the back yard, put in a new heat pump, yada yada yada! Always something that needs doing ahead of the floor. It's just life. I'm use to it. Can't say I love it. But I rarely notice it anymore. I think the Lord will return before mine gets done. And that's okay. Enjoyed hanging out with you this evening. :)
Julieanna, the bumped projects are more common and realistic than the 100% complete homes, I think. I'm ok with admitting it, because I've never claimed to be an interior designer or to have a high-end home. I have a cozy home full of real people and we really live in it and we really pay bills one at a time. I'm glad you found a channel (mine!) that you can see reality mixed with joy and hope and plans. After all, life happens while you're making plans ❤️
I'll have to remember the Murphy's oil soap next time I dare to touch or clean a print! I won't be touching that one again, since it took me a full hour to get those clouds to look like the original artist did them... ☁️ 😄
Marla, I love that painting and the lamp. I do watercolors, and when I have a frame that doesn't have any glass, I clear wax the painting and it comes out very nice. You could do that too your painting if you wanted to. Great haul all around.
I had no idea wax could be put on a paper/cardboard old print! Good to know! What I really wish I knew how to do is to lighten up an age darkened print like the children creek art I found recently. Do you know of any way? 🤔
@@marlacainraisingcain Just do it lightly so you won't rip the painting.
I cannot understand why someone would take BIBLES to thrift stores!
My grandfather was a Baptist minister and I have some of his and my Grandmother’S BIBLES I love the notes. My grandfather had put dates in his when he Baptize someone. I love it!
I wonder if there was no family to pass them down to, or the remaining family just didn't value such a treasure. But I rescue the ones I find! 📖 ❤️
Beautiful print!
I got it touched up and it's mesmerizing me as we speak, on the wall of my living room. It's close to a lamp to help brighten it up 😍
That large landscape art is beautiful! I got a little can food tin with handle on it just like yours, must have been from the same manufacture if its a reproduction. 🤷♀️ The bunny jelly mold is precious🐇 I know you'll mad the cbad dayc bunny beautiful!😄 I'm not sure what that twin piece is either, but I'm like you..i love old pieces that are just pretty. When they're grouped with other pieces in a little vignette or tucked in other things on a shelf, they're just so pretty, adds so much interest to the space its in. It almost looks like A light switch cover in a way, that one has me stumped. Google lens it, you'll probably find out what it is!! Then let us know, I'm curious😄 It took me forever to find a buttocks basket! I have one that's so old is cracking, but then i have a nice one. I get what you're saying about donating back out. We own A thrift store so i send things there all the time. The store helps support out non profit men's recovery home, we don't shop for it, Its all donations, estate sale left overs, garage/yard sale left overs and house & building clean outs that out guys do when called on. Its A large warehouse building & it stays packed!! Cool idea with the left over fabric softener! I use downy, but i could still do that and stop buying downy fabric freshener spray.. thanks for the tip!😊 I think most of my books are linen covered and 90% are religious rooster. Ohhh goodness the plant urn Is gorgeous!!😮 I LOVE the kids furniture.. I'd love to have a little rocker & a wicker bottom chair. I have a couple of kiss wooden chairs i use for plant stands on my front porch. Love the wood piece..i think i told you i love all wood pieces😁 Honey i will yell out loud if i ever find a copper colored dust pan like that! My mama had one & i'm trying to find things she had. I yelled out in the antique store not long ago when i had a little God wink happen. I looked down on a shelf & there sat a little round Merita fruitcake tin full of really old spools of thread. For as long as I can remember my mama kept that same exact tin full of spools of thread in her sewing machine drawer, with a tomato pin cushion. So I now have that, with my tomato pin cushion🥹 I'm Going to find my dust pan too! I love the cute bonnet! Ohhh wow the Hiawasse river runs real near our or thru the county i live in..McMinn cty Tennessee! Where do you go, what area? My soul sister for sure!!! We love thrifting & antiquing, collecting old things, our grandbabies, rollercoasters, and above all we love Jesus!❤ Google lens the glass bowl! I live just over an hour grin Sevierville, go thru on my way to NC, where I'm Originally from... and never been shopping there🫤 You must live somewhere near me! I'm excited to see your she shed when you get it done! Lol my kitchen had no back backsplash either & i use cutting boards to cover what i can. Ok.. the bible is definitely the best find!! My grandma had one like that! I love my old antique & vintage bibles!! Even my little testiments. My Oldest one is 1921 & 1923.. then i have 1940's and others (can't remember) buy my favorite one i hunted forever..a little chunky leather back bible Ohhh i just love it!! One of my old ones is just falling apart and that's ok too. I have a silver piece that you sit a rectangle casserole dish in and i have my old bibles lined up in it. I collect old hymnals and piano gospel sheet music too. I've framed some of the music sheets out of the old hymnals, one piece in a needlepoint hoop, and antique waxed it all! Girl over the last 4 or 5 videos I've written you an entire book.. ill do my best to be better next time🫣 i just get into everything you say & share!😄 And I enjoy it so so much!! Thank you for reminding of us why we collect & curate our things, and why we need to share. And I needed that prayer more than you could EVER know.. we're going thru a TOUGH season right now, hard choices to be made, terrible things have happened.. but i know Gods got us and there's a reason for it all. I pray many blessings over you sweet friend!🙏💕
If I had an entire thrift store under my authority, I'm not sure I'd ever stop shopping in there!! You must surely have strong will power to keep your collections under control!
We live in north Alabama, near Guntersville lake. When we go to kayak the Hiwassee, we stay in the Benton area, usually at Adventures Unlimited campground. When we go to Nantahala, we usually find a vacation rental home around Bryson City.
I will be praying that your tough season and hard decisions will soon be over 🙏 ❤️
I love the Nantahala area! The rapids are beautiful! My son use to live in Ocoee before we moved up here so we went right through there on the way to visit him. We love sort of on the other side of the Ocoee mountains. On the way to our thrift store you ride right down by the Ocoee mountains range if that makes sense. I'm halfway between Knoxville & Chattanooga in a little town called Athens, our store Is in Etowah.. also less than 2hrs from Sevierville or Pigeon Forge/ Gatlinburg. Ohhh yeah.. do you have google lens on your phone?
Thanks so much for the prayers!! I try not to go to the store too often.. but i do have to go thru donations when its a large amount, that's when i find alot of my goodies😉😊
We must be distantly related, ‘cause I too buy an object that is cool, even though it I am uncertain of what it is! In my mind, I know it will become a treasure to me.
Our homes are 10x more interesting when we have collected groups of finds instead of mass produced trends, in my opinion 😊 ✨️
will you take the camera and scan your whole house room by room and wall to wall. I would love to see it!!!
😳 now listen, my whole house is never all clean at the same time!! 😄 but I will do as much as I can. In this past month since I have felt better, and since Olivia's family has moved out, my house is getting better than it has been in a looooong time. Your challenge will be my goal! 🏃♀️ 🧼 🪣
Oh my goodness, Marla. I do love watching your videos, and I relate to SO many things you say along the way. But your little blessing and words of wisdom at the end of today's video spoke STRAIGHT to my soul! I don't even know how to describe (without writing a book) how specifically this spoke to me. I just know that only God can do that!! I am letting about 90% of my crafting things go - after the Lord has shown me that it just isn't serving me well in this season of my life. I'm 65, and there's only been one other time in my life that I have had trouble letting something (things) go, but I'm finding this one very emotional. Your words and your sweet loving way of saying them were exactly the encouragement God knew I needed right in this moment. He always has a plan, and His plans are always for our good.
Thank you for being His vessel of cool water to a thirsty sister today. ❤
Ok, I'm now bawling 😭 🙌
If anything I share ever hits the center of your heart, you can surely give God all the credit. His unfathomable wisdom is able to weave a billion details together in such a way so that what is on my heart is what your heart needs to hear. And He knew you'd be listening today. And he knows your specific needs, before you even know them. I strongly relate to being in a place where you have to let go of something, and your flesh says no but you hear God saying "trust me." I don't know why it takes so many repeated lessons for me to fully walk in that trust, but He is patient and He is good. Whatever He's asking you to give up, He will replace with something far more valuable. Thank you for taking the time to share with me. ❤️ 🙏 🌞
When i use the cone shaped toppers that can be placed on top it melts the candle evenly. Without it the dont melt properly. Its so frustrating!
Donna, I have no idea what a cone shaped topper looks like! Ive.never heard of such a thing but now I'm going to have to Google it! 😄
@marlacainraisingcain1031 sorry Marla that wasn't a good description. Yankee candle makes them to go on your candle to better regulate burning evenly. It truly will burn clean all the way to the bottom. Then I put in the freezer to pop out the remaining wax. Save the lid. Decorate and reuse for storage of...stuff. it is heat resistant to put another candle in. Not pouring a new one. Just add a smaller one?
I Googled it and I've seen those at thrift stores! I had no idea it would make a candle burn evenly, but now I've learned something new!
New to your channel, loving it. You have such a calming voice, and I love all your stories. Great finds on your haul, I do the same thing as you, if I find a piece I love at the thrift store I will cover it up, I have actually had something taken out of my buggy. I think its so special that you got your husband all those old book. I look forward to more video's. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Rebecca, I am so happy to meet you! 👋😃
Thank you for your kind words! I love sharing my thrift finds and how I redo them and style them in my home. I have lots of videos posted and I look forward to seeing more comments from you! 💕
Went to a lecture by a conservator. She says best cleaner is qtips and spit! Takes time but thats she used
😆 SPIT 💧 that is hysterical!! I've always said that most of my crafts could be used to identify my DNA, as I tend to lick my finger and use it as a paintbrush 🖌 😅
We have hardwood floors that havent been redone since 2003. We have always had big dogs so the shine is long gone. No point replacing or redoing them until we have no dogs and a life without dogs is no life at all. Whomever buys our house one day can replace the floors. Fortunately, I decorate with prims so the crappy floors suit the aesthetic 😂.
We have raised 5 children on these floors, multiple dogs and many many "extra people." Raising Cain is not kind to wood floors! 😄 I have discovered a product called Zep that I found at Lowe's which puts a gloss on my floors that will last a few months. Way past time to reapply!
I can relate!
@@marlacainraisingcainwill have to find that product.
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sometimes our house doesn't need more crap
That's true. That's when you don't go thrift shopping, but instead gather what you can donate and free up your space. Each person should find their own balance. 😌
I'll be honest, it sounds like you're saying you think I brought in crap to my home, but it's hard to read tone in the typed word... if you'd like to clarify, it might keep me from staying awake wondering what you meant 😉