stuff i love sunday #5

1. robots, 2. ridiculous office mug, 3. trees, 4. trees, 5. on the grill, 6. jim & gerty, 7. 2011-04-23-13-29-19-825, 8. trees, 9. salt plains, 10. shoes, 11. trees, 12. trees, 13. gerty, 14. tree, 15. salt plains, 16. easter gerty, 17. salt plains, 18. cabin, 19. trees, 20. digging for crystals, 21. back of the cabins, 22. gerty, 23. gerty, 24. junior, 25. trees, 26. koda & gerty, 27. the road, 28. junior, 29. gerty loves car rides, 30. digging for crystals

Lots of the pictures above were from our camping trip this weekend. It was fun, but it is so nice to be home! Check out all of these colorful crafts from my Flickr friends below!

1. iHanna's Postcards 2011, 2. Tulip Fields Detail 2, 3. Colorful felt flower snap clip barettes, 4. Bottle Cap Pincushion #614, 5. cross-stitch birdies (WIP), 6. smiley orange, 7. Modern Log Cabin Cross Quilt, 8. Modern Log Cabin Cross Quilt, 9. Lucienne Day for Heals 'Plantation', 10. Fern, 11. Crochet cushions - completed, 12. Crochet: Egg Warmers - With Love, 13. poppy's bedroom, 14. our bedroom, 15. linda's hat, 16. earth day style, 17. Happy Easter from the bunnies!, 18. Jane Foster Kittys, 19. Jane Foster Prints, 20. thrifting, 21. making use of our egg dye, 22. easter cake, 23. my kooky Easter wreath, 24. Untitled, 25. Untitled, 26. 203:365, 27. my idea of "decorating", 28. easter morning..., 29. easter treats, 30. 94/365 - Tulip Square, 31. 2 and 3, 32. 1, 33. teaching, 34. Sportsgirl Window, 35. Sportsgirl Window, 36. joe's makes minis

gone to the lake! (& last chance to enter the giveaway!)

Our friends invited us to stay at a cabin with them this weekend, so of course we said yes! It has been practically a year since we last left the city. Hard to believe! With all of the last minute packing I'm doing, I won't be able to catch you up on my daily squares until Sunday (unless maybe we can get cell reception). Check back then. Meanwhile, be sure to leave a comment here by Saturday to win some fabric!

Credits:
Tape Strips: Pugly Pixel
Vintage Photo Frames: Kitschy Digitals by Danielle Thompson available at JessicaSprague.com

camping trip

Gerty hanging out in the cabin's screened patio in the back.

Junior, Gerty, and I went fishing and camping (well, cabining, really) last week at McGee Creek State Park near Atoka, Oklahoma. A couple of friends joined us, and it was really nice to get out of the city for a little while. We stayed in a neat little cabin by the lake for several nights. Here are some of a billion pictures I took. Gerty had so much fun! I'm so glad we had the opportunity to take her with us. The boys caught a few fish but threw them back. We brought plenty of food and had awesome breakfasts, carne asada, hamburgers, and of course, sandwiches instead.

Sunday the three of us took the hour or so trip south to Hugo, Oklahoma, which was practically in Texas. We stopped at Mt. Olivet Cemetery to see Showmen's Rest, a section dedicated to circus performers and workers. I had read about this place for the first time on one of my favorite websites ever, Roadside America, probably 10 years ago, and I knew if I ever found myself in that area of the state, I'd have to check it out. The site has since done a story on the cemetery (they call it "Showman's Rest" for some reason; it used to just be a user submitted tip!). We didn't go to Paris, but if we had, I wonder if we would have been able to find the Jesus Wearing Cowboy Boots.

More Showmen's Rest and camping pictures on Flickr if you just have to see them!

Lisa and Gerty posed on a rock

Gerty and Junior fishing

How to warm up a cold dog

Fire!

Oh look, Oklahoma does have trees!

Gerty loves camping!

Showmen's Rest in Hugo, OK

Showmen's Rest in Hugo, OK - "Big John" Strong

Showmen's Rest in Hugo, OK - "Big John" Strong

Showmen's Rest in Hugo, OK - Jack B. Moore

Showmen's Rest in Hugo, OK - "Los Latinos" - Herbert "The Great Huberto" Weber & Maricela Weber

Showmen's Rest in Hugo, OK - William "Buckles" & Barbara Woodcock & Anna May, one of his elephants.

Buckles has a blog of circus history! Anna May is deceased, but the other two are not, I am pretty sure. This marker was amazing and almost holographic. How do they do that?

In another section of the cemetery, we spotted this sweet inscription:

A sewing machine!

"Let's get out of here. This is kinda creepy!"