I Do Love a CHURCH RUMMAGE!

Up by 6am last Saturday and off to Savannah by 7am. My goal was to be at Grace United Methodist Church for the annual Rummage Sale by 5 til 8am.. as the Craig's List posting said NO EARLY BIRDS. Their listing also said they had been gathering items since the past year so I knew it was going to be GOOD!

I arrived at 12 minutes until 8.. and what do I see? RUMMAGE SALE IS OPEN and the locals are Rummaging! DARN I SAY! :) I could not park and get in there fast enough!

First think I see is Antique School Desk with inkwell hole and even the named AYN carved in the corner! IT ROCKS! $25. Next, a vintage round coffee table with tag of $20.. I offer $10 and SOLD! Next, a new linen rack for $4 as mine is a bit bent for moving. I find a stack of very old farm scene plates, $3.  Another vase for my seashells, $.75.  BOOKS! $1 hardbacks, $.25 softbacks. The books include 3 on Depression Glass collecting, 3 Cookbooks (Carolina Jr League, Detroit Jr League and vintage The SPICE ISLANDS COOK BOOK), found an old Seashell Identification book (these were $16 at Edisto), a 1950s CAMPING book, and a book on early American Tools (random). 

I think this is going in corner of living room with books stacked on top!

Needs a FIX bad! but great character! maybe paint it Blue!

Love my Vintage Tablecloths! Those are subject for future blog I think!

Just add Edisto Seashells!

Add books!

I also found two French Bulletin boards and an amazing PILOT RULES Poster from 1950 that had been housed in a new Poster Frame which had probably saved its integrity.. I new Vic being a Boat Captain would just LOVE this!!

My total ... $63. WOW! I was so excited!

I was done with the Church sale by 8:48am. So, next, I headed north on Waters Avenue and I see a sign for "HUGE GARAGE SALE".  Took a turn and found an amazing lil Sale at the home of some rather odd accented NEW AGE Preacher types.  GREAT STUFF!

I found an amazing Folky ANGEL Looking at Bowl of Cherries Painting in an amazing frame! She tells me $20.. I cannot believe I had to think about it.

MY FAVORITE PURCHASE OF THE DAY!

I found classic Christmas DVDs for Coleman, $1 each. Books for Coleman, $1 each. A rug for $2, and a Green Lantern with candle, $2.

And then, I found the Desk! BEACH SCENE painted on top with glass to cover! $35!!!! GORGEOUS!

I had to make a road trip to Work to dump off some furniture in order to go back and pick up my new desk! I found another lil yard sale while I was in Port Wentworth and bought this gorgeous blue metal basket for $1.55. 

I think I will fill it with Seashells from Edisto!  I have it sitting in my living room atop my wonderful jumbo white wicker storage basket that was slated for makeover and to be sold.. But OH NO! I think I should keep it. :)

Sweet Sista Carol is on the way down today! 5 days with the Sista! I CANNOT WAIT! I am going to take her to all my fav places and we shall do some shoppin'!

HAPPY SHOPPING!

MEATBALL STUFFED PEPPERS! Amazing!

So Saturday afternoon, after a long day of Rummaging around Savannah, Vic asked me what I would like for dinner. I thought and thought and since I have been doing the low carb thing for a week had to think extra hard.. He suggested Spaghetti which sounded FAB but I can't do the noodles due to my low carb diet.

Thought about it and thought about it and thought FINALLY.. STUFFED GREEN PEPPERS! I was graving that Spaghetti after he mentioned it...

so here is what I came up with

Casserole dish
1 lb of Hamburger meat
4 Peppers
Jar of Spaghetti Sauce
Pkg of grated Chedder Cheese
Parmasean Cheese
Onion

Clean out the Four Peppers
Prepare a lb of hamburger meat with lil bit if bread crumbs, onions, S/P, worcheshire sauce
put loosely meatball size of meat into bottom of Pepper
next layer about inch of Spaghetti Sauce top with chedder cheese
another layer of meat
another layer of spagehetti sauce and cheese.
Top with few slices of onion
Sprinkle with Parmasean

Roll out remainder of Meat into meatballs

Place Peppers in square casserole dish and remainder of meatballs in casserole dish beside Pepper.
Pour remainder of Spaghetti Sauce into casserole dish on top of meatballs and around Peppers
Sprinkle entire thing with Parmesan Cheese

Cook for 45 minutes at 375 (I think)

IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING!




STUFFED PEPPERS!
We left off Spaghetti Sauce in this batch! :(


With the leftovers, Sunday morning SWAMP MAMA SPECIAL OMELLETE as we are now calling it.
Cut up remaining Stuffed Peppers and meatballs
Heat the remaining with a bit more spaghetti sauce and some diced onion
Whip up 3 eggs with a lil milk for beginnings of Omellete
when Omellete is about ready add the heated up left overs.. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and chedder cheese...

THAT IS ONE AMAZING OMELLETE!

ENJOY
and

HAPPY SHOPPING!

Seashell Hunt on Edisto.. Like Shopping for FREE Treasures!

So this past weekend was the Great CAMPOUT 2011! Let me tell you, Camping in August is HOT HOT HOT and I do not mean HOT in a good way. I mean MISERABLY, CANTCATCHMYBREATH HOT!

But let me start from the beginning...

We had had reservations since June for this weekend to camp at the Live Oak section of EDISTO STATE PARK Campground. Last Wednesday we hear Tropical Storm Emily is headed directly for us by Sunday. BUT.. that didn't stop us from our Great CAMPOUT 2011.

We had all the gear and headed out Friday morning. First stop was in Beaufort, SC. I hit Dollar Tree with my list and Vic went to Walmart with his! I quickly completed my list along with the funniest lil photo EVER (SEE BELOW! HE IS GHASTLY!)  I have seen these in PRICEY Gift Boutiques in downtown Savannah and loved that I found this one for $1.00 at the Dollar Tree!

 Handsome Man in Uniform or??? 

As you turn off for Edisto Island, there is this funky-do lil shop called BEFORE EDISTO. The two times I have been to Edisto before it was closed,.. but not this time!  We stopped there before heading down to the Campground. This placed ROCKED! So very cool! Full of antiques, primitives and Gullah folk art.

The owner was this nutty lil waif of a woman (I swear she was a ghost). I found these adorable four lil plates in a stack of $1.00 plates and a Fish Ceramic plate. The Ghostly woman told me that she and her business partner had bought the contents of a house in downtown Charleston on St. Phillip Street that had not been entered in 22 years! How cool is that! She had stacks of old linens that she had painstakenly cleaned but I just do not need. I cannot imagine entering a home that had been closed up for 22 years but I imagine it was an incredible adventure for those ladies!

My favorite of the plates is this lil German GNOME with Fairy plate!

We arrived to our campsite No. 105 around noon. We set up, ate lunch and headed for the beach. All of the beaches on Edisto are amazing but I must say the State Park beach is almost as great as Botany Bay that we discovered in June! 

The Seashell hunt is AMAZING! A new treasure with every wave and in every nook and cranny.  I love the hunt for the perfect Seashell almost as much as I do as shopping for treasure and actually would compare it to digging for treasure. I must have filled my JackO'Lantern Bucket four times. We learned that SHARK Teeth hunting is huge on Edisto! I needed my Reading Glasses for that.. We did find Three!

A lil Sea Turtle I found!

Me at the beach.

The bugs on Edisto are HORRIBLE! Flies, NoSeeUms, Red Ants and those damn Mosquitos! I hate them all.. and the HEAT .. Oh the HORRID HEAT! Sleeping in 77 degrees and humidity,, UGH! I did give it my best effort though. We did have an amazing Hamburger Grillout!

Saturday was another day.. We were on the beach bby 7:00am for more Seashell hunting! My hair had already had enough.. hence the bandanas and CURLS! (AKA POODLEHEAD)

 and then trying to stay cool! Vic is now calling me the ICE PRINCESS.. To fight the heat I put my feet in an ice bucket, cold towel around my neck, fan in my face.. HA! Very sad! Call me WIMP!

Dinner was the most amazing BBQ Chicken on Vic's new grill from The EDISTONION General Store! Vic fell in love with that place and will now never go to Piggly Wiggly on the island again. 

We had a few woodland creatures visit us! CARDINALS and more Cardinals!

The female

The Male

But most of all.. I just loved my SEASHELLS!

I can shop any where!! I found a cute blue bandana $1.89, EB Edisto Beach Keychain $2.49 and bumper sticker $1.99, and Purple Edisto Souvenir t-shirt $10.49 at the Edistonion.

By Sunday morning.. GAME OVER. We had had enough of the heat and the bugs! We luckily never had any rain!  Got up at 7am, packed it up, went to the SeaCow for breakfast and headed home!

Lesson learned? NEVER CAMP IN AUGUST :)

Oh I forgot..

HAPPY CAMPING!

JULIA CHILDS Mastering The Art of FRENCH COOKING Volumes 1 & 2

Me and JULIA!

I went to a cool lil antiques store (formerly a mansion) in downtown Savannah today. This was truly an antique store with big expensive, very old Victorian era things. I think it was called EUROPEAN ANTIQUES. How Original (not) and Not for me..

But! I did find some tres' cool books....

JULIA CHILDS, MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING Volumes One and Two, $5 each volume. Volume One is 1973 edition and they still have their original dust jackets. Volume One originally came out in 1961 and Julia wrote it with her dear friend, Simone Beck.

And what is really cool is that the Volume Two is FIRST EDITION!! THAT IS BANANAS!! 

JULIA CHILDS!!

I will save these for someone for a gift.. ANY ONE LOVE FRENCH COOKING? In the meantime, they will stay on my cookbook shelf by the kitchen shelf (DID I MENTION THAT I REALLY DON'T COOK?)

I may not cook.. But my sista Carol can!! Here are two new recipes she sent me to try ( that she got from K.B.)...

chicken tetrazzini

 cooking time: 30-35 min
preheat oven to : 350


1/2 cup butter
2 cups cubed chicken
1 jar sliced mushrooms
1 cup sour cream
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
4 oz. cooked spaghetti
shredded cheese


Melt butter. Add soups and mushrooms. Stir until well-blended. Remove from heat. Add cooked chicken, spaghetti, and sour cream. Pour mixture into greased 9x9 baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake uncovered at 350 for 30-35 min.

chicken enchilada casserole

1 cup onion, chopped
1/2 cup green pepper, chopped
2 T. butter
2 cups chicken, cooked and chopped
1 (4 oz.) can green chili peppers, rinsed, seeded, chopped
3 T. butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1tsp. ground coriander
3/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cup chicken broth
1 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cup Monterey jack cheese, shredded
12 (6in) tortillas

Preheat oven to 350. In a large saucepan, cook onion and green pepper in the 2 T. butter until tender. Combine onion mixture in a bowl with chopped chicken and green chili peppers. Set aside .In the same sauce pan, make the sauce by melting 3 T. of butter. Stir in flour, coriander, and salt. Stir in chicken broth all at once. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 1 to 2 minutes more. Remove from head. Stir in sour cream and 1/2 cup of cheese. Stir 1/2 cup of this sauce into the chicken mixture. Dip each tortilla into remaining sauce to soften. Fill each tortilla with about 1/4 cup of chicken mixture. Roll up. Arrange rolled tortilla in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Pour remaining sauce on top. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake uncovered at 350 about 25 minutes or until bubbly. Serves 6.

I did buy three other books today..

• JACKIE'S TREASURES.. The Fabled Objects from the Auction of the Century. 
• House Beautiful DECORATING DETAILS
• ROOMS TO REMEMBER Interiors Inspired By The Past

and QUILTING ARTS Magazine, March 2010, $1. Great for a lil light reading to put me to sleep!

  

So let us move on from the books.. 
My first Craft Project! I have all the parts and a FAB-OO idea but I can just NOT make myself do it.. perhaps worried it will be cheapy or won't do it right. CAKE PLATES! Random candleholders and china plates I have picked up here and there.. I know they will be DEE-LISH.. But.. I need a confidence push...

SEASHELL ART!

Here is what I have done with the Seashells I have collected the past couple of months...

Blue vase and EDISTO SHELLS bouquet!

Bowl and BOTANY BAY SHELLS!

Giant Wine Glass and Clam SHELLS from EDISTO!

Candy Jar and TYBEE Seashells!

And I forgot the PARROT Pictures picture.. Here they are! LOVE THEM!!

THE PARROTS! They shall go in the Bedroom!

Last, let me mention.. I am supposed to go camping this weekend at Edisto Island State Park... CAN YOU SAY TROPICAL STORM EMILY!!! Stay Tuned and .....

HAPPY SHOPPING!