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July 2012

Two weekends ago, thanks to my wonderful parents, my husband and I got the chance to have a couple nights away without the kiddos.  Thanks to my amazing husband we stayed at the beautiful Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane.

Isn’t it just beautiful.  The pictures really don’t do it justice, you’ll have to just take my word for it.

We spent our weekend junkin’ our way around Spokane and Coeur d’Alene.  My favorite places to go junkin’ is estate sales and garage sales, we even found a barn sale!  We then came across this adorable little shop called Forget Me Not.

We then hit up a few thrift shops on this cute little street in Coeur d’Alene.

And look at all these great treasures we found!  We had a wonderful time and my husband made it all day shopping with me!

I just love Spokane and all the old buildings.  Everywhere you look there is just amazing old treasures!

And beautiful blue sky and big, puffy white clouds!  And lots and lots of GREEN!  Love it!

And of course the junkin’ didn’t stop there.  On another day my girlies, my mom and I went to the Goodwill and look at some of the fun treasures I found.  Not the little lady of course, but look at those great minty green heels, she was quite impressed with them too!  And my mom found this great bag of old magazines; several Rolling Stones magazines and a couple Country Gentleman.  I just love all the old ads.

This past weekend, my mom had heard about this sale her friend called, the pickers paradise.  So of course we had to go and check it out.  And it was definately not for the faint of heart.  You definately had to do your fair share of picking, but let me tell you it was SOOO worth it.  There were some amazing treasures hidden in this mess.   In the bottom left picture you can see all the AMAZING things I found and in the bottom right you can see a few of the things my mom found.  We had so much fun hunting.  That is what its all about!  The hunt!  And the FIND!

This week we continued our journey north leaving Auburn, California (the Sacramento area) and headed to Bend, Oregon for one night and then on to Spokane, Washington where we will be staying for a couple weeks.  We enjoyed a beautiful drive through northern California and Oregon with the vast and amazingly blue skies and all the chippy & rusty, old barns.

And of course along the way there were lots of completely adorable small towns and all of them have an antique shop.  We were driving literally  through the middle of nowhere, the biggest town we went through was Bend, Oregon where we started our day.  These pictures are from a little shop in Morro, Oregon.  They had lots of beautiful collections.

And then we arrived at my parents house in beautiful Washington!  I just can’t get enough of all the green.  That is definately what I miss most about the desert of Arizona.

Here are a few of my favorite views from along the trip.  I loved these amazing rusty silos in Northern California.

This beautiful building is in a tiny town in Northern Oregon called Shaniko.  Just a little side note.  Growing up, I used to make this same drive with my family every summer to visit family in California.  Shaniko was always one of our favorite sites along the way.  I think we even have pictures (I might have to dig one out since I’m at my parents), of us kids standing in front of the “now entering” sign for Shaniko, because the population on the sign read 26!  We always thought that was so crazy!  And the town is seriously in the middle of nowhere.

I missed the name of this little town, honestly because the town was gone before we even realized it.  But my lovely husband did manage to get pulled over just on before leaving town, when he saw these great chippy, old gas pumps!

Over the weekend, my husband and I spent the weekend in an amazingly beautiful old hotel in Spokane, without the kids thanks to my parents, called the Davenport.  I’ll have more pictures of that in the upcoming weeks.  But I do have one picture to get you excited about all the fun treasures and old buildings that we found in Spokane and hence my love for all things chippy, rusty and vintage.