Antique Mirrors

I found a couple antique mirrors this evening at the local thrift store. I had a bunch of stuff in the back of the car that I had put there yesterday evening to take to them. So DH told me today I needed to mail our Netflix DVD and to go by the thrift store and take that stuff I had in the back of the car. I was like, OK. lol So anyway did all that and found these mirrors. I think the very same person must have had these that had the dresser I bought last week because it was ALSO covered in cat hair and spider webs. Here they are before I wiped and cleaned them up. Quite a difference with them after they are cleaned up. I think I am going to put one maybe two of them over my dresser.

 

I think I am going to paint them the country white to match my dresser. They are wood and the paint is flaking off pretty bad. On the back they had a sticker and it said Permaflect Mirror, J.A. Olson Company Winona, Mississippi. Oh I haven’t said what I gave for them yet have I? ;) 16.00 for BOTH of them. They are mega heavy to.

Annie’s Salsa Recipe

Well I made the last batch of tomatoes in Annie’s Salsa Recipe and man can I say that her recipe is AWESOME with ALL caps! I even used Splenda in place of the sugar and it’s still awesome! I sure am hoping I can get some more tomatoes to make some more of this because I KNOW this is NOT going to be enough to last us! IF I can’t get anymore I will be buying some gallon cans of tomatoes to make this with! It’s THAT GOOD! I’ve got all the other ingredients to make a couple more batches of it so I’ll just get me a couple gallons of tomatoes to make it.

I found the recipe on the Garden Web Harvesting forum. You can read all about it here at the links below. You might need to do a search because it’s changed several times to make it better so I understand and to make it more safe. They have several threads where they have discussed her recipe. Just in case these links doesn’t work. Go to www.gardenweb.com and click on forums and then Harvest Forum. You can then do a search for Annie’s Salsa Recipe.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/harvest/msg082200459418.html?131

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/harvest/msg1122365628967.html?24

I hope you all had a great 4th! I know I did.

Tomatoes

Got my last tomatoes in the water bath now. We got 11 pints of tomatoes. Then we canned some Chile Hot Pepper Sauce and got 14 half pints and 1 whole pint of those. Then I have some left in the fridge to make some of Annie’s Salsa tomorrow. I’m really not wild about the hot pepper sauce but I think I can throw in some hot Tabasco sauce in with it and make it better. I just seems like it needs something and I couldn’t mess with the recipe for fear of making it unsafe to eat. It’s good it’s just NOT what I was looking for. The recipe I have tasted seemed like it was more tomato tasting but yet hot, but not so hot you can’t eat it.

It’s about time I got into bed. Got to get those last ones out of the bath so I can get in the bed. I sure hope the salsa turns out better than the pepper sauce did. :)

I hope you all have a wonderful fourth!

Rose

Dresser

YES I FINALLY found me a dresser that will go with my chest and it wasn’t but 50.00! It’s very nice to has some scratches but I was going to paint it anyway (country white) to match my chest and head board. Let’s see, I bought the chest for 30.00, the headboard for 10.00 and then bought another headboard that was messed up so I could use the curvy post on it for mine, and that one was 5.00, then my dresser was 50.00. So I have what 95.00 in my WHOLE BEDROOM SET! lol

Got to show  you some pix of the dresser! Just went and got it today. Some of the pix I took at the place I bought it. Isn’t it weird how the light makes things different? I have most of the curtains closed in my living room so it’s a little dark in there right now.

It didn’t have a mirror with it but that’s no problem. I will find one or use a gold framed one I already have. I can paint it to match it as well if I need to.

Here’s a pic of the chest right after I got it painted. I know some of you are going to freak out because I painted old furniture. :)