My pictures of my children are sadly out of date. Rather than go to Target or another studio, I decided to have a friend take some pictures in a more “vintage-y” setting as befits the mood I am trying to create in my home! My sweet neighbor directed us to a beautiful old farm about 15 miles away, where we were given permission to take pictures. No one is living there at the moment, but you can see it was once a busy place! There were treasures to be found wherever I looked, and I *wish* I could have gone hunting through the many ramshackle outbuildings! I know I would have found some things that wanted to come home with me!
There were amazing old outbuildings everywhere…
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And the foliage was taking over!
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I peeked in this shed…there was an old washtub, a great old door, and a bike frame where I could see them…
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Don’t you just love this little shack? What a beautiful door.
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One building may have been some kind of a guest house. I loved the “K” (for “Korrie”) on the shutters with the chippy blue paint.
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Water storage, maybe? The tank just peeked out over the bushes.
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There were piles of old barn wood and bits and pieces of old equipment all over the place! I love how the plants just grow up through the tines.
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Look at this treasure…an old cast iron bathtub hiding in a thicket! (Sadly, it did not have claw feet.)
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Here is a gate to nowhere…it was just leaning up against another pile of junk.
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I would love to have this in a flower bed.
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…or maybe this!
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This box was just sitting outside with no one to love it. It tempted me more than anything, but I did not give in!
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My dear sweet husband does not understand my fascination with all this “old stuff.”
What about you?
Do you see the junk, or do you see the beauty?
![Funky Junk's Saturday Nite Special](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/signmakergirl/satnitenew150w-1.jpg)
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