Brain Storming

This is my man. His birthday is two months away, and I realize it may seem a little early to brainstorm, but when you want to make it the best birthday ever you must plan ahead! I have one or two ideas, but dang I don't know if it will be enough. Also, I am terrible about not waiting til the day of and using my good idea earlier than planned and having nothing for the big day. Presents are the easy part: I could think of a hundred things the baby would want. Its the wam bam blow your mind surprise that can be hard....LET THE BIRTHDAY BRAINSTORMING BEGIN!

Old Finds

I found this rock monster my first week of working at the Peddler's Mall. I rarely buy anything for five dollars, but I knew this had Billy written all over it, so I splurged and he was immediately smitten. In my world, five dollars is what fifty is to other people, so it was a big deal!

While Billy and I were Christmas shopping for each other last year, we found this golden gem in a corner of flea market booth. We lost our minds and he immediately came home with us. He is a masterpiece!

Current Events

Holy moly! Billy hurt his toe on the drive way of doom!
I made him this out of toilet paper and it healed immediately.

And so he made this!

Where have you been for so long?

Right here! At our two month old store! It has been very exciting and stressful, but most of all awesome and rewarding! Our computer and camera are both on broke butt mode, so that is why there has been no updates. We have also been understandably busy, but we are hoping to come back in full attack mode on this thing! As long as our new friends let us use their computer! Thank you friends!So our life has been store store store, but its been about some other things too. Lots of our amazing friends and family have come to see our creation. Billy worked his fingers to the bone making Lovers Live Longer Thrift Shop as magical as possible, and everyone seems to love it!
This is the counter that Billy and my dad pulled out of a burned down diner near our home. The other end of it was burned off, so they chained sawed that sucker off there and brought it to our store. It was nasty, and I do mean NASTY. I was even telling him to throw it away, and if I say that, then it's is a big ol' deal. But luckily, Billy had a vision and didn't listen to me and it is beautiful!

Knight with Braces Face

This is my knight outfit. When Billy and I decide to get married, I am going to wear this on our honeymoon.

We found the hat, it seems to be homemade out of pieces of a sweater. The top is Billy's tall man sweater. The sexy body is mine.

Sometimes, I don't feel like brushing my hair. This is what happens.

I AM SO PRETTY!

I had to have the ladies at my work brush it out, they did a good job, and now I go to them for all my hair brushing needs.

Camp T-shirt Commission in Progress

I have been working more than usual, which leads to my days off being incredibly intense. Billy and I run around town with our car full of recyclables, things to sell, and things we find along the way. I like to think of us sitting in an over sized version of our boring Mercury Sable with our teeth gritted, flying around curbs on two wheels, throwing recycling in the correct bins. It isn't quite like that though.

Billy has been painting so much! I am so pround of him. These new things are so vibrant and colorful, I can't wait til he is ready to post about them here. You three people that read this thing better ooh and aah appropriately or else!

We are getting over seven hundred of Billy's postcards printed out!!! We can't wait to get in our best gear and hustle hustle hustle all over Kentucky! Dang it, I love that man! He really deserves all the success I know he is going to get. Supersigh. I really really do love that man.

yes......we're still alive

Man, it's been a looooonng time since our last post huh?
Soooo, I guess you're prolly wondering what kind of cookoo junk we've been up to huh? Well.. I ( Billy) got a job inspecting military vests for the Army. Yay right? Nope, laid off last week. But the money was good while it lasted. We bought tons of useless crap and fast food with it naturally.
Umm, so now I've just been painting and makin music like a crazy person. Hopefully by the end of the week I will have finished three paintings and two songs. That's my goal anyway. Go me!
Abbers as been up to her usual tomfoolery. Workin the Peddlers Mall and cleaning up our messy pad. Sometimes we squeeze in a game of badmitten or tennis, ( which we are terrible at haha) or we watch some ridiculous old movie about gangsters who do grafitti lol!

That's all fer now ta ta

Billy's Family Visit

My family came for a visit to our new apt last week! I hadn't seen my sister and nephew and nieces in such a long time. It was alot of fun! Maybe next time we should pick another place to eat besides White Castle though haha!

Table

Billy here,

This is an old Mersman end table that I fixed and customized that I'll be selling shortly on Etsy. There are something like 350 bottle caps on this thing! Thanks so much to my good buddy Jason Elsner for the sweet painting on top.

Last nite we went dumpster diving and daaaaannnnggg!!We found sooo much neato stuff!! We had to make two hauls in the car to get it all!! There were all kinds of toys in there that are in really good condition.

Billy had to run out for a moment, so I am taking over. It was the best dumpster dive in our collective histories of dumpster patrolling.

Billy's family is coming to visit soon. Like super soon, and we are wigging the heck out. Our apartment is a distaster, not the weenie man disasters most people think of when they think of a messy house. A real one. One that makes you cuss or whistle when you see it.

I work in a place where people throw away treasure. This weeks treasures were : a box of earrings, three awesome canes, and a goat magazine.

Who Bread

Abbigail eats poop.

Well, I am about to as we are making our first homemade bread tonight. You lucky ducks are getting a play by play. I got the recipe for "Who Bread" from one of my favourite crafty mama blogs, SouleMama . Her bread looked yummy and awesome, where as I am scared for the life of ours. Before we get started, Billy saw a piece of bread in my brown sugar and his world was turned upside down. Somewhere I read that if you do this, it will keep your brown sugar moist and not all clumpy and terrible. Its worked for me. Billy insisted on taking a photo. I love this man for things like this.

Step 1

You need to get your ingredients together and put them somewhere you can easily see that you have the correct ones. Sometimes you have to go to another house to get things, like we did. The floor is the best place from our experience.

Step 2

Scratch your hippy dranduffy heads . (No picture necessary)

Step 3

Get Mutant Hands.

Step 4

Put a rag on that nasty thing and wait an hour and a half for it to turn into a blob. It helps if you listen to your man whine about being hungry and maybe do some pilates to pass the time.

Step 5

BREAD!!!! WE DID IT!!!! GOLD MEDAL!!! WE WON!!!! WE WON!!!!

Step 6

Celebrate. Good times. Come on.

Thrift pressure

Billy here.
This mornin we got off to a late start at around 12:30. The car was on e and we had no cash on us and Abby lost her credit card. So we had to drive real slow and coast most of the way to the bank. After that, we got gas and went to the post office to drop off my Etsy package. So I didn't get to work till around 3:30 or so which is extremely late for me since I usually get there at 11:oo. I work for a nice lady in Berea weedeating, paintin, and other odd jobs around the house. Anyway, she wasn't there when I arrived and the paint for todays' project was nowhere to be found so I called in. On the way home Abby begged me to stop at a flea market (even though we don't have two pennies to rub together) and so I did. It was awesome in there! We saw sooooo many things that we didn't need but couldn't live without! The salesman was very nice and entertaining, and even offered me some work painting his house for him. So the overall experience was just great! Problem is.. He sat aside 45 dollars worth of stuff for us to come back and buy!! We ain't got no dollars!! He even fronted us this cool little whale napkin holder and told us to come back and pay for it later! And he wouldn't take no for an answer. What should we do?

OMG Mullet Attack!!

Billy here.
Well, apparently over night I have grown a totally bitchin mullet! When Abbigail saw this picture she laughed so hard that she literally peed on the floor! Bwahahahaha!!

If this fridge is a'rockin', don't come a'knockin'.

Abbigail:
We are note writers in the Abbigail/ Billy household. I am more so than Billy. He probably gets a note for every hour of the day. I like documentation, I can't help it. Every so often though I get myself a little prize like these two.



There's nothing like a butthole to make the ole heart go pitter pat.

Getting Started

Billy, Here.
I just recently made my first Etsy store. Above is the area where I make my things, like the bookplates featured below. The package on the desk is my very first sale! Go Me!!

Hello.

We are Billy and Abbigail.
We live in a kindergarten annex building behind an old elementary school way out in the country. We are both makers of things, cuckoo, avid wrasslers, dumpster divers, recycling fanatics, lovers of food, and hopeless romantics. We try hard to be good, which means doing things you know you should be doing- which for us means being kind, building , making, searching for treasure, singing, growing things, exploring, learning, and being kids. We like reading about other people's lives so we thought someone might like to read about ours too.

Because, after all, we are pretty awesome.