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Thursday, August 21, 2025

FUNTASTIC FRIDAY LINK PARTY AND LATE SUMMER IDEAS

Happy 3rd week of August! Our youngest grandkids, Parker and Oakli, returned to school this past Monday, 4th and 2nd grade, respectively. So while summer still has about a month of life, with school starting, it feels like Fall. Plus, Walmart has mums for sale! I love my mums for sure!

I recently had a desire to re-decorate the hallway bathroom, since Staci and the kids moved into their own home. Being a child of the 60s and 70s, I have an infinity for retro and Mid-Century Modern decor. I do like the atomic stars and the black cats of the late 50s, early 60s so set out to find some decor. The finished product, you can find HERE.

I also will be making a few posts about our recent Alaskan cruise--we had a great time! Spoiler: my husband and I WON a cruise while on our Holland America Alaskan cruise! Woo hoo!

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Mid-Century Modern Bathroom Re-Do

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Recently, I decided to go our hallway bathroom a bit of a makeover. I didn't want to spend a lot of money and wanted to keep it to accessories and decor within a certain budget. Being a child growing up in the 60s and 70s (might as well admit it lol), I have always been drawn to decor from those eras or even the 50s. I wanted to do something colorful and retro, without breaking the bank.

I started my search perusing Pinterest for ideas. I then visited Etsy for ideas and merchandise, as well as Amazon.

On Amazon, I found these metal ATOMIC STARS! They are a good quality metal and come with adhesive dots to place on a surface. However, I found that they didn't adhere to my bathroom wall with just the enclosed dots so I added a bit of Gorilla sticky dots to hold them in place. I really do love the color!

What a bathroom redo without a new shower curtain? Since I am crazy about that particular era, I had to add the black cats famous during that time period. This SHOWER CURTAIN

was perfect for the look I was going for. It comes in several colors, too! The BATH MATS came from Amazon, too, and add a great splash of color.

Another view of the shower curtain and atomic stars.

I visited Etsy and found this DOWNLOADABLE PRINT with the perfect Atomic black cat! You can print off various sizes, too. I also ordered various light switches and outlet covers in three colors (pink, turquoise and orange) HERE..

While I was very into the bright colors and black cats of the time, I wanted to honor my Florida roots with a bit of vintage flamingo. I found this cute soap dispenser on ETSY. I find it cute and durable (for the grandkids).

Last but not least, I know a clock seems a strange addition to a bathroom (or maybe not haha) but I originally was going to do a spare bedroom in MCM style. However, I went with the bathroom but loved the clock too much to send it back. You can find it HERE. It comes in a variety of colors and is battery-powered. The black starbursts and Atomic astronaut cats came in a set from AMAZON.. Again, the enclosed adhesive dots didn't hold the cats up so well, so I used my own to secure them.

I hope you enjoyed my review of my Mid-Century Modern/Retro bathroom redo! I had fun planning it out!

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

FUNTASTIC FRIDAY LINK PARTY 553 AND OUR VERSION OF GROUNDHOG DAY

Last week we had a few issues with our link up code,

so like in the movie Groundhog Day

when the main character re-lives the same day over and over again,

we're re-living FF #553 but with the addition of more host favorite picks!

Enjoy the repeat ;) with some more of our favorite finds for this week!

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

FUNTASTIC FRIDAY LINK PARTY 552 AND CHRISTMAS IN JULY FEATURE

Hello! Thanks for joining us for our link party. Here is it the end of July and school will be starting for many kids in the next few weeks. I'm old enough to remember when we got out of school the Friday before Memorial Day and went back the day after Labor Day. Well, I don't have that to worry about these days, but we do help out with the two youngest grandkids and they do start back on August 18th.

First, we are off to Alaska via Holland America this weekend! First cruise and we are excited (by we, I mean my husband and I). For shore excursions, we will be whale watching near Juneau, going to a raptor rescue and watching bears (from afar, I hope) in Sitka and a tour of the area in Ketchikan and also in Victoria, BC.

Excited to board the ship and go on our very first cruise!

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FUNTASTIC FRIDAY LINK PARTY 551 AND PIZZA BREAD RECIPE

Here it is, almost the end of July! I guess time does fly by as you get older (I never thought that as a kid). I have spent quite a bit of time, getting things ready for my husband and I to go on our Alaskan cruise in August! I have never been on a cruise before and so many have told us how much they enjoyed the Alaskan cruises (we knew one couple who would go every two years on an Alaskan cruise.). We are familiar with Alaska, as Staci lived there for several years. I've been making sure we are prepared for out shore excursions (whale watching in Juneau, various tours in Ketchikan and Sitka, and a walking tour in Victoria, B.C. Also, making sure we are fetching for our anniversary (which was in April) dinner and for the Gala dinner. I chose our anniversary for a special dinner but I was torn; do I choose to celebrate my cancer recovery? My husband's retirement? The anniversary won out lol.

I've had some nice tips from other bloggers already but if anyone has any for any of the ship's daily activities, how fancy you went on dinner dress, or if anyone had any seasickness, (we do have scopolamine patches) etc., comment below! We are cruising on the Westerdam thru Holland America.