Barn Cars

A New York man retired.  He wanted to use his retirement money wisely, and decided to buy a home and a few acres in Portugal.  The modest farm house had been vacant for 15 years.  The owner and his wife both had died and there were no heirs. The house was sold to pay taxes.  There had been several lookers but the large barn had steel doors that were welded shut.  Nobody wanted to go to the extra expense to see what was in the barn, and it wasn't complimentary to the property anyway. So nobody had made an offer on the place.

 The New York guy bought it at just half of the property's worth, moved in and set about to tear in to the barn.  Curiosity was killing him. So he and his wife bought a generator and a couple of heavy duty grinders and cut through the welds.

 What was in the barn?

Classic cars, specialty cars, Mercedes, Lotus, Astin Martin, Porsche, Volvo, Austin Healy,
Alfa Giulietta, BMW, Formula Racers, Chryslers, Mercedes, Austin A30, Alfa Romeo

 Fiat Cabriolet (1200 or 1500), Ford Cortina MKII, Mercedes Benz 180/190

Astin Martin?

 Opel GT, Lotus Elan FHC, Lotus Super Seven Series IV, Lotus Elan DHC

  
Porsche 356, Austin Healy Sprite MKII, Volvo PV 544, Ford Y ?

Giulietta Sprint, Giulia Sprint Speciale (SS), Nash Metropolitan

  
Alfa Giulietta, Lotus Europa, another Lotus Elan FHC, Matra Djet?

 Lancia Flaminia Coupé

Abarth 1300 Scorpione

 American (inspired) Design

Interior of Alfa Romeo

 Lancia Flaminia Coupé, Peugeot 504 and 404 Cabriolet

 Mini, Alfa 1900 Super Sprint, Balilla

 Fiat Topolino II Triumph TR4, Peugeot 202

  
BMW V8, Formula Racers, Chryslers, Mercedes, Austin A30

Awesome story from Stories, etc.

Great Finds!

Love these fantastic finds I've bought this week!

Tranquility Fountain from CD-R King

Regular price: Php 250 ( $6)

Just bought it for only Php 125 !!!

 

Fashionable Purse from Vente-vente for only

Php 40 ($0.99)

 

 Vintage Necklace with Belle's Mirror Pendant

(Belle of Beauty & the Beast) also from Vente-vente

for only Php 50 ($1.22)

 

engraved back

 

front: with tiny mirror.

Andreana

The newest addition to the family, my niece, Andreana... isn't she cute? :)

A new baby is like the beginning of all things, hope, a dream of possibilities.

And every new born baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.

Tiel at 1 year old!

"Children are naturally content because they don't know any different. It's the knowledge of difference that breeds discontent - and it's when you finally realise that difference makes no difference that you can reclaim contentment."
Guy Browning

Happiness is...

when you are surrounded by "critters" who loves you...

Your Family... :)

My Boys... My Life...My Angels

(Ralph Sealtiel, Rafael, Ralph Uriel and Ralph Gabriel)

You complete me...Love you all!

~xoxo~

JOBS

The next time you complain about your job...

 

… think about having this young boy’s job. Suddenly you’ll realize that your job is the greatest thing in the world by comparison.

Every now and then my husband would have a gripe about his job (mostly his ex-boss). As soon as I would say to him “At least you have a job” it would sink in and he knew he was wrong to find fault with it. I would sometimes say that it’s better then having a job where you do the same thing over and over and over again, day in and day out, for mere pennies a day.

I wish I could go there, get this boy and bring him some place else to work. Surely working at the mall or McDonald’s (typical teen jobs) is a gazillion times better then what he is currently doing.

It’s so sad to see that people have to live this way.

xoxo 

My Baby Yuri is Pooping in the Potty!

If you're a parent that has ever gone through the potty training process, you can rejoice with me that my baby is now pooping on the potty! 

We have been sitting him on the potty almost everyday, but he wants to get down and refused to go. He finally pooped in the potty on Wednesday night! 

I was completely prepared for that to be a one time thing, but he has really taken off. 

About 30 minutes later he was showing interest in the potty and went again! 

I asked him if he had to go potty as soon as he woke up yesterday morning and he did.

The best part is that he was the one telling me he had to go 75% of the time.  

(I really hate posts without pictures, so here's a random shot of him)

xoxo

Time

I realize the phrase is a bit overused, but I can’t help but think how quickly time sure does fly. It seems like just yesterday I was holding this little guy in my arms and today he’s just a few inches shorter than me, walking off to his school service for his 2nd month on the 3rd grade. I have a feeling I’m going to blink and he’ll be driving off to high school.

Love you Gabriel!

xoxo

Posters/ Prints

These are some of the stuff I am very busy with... I find it very cute and fun to do. I'll hang the first one on our living room for sure! :)

Have a great week!

~xoxo~