The door. Old door to be used to hide the drink machine at the end of the bar. 

Had frosted glass installed in the opening. 

Cleaning it off. Found a hole while vacuuming it off. Sucked out a carpenter bee!! Long deceased. But yuck. 

Cute picture I ordered came in broken. Great service. New one on the way! 

Truffles enjoying a bubbly. 

Cutest grandogs ever. 

Cashing out

My neighbor on learning we were using old coins for our bar in Clinton, contributed this huge bag of  what he called trash coins. They were far from that to me. 

We worked them in. 

That is not all that was happening today. Delivery trucks kept coming. 

The chairs were delivered. 

Here is the space before all got placed. 

Working it all in 

Love the reclaimed tabletops. 

The booths came next. Candy tries them out. 

Next on to the bar. 

Brandon came to film the process. 

The last pour. 

Heat gun gets out bubbles. 

The whole bar  

A key section. 

Whoa! Mom qualified for the Roaring 90’s party at St C’s. All over 90 are invited. It was a 50’s theme. 

Tommy and Jan getting in the mood. 

Root beer floats and French fries were great. Songs from the era completed the mood. 

Toby getting in the fall spirit. 

It all adds up.

The project we have all been waiting for...the money topped bar at the Bank by Pizza Shack.

Since the restaurant will have a bank theme , Ryan requested a penny topped bar (it’s a thing). We decided to go a couple of steps further and add old money and foreign money from travels. Those are some almost hundred year old checks from The Bank of Clinton too. 

Blank slate. Candy contributed some unique things and Ryan and Mary Grace’s travels added some foreign money. 

We laid out the paper items, I decopauged them down and began with pennies. 

Started with a small section in front of the future ice cream case. 

Mostly pennies here but mixed in a few coins and a couple of bills. 

Time to mix epoxy ( no small feat) and pour. 

You have to pour slowly and carefully. 

It looked great. 

Crystal clear and bright. 

On to the tedious work of arranging it all. We didn’t use anything that was valuable, just interesting. 

Candy was very good at it. I couldn’t have done it without her. Many of the coins were from her Dad’s collection. 

I included this envelope from my Dad’s coin bag. He collected coins for years while employed at the bank. We didn’t use many of his coins because we are

having them evaluated. Used a few of the bills and coins from their travels though. 

Got several sections done. 

Second batch gets mixed...

...and poured. 

Ok...by later afternoon we had a little wine. 

Almost done. We ran out of epoxy and pennies. The results were startlingly good. We’ll finish up next week. 

Decided summer was over  but I wasn't quite ready for fall so I pulled out the old blue and white. This collection began back in the 80's. It is back again but never truly ever goes completely out. 

Love my little monkey man. The big jar on the far left is my most valuable. It is truly an antique. However by Asian standards it is probably young at 100-150 years old. I wonder what the little jar says? Anybody able to read Chinese? 

 

Saturday morning is Toby's favorite time of the week - laundry day. He is never quite sure if he belongs in the light or dark pile. 

I'll entitle this one belly up. Patrick dogs had just had a bath and were exhausted. 

The idea came together for the bar foot rail at Clinton Shack. 

Look how great it looks. And the floor! MG and Ryan did a great job on the concrete front too. 

September Book Club

It started with a lovely salad. 

Fabulous Brie and fig preserves sandwiches grilled in rosemary butter.  😃 

Book Club at Jill's. All so good.  We read My Cousin Rachel by Rebecca DuMaurier. We all loved reading an older classic. 

This was dessert. Pavlova. Basically meringue with fruit and whipped cream. Yumm

Jill insisted on a picture taken with timer. I was the runner. 

MG came over after work. Pepper , who adores her emersed himself in her purse. Yikes.