Lake Michigan

A few weeks ago, Sarah and I vacationed together in South Haven, MI. It was glorious. Lake Michigan was not only surprisingly warm, but super clear. I’m down with being a lake person, but you bet your ass that I wear water shoes. In Lake Michigan, I didn’t even need to! It wasn’t gross at all! Yay nature!

We spent a lot of time swimming and lounging, but also made time to go antiquing. The go-to strategy among dealers here seemed to be setting up shop on your front lawn. We saw a lot of antiques just laying in people’s yards, with little explanation to how they survive the elements or if any effort is even made to protect them from rain or theft.

It looked like American Pickers, where the dudes just drive around and look for people with junk outside. They call it “freestylin” on the show, but because I am a disgusting and juvenile person, I kept telling Sarah we were “freeballin.” We just drove around until we found places to stop.

And boy did we find a place…

The place we found was called something like “Junktiques” which was a fair and honest assessment. It turned out to also be some dude’s life work of creating arguably insane art. In true Sarah fashion, she told the guy that his sculptures made her laugh, which the guy reacted to with a blank stare.

TBH, the sculptures were funny and also totally delightful. I would put one in my backyard in a heartbeat.

All I bought from this bro were some cookie cutters for Everett to use with Play-Dough. I did not buy this life-size wood carving of Sarah.

Also did not buy this hilarious elephant.

And I did not buy this mask, even though I looked great in it.

We also stopped at a nice little shop inside a house, which was clearly geared towards shabby chic moms (me, basically).

I wanted to buy that big metal ball and put Christmas lights in it, but decided not to because the woman revealed it was from a wholesale gardening place. I figured I could find one cheaper online since that was the case.

I did end up buying some cool wooden slats that I plan to put in my garden.

And I got this neat old egg carton to put up by my egg scales. It was so darn cute and only $8!

Zach and Adam went out shopping too, without us. Zach bought this giant painting of a dude yelling? crying? who knows…

If someone can identify this man, that would be awesome. I want to know so badly who he is and what he is doing. He lives in our living room now.

I am lol’ing hard at the amount of bags I have hanging on the dining room chairs. Apparently I need two purses, a gym bag, and a backpack to exist in life.

And just for a little life update, here are our dudes! Everett will be 3 in October! Arden will be 2 in November!