A Trip thru the Trees to buy stuff and do the Winnie thing

a Winnie trip to the salty waters edge....a drive thru "Ron Paul" country....if you've been one place in Western Washington, you've seen it all because it all looks exactly alike. Only the mountains get farther away...or closer. It's either raining or it's raining real hard. Ron Paul people are scary because if I were to break down, or slip and fall in the Safeway, they would just step over me to get their cheap Medicare drugs....

 Hey! I did a couple of things to the Winnie ...aka,Winnebago, aka, my only home I'll ever own. We hooked up the water since the freezing weather is over now....Oh That was 30 wet and terrifying minutes of my life...but Mark figured out the problem...and we had water, hot water, a flushing toilet ....cold martinis and life was Beauty!!


Most people paint their faux bois 70s interiors white....I think that looks really cool and oh, so pretty, but for me....the faux bois is so very comforting. When decorating, I'm trying to make Ralph Lauren cry.....
 and referencing a California cabin in the woods on the Marin coast, and a bit of classic 70s stuff....the kind of things I had when my kids were little....

I forgot to pack the extra lighting...so the pics are too dark. ..there will be more pics, oh yes!

I adore the spare simple modern fabrics from the 60s and 70s...All things Vera Neuman...ferns and green plants, and baskets.

I added big fat zig zag trim to the edges of the shades, but I do confess, I'm having big trouble choosing the fabric for the curtains in the kitchen/dinette.
Mark suggested covering the ugly dinette seats with vintage camp blankets, and he is a genius.
I'll probably default to mattress ticking stripes to cover the front seats. (gahd, are they ugly!)

 I hung up the barkcloth curtains along the back window, and green mattress stripe cotton on the back side windows. I have very wooly and warm vintage blankets, (the top one with stripes is a 30s Orr wool blanket, thick and warm)....... and some thrifted Ralph Lauren floral pillow cases....I'm gonna make some striped ones too, and make about 4 or 5 smaller throw pillows in different barkcloth fabrics, in the same brown and green tones. I really adore the barkcloth on the back window.....it feels very Arizona desert.

 a super-favorite Vera Baked Fish (!) tea towel, a dried fern....old rusty thermometer...vintage Yosemite pennant

There are several hipster cliches I'm avoiding like...the plague. No chevron prints, and no letterpress anything, no fucking banners, and chalkboard paint. I will have an antler or 2, birch bark and big letters (but I was doing the cabin in the junk yard thing long before those kids were even born!)

So it's happening...

waterfront view for 22 hours....

 Vegetarian Corn Dogs baking in the oven!! yes it works like a dream, and the frig works perfect....

I tell you....living in the Winnie....makes me so happy.
I have a semi-long list of things to get it all set up like a ready-to-go home. I'm trying really hard to spend nothing or close to nothing on the things I need, since, good grief, I have a 45 year collection of homemaking stuff....

Here's a little shade with big zig zag trim....

I am fascinated with oversize replicas of things that are usually very small, and I am fascinated with tiny replicas of things that are usually very large....