A Southern Belle with Northern Roots/Junkflirt

 Enter the man cave

vintage ammo...well old stuff, sounds cooler if you call it vintage

 This past summer I found a great trunk for just a dollar! It now serves as a sofa table and stores paintball materials inside. The tool tray atop becomes a magazine rack...no that woman is not a dirty magazine, for some reason that publication seems to think a chic holding a gun does something to sell issues I guess.




 All reproduction metal signs came from Hobby Lobby, what is funny is all the other junk like oil cans, the tool tray and trunk, lantern etc is from my collection. Now...it seems as though it is acceptable to collect such material. silly boy



 But....this is the true gem of my hubby's man cave, he turned the closet into a reloading station. I must say it makes me very happy because his previous reloading station was my kitchen. He used to sit at the breakfast nook and reload, ejecting primers on my floor and getting gun powder residue all over. Yeah....I hear ya.


 so hooray for the new room!!!









 If you read the previous posts on my girly room- The Uber Shabby Room you remember I spoke of the futon we purchased from Craigs list...this is it.  Perfect for the room and exactly what we wanted, it was a bargain at $80....especially considering the trundle bed was thrown it!








 Hey that stud of a man in that photo sporting the sweet sweatsuit and oversized sunglasses, that is my man 23 years ago. We had been married a little over a year and were expecting our first child, he caught this whopper of a paddlefish in the Williston Basin area. It was 68 pounds and full of caviar. For years he would go to the photo books and dig this one out to show anyone that would sit still long enough to hear the story. I finally decided to take it out and frame it for him, to this day he has never gone to the photo book to get any other picture...nope, not one of the kids or one of me..silly boy, but that is ok, this Monday the 16th (2012) we will be celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary and I guess I will keep him another 24 years God willing, especially since he wont be lacing the family dinner with gun powder any longer.

A little while later.....

  Growing in items and mess.....His comfort zone.

 I tossed in my vintage WWI ammo box, yep mine.


I thought I would share his modified Nagant. He removed the original stock, now on the wall -(see above photo of reloading station), replaced it with an ATI Monti Carlo stock, fabbed a new bolt and put on an over the receiver scope mount.
 I still think it was prettier the other way.






Continued prep for the zombie apocalypse,
or target practice.



blessings and thanks for visiting