Back To The Drawing Board..........

Last week I showed my 

Dumpster Diva

that my daughter Taylor

found in the trash, rescued and

brought home to me.

This week I have another

"treasure" that Taylor rescued

from the trash! ha!

And, no, she does NOT make a habit of

dumpster diving.

So far she is two for two.

She's looked in two dumpsters and found 

two treasures.

I think she may have a knack!

If I can just convince her!!!!

 

This time however,

she rescued a 

Dumpster Dude.

It was last fall and I had just found out

that the caterer I had hired for my son's 

rehearsal dinner ....was not going to make it.

It was 24 hours before I was supposed to host 100 people!

So Taylor and I went to the local small-chain grocery store

to get food to cook the large dinner ourselves.

 As we pulled away I said that we needed to 

check the dumpster to see if they had any 

cardboard boxes to 

transport all our food and wedding rehearsal decor 

to the site. 

Taylor reached over the side of the dumpster

and pulled out a long cylinder cardboard tube.

Not exactly the type of cardboard box I needed to transport,

but she thought it looked interesting.

We looked inside and found...

all the architectural drawings and blue prints

to the grocery store.

Please ignore the dust blob on the edge of the drawings. I have no idea how it got there, as dust is not allowed in my house1111 ha!

Eighty-three pages of drawings

to be exact!!

The graphics are wonderful.

Pages and pages of them.

They are so....well....blue!

You better believe I kept the

Dumpster Dude!

There are intricate drawings of 

everything from the store itself

to the parking lot,

to the men and women's bathrooms

(wouldn't that be cool to frame and hang in a bathroom?),

to the refrigeration systems,

and each individual aisle in the store.

Not to mention the writing on each and every page!

Every single page has this on the corner.

It tells who drew that page

and who approved that page.

The plans are from 1961.

In the first picture I have the entire roll

rolled together and put in 

my old wooden ice cream bucket. 

I later undid some of the pages from the large roll

and rolled them individually

and put them back in my old bucket.

I have seen blueprints

rolled up in buckets and boxes

in Pottery Barn rooms and

Restoration Hardware rooms.

Now they are in one of my rooms!

My Hubby gave me the old 

ice cream bucket 

for Valentine's Day.

It makes the perfect 

container for my

blueprints.

So the Dumpster Dude(s) are here to stay.

I have thought about framing

one or two of the more interesting ones

that have food items listed and possibly using them 
for my kitchen.

OR I might do the bathroom idea.

I have enough of them that I can use

several of my ideas.

Now I just need to convince Taylor she has 

super-dumpster-diving-skills!

I am linking this with Metamorphosis Monday and

Thrifty Treasures. Also Wow Us Wednesday's and Open House at No Minimalist Here. And Farmhouse Friday's!