Presumably the green and white piece is a sugar bowl that once belonged to a complete set of 1960s or 70s dishware? I’m using it to house mini glue sticks instead. Fifty cents at a yard sale. The wee orange bud vase was on the 25 cent table at a church tag sale. Orange isn’t usually my color, but I loved the shape and style. Plus for a quarter I certainly wasn’t going to leave it there.
This jaunty little scamp is a small ceramic cookie jar that’s marked “Japan” on the bottom. I have no idea why there is a tiny frog on his head or why no one else at the local Goodwill snapped this up for a mere $2.99! Ugly cute and mildly tacky things have always floated my boat and spun my pinwheels so this was no exception. Amazingly enough it does not coordinate with my kitchen decor so it’s adorning the top of the big honking jewelry box in the bedroom closet where it’s just perfect for storing hair clips and barrettes.
Found all of these at a church tag sale. They were selling pins, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, scarf clips, tie tacks and the like for a quarter each. All items were packaged in individual clear Ziploc sandwich bags that had been stapled shut. Twice. Were they afraid of shoplifters? And if so wouldn’t it be just as easy to lift a wee clear bag with two pieces of tiny bent metal holding it closed? The world may never know.
A field trip to one of my very favorite flea markets (which is now defunct, boo hiss) yielded these groovy antique shoe clips, a rectangular locket, a black pendant and a spiffy brass bracelet with various glass stones and intaglios. The bracelet is particularly lovely and has become one of my new favorite pieces. The combination of colors and textures is just charming and kind of tacky yet fantastic. But perhaps the rectangular locket was the most interesting because it’s actually just the bottom piece of a pin made by Coro. The top part is long gone, however the locket will look great attached to a necklace. I’ve just got to add a jump ring and find the right chain. It’s also missing a couple of stones but I can replace those so that’s no big deal. The neato keen thing about it is that when opened you can see images of the four seasons. Looks like someone out there just up and glued them in.
And last but not least, my friend and I were at an estate sale in my old neighborhood when I came across a large stack of 1950s stretchy rhinestone bracelets! The seller wanted fifty bucks for the lot of them, which was probably reasonable, however I had no use for an entire armful of full on bling, nor did I even like all of the styles and colors. I also didn’t have fifty bucks on me. It was towards the end of the day and I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask the seller if she’d be willing to break up the set and just sell me a few. She agreed and I rolled out of there with these three aurora borealis beauties. The picture just doesn’t do their sparkle and color justice.
Somehow almost a year has passed since I last updated.
Since then I’ve become a Momma!
It’s weird, but the exact date of my daughter’s birth came to me in a dream when I was six months pregnant. Strangely enough, on the very same day I dreamed about, my water broke just as I was getting out of bed. And don’t you know, it did happen *just* like in the movies, only I wasn’t huffing and puffing and having rapid contractions and trying to get to the hospital before accidentally ejecting the tot from my snoot on the doorstep before getting into the cab.
Leah Suzanne arrived seventeen hours later by unplanned c-section. So technically the dream was slightly off, since she was born the following day, but hey, we did *go* to the hopspital the same day as the dream indicated. So close enough and yay for psychic intuition.
But anyway.
I will never forget how loud the baby’s first scream was! Even the doctors were impressed. Later my Mother would tell me that it could be heard all the way down the hall in the waiting room, which was in a totally different wing! Leah was pink and rosy and perfect with an unexpected amount of jet black hair and steel blue eyes. Eventually those eyes turned brown. The black hair fell out and made way for dark auburn locks.
Four and a half months after her birth she’s “chatting” away, eating rice cereal, grabbing things and playing, smiling her brains out and laughing when you kiss her cheeks or make razzing noises on her belly. She can sit up well with minimal assistance and loves looking in the baby mirror and watching “Yo Gabba Gabba” and boogying along to “There’s a Party in my Tummy”. See below. It’s alarmingly catchy. Beware.
But anyway.
The evolution from helpless newborn to personable infant has been just incredible. New changes seem to happen daily. She’s so much more interactive now and it’s amazing to watch her start to grow into a smart and sassy little kid.
My only complaint about Motherhood so far (other than the obvious lack of sleep and obligatory spit up stained clothing) is the fact that my body has gone to hell in hand basket and I still have about 30 pounds to lose. Ugh. So I’m hopeful that between the South Beach diet and the Wii Fitness Plus that’s arriving on my doorstep any day now things will be back to normal by early next year. Cause I miss my regular clothes, can’t stand to look at maternity stuff anymore and the thought of buying additional things in a larger size makes me want to claw my eyes out with a melon baller.
In other news, I’ve been toddling off to oodles of tag sales, estate sales and thrift shops this fall. Lots of fun finds! I’ll start posting pictures soon.
Along with some new recipes (easy Italian Wedding Soup!) , garden stuff, crafts projects and links to swell places and other new content and a redesign. So expect some changes and new updates in the not so far off future.
But until then, without further ado, I would like to introduce you to my daughter and her Halloween pumpkin.
