Happy Spring Equinox!
The ground is still frozen solid here, but the sky is bright.
Yesterday I set up an pretty end-cap display with Korean (I think) dolls.
I used to tease Ass't Man that his end-caps proved he was a Taurus:
they were always Earth-toned. They were excellently done––mine are sloppy in comparison––but they were always the same in tone.
I try to mix mine up.
Right now there's an earthy display, with a beautiful bowl carved whole from a tree (I'm tempted myself), woven-slat baskets, black-and-brown coffee mugs, dark red placements ...
And the third of the three end-caps is in greens. Spring, come!
It's hard to keep displays looking good since of course people buy the best stuff off them right away. So you have to stay on top of it, and I haven't since I hurt my knee ligament two months ago.
But all of a sudden, this week it's much better. Maybe 89%... Yay for all the little cells knitting themselves back together!
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My doll pal, MT, picked me up after work, and drove me home. She had a grocery bag of dirty, old dolls and bears to give to me.
They had belonged to the mother of a friend, from the 1940s.
They've all been enrolled in SNARP--the Stuffed Needy Animal Rescue Project. Most I'll clean up and give away.
These two boo-boos will be staying.
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I've re-read the first 5 months of this blog now.
I'm so happy and a little surprised how much I'm enjoying it.
Some posts are irrelevant--like, they had dead links and videos––and I've deleted those, but mostly they stand up just fine, or better.
They definitely encourage me to keep blogging now.
Reposting this photo--hotel breakfast w/ bink in Sicily eighteen years (!) ago, April, 2007.
The oranges were sprinkled with cinnamon.
I'd
been so disgusted with the Tech Bros, I'd considered getting off-line
entirely. But that would leave the field to them.
There's a lot of good here.
And it makes me happy to email people, one at a time, from my new Proton account. I send one from my gmail at the same time, and I'm writing individual emails, so it's clearly me.
No hurry.
Things take time, and that's okay.
There's a lot of good here.
And it makes me happy to email people, one at a time, from my new Proton account. I send one from my gmail at the same time, and I'm writing individual emails, so it's clearly me.
No hurry.
Things take time, and that's okay.
a beautiful end cap and really eye-catching. I used to have one of those trays but mine wasn't as colorful. can certainly understand why people would grab those items!!!
ReplyDeleteSNARP bears and dolls! will be fun to see their adventures. cinnamon on oranges -- will have to definitely try that.
k
Thanks, k! I’m sorry to say the books (Dusty Springfield, Gloria Steinem) that you’d wanted have sold.
DeleteI’m just about to open up the seam of the white bear, “Orange Blossom”, empty the icky old stuffing, and give her a bath!
The brown and tan bear is called Stone-Ground Mustard.
ok on the books! i swear whenever i mention i would like some from you all, they sell!!!
DeleteOrange Blossom and Stone-Ground Mustard -- very cool names!! reading linda sue's post -- i totally skipped over the spring equinox today......
k
Ah, you’ve got good taste.
DeleteBut that reminds me – – you’d asked a very long time ago about “Beatrix Potter’s letters”
– – I brought that book home to read for myself first, but I still have it and I can mail it to you!
Happy spring, k!
You make good end caps..in fact good displays all round.
ReplyDeleteCinnamon on orange sounds good..I bought some blood oranges yesterday, I'll see if I have some ground cinnamon (I know I have the sticks..or should one call them bark rolls?)
All power to SNARP ❤️
Thank you, GZ!
DeleteCan you grate cinnamon sticks? I don’t know!
Oh boy, I love the thrift shop posts! We don't have one in easy striking distance anymore, which is good for my "acquire less" direction, but I do miss the thrill of the hunt. Maybe when things slow down around here I'll manage an outing to one near by.
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Ceci
Thanks for your vote for the thrift store posts!
DeleteSometimes I wonder if another photo of a endcap display will be too boring – – but of course just cause I’ve seen it 100 times doesn’t mean anyone else house, and I must admit I would greatly enjoy seeing other peoples thrift stores – –
Linda Sue, for instance, posts pictures of the thrift store she visits and I do enjoy them.
End cap loveliness, springtime blossoms on turquoise , beautiful. First day of spring- the day my mother died. I look around for clues that she is still here.
ReplyDeleteNew bears how wonderful!! New members of the family! Maybe new clothes for the gang!
It is always satisfying to make things that have been tattered , reasonable again. You are good at it! Even if, as the rule goes, it is done badly!
Hello, Linda Sue’s mother! Is it possible she’s been hanging around here, helping me restore a bear??? Or, have you seen her in your neck of the woods?
DeleteIt is a great joy to restore the tattered among us – – would that it was so easy to restore our own tattered selves. But tending to Bears is a restoration for one’s own self too!
We are the bears! (And not.)
PS. Yes I totally take strength from the dictum to “just do it badly” – – even if I did make that up myself – – lol
Deletesigh...it's hard to believe our Sicily trip was so long ago! Tony and Vi still alive...and me drinking coffee with cream! So many memories from that trip are still so vibrant...
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