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Thrifting & More

This past weekend being a 3-day weekend, I spent a lot of time playing with my displays.  And, I even found some time to slip into a thrift shop!  I found the ironstone creamer (my favorite!) as well as the small octagonal plate & platter for a total of $8.  I love thrift shopping.  The creamer found a home right away in my living room, but I'm still mulling over a place for the plate & platter. 

While playing in my craft room, I found a great piece of scrapbook paper, covered in wine corks....wait, I have a display with wine corks in an apothecary jar....an appropriate quote, a frame that I had sitting around & voila!  Another display is created!  I added in silverware tied with a bit of ribbon & a milk glass dish.  I'll bet that you can't guess what is in the milk glass -- finials from iron fences!  I found them at the Big Flea, several years ago, from a great dealer who always brings interesting stuff & hysterical stories.

While on this decorating roll, I found a place above my kitchen sink for a tole tray that has had many homes over the years.  And, I hung up a cinnamon ornament that Hope & I made a few weeks ago.  We cut out hearts from cinnamon dough, decorated them with white puffy paint & sent them to loved ones as Valentine's Day gifts.  Glenn (this is why I keep him around) suggested that I make a fleur de lis to keep for myself.  I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

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Because I know that there are some of you (read: family) who are probably looking for a recent Hope picture, here is one of my future Picasso:

Maybe crafty-ness runs in the family???

I Heart Little Girl Clothes

I have been going on a sale shopping spree in the past few weeks, scooping up all of the darling girl's clothing that are on winter clearance. I started at Gymboree:

Check out that adorable fair isle snowflake collar!

The leggings have little "sprinkles" on them, like on top of the cupcake!

I know, there are sparklies on all of these.  I love my girly-girl clothes!!!

Look what I found on clearance at an adorable local children's clothing/toy store:

When Hope saw it, she loved it!!! I sort of wish that I could get away with wearing bell bottoms with flowers on the cuff.  I'll have to be satisfied with seeing Hope in them.

Hopie's wardrobe for next winter is already off to a good start!

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I haven't been doing much in the way of decorating around the house or crafting because I was readying myself for a scrapbook crop that I attended on Sunday. A sweet woman from work is part of a scrapbook club in her neighborhood & invited a few of us to crop with her. I try to be so organized before these things & plan out the arrangement for every page, placing all of the photos, papers & embellishments for each page in a large plastic envelope.  The crop was a lot of fun but, despite my significant preparations, I only finished 3 pages!  I think that we were having too much fun talking & eating :)

Having said that, decorating of a sort is going on in my house, without me actually participating (or, with minimal participation on my part).  We have had really awful wallpaper in our upstairs hallway & stairs since we moved in 7 years ago, but couldn't do anything about it ourselves because of the way that the walls are around the stairs.  We just don't have the proper equipment to reach the walls safely, without tumbling down the stairs!  So, after 7 years, we have a contractor here this week, removing the wallpaper & painting the hall!  The only participation on my part was assisting in the selection of the paint color (Cream -- Martha Stewart "Diploma") & of course, the payment!  We are so excited for everything to look fresh & new.