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Wonderful Monday….

06 Jun

Well, I may be a little facetious in my title, but this is the day I want to share those things I have been grateful for. It’s been a busy life lately, so I will pick up on my gratitude list where I left off a few weeks ago. Alrighty then, let’s get started!

1. I am grateful for movies. :) I love going to the movies, buying popcorn and a drink and sitting back and enjoying the big show in front of me. I have updated my Movie page so pop over and have a peek at what I’ve found entertaining lately.

2. Greek Festival in Greenville. We went on Saturday May 21 and had a wonderful lambburger, some fantastic lemonade and wonderful fried cheese and calamari. The booths of stuff were fun to check out too. So I’m grateful for fun things to do in the area I live in.

3. Ikea! I am really grateful for a store that I enjoy shopping in. From the size of the haul it looks like we liked it a little too much :) .

Mostly the boxes are the shelves Boyfriend and I will have for storage. The backseat is full of organizing stuff for the shelves and a few goodies we found for fun. I do not normally like to shop at all….I know…I’ve said this many times in this blog. :) But I did enjoy Ikea. If you have one in your area you need to just drop in and check it out. The one in Charlotte we go to is ginormous! There is also a lovely dining area on the top floor and the food is reasonable and tastes great! If you like to shop, you may never leave….

An Ikea truckload!

4. I am grateful we got to go on vacation, and I will share a post or two on that soon. We went again to Folly Beach, SC and the Charleston area. Something about being at the ocean helps me feel even more connected to God. I love going, period. I am thankful for the chance to go there.

5. I am grateful for three thing in this example: creativity, recycling and upcycling. We met some very creative people at Artisphere, here is another picture of some of the fun things we saw:

Fobots by Amy Flynn

I love anything to do with recycling or upcycling. Amy Flynn does both with her creations. Visit her website for more information.

6. I am grateful for little 2 year old girls pretending to read to me and putting everyone in the family in her story. Precious to listen to. Just precious. :)

7. I’m grateful for all the new friends I am making through this blog. I love our comments and shared visits. I really look forward to seeing which of you has dropped by each day. And I am loving all the creative things so many of you do and share. I should move this to my Number one spot :) .

8. I am grateful for the many friends I have on Facebook now as well. I haven’t been able to meet many of them in person yet, but some plans have already been made for the next time they or I are in the same area. Fun stuff to look forward to!

9. For good yard sale finds! We were able to replace my small cooler and a roasting pan for $5! Love me some yardsales!

10. Lastly today I am grateful for weekends. I’m usually sorry to see them go, but I will try to remember what Dr. Seuss said: “Don’t be sad it’s over, just be glad it happened!” I’m very glad my weekends happen. :)

Would love to hear what you are grateful for. There is a pretty mixed bag of stuff here, but as I read over it I know something about it now that I didn’t know at the beginning. As I said in my opening you could take my “Wonderful Monday” a little facetiously, but after writing this all out it has become very true. Have a wonderful Monday and a lovely week everyone! Angela

 

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Excuse Me While I Vent….

31 Jul

Ok, today’s yard sales are a bust mostly. Started out with just a little rain, so a few die hards tried to keep going, really wasn’t too bad at first and the temperature was nice enough. We did really score with 2 boxes full of nice picture frames, 3 books and a candle for $8.25. There is a reason there are no pictures of the haul today: the bottom has dropped out, the monsoon has begun! Probably 2 inches of rain in 5 minutes or so! Not good for yard sales or getting things out of your trunk if you don’t have a garage. :)

So, we are driving home in this mess and Boyfriend has to put the wipers on high just to try and see where he is going. One dark car or truck after the other is either coming at us or tailgating him, only problem is the colors of the cars blend in with the rain and gray day so much you don’t even know they are there until they are right on top of you. Alright stealth bombers! PUT ON YOUR LIGHTS FOR SAFETY PLEASE! I live in a state where it is even REQUIRED BY LAW, but 75% of people don’t obey it, and they are driving around hidden from view by the rain and moisture. Hello! You are the same color as the road people! Gray, black, dark blue, dark green, and even sometimes white. We can’t see you in the downpour unless you put on your headlights. Just look at the other cars on the road, are there any you have trouble seeing in the rain?

I wish I could have snapped a picture of some of them, you wouldn’t have been able to tell at all that there was a car in it. But rain is good, and we need it! So hopefully people will think to put on their lights, or maybe the rest of us can drive defensively enough to not have any accidents. Still, this remains one of my pet peeves!

I have others too. I can’t remember them at the moment (damn menopause!), but I will update you as events occur :) . I guess I could vent on the menopause thing too….several spam ‘comments’ have come my way to offer me help with this trying time of my life. Yeah, right. I’m going to trust someone’s website that sends me a spam or autobot comment. Come on! I DO have menopause, I DO forget some things, but I am NOT brain dead! Do any of you blogging girls have any strategies with spam or trash comments? Fill me in if you do, thanks!

Oh well, thanks for reading my rantings and ravings today! Hope you have a great weekend!

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Yard Sales Anyone?

28 Jul

I mentioned I enjoy going to yard sales. Apparently I have also infected my boyfriend with this virus as well. Here are a few things we have picked up recently.

Cher chica 1974 LP

Vintage Diva - 1974 Cher Album

I absolutely LOVE this one, a circa 1974 Vintage Diva LP, that’s Long Playing Album to you youngsters out there. I use to put one of Cher’s albums on my little portable turntable and kick back and put my feet up and enjoy the groove. I was all of 13 or 14 for some of this :) . Ahhhh, youth!

Summers were long and hot then, no air conditioner for us. We had big roll out windows and fans, and the fans ran all summer long too. Thing is, it was only unbearably hot a few days out of the year. Nowadays I don’t know how I would live without air conditioning. I regularly thank God for giving some one the ability to invent it. It’s not ALL hot flashes you know!

Made in China

Cute Little Purse

Next on the yard sale find list is this little goodie, a made in China number. The little tag hanging off the side says ‘hancrofted,’ I think someone was going for ‘handcrafted.’ It made me smile, and I like the colors, so a couple of bucks later it was mine. It’s so small though that it won’t hold all my necessities, so I haven’t used it yet. :) It’s still pretty….

I enjoy looking through things at the sales and bartering with people, friendly stuff, I’m not into the rough haggling some do. My boyfriend, being new to all this, is just learning how to barter. He hasn’t actually done it yet, but he is taking notes. He also knows I am not going to get up early to hit said sales, but around 9:30 or 10 he will say, “Doncha want to get out there honey? I saw some signs about yard sales in the neighborhood, you never know what we might find….” It works. We get out the door and find a few good things even late in the morning. Don’t be surprised if I post some OMG! pictures later, there are quite a few interesting things to be seen as well as the good stuff.

Tray and wire basket

Tray and wire Basket

Last but not least are these two, a nice tray and a wire basket. I apologize for the quality of the pictures, I couldn’t find a good angle for this one. The tray is a nice group of flower arrangements which look nice together. We also bought another tray not pictured with birds on it. My daughter and I love to use trays, it helps keep the mess contained. I had a coffee pot overflow one time and run all over my counter, and I mean ALL OVER! I still don’t know how that much coffee got in the thing! A friend suggested sitting it in a tray, with sides, so at least if it happened again it wouldn’t cover my 10 feet of counter. Sounded like I good idea to me, and it worked well with a later coffee mishap. Point to note here: I got rid of that coffee pot and got a new one. Haven’t had any overflows since then.

The reason for the wire basket in all of it’s utilitarian glory? The one year old granddaughter can now pick up 5 lb. bags of things….like apples….and potatoes…..she loves to move them around the house so we can play hide and seek with the vegetables…..not my favorite game :) . Have you ever smelled old, rotten potatoes? Not pleasant is all I’ll say. Actually, I’ll say more. Gag a maggot is more like it! So, I got the basket, which should hold about 5 lb of potatoes, although I haven’t bought a new bag to try yet. My daughter has already found a use for it though, it has some squash in it currently.

A new addition is this dvd I really like: Pinky and the Brain. Their cartoons make me laugh my head off!

So, hope you enjoyed my romp through the sales! Let me know what you find, ok? See ya, Angela

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