Vintage Sweets

I've been tagged!!!

Well I have been tagged by my new friend Kim Logan who I met at Art and Soul in Virginia. I am supposed to tell 7 unusual things about myself. So here goes...
1. I am deathly afraid of birds, to the point I worry they my fly in my car window while driving.
2. I have a strange habit of curling my toes under even when they are in my shoes, my hairstylist even mentioned it yesterday while cutting my hair.(I had sandals on)
3. I love taking baths and prefer them to showers.
4. When I go shopping, or to garage sales etc. I make a list when I come home to account for every penny spent and I tend to obsess until I account for all my money. Of course I'm always sure I must have lost some until I remember that forgotten item that pops into my head at 3 am.
5.I read my magazines from the back to the front.
6. I have 4 dogs, Buddy, Ginger, Lucky and Reggie.(aren't their names so original?)
7. My absolute favorite food, it would be my last meal if I were on death row, is Potato Chips and chip dip. Not just any but Wavy Lays and homemade dip made with Philly cream cheese,Vidalia onions, parsley and garlic.
Now you all know how strange I really am.

Where is my camera when I need it?

Yesterday on my lunch hour I took an adventure.I didn't just eat lunch I had a dining experience. I needed to go to a vendor and pick up some deck screws for a customer. While I was there I was talking to the guys behind the counter and mentioned that a hot dog sounded good, and I needed to find a hot dog stand. Well they pointed me in the direction of Yesterdog's. Apparently it has been in East Grand Rapids for years and American Pie(the movie) even alludes to this place. It was very cool, in an old building with tin ceilings and old signs all over the walls. They have a regular process there in the way you place your order (kinda like the soup Nazi on Seinfeld) you can only order your hot dogs first, then you move down the line and they take the rest of your order later. It was wonderful, the atmosphere,the food, even the little town neighborhood. Of course it was quite a task getting there as the road to get there is closed for quite a stretch, but after winding through little narrow brick roads I finally made it there. On the way there I saw a wonderful photo op ,and of course didn't have my camera, of a little tire/auto repair place that everything, all of the signage etc. was in Mexican. It was a place I will drive by again when I have my camera, it would make a wonderful Polaroid transfer. Getting back to work proved to be a challenge as well and needless to say I was about 15 minutes late coming back from lunch, but it was worth the trip. So if any of you are every in Grand Rapids, Michigan make it a point to stop at Yesterdog's on Wealthy St. downtown.

Pock-et-FULL cover and life

Well I finally got my cover to the Pock-et-FULL RR that I am in done. I had a few problems along the way as I am sewing challenged. I've said it before but I really need to clean my studio. I spend more time looking for stuff than actually working on the artwork. Think I could find the eyelets I needed to bind my book? No, so I went out to Wal-mart and bought some more only to find the lost ones tonight while looking for something else. Here is a picture of the cover of my book.

more photos

Here are more of the bracelets as well as some of the stuff I got at sales Saturday

My new obsession

Ok, I tend to get obsessed when I learn something new. At Art and Soul I learned how to make these wonderful bracelets in my class with Nina Bagley "Knot Now Nina". Sue and I have visited the wonderful bead shop in Watervilet, Mi. and I purchased many beads to make these little bracelets. Here are some I have made.

Garage Sale Saturday/Rainy Sunday

Yesterday was garage sale Saturday, Don I am got up early and headed out about 7:45a.m. with our list of sales in hand. The first sale I got a bag of vintage marbles for $3.00 and some small bottles for $1.75 as well as some items for resale. The next sale I got a couple of board games(to take to the cottage) and some cookbooks,iron skillet and water pitcher for resale. We then went to a church rummage sale and I got some more items for resale. We were then done and we headed over to my Grandma's to clean and do yard work.  We  took a break to head down to Home Depot to get some stuff to repair and faucet and we  decided to stop and get a salad at Applebee's. We had quite a serendipitous thing happen, we were talking to the bartender while we were waiting for our food and she was telling us about one of the waitresses who went to an estate sale that day and got some awesome stuff. So Crystal the waitress came over and told us about the estate sale, which was in Kalamazoo(13 miles away) and we decided to go. We got some wonderful things there which I will post, one is a painting by Gail Greenless painted in 1960 . I got a lot of things for resale and some great sewing ephemera. Today we called the dealer who had the estate sale to see if he sold a cabinet unit that we decided we wanted, so now we have to arrange to pick that up.  After we got back from the sale we went back to Grandma's to finish our work.(she thought we had left for good)