Tiny Treats

Heather and I embarked on what may very well be the last yard sale day of the year for us.  We were both lucky enough to find a bunch of things.  Some for presents, some to populate our Etsy stores and some treats for ourselves.

Let me show you my tiny treasures. Yep.  Muppets. (And a vintage Figment from Disney.  I used to go on that ride 20x in a row. I love me some Figment.)  Geeky Gonzo and Letterman Rowlf are from a set of 50's style Muppet teens.  I already have Poodle Skirt Piggy and Rock N Roll Animal.

Here they are all together. Missing from my set: Motorcycle Kermit and Soda Jerk Fozzy.  I was super stoked to get them for a quarter each!

So, In Summary:

Collect them All!

Falling 2013

I sit here writing this little post about fall and all it's glories in 90 degree weather.  90-duh-grees.  I don't know if I've ever told you what that does to me.  A really hot jag at the beginning of what I consider the holiday season.  Well folks, it's not pretty.  Generally it ends in tears.  Me, the Ice Queen, in tears.  It's an ugly reality.  And if it happens on my birthday, which is next week, just stand back.  There was one fateful year when my then boyfriend (now husband) made an ungodly amount of spaghetti dinner for all our friends on my birthday.  We had to go outside to eat it because it was too hot indoors.  It was the same wretched temperature outside.  At night, in the complete dark.  In the middle of September.  I ugly cried.  Generally I don't cry on account of the fact that I'm very logic oriented.  But, you can't reason away 90 degrees.  Especially if you don't have air conditioning.  Trust me, I've tried.

Quick, let's talk about something else.  How about fall decorations?  We'll pretend that it's 65 degrees and we are enjoying apple cider and fry cakes.  Mmm, delicious, right?

Let's look at my windowsill first.  Because all that stuff is new. And super cute.  Never mind that ghost girl in her pajamas.  Lilah got me the owl on the left and the sign.  The cute purple felt owl was crafted for me by my cousin Roxie who is super talented.

You've all seen this cupboard display a thousand times.  But here it is again.  In it's 2013 incarnation.  Bask in the autumnal joy.

Here's some up close bits.  So you can see all the black and orange detail.  The bat hanging on the left is new.  She's wearing a beaded necklace because she fancies herself a fashion icon.

Feeling brave?

I know, I have a lot of things coated in glitter.  I have three owls coated in glitter alone.   A crow, multiple pumpkins, not to mention a floral pic with giant glitter covered candy corn.  It's called pizzazz.

A box of shadows.

Piggy and Kermit approved.

Not a plague doctor mask.  Thank goodness.  Because that shit is terrifying.  Just a pretty but run-of-the-mill Italian long nose mask.

Birds of a glitter flock together.

She turned me into a newt!

And then...this happened.  I had a little spill-over.  So, the bedroom got a bit.  What can you do?

So, In Summary:

This Weather Bites

The Advent House Sale 2013

The Advent House is a pretty cool place.  It's a hospice house.  They only take two patients at a time and they get an entire suite to themselves.  It feels like a home and the people who work there are volunteers.  There are also rooms for family members to spend the night.  My grandmother spent some time there and I treasure the memories of her that I made there.  It's a great place but it, like so many other wonderful not-for-profits, needs our money to help it run.

Enter the Advent House Sale.  Each year they take donations of household items, toys, decor, electronics, etc. and then put on a huge sale.  The prices are great, the atmosphere friendly and the line to get it happily grows every year.  I take a day off for this sale.  It's serious business.

This year the sale was sadly a little smaller than years past.  I did still find a few presents for people and a few little treasures for myself.  

When you go into a sale like this you want to have a plan.  Where will you go first?  What is most important to you?  What do you want first dibs on?  Christmas/Hoiday?  Linens?  Jewelry?

This year my plan was Jewelry, toys, Christmas.  Jewelry was #1 because there isn't very much of it, but what there is, is pretty good.  Plus, last year I found like 5 Disney pins.  So, you know I'm going to scope that out.  Toys got the #2 spot because of my Etsy page.  I did find quite a few things, so I'm glad I went as quickly as I did.  And Christmas.  Because I love decorating for that holiday and just cannot get enough of it.

These are the things I found in jewelry.  No Disney pins this year.  The beads of the turquoise necklace are nice and heavy. The clasp is sterling silver.  It was $5 and I basically haven't taken it off since I bought it.  The bracelet is tooled and painted leather.  It was $1 and fits me so well.  It's adorable and I love it.  Since it's leather some part of me is distantly sad about it and since I'm a vegetarian I feel guilty that I don't feel really guilty about loving it.  You know?

Here are my itty bits.  You know I love a tiny cute thing.  I collect the tiny Strawberry Shortcake characters and this is my second one this year!  Woo!  I went like two years without finding any.  Yes, I do know that I could go online to Ebay or Etsy and just buy a whole bunch. But where is the fun in that, I ask you?  I'm a hunter, people.

I also found an entire sandwich baggie full of teesy tiny Hallmark ornaments.  Look at these suckers.  I mean, Hallmark.  You  know?  They are trying to kill me, I think.  Ever single thing they made from like 1979-1992 is more cute than the next.  Basically, I'm on the vintage Hallmark train and I'm riding it hard.  All the way to crazy town.

So, In Summary:

If You Find Yourself With Too Much Money, Donate To The Advent House

Vegetarians Wearing Meat Skin

If You Stand Between Me And A Display Of Vintage Hallmark, I Will Gouge Your Eyes Right Out