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Post by papermoon on Jun 3, 2015 2:36:50 GMT -5
I acquired a program book and a laminated volunteer badge on a lanyard, from the recent film festival. They will join their mates from the previous 5 years. Do I ever look at the previous years' books? Yes, I do, often... I look and I read. As for the collection of badges... I fondle them fondly.
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Post by creativechaos on Jun 3, 2015 2:37:22 GMT -5
hi everyone; been enjoying reading here! angela, those pictures of you with the barn owl are so amazing! he or she looks so comfy and happy in your lap! wow. you really are the owl whisperer! my quilter/artist friend took me to a quilt museum on Saturday for a very belated birthday present. there was a wonderful and amazing art quilt show there that really stoked my inspiration. afterwards, we stopped at two quilt shops. i spent way more money than i meant to! one was having a 40 % off sale on notions. i got an 8 1/2 x 24" omnigrip ruler. i'd been drooling over one of them for a long time! Every time I used one at quilt camp I swore I'd have one someday. i also got a "supreme slider" that is supposed to make free motion quilting on a home machine a lot easier. maybe now i will try FMQ again - i've been so afraid, based on my first poor attempts at it many months ago. i bought a few yards of fabric that i do not need, but they were beautiful and on sale for 40% off, and will go with so much of what i already have, so i succumbed. after last year's many online purchases for more money than i am comfortable saying, i am happy for only buying this much stuff. i have been really diligent about NOT doing online fabric purchases, no matter how tempting. i just avoid the websites now. at the 2nd quilt store i bought 3 fat quarters and a pair of very fancy Karen Kay Buckley scissors sharp and fine enough for applique or embroidery, or cutting multiple layers of fabric - these were all 25% off because i had a coupon for my birthday month. i also got 5 one dollar tee shirts at the thrift store for gardening - i ruin at least one per week with some stain or other. i will go through the worst of my t shirts to make room for the new ones. so although it was a "spendy" day i am very happy especially with the 3 "notions" purchases.
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Post by lucie on Jun 3, 2015 6:19:48 GMT -5
I bought another pair of those socks that cover only the sole of your foot. They seem to be helping in my red shoes that Ihave bought last year. It looks like I will be able to wear them after all. I am glad for that, they were not cheap.
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Post by mouseanne on Jun 5, 2015 10:15:36 GMT -5
I purchased plants. Almost a "consumable", but if you do not process them, they become squalor. (Process=plant in ground or container) One year, with my father present, I bought some bedding plants, you know, in 6 packs. He said "What are you going to do with those?" I said, "Put them in my kitchen until they die." So, that is what I did. I bought some hanging flowers, one planter. Some bedding flowers, some vegetables. Baby clothes for an expected baby.
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Post by mouseanne on Jun 5, 2015 16:32:58 GMT -5
over lunch stopped at a garage sale, a clean out of a landlord with several properties. He's selling off the properties, so he doesn't have to commute 450 miles to deal with them.
Misc furniture, appliances, tools. Eyed the table saw. Wasn't marked.
But, I don't live that life, yet. (I want a full workshop set up.)
Later.
Bought nothing.
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Post by creativechaos on Jun 5, 2015 17:23:43 GMT -5
smart, mouseanne, to not buy for a life you don't yet live! WTG! i look at the hoard and it is all for the life I hoped I would live - and still am NOT living. acquired 1 gorgeous red tuberous begonia, and two 4-packs of perennial dianthus. i have almost a whole flat of them i have potted into 4" pots. now, i have 6 more 4-packs of various things to pot-on. what do i do with them then? who knows? give. plant. do some guerilla planting downtown.
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Post by emeraldine on Jun 5, 2015 17:24:00 GMT -5
I purchased plants. Almost a "consumable", but if you do not process them, they become squalor. (Process=plant in ground or container) One year, with my father present, I bought some bedding plants, you know, in 6 packs. He said "What are you going to do with those?" I said, "Put them in my kitchen until they die." So, that is what I did. Mouseanne, this is an exquisite piece of comic writing. Blackly comic, actually, as the plants perished. Do you enter writing competitions? You should turn this vignette into a short story. Angela, well done on finding the yellow jeans and other useful things. Don't you love it when one new item turns a stack of unwearable wardrobe junk into a fabulous outfit? This is the sort of acquisition we must honour. i am new to this thread, and think it might help me as I come to the end of digging out. I am not there yet, and there is much work to do, but the end is now in sight. My breakthrough came about ten days ago with the help of my new -- free -- acquisition: A MINI STEP LADDER! Yes! Just sitting out on the nature strip, covered in turps and waiting to be picked up as rubbish. I took it home and in one six-hour marathon sorted out the garage. The step ladder helped me get to all the upper shelves, to hang things up, put things away and organise a list of things I can sell. I love my little step ladder.
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Post by angela on Jun 5, 2015 17:40:03 GMT -5
Thank you so much emeraldine. You are so right. These yellow jeans immediately helped me create 4 more "new" outfits out of things that weren't quite together yet. Me very happy. I LOVE that you found that little stepladder. I have one that was in DH's storage locker hoard and it is so amazingly handy. There is also one in the house now that is a little bigger and had a padded top so it could be used as a seat in a pinch. creativechaos. Oooo a red begonia! Those are just the most gorgeous flowers. It makes me wish I had a garden spot. But like mouseanne, that is a life I don't live right now, have in the past, will again, but not right now.
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Post by Serendipity on Jun 6, 2015 2:23:29 GMT -5
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Post by sue5000 on Jun 6, 2015 7:59:00 GMT -5
on those nice chairs, Serendipity!! GREAT price! My belt was going to heck, so I found a nice leather braided one at Goodwill for only $1.00!
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Post by Serendipity on Jun 6, 2015 14:31:52 GMT -5
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Post by sue5000 on Jun 6, 2015 15:06:47 GMT -5
Serendipity, my grandma made braided rugs, all hand sewn. She made some big ones! I have 3 of them.
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Post by creativechaos on Jun 6, 2015 15:20:41 GMT -5
Congratulations on those Windsor chairs, Serendipity! May your card-playing dreams come true. Glad you are admiring them too! WTG on the stepladder, emeraldine, and being almost finished with digging out because of it! This is great news! angela - you really seem to know yourself and what you like and would wear - something I have a lot of trouble with. Those yellow jeans sound splendid! i have the red begonia for the life i live; you have the lovely yellow jeans which gave you 4 new outfits! if i so much as LOOK at a light-colored piece of clothing, it gets stained or ruined too bad, as i love all those pastels - yellow, lt pink, mint green, pale blue, lavender, tangerine - yum yum yum.
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Post by mouseanne on Jun 6, 2015 17:34:46 GMT -5
Replying on my phone-hard to comment on everyone's activities-will do so another time. You are doing well. Just wanted to let you know had 6 hour marathon planting session. Vegetables in garden plot, plot hoed into irrigation channels. Also planted veg seeds. Its a bit late, we shall see. All flowers containerized and in place. emeraldine yes I write. Seldom, but do. In high school a short story about seeing the milky way won the centerfold spot (place of honor) in the high school writing book.
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Post by angela on Jun 6, 2015 22:32:07 GMT -5
Good job getting those plants in the ground mouseanne!
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