I'm really very excited about being able to share my pictures with you guys! I've always enjoyed seeing your pictures and being able to recognize people and places and things.
And remember I said that once I learn how to take & post my own pictures, you're going to be deluged with them?
Here comes the deluge...
&:o)
In honor of George Carlin's passing away Sunday, I took pictures of:
* My Stuff *
I know that things aren't what's important in life --- people, are. But alot of my important stuff is important because of the people attached to it.
So here --- come here --- come look around my apartment with me, because I want to show you some of my most favorite stuff.
This first pic is a badly painted piggy bank that I found at a yard sale a couple of years ago. I was driving in my childhood neighborhood and noticed that the house where one of my closest friends, Barb, used to live, was for sale and there was a yard sale there. I stopped and it turns out that both of her parents had died and Barb was there, holding the yard sale so that she could clear her parents' house out and sell it. We stood there and talked for the longest time and laughed, remembering stuff. It was wonderful. So I'm looking through her parents' stuff, and this PIGGY BANK catches my eye. I started busting up laughing, because back in 9th grade (1969) I had MADE the piggy bank for a birfday gift for Barb! I told her that and we were both laughing. I told her I wanted my pig back and she gave it to me --- it was just one of those funny moments that you'd have to be there to appreciate. But anyway, here's the badly painted piggy bank that I made back in 1969 and Barb was trying to get rid of it in a yard sale: (p.s. I used to dot the "i" in my name with a little flower, just like the ones etched into the piggy here!)
This next pic: the large picture on the right was done by my Nannan Z. She did it back before she married my Poppop Z, sometime back before 1900. I think it's pastels. It's still in the original gold frame (chipped) and mat (yellowed.) I love this picture. It feels so dreamy & mesmerizing. You can almost see the moon reflected off of the ocean (just ignore the flash mark in the glass, people...) and hear the waves crashing on the rocks. -------- Then the little pic to the left of it, is a picture that I found at the thrift store, and it totally reminded me of my Nannan's picture.
Ooh ooh oooh! This next pic is a Chinese Checkers board that me & my family used to play Chinese Checkers on back when I was a little curly headed girl!
This spider plant hangs in my bay window in my livingroom. 10 years ago, I always passed a very neat little plant shop on my way down to Philly on the days that I'd drive down to spend the day with my BFF. I bought a spider plant and it was always going CRAZY with babies. This plant is one of the original plant's babies. It has stayed with me for 10 years now and has survived 4 moves, and it also always goes crazy with babies. This plant reminds me of my BFF who's also been with me for 10 years now.
This next picture isn't really attached to anyone special to me, it's just that for some reason, I love clocks. I used to have a beautiful wood chiming clock, and a little cottage cuckoo clock, and I loved hearing them bong-bonging together. I had to sell them during one of my moves which made me kind of sad. So when I found this chiming clock in the thrift store the other year, I was thrilled. Some day when I'm rich & famous, I'd love to have a whole room full of chiming clocks...it'll drive everyone else nutty, but I'll love it! --- On top of the clock, is the beautiful little wooden figurine that my daughter Elle & her family gave me as an apartment warming present --- an angel with a welcoming pineapple. There are a couple of masks there to the left, and then the picture on the right is a heron with a verse that reads: "Time flies - shadows fall - love is forever over all".
hee-hee!! Here's the kittycat pillow that Elle & her family gave me for Christmas the other year. I love eet!
And also from Elle, here's a beautiful little music shadowbox picture that reminded her of me when she saw it at a flea market a couple of weeks ago. She gave it to me for Mother's Day this year. My mother collected Hummels, so Elle was used to seeing those around her Mommom's house when she was little. The whole picture/shadowbox is so gentle looking & pretty and it plays a beautiful little tiny tune when it's wound up. I love that she wanted to get it just for me. &:o)
Here are 3 wall vases (sconces???) that I love. The one on the left is Roseville. My mother saw it when we were at a yard sale together about 30 years ago, and she bought it for me. I always think of her when I see it. The 2 ones on the right were made by my son Sam when he was a little boy in grade school. They shaped the vases themselves & painted them and then the art teacher fired them. I can still picture Sam giving them to me, just a little boy, so proud of what he'd made and so full of hoping that I'd like them. ( I heart them, Sam... )
Here is a kittycat head planter that my email friend Carrie (in Illinois) sent me, after finding it at a yard sale and thinking of me. ( How do people KNOW that I like kitties???)
Here's a "lady" who's hanging in the doorway between our livingroom & kitchen. Sarah & me found her in the trash when we were walking through Chestnut Hill once. She was in ok shape, but she was missing her wings & wand and was painted badly, plus she was in pieces. I repainted her & put snazzy sequins on her outfit and hung a rose quartz crystal in her hand. Eventually, I want to make a magic wand for her to be holding (with the crystal on the end of it) and make wings for her. So then she won't be a lady hanging there, she'll be a magical fairy. Til then, she looks cool and happy!
OK --- so now that I've shown you around my livingroom and you've gotten a chance to see some of my *stuff*, I'm going to save this, cross my fingers that the entire thing doesn't crash and I'll have to start alllllll over again...and then the next time you look around with me I'll show you some *stuff* from my kitchen.
Thanks for looking with me, you guys!
&:o)
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