My Day Off

Oldest Son and Daughter-in-law made it safely home to Illinois yesterday evening. http://oxfordblues.blogspot.com

I took yesterday off. My sister came to town and we went to our favorite Chinese place for lunch, and to two great thrift shops.

This is what I got:

Two storage receptacles. One big enough to hold all of my alphabet stamp sets. Now I have them in drawers by the letter and number, instead of by the set. So it's much more convenient. I love to organize things. I have trouble KEEPING things organized, so we will see how this goes. Usually, I think of a better way, and then have no more respect for how I've done it. If I can't respect it, I can't use it. (it's such a burden to be complicated.)

Two Scrabble mugs and One Scrabble alphabet soup bowl. These are just too cool. Coffee actually does taste better in my new Scrabble mug. Haven't tried soup yet.

One large white swan planter, which I believe is McCoy pottery. I haven't looked it up yet. This is my biggest swan planter so far, and has a place of honor in front of the fireplace. I do believe that all the other swan planters let out a gasp at this one's greatness, but I can't be sure.

One great wooden box. It's original purpose was to hold tea, but I am going to add it to my pile of 'really cool wooden boxes I intend to decoupage someday'.

Seven infant sleepers. Teeny tiny cute little sleepers. All in gender neutral colors. All less than one dollar. My boys wore this size for only a few days, but hopeful Daughter won't have the super-sized version of a baby.

Books were again only 10 cents for paper backs and 25 cents for hardcovers. I got eight books. Some for reading, some for using the pictures to decoupage, and one just to HAVE because it is gorgeous. For a mere quarter I got a 1900 copy of Abraham Kuyper's "Zijn Uitgang Te Jeruzalem". Of course, it is in Dutch, and I do not read Dutch, but the cover was so beautiful that I could not pass it up. It will also find a place of honor in my living room, although I will have to demote some other worthy book to make room. I also got a Miss Read, a M. L'Engle and several great children's books.

You would not believe how much stuff I put back. Really. I put a lot of stuff back. I did. Good stuff. So good, that if it is still there on Saturday, I will probably buy it then.

I might be complicated, but my tastes are very simple. I like junque.