I saw two cute vintage spice jars sitting empty in my kitchen.
To those I added some epsom salts.
In a tiny bowl I had some tiny pinecones and a bunch of tiny gingerbread men I had made for my mom decades ago.
I plucked a few small bottle brush trees from around the house.
Located some bits of ribbon and a few vintage Shiny Brite ornaments.
Not a CLUE what I will DO with them, except wonder where to put them. But I DO like them very much.
Sometimes that might be charming, but I was wearing a scandalous pajama top and had just greased my hair back with coconut oil.
SO glad I noticed it before you did!
Anyway.., you probably have these things, or something similar, at your house too!
Make something!
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Oh, that poor Hertsje. I have had my share of earinfections (no tubes for eardrums then) often due to a very soar throat. Mums treatment was: a thick slice of the real ryebread (the slowly steamed one) resteamed above a kettle, packed in a piece of cotton, then in an old woolen sock, wrapped in a teatowel, the breadpart placed on the ear and then the teatowel bound around the head, cartoonlike. This was meant to "pull the infection outwards", because when it went inwards it could reach your brainmembrane. It was kind of soothing, you got lots of attention, though no backrubs, and you looked most stupid. And your ear kept on hurting, but less, so it was repeated three times a day. I like your one thriftstore idea but am not up to it yet. I have slowed down on thriftbuying because I have almost everything already and when I have read a book it goes back, to be sold again instead of storing it at home, Even magazines, newly bought, I find a new owner or thrift it back (is that proper English)? I like your jarideas. We have the greatest "snowjar". It is 80 cm. high and we put the - clean of course - white and very soft outcombed hairs of our Maltezer dog in it. One is being very full now, there are snowplaying figures in it, a hedgehog and a Spanish dancer I can see from here (playthings) and after Christmas we will exchange the full one for an empty one at the other side of the glasscase. It is the result of two years dogcombing between her usual trimmings at a salon. I think I may go watching Little House episodes or the Waltons to remember being thankful for all convienant things we have now and had not when I waa a child in the fifties. But, I think I grew up in paradise, we may not have had much (no phone, no car, no eating out), not much money to spend frivoulasly) but I was on our little farm (Dad had to work daytime at anothers) with the animals, learned about birth and death naturally, knew about good and poisonous plants, pests and fertiliser and so were the neighbouring children and we were LOVED. No new B.lack or Bl.ueberries every two years, no teasing about oldfashioned clothes, because everyone (even the doctors child) wore hand me downs, and a third or fourthhand bicycle was always better then walking. We never heard "I would not want to be seen dead in that" for example. It worked, because we were all relatively poor. So, yes, there is much to be thankful for nowadays, but I miss the quiet feeling of good is enough, without constant longing for better or best.(And getting in debt if one is not watching it). So, Ingalls and Watsons it is for me, no schoolshootings, no third persons in a marriage, relatively careless watching normal people doing normal things, having normal problems and solving them the normal - in my eyes - way. Have a merry, meaningful Christmas, Judy, with the expanded family. DM
Why did you grease your hair back with coconut oil?
I put coconut oil on my hair for about a half hour before washing it. Maybe twice a month or so.
It hasn't made me amazingly beautiful but it certainly does help these days when the heat is on all the time.
And I smell like a cookie.
I agree - I feel better when I make something too...
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