Bari J.

Collections

 

Hi there. Hope you all had a nice weekend. I have spent mine clearing out a lot of stuff around here in preparation for taking some photos for "The Book" ((I say this in quotes because my kids have started commenting on what I'm doing around here saying, "Oh, It's for 'The Book'." I'm pretty sure this is meant to be an exasperated commentary on my general mindset lately, but I'll try not to hold it against them.))

While I'm not nearly done fixing up and making the place look close to book-worthy, I did find that I have a heck of a lot of junk. My sister would faint if she saw it all, so confessing it here is going to make her go into shock. My sister is "Junk-Adverse" ... or "stuff-phobic". I would say that I generally am too, but while I admit there is probably a fine line between collecting and hoarding, I do make exceptions. And I tend to hide my exceptions. I don't usually have all this stuff out at once, you know. Only to show you.

Because even if my sister would put her foot down and not let me buy one single piece more of milk glass, most of what I have is pretty cool "junk" ... in various categories of "junking". I did notice that most of it is stuff I decided years ago I would "collect", but clearly lost interest somewhere along the way. 

This is one of those starter collections. Really love my puppies. One is a chalkware Scotty and the other three were part of a set. I truthfully would like some more of these (but where to put them...).

 

I had a thing for dress forms at one point. I'm pretty sick of them now, but I do think they look pretty cute all together like this...

 

I'm still pretty fond of vintage wooden spools...

 

And the cute little hens in there with them...

 

And for a while, I couldn't help myself when it came to milk glass. I still love this stuff but have sworn only to buy it if I find a good deal on pink pieces. They are pretty hard to find, so I'm safe saying this.

 

And my favorite. Vintage tins. These are useful junk. They hold other junk and are thereby justifiable junk.

 

Now I must go put all this stuff away before my sister sees this post and calls me up along with my brother and other sister to do an intervention. That way I can say, "but I have a place for all the stuff and all the stuff is in it's place".
 
 
 
 
 
 

A must see!

Yay! Good news. My friend Jennifer has opened her new Sis Boom web store with home goods, childrens, women's and more made from her own fabrics. As expected, it is super beautiful. The site, first of all, is just so Jennifer. She has the most wonderful (I'd say classic/vintage-modern) style...

I am especially happy that she decided to sell her tunics in finished form. Methinks I'd look super-cute in this one! I think it's going to have to be a gift to myself when I loose that last 10 lbs. When am I going to do that?

And I'm also thinkin' this pillow would look really fluffy fun on the little settee in my living room.

This is one of my favorite Jennifer Paganelli fabrics. There's something so not-too-sweet-but-just-sweet-enough about Jennifer's designs.

So, if you haven't already stopped by the new site, it's definitely a must do/must see/must shop.

Brocade Home Goodies

I'm in love love love...

All from Brocade Home. Yum-delish!

iPod Skins have been found... Thank you EBAY!!!

Thanks to a very nice reader, we have located the iPod skins and we can buy them too! Unfortunately they won't fit my particular version of iPod, but it might fit yours. You can get them here.

Yum...

Ooooooh. This is good. I can taste it now.

I keep meaning to order one of these as a gift. Go Cake Go delivers cakes right to your door. I have to admit I gave thought to figuring out how to fed-x my own cakes, but I decided that would be far too much work. It's like when you see something lovely, and you think, "I can make that." But you never do. And, now you don't have that pretty necklace, do you??? Plus as an added bonus, delivered with your cake is an on-line party. I'm thinking this is definitely something to check out.

Cha-yum-yum! "Let them eat cake."

i want it, i want it...

i don't need this... i don't need this... but i w-a-n-t it. still no capital letters, and i am really missing exclamation points. [really, i'm going to go to best buy today.]

have you seen these, question mark [i don't have parenthesis or question marks either due to the coffee incident]...

i can't figure out how to get these as the writing is in japanese. aren't they the cutest things ever, question mark.

you too can find them, but not get them at lamb-lamb.com. how unfair is that, question mark.