These past few days have been crazy! The most exciting thing that has happened is...
...my niece Alyla was born!!
My sister Suzanne gave birth to her at 5:02am on January 4, 2011.
I'm writing a post about it, but it's super long and detailed, so it's taking me a while. It will be up soon, though!
I also found 2 great things from Bookmans:
...a beautiful yellow teapot...
...and an carved wooden owl...
Even though Bookmans s a used bookstore, they have random little knick-nacka at the ends of bookshelves. I've never actually bought a book there, just random things!
I was excited to add this teapot to my collection, as I love yellow and also I love the 'squareness' to it that my others don't have.
When I bought the owl dish, it was pretty dirty and grimy and I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get it clean, but alas, I did! I'm going to use it to store all my pins on my sewing table. I have this adorable pin cushion/tape measure, but when I'm sewing I don't have the time to push pins into it.
Speaking of my craft table, I finally built it! Here's the fabric that I used for the top...
I'm going to write a post soon about how I made it for cheap.
♥ ♥ ♥
I might let Roxi taking over blogging for a while, though, she can't seem to stay away from the computer!
Thanks for posting--hadn't seen anything since the birth and was starting to worry a bit ♥U
ReplyDeleteMe again--love the owl (I seem to have a rather large collection of them--if in doubt-give an owl has been an ongoing thing for quite awhile!)that you will use for your pins. Might want to glue a magnet in the bottom. One way to clean stuff like that is with the Resolve upholstry cleaner--just spray it on, let it set a bit then either rinse or wipe off with soft cloth or if wood--use Pledge--cleans and leaves a nice finish.
ReplyDeleteLove your teapot, reminds me of fiesta ware--Aunt Bobbi and I also collect. Mine are the older English ones like Sadler, James Kent, Addlesbury, Royal Albert, etc--like the ones my grandmother had. sometimes it is just more dust collectors but right now most of them are packed in Chip (that blasted trailer).
I have some video that I'm going to edit of the birth that i can send to you! It'll take a couple weeks though. It's not something I've going to put publicly for obvious reasons, but I'm sure Suz wouldn't mind if I sent it to you!
ReplyDeleteAnd a magnet is a great idea! I'm starting to love owl-y things as well. I just like them to be cheap haha
I haven't heard of those brands of teapots, but I just googled them and love them! I'm probably going to order this one: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=safari&rls=en&q=Sadler+teapot&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=9044430402172022224&ei=HZomTafYA466sQPepoibBw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=3&ved=0CD0Q8gIwAg#
Look at that color! Ahh, I love it. I love all the styles of the other brands as well, they are beautiful! You need to get those baby's out of storage and look at them! I guess after a while they aren't 'as fun' to look at...
<3 you!
They have a ton of those teapots on ebay--I have to stay away from there!
ReplyDeleteI know, it's so hard not to just buy a ton haha
ReplyDeleteThey have a ton of those teapots on ebay--I have to stay away from there!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting--hadn't seen anything since the birth and was starting to worry a bit ♥U
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