winter treasure hunt

This is a wood bowl on a pedestal. It's pretty awesome right? Well I recently decided i was in love with the idea and was gonna make an effort to find more. And then..

I found 3 on my last trip. It was kizmit.

I saw these and thought they were great but I left them on the shelf. ten minutes later my sister put them in the cart. They are great and they came back to me. hmmm.

this is a Busy Bible, like the quiet books. That's a Creation Globe

on the first page and Noah's Ark on the second! I love it! Found at Goodwill.

this little bear was found at Salvation Army. It's in my top 5

Pooh objects. He's just hanging in there? Any challenge overcome for hunny!

it looks like a tea party

from the thrift to my house. the painting is a find and only a couple bucks. this is hanging in my bedroom next to the door at eye level. my eye level. the impressionist reprints, one is not pictured here, were also a steal. the jars are for tea party invites.

i'm now collecting interesting tea pots and glass jars. i was pretty excited to find the elephant teapot and the cloth toy one is just so darn cute.

the box and mirror are Roxana's purchases. they were also very cool finds. it would seem that one house cannot have to many small framed mirrors.

recycled today

this took forever to load and then it came out like this. i tried to fix it but decided to recycle the work anyway

i'ts august and i just wanted to finish this up. these were all bought at my favorite thrift, Salvation Army in Santa Ana on First and Fairview. These jars started me on an obsession for good sturdy glass jars. I've found 3 of these Fido jars. i'll post all the glass jar finds later. yay photo project. I have a million projects and will post tons about them soon.

Where I try to sleep

this is what my room looks like this week. i just put up the blue cubes. i can't decide if it's too cluttered for my taste. it might just be that i need more cubes to really bring this together.

My Fireside Bowl

cleaning and giving objects new homes. this has been the theme of my last few hours. Cleaned the whole living area and decided to display some of my favorite leaf shaped plates along with a few other things. my espresso machine, a gift from my bestie, is now prominently featured on the counter along with a beautiful basket that's full of coffee stuffs. the triumph was a large pickle jar filled a fourth of the way with some marbles, that have been unpurposed for a long time, with electic tea lights thrown in.

D Land Fun

Ezekiel, Sarah and I went to Disneyland. It was pretty awesome. We all three rode the Finding Nemo ride together for the first time. I gotta admit i was excited. Also it was fun to experience it with them. Ezekiel's wide eyed expression in that picture says it all. So cool.

In lines we made the best of it and entertained ourselves and each other. I love these kids.

One thing about Disneyland that annoys me, we never get to meet the characters. Everytime they get swarmed and we get bumped. You really have to commit to wanting to have that picture op with them and then just be unapologetic about how you get it.

Happy Halloween

These are 3 of the 4 pumpkins that I carved this year. I really do love carving them. The harder the challenge the more accomplished it feels at this stage. My roomie flaked and didn't go get the candy so, sadly these cannot be displayed the way they should be. However they are being enjoyed in the backyard along with some music on vinyl.

The first one i did free hand. It's a goal of mine to someday carve my own ideas and make even cooler jack 0 lanterns. The other 2 pumpkins came with the carving kit that Roxana picked up for me. Did you know they have child safe pumpkin carving kits? Makes it just a little harder for grown ups but definitely would be perfect for letting the little ones try their hands at doing some of their own work.

And, as Halloween isn't over yet. I'm off the enjoy some spookier endeavors. Happy Halloween to all.