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Monday Mornings...

 

Hello out there!

I must admit, I think I feel how that first doll photo looks-ha!

I hope you all had a great weekend. I was lucky enough to attend Portland's first Farmer's Market of the season. Saturday was so nice and such a blur-I didn't really get any photos to share, but you should read my friend Tricia's post over here. She captured some great moments.

I forgot to announce the winner of the hand spun yarn giveaway last week-it Katherine who writes this sweet blog. Later on this evening I have another giveaway I will be posting, so keep your eyes out for that. It involves photos, vintage goodies and even some handmade loveliness :)

This weekend I read The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz. It's a quick, easy read and if you've spent any length of time in France I think you'll find yourself nodding along to David's quips about Parisian life. For me, it bought back many fond memories.

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The Lovely Sarah of Small Object bought one of my large-almost life sized prints-had it framed by a lovely etsyian- and recently posted about it here. Thanks for the post, Sarah-and hope you had a lovely birthday :)

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Ok-I think that is all the Monday business I was gonna share-oh yeah!

And also, wanted to say thanks for all the lovely comments on the "found memories" post.  I never know how such sentimental, long winded posts will be received-so thank you!

Happy Monday, you all.

absolutely cuckoo

 

 

 

 

 

Good Morning!

I think it would be safe to say that I feel "absolutely cuckoo" today-so I figured-hey, what a great day to share these photos :)

These, of course, belong to my Mother. And, of course, she has many more. I try to photograph them in situ, but the lighting and angles just never work out quite right (see a failed Polaroid attempt here).

I have one tiny clock to myself, I always forget to wind it and sometimes wonder how different the world must've been without clocks...and so many other things, for that matter.

Time is always relative anyway, right?

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Today over at this is not my work I will be introducing my first guest blogger. I'm so excited that she will be posting weekly crafty inspirations. The post should be up around 10 am PST.

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And some of you have emailed me lately, wondering if the custom prints in my shop were available for photos you see on my blog-but that aren't listed in my shop. Yes! Yes they are-just order the size of print you'd like and I will get back to you via email and figure out exactly what print it is you'd like. No problem at all :)

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Thanks for reading and Happy St. Patrick's Day! (And here's one more photo of clocks for you)

like Alice

 

 

My Mother is a collector.

Her house is full of unconventional treasures and one of my favorites things to do is to go through her collections, examining each item-trying to figure out the oldest, the weirdest, the cutest, the ugliest, etc.

One of the ways she corals these items is by placing them in big glass jars. She has a jar full of eggs, pincushions, bridesmaid toppers, bride and groom toppers, shaving brushes and many more.

I think that this jar of tiny tea sets may be my favorite. Some are very old and fragile, some are Japanese, some have been very much loved over the years-others not so much.

I wonder how many past tea parties this jar holds.

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On a totally unrelated note-it's March? How'd that happen?

Hope you all have a lovely Monday.

on collecting

 

Another of my Mom's collections: old shaving brushes.

I've decided to start organizing my collection photos in this flickr set here.

Over at Poppytalk blog, Jan's been posting about collections and I love it!

Here's a great flickr group with some amazing collections.

Okay, that's all for today.

Thank you for the kind words about yesterday's post.

(Also, I've been using the "new typepad feature" where you are supposed to be able to reply to comments in the post-but I realized that they are not showing up here. Weird! So-sorry there've been no replies lately-I'll go back to the old school way of replying. Thanks!)

mom's collections: brides & grooms

 

 

 

 

My little nephew helped me with this one.

I dream about all of the weddings that these were used in-I wonder what happened to all of those couples!

I hope you are having a good Tuesday.

I have no Polaroids of my own to post, but am enjoying looking at everyone else's this week.

I'll be posting more favorites over here today.

collections: pincushions

 

 

 

I come from a home where sewing happened.

My Mom made many of our dresses, she was part of a sewing team in the 1980's that produced stuffed bunnies with adorable clothing (mine was Rosemary Bunny) and in the 1990's she began quilting.

I'm still hoping that some of that will rub off on me, but my skills are "novice" at best.

Hope you are enjoying these "collections" posts.

Happy Wednesday!

collections: mom's eggs

 

 

 

 

 

 

collections: tiny bridesmaids

 

 

 

 

If you follow this blog you probably know I come from a long line of collectors.

I collect interesting enamelware, old glass jars, vintage linens...I have a huge collection of vintage cameras and a small collection of vintage globes.

My Mother's collections are well stocked and very well curated. I tried to document as many as I could during my trip.

This collection is one of my favorites. She does in fact own several wedding cake toppers that I plan on showing you later (she found the one we used in our wedding) but I really adore these bridesmaid dolls.

We used several of these as decorations at our wedding and I can't get over how funky and colorful they are.

Hope you enjoy!