I'm a Piker...
Linda M. Young
I'm counting it good that I vaccuumed up and down yesterday and today
and cleaned the master bathroom, and the laundry's done, too. Nothing
got done last weekend because of DragonCon.
I cleaned the stairs so hard I broke the belt on my Dirt Devil hand
vac...now I have to go find another (don't recommend their website;
the darn thing looks pretty but is useless). The place that stocks the
sponge head for my MopVac (also by Dirt Devil) may also have a new
belt. (The belt actually broke because one of the nasty long strings
coming off the cheap carpet they put in our den wound around it and
snapped it. I knew there was another reason I loathed carpet...)
Tomorrow we're going to the Yellow Daisy Festival, which is a huge
craft show at Stone Mountain Park. I love to look at the stuff, but
usually don't buy any of the cutesy cluttery things you see at craft
shows. I could, if I had the money, buy EVERYTHING that the guy from
Alabama who makes solid wood furniture sells (hutches, console tables,
etc.), but even if I had the money we don't have the room. <g> We got
our kitchen table and chairs from him and also the medicine cabinet in
our master bath. He does plain, almost Shaker style furniture and I
love it. None of that pressed-wood junk they sell in the stores!
Linda
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"...What they say, don't believe;
Every hope needs room to breathe.
Show me where it says
I can't keep dreamin'.
Ain't no law that says
I can't keep dreamin'..."
.....Rupert Holmes, "Show Me Where It Says"
Barbara Mawdsley
keep up with the basics and that is it. I've added clearing the dining
room table to my going to bed routine and that seemed to help a lot.
Yesterday I did take out a box of "stuff" to the church tag sale. I
need to start a new box now.
Barbara in CT
lily
> Everyone seems to be doing such good work...congratulations to all!
> I'm counting it good that I vaccuumed up and down yesterday and today
> and cleaned the master bathroom, and the laundry's done, too. Nothing
> got done last weekend because of DragonCon.
It's better than good! It's excellent. Don't discount it one bit!
It's also more than exceptable - it's highly recommended - that there
are times for fun & pleasure. We don't have to clean and swallow
frogs non-stop til cows come home! <g> Some of us are just in the
drastic / project mode, but it comes & goes. Everything in it's due
time. "To everything there is a season" and all that!
>
> I cleaned the stairs so hard I broke the belt on my Dirt Devil hand
> vac...now I have to go find another (don't recommend their website;
> the darn thing looks pretty but is useless). The place that stocks the
> sponge head for my MopVac (also by Dirt Devil) may also have a new
> belt. (The belt actually broke because one of the nasty long strings
> coming off the cheap carpet they put in our den wound around it and
> snapped it. I knew there was another reason I loathed carpet...)
Don't *even* get me started on Dirt Devil!!! That's how I came up
with my screen name. I'll spare you the saga, but I can relate to
your frustration!
>
> Tomorrow we're going to the Yellow Daisy Festival, which is a huge
> craft show at Stone Mountain Park. I love to look at the stuff, but
> usually don't buy any of the cutesy cluttery things you see at craft
> shows. I could, if I had the money, buy EVERYTHING that the guy from
> Alabama who makes solid wood furniture sells (hutches, console tables,
> etc.), but even if I had the money we don't have the room. <g> We got
> our kitchen table and chairs from him and also the medicine cabinet in
> our master bath. He does plain, almost Shaker style furniture and I
> love it. None of that pressed-wood junk they sell in the stores!
>
> Linda
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> "...What they say, don't believe;
> Every hope needs room to breathe.
> Show me where it says
> I can't keep dreamin'.
> Ain't no law that says
> I can't keep dreamin'..."
> .....Rupert Holmes, "Show Me Where It Says"
Have fun at the festival, it sounds great!
"Lily"
val189
> usually don't buy any of the cutesy cluttery things you see at craft
> shows.
I walked quickly thru one of these recently - mostly junk. Wasn't
tempted to buy a thing. I would have bought some of those kitchen
towels with the crocheted tops for a friend but ppl who make these
ought to buy a better quality towel. They use the cheesiest
available, waste their time doing the tops and prob. wonder why they
don't sell. Some must be colorblind too - the color combos are awful.
IMHO, many 'crafters' would do well to find other hobbies.
val
Linda M. Young
> I walked quickly thru one of these recently - mostly junk.
This is a pretty good quality show--one woman made lace bureau
doilies, for instance, quite stunning; they also have food
vendors (homemade soup mix, all that, which we always sample
but the mixes are too expensive!). Some of it is quite
useful and beautiful, some is just "well, it's gorgeous but
why?" like handpainted signs or tiles for your house. I
skipped all of the stuff for kids, especially clothes, and
looked very regretfully at the lovely jumpers (the dress-type
jumper, not sweater as in the British sense) because they
were hand made, beautifully sewn and as expensive as that
description would suggestion.
But yes, I've seen things at these craft shows that have bad
or poor art on them; it's like going to a SF convention and
wandering around the art show--too many people who can't
draw well are entering.
I did buy one small thing of the decorative type: a woman was
selling these little canoes/sleighs/sleds with little "fur"
animals in them, foxes and raccoons. I've always been a sucker
for foxes. I bought a little fox asleep in a canoe filled with
artificial pine boughs. I'll add a few autumn leaves and
it will go in the living room with its fall theme. Also got
DH two little airplane prints (no bigger than 4x5); lovely
artist: does pen and watercolor sketches from the 1930s era.
DH got two different biplanes parked in front of old buildings,
one with the NRA symbol on it.
Linda