YaY!

The weekend is here.
I hope yours is filled with lots of flowers and charming treats.

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We will be open tomorrow from 10 to 5.
Lots of new delights in the store this week!

mermaids and magic

I stumbled upon this commercial and it worked magic on my mood. I guess I don't watch much tv because I have never seen it. Anyway, I hope it makes you as happy as it made me.

no elephants!

Ever had one of these days? We had one of these today. Running a store and a life at the same time is tough. As my Mama would say, "we've got too many irons(phonetically pronounced arns,where I come from) in our fire"! We are trying to run and fill the store, get ready for our big antique show in Texas at the end of the month, and take care of important family obligations. I should have seen this coming last night. Never watch a show on tv called, I shouldn't be Alive, or worst ways to die.... when you are melancholy! My daughter is going to Krueger National Park in Africa to work this summer and Animal Planet caught my eye when it mentioned Krueger. BAD CHOICE. It was a show on the park ranger that was mauled by a lioness while escorting visitors through the park. I no longer want her to go. Next, we buy a table saw. The smart man at Lowe's says, "Oh, there is no assembly required, just put piece 1 onto piece 2 and you are done." Never listen to smart men at Lowes. We have now put it together 3 times and by the way, there were 300 pieces, not 2. Thanks Lowes man! When you run a small business in a small rural town there seem to be people that crawl out of the woodwork to bring you these fabulous things they have found(pretty sure they found them in the dumpster). Today, every single one of them came around to dump their trash with us. I have a hard enough time saying the word no, but especially when it comes with a tragically sad story. Fortunately, I have heard these same stories over and over and "no" is getting easier. Yada, Yada, Yada and enough complaints for the day. Tomorrow will be a lovely day, I am certain of it!

a big bottle of clorox

Ash Wednesday. The day after all the parties of Fat Tuesday. A day that makes me think of simple things. Things that are pure and clean. I am not a person who has a style. I am a person who appreciates all styles depending on my mood or the phase of the moon(as my Daddy says about my Mama). Yesterday, those colors and beads and parties of New Orleans made my heart sing! But today is a white day.

I feel the need to pull out a great big bottle of clorox and start cleanin'!
I need to clean my store, my house, my car(cause the bag boy at Publix asked me how long I had been living in my car :) ), and my life.

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What are you going to give up for lent? Want to clean out the closets with me?

one piece at a time

A couple of weeks ago, Jay and I were working our mouths as hard as they would
work out on the sidewalk with our neighbors A&B. While working tirelessly, a truck rolled by with a trailer
full of old metal parts and pieces destined for the scrap yard. Being the quick thinker
that I am, I yelled, "WOO EEH, look at that load of good stuff". Next thing I know, Jay is running down the street flagging the guy down. 3 hours later, we have a warehouse full of metal parts and pieces that we really didn't need. Two weeks later, when we have finally cleared a path in to the warehouse, we dug out an old bumper and a tailgate. A little bit of old heart pine wood from the last house we tore down and we have ourselves a spiffy little bench! I think it is more of a guy bench, but I like the way it turned out.

smile!

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Beautiful people in my life....
Thank you for being!

calling all dreamers...

If you are a dreamer, come in.

If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a prayer, a magic bean buyer.

If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some
flax- golden tales to spin.

Come in! Come in! Shel Silverstein

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Come on over to our house and we will share a cup of tea today.

The week was a long one and it feels good to have a quiet Saturday.
We said goodbye to my Brother-in-law, we shared tears in learning that
my Mother-in-law has cancer, and we worked ferociously to fill the
store with new things in the midst of all this. When I mentioned a few blogs ago, the
mountain top and valley that follows, I REALLY didn't mean that I wanted to
ride a luge to the bottom of the valley. I would love a do-over but I know
it is all just part of the ride. The wonderful thing about a valley is that it is usually
filled with luscious green grass and bright little tiny flowers that are so vivid because
you seem to be crawling on the ground. This week, I found some beautiful soul saving flowers hidden in that tall grass! Thank you to the Creator of it ALL and thank you to those who helped me see the flowers.