shoes and interiors to match

The spring I turned ten I started collecting stuff. Some stuff was given to me. Some stuff I thought was cool and other stuff I thought I might use someday.  For instance, I had what was once the wooden handle of a hammer. The broken end could be sharpen to a point and used to kill vampires in the event of an attack.  In a pinch you could use it to stab a werewolf in the foot, at least that would give you time to get away (I was still on the lookout for a silver bullet.)   When mid-summer rolled around, I had almost two shoe boxes full of stuff. Gum wrappers, feathers, sticks, seriously misspelled notes, rocks, and do dads of all kinds. After a morning of playing with my friends, I headed home to empty my pockets to make room for what the afternoon might bring. I went straight to my room, bent down next to my bed, extended my arm under to get one of the boxes. I felt nothing... so I take a look....  my shoe boxes are gone! gone. gone. gone. As in n...

With a stack of pretty paper squares and double stick tape - my closet/dressing room is starting to take shape.      The funky light is an old metal basket with a filament blub (a flea find.)  The paper squares are normally used for scrapbooking. I'll add photos and art.  TA DA ...My very own scrapbook wall! The art (Lovely As A Tree) peeking thru the light fixture is by A.L. Burke. LOVE. http://funnyskullgrin.tumblr.com/ This is a jewelry stand. Jumped for joy when I found this! A favorite dress. I Found this Beth Frank one of  a kind belt at an estate sale. The sign on the door stated no kids, but the boy and I went in anyway. He held my hand, we smiled at the lady with the stern look and walked right to the table where this and two other belts were. I didn't decide right away and thought we should keep moving before we were asked to leave and ...

         Knockers : one that knocks : as a : a metal ring, bar, or hammer hinged to a door for use in knocking         k'nocker - (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person I love a good door knocker. Nothing says "Welcome" or "Enter At Your Own Risk" like a well placed knocker. Currently, I do not have a door knocker. I have instead, a door bell and a "speakeasy" I love the look of surprise when the little door opens and I say Helloooo....password please.  I had both a door bell and a knocker at my last home. Some visitors rang the bell, ignoring the knocker completely. Others, knocker only.  Not to be forgotten - that rare visitor who employed the full force of both the knocker and bell. These frantic you must open the door types were largely ignored.  Seriously. We're not home.  How about you?  ...

This is what can happen when families work together to make a dream come true. Much Happiness to Brynn and Kurt.         New York’s St. Regis Hotel Unveils New Tiffany Suite          A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin

rabbits, fish, and birds. oh my! The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. ”    Stephen Wright   “Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”   Stephen Wright   “I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.”   Jack Handy “ Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out. ”    Jack Handy Magic Mirror : Our first bachelorette is a mentally abused shut-in from a kingdom far, far away. She likes sushi and hot-tubbing any time. Her hobbies inc...

 color*  the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the   object, usually determined visually by measurement   of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue .  hue * The property of colors by which they can be perceived as ranging from red through yellow, green, and blue, as determined by the dominant wavelength of the light. A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint or hue. Sunlight * Considered the ideal light source, natural sunlight maintains a neutral balance between both the warm (yellow cast) and cool (blue cast) ends of the light spectrum. Northern light is the coolest, while light from a southern exposure is the strongest. Direct sunlight provides the "truest" rendition of colors in a room. Indirect Sunlight * Natural sunligh...

poem* A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme. sigh* to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief. moxie* courage,determination, know-how, energy, pep Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874.  Though his work is principally associated with the life and landscape of New England, and though he was a poet of traditional verse forms and metrics who remained steadfastly aloof from the poetic movements and fashions of his time, Frost is anything but a merely regional or minor poet. The author of searching and often dark meditations on universal themes, he is a quintessentially modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, in the psychological c...