Saturday, November 9, 2019

several false starts


After my excellent start this week on finishing up for the open house I got nothing done the last two days. After working over at the shop for about an hour Thursday morning, that afternoon my sister and I headed out to an estate sale in Richmond, the outer edge of our territory, but about halfway there we bailed and returned home. It had rained lightly that morning and started raining lightly again as we were leaving and the farther we got the heavier the rain to the point that it was difficult to see the cars in front of us on the highway and there was a gravel road involved at the end so we decided to postpone the outing til the next day.

The rain was the leading edge of another cold front and you know me and rain and cold. It paralyzes me (we got 3 1/2” on Thursday). Didn't want to brave it to the shop nor get out the messy modeling glass since I couldn't access the outdoors for cleaning hands or washing stuff off so I finally set up the metal shelving unit that I had brought over from the shop over a month ago and has been laying on it's side in my studio waiting for me to find floor protecting furniture leg cups that would work for the metal legs of the unit. The third set I purchased were finally big enough even if they weren't exactly what I wanted. Since the shelving unit belongs to our fused glass artist friend who has stored his studio in our shop while he moves and gets his new studio set up and he finally got the slab poured and the metal building up, I texted him...how goes the build out? Slow, he says. I figured that as soon as I set it up and filled it he'd be ready to retrieve all his stuff. In fact the other shelving unit in here is his as is the bakery rack. Anyway, I finally set it up and got everything off the floor. Of course, no before picture because...me, but here's an after picture. 


So Friday we headed out again for the estate sale telling ourselves that a. the rain would have kept everyone away and so the good stuff would all still be there and b. if it was meant for us to have it would still be there. Well, 'a' turned out not to be true and 'b' apparently there was nothing that was meant for us to have because we both left empty handed but then they had some pretty high prices on some of that stuff. This sale was advertised as 'three generations of collectors' of mostly 50s and 60s stuff...cartoon glasses and mugs, aluminum ware, salt and pepper shakers, beer steins, pottery vases and planters and decorative items, complete dish sets, fishing lures, jewelry boxes, toys, McDonald's Happy Meal toys, very tarnished silver plate, games, coca cola stuff, and purses...they must have had 100 purses...box purses, the big canvas/burlap heavily jeweled in animal and flower designs purses (my mother had several of those), and just regular ordinary ones. I'm not even scratching the surface here. We had a lot of fun with the hats though, what was left of them anyway. 


 Our favorite was the one with a row of white roses and green leaves that looked more like an artichoke.


Then I had to do the dishes which I don't seem to get done until all the plates are dirty which is about every four days. And since it had been overcast all day and it was getting dark earlier than usual, I fed the dog early, walked her early, and then settled on the couch with the bowl full of cracked pecans and started shelling.

It's sunny today and creeping into the 60˚s so I've got the car loaded with all the stuff that's getting taken back over to the shop that slowly migrated over here for one reason or another and going to try and make more progress.




15 comments:

  1. Sunny here, too. I am putting up Christmas lights while it is still warm. I have promised myself not to turn them on until Thanksgiving Day. I would rather sit and watch TV all day, but that won't get things done.

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  2. Those estate sales are certainly eye openers about what we collect and keep! I am glad I do not go as I would buy stuff I do not need.

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  3. It started out cold and dark here in Seguin but started to get warm and sunny. I had to repot a couple of Boston ferns and an ivy that had overgrown itself. It turned out to be a nice fall day.

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  4. Artichoke for sure. I'm both regretful and deeply thankful that women don't wear hats anymore.
    Unless they damn well want to.

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  5. Those shelves look great! Good job!
    The hats are pretty fun. I love the one with the little veil. I just love a hat with a veil.
    Getting colder here, too.
    Let's stay warm.

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    1. quite a few of them had veils. I can remember my mother wearing similar hats when I was young.

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  6. A lot of pecans under the work table! It' will be teeth chattering cold all over the land, next week.

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    1. and more in the garage. it's too early for it to get this cold.

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  7. Another estate sale and hats too. I look at them and am curious about who wore them, where they bought them and where they went wearing those hats.
    As for the 'artichoke' hat - it looks like something you might wear for a dare at Christmas lunch...
    Alphie

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  8. Your estate sale ritual with your sister seems like a win to me, because even if nothing remains that is meant for you to have, you have each other's company. I dont have a sister but I have cousins who are like my sisters. And after watching my mother with her five sisters, I have concluded that there might be no better company in this world than that of a congenial sister.

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  9. I love that hat. It's so very bad that I have hopes you took it home. Shelving. Wonderful real wood shelves can be found at estate sales. No sales near here tho.

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  10. Several false starts - story of my days. You work all the time!!?? I am so envious of all this energy.

    Great hats. Reminds me that we used to go to the cast off costume sale at the opera house to fill the dress up box in the playroom. Maybe I'll do that when the grandchild gets old enough.

    I hope the rain behaves in your part if the woods. Frost forcast here.

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    1. well, not ALL the time. but it's a busy time of year though I'm not as energetic as I used to be.

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  11. I'm thinking some vintage shop owner would LOVE to have all those hats! The description of that sale makes it sound pretty terrific. Maybe all the good stuff was just gone.

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  12. I LOVE the artichoke hat! We have a dishwasher, but I don't use it for plastics, sharp knives, or pans & I will let those pile up until there's no room on the counter to even make a sandwich, much less cook, & then I wash them. Grudgingly.

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