Eat Eat

Here's a photo-heavy post filled with lovely things to look at as I'm feeling a bit challenged for words at the moment.  Recently purchased baubles. The Sacred Heart bracelet had a D&G vibe to it, and with Autumn coming soon I like to pile on the velvet, gold, and rhinestones.  By the back of this piece, I suspect it is a fur clip-anyone have another theory? A hat perhaps?  Is this a hat box? I couldn't decide, but I bought it anyway as it reminded me a bit of my Nantucket Basket.  Brown is an underrepresented colour in my earrings.  Here's some of my compacts, though I couldn't locate my favourite a mid-50's Stratton with a floral enamel top. The black Stratton is from the 70's. The reddish compact is modern-from Sephora. The Guerlain in the upper right is 90's, The other two compacts are both vintage.  Originally the conmpact held small brushes on top...  And modular eye shadow and rouge in the bottom. Here's my little red camera in the reflect...

 I've been shopping. I found these four beautiful Springerle  moulds by Laxa at Thrift World-all four set me back ten dollars. I thought that was pretty good shopping (just the heart lists for $75.00) until I found... ...antique Minton. This one set me back $2.99 but it sells online for $275.00!  The fact that it not only survived without any chips, but ended up in a Goodwill in Ralston, Nebraska is nothing short of incredible.  I like covered dishes, but I might hesitate to use this one now that I know a bit about it. Yikes. So that was fun. I did find some lower-end pottery as well...  I do love a bit of California Pottery. I already had the peach tray, so I had to buy the strawberries. This set me back $4.00, but I'm not complaing. I use my California pottery pieces. Let's pause for a butterfly break. We saw both of these at Wherespan lake on Friday. It was a beautiful day. The Fuzzy Headed Twitcher found some sort of unusual sparrow, so he was happy. He's be...

Bit of crazy pattern mixing never hurt anyone. I swear, I'm as off-kilter as this photo!  I'm just barely getting myself dressed these days. We've been having some very late nights (or more accurately, early mornings) with the kid's asthma (which never strikes during business hours) and I'm functioning on much less beauty sleep  than I require. Add to that my own autoimmune stuff where my body decides this would be a great time for a flare...and let's just say, thank god for Prednisone!  For both of us. Cheap and er...cheerful, it does what it is supposed to. The side effects are unpleasant, but not unbearable. I did manage to wash my hair today, but I was too tired to style it. Big combs to the rescue. At some point I'd like to give myself a haircut, but not until I'm better rested.  Danny made some beautiful raisin swirl bread in a trial run for the fair. The raisins are plumped overnight in brandy, and there's grated lemon rind and mace in the dou...

A Blue Hawaiian cocktail sounds pretty good right now, but I'd need to go out and buy Curacao. Better stick to Pimms and lemonade instead.  I found this dress in a box I'd forgotten about, and have no memory of having purchased it. It isn't vintage, but it easily passes. I was in the mood to wear something cheerful. How'd I do? I waited in the car while Mr. ETB popped into the Indian market for curry leaves (and a deep-fried snack he ate before returning to the car). Bored, I photographed my new (to me) vintage shoes, but the real star of this photo is that blue sky out the window.  Car-selfie using the mirror on the sun-visor. I was really  bored. I think the "fried snack" was probably plural, as he was in there quite some time.  Outfit Particulars: Jones New York dress-can't remember Blue vintage beads-Goodwill Flower pin-Tiff and Tam Earrings-Hand-Me-Ups Vintage sandals-Hand-Me-Ups Vintage handbag-Goodwill Hair Flowers-Tiff and Tam Fragrance-Guerlain Gu...