Sometimes It All Comes Together!

Finally, a lovely weekend! Visits from old friends, junking about at garage and estate sales, high season for strawberries at the farm market and a grand time with the kids! Sinus head notwithstanding, how can you miss?

Friday brought the visit of our friend Rick B. who moved to California several years ago – and that meant dinner on the roof at El Azteco, where we shared our favorite topopo salad and cheese dip.

(The photos below are from a previous trip to the Az, but you get the idea of a messy ‘popo (it’s all over the table when you’re done!)

Saturday was serious junking and marketing day! (A bit done Friday, too!) You can’t beat this curtain valance for a dime (and in the package!). Before…

And after! Perfect colors!

I’m dying to take apart this necklace that was thrown in free and use in collage. Not a great photo, but you get the gist.

I loved this little manecki neko, the Japanese good luck cat you often see in businesses. It was a teapot with a missing lid. Now it’s a pen holder, but may be converted into a yarn/string dispenser!

Ball jars were fifty cents to a dollar!

And I loved the lace curtains – two long panels and a valance. I doubt they’ll be curtains – maybe a table cover or I could use them to wrap oddly shaped packages.

I found these dear cloths/liners at an estate sale and these cute booties. I want to interpret the pattern. Then I’ll stuff them with catnip for the Gypsy!

That estate sale also bought some fun recipe booklets and golden books – most were not in good shape, but I’m cutting them up for collage, so no big deal. Also found a great atlas (not pictured) – again, bad shape but glorious maps and good typography.

And the video “Hello, Dolly!” for fifty cents, which we enjoyed Saturday night!

Total junking expenditures: $10.00. Fun shopping and fun to come? Priceless!

Tomorrow…time with another old friend, and strawberry shortcake!