The special number of the day is TWO! There’s a little someone in our house who is now TWO. Where or where does time go? There have been many celebrations for our family recently, yes, its a busy but happy time of year. I hope you don’t mind so many non-jewelry pictures. I promise I’ll share a pretty piece of jewelry soon – maybe even this week, and it’s something special. BUT, my little guy is TWO and you know I just can’t resist…….. 🙂
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Just stopping in to say Hello on this long weekend. I hope you are enjoying it. It has been jam packed full of fun outings here from my son’s big birthday party with his classmates today and the impromptu tag sale that we stumbled upon yesterday. The tag sale! So let me tell you a little about our day yesterday…. . 🙂
We had heard about a farm on the foothills of the Blueridge Mountains with a great big corn maze, and decided to take the kids yesterday. The weather was around 80 and just perfect. Well, you know me, I decided to check and see if there were any antiques stops along the way. Purcellville….now that sounded like a town with a quaint mainstreet and maybe an antiques shop or two. Boy was I right! As we drove in to town we noticed crowds walking everywhere and big signs saying, “Community Tag Sale”! We hit the jack pot. As it turns out, this was the town’s 8th annual tag sale and the entire town is turned in to one great big flea market, drawing thousands of people. Parking lots, side streets, front yards, everywhere you looked there were tables and bins full of potential treasures. This was tag sale heaven!
The streets were lined with turn-of-the-century homes and businesses from yesteryear.
We ended up staying ALL day, enjoying a picnic on a church lawn and getting to know many of the church members as we spent a good part of the afternoon at their sale. We met a man who was from the first graduating class of McLean High School (1955) – the high school down the street from where we are building our house. And while at the church, would you believe, my husband ran in to the Commanding Officer of his very first ship as a Navy Ensign. Sadly, the USS Portland (LSD-37) was decommissioned in 2003 and was later sunk off the coast of Virginia in a target exercise.
Bethany United Methodist Church....what wonderful people we met here!
Never too little to be on the lookout!
This unusual and incredible Scottie weathervane was priced at over $1,400.00
Well, we never made it to the corn maze (but there’s always tomorrow, we do plan to go Monday), but everyone had fun. On the drive home I could not pass up the chance to stop in my all-time favorite antiques store, and one that I’ve mentioned among other times here, and here– The {infamous}LUCKETT’S Store! LUCKily for me, there is a huge playground practically in the parking lot -how convenient! – and while my husband watched the kids, I snuck in all alone to shop!
The Old Lucketts Schoolhouse playground
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These days I find myself tuning in to Pandora when I’m up late and working on the computer. Like right now I’m enjoying a little retro flashback with The Psychedelic Furs and I’m transported back to the early 5 years of when we lived in Germany – sigh (such great times).
This week I had a great time at Angela’s Happy Stamper taking a beginning stamping class with Jeanette. I can’t believe I’ve been wanting to do this for a year and finally it worked out with my schedule. I know it’s been a year because I went back to find the post about my cool stamping book – and I found it last October! My stamper extraordinaire friend, Maureen, created a stamping practice book for me, which I took to class and filled with notes. I know, many of you know inks like the back of your hand….but we newbies have to start somewhere! I can see how hanging out in a stamp store can be dangerous….so many cool stamps, pens, powders….and latest issues of Stampington magazines to tempt me! The last thing I need is a new interest, but today I couldn’t help myself. I embossed a few thank-you cards, and ended up with glitter everywhere!
Samples at Angela's Happy Stamper
I love surprises. And I couldn’t be happier that the mailman has brought me quite a few lately. Can I show them off here? They are from blog friends. First I want to show you some absolutely stunning seed bead earrings by Nancy Peterson of Beading from the Heart. A little while ago she featured a set in her Elspeth series. I loved the earrings and inquired about ordering a custom pair… could she make them in a black/neutral color scheme? Nancy was happy to oblige and emailed photos of color variations as she made them to be sure they were what I had in mind. I couldn’t be happier with them! And she even sent me an additional pair as a huge surprise! And fyi, if you work with seed beads, Nancy is offering a discount right now on her patterns.
Going back to last October again, back then I offered a blog give away and Boot-C of Mama’s Got to Doodle won. Coincidentally I recently won a give away on her blog. She sent me a sweet beaded fairy, a little handmade box full of beads, and – so touching – a mixed metal heart she made with the sheet metal and stamps she won in my give away. Now that was really nice to see!
Tiny fairy by Boot-C
Boot-C's surprise
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