Miami, Florida

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i feel the need to mention this trip was where and when i found that pink dress.

Webster St., San Francisco

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$9.00

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magic does happen

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” -Emily Dickinson

for one year i have chosen to live a handcrafted, secondhand life... and so our christmas tree is 'green' in a different sense of the word this year.

made from

- a dead branch out back

- a thrifted red bucket

- a bag of concrete in the garage

- white paint from the cupboard

- crocheted garlands i made two years ago

- vintage pot holders

- thriftstore figurines, painted

- vintage glass ornaments

- vintage cotton spools

- vintage knitting needles

- straw decorations from my box of 'glee'

- vintage button cards

- crocheted doily circles

- yarn balls from last christmas

- length of knitted cream yarn waiting to be made into a blanket one day

- vintage tablecloth

- thriftstore table painted white

and of course

- antique doilies

my clan at mossy shed, have located their 'rose colored' specs and embraced their 'whatnot gleeful tree for this year.

i miss a real tree, but i do believe for this year, i have pulled off a 'handcrafted secondhand' tree of glee...

found in a gideon's bible at goodwill. lexington, ky.

Thinking of all things Trump brings me to a poem by Anna Akhmatova's girlfriend, Nikolai Gumilev, before (obviously, obviously, obviously BEFORE) he was stood up against that wall and shot. "The Lost Tram" gets anthologized much more..but this darkly funny little one...

THE FOUNDERS

Romulus and Remus went up a hill,

a wild and silent hill.

Said Romulus, "Here there'll be a city."

Said Remus, "A city like the sun."

Said Romulus, "We found our ancient honor

by grace of the stars."

Said Remus, "The past is dead.

Let it be forgotten. Consider the future."

Said Romulus, "Here we'll put the circus,

and here our house, open to everyone."

Said Remus, "But the tombs, the tombs

must be nearer the house."

So very cute red and white, and blue and white ticking style girls frocks from the UK. Great find from a little California thrift shop!

.25 cents apiece

and did you notice i even rounded the edges for ya?!

To a thriftstore in Garden Grove, CA.

Through parasols

Life feels like it is getting away from me. Hopefully, I find my stride soon.

We had these glasses too.

thriftstore Hell

I think I'm a bird.

But what kind could I be?

Help a tweet out - can you tell me?

A chirps portrait taken for this weeks Macro Mondays theme 'animal' (14-Aug-2023).

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Red and white wingtip pumps. Awesome. Rather disgustingly, they were filled with foot powder. I appreciate the gesture, but gross.

Al Baker

Minnesota

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Handmade ceramics found in thrift store. 2018.

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"Song Pilgrimage" book $2, tin $2, "The Legend of the Wingless Birds" book $1.

Today JSD and I had lunch on Picnic Island and popped into a local thrift store on the way home.