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Went to a pretty good auction Saturday. The woven bedspread came from there, and so did ...
some kitchen things, and ...
some more kitchen things (that's a napkin holder), and ...
some red kitchen things (plastic wall pockets? who knew?), and ...
some rose-print fabric, and a planter, and a vase, because at least 24 hours had elapsed since the last vase purchase, and ...
lots more stuff to unpack.
Fortunately, I have help.
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A cocktail party? No, I'm not having one. (I can't imagine me ever having one.) I'm just taking a photo like the one I saw in Country Living last night.
I was just reading about cocktail napkins, and wouldn't you know it? The second sale I went to this morning, there was a set of them.
With the weekend upon us, I thought it might be useful to review some rules for social drinking.
Happy weekend!
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One thing can safely be said about all of the vintage graduation decorations I've been tucking away. They're fairly tasteless and cheesy.
Will this stop me from displaying them on Graduation Weekend, a few weekends from now? Certainly not. I'm just now starting to get kind of excited about the big event coming up. So much of this year has been consumed with college visits and paperwork and decisions, and now it's almost time to celebrate. I think representatives of all of our out-of-town families will be here. The invitations to graduation parties are coming in. The senior portrait and the yearbook have arrived. The senior ball has been attended. And I'm just bowled over thinking about not just my son but his friends, most of whom I've known since nursery school, really going out into the world.
Why, here are some of them now. (Jay's in the dark blue shirt and yellow tie.)
If you find yourself in need of graduation picks, sing out. I seem to have accumulated more than enough.
These guys kind of take the cake in terms of graduation decoration tastelessness/cheesiness - and yet, I'm strangely attached to them. Not for long, though, because I put them on eBay tonight along with some of those other anthropomorphic items I've accumulated. But they're so great, aren't they? I'm pretty sure it's the rhinestone glasses. They're Lefton salt-and-peppers from 1956. (I'm trying to turn this into an educational experience.)
On the subject of anthropomorphism, which has been coming up so frequently I don't even need to look up how to spell it any more, you must go visit that funny Jenny. Upon seeing my vegetables in love tea towels, she immediately pulled out of her collection the obvious companion pieces: vegetable with babies tea towels. Nope, I couldn't believe it, either.
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I almost never go to thrift stores on Thursdays, but I had to go to the Big Box Office Supply Store for new ink cartridges for my printer, and the thrift stores are on the same street. The ink purchase left me despondent, but the thrifting was good. I found lots of pretty old handkerchiefs ...
which for once had price stickers instead of the stapled price tags that leave holes, so that was good, and so was finding one with a bird, not to mention apple blossoms and morning glories.
I found myself oddly amused by some old linen postcards from Mexico, and predictably attracted by their low, low price.
This one's my favorite. In the background is a 4-yard length of vintage Waverly fabric I also found this morning. Not my colors, but it's awfully charming, and someone will like it. All of these bargains almost made up for the $70-some dollars that a set of ink cartridges now costs. That's about $15 more than I paid the last time. When I mentioned this to the person who helped me, he explained that companies charge more for ink for "older printers." (Mine is a whopping almost three years old.) So at some point it's cheaper to buy a new printer than to continue to buy ink for one that works perfectly well? I asked. That's what they're hoping, he said. Oh, HP, I do not like you.
I got over it, though, because I found a new vase. And some more hankies.
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I took these photos for an Etsy update weeks ago, and then, well, weeks passed.
I got the update done today, finally. I've got kind of a sewing room theme - can you tell? (There's a link in the sidebar, or there will be shortly.)
Anyway, I think most of you will have to amuse yourself with photos today, because I was going to pass along an easier way to do listings on Etsy, and although it might be useful information, it might be a wee bit boring. Or really, really boring, if you don't sell on Etsy.
Here's what I did, and I bet some of you have been doing this all along, but it never occurred to me. Let's say that you sold some buttons, and you want to sell some more. Go to the "Sold" section of your Etsy, and relist the buttons you sold previously - even if they're different from the new ones. (When you relist, remember to click the "Finish" button so it actually relists.) Now zip right over to your shop, click on the "edit" selection for your new listing, and then just navigate off the page without doing anything. What happens is that your listing moves from sold to active to inactive. Once it's inactive, you can edit at your leisure - change the description, the title, the price, the photos. Once you're done, just send it back to your shop.
This seemed so much faster to me than cutting and pasting descriptions, since all of the tags and materials and shipping information was already there. Does this make any sense? Is there a downside I'm not seeing? Or a much easier way you already know about? Do tell!
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