Most people collect something. When my friend came into my home for a chat, she looked around and said “you certainly love lamps“. I looked around and had to acknowledge that she was right. I hadn’t really thought of my interest in lamps as collecting but as decorating. …
When Dorothy closed her eyes and said “there’s no place like home” she clicked her heels together in her Ruby Red Slippers and echoed the sentiments women have likely had since the beginning of time. Perhaps the feelings are the same in a cave, a cottage or a castle. …
It was on the last aisle of the second, second-hand store that I spotted this beauty. I am pretty certain that it is a print of a magazine illustration, probably from the Saturday Evening Post. I do plan to become Nancy Drew for a day or until I find out …
journal entry: Thrifted bird cages. Quite difficult to find. Most are very ordinary cages but I continue to hope I will find an unusual cage along the way. The cage on the left was already this color when I found it at Deseret Industries. It was $5 dollars. I used …
It isn’t Christmas without the beauty of Handel’s Messiah. Handel’s pen wrote the music but these words come from Isaiah. King of Kings. Lord of Lords. The Mighty God. The Everlasting Father. The Prince of Peace. I have collected a few “crowns” from thrift stores. Most were once …
Time to decorate for Christmas again. Old things in new places. One year it is a village of bird houses. The next year it is a globe collection with a Joy to the World plaque. Bottle brush trees and ornaments and tea light candles can be strewn about in so …
I think that Paper Whites are wonderful during the Christmas season. Grandpa started calling them “stinky bulbs” years ago and so my children call them by the same name. He says that he is just teasing, but I’m not so sure. When they all see that I have planted some, …
Talmage has a new bedroom . . . all to himself. That means that Holden now has a bedroom all to himself which he used to share with Tally. According to their mother, there is much more peace in the house. I thought that the occasion called for a bed …
“I’m sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, just rolling along. I’m quitting the blues of the world, Just singing a song, just singing a song.” This is an old song as old goes. It was written by Al Jolson but many people have recorded their own …
Be a Lamp, a Lifeboat or a Ladder. At the top of the globe are a lamp, lifeboat and a ladder. They are joined by a little-boy-turned-angel so that there is someone to light the lamp, row the boat and steady the ladder. I bought the little fellow over 25 years …
