Books, Books and More Books

Imagine that! Last Saturday, Mom and I took off and headed north to do a little antiquing. It was a beautiful day and Tim unfortunately had to work on taxes and dvd production so we just went on without him! I must confess that I had gone to a book sale first thing in the morning and found a few books, not as many as I would have liked, but worth the trouble anyway!

Anyway, picked up mom and we headed to Seymour where we ate at a local diner and then made our way to Edinburgh to the Exit 76 Antique Mall. Had we known the treasures we would find, we would have high tailed it up there earlier than we did! I found tons of great vintage children's book and readers as well as a handful of other kinds and a game or two for my etsy shop!

We closed the place down and in fact, stayed ONE HOUR after closing! I made myself stop looking at 5:45, thinking that 15 minutes, maybe 20 or 25 max, would be more than enough time to check out! WRONG! Thank goodness the manager Nic, who is just the best guy and still remembers me from the days when I had booths there, was willing to stay late and make that sale!

Mom also found a few goodies for her collections! We grabbed a quick bite to eat at Taco Bell and then headed home in the dark!

Pictured are some of my finds!

Titanic!

Friday a week ago, well a little over a week ago, Tim, Mom and I went to see the Titanic exhibit on display at the Louisville Science Center before it closed. It wasn't as large as the exhibit that we saw in Vegas a few years ago but it was still fascinating to see the artifacts that had been recovered as well as to hear the stories of the passengers.

Andrea's Retirement Party

I'm so behind on blogging! Mainly because I'm buried under papers crunching numbers for my tax guy who didn't impress upon me last year that I would need more specific numbers this year for my business stuff. Ugh!

Anyway, one of my co-workers, Andrea, retired at the end of February! She had been there for almost 16 years! Such a wonderful, kind and thoughtful person! A true pleasure working with her these last 8 years! She will be missed!

When my boss asked for my help with Andrea's retirement party, I recruited my mom (a caterer in a past life!) and we got busy! Picked the yummiest foods that the Cheddar Box cafe in Louisville offered, sampled delicious cakes at Sweet Stuff in New Albany and went to Caroline at Lavender Hill to get flowers (she did my wedding flowers and I'm still talking about them!). It all came together Friday the 26th at my boss's house. What a great afternoon and party! I have to say though, mom and I came home and collapsed at 5:30! We were two tired party planners!

Flea Market and Scrapbook Convention

I didn't get to go to the Stewart's Flea Market first thing Friday due to a retirement party for one of my fellow co-workers at work. So, I decided I still needed to go Saturday even though probably all the good stuff and good deals would be gone! Ha ha! I had also forgotten about the CKC scrapbook convention that was also going on at the Fairgrounds because it just never made it onto my calendar!

I convinced mom to go over with me and we hit the flea market first. Right off the bat, I found three giant boxes of bubble envelopes for a killer of a price! Cha ching! I was thrilled! The vendor helped me get them out to my SUV and said he could bring more to the next flea market! YAY! They were smaller bags which I was running out of so I was happy to find these!

Ran over to the junk guy and found a handful of things even though all his good stuff goes first thing Friday! (Usually to me, ha ha!) We hit a couple of other vendors and found some good old children's books and vintage party goods! Neat old furnace advertising plates, silver glittery Christmas picks, rolls of vintage carnival tickets, a box of old Esso receipts, a few photographs, an old Ladies Home Journal magazine and an old talcum powder tin to name a few of the goodies we found!

So then we headed over to the Vendor Faire at the CKC convention. It was a bit pricey to get into even with $3 per person discount coupons. There were some good products though and we especially fell in love with the Clear Scraps acrylic and chipboard albums! They are a company out of Colorado. Check out their website! Their design team ROCKED! Finally got to watch a demo of the alcohol inks so now I know what that's all about! Picked up some new Sassafras Lass, Graphic 45, October Afternoon and Websters Pages papers!

All in all a good day even if a day late!

Estate Sale Treasures!

I went to an estate sale a couple of weeks ago and found a few goodies! Not pictured are a couple of more Christmas candy boxes that mom scooped up from my pile at home and a few little presents to put away for mom and Tim down the road! The rest of these goodies will make an appearance in my etsy shop someday!

Recent Finds!

Found lots of new goodies to add to my etsy shop!

Valentine's Day

We decided we were long overdue for an evening at The Melting Pot so I booked our reservation way in advance of Valentine's Day weekend! We ended up going Friday when you had the option to order off the regular menu because I didn't like the special menu for Sat and Sun! With the ultimate arrival of more snow Sat into Sun, I guess we definitely did the right thing!

Dinner was SO good! It was nice to sit down and relax and eat something different! Tim really enjoyed it and commented several times that it was even better than he remembered! We're planning to go for his birthday in July already!

After dinner we headed over to Half Price Books and found a few goodies! After dinner digested a little, I decided I would get a kid's scoop of my favorite concoction at Cold Stone Creamery! (We hit Michael's before dinner and I picked up three packs of beautiful Prima flowers, all with 40% off coupons!). What a perfect evening!

We saved our gift giving until Sunday itself although I had already gotten my pretty flowers Thurs night! We went light on gifts this year mainly because we are STILL trying to find homes for Christmas presents, it's been an extremely cold winter and the gas and electric bills in this old house are horrendous and we splurged on dinner. And the bookstore, ha ha!

Our 11th Valentine's Day together....sigh....

Mom gave me a pack of sweet vintage valentines mainly with a food theme for my growing collection! I someday hope to do an altered recipe album with them! She also put a gift card to Jimmy John's in my card, yum! Love that place! We had our little Valentine's exchange Saturday and she loved the vintage pink heart shaped candy box complete with an iris attached to the front that I found for her collection! I also found a tiny bottle of vintage perfume for that collection and she gave me a box filled with some great treasures for my etsy shop that she had found!