Back from a slightly extended Memorial Day Weekend, and getting back on my regular vintage work schedule. I actually did pretty good today, getting some slips, nightgowns and day dresses typed up for next week's update. I worked at my part time job two of those 'vacation' days, so it wasn't a total vacation everyday. But the weather was beautiful and I was happy to be in my favorite place.New windows were put in at my little place at the Shore, and I had the fun task of reworking my curtains. I like the new pine trim around the windows and I wanted to leave as much showing as possible. So I re-used my hummingbird curtains that I bought a few years ago, along with some cut down lace panels on the bottom and a vintage embroidered doily hanging in the middle. Above the window I have 3 green dishes hanging. In front of the window is a little enamel top table with the perfect-for-me green edges. On it sets my green depressionware stacking refrigerator dishes, which hold my tea bags and sugar (I love that!) Pretty pink flowers courtesy of Acme on my nice wide windowsill. (Ignore the old water heater there. The place is over 100 years old and started out as a boat shed, so the water heater didn't have a proper camoflauged home, it ended up just stuck in a corner of the kitchen) I put up one of those clear plastic bird feeders that stick to the window, and I've got little birds eating seeds in there already.
On Friday, before I headed to the Shore, we went to a nearby yard sale, and I grabbed some goodies, all for me! (It's so much more fun to buy stuff for myself rather than for resale!) First, to the right, was a set of two prints of pretty ladies. They're really cool because they are raised. They have a signature under the matting, but I can't read it. Below is a closer view of one of the pretty ladies. Then the next photo is a set of matching doilies in green and pink. It's that loopy stuff, what do you call it? Plus I bought a set of 4 black and pink tin coasters, I would guess they're from the 1940s. And lastly was a very cool Art Deco chrome frame with painted glass.
I returned home to find our front yard all in bloom. Giant rhododendrons looming large behind Little Dog in the 1st photo below. This year the Laurel is really blooming allover, we didn't get hardly any blooms last year. In a few more days they'll be fully open. The deer have been spotted again in the yard, we hadn't seen any since October. Last night there were 2 raccoons out there shoveling corn into their mouths!
Finally, here is a shot of my new friend Godzilla, a little skink who likes to sneak under the screened porch door, and lay in the sun up on my wicker table. He's really cool looking, he has a red head. Other little skinks have bright blue tails. They're little and cute and they can be seen skinking around our deck or on the front porch.
(out on June 26) Lizzie moves to New York City to pursue her dream of become a vintage wedding gown restorer, with surprising results (not to give anything away, but...she's a hit). In the third book, which I'm working on now, QUEEN OF BABBLE GETS HITCHED, Lizzie starts planning her own wedding...but just WHO she's going to marry (and what she's going to wear) is a surprise...maybe even to her.
- you should. She's comes off as very independant and confident, just like Ms. Davis, and it's funny that they were both born the same time, and both had New England upbringings. Kate's father was a doctor who wanted to educate people about venereal disease during the early 1900s when that was just not discussed by 'proper' people. Her mother fought for women's right to vote and for making birth control information available to women. There's not an actress around today that I find as interesting as Ms. Hepburn, none of them have that enduring quality.
