Tuesday's Outfit, and - 'Sometimes I am a Knucklehead'

I won't be getting in the habit of showing what I'm wearing, but I wanted to show this dress, because I love it.
I've had it about 2 years, but it was too snug in the waist for me - I cannot stand anything close fitting on my waist, I like my clothing barely touching my stomach. But this year I'm a little thinner than last year (Had to take off a few lbs because of my high blood pressure) so I got to wear the dress for the first time on Tuesday! It needs a belt to finish it off, I know, but like I said, nothing tight on the waist.
I wore it to the part time job with 1970s canvas and straw wedges (a little tight, but thank goodness canvas gives) and a very cool 1950s purse that is made of vinyl, pressed and textured to look like wicker or bamboo -

Now for the 'Sometimes I am a Knucklehead' part of the post. You know those cute seedlings that I showed you in the last post? Well . . . There were a bunch of knats inside the window where the seedlings set. So I sprayed bug killer in the window to get rid of the knats. When I woke up in the morning, my little seedlings were all shriveled up and discolored - from the bug spray. Knucklehead. Hopefully they will pull through

My posts have been lacking lately, sorry. Summer is a little hectic, and the vintage work has been busy too. So here are some odds-n-ends to mention.
I bought these little terra cotta pots with seeds at the Dollar store. So cute - sunflowers, Forget-me-nots and clover. I put the little pots in one of my depression glass dishes on the window, they look really cute (which is good, I keep going to look at how cute they are, so I keep remembering to water them)


Remember my flood, how could you forget? Well the carpet in the bathroom got trashed, I hated it anyway. I really want tile in there, because I don't like carpet in a bathroom. But my Dad said a new subfloor had to be put in before we could put in tile, which basically means he didn't want to do it. So we ended up with carpet again. I was really anxious to get something in there because it looked bad. The only piece of carpet that was the right size and quality was a dark plum. Somehow I made it match my pale aqua walls. I bought shower curtains at the dollar store that had a paler version of the plum along with the aqua in them, and that pulled it together. It will do until I can find vintage fabric to make curtains and until I can get tile put in there.

Below is a shot of the walls with the magically matching curtains, and a few of my mermaids. The clothing in the next photo is my 'closet' - since there is no closet in the cottage, I have to hang my clothing off the side of the shower stall.



And here's the blue dress from above on me, yesterday. It's a great dress, very lightweight cotton, very comfortable.

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