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11436. Macnas - 9/22/2004 8:24:18 AM I do, I have a small sewing kit, just a habit from years ago. It only takes a minute to sew back on a button. 11437. Magoseph - 9/22/2004 1:38:58 PM I found a box in the attic that contains buttons of all kinds. I suppose they would have been handy at one time. 11438. judithathome - 9/22/2004 1:47:03 PM I would love to have those old buttons, Mags...if I see a tin or box of old buttons at estate sales, I always buy them. I love old buttons. Many were so elegant and you can make use of them today. Just last week, I was given this old purse made of woven silk and I added an antique button and a silk tassel to it and made it quite unique. I received compliments on it all night long at the galleries we visited on Saturday. 11439. Magoseph - 9/22/2004 2:42:10 PM Ah, well, it went into the dumpster, juds. 11440. Macnas - 9/22/2004 2:48:52 PM I can just see judith having a fit and thinking "and what else went into the dumpster? ahhhhh!" 11441. Magoseph - 9/22/2004 2:54:38 PM I tell you, Mac, after she wrote that she could be interested, I was wondering the same thing. 11442. judithathome - 9/22/2004 2:56:06 PM You are so right, Mac!
Those buttons could have been very valuable...I once bought a box and it had other sewing stuff in it, too...I sold this one pin cushion out of it for $24 to a collector. That paid for the entire box six times over plus I sold all the buttons eventually, too.
Mago, you'd be amazed at what people will pay for! 11443. Magoseph - 9/22/2004 3:41:06 PM In the Milwaukee Journal today, there's an article titled--Curbappeal--One person's trash is another's treasure when it comes to making finds on the street.
Not something I'd read usually, but I am now, Juds. 11444. Macnas - 9/22/2004 4:38:47 PM I've taken a lot of timber from dumpsters/skips, lots of good red deal, (I don’t bother with white) some teak, once a nice piece of mahogany, and one quite unbelievably well figured piece of solid walnut, which I still have yet to decide what to do with. 11445. Ms. No - 9/22/2004 5:16:09 PM I have friends salivating over when I'm going to get around to having a yard sale. I have a lot of stuff, but most of it's pretty cool, too. Carved boxes and embroidered handbags and enameled picture frames, silver goblets and blown glass candlesticks, table linens and patterned fabrics and lord knows what else.
And of course there are the books.
I've finally gotten off my butt and really begun painting. I'd only managed to do the edges and corners and around the trim in an alcove about a month ago and the longer I looked at it the less sure I was about the red. All the folks who'd given me the fisheye when I told them about the color were starting to seem as if they might've had a point.
But I thought it would be best to at least paint one whole wall of the alcove so I could see for sure. I'd been so excited about the color when I found it and it just seemed wrong not to look at it closely before I decided on something else.
So now half my room is painted in Hunter Red and it makes me smile like a loon just to see it. I absolutely love it and can't wait to get home and get it finished....which won't happen until Saturday since I'm busy the next three nights.
I also made my first ever quiche-crust last night. Well, I made the dough on Sunday but didn't shape it 'til last night. Filling will also have to wait for Saturday.
What a frenzy of domesticity!!!! Also, the weather here has finally broken and I entertain more in the fall than in the summers. Got to get ready for having people over. 11446. robertjayb - 9/22/2004 5:48:50 PM Summer has passed without a single 100-degree day,
Beware of global cooling! 11447. PsychProf - 9/22/2004 6:01:00 PM I am told by some colleagues that a sign of global warming is global cooling. Go figure. 11448. Macnas - 9/22/2004 6:11:15 PM What? Well if the doctors can't make sense of it, we're all screwed! 11449. PelleNilsson - 9/22/2004 6:59:05 PM "Go figure". You read too much Russell, PP. 11450. Ms. No - 9/22/2004 7:34:51 PM Ah, but he is not yet laughing his butt off so there's still hope. ;-> 11451. anomie - 9/22/2004 11:06:45 PM Congrats on your new place, Ms No. Long time coming-huh?
And I guess real girls Do make quiche!
I think a red wall would drive me batty, but I'm sure it's lovely. I just have a red/green deficiency - not uncommon in men I understand. 11452. Magoseph - 9/22/2004 11:19:25 PM Hi, Ano, how's your work going? How's the weather over there? Have you met some nice people? Keep me informed, please. 11453. Jenerator - 9/23/2004 2:23:57 AM I found a beautiful and old wingback chair sitting outside next to a trashcan on my street in June. I am assuming that the owner had placed it outside and thought that someone would pick it up, but it rained before anyone got it. In fact, it rained for two weeks straight.
When I saw the chair, I immediately went to pick it up, but it smelled pretty mildewy. I have since aired it out and taken out the cushion innards.
An antique buyer friend of mine says it's from the Civil War era!! 11454. Macnas - 9/23/2004 8:13:59 AM Nice one. 11455. anomie - 9/23/2004 10:47:31 AM Mags,
Thanks for asking. I'm okay. Don't think I'll ever call it home here, but I'm okay. Can you believe I've been here six months already? More later. Gotta hit the shower.
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