Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Valentine Essentials
Congratulations to our winner:
Angela
Angela is the proud winner of our Valentine Essentials gift package–just in time for the big mushy day!
Way to flogging go Angela!
More giveaways coming soon…
Vintage TV 2
Better With Labels
I sat down at the computer to make labels for the organizer boxes from last week. I’ve found that– see through or not–it’s a pain not to have them clearly labeled. But somehow, my fingers never typed the list. In fact, they didn’t behave at all. They just…kept…remembering…stuff.
Cool, sweet, gentle…stuff.
Forgive me. After this post, I swear, I’ll stop. I may need help…
I suppose I didn’t realize that the old time tv was such a crack-up. Some times, ok, a lot of the time I’m pretty sure that the laughter is only brought on by the fact that it’s all just so low budget and dopey in comparison to all the fancy-schmancy theatrics we’re used to these days. But then on the other hand, as Lynnette pointed out—good, clean humor, innocent and silly is just so dang much fun.
When I was 7, I used to come home from school everyday and watch Hobo Kelly. In fact, she sent me a giant “Sugar Daddy” for my birthday one year. I must have been in her fan club or something.
I know…kinda scary.
Shannon mentioned this one…Is it really still on? That restores my faith in all things retro.
I could never figure out how come they could make a radio out of coconut shells, but couldn’t repair their silly boat.
And I always thought I’d grow up someday to be Jane Wyatt from Father Knows Best. Save me…but I love the dresses with the tiny belts and the hair and the lipstick and the way they called each other “darling.” I think I was Donna Reed in another life…or wish I was.
Thanks for indulging me this one last time. Now I’ll try very hard to behave myself and stick to the current century. Maybe I’ll even make some labels for the boxes…
…who knows?
Vintage TV
I was just dinking around on YouTube the other day and found the opening theme songs to some reeeeally old—and I’m not kidding—TV shows. Now, I realize that these critters truly date me in a pretty unflattering way, but I’m a sturdy mountain woman. I’ll handle it. Besides, it will be so good for all you “youngsters” to see what was on TV back when there were 5 channels and most of the them were in black and white. Besides, they’re pretty funny–in a lame sort of way.
Here’s the first one:
For those of you who don’t know who Patti Duke is, she played Helen Keller in the movie, “The Miracle Worker,” and is also the mom of Sean Astin (Sam in “Lord of the Rings”) and Mackenzie Astin (Iron Will)
These sincerely, were some of our favorite shows. Are you jealous?
Try this one: The Winchell Mahoney Show
Do you recognize his voice? In his later years, “Winch” was the voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.
So, after you watch these clips–I expect you all to go to the “happy list” and write about how much you love your color tv and your channels and your cable…bla, bla, bla..
And me…I think I’ll go find Gilligan’s Island….or something.
Ahhh…television at it’s finest hour.
“greenWinkle” BagBags
Ok, I’m being very brave now. I’ve decided to show you the project we’ve been working on for the past year or so. This is a handbag made entirely from plastic shopping bags.
So how green is that?
This particular one is made from the silvery white bags with green writing on them. It has a pearly sheen to it and with the green–well, it turned out really pretty.
We call it the Water Lily BagBag. Besides being made from “repurposed” grocery bags, it’s amazingly strong and durable, and get this–it is washer and dryer safe!
These are the company tags we had carved from coconut shells.
We’ve made quite a few more–each one with totally different colors–in four sizes. I’ll put them on here one at a time so you can see them up close.
I’m working on setting up an Etsy shop so–
–please let me know what you think…
It will make me brave.