I'm Off To Paris!

I'm sorry, gentle reader, that my posts have been scant. This past week or so has been a tornado. Tomorrow morning I am driving up to my best friend Liz's house where the car will pick us up and whisk us off to the airport. I can't tell you how excited I am! I'll be back after May 6th with pics and stories. Sqweeeee!

The Fumes

Paint is to home projects, kid rooms, and old furniture as hoop skirts were to women - it hides a multitude of sins. And boy, have I been covering up sins lately. For the past few days I have been totally re-doing the room my two youngest share. Painting the walls two different colors, painting their furniture and even painting the floor. Yup. All the furniture, the shelving unit, every little toy, is smushed into one half of their room as the first half of the floor dries and their dressers are out at the base of the driveway right outside the garage door in the middle of being painted.
Within a week I leave for Paris and my middle daughter leaves for camp and I am determined to have this done.
Even if it makes me want to shake kittens.

Huge Vintage Sale On Etsy!! April 20-25th

The Sale Is On People! (Oh, and I'm allergic to "Brown")

Today is April 20th gentle reader, and that means the Earth Day Saleabration is in full swing!
My collaborative group of vintage sellers on Etsy.com called The Vintage Market Team is having a sale in honor of Earth Day. From today until April 25th there are almost 700 vintage items on sale from 20%-75% off!! So Go Green, give Mother Earth a hug, reduce, reuse and recycle.......Buy vintage! It's easy. Just go to Etsy's homepage and in the search box, type the term VMTEAMEARTH and all the items in the sale will magically appear.
Yes.
It's magic.

In other news..........

I've had food allergies for years. The freaky kind that make you not breathe anymore. I'm allergic to shellfish, (shrimp, lobster, oysters, scallops crab etc) spinach, fish oil, chitosan (stuff in vitamins and diet pills made from shellfish) and hey, that's all ok. But this past winter I've had a few freaky reactions to other things. Wonderful things like certain cookies, gravy and the worst of them all was to DIET COKE! Yup, diet coke! I called my allergist and went today. Much testing was done. In depth research and cross comparison of all ingredients was done as well and it seems my friends, I have become terribly allergic to caramel color. Holy Cow, people! I'm allergic to "brown". This will prove interesting.

A Visit to The Cranberry Bog

Spring is very slow to come here in MA by the ocean. It creeps on ever so quietly. Now is the time we watch. We watch the temperature and the dew point, the cloud cover and wind speed until one night all the factors come together in just a certain combination and we have the first frost watch. You and your bog must be ready ahead of time. The irrigation system and the engine in the pumphouse must be checked and the propane tank full. The sprinkler heads must be put out and in some cases staked so that they stand up straight. Soon there will be pickup trucks out all night long with big searchlights attached to them scanning the bogs to make sure that all is working properly. If the irrigation system shuts down or a sprinkler head is clogged with a pebble it will mean the vines getting "burned" and lost.
These are a few scenes from my bog yesterday - the guys are out checking and staking and will be watching....

Vintage Market Earth Day Saleabration!

You might remember me mentioning a big Etsy vintage sale coming up. Well, the time is almost upon us dear reader. April 20th - 25th my wonderful group of vintage sellers on Etsy will be having a sale called the Vintage Market Earth Day Saleabration. Vintage goodies will be marked down 20-50%. All you have to do is go to the Etsy homepage and in the search function at the top of the page search the tag VMTEAMEARTH. Then all of the sale items will appear. You can do it right now and preview the items that will be going on sale. Happy shopping! Now go find a treasure for yourself!

Tomorrow.......

We will visit the cranberry bog.