an epic bust {but pretty pictures}

 Last night I went to bed early but woke up a few hours later for a bathroom break. As I crawled back in bed I suddenly felt a bump-bump-bump and then a nice rolling rumbling sensation. My first thought was earthquake and then I thought "crap...the casa is already a disaster, I hope this isn't a big one." It wasn't thought it did make me feel carsick with all that rolling and so I settled down and quickly fell back to sleep.

I had a yard sale yesterday, hence the messy casa. My vintage yard sale was a bust. Blame it on the suddenly cool weather, a crafty show and/or a bike tour..who knows? My prices were fair and I marketed it as a vintage boutique sale not a yard sale to help get the point across. People didn't argue with the prices...they just did not show up....sigh. Well, a handful did and I may have made a whopping $18 but if you subtract the cost of the rolling rack and the cost of the postcards I printed to place all over town I was in the hole $10. Oh boy!

I spent most of today photographing my vintage dresses. Mister set up a nifty staging area and so I snap, snap, snapped away. Man, taking pictures of clothes is both kinda less-than-thrilling and tiring. I still have to measure everything, edit photos, and list them on etsy. Sooo much work. For now, I'm going to sit on the sofa and be lazy-ish. Sort of...as much as I can at least. I will edit photos and work on blog posts for the preschool, oh and I will wash dishes so I can feel like I accomplished something.

Mister has been banished* from the tiny casa so that I can get stuffity-stuff done. The tiny casa feels even more tiny what with all the stuffity-stuff all over the place. I fear it may take me a few weeks to recover. I got things to do, I need to work quickly!

*his banishment consists of working on our last minute Halloween costume idea. Wish him luck!

garage sale fun

it was fun! i even got to meet new flickr peeps. good stuff went to good people and the icky people walked away mad because i wouldn't haggle with 'em. just call me difficult.we made almost $400 and donated all the rest including some great vintage toys and such to Goodwill. it feels good to set them free and a little sad that i won't be bumping into them when i dig through boxes but really, when they have spent so much time in said boxes, what's the point...right?ms. janeray came and took away our sofa. i'm gonna miss that sofa. it is a very comfy bit of sqooshiness. now we have a very messy empty living room full of dust bunnies, broken down boxes and two camp chairs to nestle in.stacey, za and ander showed up with fixins' for a lemonade stand. we chatted and lunched and played with various musical instruments. one garage-saler even played us a tune she learned when she was small. after we hit up Goodwill, we visited with my eyeglass place so i can have an extra pair of eyes along for the trip. then, after that we drove around in circles until we settled on a burger joint we never tried where we enjoyed some good eats and split a rootbeer float.all i want to do is crash and take a nap. oh drats! now i REALLY miss the sofa! happy weekend!

garage sale a-go-go

everyone keeps telling me they wish they could come to the garage sale. i'm not sure why though. do you really think i would sell such niftiness? sure, there will be some vintage, some new books, some old, happy clothes, fun dishes and a leetle bit o' kitsch but did you really think i could part with treasures such as these? (and yes, there is a lot of dust kicking around the tiny casa)if yer localish, do stop by. we a-go-gos like the company and would love a hug, a coffee or a coke or a slurpee or a banh mi...