so i went to the thrift store this morning & the pyrex was gone. i figured it would be. now i made it a rule to just buy it when i see it. then i won't have any crazy dreams about it, get all excited, & run back to store only to be disappointed that it is gone.
i did have a pretty good trip to the thrift store, despite no pyrex. i found a couple books, some vintage fabric, a shirt, & some beautiful green jars.
remember a couple weeks back when i scored these beauties at the thrift store? vintage pyrex. they really are lovely & i really had no idea what i was getting myself into just by purchasing them. i had no idea that there are so many different designs & so many different items... bowls, casserole dishes, slat & pepper shakers, butter dishes, plates, cups, etc.
i went to the thrift store yesterday & found another pyrex casserole dish with lid, but didn't buy it. the design wasn't my favorite. then i thought about it all day yesterday & even dreamt about it. im going to have to go back tomorrow morning & see if it is still there.
until then, check out these lovelies...
photo found here. an amazing & inspiring blog that you all should check out. & on a side note i have a super fancy gold frame that i now want to spray paint white.
i found these pictures here. apparently there is a lil' pyrex museum in bremerton, wa. why couldn't i have discovered this when i lived in washington?
this past week has been so crazy. ran has a show coming up next week & there has been a mad push to finish this insanely large piece he has been working on all semester. there have been almost daily trips to lowe's for supplies, lots of sanding, gluing, more sanding, coffee, painting, staying here all night more than once, more coffee, & more painting. that is where we are right now... at the studio painting. so what is ran working on?
here is a lil' peek into his studio...
he's making an altarpiece. a giant altarpiece. consisting of 4 cabinets that when set up will measure approximately 8 ft. tall & 6 ft. wide. & he made it all.
so what is this giant altarpiece for? to house these of course...
you remember that sporting series he did? they are going in the altarpiece & it is going to be pretty awesome. i am really excited to see it all set up & so excited to see people's reaction to it at the show.
halloween morning i got a text from a co-worker wondering if i wanted to go to a horse show with her. seeing as i had absolutely nothing else to do & i had never been to a horse show i said sure.
it was mainly this.
alot of jumping. horses jumping over things. a couple of the horses tooted when they jumped & me, being like a 12 year old boy, thought is was funny. everyone else acted as if they didn't hear it. now, i do realize it would have been a little inappropriate if the whole arena had burst into laugher when these horses tooted & it may have startled them & embarrassed their riders, so it was probably best that everyone just pretended they didn't hear it, but it was a lil' funny.
i have a new print ive been working on & im really excited to show you soon. here's a lil' peak...
this month is going to be filled with lots of good things. its going to be wonderful...
its my birthday month. although i am feeling a lil' wierd about my birthday this year, which i normally never have a problem with.
we are having some visitors this month.
ran has a show in a couple of weeks.
thanksgiving. not the biggest fan if thanksgiving, but i do like to sit around & be lazy which i feel is justified anytime there is a holiday.
& another fun surprise to be announced later.
on a somewhat sad note, november kind of marks of the end of fall & the beginning of winter. last year we had snow 2 weeks into november & look at what just one week will do to the trees...
taken oct. 24
taken nov. 1
its a lil' bit sad to look at. the de-leafed trees out number the still leafed trees big time. we even had to scrape our windows this morning. & we have a cold front moving in so our high will be struggling to get into 40's all this week. even though i wish fall would last longer, everything does look so pretty with a blanket of snow on it.
yesterday we went to this amazing corn maze with a couple of our friends. it has been a couple of years since i have been to a corn maze & i don't think i have ever been to one in day time. we had so much fun exploring the corn field. & it was an absolute beautiful day. i am happy we went out & did something since these really nice days are numbered.
we kept cutting through the corn so we actually found the end pretty quickly. so then we went to find the middle, which was shaped like an apple. leaf & all.
*thats an ear of corn broken in half. isn't it so pretty?
we spent a lot of time in the middle of the maze de-kernaling the ears of corn. it is surprisingly satisfying, kind of like popping bubble wrap. it kind of looked like a corn massacre when we left.
a happy corny wednesday to you.
after spending two evenings carving pumpkins, we finally got all six of them finished. who knew this would be a two-evening task? & of course as soon as you get your pumpkin carved, you have to put a candle in it & see how it looked when its all glowing...
we both did a really basic pumpkin. ran did the old triangle eyes & nose stand-by. I did the classic shadow over the moon motif.
then we both did somewhat more advanced carving techniques. i did the crow on a fence. it may not look hard, but those skinny little fence posts are really easy to break off. ran did a free form design of a tree & moon.
& then we both did harder designs. maybe this is why it took two evenings, aside from the fact that we each had three pumpkins to carve. ran chose to make a scary face. perhaps the scariest pumpkin he's even carved (his words, not mine). it was really hard to get a clear photo of it, but if you look closely you will see that eyes are actually skulls facing downward. see them? i chose to carve a day of the dead skull on mine. it took forever to do, but i like how it turned out.
now we just to add some cobwebs...
have a spoooooky tuesday.
i know thrift shopping is hit or miss, but it seems like there have a lot of misses recently. i always feel a little bummed when i walk out with not even one thing. not that i feel like i have to buy something, but because i have built up an expectation in my head of all the wonderful things i am going to find & then i find nothing. its such a let down.
the other day we happened to be out & ran kept telling me we should go to thrift store. seriously? in the middle of the afternoon on a saturday? that is like my worst nightmare. so many people. & as all you know thrift stores attract some very interesting people. i did not feel i was mentally prepared to deal with all that, but i gave in & pulled into the extremely full parking lot. it was so so busy. i even felt a little sick to my stomach, but again, ran insisted that we needed to get in there & fight for all the good stuff.
ran was right. there was so much good stuff. i am so happy we went to the thrift on a busy saturday afternoon.
personally i think this is awesome. even if just for the picture on the cover & all the pictures on the inside. & it was just sitting on the shelf, not in the record bin, like someone had thought of buying & then decided against it. i sure am happy they did not want to spend .99 on it, so that i could. too bad our record player needs a new needle.
i love to check out the book section. i can't even remember the last time i bought a book brand new. this time i found revolutionary road. did you watch the movie? i thought it was horrible, but normally books are better than the movie, so i thought i would give it a chance. i am super excited to read she's not there. it is the "exuberant memoir of a man named james who became a woman named jenny."
this awesome pillow case. now i just need to figure out what to make with it.
i almost peed my pants when i spied these beauties. as i walking toward them, i could feel my eyes shifting from side to side making sure nobody else was going to snatch them before me. & they are in perfect condition. this find made my week.
& last but not least, these pretty lil' cups. i actually got the green one a few weeks ago. when i was at the thrift store on saturday i spied a lady carrying a dish with the same pattern on it. i was too slow. so i settled on the brown cup. i think its a gem.
this is the view outside my living room window...
i think its lovely. when i looked out yesterday morning it looked like it had snowed leaves. there was a lil' wind storm during the night & leaves were everywhere.
we started carving our seven pumpkins last night. we got three & half done. i am still working on one. it was a little more labor intensive than i thought it would, but i think its going to look real cool when its done. im going to be so disappointed if its a real dud after all this time spent on it.
i finished working eight days in a row. & before that my mama was here for four days. i was excited to have a weekend to myself. so far i have done alot of sleeping. maybe a lil' too much sleeping. but it feels so so good to do nothing & not have any obligations. well, that is not entirely true, i do have one obligation... laundry. i've been putting it off for about a week now. its desperate times in the clean clothes area of our house. you know it goes, pulling out those clothes you never wear because its all you have to wear. i had to make ran a tape belt yesterday because his only clean pair of pants are way to big & fall down almost instantly. anyhow, the clean clothes drought will end tonight because me & the dirty laundry have a lil' date planned.
happy sunday.
