Skills of a Different Kind

In case you tried to look at my "Downey" album, I want to apologize, because I have lost it somewhere in blogworld.  It is still there, lurking and I can find it from my end, (under an accidental new title) but it doesn’t show up on my site.  Well, I am learning a bit more every day with this. Sometimes, I think I am just learning how inept I am at cyber-stuff.

Well, one thing I know I am good at is- shopping!  I found some wonderful things yesterday at the Topeka antique mall, and that mall tends to be over priced and not the best place for things of beauty.  I used my skills to their fullest and scrounged till I found these treasures.  The rug is in perfect condition and will go in my kitchen to replace one very similar that I have just washed to death over the years. The lovely little water color of roses was hidden in a hideous frame, and I am sure I will be able to find one better suited to it.  The little dolly is missing most of one leg, but with a bit of stuffing, she’ll be just fine.  Of course, I am not into needle and thread activities unless forced, so she might remain lame and still cute as a bug.

I am also skilled at crashing into things and breaking them.  On my studio redo last week, I broke a few dishes. I like to scavenge what good I can from a bad situation, so here is what I do with broken china.  I grind the edges down from the shards and solder on chains to make jewelry.  This is a photo of a few of them.

Oh, by the way, I noticed at the grocery store magazine rack today (because who can go to the store without looking through all the pictures in the magazines??) the issue of Country Victorian with my bedroom on page 16 is still out.  The photo was taken for an article I wrote about my house, but it has not been published yet.  The pictures from that story have been used in 3 other stories so far, so it has been interesting to see them pop up in other articles. 

My bedroom looks completely different by now, heck that photo was taken almost a year ago!  Here is a picture of what it looks like now. Well, not quite, this picture was taken in Nov. and I have changed a lot since then too.  But it is closer than the one in the article.