...ENOUGH!! (for a while...)

Mom & Dad came for a short visit on Tuesday. We live about 100 miles apart, so these 'visits' are not a common accurance, though I would love them to be! Along with them, they brought a Belated Anniversary Box for DH & I to open! What do you think was in it??

A sweet little yellow HAEGER pitcher that will be part of our Thanksgiving Table vignette (2010 #35)

The 'mini' (I put that in quotes because it is still 12" tall!) version of a series of 19" ROYAL HAEGER pitchers that we already have in various colors. It does look right at home nestled in amongst a couple of them! (2010 #36)

and
last, but NOT least...

the ROYAL HAEGER tight mauve agate ruffled low bowl which now holds our Fish! (2010 #37).

Yes, I love and adore and enjoy all of our HAEGER pieces but right now after the last couple of months I'm on SERIOUS OVERLOAD!!!! I have found homes for all/almost all of them... BUT!! Time for a breather folks... Oh, I'm scared - My Birthday and Christmas are coming... I don't want to sound ungrateful!! Is it just me, or does anyone else ever get to this point from time to time???

...when will I get used to it?!??

This Blog Entry is Dedicated to all my Southern Buddies who get excited about wearing 'jackets'...


Halloween started out splendidly with a visit from the Great Pumpkin, and then an early morning trip to The Market (as in Flea!). OH Baby was it COLD in those buildings though!! ...and the open air pavilions - forget it! Even 'I' am not enough of a die-hard junker for that nonsense!

Want to see what $3.65 bought me?

Pastel Blue w/ flower Bed Lamp...drawer organizer (aka: antique muffin tin)

SWEATER CLIP (2010 #17)

Aqua Enamel & Silverplate HEIRLOOM bowl

Signed CA pottery studio dish

2 hankies, rhinestone pin, Halloween Cat, 3 old porc. doorknobs and a fold-up rule (forgot to photo!)

While I was jostling with ladies in oversized 'PUMPKIN' costumes, pushing their way into places they obviously shouldn't fit... DH was off scanning the HAEGER scene and pounced on these two...

ROYAL HAEGER (2010 #33) $4

Mauve Agate Cloud tight

ROYAL HAEGER (2010 #34) $5

Gold Tweed

Following Market we warmed up with a yummy breakfast & HOT coffee ~ then headed home... only to have the skies open up with this white stuff coming down and bouncing off of the hood of the Subaru! I know. I know. I live in Central NY, it's the end of October, it's bound to happen, get over it. ...but by 6:30 pm when it was getting dark and we should have had cute little trick-or-treators ringing our doorbell, this is what my Trailblazer looked like...

Okay. I'm done whining.

I PROMISE not to make a habit of talking 'weather'!

The snow has started...

Bring on NOVEMBER

and

Let the caroling begin!

...THE GREAT PUMPKIN ARRIVED!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!Guess who came to see me last night...

THE GREAT PUMPKIN!!!!

He brought me all of MY Favorite Treats!


'GLOW-IN-THE-DARK' - Who Knew?

A Bobble-head GHOST full of JELLY BEANS - Black Licorice - YUM!! This guy will be 'tucked' away and maybe someday he will be found at a year 2085 Rummage Sale and the Ladies there will be coveting him like I did this little guy below earlier this Summer. Do you suppose they will still have 'Rummage Sales' in 2085?

...and OH, does THEE GREAT PUMPKIN know me, or what?!

HOWEVER YOU MAY CHOOSE TO CELEBRATE THE DAY - I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A

WONDERFUL HALLOWEEN!!

(I just heard on our news that tonight it is supposed to be down to 20deg. and officially the end of the 'growing season' - how appropriate for Halloween which in some cultures was viewed as the end of the Harvest Festival!)

...Together we are at our BEST.

OCTOBER 27, 2001

"...I'm gonna be there in the morning

I'm gonna be there in the night

Gonna be your lover

Gonna be your friend

Gonna be there 'till the end."

(I WANNA BE THERE; Blessid Union of Souls)

*DISCLAIMER: YES, BAREFOOT ON YOUR WEDDING DAY 'MAY' BE A SERIOUS FASHION FAUX PAS... BUT IT WAS ONLY AT THE PARK! I WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE SOGGY WET FEET FOR THE RECEPTION OR RISK SLIPPING ON WET/ICY LEAVE AND SPOILING MOM'S 50YR OLD DRESS - BESIDES, BAREFOOT WAS MUCH MORE COMFY AND NATURAL FOR ME 8-).

...made in The U.S.A.!

DH & I usually 'go-away' for our anniversary, but this year our schedule only allowed a 'day trip' on Saturday...

A 'Day Trip of MY CHOICE' 8-)... (oh, when will that boy learn?!?)

DESTINATION: Zippo/Case Museum; Bradford, PA (I've wanted to go check it out since I read about it several years ago, and had never made it down there...)

Enroute were several of my old stomping grounds (Alfred Alumni!) that I thought DH might enjoy...

including a stop for tastings at CUBA CHEESE, and Breakfast at SPRAGUE'S MAPLE PANCAKE HOUSE - Yum!

Then, we finally made it!

After 'eating' our way through the Southern Tier of New York, we DID make it to Zippo (Lighter) / Case (Knife) Museum! If any of you are ever so inclined - it is a VERY INFORMATIVE self-guided tour!

We didn't make any major ZIPPO or CASE purchases, but I was really happy that I had thought at the last minute to take along an old ZIPPO lighter of my Dad's that I had tucked away! ZIPPO has a lifetime warrantee on all of their lighters, and I'd read on their website that they will do any repairs for you at the museum where you can watch. Dad's was in pretty rough shape, and I thought this would be a good learning tool - and that it was! When we got there I discovered the 'repair shop' is only open M-F, and since it was Sat. I thought that I would probably have to leave the lighter for repair, but the self-proclaimed 'Girly Girl' at the check-out counter was Wonderful! She took the lighter apart, cleaned it, replaced the flint, cleaned the cotton, added fluid - all the while instructing me as she went along! Then she gave me a booklet that showed me how to read/decipher the ZIPPO dating system on the bottom of lighters - "OH, THIS IS AN OLD ONE! 1982!"~DH & I could barely keep straight faces until we got outside, where we both laughed so hard we were almost in tears... but I guess the lighter was older than her.

WONDERFUL background info!!

Then, DH mentioned that at Sprague's he had seen a pamphlet on an antique mall in 'Salamanca?' - Had I ever heard of it?

EVER HEARD OF IT?!! YEH! (I 'was' going to spare him this 1,000 dealer mall that I had always heard of, but NEVER been to, but since HE mentioned it....!)

...and we ONLY spent 1hour and 20 minutes

and look at the damage we did...

(ROYAL HAEGER by ROYAL HICKMAN, 2010 #25)
CLOUDY BLUE ("TIGHT")

(ROYAL HAEGER; 2010 #26 & 27)

My beloved Mandaring Orange
which, of course, induced MORE playing with the now infamous 'ashtray rack'...

(ROYAL HAEGER 2010 #28 & #29)

A 'new to our collection' glaze - and two pieces of it! Both from the same booth! Both very inexpensive! (Both from the same booth as the two Mandarine pieces - we LIKED that booth!)

May I introduce BLUE INDIGO.

(HAEGER 2010 #30)

One of the standard PEASANT GLAZES from the 70's - Definitely NOT one of my favorites - but an unusual piece with the lid & no chips. I can store STUFF in it! Hey, I couldn't leave it there for $2 !

(HAEGER 2010 #31)

Thank Goodness the Dealer at this booth had NO CLUE what this one was! He is part of HAEGER's BENNINGTON BROWN FOAM figural series of figural planters - there are about nine of them - we only had two, now we have THREE!!! (and he was only $12) Isn't he cute?!

AND

MY MOST FAVORITE PIECE OF THE DAY, Maybe of the YEAR...

We haven't been able to I.D. it in any of the books, so I think it is probably a studio piece...

HAEGER 2010 #32DH's Anniv. present to me.

..."I know YOU are, but what am I?" heh heh heh

...there is no way around it,I will forever be a product of being a teen of the '80's.

When I signed onto ETSY this morning and found that one of our items had been featured in a TREASURY titled "PEE-WEES-BIG-ADVENTURE", I just about fainted - what a double whammy!! Yes, it is wharped, & probably shows a major character flaw - but, I just. don't. care. - Pee Wee's Playhouse was a Saturday morning staple during our college years. It was the one (and only) thing that we would drag our sad-hungover butts out of bed at 8am for - NO EXCEPTIONS - CHAIRY! MISS YVONNE! COWBOY CURTIS! (calm down Shara ;) ).

You DO realize, this REALLY is not something I can even begin to help, I AM just a product of 'the times'. I turned a teenager in The EIGHTIES, and it was downhill from there. Jr High, High School, College - ALL The EIGHTIES. Turned legal to drink THREE TIMES in The EIGHTIES (New York kept raising the drinking age on me right after I would reach that age - 18, then 19, then 21!). First real job & Apt - The EIGHTIES.

... oh the memories...

Speaking of 'Good 'ole College Days' - it is Jack-O-Lantern time!! Does everyone have their pumpkins chosen? Sunday night we continued a time-honored tradition, started in the days of 'Alfred'...

PUMPKIN CARVING!!

Members of the 'original Crew' still attend, beverages are still consumed, seeds are still roasted (but we have graduated from the 'illegal' toaster-oven smuggled into the dorm room!), and old age now prohibits us from 'enjoyably' carving while sitting cross-legged on the floor - we have progressed to chairs at the dining table!

GET OUT THERE AND CHOOSE THOSE PUMPKINS! THE GOOD ONES ARE GOING QUICK!!

...'tis the season.

'Tis the time of my most favorite season,
when I must concede defeat... ...when warnings of frost force us to pick the last garden and put her to rest... though the new recipe for green tomatoe cake is definitely a keeper, and I did get SEVEN ripe raspberries yesterday!

...time for one last outdoor bash...
Baseball playoffs are happening... which means it's time for Fall lobster/clambake/World Series party at the house this weekend. I'm NOT into Lobster or baseball, but I'm always game for a party - so let the festivities begin! Hope everyone dresses WARM!!

Can you believe in all of my 'saling' this year I only found O.N.E. red glass candlestick holder?!!

Oh well, the search will continue!

....BIRDS are heading South...

Yet ANOTHER plarn bag complete! This one for a VERY DEAR 'sno-bird' friend who is heading back south shortly. I worked with her for years and she is like a second mother to me. We had gotten together for lunch the day before my tooth trauma and when I saw that she had photos of some of my bags in her 'brag book' that she showed all of her FL friends, I figured I REALLY needed to make her one of her own!!

(...and for anyone who ever said I cut things 'close', I'll have them know I had the bag finished at 2am, and our luncheon date wasn't until noon - SO THERE!! )