Sunday morning was a whirlwind of dishes and cleaning after the impromptu dinner from the night before. I also made trips to Target and the grocery store to get some necessities. When 4 o'clock rolled around, we had lazily missed our movie and were feeling....the ennui of summer days: restless and adrift. Needing a couple of things they don't stock at the regular supermarket, I suggested a trip to Whole Foods, a local chain of health food stores not to be confused with WHOLE FOODS, the national chain of gourmet health foods stores. It just so happens, there is a DAV on the way to WF, and of course I got sucked right in. (I'm beginning to believe there is a thrift store on the way to everywhere...)
Mitchell found these great salt and pepper shakers. I know you were thrown off for a second, and thought I had posted photos of my bowling trophies, but these are very small and neatly marked with a bowling ball for the pepper and bowling pin for the salt. How clever.
Of course, they'll go perfectly with the odd collection of S&P we have in the kitchen including some from my mam-ma (the corn) and others collected over the years. My favorites are the ones that resemble appliances like the television and the toaster. The little pieces of bread actually pop up and are the shakers!
Suddenly, I'm obsessed with globes. Last year, Molly bought one for Jamie and I had to keep it so he wouldn't find it. The DAV had a ton of great globes, but I wasn't in the mood to spend the $$. And I don't know exactly what I would do with them, not a rule I've ever really followed, but still problematic. This one was fairly inexpensive and was made by Fisher-Price. It lights up and has a little viewer that you can position over various countries which shows you a little image of their food, customs or landmarks. Very fun and a nice lamp.
My favorite find of the day was a small collection of painted ceramic shells. Each is less than two inches long and carefully decorated to resemble the real deal. I love faux (except for fauxhawks--I say mohawk or nauxhawk.) and I love being able to rescue a collection like this. I imagine someone spending a lot of time painting these and being very proud of them and it pains me to think that someone just donated them to the DAV after they passed. Kind of like a collection of dogs I ran across last year, but there were too many and they were too costly to save. But the shells, I saved the sea shells from the sea shore.
Whole Foods was closed when I finally got there, though. Oh well.
Mitchell found these great salt and pepper shakers. I know you were thrown off for a second, and thought I had posted photos of my bowling trophies, but these are very small and neatly marked with a bowling ball for the pepper and bowling pin for the salt. How clever.
Of course, they'll go perfectly with the odd collection of S&P we have in the kitchen including some from my mam-ma (the corn) and others collected over the years. My favorites are the ones that resemble appliances like the television and the toaster. The little pieces of bread actually pop up and are the shakers!
Suddenly, I'm obsessed with globes. Last year, Molly bought one for Jamie and I had to keep it so he wouldn't find it. The DAV had a ton of great globes, but I wasn't in the mood to spend the $$. And I don't know exactly what I would do with them, not a rule I've ever really followed, but still problematic. This one was fairly inexpensive and was made by Fisher-Price. It lights up and has a little viewer that you can position over various countries which shows you a little image of their food, customs or landmarks. Very fun and a nice lamp.
My favorite find of the day was a small collection of painted ceramic shells. Each is less than two inches long and carefully decorated to resemble the real deal. I love faux (except for fauxhawks--I say mohawk or nauxhawk.) and I love being able to rescue a collection like this. I imagine someone spending a lot of time painting these and being very proud of them and it pains me to think that someone just donated them to the DAV after they passed. Kind of like a collection of dogs I ran across last year, but there were too many and they were too costly to save. But the shells, I saved the sea shells from the sea shore.
Whole Foods was closed when I finally got there, though. Oh well.