Ebay Crazy

I've been spending some dough on Ebay lately, but I've found the cutest stuff! Actually, the most I've spent by far has been the Irmi lamp below for $20 which still isn't bad. Haven't received any of it yet, but I'm excited.

First off, this quirky pair of unused salt & pepper shakers with lenticular eyes ($5.00 which includes shipping). They wink! Quinn's been all into salt & pepper with her kitchen, so she can use them.

A doll high chair for Q ($15.00 which includes shipping):

Some flocked deer miniatures for dioramas. Aren't they so cute? They look like Kunstlerschutz knockoffs, but still way cute.

And now some cute Jack and Jill stuff for V's nursery. The lamp!

And a cute vintage hankie ($3.00 which includes s&h).


Ooh! I think my highchair is being delivered as we speak. Over and out!

eBay Loser

Look what I lost today on eBay! Boo hoo. Isn't it so cute??? It would have been perfect in Q's room, but the final bid ended up being $52.77 which was a bit too rich for my blood.

Well, I think we are all over the gack (knock on wood) officially. Quinn slept in her big girl bed for naptime yesterday, therefore we took her to Chuck E. Cheese's to celebrate today. Yes, Chuck E. Cheese's. She asks for it by name. It was great though-- we got there at 10am, and we were the only ones there for a solid 1/2 hour which is great because she likes pretending to play the games much more than actually playing the games. With too many kids there, she can't do that. She was very happy. And she's napping again in her big girl bed as we speak.

Toleware Monday

So I've started *actually* planning my craft room-- well, sorta. I did a scaled drawing of the
room, and I found a table at Ikea that I want. Does that count? I'm now scouring the internet for ideas on how to organize craft supplies. I received two books for my birthday on organizing craft spaces, and they were, eh, ok. I decided I want to make a corner of the room into a wrapping station as well because I have SO MUCH wrapping paper, curling ribbon, cute tissue paper that is just jammed into an unlit closet upstairs. If anyone has any storage tips or secrets they could not live without, please feel free to share.

I'm going with the silver sage green and antique red from the previously shown hankie. I kinda want to go brighter, but I really like those hankies which are more muted. I kind of, ahem, "borrowed" the idea from Jenny, but I think I'm going to take it in a little different direction. We are also looking into a new computer. God bless our 5-year-old HP Pavilion computer. It has been a trooper, and it's still going strong, but it's so darn bulky.

Ok, so to the toleware. I found an idea to take a toleware tray, mount it on the wall, then take those little flat round clear lid screw-top containers and put your teensy crafting things in it then affix a magnet on the back of THOSE (phew!) and stick them to the tray...on the wall. Get it? Now I'm obsessed with finding a Toleware tray. Here's some information I found online:

Tole, from the old French taule, refers to iron or steel in thin sheets laminated or welded under pressure. (definition from a 1910 French dictionary). From a traditional point of view, "Tole Painting", is painting on items made from this thin metal...the term "tole" is that "toleware" is a very specific kind of decorative painted, highly varnished product -- usually made from metal.

Here is one that I'm mad I passed up:



Here are a few that don't match but are very pretty!

And here's one I had when I was six years old (not exactly Toleware, but still rather charming...)