the thrifting kind

These days I am always wanting a tomato, ripe, fresh, cut up, with sugar sprinkled on top. I feel I should make a transition to different types of squash, because it is fall now and all, and I will, but still, a tomato I shall have! My body asks for raw vegetables lately and you can’t eat a squash raw. Or can you? Yesterday, I ate two whole tomatoes, and felt good about it. Maybe having a tomato today would have helped, because I had a rough time getting through the work day. All I could think about was getting home to eat a tomato and lying down for 10 minutes. I also really wanted/needed to do some jogging/running, but let’s be real, I get home around 6:00 pm, Rusty demands an immediate outing, and then I make dinner, which wraps up around 7 or 7:30pm, and then its time to eat, and lately, THAT’S WHEN IT GETS DARK! It’s the worst.

And well, to be accurate, and to revert back to the original topic, I have been having butternut squash soup for lunch almost every day because V8 makes it so that it is just plain out delicious, so there you go, autumn. I also really like V8’s corn chowder soup, but they have not been appearing on the grocery store shelves these days. This is a lot of vegetable talk.

Moving on, the rest of this post is pictures – some snapshots of my Saturday morning at a few estate sales and then also an antique mall. Yes, an antique mall, one of them places that they have in strip malls sometimes. It was my first time at an antique mall, and it was overwhelming ‘cause it’s huge, and the items are on the pricier side, but if you forget about the prices, it’s like walking through a museum with stalls of varying themes. (All photos taken with the iPhone.)

The fabric painting I picked up at an estate sale (thanks care for grabbing it for me!)

The artist, Blair Appelson, thought about how this painting would look different at different times of the day, depending on the lighting.

It was really cool to find letters, pamphlets from an art show, and a description of the piece tucked in the back of this painting from 1977

The letter and art show poster from 1977.

a flower tower!

jewelry, flashback

the shed

@the antique mall

I WANT THIS COUCH

also, i maybe need this wardrobe.


i can't remember, but i think i liked this stall. what you can see though is that i'm red-white-and-blue. and drinking milk.

Blackie's Boys Annual!


where you learn things like, how to grab a naked leg.

Water, in a can. For fallout shelter, of course.