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Dear Readers and Friends...
First, sad news, I have to acknowledge Dear Mary from Home is Where the Boat Is...who sadly, passed away. We will ALL miss her.
When I started this blog, it was Mary that showed me what excellence, creativity and good nature meant in a Blog. She inspired me to try....but, I've never excelled the way she did. Mary shared so many wonderful ideas with her followers. I had many exchanges with her over the years, her photos, her flowers, recipes and her love for the holidays. The sweet puppies, the chairs by the lake, the boat rides, her joyful Skellies!
Bless you sweet Mary and your family, you will be missed now and forever in our blog world.
Second, I've been missing from posting...I'm healthy and fine, but I'm opening an antique booth in the best Antique Mall in Northern Illinois this month.
Volo Antique Malls are located in Volo, Illinois, just a quick jaunt from my home. I have decided to downsize all my treasures which have taken over our home, closets, garage and basement.
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU...and I'm still dealing with inheritance of my own familys' stuff. My kids don't want it all..and those things without memories or family connections are leaving!
I do have all my Etsy stock, and I've all but closed my Etsy shop (Etsy's fees and their weighted advertising-you paying for your own promoting ended it for me) after 13 years.
I will also be selling on Ebay, hopefully in November, a doll /miniatures shop for all my creative bits and all the excess of my doll 'hobby'.
Vintage dolls, refreshed, and redressed in NEW clothes.
I love fixing up and redoing vintage dolls. And I have lots of excess furniture, and bits and pieces perfect for doll playing, collecting or just display...stay tuned.
Meanwhile nothing is getting done in our home...I pulled out photos from early on in my blog years. 2015...to 2018
and I'm posting a few very old fall photos here....
This pumpkin was from a few years back....
Our garden was drowned this year...and we did have a humungous crops of bugs, weeds and withered plants, drowned by our record rains. All my Illinois gardening experience has been based on Drought conditions... but the heat and wet, has been a new experience and our clay ground wasn't helpful at all.
Yesterday I filled three huge garbage cans of garden waste, not suitable for composting because of mold, disease, bugs and rot.
We have moss growing on everything, rocks, wood, even on the aluminum of the greenhouse.
I'll have to BUY pumpkins???? this was actually from 2016?
Halloween is just weeks away...
In the past, these were all home grown...not this year!
We will put SOMETHING UP...depends on when we move into the Mall, sometime mid month.
Here's just a few Fall inspirations...
from the archives...
And our kitchen...
A 78 year old, very busy here...pricing, sorting, angsting...stay tuned and I'll share more, soooooooon, (I promise!)
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today being October 1 means it is time for me to start decorating for Halloween. I'm resisting because I don't want to believe it's October! All good wishes for success in the new booth. No wonder nothing is done at home -- that's a huge project. And I'm sorry to hear about Mary.
ReplyDeleteYes, such a big hole in our blog world, with her passing...sigh. I am going into my new booth today to clean...they put in new carpet, electricity, now I have to clear some cobwebs and accumulated dust/dirt on the tops and behinds of the cabinetry. Previous owner definitely cleaned what she could reach, but she was older than ME>>>lol. Hugs, Sandi
DeleteI'm sorry to hear about Mary. She was a lovely lady and her blog was always so inspiring. She will be missed...
ReplyDeleteI knew something was not good by her repeat posting...I know I do the same thing when I'm under the weather or super busy. Sigh, yes, there is a big hole in our blog world. Thanks so much for commenting, sigh...hugs, Sandi
DeleteSandi, love this post and yes, I found out earlier this week, I think on Monday, that Mary had passed... You've written a lovely tribute. <3 And you are right, we can't take it with us, even if we try! Glad you are getting some of your goodies ready to find new homes; always a good thing!! I have been taking things to several of our thrift stores. I'd have garage sales, like I did in California. However, our garage is on the other side of the house so we'd have to drag everything around front. Oh, thank you for the info on Etsy's policy as I did think about selling some stuff there. I still need to get on Facebook marketplace and see about selling some things there. We have a ton of things in the garage which would free up much-needed space. :)
ReplyDeleteHappily shared this post along with your brown transferware post at this week's Share Your Style #519 for you. :)
Hugs,
Barb :)
thanks again, Barb, just catching up on my stashed had to review comments, I'm new to do that and was definitely delayed. Now I know where to look. FB marketplace is a possibility, I would ship only though, rather than having someone come to the house. we have a Police station with a huge parking lot, which is the only way I would meet someone. And, unless paid for ahead, people don't show up. Good luck!
DeleteSandi, I know I shared but I wanted to say how sorry I am about Mary's passing. I did share that on Share Your Style #519 this evening. <3 And I shared your photo here as a second post feature, but mostly for the link about Mary.
ReplyDeleteWishing you only happy memories as I know her passing has affected many of us in the blogging world,
Hugs,
Barb <3
Barb, she was so special....and the reason I started blogging. I do think that blogging may be turning a corner, we are aging out...and the sell, sell, buy, buy, mentality is ruining what is left in what began as Sharing. Hugs, Sandi
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