luxe

i am so clean! i never smell! i swear it. even though my clothes have paint and dye all over them, i am a really clean person and always smell nice. i shower twice a day. why am i dirty bess? not cool. and bess is a 500 lb lady’s name. no offense to 500 lb ladies, or people named bess that aren’t. sigh.
i got this from regina…the lady linoleum loves jimbo’s handcarved crochet hooks, which are just amazing. gorgeous. i happened by and woah!

i am having issues with bloglines dropping some of my blogs. anyone else have this issue? i am a flake, so it takes me a while to notice, i think maybe it is under a different heading or something, and then…i realize…it’s just gone. what? and then on other feeds, it tells me they have 6 new posts and it is not only not new posts, but it doubles each post. eh. sheesh.

jake texted me from work that he has a pretty concrete job offer from the engineering department at his work, which he has been wanting to move to. he has been depressed at his job, feeling trapped, so this could really be a big deal. he is such a smart person, and so meticulous and nice to be around (and i thought this before i dated him, i swear), i am sure that he will go far. there aren’t a lot of people with his kind of work ethic in the world. his whole family are like that. so everyone keep your fingers crossed! i would love it if he had a job that made him feel challenged in a good way, and that he would actually enjoy doing. for once. he deserves it. he works so damn hard.

we both feel a cold coming on. he is full on sick. yesterday, he stayed home from work and ran errands with me. i packed orders, which always takes me forever. dunno why. so we stopped at my favorite antique/used furniture place and i did pretty well. i got a ton of old old ephemera of different sorts (yes, i just said ephemera) i am probably going to put some luxe piles together. i have a bunch of wallpaper sample books and other vintage books, in addition to planning to take the wallpaper and do some decorative papers with them to sell. let me know if you are interested, and i will put you first on the list. also, i am dyeing fiber this week, so anyone who wants some , let me know, i have wholesale orders for it, and i will put some aside for you. and i owe jess king some, i remembered yesterday, she has been waiting forever, so i need to email her and let her know it is coming.

ok, back to the thrift stuff…i got a huge mint condition old electric roaster for dyeing. the awesome thing about it, is that it has a rack and i think i can steam fiber in it, in which case, i can really put a ton in there. and he gave it to me for 20 bucks. i bitched and gave him eyes until he marked it down. i also go this awesome lamp…. it has this little pen holder and a date clicker…i can promise that the date will never be right. the only issue with it is that it wants to tip over, so i need to figure out where to put it and tape it down. the blue glow is amazing. i lurve it. i have pics of the amazing papers that i got there, too, on my flickr, so head over. what else?

i made this copper wire crocheted wide cuff using the paper beads and it came out gorgeous. i plan to sell it, so before i list it, let me know if you are interested…purdy, eh?

also, i found this cool book from the 70’s. there are photos of the inside of it on my flickr. the entire book is handwritten and illustrated. there is this cool illustration of a spinning wheel… i am thinking that i will copy it and use it in a collage. i have some ideas. i got so much more cool stuff. i almost peed my pants. there was a woman there sorting through the stuff as well that makes collaged cards and stuff to sell i guess and was aggressively guarding the stuff despite the fact that there were 5 tables just covered with stuff. she all put shoved me. freak. whoever’s house the magazines and stuff came from was a pack rat of amazing proportions. there were fishing licenses from 80 years ago. i got a fire policy from 1926. boyscout books from 60 years ago, which are hilarious. one of the projects is a special gadget for roasting wieners. ha!

i must do work. off i go.

mwah! mwah!
n.