Tuesday Thoughts

The chair will look better when I stain and apply the linseed oil.

Amelia and I went to Bonnie & Clyde Trade Days in Gibsland weekend before last, and I haven't posted about any of our treasures.  I bought an old wooden ironing board (which is still in the garage awaiting decisions about what to do with it) and this chair.  I thought I might paint the chair white, but Fee likes the rustic look of it.  I think I'll get some linseed oil and oil it down good, but for right now, it is just holding some pillows and gardening books.  The chair was $8.

I bought the blue ovenware bowl for $3 and filled it with lemons.  The cut glass was a wedding gift from my Aunt Janice, and it has been much loved for many, many years.

I also bought some little knick knack things for future Eccentric dolls...a dollar here, two dollars there.  Later, I'll show you some of Amelia's purchases and how she transformed them.

While we were in Baton Rouge, we visited an antique and salvage shop and bought the most comfortable rocker, handmade with a curved back; it is amazingly comfortable and just fits!

It will probably go out side soon, but for right now, I have it here.  This is where I had the chair above that holds some of my garden books.  The chair needs to come back to this location so I'll have  my books on hand when I want to sit outside and dream.

If I had a couple of thousand dollars, I'd have purchased these figures from the same shop!  These have little holes for the study of acupuncture.  Very interesting, and I've never seen anything like them before.  Very old, very expensive.  I tried to take a close up, but it didn't come out.

I wish I'd taken more pictures because the trash and treasure were so mixed up in this shop.  I bought another large wooden spool for less than $10 and left the acupuncture figures for others to admire.