Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Sara's Junktique Rainbow of Funtimes: BLUE


It's stormy around these parts. We've had a dozen tornadoes already this year and April is usually the roughest month. Blue seems appropriate for today. I hope the weather is alright where you are.



Trekkie or no, everyone should own a copy! Other illustrious publications include: Warmed by Love, Come Be with Me, We Are All Children Searching for Love, and The Splishy Warm Lappy Waves Makes Me Pee My Pants (or some somesuch).

Proud owner of an Olivetti Lettera 22. Clickclickclickityclick...

Gorgeous retro swag lamp and a vintage paint-by-number of sailing ships. Went to an estate that was FULL of them. A super fun thing to collect.

A shiny, lasery-etched, holographicy, blue and silver picture of an owl. I'm not sure about this one; it was my Granny's. I just know it's pretty and it's an owl and I love it.

A beautiful blue patterned hanky. The middle reminds me of a spider web.

A new generation Dream Pet! Her name is Mimi. You can meet Matilda and learn more about Dream Pets on the GREEN post.

Blue tins! Some Daher, some Brazilian, and a retro souvenir one from Hawaii. I'm seeing a lot of these "state" tin trays around in the junkin circuit. Some of them are pretty campy, but I think this one is beautiful.

Speaking of Hawaii, here we have a lovely handcrafted, stoneware mug. I love whales! This little bugger was kind of hard to photograph though, but it has a neat ombre blue-white color.

A Grecian-inspired tin and a plastic vintage button. It may be a little hard to make out the details unless you squint, but it's a ship! It has hence been turned into a pendant for a necklace.



And now I leave you with an excerpt of the brilliant Mr. Nimoy's equally...as...brilliant... poetry. *AHEM*

Sometimes
Are grey times

Scanning
The overcast sky

Across the tops
Of wet stately pines
I look for the light
Of heaven's rays

Blocked by the
cold grey
of winter clouds

Until at last
thinning to fleece
the moist white
gives way

And

As it has always
been
The darkness lightens

Allowing me
to see through

To the first
patch
of blue

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Sara says: I PLANTED A PLANT AND I HOPE IT DOESN'T DIE

Because seriously, I over-watered a gerber daisy I got my Mum for Valentine's Day. I DROWNED IT. I was so sad.

Anyways, HELLO! I have been on somewhat of a hiatus, but Granny is back home from the hospital and doing fairly well. Granny was kind of, unwittingly, the source of my latest spring inspiration. For some reason, Granny had an abandoned pedestal sink in her backyard. It was just there. Just because. And we never bothered to do anything with it... UNTIL NOW!

Abandoned grossy sink has now been magically transformed in to a container garden!







And yes, Gnomeo and Juliet live underneath it. My little fleurs are Hawaiian Blue Eyes and hopefully they'll grow up to look like this:


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I picked blue flowers on purpose... to look like water... I'm a dork.
 
I think I'd also like to paint the thing- just haven't figured out exactly what. Probably just swirly fun designs. Do y'all have any spring gardening aspirations? This is about as good as it gets for me, though I do have visions of making a catus-scape. Those are pretty idiot-proof...
 
Ya think anyone would notice if I reclaimed a toilet and a bathtub?
 
Have a lovely weekend!