Another Fairy House....or Two!

Hello again!



I sure hope I don't bore you with these Fairy Houses...;^)

 

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"The Blue Fairy"'s house is off to New Mexico later this week!



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I have acquired a helper...very much appreciated...



Mr. B is a much more precise shingler than I am!



(I have learned to kind of embrace "wonkiness"...;^)



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The "Pink Rose Fairy"'s house is well underway!

 

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Look at this "freebie" I found!

 

I got one of those boxes of 24 "mini" cupcakes at Walmart the other day...

 

and the divided plastic holder was far too cool to just throw away!

 

At first I thought I'd save it to sort beads in, then I remembered all the little-bitty

blends of polymer clay that I had sitting on plates all over my worktable...

 

It's perfect!

 

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...And the lid keeps all the dust and ~ ahem ~ kitty hair off the clay!

 

(Polymer clay acts like a magnet for those things!)

 

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And last but not least, Tallulah, watching from her post above my worktable!

 

Jonathan has been playing with her with the laser a lot, lately, and she is constantly

 

looking for it!

 

Have a wonderful week, all!

 

Love,

 

 

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"Vintage" Me at Easter!

I know these photos won't be of much interest to most of you,

 

but I wanted to post and comment on them for my girls and boys...

 

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~ My first Easter, 1958.

I guess my Dad is taking the picture, as there is my Mom's

hand, getting ready to catch me if I fall!

(Which she would continue to do for a lot of years!) ~

We still have Uncle Harry's little rocking chair that I'm sitting in,

even though it was in the fire...

Restored by daughter Mandy and her boyfriend Jim ~

(Thank you again! ♥)



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Daddy and me, Easter, 1959.



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With
Queenie, Daddy's English Setter ~



"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth" ~



at our farm, 1960.







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At Grandma and Grandpa Launius's in Essex, Missouri ~ 1960.



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My favorite Easter picture with my Mom, 1961.



I still have this basket!



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With Daddy at Grandma and Grandpa Launius's, 1961.



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Oops! I don't think anyone said "Say cheese" for this photo!



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At our house in Bloomfield (1961) with my favorite person



in the entire world ~



(my other Grandparents would understand)



 Grandma Collier.



I'm sure the picture was taken by my sweet Mom,



as she was known for "cutting off heads"! :^)



Look at that cool (and I do mean cool, in winter...sticky in summer)



1950s gray vinyl couch!



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 There I am with the Easter Bunny spoils!



I am just now noticing that the basket's handle must have always been wonky...



I thought that had happened with age!



(Thank you for looking at these, even if you are not one of my children!)



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Love,



Mom

 

 

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Some Vintage Easter Postcards for you...♥

Oh, I have been such a bad, bad, blogger!

Bad.

 

I hope all of you have had a joyous Easter!

 

I don't know what has happened to me with my posting lately,

 

but it isn't a good thing!

 

I've seen people stop blogging because they weren't getting anything

 

else done, but contrary to that, I don't seem to get anything of note

 

done if
I don't post about it anymore...

 

So, I'm not going anywhere!

 

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Honestly, though, until last weekend I thought we still had about

 

three weeks until Easter...

 

I was in my own little world...

 

I was going to get so many creative things done to share....

 

But, like Grumpy Cat says..."Nope".

 

 

As with Christmas, I seem to be inspired anew by the day itself

 

and then continue the celebration for a few more days!

 

So, I may do that.

 

Bear with me!

 

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In the meantime, here are some more vintage postcards...

 

(For next year, right?)

 

Pretty large files, so you could use them for lots of projects;

 

if you need larger pics of the horizontal ones, let me know ~

 

I'm happy to share them!

 

They're just fun to look at, too!

 

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I love the Easter Bells story!



From Wikipedia...



Church bells are silent as a sign of mourning for one or more days before Easter in The Netherlands, Belgium and France. This has led to an Easter tradition that says the bells fly out of their steeples to go to Rome (explaining their silence), and return on Easter morning bringing both colored eggs and hollow chocolate shaped like eggs or rabbits.

In both The Netherlands and Flemish-speaking Belgium many of more modern traditions exist alongside the Easter Bell story. The bells ("de Paasklokken") leave for Rome on Holy Saturday, called "Stille Zaterdag" (literally "Silent Saturday") in Dutch.

In French-speaking Belgium and France the same story of Easter Bells (« les cloches de Pâques ») bringing eggs from Rome is told, but church bells are silent beginning Maundy Thursday, the first day of the Paschal Triduum.



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Love the Thiele cards!



Such detail! You could make up a story



to go with each one!

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And just when this little tabby kitty had the perfect shade of lilac!



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Look at these bunnies! Mr. B said they looked carnivorous...



Katie said they looked like scary donkeys



and Jonathan said they looked "pig-like", even down to their feet!



I think they kind of look like chubby lambs.



Chubby mean lambs....



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I'm always drawn to the "painting eggs/artist" ones!



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Love the shoes...



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There is a story here, too!



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Not sure about these Egg People...;^)

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Knitting socks...hmmm...



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Ha, ha!



Though I have to say, if a rooster appeared on my bed



bearing colored eggs and pussy-willow branches,



I would probably have the same reaction!



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Jonathan said he thought these were a little "disturbing"! ;^)



Don't they remind you a little of that moon in the Little Caesar's commercials,



saying "Pizza time!!" ~



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Don't you think this one wins for the oddest Easter postcard ever??



More posts coming...



Love,

 

Sharing these at Beverly's Pink Saturday, as well!

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