"Time in a bottle"

If I could put time..
in a bottle...
I'd put a lot of it..
in there...
to spend with..
you!!!!

I have another blog now...just for fun and silliness....http://www.Just a girl that takes pictures.blogspot.com/

"Picture This"

I had an old window found somewhere at a yard sale, or maybe at the flea market....I have a few more around, but not one like this....I sure wish I could find more of them... I could make the girls one...as I look at this, I can see so much more I could do with it...paint some flowers or some little saying about sisters or family or both....anyways, I set in to try to find pictures to fill it with...
My goodness, I have so many pictures, and so few walls to hang them on.
So I started with our wedding picture on the top left...the next one they are very little...then we got out in the yard doing a photo op of them...my girls are so pretty. the bottom left is when they were teens...then one with their hubbys....and finally Dad and me in the last frame....These things are so much fun to do. Since I retired this year, I have been so lazy...I haven't been creative all year...just resting up from all those years of working retail....shudder!!!!!
I bought myself a little plaque the other day that just about sums it up.
"If I don't want to, you can't make me..I'm retired."
I just thought it was so cute, I had to have it....I like little things like that...my friend has one that says...
"I'm too busy to be neat."
I just love it....I may have to create some things like that....maybe......

"Happy Birthday,Mom & Aunt Faye"

That little blonde on the right is my Mom...that's her twin Faye on the left...aren't they so cute...I have lots of pictures of them from the time they were three months old on...
My granny ( their much adored mama) loved to take pictures, and I have wondered where & how she got the camera, and where she found the money to buy the film and get them developed...I know they were very poorI would like to ask her, because she loved to take pictures, that was one of the traits she passed on to Mama....and maybe to me...I still have one of the little shoes they are wearing. Little high top buttoned shoes..They are so sweet...Mama never could look up if the sun was in her eyes...she called it sungrins...
Whatever you call it, she passed it on to me....I just cannot look into the bright sun without making that face..

Now here is Aunt Faye looking all sultry and sexy in her fancy little hat....and Mama has the sungrins....Faye doesn't give any clue that she is cold....Mama looks like she is freezing..but they still don't look as cold as Ranger the dog did....ha. It was the practise back then to write on pictures...Mom wrote on this one...
Two lonesome gals.....these old pictures give me glimpses of what they were like when they were young.

They were always close, both saw a lot of trouble and trials in their lives...Aunt Faye (the dark headed one) is still living....Let's see, they were born in 1923, so they would be...uhhhmmm....86 years old now...Mama died in 2005....she was the bravest woman I ever knew...she knew how to take life on the chin, and she was a drama queen...everything was a big thing with Mom...she had to give up her home and move in with us for the last 10 years of her life....and she did it with a grace that I don't think I could muster up...
She was funny and exasperating and beautiful and ornery and sweet and grouchy...
Happy Birthday, Mama~ xoxo and a very Happy Birthday to you, Aunt Faye....Loveyas...xo

                                                                                       

"Snap out of it"

Boy, it's getting to be slim pickings around here as far as garage sales go....I did find one about three weeks ago that had some stuff to dig through....everything was cheap, so I just picked up some bagfuls for 25 cents each. These cute little snaps were in one of them...
I squealed when I saw the sweet little pictures on them...there were 6 packages of them.
They are fairly vintage because they were 29 cents each. Sure can't get much for that anymore....I have absolutely nothing I can use them for...I fell in love with the graphics, love those big eyes and the character of the faces. Gotta love those old style graphics...so sweet and cute...Look at the little romper the little girl has on....all ruffly and eyelet.

Wonder what this little fella is saying..."I didn't do it, Mama."

I guess I will put them in a basket till I figure out what to do with them....
I may go on and list them on etsy, see what happens....I hope you are all having good days preparing for Thanksgiving....
till next time....glenda

"I am thankful...for our family."

Nostalgia;

a bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past...

Well, it's friday, and I want to be out there looking for photos that need to be taken, garage sales to be shopped, and I desperately need to rake some leaves, today may not be a good day...the wind is really puffing. Trying to blow fall out and winter in, I guess.

Oklahoma winds are so unpredictable....I just want to thank the Lord for my family,

 and that we will all be together this year.

All these smiling faces will be in our home sometime over Thanksgiving...we actually have had 2 new babies join our happy clan this year...and they are quite the lovely little ladies.

Well, the sales are waiting, and the photos need to be taken, so I am looking for my gad-about shoes...

till next time....g

"Have camera...will travel"

I kicked my gad-about shoes off today when I came home from treasure hunting and then grocery shopping...my feet just don't like shoes.... I have diabetes, so I should wear shoes all the time, but I am such a rebel!!!!!
When my feet hurt, I hurt all over....besides all that, I hate to go grocery shopping. I always forget something, it seems like. bummer!!
But I keep them close at hand, 'cause I don't want to miss a photo opportunity....the thing is, when I saw this picture, I noticed that sunflowers are dancing in my shoes...funny what we don't see...isn't it..
This is where my camera lives now, in this cute little  bag I picked up for 7.99 at Ross. I had run into town to get some other things, but I had been keeping my eyes open for a bag just this size, and here she was just waiting...don't you just love serendipity......
It seems I have this problem,though....now normally if I go shopping for something in particular, I just don't find it.
I have to just accidentally find it....and sometimes it's at a time when I really can't  afford it....;0(
I love shoes, and I found a pair of furlined ankle boots today, so when I go out in the cold this winter to explore, my feet will stay warm and dry....I was looking for something like that, too. Hmmm, my mojo must really be working...Oh, and the brand name is uugs...but they ain't as ugly as the other uugs I see around....
So I will find me a pair of wellies for the spring, and then I'll be all set....
I need to curtail my love for books and magazines so I can have more of the things I need for everyday....
Like a real nice ipod touch, I strongly desire the 300$ one...fat chance of that...lol
and a sony webcam, etc. I don't want much, huh...grin!!!
I said all that to say this....I am in love with taking pictures now, so I am out in the yard a lot...soon I am going further afield to see what I can find, I like the old country stuff that is disappearing...old barns, houses, pickups, windmills.....and then they will likely be on my blog, and loaded into flickr...and Picasa...that's my favorite for now, 'specially since you  can do a lot with it, and it's totally free....I like the free programs....
till next time....glenda

"A blue and white trike"

The little trike had seen better days, that's for sure...what paint he had left was rusting and fading away. In some places the metal was so rusted you couldn't see any paint at all. But like all toys everywhere, he still wanted to play.....Sometimes a child would happen by, a great grandson of the folks in the house just over there would find him in the yard, and pull him out to play with. But one wheel had lost it's rubber completely, so it was hard for him to even push him....But Tyler was determined to ride him, and sometimes he would find a place. He just wanted to ride that trike, it was a challenge to him, to ride that trike...

A place where the ground was smooth enough to push and pull him, the yard was too rough to ride on...bumpy and hard, and the road out front was not much better. Tyler was not allowed to go out there, so he pushed and pushed and kept on trying.

Trying to play with trike....and oh, how he wanted to play. He wasn't made to sit in the shade...he was a tough little guy and he wanted to give someone a ride, maybe even someone to stand on the back and laugh as the wind blew her hair. He remembered times like that, what had happened to him?....where was the little boy who squealed with delight when he saw him that long ago Christmas morning....

Daddy had been so proud to buy him for the boy. It took a little extra to do it, and Mama had saved her egg and cream money when she could....oh, they were so proud...they never had much money, they were farmers. Then they would let him ride out to the mailbox as he grew a little older...they would stand on the porch and watch him on his birthday, 'cause he usually had a little card from Grandma and Grandpa....it would have a dollar or two in it...He never had even seen these people who sent him gifts and money, mama said they lived far away....and she would turn away when he asked how far...She would brush away a tear, and tell him to go on out and play.

             

The boy grew too big to ride him after awhile, his little boy legs got too long, and he was pushed to the side yard...out of the way...

And then the boy went away, and he didn't know where...he just knew he was lonely as he rusted and slowly wasted away....and he longed for the good old days...

He heard them say words like good grades, and the first one in the family to go to college, but he didn't know what that meant.....

So he sure was surprised when a car drove up, he had never seen anything but Pa's old truck until they went to town. It was a grown up HIM, and a little boy and a woman was with him, and the boy knew that trike was a toy!!! By then the lady had brung him up on the porch....she said to get it out of the rain...and Pa just laughed and he shook his head, and went on inside for supper. The boy took him down and pushed him again, it hurt cause he was stiff with old age...but he sure had a good time.....it really was fun to play again.....sigh!!! The little boy said he would come back sometimes, and it was a good thing to hear.

After they left, the lady said "I think I'll just set it back up here, and maybe decorate it some....

And as she did, she laughed to herself, remembering something her son had said....Huh...Memories!!!

" Mom, i'm just curious, but why are you still keeping that old thing, it looks worn out to me!!!!

Oh, I don't know son, I know it's silly, but I just ain't ready to throw it away....

Well, she said to herself, he'll understand someday.....someday he'll understand....