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February 11, 2007
Week three: I don't have anything to show, so why don't I just tell you about the stuff I bought?
Let's start with the cake, shall we?
Neither Jessica nor I completed an edition in the third week of our contract. I did actually finish something, but it was absolute garbage and there were only four of them, and while the contract doesn't say that all of the prints have to be good, it does say that there must be at least five. So we're going to pretend that print never happened, and we split both the cost and the eating of the cake (rough punishment, I know). I figure a little failure early on will kick us into gear to succeed later. Perhaps the sugar rush will help.
We took a trip out to Watkinsville on Thursday afternoon and our favourite place to shop around here, Reed's Odds and Ends. This is the place where I got ten fiesta ware mugs for a dollar last summer. Here's part of Thursday's haul:
A box of mahjongg tiles, not a complete set but older and prettier than the set we have; they're bone mounted on a bamboo backing. I'm thinking about making bracelets with them, unless I can think of something better.
Of course I had to have this ugly souvenir plate of Windsor, just because it makes me laugh that I came all the way to Athens Georgia to find it. And because I can see my beloved's office (and the place where the skateboarders play outside his old office window) in one of the pictures. I think it's pretty funny that the nondescript Jackson Park gate is on here, as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police front and centre even though to the best of my knowledge they're never actually seen in Windsor, but Willistead Manor, the architectural monstrosity everyone in town seems so enamoured with and proud of, is missing. Also there's nothing on there about Hiram Walker or Canadian Club whiskey or the Big Three. Hmmph. This gem set me back one dollar.
I don't know why nobody told us before that there is a bead store tucked in right behind the yarn store. I used to be a real sucker for buying beads, but years and years of never doing anything with them has cured me of that and now I'm pretty much immune to (and even bored by) the lure of beads. Buttons, however, are quite another thing, and nothing would make me happier than to trade my gigantic hoard of beads for buttons. These lovely vintage glass buttons were forty cents each. I'm not sure what I'll ever do with that tiny one in the centre, but I couldn't leave it behind. I guess I'll use that one as the seed to start my collection of buttons I never use.
Posted by jodi at February 11, 2007 09:01 AM | categories: an edition a week : one man's garbage. . .
Comments
1. You're punishing ME with that closeup of the chocoate cake! It looks So Good.
2. Great tiles. Besides bracelets, you could make pendants or pins.
3. I can't believe you found that plate in Athens. Can't say that I ever saw mounted police on my few trips to Windsor, either. The vintage linens behind the plate are wonderful, by the way.
4. Did I gasp audibly when I scrolled down to the buttons? Maybe. They're so good. And who cares what you'll do with them. Until you figure it out, put them in a glass container somewhere where you can admire them.
Posted by: alison at February 11, 2007 10:20 AM
The chocolate cake looks like terrible torture! I think you could definitely make some cool pendants with those mahjong tiles - just using some silk cord and some knots.
Posted by: Mouse at February 11, 2007 10:35 AM
The Yarn store that you mentioned would that happen to be Main Street Yarns and Fibers? I would love to go to the button and bead shop. I will be over that way in about a week.
Posted by: kate at February 11, 2007 01:24 PM
Don't forget the "other" big three! I wonder if the Mounty is a sly nod to Danny's, because there aint no real Mounties around here, at least not sitting on horses. In front of mountains?
Posted by: peter at February 11, 2007 07:43 PM
I am seriously in trouble with that cake picture (bit hormonal) and there is a chocolate bar looking at me. Trouble. Fruit and Nut bar, go away. ;)
Posted by: frecklegirl jess at February 12, 2007 12:35 AM
Everybody needs a collection of unused buttons. :)
Posted by: crumpet at February 12, 2007 06:32 AM
You know what would make that Windsor plate even better? If you threaded a pretty pink ribbon through the holes and hung it on a country-pink sponge painted wall, just above a wallpaper border.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Sorry.
I actually love the idea of souvenir plates. They are cool-tacky in that way that some glam rockers are sexy-ugly. I actually have a plate hung with ribbon in my house. But my walls aren't sponge painted.
Posted by: Steph VW at February 12, 2007 09:04 AM
If you have so many beads that trading them for buttons like that (lovely buttons, buttons that you'd want in LARGE quantities) seems like a good idea to you then I wouldn't mind trading my collection of paper recylcables for your beads! Not that you'd ever want newspapers for the last 18 months or anything, just that bead collection sounds mighty fine!
Posted by: Arianne at February 12, 2007 11:43 AM
Okay, the cake looks yummy. Not the best occasion for it, but all's well that ends well. The buttons and the mahjogg tiles are beautiful -- what a deal. But really, I love the plate. I have to laugh because I have almost an identical plate for Las Vegas. We bought a whole slew of these "collectors plates" at a thrift and they're hanging in our kitchen. We like their quirkiness.
Posted by: Nanc at February 14, 2007 09:30 AM
Sounds like some great ideas...I hope that chocolate cake tasted as good as it looks!
I'd use the funky buttons as clasps on bracelets, but then I'd never get bored of beads - bite your tongue!
Posted by: Mary at February 17, 2007 06:16 PM
I am such a sucker for corny plates...great find!
Posted by: Becca at February 18, 2007 02:36 PM