Soundtrack: Warrior

Kimbra, A-Trak, and Mark Foster bring us fresh beats in Warrior (a macho libre heavy track for Converse) Fantastic.

The 3C's Disease

Here’s a reblog from drawn.ca. Warn your friends and families about the 3C’s disease!

Soundtrack for the Grind

Here’s a somewhat oldie, but a solid goodie to keep you fresh while you work the daily grind. [Metric- Gimme Sympathy]


p.s. Started a Tumblrrrrr --> http://sundriescuriosity.tumblr.com/ which will be mirroring this blog :3

Analogies

If your all zoned out from writing (required or otherwise) take a gander at this. Here is an invitational hosted by the Washington Post. A list of "Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay Contest" 

19 amusing analogies!

He Spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. Joseph Romm, Washington.

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again. Richard Murphy, Fairfax Station.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. Russel Beland, Springfield.

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup. Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie surreal quality like when you're on vacation in another city and "jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30 Roy Ashley, Washington.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. Chuck Smith, Woodbridge.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. Russel Beland, Springfield.

Bob was a perplexed as a hacker who means to access T;flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ ch@ung by mistake. Ken Krattenmaker, Landovers Hills.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. Unknown.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. Jack Bross, Chevy Chase.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring.

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man." Russel Beland, Springfield.

Long separtated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.  Jennifer Hart, Arlington.

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with pickets fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.  Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. Russell Beland, Springfield.

The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play. Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.  Chuck Smith, Woodbridge.

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon. Unknown.

Girl Crush: Kristen Chenoweth

Kristen Chenoweth is pretty awesome, a compact 4' 11'' ball of awesome. You might know her as Galinda the good from Wicked, or maybe Olive Snook from Pushing Daisies, but I bet you haven't seen these gems. She makes fun of Twilight (!!!) and makes Hamburger Helper jokes. :3 It's hard not to love a girl, who gushed about Sonic's slushies on Conan.

My Life According to Instagram

I have a moderate backlog of Instagram photos (you can find the full spectrum on my pinterest), so today here's some of my 'life according to instagram' around the holiday time. Starting from the top left hand corner clockwise:

1. Watering the Cobblestones (Causeway Bay)

2. Figero (Yuen Long)

3. Convienently Collapsible (Lamma/Central Ferry)

4. Harbor Crossing (Cross Harbor Tunnel from Tsim Sa Tsui)

5. Mmm. Pens (Quips, Olympic City)

6. Tunnel-Vision (Aberdeen Underground Walkway)

For the Hypochondriacs

Feelin' like a zombie these last few days, which means I've become a recluse and my hypochondriac side is making an appearance.

Here's a video from Lenka (Album: Two) about love where she sings about your heart skipping a beat. Oooof. That won't help your paranoid sides, but it sure is catchy.

Thrifty Magic

If you haven't discovered the magic of thrift-ing, I think you should start.

It requires digging into 40% uninteresting things all of which are 100% not clean to questionable levels, but there are some amazing things in the heaps of stuff that only look  like trash. (just think of your attic at home)

On my way home from work I stopped by the Lamma animal shelter which doubles as a thrift store and took a look. I was kinda tired, and not really in the mood to dig and was on my out, when a dark frame caught my eye. So I stopped and took a second look. Two detailed old style lithograph prints (I mean prints of the original print) in heavy wood and glass frames. Dusty to be sure, so I asked how much there were. Friends, a mere 20 HKD (a little under 3 USD) per frame in it's entirety, art included!

You be the judge, was it worth it?

Personally I think the glass is worth more than that alone. The best part of thrifting is that most of things you find are older, which might mean more repairs, or stains, probably a small chip, something you'll definately have to clean and air out.

Or it could mean things they no longer make that you've been searching for, something the previous owner couldn't appreciate like you can, maybe a more unique piece to hang on your wall than the mass production at Pier One. Or something out of your price range at anthro (p.s. they thrift to get some things in their store too).

Give thrifting a try! Books, art, belts, cameras, furniture at architectural salvage shops, dishes, that can stand the test of years, sometimes decades, can make your home beautiful and unique at a sweet price, while recycling on top of it all.

Hexagon Lurv.

I love hexagons.

I'm not sure why, or how it came about, but in my book hexagons are pretty fantastic. The symetrical, pleasantly shaped polygons are structured, crisp and tessalate fantastically. It's no wonder artists choose it in pretty much any medium.

Recently a friend led me to a quilt pattern on Ravelry called the beekeepers quilt. and I was soon swoonin'. Quick as a flash I downloaded that impossibly cheap pattern [$5.50 wuuut?] and knitt myself some hexipuffs. Their as good as you, or perhaps only I, imagined. And they were easy enough, even for a beginner level knitter such as myself. All you need to know is how to cast on, increase, decrease, and Stephanie (tiny owl knits) shows you the rest with helpful pictures.

Sadly, a somewhat dismaying point is that I need about 800 to make a queen sized quilt. Aaand I'm at number 22, so to stay motivated there will be intermittent posts about hexagons. Ones made of yarn or perhaps not; it may even turn into a blatant appeal to convert the masses to why hexigons are so lovely and perfect.

Here's my progress instagram style.

P.S. Zohmg.

But, I Digress

Hey friends! Been spending alot of time on youtube lately, and I honestly don't know howall the time slips away in four minute videos. Anyhow. Has everyone seen this video of the annual Holi festival of colors in Arizona?
ch-ch-check it out!



While you were watching that, I bet you noticed those sweet, sweet jams yeah? That's the work of bigfreshmouf out of california. Now, if your as suseptible to youtube suggestions as I am, this will lead you to this orabrush advert put out by bigfreshmouf and can't stop won't stop. Seriously, brushing your tongue has never looked so cool, or came with such a good soundtrack!

Could it Be? Flattery?

Hey blog-o-friends! It's Novemeber, that disturbingly close to the end of the year month. Time to rake up resolutions and finish projects. As it were I've taken to writing. I discovered nanowrimo. Did you know November is national novel writing month? Apparently it is! I had no idea! (also didn't know a novel was anything over 50,000 words) If you so choose, join as well. You only need to write 1667 words per day to reach a novel by the end of a month. So far it's rather enjoyable, i'm sure that will change once I get farther in. Regardless.

I also came to the realization that I hadn't drawn anything of substance for a long while (almost 2 years) to remedy this I've begun another project that's been stewing for a while. It's a common catch phrase/proverb Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. While i'm not sure if this is entirely true (especially when the imitation is dodgy; Karl Lagerfeld probably doesn't appreciate cheep imitation knockoffs) I think that it probably somewhat flattering if the imitation is a transformative work, or gives proper credit. Continuing this line of thinking i've begun a new series Imitation = Flattery .

To begin we have Frank Miller's 'Nancy'. Followed by my copy in pencil.



I've got to say it was alot more cerebral than I thought it would be. It's not heavily ornamented so there's nothing to distract from a poorly drawn line or unclean edge. Everything must be carefully edged and finished, it really makes you appreciate a pencil sharper.

Etsy Revival!

Hey Friends!

Took a tiny break from blogging to focus on my Etsy for a bit, I've recently quit my job and took the opportunity to organize my flat and get around to the growing pile of  'projects-to-get-to'. One of which is a series of cashmere sweaters. Seriously, I exaggerate not. These pictures and posting is three years in the making, I hope your as excited as I.

Here's a link (sadly, not the legend of zelda kind)

Kindly take a gander and leave pearls of sagely wisdom!

Out And About

Today I woke up feeling adventurous (and oddly, simultaneously lethargic) and was greeted with a brisk cool Monday that seemed, adventure-conductive. So out and about I went, with aimlessness, I headed to Hong Kong island via the average 11:20am ferry to pay a couple bills followed by seating myself on a bench to simply feel the breeze and watch the people.

It seemed a quiet sort of day, and by the time 4 o clock rolled by I was happily entrenched with old, used books. I've discovered old books are equally good if not sometimes better. Opening a book to a handwritten dedication, scribbled groceries lists, or love doodles makes it feel like you got a little extra something in addition to deep discounts. A history of sorts to go with that particular book. Children's books are particularly good for hidden secrets maybe because they had no fear of writing on the pages, and a need to be heard. Either way I picked up some books then went window shopping!

First stop was Vintage HK today the clocks really got my attention. There was this orange one, which was wind up with a little date on the side. Every time you flip it over it counts upwards! (how awesome is that?) it' makes lots of satisfying click noises but was sadly 700 HKD which is about 90 USD :( booooo. Instead got a dress with elephants holding stars :3

Next stop was Homeless, they have three branches all on Gough street. The main store focuses on decor and designer housewares, the second furniture and bigger items , and the third is a specialty store for handmade  mostly metal, rubber, glass, and pottery (this store is called blacksmith :3 so it follows..)

Finally my fav shot of the day! These pictures look antique but closeup it's clear they're fairly new (still perfectly glossy) But they look faded to various degrees purely from the effects of the sun. I think it's interesting how you can see their sequence by their pigments.

Oh! I got myself an instagram and thinking about pininterest! Message me you sn if you have either!

Foggy horsie.

I've been neglectful of this blog, but recently found myself  taking an alarming amount of pictures thinking , "I can post this later"  Of course, I rarely do because there are seemingly countless ways to get distracted from the process of taking a picture to writing and posting about it. Nevertheless, here is another attempt to bring it back. As you may or may not know (probably not since I failed to blog about it) I moved to Hong Kong little over a year ago, and naturally brought my camera with me :3 It has been harder to get pictures here than I thought it would be but more on that later (lest we get sidetracked).

There are many things I miss about America despite the many pros living in a larger city brings. One of which is the wide open spaces, and animals.  On a particularly foggy morning ferry (see left) on the sea, I found myself reminiscing of the two animals that seemed to lurk about my house in hazy viewing conditions, one the previously blogged about fox, and second the random horses in the fields. Horses are rather.. thin on the ground here in HK, but thank goodness I have pictures to reminisce by :3

Computer deprivation.

Hullo again! It's been ages since i've been in a blogging mood.

Well from July-November I didn't have a computer at all, unless you count the sketchy laptop I was forced to share with my mother (which I don't) Finally I sucked it up and sat outside best buy for 10 hours on black friday and got myself a good desktop and baby netbook :D

Then December/January got all busy at work since it is retail.

Which leads me to February. Half of which I spent drooling over ebay/etsy, eating at a newly discovered cracker barrel, complaining about the cold/snow, and taking pictures in the cold. That was before I came to my senses and started writing letters to everyone whose addresses I actually have, and now it's the 23.

Which means... theoretically, that i'm getting my act together, actually posting on etsy/blogging, and consigning/cleaning like a madwoman or maybe a squirrel on crack hiding her best acorns.

Anyhow computer re-privation has led to alot of sleep deprivation :( But anyhow I'm cutting my hair this Friday! Expect jumping hair pictures/obligatory new haircut pictures :D!

Haircuts make me feel pretty.

So, it's been three years since my last haircut and my hair's soft evenly cut layers (not to mention mid-neck length) have turned into choppy, random chunks that fall at my waist. I'm working on selling my hair and hopefully make some always welcomed money but the big choice is how I want to cut it. After digging though the ridiculous realms my hard drive i've found these pictures. Of course, i've yet to thoroughly flip through the hip world of lookbook but nonetheless you should comment/vote on which one is your favorite.

1.

I love Zooey's style, and her fringe.

2.

She doesn't look like she has too put too much work into this

3.

The girl on the right has the sweetest hair.

4.

LOVE this. makes me want to be blonde :(


5.

Amelie-style

6.

Her fringe is perfect

7.

This is cute and sweet & probably my favorite.

8.

Tossled?

9.

Love the colors! & the shape of it

10.

This looks hard to maintain, but i'm a fan of the long fringe

11.

These colors are amazing.

Skittery fox, it's ok, please come back.

About a month ago, a flurry of curious events occurred. For some reason I was up before 9 on a Monday without the significant help of my alarm phone. I had eaten a full breakfast, and instead of being lazy and poking about on the interweb, I actually was productively sketching new-might-happen-eventually designs, and thinking how much easier life would be if i had that unexplainable compulsion to obey societies limits on time. Suddenly my mother starts freaking out. Well freaking out might be a strong description, but after all with my views on mornings in general, any sort of excitement is pretty much freaking out.

A truely small animal is never visible from our house, who can see a squirrel in the midst of 3 feet re-seeding grass? I look closer and find myself staring at a fox, or maybe a coyote. It's cute, and for a bit i forget it's dangerous, it trots lightly and despite my hate for disney, i'm reminded of commercials for 'a fox's tale' and begin to revel it's bouncy footstep and bushy orange tale. Two minutes later it slinks under the grass and doesn't emerge.

I'm sit there thinking about the fox instead of sketching. Certainly there was wildlife in my old backyard. In Nebraska we had a whole family of ground squirels which dug so many burrows the ground sunk in extra-hollow areas when it rained heavily and every spring gave birth to about 9 babies which often didn't make it to august. And we had two different burrows of rabbits, who liked to fight over the little patches of natural bluegrass in the evenings. We had that crazy falcon who ate a blue jay once, but nothing as big or predatory as fox.

After that we didn't see it, and although I often did not wake up in time, mother, who is fond of morning gardening, said she only saw it once and our neighbors three dogs had scarred it with loud barking one day and she hadn't seen it since.

So the fox was forgotten until last week, when my neighbors were walking their dog and stoped to regale the early parts of their dog walk with my mother. Apparently said fox, was a girl fox, and girl fox had given birth to a little of baby foxes, which lived conveniantly in a small recess/ravine between the golf course up the hill and the grass field. Her dogs had barked at them, and the 5 of them went skittering back into the field for safety.

While the dogs had won this round, I couldn't help but wonder if there would be another round, one without four small fox pups, and an angry, revengful mother fox. The next day, neighbor put extra tall wire trelaces tied to her already tall fence, and started walking her dogs on the other side of the street.

And so the fox mystery is solved, though i wish, it was a little less dangerous, and less skittery, and would poke it's head out of the field every now and again so i could photograph her and her babies, which by now probably have adorably fluffy tails.

I was never good at tag.

Alright, so i've been of the bloggin' "scene" for around two months so I thought, with the lack of job and excessive amounts of free time I would edit, sew, and post till I was caught up. Starting with the most recent and working back which leads to to this short, but put-off-for-a-week quiz that my friend breeze tagged me in.

I don't really have anyone specific to tag, so if you read my blog (may i say, thank you!) or by some fluk of chance happen to stubble upon it, you are now a tagg-ee. You should also comment please, so I can read your quiz! Ready GO!

p.s. I want to watch the new dragonball z movie, but the banner alone makes me feel like i will miss the time i waste. So if any of you have seen it, tell me what you think!




*If I could transform one of my rooms I'd want the style above.
 +++*What is your current obsession? Making wedding dresses, and bread making.
+++*What do you see outside your window? A small playground with occasional visits from a school bus of drama. (more on that tomorrow)
+++*If you could have any super power what would it be? super speed (cause i'm always late) or super charm (so i could take pictures of people and they would be o-k with it)
+++*What is your favorite color? light, light sea-foam green, and grey.
+++*Who was the last person you hugged? my bunny?
+++*What is your hidden talent? uh, i probably can cook a better dinner than you think.
+++*What’s for dinner? mm, whatever's in the fridge, we suen's live off creative cooking.
+++*What was the last thing you bought? a 'work' shirt, and some cookies.
+++*What are you listening to right now? my parents bicker as they unload the dishwasher.
+++*What is your favourite weather? warm and breeze-filled. with beautiful dappled light.
+++*What’s on your beside table? books, sewing machine, computer, trash probably
+++*Say something to the person/s who tagged you. "So, sorry this is so late, but really, shouldn't you expect this by now?"
+++*If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you want it to be? Oh, good god. A villa, either in Lyon or Stockholm.
+++*What is your favorite children's book? The Teacher From the Black Lagoon.
+++*(A) book(s) you're currently reading? Hi-Fashion Tailoring.
+*What would you like to have in your hands right now? A Leica.
+++*What is your favorite tea flavor? mmm. Earl Grey + cream & suga'
+++*What is your favorite article of clothing? My white yarn scarf, it makes me warm and happy. 
+++*What would you like to get rid of? the debris at the bottom layer of my room.
+++*If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go? Dubai.
+++*What did you want to become as a child? an interior designer 
+++*What posters/pictures do you have on your bedroom wall? posters weren't allowed ;(
+++*What is your plan for tomorrow? Apply for jobs, make a skirt, clean my room :/+++* Who is your least favorite celebrity? Anna Nicole smith.

Friggatriskaidekaphobia!

Hurrah, hurray for Fridays, and soulful evenings with friends, good live music and half inch thick by 7 inch cookies. Mmm. I know, it's been a week since I posted, erk, *bonks-self-on-nose* bad Joanna but it's been a long week.

YAY! breezy made me a poppy hair clip it was uber cute :D

Poppy hair clip :D

Tuesday my parents came back from a 13 day search for a new home in colorado, so of course I procrastinated and didn't really clean, and was late picking them up. Then they tell me we have a new home, and the agent is coming sunday, and the moving evaluators are coming monday and I have 4 days to clean, craft, and drive my mother around for errands. BOO. Not to mention they have all this home improvment they have to get worked out this weekend, before my father has to go work in colorado, so their really stressed and barking orders and it's general chaos at my house.

Luckily my friend Amanda saves me, and via the magic/evil of facebook we planned a day of cake baking :D. The recipe changed multiple times but in the end she chose a red velvet 3 layered heart cake with meringue frosting and almond heart garnishes. 2 grocery trips, 15 minutes of trying to get her dog to stop quivering, and a sandwich later, be began on our endeavor. We double the recipe, and had alot of questions (does pink instead of red make a difference, how much cocoa was that again, does the meringue look 'peaked' to you?) WAIT! 2 cups of vinegar? ..vinegar?! Luckily we didn't put the vinegar in. it was a minor handwriting-0, but still i was reaal hesitant to put 2 teaspoons of vinegar in.

Egg in a shell :D! It's just so perfectly fitted.

Red, well, pink velvet mix.

Question: (this goes to all you bakers) have you ever put vinegar in a cake, any cake? let me know, it was foreign to me! Anyways in the end the cake was going pretty ok, until we put the meringue on. Sorry Amanda, it was just an odd, odd cake, and not very stable, and kinda lumpy. sad :(

Anyways that was Wednesday, on thursday i got lots of colored polyvinyl to make my camera shaped camera bag. Yay for sales! the vinyl was the 3 mm thick premium kind :D! and on sale for 3 dollars a yard (compared to it's normal 7 dollars) I had a good talk with Kionna and we worked out the details to the lining; i spent thursday night making the rest of the template. I plan on devoting my monday to it so plan on pictures maybe tuesday, probably thursday.

Friday the 13 was wonderful, it snowed a butt-ton (7 ish inches). i don't care what the weatherman said no way was it four! for all intensive purposes i discredited him the moment my mother sent me to school in full rain garb with no change of clothes and it didn't rain a lick that day, and i couldn't play with the other children because of my yellow plastic coat that stuck to everything. :/

anyhow....bemis in downtown omaha had a benefit concert FRIGGATRSKAIDEKAPHOBIA!(lineup: Honeybee, Bear Country, Capgun Coup, Conchance, & Box Elders) and my asian counterpart Moral invited me to the preparty with a small tilly and the wall concert! So I dragged my ass out of bed, shoveled the snow, and bust out of the house to brave the crappy snow-covered roads. 20 minutes later I am downtown getting a signature sharpie X drawn on my hand and eating abnormally giant oatmeal raisin cookies. *mini heaven*

We (Alexandra, Moral, Claire, Mary, and I) danced along as tilly played sing songs along, and couple of random songs, a 'beat control' cover, and freest man :D (fave!) And Jamie had her cute nephew there too, which of course i took pictures of. After Moral's dad managed let us meet the band and take pictures *contented sigh*

Honeybee was wonderful, and so was Bear Country (i think i subconsciously like bluegrass/country twang) but at the end i left around midnight, so tired since i had been there since seven. All in all Friday the 13th was a success and nothing but snow went wrong take that!

Conchence.

Susan sings soulfully (Bear Country)

Instrumentalist from Honeybee, jamin' on the melodica

Melissa (Honeybee) & hubby Brandon in the background

Honeybee brought a quilt!

I think she might have noticed Amelie (my camera)

Moral, Alexander, Claire, Mary & I with Tilly and the Wall

Cute keyboardist!

Awesome sketchy man with great shirt & scarf combo.

Balloons & an oval tambourine.

Mmm. Hydration.

Jamie's having fun!

Kionna shows her UK pride

Sing songs along!

They're looking at her nephew who was fixated on the moracca

Opening song

Nephew silhouette

That's all for now!, tomorrow i'm making record bowls and i've decided to make this more a photo & crafts blog so the theme will be animals!

Walter & Tim's Maiden Voyage.

The last week an a half have slipped by, I meant to put up flower production pictures before I posted them on Etsy but... of course I procrastinated for a whole week. :/ The good news is that I made a new resolution to not watch tv without needle in hand, and that has led to the creation of 56 lovely flower clips. So here's to a flower filled week. (Here's the self promtion) These are post production and the most sucessful pictures, they come in 7 colors and you should totally check my etsy for them :D

Somehow during the week, getting the newspaper at 4 became part of my daily routine, and on thursday while rooting through the comics and marketplace ads I noticed a post for antique bonanza in the small town of Walnut, Iowa (self proclaimed antique town) So I phone up master crafter Breanne (aka. minihorse) in Lincoln and suddenly I had Saturday adventure plans!


Now, as most of you probably don't know, I have a spring-suction-cup-attached-to-my-winshield whale which I have dubbed Walter. To go along with walter the whale, I christened my car tim. (doesn't the adventures of walter and tim just roooooll of the tongue?) Anyways, I soujourned to lincoln friday afternoon and purchased a ton skeleton keys for my necklaces (38 if you wanna get particular) which I just purchased finishing clasps for them so they should be up on monday? or later today.maybe.

After key shopping I went to first fridays (photo based!! *swoon*) It was fairly disappointing, I expected more but maybe i got over excited. Taura Horn was there again and she had cute new pictures (interweb link) of native nebraska twas lovely. and there were baby pastries at a corner exhibit so that was nice. Then we went to walmart and got supplies for cakeball making. Breanne, Blair and I made red velvet cakeballs with almond bark on the outside, then watched Ponyo on the cliff by the sea by anime gods, studio ghibili, for a bit and hit the hay.

8 far-to-short hours later, bleary eyed me was awake and preparing for the maiden voyage of tim&walter. We decided to be hipsters and breeze played melodica while I sang while we drove 2 hours to quaint walnut (pop. 837). Up to expectations the town was choc-o-block full of antique shops (11 out of 18 ) And I was nothing short of a tourist as a oo'd and aa'd my way down the brick road. The first three shops were far too expensive, and we soon discovered the basements are way frigid. So we park ourselves at Aunt B's for a lovely meatloaf lunch before continuing the rummage. We searched through 7 more stores and found a mirad of wonderful things. I ended up buying a knit blanket, a three tiered cake plate, a large suitcase, 3 old cameras and all under 50 bucks :D!

*Swoon* A tiny working baby piano just like the ones
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's had in concert :D!

A delicious meatloaf meal for me, and a chicken pita for Breanne.

MM. Action shot. omnomnom.

A baby cast iron oven complete with leaf attachments!

Charming owl teapots

*sigh* A panoramic photo I really wanted,
but alas i'm cheap and twas 75 bucks.

Behold, the queen reigns from her wicker throne.

Jigglypuff gold plated pokemon card? yes, amazing.

Reflection portrait, note how empty the street is.

A cute, overfilled shop with gorgeous light,
sadly it was closed. I'll go back just for the pictures one day.

This shop had cute bells!

A chic french beret. I will attempt making knockoffs of this shortly.

Quilt Central!

A 3 story barn of antique-ish goodness.mmm.

All in all a wonderful day. I would recomend the sojourn to walnut, so worth it.

Look for necklaces, keychains, laptop bags, and potentially berets in the coming week :D.