Under a Blue Moon

I'm off on a little road trip to visit Nicki, Sara and, of course, Baby Eva.   I'm bringing along some sewing – my vintage sheet quilt and I hope to get all the blocks cut out and maybe a sew a row or two. 

My old sewing basket goes perfectly with my vintage sheets since they are from the same era.  I've had that basket forever.  Of course it feels a little ridiculous to bring any sewing accoutrements to Nicki's since she is set up with everything I could possibly need.  

It's kind of like showing up to Mario Batali's kitchen with my own wooden spoon.  

If I don't get anything done it's because I was too busy being a great auntie.  

Good grief.  Where did the Summer go?  Certainly it can't be August already?  

I am going to be taking two weeks off from work starting next Monday.  I am not going anywhere – I'm just going to putter around the house and sleep in and pretty much just do what ever I want to with each day.  Sounds pretty heavenly to me. 

Work has been taking up all my energy and attention and I really just need to decompress and not think about it for a while.

Yesterday afternoon I decided to take a break in the afternoon and headed over to the Antique Trove in Roseville.  I was looking for milk glass plates but was drawn to this old tobacco tin.  The seller had about two dozen of them in various sizes.  

I'm not a proponent of tobacco by any means but I did love the script and the elegance of black on white.  The lid came off, with a bit of coaxing, and there was a lovely aroma of tobacco still in the tin.  

Here's a funny tid bit of information for you – when I was pregnant with my first child I worked at a General Contractor's office.  Several of the engineers used to smoke pipes and while I was pregnant I LOVED the smell of it.  I would loiter outside their offices just breathing in the aroma.  Yikes!  No concern about second hand smoke or anything.  

Anyway – the tin makes a lovely holder for all my paintbrushes.  

 

I'm going to take a mini-break from blogging.  I'll be back on Friday with my favorites.  I just need a little recharging. 

Flickr Favorites 

• Cute presentation for a gift magazine subscription
• Slap a bird on it and I tend to love it – not sure if I like the cream version or the more colorful one better: hand painted bird bowls
• Cute Summer tote.  It's not too late to plan that beachy get away, is it?
• I don't think I've ever included a recipe in my FF's but I made these shrimp cakes this week and they were DIVINE.  The only mistake I made was halving the recipe since it was just Rick and me.  We could have eaten twice as much.  
• Now why didn't I think of that:  DIY baker's twine

I am getting a jump start on the weekend and I'm taking today off. It's time for our bi-annual palais de poulet major clean out so that's how I will be kicking off the festivities around here.  Then I plan to curl up with my two new decorating books.   Have a marvelous weekend everyone!

P.S. Thank you for the vintage sheet table runner love yesterday.  I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.