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“Art” Therapy . . .

Posted in Art Therapy, Collections, Creative Living in a Condo, Don't be conventional in decorating!, Funk and Funky, Junking and antiquing are wonderful therapy, Memories, Music Therapy, The joy of music, The Wild Things, Vintage Treasures, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 8, 2011 |

Last evening I had a BDN.  That’s “Bad Disc Night”—not “disc” as in computers, boom boxes, or DVD players, but discs in the lumbar region of my body. Joe and I like to go to bed early with our books and George Winston.  George is not actually present in person in our home, but we have [...]

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Frontal Lobes and Happy Genes!

Posted in Battling Closed Minds and Limited Imaginations, Creative Living in a Condo, Don't be conventional in decorating!, Funk and Funky, Garage Sale Treasure, Happily damaged frontal lobes, Junking and antiquing are wonderful therapy, Old treasures, The Beauty of "Hand Made", The Fun of Being Unconventional!, The joy of making a mess!, The joys of antiquing, Vintage Treasures, Way out Creativity, Wonderful Hoarding, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2011 | 6 Comments »

A few years back my KOVEL”S ANTIQUE COLLECTOR’S NEWSLETTER told of a study at the University of Iowa which indicated that collectors have damaged frontal lobes.  Actually, I think the study focused on folks who save decades of empty cereal boxes, plastic refrigerator dishes, and stacks of newspapers.  Those of us who collect English teapots, Teddy bears, and vintage kitchen kitsch may be [...]

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Any Moment Now!

Posted in Battling Closed Minds and Limited Imaginations, Creative Living in a Condo, Don't be conventional in decorating!, Funk and Funky, Garage Sale Treasure, Junking and antiquing are wonderful therapy, Memories, Nostalgic Reflections, Rummage Sales!, Speeding up the Spring!, The Fun of Being Unconventional!, The joys of antiquing, Vintage Treasures, Wonderful Hoarding, Wonderful places to shop!, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Indeed, it is SPRING!  My heart pulsates to the music of cardinels, redwings, robins, mourning doves, sandhill cranes, Canada geese, and other skyward signs of the season. There is another sign—or rather a plethora of SIGNS—which soon will pop up in yards all over the little communities in our vicinity.  They may vary in wording—RUMMAGE SALE, GARAGE SALE, [...]

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A Favorite Upper!

Posted in Daylight is Increasing, Enough Winter!, Funk and Funky, Junking and antiquing are wonderful therapy, The joys of antiquing, Therapy Outings, Waiting for Spring, Wonderful places to shop!, tagged , , , , , , , on February 28, 2010 |

Yesterday was the first day out of seven, that I didn’t have a fever which reached over 100 even though I kept beefing up with aspirin.  After lugging a cement sinus head around and feeling like something a cat might have barfed up, you can imagine the thrill of an outing! We went for breakfast at [...]

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A Therapy Day

Posted in Daylight is Increasing, Junking and antiquing are wonderful therapy, Old treasures, Redwing Blackbirds, The joys of antiquing, Vintage Treasures, Waiting for Spring, Winter in Wisconsin, Winter Survival, tagged , , , , , , , on January 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Yesterday my true love, Joe, and I had a “normal day”–if any day can ever be called that.  Our daughter is healing amazingly well from cardiac arrest, with her faculties intact.  She is scheduled to go home on Thursday, just 2 weeks after the crisis. Joe and I celebrated by taking time out just for fun.  We ate [...]

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