Vintage Teak Dansk Peppermill

A small interlude ... 

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

A Vintage  Dansk Teak Pepper Mill.

A thrifting treasure found nearby...

So yes, I am coming  back from my blogging hiatus... 

There have been many changes around here...mostly good I think ...

AND it appears that anytime anything changes...I go into a funk! 

 There, I've admitted it...I've been in a funk for 10 months... 

What's up with that you ask?

Well, here are the bullet points...

• Our son Patrick graduated from college - GOOD!
• My oldest brother is ill - NOT GOOD!
• My sister Tamara moved from Pleasanton, TX to Ft. Worth - I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA!
• and took her cat, Mama Kitty (who lived with me for 9 months while she was in Pleasanton) with her - MIXED FEELINGS ON THAT ONE...
• Then our daughter Julia moved out - VERY MIXED FEELINGS ON THAT ONE ...
• Then I opened a booth in a Vintage Mall in Columbus - WHAT?  I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO DO?
• Then Tamara and Mama Kitty moved to Mexico - THAT SHOULD BE EXCITING ... & GOOD!
• Then our son Patrick accepted a job offer that moved him to New York City - VERY GOOD!
• I've been listing books on Amazon, I now have over 2100 books listed, sales have sucked big time - WHAT'S UP WITH THAT AMAZON?
• I've been dithering about opening a shop on Etsy - PROCRASTINATION...
• I've also been dithering about opening a shop on eBay - MORE PROCRASTINATION!
• We have been fostering Pat's 2 cats - Nandi & Fro since May - CAN YOU SPELL, I'M  ATTACHED?
• In 2 weeks he will be here so he and Noel can move his stuff and his cats up East - MIXED, MIXED, MIXED!

 CAN YOU SEE WHY I'VE BEEN IN A FUNK???????

Or, maybe I should just realize how fortunate I really am?  IDK, what do you think?

 Here's my hero! Noel is building me a porch for my studio that I blogged about getting, oh, May of 2012!

 This isn't even all of the mugs I have!  Crikey!

 Racks and piles of clothing...oh, and more mugs and books!

 I  declare! Those books you see in the box are being donated, yes!

Running out of room....need to make some sales!

Believe it or not, this is looking good!
Pencil sketch!  What a neat application!

Ah!  It's great to be back!

Linking up With:
Flaunt It Friday
Sir Thrift-A-Lot for Thriftasaurus
Remnant for Mid Century Mondays

I'm Having An Identity Crisis...

I've decided that possibly one of the best things about starting a blog is that it's about the only way in the world I've found that will make me focus on what I want to do... and how to tell the difference between that which I want to do and that which I'm actually doing!

I've made lists. Oh, yes... Lists... They are littered all around me even as I write... BUT when I finally figured out how to add a page on this blog, well, you can see the sorry and highly confusing results:  

I'm a bookseller on Amazon named Texas Book Buyers 

AND I'm a bookseller named retrowoman1950 on half.com.

 Actual photo of about one fourth of the books I have to sell

and we're not talking about the ones I'm going to keep...

Oh, wait... here's some more

 That's not counting the ones in another building... or the garage, sigh!

... and I haven't even touched on the Etsy shop named Jules Bijou Vintage... (which is actually DD Julia's) 

Oh, and I almost forgot... I'm planning to open an eBay store with the same name as this blog! 

Texas Treasure Box!  Oh,Yes!  It's happening!

Forlorn view of my semi-naked mannequin...

Whew!  Deep breath here... Inhale, exhale... WOW! That was highly therapeutic!  I feel my multiple personality disorder beginning to lose its hold...  Now I begin to feel like I'm making some progress towards integration...  Oh, well, ah, maybe not.  

Help!  I think I might need an intervention!