What A Crock...Oh My, My

I hope that everyone's summer hours are being spend the the most relaxing of relaxing ways...or if you are as busy as I am...that you are busy with the fun~est of fun things to do.

My hydrangeas are blooming like there is no tomorrow!  While searching through my dish pantry for a "different and unique" vessel for these gorgeous buds...my eyes fell upon my ol' soup crock.  I have seen these used for flowers and I really love it...almost as much as I love summer and that...is...A LOT!

Can you feel the love?

I put a couple of old wooden needles in the bouquet...just for grins and giggles...

Goof ball...right?  But, then again there are hydrangeas in a soup crock so why

would big wooden needles seem odd?

I love it...

Hydrangeas are the most "giving" flowers...they last forever and ever...

Must be why I love them so much...

Do you know what else I love?

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I love, love...

Sum, sum, summer~time!

I imagine that you do too.

Smiles ~ Ramona

This Little Piggy Went To Market

That's right my blogging buddies...this little piggy and many, many other vintage knick~knackery are making their way to a new antique and collectable shop opening soon in Portland.

Guess who has a booth in that antique mall?

Yep, me a few dozen of my curiosities that I have gleaned for

years and years will be setting up home at ~

Robin & Wren

on Beaverton ~ Hillsdale Hwy in Portland, Oregon.

If you are ever in the neighborhood I hope that you will pop in

and say howdy to Janet...shop owner extrodinaire!

Tell her, Ramona sent you!

  

I am having a blast putting the finishing touches on my little o' booth~a~rama. And...if you don't mind...I will share my adventures in my little corner of the vintage world as I go along my merry way....

Zip~pity~Do~Da!!!

But today...as you can imagine...I am fool~goof~bozo running around sewing, fluffing, loading and unloading my car and then there is laundry to wash, dishes to scrub,
dinners to fix and what about sleep, you ask? I've heard about it once or twice...
maybe I should try it...but not today...
today I am having too much fun to sleep...

And if that isn't enough fun for one ol' gal... guess who's sewing pumpkins in June?  Now I know that I love, love, smooch, smooch Autumn...but I was never sure that I would love it enough to enjoy sewing for it in late Spring...guess what...I DO!  Who new?

Have a wonderful Spring day...ain't late Spring grand?

Smiles ~ Ramona

Mona Minutes

Mona Minutes...what the who~ha is she talking about now?  

They are actually silly little minutes that I give to myself to slow down, recharge, re~fill my half empty cup...a kind of respite from my daily doings...just a handful of minutes to do with however I see fit.

I just give myself some silly minutes often...but not as often as I should.

To better explain my silly minutes...or, as I like to refer to them...Mona minutes...I will show you how I spent some of them recently as I explain...

Please follow along....all the while you might like to hum a favorite tune...

Silly minutes are required daily...take ten of 'em...up to sixty at a time...

This day, I took all sixty  and enjoyed every stinkin' one of them.

I went to G.W. and shopped for cute cups to use as scoops for my canisters...

My silly minutes rules are that I cannot spend more than ten dollars...

Preferably you wouldn't spend a nickel.

This day I spent two dollars and fifty cents.

Yep, two dollars and fifty cents and it took sixty silly minutes...

During those sixty minutes...

I was not thinking about anything else but

finding cups to use as scoops...silly?  YES...relaxing....YOU BET!

You could do anything during your silly minutes...

You may call them anything you like...

Mine are called Mona minutes...I am sure you understand why...

You could meditate, read, garden, go for a walk...all of which don't cost a dime!

Just be ever present in the moment...

Be grateful...

Relax...

These three cups and what I did with them are as silly as it gets...

But when I was walking out of the G.W. I was relaxed and smiling...

Fill your cup today with some of your own special silly minutes...

Remember ~ you cannot fill anyone else's cup if your cup is empty.

Smiles ~ Ramona