Tolentreasures

As a prequel to this story, I am going to start at Monday morning when on my morning walk I twisted my ankle. Bad. As in hobbling and swelling and ice and Advil, bad. Tuesday, had me driving to my Mother's quilt guild to teach a class on penny rugs. Standing. Wednesday work, and yesterday... Well this is the actual story. Yesterday was my DD Day. (that is Dialysis Driver for those of you that are not regulars here) Still hobbling, I dropped my MIL at the dialysis center, made a few deliveries and then hit my favorite thrift shops. One of them is closing...sad day, but off the subject. Found a few items for the camper project. For that see here. http://restoringavintagecamper.blogspot.com/ Now on with the story. I pick Kendall up at the babysitters. I used to bring her along on some dialysis days, but we had a few "bad" incidents after dialysis and I quit doing that. Didn't want to t...

The girls and I cleaned out the attic of our old house. Yesterday, I finally went through everything, cleaned and repacked it all. Some favorite things. Two Nancy Drew books. One is going off to a friend that collects them. And my Bobbsey twin books. They will join others that I have found at yard sales on the  bookshelves. And these cute little bunnies that I made in ceramics years ago. Several other ceramic items were found also. Shawnee, the decorating and fashion police of our family, was a little dismayed that I would put these out. Ceramic eggs. Shelby loved these when she was little and I used them to potty train her. She was allowed to play with them if she used the potty. Strange? Yes. I think she needs them for Kendall. A couple of table runners that my Mom made for me. And my favorite book from when I was little. Well worn, but glad that I have kept it. A wool blanket that I pieced years ago. I was using wool, when wool wasn't cool! Sorry! My grandmother's...