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The Kitchen Capers

The Thompsons are finally re-doing the kitchen. When we bought the house, we knew we would need to do it somewhere down the road, and...

Pickles, Old Toys, and Arsenic, Oh MY!

It never fails that odd and funny things always seem to pop up on my radar. Here are a few from the last couple of weeks, some antique...

Would You Rather?

The current thing on Facebook is quizzes... where you have to choose between two awesome choices. For example, would you rather eat...

Spring and Summer Trends

As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time in my store. I have looked out the windows (which I can see from the register) and have cursed...

Yard Sailing

Springtime! It's coming – despite Mother Nature's apparent recurring April Fool's joke – I feel certain of it. And with Spring comes the...

A Digital Archeological Dig

I have a theory. What if Society has been here before and it all evolved into digital footprints and plastic. Hear me out. As a...

The Explorer Needs A Map

What to write about? The ever present question when I sit down to work on the blog. Do I read other blogs? Sometimes. I always find it...

Smells like...

Here’s a funny story, unless you’re the hubs, then you just stand in the middle of the kitchen and shake your head. It all started with a...

Dreamer of Dreams

I’m a sleeper. I love to crawl into bed with fluffed pillows and clean sheets and nod off. My kids are sleepers. My husband, he gets by...

Murder, She Wrote

Advertising is the hardest thing a shop owner has to figure out. Where do you get the most visibility for your buck? Then you have to...