Sunday and Labor Day Monday!!!!!!!!
I feel like a SUPER R-I-C-H person!
Super rich but super lazy too.
Ima not lose any sleep over that last one though :)
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So what did I do on my two days off you ask??
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Well,
I took those
2/$1
bell peppers and threw them on a baking sheet.
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And I roasted them until they became charred.
Then I put them in a bowl and covered them with plastic wrap for 15 minutes.
Then I unwrapped the peppers and peeled them and de-seeded them.
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These will go into dishes that require roasted red peppers this winter and it will save me a ton of time I could be using to peruse magazines or researching recipes or trying out new lipsticks.
Okay, that lipstick thing was a lie...do you even KNOW me??!!
Okay, we did other things besides
roasting red peppers....
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We rented Midnight in Paris....both our girls love this movie so I thought I better check it out.
We LOVED it!
Delightful
is what it is.
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that's Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams talking over there and the other woman is the dealer lady.
So of course on Monday, Labor Day, Stud Muffin and I visited the
Uptown Bill's Labor Day Flea Market
in Iowa City.
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This particular yearly flea market is very small but quirky.
Had the usual suspects like vintage pottery.
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This was a boxed Midget set, vintage c.1960.
For $125.
Yup.
$125.
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And this particular dealer was selling this very, very cool bench for $465.
Yup.
$465.
It was gorgeous though for sure.
Very unique and artistic!
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Plenty of single chairs to get your groove on.
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Including these two cuties.
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Plenty here!
Unfortunately these were all old lady looking prints and no mid century modern pictures.
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Now we're talking
vintage contemporary!
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Now THIS dude had some interesting pottery pieces....
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But his red Haeger rooster was $145.
Really?
none of us ever made a killing on anything.
But $145 for a Haeger rooster?
ESPECIALLY when I wanted it real bad.
Boo. Is what I gotta say to that.
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And there was vintage Christmas and I did not buy one dang Christmas thing. Not one thing. I wanted to. Especially that cute beaded Santa over on the right there. But I didn't.
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The light bulb goes on top like normal.
But then another small bulb goes in those white eyes or flower looking things on the front there.
*scratching my head*
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I wanted it,
I wanted it!!
Whaaa!!!!!
I should have bought it!
Leave me alone, I'm in a depression now.
sniff.
I'm still depressed but I'll finish up this
here post.
Bicycles.
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Some of these colors are in that #$#$*&^@ footstool I should have bought.
Anyone have a snot rag I can borrow?
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Anyone need three scary doll heads?
Okay, now THIS is making me smile again and am forgetting about that awesome plaid footstool.
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BOO!!!!!
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Hehehehehehe :):):)
Love it!
Linda Blair called and wants her heads back.
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huh?
Well, I bought this gorgeous abstract oil painting.
For TWO DOLLARS!!!!!
I kind of likey it on my dining room wall!
I'm gonna leave that $2 price tag on there forever.
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We had to fight for it but he IS stronger than me so I gave up real quick.
So after sweating like pigs at the flea market, we grabbed ourselves some lunch and then wandered back home...
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...and to my chagrin, the laundry still looked the same as when we left.
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Cause I am RICH!!!!!
Actually our washer broke Friday morning.
Q: How did I know it broke?
A: Cuz there was 2 inches of water in the laundry room.
At 4am in the morning.
So I call up the local Appliance Barn at 8am and say I want the absolute cheapest washer with the least amount of technology and knobs they have, delivered today.
Nice lady said it would be $530.
I fell on the floor.
Then I picked myself up and said two years ago I bought a dryer from you for $250. She laughed and said washers are more expensive than dryers.
I'm still gonna need therapy for this by the way. $530 PLUS a delivery fee.
Now I KNOW washers and dryers are typically way more expensive than that but I am cheap people, C-H-E-A-P!
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it was still mid-afternoon on Monday and I thought I would go out and start packing the barn up.
Beings that it was hit by a tornado and all and needs to come down.
Double sigh.
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I peeked back in the narrow middle room
(formerly held cattle and horse grain back in the day)
and sighed.
The wind was strong that day.
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:):):)
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And these two little impish vintage Tappan salt and peppers made me smile too when I opened up a door to the Hoosier cabinet.
Plus after all,
it was Day Two of the loooong weekend and I wanted to make sure I partook of the "lazy" part of having
Sunday and Monday off.
Sunday AND Monday!
Still giggling at that!!!!
Back to reality on Tuesday but it was a nice dream the last 48 hours!!
Hey, have a good Tuesday
and we'll talk at ya soon!!!!!