tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80788757837954184342024-03-12T19:28:41.152-07:00Northeast of Edenpickygirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15473603317233951902noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078875783795418434.post-79175463770332854702014-09-24T14:45:00.001-07:002014-09-24T14:53:18.064-07:00Finished Camper 1969 14 ft Aristocrat Lo-liner. Vintage trailer complete overhaul and remodel.<br />
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Done diggity dog and we've been enjoying her for weeks, but I'm just getting around to posting pics because... obviously we've been spending so much time in our camper!<br />
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All canvas upholstery is salvaged from a friend's actual boat sail canvas. Sturdy galore and white- two things I wanted but doubted I could get. But get, I did. All fabric has been treated with moisture and stain barrier- you can read about it in previous post.<br />
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Yes, indeed, that's a gilded gold framed Starry Night painting. High falutin' camping going on in these her parts. </div>
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Love these curtains and huge mega bonus is that when you follow me from behind it looks like my camper's sporting a tramp stamp.<br />
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Just for a review, here are a few of the "Before" shots.<br />
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The other day, a magical discovery was made behind an old piece of furniture in my daughter's room. We moved the bookcase and low and behold- a mini door.<br />
I was able to video tape the whole thing when the kids found it and it's something I'm going to cherish for a long time. There is absolute magic in the imagination that children have.<br />
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1) Buy a little door. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dollhouse-Miniature-Traditional-Block-Trim/dp/B003AKNAT0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399927357&sr=8-1&keywords=dollhouse+door" target="_blank">This one</a> is nice.<br />
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2) Prime, then paint your door. I chose gold paint that shimmers only when the sun hits it just right. Magical!</div>
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4)Glue door in place using construction adhesive</div>
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6) Now this is the important final step... hide it and wait. Let the kids find it so they're imaginations won't be hampered with logic of seeing you with tools and a mess and pointing them to look at a certain wall. The moving of a bookcase coincided with St. Patrick's Day and lots of talk of leprechauns.</div>
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She's not done, but we did take her camping for Mother's Day and had such a great time! It rained and she didn't leak :) Hooray, Clementine!<br />
We got her a kitchy pink flamingo thing going on. <br />
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Here she is without decor so you can see the seats( storage for sleeping bags beneath those seats!) painted and aluminum edging reattached.<br />
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Here's the back end. Lights went up moment before we left and I'll get pictures soon. This just gives you an idea of the direction we're heading.<br />
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Happy TRAILS, little campers!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01217327588442703233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078875783795418434.post-47221181262376685012014-05-12T12:02:00.001-07:002014-05-12T12:02:08.999-07:00Priming the interior<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's some actual, concrete, VISIBLE progress today. Taped and began priming.<br />
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I've ordered new tires and wheels which will come next week. Also, all TWELVE of the reflector/light caps have to come off and have years of paint removed to get them sparkle-y again.<br />
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The first mistake of the remodel! I painted the door what I thought would be a sunshiney yellow. Next to the vintage toned colors, it didn't come out as planned. Harvest gold appliances, anyone? It's now white again.<br />
Every drawer and door needs a latching handle so that they don't fly open every time you drive over a bump. I chose a casement window latch that reminded me of a ship. The problem is that the drawer and base must be flush for them to work. Below picture shows that my drawer fronts are raised= problem for my pretty hardware.<br />
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I chose to add wood pieces to raise the base. <br />
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Here's one installed. Woops, the wood cracked a bit when I neglected to predrill my screw hole. Nothing a little caulk won't fix.<br />
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Happy Trails! I'm camping in TWO DAYS!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01217327588442703233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078875783795418434.post-40756373689168585562014-05-12T10:50:00.003-07:002014-05-12T10:51:32.102-07:00Fiberglass cleaning and prep of everything<br />
The weather finally got better!<br />
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Here she is mostly scotchbrited to smoothness. Next I painted it white using my favorite rustoleum. I chose white again, because it would keep the interior bright when sun shone through.<br />
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Clementine was dirty. I scrubbed her up with a wash, a wash with TSP, a rinse and then some scotchbrite sanding, a rub down with a tack cloth and then a coat of paint. The pic below shows some of the progress. (sorry, I only painted the top half for this pic)<br />
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This is the hatch to the electrical access. This is where Clementine can draw power from a car battery. in the lower picture, lower left, you can see that this geriatric gal is still sporting glass fuses and some REALLY sketchy looking wires. I'm going to remove all of this and next week outfit her to draw power from solar. And she'll do it with nice, friendly, new wires.<br />
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Also, structure of this box is shot. (Lower picture, bottom of wood is rotten and white molded) I tore out old and built in new supports.<br />
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Above is the picture of what that electric access box buts into on the interior. It's actually the support and base for the front bench, so it had to be rebuilt to be very solid.<br />
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I taped off interior and dove into painting the closet. White will be much better than poo brown. Notice the shelves- the walls of closet are mere paneling. To make the shelves strong, I put in horizontal supports and drilled them in from the outside in so that screw ends wouldn't be poking out of closet. Wire shelf was $5 for a 7' section. I cut it to size using massive bolt cutters with really long handles.<br />
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Here's the back seat all stripped down and ready to be built back up + receive a coat of paint.<br />
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Happy Trails!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01217327588442703233noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078875783795418434.post-47139334365245873682014-05-02T19:40:00.000-07:002014-05-02T19:40:01.211-07:00More research and Cushions :)It's been too cold to do much physical work so I'm planning. Clementine's side seams leak. I need to strip the aluminum of old paint and get a clean surface to work with and make it all super watertight. <br />
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Aluminum paint strippers<br />
best- Eldorado PR 2002 for aircraft<br />
better- auto body methylene chloride<br />
good- nitromoors<br />
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-paint thinner, goof off and paint strippers should work in small areas. Paint on, let it work and scrape off. Use scotchbrite and it must be between 65-85 degrees outside.<br />
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Tires. My tires are P155/80R13. Not many places make or sell them like this anymore. Pepboys in Brooklyn Center, MN has them for $38 each.<br />
- If I want to go thicker, the local Tires Plus has P 175/80R13 for $45 each.<br />
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My faucet leaks. I found an <a href="http://jakesrvsalvage.com/">RV supplier</a> that has them for $5. You have to order by phone and so far there's no answer, but I'll keep trying. They have tubes of sealant for $0.50 each. I just don't know what this sealant is for. Hopefully <i>anything</i> RV related. Here's hoping.<br />
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toilet essentials-<br />
- RV toilet paper that will totally dissolve<br />
-- deoderizing chemical, or cheaper would be pine stove pellets- they absorb 20x's the liquid they touch. $4/ 40 lb bag in the heating section of a big box store. You'd need to plan on using 2 cups a day.<br />
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Though I didn't want to pick out fabric for the cushions until after the interior was painted, the clock is ticking so I went with what I normally like in homes- white. I picked up around 30 yds of off-white canvas at a fabric store going out of business. It cost me about $15 and I'll use this fabric for everything including some extra slip covers for the seating areas. That way, when the inevitable stains happen, I'll be able to remove and wash. I have treated all the fabric with Rustoleum's NeverWet, that I mentioned in yesterday's post. So far, even crisp white seems s'more proof.<br />
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Cushions took about 1 hour each. I mention this, because I paid my way through college working as a seamstress. I own a <i>few</i> industrial sewing machines and I am here to say that these cushions were TOUGH. I know my way around the fabric rodeo and these puppies took time and skill. Just be prepared.<br />
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The quick tutorial is 1) remove fabric from cushions. 2) repair holes.<br />
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3) cut new fabric to wrap overtop of old. Leave zipper exposed.<br />
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4) restuff with foam, treat with stain preventer.<br />
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With the weather too cold to work outside, I also made us camping pillows. 5 matching, easy to wash pillowcases, and see that pocket on each? <br />
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That pocket contains a sleeping eye mask cover and a set of earplugs. I decided that this camper can be as sturdy and watertight as... well, a water bottle- but if we can't sleep, we'll be hating it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01217327588442703233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078875783795418434.post-15555585410253709202014-04-30T10:30:00.005-07:002014-04-30T10:32:40.089-07:00My First Short Story PublicationThat's right- I'm officially a published author!<br />
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My short story, What the Tree Saw, won a contest and is printed in the Pooled Ink Anthology of other poem, essay and short story winners. And a little fist pump for me- I'm even mentioned on the back cover!<br />
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click on this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pooled-Ink-Celebrating-Contest-Winners/dp/1493662856/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398878677&sr=1-1&keywords=pooled+ink" target="_blank">link </a>to how to purchase your copy through Amazon:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I want Clementine to have some bling and so have priced out some diamond plate like the above picture. "Oh, how do you get such connections, J?" Well, the truth is that I am conniving. With the weather sitting at frigid and unworkable, I made cookies and visited my local mechanic. I did the same thing last week before even owning a camper, in order to lay the groundwork to the friendship. This time when I showed up with cookies, Mike was all too happy to see me again and answer a few of my questions.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">And if you've read this far, then I'm hoping you're a friend and I can now dive into the ickier parts of camper updating. The toilet.</span></div>
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The trailer base is steel and was rusted to brown. I wire brushed it and painted it black with rustoleum gloss paint. Ahhhhhh, sigh of ocular relief. One thing now looks better.<br />
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Clementine has some war wounds that are letting water leak in and rot her insides. Check out the crack in her aluminum, that's just a tear from shearing pressure from her years on the road. It's sort of hard to see- it's that horizontal line in the dead center of the picture below.<br />
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After much research, I decided upon HVAC tape to heal her. This is the tape that's used in heating and air systems and aluminum ductwork. It has those strings in it to let it bend without ripping. It's made especially for metal. I cleaned the area with scotchbrite and TSP and then taped. <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji49SxJTRBGV7v0MXiKKzJvIpCRwFU-GczbtAl1SX3pm0awZyv88cYMmyhaGKm83VGZ-ESMtaJjjlEgF3_bqIgXozezJor8Zx0LvjkTvpN5bi3ZDsdbdFuDf3A60nSKhQGKRAVo1-wIg/s1600/IMG_6767.jpg" height="320" width="239" /> </div>
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That entire back piece will be removed, the structure behind checked to see if it needs replacing.<br />
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Here is the front bench with the seat taken out. The front corner has sustained years of water damage from the crack I showed earlier. I have to remove everything I can and replace.<br />
Paneling was cut with a grinder. These tools are meant for stone, so the blades don't really cut, they more burn through the wood. It was a stinky, smoky process, but it gave me decently clean lines in a tight place.<br />
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Here's the after picture of the same section of front bench. I replaced the 2x2's of structure that were rotted away to NOTHING. My 9 year old helped, learned to measure and use the circular saw and had a blast. To get my structure in there I used construction adhesive and screws. I bought new R8 insulation (the pink stuff). Next I cut new paneling to cover it all up and make it pretty.</div>
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All the wood I got from the Home Depot clearance or cull section. I've got loads of it to finish this project and it cost me $5.</div>
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I went and bought myself a camper trailer to fix up this spring. She's an old gal, but she's licensed and titled and has much of her original parts and now she's all mine. I kind of love her already.</div>
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fold out table that drops down and becomes a bed platform. check out all that red check- my clementine has a 50's diner feel to her. But then she also lived through the age of hippy's and love, so she's got "tats" of butterfliess and peace and love giving her some street cred as well. The street cred will be the first to go. In fact, as I type, it's scraped and gone.<br />
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Job 1 was to strip the inside of everything that I could. Every cupboard door came off, every cushion and curtain came out, every hinge was removed. One tidbit of advice I will highly recommend, nay, <i>demand </i>that you follow- Label EVERYTHING. See the picture below? That blue tape is labeling where this panel came from and also taping all applicable hardware to it. I've worked on enough houses to know that when you take a room apart, you always think that of course you'll remember where that whoozy-whatzit goes. A few weeks pass and you NEVER will remember where the whoozy-whatzit goes.</div>
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Next, I took my handy scraper/mudder tool and I got scraping every loose bit on her walls. I need a smooth clean surface for paint to adhere to.</div>
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Job 3: sanding to make drawer fronts even smoother. They will take a lot of handling in the future so paint needs a fantastic surface so it won't just chip off in a year.<br />
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Next, I primed all my cupboard and door fronts. I chose oil based Kilz. The stuff is thick.<br />
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The picture below shows what a drawer front looked like after the primer was dry. Big 'ol grand canyon of a crack from peely paneling that I hoped wouldn't show through. Hmmm, problem.<br />
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Here to the right is what it looks smoothed, dried, sanded and then primed again. Much better. It's ready for paint.<br />
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Happy Trails! (I can say that now, because I am officially a red-neck camper- owning gal!) <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;"> Now it’s common knowledge that a town of a certain
size will have a witch, if only for the purpose of eating disobedient children
and thereby keeping the population at manageable levels. My grandma said that mothers
of naughty boys and girls offered up more prayers on behalf of their offspring
than mothers of obedient kids. To keep down the praying, witches started eating
up the troublemakers who were giving their mothers extra reason for heavenly
correspondence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;"> “Didn’t their Mamas pray even more
when their kids were et up?” I’d ask. Sometimes I’d get as much as a huff out
of her, but mostly her answer’d be that their mothers forgot about them quicker
than a girl my age would care to dwell on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;"> I believed her, because my grandma was one of those
witches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;"> She lived at the edge of town—the edge of town that
seemed to be downhill or at least downstream for where the wind would pile up
the worst looking dead leaves—in a large grey house that backed up to the only
creek in the county. That house had stood through the war. Rumor had it that a
Yankee general had tried to burn it, but it wouldn’t light. He tried again and half
an oak tree fell on him and his horse and smashed him dead for his effort. The
part of the story that most people left out, cause it made the house and the
town a whole lot less special, was that this general was burning houses in the
middle of a near monsoon. It was too wet to burn a can of gas. The storm and
some wind knocked that branch down on his head. Nothing more than bad luck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;"> It was at the base of that very tree that my friends
and I congregated today. The weeds grew high in the yards around us so we were
free from the watchful eyes of adults. We’d been hunting toads all morning along
the banks of the drainage ditch that ran behind the house, and once again, the
sun had gotten high without us even sighting a single one. We slumped in the shade.
There were five of us: me; Ray; the Treemont brothers, Finn and Buck; and my
little brother, William. I was the newest to the gang and Will didn’t even
count he was so little, so we were getting the least amounts of shade, but not
complaining.</span></div>
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My grandma bought me my first
bra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now if you ask my mother, she’ll
shake her head and swear that she was the one who held my hand as she ushered
me through this most sacred of entry doors to womanhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she’d be wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She brought me on my first bra shopping <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trip</i> sure enough, but our hunt that day
was unfruitful. And that’s when grandma came to visit. <br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Looking
back, I’m pretty sure Grandma’s impending visit was the reason Mom suddenly
took an interest in my support wear- not that I had suddenly developed anything
that necessitated underclothing - but because grandma was crazy. I know as you
read this that many of you are smiling, nodding and recalling your own wacky
relations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(it bonds us; makes us similar and I appreciate that- it’s helpful when sharing
embarrassing stories of puberty- but it also lessens the crazy that this woman
wore like stolen boy scout pants*.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“There’s a garage sale in your
neighborhood.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grandma grinned at my
sister and me as she poured the milk.</div>
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We were both eager to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wolfed down our breakfasts and grabbed up
our few dollars and shoved them into whatever purse was the latest one that
grandma had given us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of these
facts were important because Grandma hated greedy kids and she hated even more,
ungrateful ones but she also seemed to feel a sense of loss if none were to be
found and so she was quite skilled at making my sister and me fit the bill, and
we in turn, wore lots of hair clips fashioned out of neon shoelaces.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Garage saling with Grandma usually guaranteed a
happy day. If we could pack in a few sales every day it an ensured an
entire visit of relative peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we were, only a few
hours into the morning and already on our way to hunt bargains—it bode well for
this visit and we could all sense it as we tromped out the front door with high
spirits. I know my step faltered a bit, when we –my sister and I decked out in
some god-awful Christmas sweaters that we’d just been gifted from the Ropa
Usada-- realized that the sale we were heading for was not just ‘in the
neighborhood’ but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">directly</i> across the
street. As in, we knew these people. I babysat for their kids, borrowed cups of
sugar from them, just generally wanted to keep that certain respect that’s usually
cultivated between neighbors that never trade nickels for worn-out socks.</span>
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sister was younger and therefore had been embarrassed less by grandma’s
voracious bargain hunting (like how the second deer brought down by a pack of
wolves knew a tid bit less about being chewed on than the first) but even she
hung back and together, the two of us dawdled our way across the street until
we no longer could avoid being within the perimeters of the sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We slouched near the “free” bin nearly in the
road, not touching anything, definitely not looking at anything, in the vain
attempt to make it appear that we’d just donned these sweaters and large
old-lady satchels for a casual August morning walk and had only paused here
because we were in the area.
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Mom and Grandma didn’t notice our
reticence and set to work seeking treasures. In a matter of minutes, Katie and
I were joined by quite a few other kids that we knew from school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of them were my age and looked just as
horrified to be spotted as we were. Somehow, their misery made me feel loads
better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was, at least, used to this kind
of Saturday. If the world suddenly ended
and we few embarrassed teenagers at the curb were all that was left, then I
would be likely be nominated as the leader for my knowledge and adeptness for the
situation.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I felt that we instantly became closer friends
as we all kept our backs to the cardboard boxes of bargains and maniacally
pretended that we weren’t standing at the base of a garage sale while our
parents shopped. The cute boy that always sat in the back of the school bus and
that I’d never had the guts to talk to even directed a chin lift greeting my
way. And there, in the sunshiney day of summer and childhood and innocence I
chose to ignore that it was probably my sweater that made him notice me.
Today, we were all comrades ignoring our silly parents and nothing could find a
chink in that armor.</div>
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“Jennifer! Get in here,” Grandma
called me up to where the Buick was parked and tables were piled with clothes.
I could hear my peers snickering, grateful that the gods of the garage hadn’t
chosen them as the next victim. That was fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d been through my fair share of embarrassing moments and really what
could a table of suburban housewife clothes have that was worse than what I was
already wearing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have noticed
when my mom wouldn’t make eye contact with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Grandma sure did.<br />
For about 2
seconds before her focus dropped to my chest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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“Jennifer, they’ve got bras. Try
this on.”<br />
“Grandma...” I looked to my mom to
back me up here while I mentally scrambled, “we actually just had this
discussion just yesterday- with real professionals, even- and I’m good.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“If you’re not going to try it on,
then I will.” Grandma growled. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She
wasn’t talking about putting it on her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own
body</i>- she was meaning that if I wouldn’t do it willingly, then she would
get it on me unwillingly.<br />
My panic latched onto something
that might slow her. “A whole dollar a piece. That’s salty.” And I backed away.
But I didn’t get far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“If you’re gonna be a baby about
it, then we’ll just try it on over top of the sweater.” Grandma had the
neighbor lady’s ragged nursing bra up over my arms with a speed that
would have stunned
a seasoned cat bather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then my mom got
to work at my back girdling up all the extra wool that my ridiculous modesty
had put between me and the perfect fit. </div>
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The two of them mashed and tugged
and worked in horrific harmony to take me through several bra fittings all
under the stunned audience of neighborhood kids and passersby. We tried on a whole box of them
suckers. I went home with quite a few and all it cost was a few dollars and a
lot of dignity that I really didn’t need anyway.<br />
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truth, grandma never wore these pants that I mention- she gave them to me as a
birthday present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were huge and how
she wrested them from the grip of the scout, I’ll never know, but when I wore
them to school, oblivious in my brotherless life to all things scout, my
friends were quick to inform me that somewhere in the world there was a naked
boy scout holding up his three fingers and cursing my name.<br />
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</style> <b>This little story got an honorable mention in the 2013 Delizon Short story contest and will be published this Fall.</b><br />
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The first real house that my
husband and I bought was in Albany, New York. Deep in downtown, like I
could see the capital from our window. City buses, taxis, singing whinos, cracked
concrete sidewalks, graffiti, all of those things you associate with city
living we had in spades. This story is about one of those middle things- the
singing whinos.</div>
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We’d moved to New York for my
husband to start medical school. I’d landed a job at the Jewish Community Center and the pittance they’d be paying me would be what we’d live on for the
next four years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the stars of my poor
pay and the depressed housing market of the area aligned and on our first day
there, we opened the realtors' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><i>Housing
For Sale </i>page to a ray of heavenly sun and a section entitled: “Under $5,000”.</div>
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There were homes- entire <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">homes</i> with bathrooms, roofs, walls,
stairways, and carpet complete with quaint cigarette burns- for less than the
cost of a car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Not any car that we
could afford at the time, but still, that’s the perspective we framed these
treasures in.) That first night in town, before we’d even gone out with a realtor,
Chuck and I sat up late picking out our favorites and giggling about how we
could go totally Daddy Warbucks on this town and buy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">two</i>.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then dawn
came and with it, actual physical visits to meth houses and the reality of a
realtor that wouldn’t even get out of his car in the neighborhoods we
requested, asbestos waivers to sign and crime tape to duck under. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a fun-filled week but in the end, self
preservation wrung a few more dimes out of our tightwad paws and we sprang for
a $30,000 house in a neighborhood that the local cops gave a shoulder-shrug
rating of what we interpreted to mean, “so-so.” </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was a
two story brick row house the color of burnt chocolate and I swear to you in a
most ardent fashion, that it was love at first sight. There’s really no other
way to explain why I would have fought to buy it. It had been abandoned for 30
years. No water, no electricity, a few radiators remained but all of them had long
ago exploded leaving the walls pitted with shrapnel and sprayed with what I
first assumed to be blood (again, I’d been on the home tour of Dante’s Inferno
for a solid week and this wasn’t even remotely a deal breaker) but what I later
learned was heating oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We couldn’t
even walk down the main hallway on our initial visit because the lead paint was
peeling in such thick massive curls that it truly resembled a gauntlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no kitchen and where the bathroom
should have been there was just a massive sagging hole where the roof had
leaked, the bathtub had overflowed (for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">decades!)</i>
and finally the floor had just given up and fallen through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took my first peek into the abyss where the
bath should have been and there, 14 feet down, was a Volkswagen Beetle crushed
by a toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my thought was not to
run, but to rush and put in a bid on this house before the seller realized
they’d forgotten their car.</div>
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<img height="457" id="irc_mi" src="http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/old-volkswagen-bug-1-of-2-cindy-wright.jpg" style="margin-top: 4px;" width="609" /></div>
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I should have just titled this thing, “Being greedy
and my weighty lessons in Karma”. We bought the house and a month later, moved in. Maybe someday I'll write a book about all the adventures surrounding that address, but for now
I’ll just share the story of my first day as mistress of 77 Spring Street.</div>
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On our initial day of home
ownership, Chuck had medical school orientation so I was to go and get our
place move-in ready on my own. Our realtor gave me keys to our new home, but
those slacker pieces of metal were about to get fired when I realized what a crap job they’d been
doing for the past few decades. As I opened my door for the first
time I was greeted by half a dozen bleary-eyed men who I’d evidently
awoken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The sleeping bags and their
yelling is what tipped me off.) I think I went out and cried for a bit and
then, realizing I didn’t have a whole lot of options, re-entered my home and
tried again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This second time they were actually
very nice and after the initial awkwardness of kicking them out, they seemed to
understand that I had just bought the house and would not want them creeping in
through the broken windows anymore.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While I
moved in my broom and box of black trash bags, the bums gathered their meager
supplies, waved good-bye, and each seemed to take a different exit from the
house-- kitchen window, rear window, porch fire escape, through useless back
door and the last one, by shoving out the doorknob (and then kindly replacing
it) of the door I was holding the keys for. It was like watching one of those night vision
videos an exterminator would make to show you all the ways the mice are
breaching your home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, my fortress
was definitely not a secure one, but as the last bum wished me well, I was now
mistress of my first home.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The broom
and trash bags- I mention them because they illustrate that even as I took up
residence in this house-- even after I’d signed on the dotted line and mentally
committed to potentially raise children in this husk of a home-- that I didn’t
comprehend what I’d gotten into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d just evicted vagrants that spoke as if
they’d been there for generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
will tell you right now, that structure didn’t reach a broom and trash bag
level of cleanliness until <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">months</i>
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that first morning, I made a
circuit of my new hellhole while dragging those naïve supplies. I don’t think
I’d even made it to the sans kitchen before I pitched those futile tools into a
corner, bought myself a snow shovel and work gloves and hired a dumpster to be
delivered every week.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Needless to
say, that first day was a doozy. Luckily, Chuck and I hadn’t been sure that
we’d be able to get a key to get into the place on the first day (yeah, I find it
funny to realize that any sketchy guy on the street probably could have shown
me how to get into the house), so we'd gotten a hotel room for the night.
We met up that evening- me filthy and rushing to the first running water I’d seen
all day, and him, shell shocked as a flag boy after hearing how med school
intended to crush his soul- and we planned our attack on the next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hole in the bathroom floor was
bigger--well, it was the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whole </i>bathroom
floor and fixing that would be first on the agenda.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The next
morning when we pulled up to our house, my bums were sitting on the front
stoop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they assumed that I
wouldn’t come back. If I had to guess/translate their silent gawks, my money
would be on: “What she doing back? Who’d choose to live <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">here?</i> Slappy didn’t even stay a night before he went back to
sleeping under the bridge. I mean, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">man,</i>
I claim no address before I’d admit to this place.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They shuffled off but not before I tried to
introduce myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a way, they were my
first neighbors and I was sort of new at all this, but I was eager for some
friends.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Those
thoughts stuck with me for the rest of the beastly, heinous workday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever pulled a rotting toilet off of a
rotting Volkswagen?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever been
near ceramic so fouled that it actually rotted? I blame my wandering mind on
those surroundings. I got to thinking that the homeless men weren’t just <i>sort of </i>like my neighbors; they were actually my neighbors. The one who seemed the
most sober had mentioned that they’d see me again tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the least sober ones had explained
that our address is where they met every morning. I got a little thrill at
hearing my house being described in the framework of being a community hub of
sorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A gathering place.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I pictured
me being one with the people of Albany; fist bumps and jokes and them helping
me carry in my groceries and me getting them to give up drinking as we had
evening talks on lawn chairs near the cobblestone street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided that I better get all these future
relationships started on the right foot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third morning, though we had ZERO money and I’d eaten nothing but
potatoes for weeks, I blew a portion of our renovation budget on McDonald’s
breakfasts for the seven neighbors that I expected on my front stoop.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Morning
came and so did seven of my friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They gratefully took the breakfasts and more grunted than chatted with me
as they wolfed down the egg McMuffins. I didn’t want to push the relationship
too fast, so I excused myself to work on boarding up one of the upper
windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t take me long—a mere
48 hours in that house had trained me to be pretty good at boarding up
openings-- so I was gone maybe 10 minutes before I returned to check on my
guests.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I
walked out onto my front steps, I was greeted with more vomit than I’ve ever
seen in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could work at a
vomit store and never witness the volume that I saw. The bums were long gone,
but they had left enough puke enough that it literally rolled down the sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This was the moment I became a city
girl.</div>
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The crime scene tape, the pitbulls,
the broken car glass on the sidewalks, the hair weaves sold at the grocery
store, none of it made me cynical because I truly believed that I could find a
silver lining in all of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in that
moment of putrid reality, of realizing that I owned no garden hose and even if I did, that had no
water to turn on anyway and that I had zero ways to spray that filth off my
doorstep --in that moment, I would have used my worthless house keys to stab
the next drunken bum that tried to “attend their daily meeting”.</div>
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That morning I became a student at
the school of cold hard facts:</div>
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You feed a drunk homeless man a
greasy breakfast and they’re going to puke it up all over your front steps. And
there ain’t no silver lining to that.</div>
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The writing prompt was: you are stranded on a desert island with a dictionary, a coconut and a mask. How do you escape? 800 word maximum.</div>
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<b>That Wilson Was a Fine Actor</b></div>
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Ever since that Tom Hanks
cave-manned his emaciated arse (p.1) across the sand in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Castaway</i>, people are so quick to assume that every roundish object
on a desert island is a friend to be made. Those idiots never spent 114 days
with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>selfish coconut. The smug ball
was sitting in the sand, not saying a thing, when we both knew good and well
that his insides were likely turning to cheese in the hot sun. I flung myself
back onto my side of the island putting the solitary palm tree between us and forced
my eyes to look everywhere except his side of the beach. The boat on the horizon
was definitely getting closer. The knot in my gut tightened as I realized that
he was no closer to telling me the answer. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>114 days ago I’d been living it up on a Disney cruise boat
with my cousin. We’d just filled our bellies with cookies and
were about to try the big water slide- wearing snorkeling gear this time,
because yesterday it nearly drowned us. When my cousin says, “I got a riddle
for you. What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well the
truth is, I didn’t have a clue. But I‘d seen in the ship’s gift shop, a book entitled:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dictionary of Pirate Lingo- talk like a
matey before you hit page eighty.</i> I’m not proud of this fact, but after
nearly drowning on that wicked slide once again, I went and stole that book. Jimmy
wouldn’t tell me the answer and if I was ever to learn the truth, that book held
my best chance. I slipped the tome into the back of my wet trunks and then
draped a couple pool towels around me Julius Caesar style.</div>
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And then I took off running. My
only problem was that the wet shorts, towels twisting around my ankles and a
scuba mask impeding my view made for a sloppy getaway. Before I knew it, I was
tumbling headlong over the brass handrail and into the waiting arms of the
salty Pacific.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Twelve
hours of battling Davy Jones (p. 16) and I found myself sputtering on this
island no bigger than a postage stamp. By nightfall I’d read the entire pirate
dictionary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">twice</i> and was no closer to
finding the answer. By morning, I was lonely. That’s when the sun rose, bright
and beautiful, and lit upon the few stringy hairs of what was to become my best
friend. A coconut. I still remember the first time I saw those three brown eyes of his.
And how I felt.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It had actually
been his idea to send out the distress messages. We didn’t have much to work
with, but we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i> have a pirate
dictionary. Each evening as the sky became alive with color, we’d tear out
seafaring terms that would make a good “rescue me” note. Many of them had
something to do with a scallywag. Most of them came out sounding more like
hostile threats than pleas for help. But each night, as the sun set fire to
the sea, we’d toss our messages into the tides in hopes that, someday, we’d
be rescued. </div>
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During the days, the two of us
would hunker in the shade and pour over the few clues the dictionary could
offer. I’d told him of the riddle and together we would find the answer, come
black spot (p.4) or Fiddler’s Green (p. 13). </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>113 days we
spent searching for the truth. Then, this morning, he admits that he figured it
out.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I begged
him to tell me, but he wouldn’t. He just plunked down in the sand and stared
off at the rolling waves. It made me furious. </div>
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The rescue boat was now close
enough that I could hear the hum of its motor over the toss of the waves. A
tear, as saline as our salty prison, slipped silently down my cheek as I
accepted the fact that he might never share the secret with me. </div>
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I let my rescuers lift me over the
lip of the speedboat, swearing that I wouldn’t look back. I allowed myself one
final glance toward that stubborn, brilliant, spoolly brown head staring off at
the ocean. </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Arrgh!</i>
(p.1) </div>
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And then suddenly, I understood.
He’d been telling me the whole time. He was staring out at the ocean; the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sea.</i></div>
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Question: what is a pirate’s
favorite letter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Answer: you might think it be
arrrgh, but it’s truly the sea.</div>
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***Dedicated to my scallywag bro, Danny </div>
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This is my own little plot in cyberspace and as such, I hereby proclaim that it's okay for me to be happy for myself-- and to brag up myself a bit.<br />
<br />
I just placed third in the <a href="http://northerncoloradowriters.com/upcoming-events-mainmenu-133/writing-contests/307-2012-writing-contests.html">NCW fiction short story contest</a> for my entry entitled: What the tree saw<br />
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And I just got an honorable mention (11th place) in the <a href="http://www.delizonpublishers.com/30.news">Delizion Annual Short Story Competion </a>for my story: Don't Feed the Bums<br />
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whoot, whoot for myself!<br />
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I can't post these stories here so as to not compete with the publisher's rights, but I'll get you links to read the stories as soon as I can. And if you're in the neighborhood, stop on by and we'll celebrate with cookies!<br />
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These guys are super simple. Cut front and back of your monster out of felt.<br />
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Embellish the top with embroidery loss details like two eyes, one eye, a snaggle tooth, the monster world is wide open to let your imaginations romp.<br />
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I've even heard that monsters are happy to give up the drudgery of haunting under beds in exchange for a promotion to the world of bookmark servitude. <br />
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Fit the front and back pieces together. Stitch leaving base open so you can stuff with bits of fluff. Stitch closed.<br />
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Scary cute!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01217327588442703233noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078875783795418434.post-64464341375783566662013-04-22T13:38:00.000-07:002013-04-24T13:14:20.073-07:00Van Gogh Painting Party<br />
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I decided to throw a painting party. Above is the graphic that was sent along with the midnight black invite. I forgot to take pictures because I was so eager to mail them, but the envelopes were black and thick and I calligraphied the addresses in silver pen and actually mailed them. I adore getting mail that looks nothing like a bill.</div>
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Here were the favors for each guest to take home: A "mix-tape" CD with songs that went with the starry night theme, and a mini Chinese take-out box filled with shadow animals, or as the kids call them, chocolate animal crackers. They are possibly my favorite thing on the planet.</div>
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I decorated the house with lots of clumps of candles. The fantastic thing was that my mom and sister owned 30 of these pillar candles that are actually remote controlled so I didn't even have to deal with the pesky fire-ruining-a-fete problem that could have arisen from mixing canvases and flame.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-UAt-6nmiiocKyiNGIn9kqYYD9KfUKZa9OhQC5_9KOj7ZrnCChak5vQpdnvFLe-nUVUIKAuH4my-gUU81mrbG7NuLKNIgS0NWA6aT5gxK7kwlxpwzZHlwq10PGo6Rh6ZwMJeqMXi5Q/s1600/IMG_4394.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-UAt-6nmiiocKyiNGIn9kqYYD9KfUKZa9OhQC5_9KOj7ZrnCChak5vQpdnvFLe-nUVUIKAuH4my-gUU81mrbG7NuLKNIgS0NWA6aT5gxK7kwlxpwzZHlwq10PGo6Rh6ZwMJeqMXi5Q/s640/IMG_4394.jpg" width="478" /></a></div>
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This is what the weather was like in late April, so fire and hearty foods and indoor activities were perfect. (Everyone tells you that Hell is a hot place.)</div>
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We had a whole spread of sort of Parisian foods, really crusty breads and cheeses and fruits dipped in midnight rich chocolates and my friends (who know that cooking is not my strong suit) brought incredible dishes. After eating and chatting I got everyone into aprons, really ragged muslin affairs that I pictured Van Gogh, or a crazed and poor butcher, wearing. </div>
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At this point-- and truly this was the highlight of my year when I couple it with the bowl of shadow animals-- one of the guests entered the room stripped down to nothing but his skivvies. He was prepared to be the model of the male form. Nothing gets the party started like some skin and some fearlessness. I have the coolest, most family-like friends that I could have believed existed.</div>
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We all did our best renderings of Van Gogh's Starry Night. I set the table with and 11x14 canvas for everyone and a plate pallette of paints and lots of brush choices and instead of a napkin, a rag to wipe up messes. I set out books with the picture so we could copy the image, but most of us ended up embracing the digital age a bit more than old Vincent would have imagined and since the book pages kept flipping, I just texted the image to everyone and then we each propped up our phones right where we could see them. <br />
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It was incredible how great the paintings turned out. Honestly, if I would've seen any of them in a store I would have plunked down money for them. And I am a cheapskate. They were that good.<br />
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Like, I might turn to a life of crime- art heist level of criminality in suburbia and individually go steal a few of these so that I could have a little collection withing the secret vault within my panic room. The above is my favorite picture because Chuck has just managed to fling himself into the shot after setting the timer on the camera and then misjudging how high you must jump to clear a tall sofa.<br />
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Here's the one that I did. Believe me, it looks AWESOME in real life. <br />
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Your first task is to find out what you're going to label. Here, we just finished making some little felt ugly monsters for the youngest to find on her pillow one morning.<br />
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I used some cheap canvas that I had oodles of. First iron pleats<br />
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Draw on your word lightly with pencil.<br />
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Stitch with embroidery floss only the top layer. Next tack in place a tie.<br />
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Now use a machine to topstitch all around your bookmark resembling creation. Cut raw edges with pinking shears.<br />
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Super simple ears perched on the fruit makes it all the more gobble-uppable. For Scarlett's birthday party we mixed the masquerading bunny fruit with the cotton bunny toppered cupcakes.<br />
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It couldn't be a simpler project. Below is the basic shape I cut out of cardstock. Glue on some pink for the interior of the ears and staple or glue closed. Next, I'll try the same trick for the green beans :) <br />
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At a party for a few of my 10 year old buddies, we made bookmarks. These were a great way to teach some very basic stitching techniques with embroidery floss.<br />
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Start by cutting out some felt leaf shapes for one end and some flower shapes for the other. I actually got this string of die cut felt flowers and my daughter just lopped off a few pink ones.<br />
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Pick out a length of ribbon.<br />
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Next thread on some embroidery floss and add details while securing the ribbon length. The biggest lesson I wanted to teach was hiding the ugly stitches in between the layers of felt. ie, stitch only the top piece and then sandwich bottom piece over your ugly stitches and it hides them.</div>
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Scarlett spent a day with her best friend, Olivia. We had lunch up on the tippity top of one of the big downtown buildings. Great view of the skyline, but even better booths to play on. And a man played piano tunes perfect for dance-minded two year olds.<br />
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We spent a LONG time at The Wild Rumpus, a bookstore that has animals- all kinds- everywhere. Kitties (even the kind with no tail like Koko's kitten!), iguanas, chinchillas, a few chickens, tarantulas. It was heavenly. We went home with a new collection of books- my favorites are Charlie and Lola.</div>
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The first morning of the first birthday that she'll actually remember<br />
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Scarlett had an Easter tea party to celebrate the big day. She invited her besties, Ellie, Olivia and Ainsley.<br />
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The party was a serious blur of little princesses.<br />
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I made Tinkerbell sized cupcakes and WOW were they a hit with the 3yr old crowd. Coconut macaroons with cut marshmallow slices were made to resemble bunnies. And each girl got her own candle to blow out when we sang the Happy Birthday song.<br />
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