I’m not really sure. I did a fair amount of laying around and soaking in my last week of semi-vacation, but I was also doing stuff for fieldwork and pretty busy applying for a fellowship. So I guess it wasn’t entirely a blur. I also got in some lovely thrifting and etsy shopping that I want to talk all about.
I ended up swinging by the Second Mile Thrift shops earlier in the week. They always have something fun, for not so much money. I ended up finding these Christian Dior hankies for a quarter each!
Along with these pretty ones too. They need to be ironed.
I picked up an awesome rooster teapot and a jewelry trunk, but haven’t taken any photos of them.
At the Curiousity Shop downtown, I found this neat print by “Den Cob”, called ‘Jojo the Dogfaced Boy’. It makes me sad and makes me laugh at the same time…
I’ve also had some plans in the works for using one of my former fish aquariums to make a moss terrarium. In the past, I made two for two friends, Kait and Kat, but I haven’t heard any news on if the moss actually survived, so this one will also be an experiment. I ordered pesticide free moss off etsy that I’m waiting for now, as well as a little elf and purple mushroom house from this lovely seller Terrariooms. Look at how sweet they are!
Eeek! I get excited every time I look at their cuteness. Eventually I’d like to have more decorations, but because of all my thrifting and comic book buying (oh yeah!) I’ll start with this.
I’m also doing one other thing of blogworthy note. There’s a project called “Fun-a-Day“, where you make a little creation every day during the month of January. In early February, there’s a one night show in West Philly (there’s ones all over and you can even request them in your city!) and you get to check out everyone else’s work. I’ve chosen to do little paper creatures with moving parts, taa daa:
Here’s some of mine from the first week. So I actually have on my regular to do lists: Fun A Day! Which is kind of awesome.
I’m learning that in grad school life, there are very rarely real days off or weekends ‘cuz there’s just so much to decide and do and figure out. I’m assuming that’s how the rest of life will be so I’m just trying to get used to it.
Have a good weekend everyone!
