Shocked By Artwerx

October 27, 2010

Y’all, I was in shock when we exited Artwerx Alley, a gallery in San Antonio, leaving behind the items we had planned to purchase. I don’t believe I’ve ever had an experience where a shop owner was quite so rude. We had been planning our visit all week to visit the shop and see the [...]

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Smelling LUSH-ous

August 19, 2010

I bent my head to the side and pointed to my neck, “Take a whiff, Honey,” I said to my husband. “I smell like San Francisco!” My Sweet Spousal Unit shrugged and said, “As long as you don’t smell like a BART station.” I glared at him with my most evil eye! [Note: For those [...]

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Fort Bragg Boasts Interesting Sight Seeing

August 6, 2010

I had no idea that Fort Bragg had a shopping district about which to boast. Although we have driven through the town many times, we rarely get off of Shoreline Highway to explore. I have told y’all time and again that you have to leave the beaten path to find the treasures of a town, [...]

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Jelly Vendor

January 25, 2010

Driving the Texas highways (which is my neck of the woods), there are often vegetable stands in the spring and summer that tempt me to stop to peruse their offerings. Still, I was surprised to see a truck at a highway intersection in midwinter offering Mahaw jelly. When the man waved at me, I decided [...]

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Vertigo Hats Gave Me Balance

August 13, 2009

I was in Austin, Texas without a hat! I confess that I felt nekkid — I was out of balance. From the window of our fourth floor (haunted) room at the Driskill, we could see a hat shop called “Vertigo.” We took a break from our ghost hunt and headed over there to shop. We [...]

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Gruene With Envy. My Neck Of The Woods.

May 16, 2009

After visiting Gruene, Texas several times over the years I remembered it as a bucolic, sleepy little place just slightly northwest of New Braunfels. If that means nothing to you, think, “thirty minutes north of San Antonio.” If that doesn’t tell you anything, then I need to get you to Texas, child, because your education [...]

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Is There Really A “Gypsy Style?”

March 10, 2009

Over my birthday weekend (yes, I stretched out the “festivities” as long as I could), my husband took me to Grapevine, Texas to the downtown area. Grapevine is the town where I grew up, and it looks nothing like it did when I was a child. The town leaders decided to re-do Main Street and [...]

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How Did I Wind Up With An iPhone?

November 20, 2008

I’m mortified. I don’t really quite know how this happened. I think I just got caught up in one of those “shopping moments.” Have you ever done that? You come home with a purchase and wonder, “Now, what came over me?” I told y’all some time ago that I was going to get a new [...]

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KaBoom, You Say?

July 12, 2008

There was a “bomb scare” at a local mall yesterday. I saw the story about it on our local evening news. It seems that a “suspicious package” had been reported in the Macy’s Store at Willowbrook Mall in Plano. The news featured footage of the police team’s special robot retrieving the package from the store [...]

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Foraging

March 5, 2008

“Despite their burdens, they [the women] foraged as they traveled, and so efficiently it hardly slowed them down. A patch of day lilies was quickly stripped of buds and flowers, and tender new roots exposed with a few strokes of the digging sticks…shoots and tender young leaves of clover, alfalfa, dandelion; thistles stripped of prickles…a [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #36 I’m A Bag Lady

February 7, 2008

Do y’all ever get side-tracked when you go on the internet? I sure do. I just wanted to look up “bags” on the internet, and got all carried away (I’ll tell you why I was looking in a minute). It’s a good thing I can never find my purse, or I’d whup out that credit [...]

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They Call Themselves “Apple Geniuses”

January 6, 2008

Have y’all ever gone through the fast food drive-thru, with a carload of kids squealing in the backseat? And, you ordered a bagful of burgers, fries and some chicken nuggets for Junior (because he’s been driving you nuts begging for them for thirty minutes)? And, you pay for your order and get back on the [...]

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THAT’S Where My Suitcase Went!

June 12, 2007

It was hard to get a screenshot of this, because it has that flash animation. But, I know one of my suitcases was on the picture before this one! Have y’all seen this website? It’s for a store in Scottsboro, Alabama that is called Unclaimed Baggage Center. This place covers a city block and claims [...]

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Stella’s and Full Circle Emporium

March 20, 2007

I got so busy with other things that I forgot to finish my Sunday post about our trip to Fort Worth on Saturday. We were disappointed with the experience, until we went over to Bluebonnet Circle near the TCU campus. Quite by accident we found a delightful little shop, well actually two shops in one, [...]

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Foray to Fort Worth, TX

March 18, 2007

Yesterday, I gave up the computer long enough to make a foray to Fort Worth in search of a new favorite vintage clothing store. I didn’t find one. That made me a little disappointed in Cow Town. When I was younger, I always preferred it to Dallas. You’d have to live around here to know [...]

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Mineola, TX—It’s No “Sodom”

March 8, 2007

Mineola, Texas is a jewel of a town. It’s located at the junction of Highways 69 and 80 in east Texas and it’s in Wood County, which is “home” to “my people.” In Texas small towns, the first thing folks ask is “where are your people from?” Actually, that’s the second. The first is “WHO [...]

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Old People Can Party, Too

March 2, 2007

I was looking at my pitchers (that is not a misspelling, it is the correct Texas way to write the word “pictures”). I realized I had not updated about our visit to the grand opening party at The Vintage Factory last Saturday night. The teenagers did grace us with their presence. That was a comfort, [...]

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Random Notes From My Files

February 22, 2007

There are sticky notes everywhere, and I can’t see the monitor anymore. I’m trying to clean out all my notes, so this post is very eclectic. Consider this a post of my “post-it” notes. It’s just random bits and pieces of things that amused me, but then I’m easily amused. For those of you who [...]

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Dolly Python, Slither In and Shop

February 20, 2007

Here is a slideshow of the treasures at Dolly Python, a vintage store in Dallas.

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Dolly Python

February 20, 2007

On our Saturday excursion to The House of Dang to search for vintage goodies, Andrew (the proprietor) suggested that we should visit Dolly Python. It’s a combination vintage clothing/antique store/junk store located in the same area of Dallas, at 1916 Haskell Avenue. We slithered on over and go look what we found (actually, this is [...]

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