Friday's Frock and I Am Proud of My Size link up

I'm entering this Apt. 9 skirt ($7.99) in Thrift Town's quarterly "What A Find!" contest under the Fashion Item category.

I also picked up this round Conair brush for $1.49 and a darling box of watercolor notecards for $1.99.  The brush I will soak in ammonia to clean.  The notecards, along with other items such as lotion gift sets and lap quilts will go for Home Instead Senior Care.  You pick a tag from the Christmas tree and fill the items on the list.  

Linking with newly discovered (to me) Nearsighted Owl - I am a sassy size 12!

The Nearsighted Owl's mission:

All sizes are beautiful! Don't be ashamed of your number or keep it from living your life and doing what you love. There is no perfect or wrong size. It doesn't determine our worth and nobody has the right to judge someone's health by their size. So let's show the world that every size can be happy and that we are not ashamed!

How to participate:

I would love to see all different sizes represented in this link up. Whether you are a 0 or 32, participate! This is a weekly feature so each link up will be open for one week. You can add your link anytime during the week. All genders, sexes and non-genders are welcome to join in. Use whatever sizing you are most familiar with. You can link up with me every week with a new post or join in every once in a while! The rules are simple. Post a photo of yourself on your blog, feeling confident. Post a full body shot, so head to toe! State your size in your blog post or with a graphic on your photo. No diet talk, weight loss talk, negativity or any type of body shaming allowed. This is about being happy with your size and shape, not because it is socially acceptable, healthy or better than others. Then come back here and add your link using the link tool at the end of this post.

Along those same lines body-positive Jes of The Militant Baker debunks the list of 

25 Things Fat People Shouldn't Do:

The List:

Do a cannonball

Swing at the park

Wear a bikini

Drive

Wear animal print

Eat in public

Wear shirts with glitter

Ride a scooter

Make art of themselves

Shimmy

Jump in an elevator
Be straight

Wear an ironic t-shirt

Go to the movies

Roll down a hill

Walk through a doorway

Run

Go to bars

Fly in an airplane

Sit on anything plastic

Dance

Wear a mumu

Sit at a booth

Ride a bike

Live.

I will be linking in with some of her posts.  

Oops, I did it again ...

joined a photography challenge, that is.  Mike WJ of Too Many Mornings and Ziva of Ziva Inferno are hosting the 30 Days of Photographs III.  I missed last year's challenge by one month.  I have found it is much, much easier to join in established challenges, rather than host my own.  There are a few rules, but nothing too onerous.

This is the extent of my tablescaping - claim to fame, nearly all were thrift shop rescues.

On to my hospice thrift shop finds - fishy glass serving plate ($2.50),

Two blue shirts (one short-sleeved NWT, one sleeveless) total $5.50, and The Crafter's Garden by Joni Prittie (1993).

Linked in to Sunny Simple Sunday Sunny Simple Life

Pink Saturday - the Puyallup Way

The following PINK images were captured at the Puyallup Fair (aka Western Washington State Fair) for PS 9-22.

Post Alley in Seattle, Washington.

Thrift shop finds this week ~

The lot above totaled $7 with pink tags being $1 and half off white tags - black twin sheet and black pillowcase, two frames, a tuxedo bear, a pair of black stretch jeans and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry  (1990).

This next lot was approx. $20 with a pair of black stretch jeans (not shown), CDs, ceramic clown ($2) and clothes organizer ($3.99).

I was so jazzed about that organizer, I installed it the same day and went through the clothing that hung in dry cleaner bags.  Now I can see them all in one place - I like the blue and yellow flowered front.

Linking to How Sweet the Sound

Muffy VanderBear Did the Puyallup Fair

Updated to link in to Live and Love Out Loud
Wordless Wednesday

and

Catch My Words Wordless-Wednesday

Updated 9/26/12 to add:

Muffy VanderPirate and Talk Like a Pirate Day - September 19th

In celebration of International Talk Like A Pirate day, Muffy is wearing her VanderPirate outfit.  Every item in this picture is a thrift shop find.  My "keeper" props are the balsam boat, the metal treasure chest, anything with a skull and crossbones and the mini-sword in the scabbard strapped to Muffy's waist.

As an aside, for those on Facebook, you can choose "Pirate" language for the day.

What does Talking Like a Pirate and Krispy Kreme Donuts have in common?  Well, Fantabulously Frugal has posted this 'splanation.



"Stop by your local Krispy Kreme, speak like a pirate, and get rewarded with a free glazed doughnut. No purchase is necessary.

Thankfully Krispy Kreme provided some suggested phrases. They include things like:

• Ahoy Matey
• Heave Ho
• Sea Dog
• Thar She Blows!

If you are REALLY into this pirate thing, if you DRESS like a pirate (and this means more than an eye patch) you will get a DOZEN FREE DOUGHNUTS.

This offer is only valid on September 19, 2012 at participating locations. You might want to call your local Krispy Kreme ahead of time to verify participation, particularly if you plan on dressing in complete pirate regalia."

Happy Pirateness!

Visiting the mamacita

For the past few days, I've been hanging in Washington state with my 84-year old mom.  I am so blessed to have her in my life. 

Here is a little gizmo she had hanging from her lamp which reads "When I have a little money I buy books, if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."  It is important to keep one's priorities in line.  

My blog wouldn't be my blog without my commando (thrift shopping) tendencies.  Mom endures my junk shopping passions with foot-dragging resignation.  My ongoing love affair with the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli continues - his greatest hits CD and a poetry book purchased for a few dollars at St. Vincent's Thrift Shop in Auburn, Washington. 

One reason I disdain antique shops is the example above - a metal Tonka trunk priced at $49.  Reeeealllly?

Pink Saturday - reprise

I had so much fun with my last Pink Saturday post - here then is PS 9-15!

Ooo la la - a 1957 PINK convertible

Better Homes & Garden PINK kitchen - 1956.  

Mimi by Gil Elvgren - 1956.  We are all a PINK Mimi (in our dreams ...)

I borrowed this pic from Kitschy Living - gonna bite ya!

Wishing Beverly at How Sweet The Sound a Happy 42nd Wedding Anniversary!