Fall is here!    For those of you who don’t know, while I work in HR and on weekends during the summer at Adventure Mendota, I also like to help out at About Face every now and then.   The owner and I have been friends for a long time.   I am so proud of her and the business that she has grown.    I love my best girlfriends and she is one of a special few.    About Face is a med spa…a very good one…and via emails, Sue (the owner)  and I have been having so much fun planning a Bootox Party near Halloween.  If you’re local and want to come, it’s October 26.  You can message me for all the details.   It is really going to be fun.

One thing we’re doing at the Bootox Party is having a contest for the best costume and the best decorated witches hat.   I decided to decorate one to use as a display at the Bristol store.

It all started with a regular ol’ witches hat.

But to make it “right” for our Bootox party, I tricked it out with a red boa, ribbon and plastic spiders.  I am loving this hat!!

Oh..you think you can do better, huh?  Well, give it a try and come out to About Face on October 26.   You might win a free Botox treatment.

So…while making the hat, Mike is up in the office working on our business plan for the My Southwest Opportunity  Cup Challenge I am participating in attempting to win grant money.   I’ve promised him I’ll vacuum if he’ll do this.  If he finds out I’m down here making a witches hat, I’m toast.

But…I have started cleaning out and continuing what is going to be months of decrapifying before we redo our hardwood.  Someone jokingly asked if I was committing suicide since I’m getting rid of so much stuff.    NOT!  Just lightening my step.   Here’s a few things that I pulled out of one of the many stuffed hidey holes in this house and I’m going to sell.

If you are into setting a great Thanksgiving spread, you might find a place for this artichoke bowl or the eggplant bowl in the next picture.  They were made in Italy and are Vietri china.

So cute, but I’m getting rid of things!   I’m selling each one of these for $10 of if you buy both, they are $18 for the pair.

 

These lids come off…I suppose they were meant to be soup bowls. I had four.  I sold two on Ebay a few years ago and for some reason, I kept two.   Separation anxiety.

Here’s a couple of dishes that you set out with nuts in them or something.  I’m tired of them.  I never use them anymore.   They are not as fine of china as the little bowls above.     These little radish-like dishes are $3.00 for the set.

Do you like salt and pepper shakers?  This set is $3.

Finally, this is a sculpture of a little girl.    When I was a real collector of stuff, I thought I’d have children of my own and wanted a little girl.  Well, that never happened.  I wound up with a bunch of dogs!    At any rate,  this would be perfect for a little girl’s room, etc.  It’s $10.

 

If anyone local wants any of these things, please let me know.  I’m going to list them on Ebay next week.