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Thread #172985   Message #4206216
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
29-Jul-24 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
Subject: RE: DECLUTTER *hoards *bad habits *toxic stuff - 2024
Drive safe, Patty, and have good visits while you're there! If you don't find anything in your shopping I have antique bedroom furniture from my great aunt's home (the family home in Connecticut). I'm going to have to sell it or give it away, because I don't think the kids will want it (they don't at this point, at any rate). Double-sized, headboard and footboard, and planks from side to side to support the box spring and mattress. I even have one of these! (It goes with the headboard that is in my bedroom propped against the wall by my modern bed. It's so rare I should probably use it as a room divider or mount it on a wall.) There are I think four antique beds here, some of the headboards tucked away (one is behind the piano in the front room). Swing by and pick up a bed frame! :)

We're back into heat advisory weather so the Igloo cooler with bottles of water is back on the porch. I was out a few minutes ago to collect the mail - I ordered a smallish (~8mm) blue bead (lapis) on a chain to wear casually with t-shirts. I already had a pair of lapis earrings, and these will be my political statement on occasion (as a blue dot in a red state). I've also ordered a larger lapis disk that I'll make into a necklace myself. This is an expansion of my quietly political jewelry, that I assign meaning to. I have a pair of silver tree-of-life shaped earrings that I bought in late 2016, sure that Hillary was going to win and they were my celebratory gift to myself. Since the popular vote wasn't sufficient (still isn't - we have to fix that) but I knew the cause was good I kept wearing them, until I lost one. I ordered another pair and just about as they arrived I found the missing one down beside the seat in the SUV. So I explained the history of these earrings and gave the spare pair to my daughter. One day recently we met for lunch and grinned at the realization of our both having chosen those earrings for the day (it was right after Biden endorsed Harris.) There are lots of "blue dots" being discussed in one of the groups I belong to, signified by blue beads worn by women who are in the same situation. If the disk works out well I may get a few more and make necklaces for the women in the family.