In the mail today my two new pairs of fingerless gloves arrived from Sock Dreams. They are practically vital to my survival since I was diagnosed over thirty years ago with Reynaud’s Syndrome, which is mostly just a pesky circulatory disorder. And thank goodness it is primarily evident only in the cold weather. But not [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Antiquing in Fingerless Gloves
Posted in At Preserve Cottage, tagged antique malls, fingerless gloves, reynaud's syndrome on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How cool is this! When most of what you sell is one of a kind it is hard to participate in things like this. Thank goodness for our Christmas Traditions Coffee. Click on the graphic to go directly to the catalog.
A Glittery Pink Christmas for Pink Friday
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Make Mine Pink is going to have holiday themed Pink Fridays for the next couple of weeks. I just finished looking at all of the web sites that are participating this week and I was so impressed. All the glittery pink and cream things are really so yummy looking – confections really. So I finally [...]
Blog Analyzer – how cute!
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is so funny. This blog analyzer spat back the results in about two seconds. Here’s what this blog turns up.
ESFP – The Performers
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present [...]
Dippy Eggs and Soldiers Recalled by Egg Cups
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My head is swimming today. I’m not accomplishing anything. So I’ll just dump it all out here and let you see how I got here.
If you noticed that I didn’t do a Show and Tell on Monday:
Have you ever had your steering wheel get locked in place, such that you couldn’t turn the key in [...]
I Love Dated Things!
Posted in The Shop, tagged cottage, limoges, porcelain on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If everything had a date on it a lot of the lovely mysteries of the life of an antique dealer would disappear. And there is the fact that since most things don’t have a date on them, we get to be all excited when we find things that do have dates on them like this [...]
12 Days of Christmas Shop Hop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is really fantastic this year. Joyce, at Make Mine Pink, has really outdone herself with this Shop Hop. There are prizes every single day. And many of the boutiques have special offers and loads of beautiful new goodies listed. If you haven’t gone Shop Hopping yet, get busy.
Twitter / preservecottage- preservecottage: Four mile run today in record time...another benefit of the hiatus. It has been a great lesson in taking the time to do what you have to
- preservecottage: Just discovered summer sm hiatus produced great spike in sales. But I miss my friends.
- preservecottage: Back into the universe and trying to figure out how to put all the pieces back together
- preservecottage: wondering how a project I thought would take a couple of months has turned into a four month project, at least
- preservecottage: wondering if alternating 1/2 hours working at computer and 1/2 hours doing moving tasks would help aging metabolism
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Lila appreciates all of you who have asked about her. Here she is in all her charismatic intensity. Slices of Life
