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mame
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Location: Colorado (aka:Paradise)
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 22/08/2008 17:55:59
Subject: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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I made out like a bandit today!
A friend in my writer's meetup group had heard me say that someday I'd like to have a laptop so that I could work from anywhere. Well, she had an old one from a former job which she'd tried to give back to the company and they didn't want it, and it was just sitting out in her garage. She has a better one. So she gave it to me today! ...along with a case and a docking station and external keyboard.
And then on my way to her house to pick it up, I stopped at a garage sale and found a wall hanging I had seen in a store for $80, and had had to restrain myself from buying. It was brand new, had never been hung up and I got it for $20!!!! This is one of those waterfall paintings on a mirror which lights up and makes waterfall noises like you see in some Chinese restaurants. They can be kind of tacky if you don't have the right setting for them, but I have the perfect setting! My cozy little garden level basement den is silvery green with wild fern wallpaper below the chair rail and a royal blue sofa, loveseat, chairs and ottomans. The walls are hung with beautiful nature photography of Oregon and Washington mountains, beaches, lush foggy forests and streams. This adds just the right finishing touch to the room's atmosphere!!
And I'm starting to get a few orders on my website for light therapy lamps, now that autumn is approaching!
I feel richly blessed!!
~~Mame
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and
no one to thank" ~ Christina Rossetti
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khobdy
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Location: Darmstadt, Indiana
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22/08/2008 18:07:52
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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Kool Mame, smiles, Kandy
It's never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
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andvari
Messages: 920
Location: a cave in a foggy clear
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22/08/2008 21:19:21
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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sounds like a perfect shopping zen day or is that a zen shopping day? Either way it is awesome when everything falls into place without effort...
love it
A
Do you know what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted? Willie Wonka
The child is in me still... and sometimes not so still --Fred Rogers--
Nothing-- Nothing's better than when two Completely Empowered people come together with Love on their minds.
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anntinasia
Messages: 1497
Location: Hat-Man-Do, WI.....Where the wild hats are!!
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22/08/2008 21:58:45
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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MMMMM WAAAAAAAA Zuperb!!! Way to go, Mame!! A laptop?? WOW 
Your kitchy picture sounds perfect for your room. I can picture it in my head....I dream and imagine in color.
Up Nort, hey, we call it "rummaging". Fun, Fun, Fun! The whole state has an addiction to it!
 let's go, I'm ready
Anntinasia
"Sometimes life calls for an unexpected hat!"
"Everything you can imagine is real."
~Pablo Picasso~
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andvari
Messages: 920
Location: a cave in a foggy clear
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23/08/2008 06:25:07
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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didn't by any odd chance come across any blue pumps did you? I know someone looking for some blue pumps... how about any steel toed slippers?
A
Do you know what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted? Willie Wonka
The child is in me still... and sometimes not so still --Fred Rogers--
Nothing-- Nothing's better than when two Completely Empowered people come together with Love on their minds.
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mame
Messages: 1404
Location: Colorado (aka:Paradise)
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24/08/2008 19:40:45
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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Thanks, Kandy and Tina. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to hang the picture yet. It is very heavy and thick. My first attempt resulted in the wire (which I thought was pretty strong and thick) breaking. Fortunately it didn't have far to fall and landed on the sofa.
Sorry A, no blue pumps or steel-toed slippers.
But my good fortune did continue through the weekend. Passing through Castle Rock on an outing yesterday, I found a nice $50 leather and suede purse for $10 at the outlet mall in a soft light green that will go nicely with all my neon green and peridot blouses, as well as being neutral enough to go with everything else. (Those colors and turquoise are currently my favorite colors to wear). My old purse was getting pretty ratty.
~~Mame
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and
no one to thank" ~ Christina Rossetti
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Scarlett651
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Location: the porch
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25/08/2008 07:57:37
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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Thanks, Kandy and Tina. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to hang the picture yet. It is very heavy and thick. My first attempt resulted in the wire (which I thought was pretty strong and thick) breaking. Fortunately it didn't have far to fall and landed on the sofa.
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hmmm....
sounds like a job for WWGW !!! lol
so glad you're having fun, mame!!
We are not human beings making a spiritual journey...we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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"He lived happily ever after."
Willie Wonka
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anntinasia
Messages: 1497
Location: Hat-Man-Do, WI.....Where the wild hats are!!
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25/08/2008 19:59:14
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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Mame,
You might need to put in heavy duty wall anchors.....maybe even need to hang it from a stud. I wish I had a web site for you to go to, but I don't, so maybe, that is your next step...
Tina
Anntinasia
"Sometimes life calls for an unexpected hat!"
"Everything you can imagine is real."
~Pablo Picasso~
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rich
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Location: Longmont, CO
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andvari
Messages: 920
Location: a cave in a foggy clear
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25/08/2008 23:13:22
Subject: Re: One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure!
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you guys crack me up!!!
I started to write what kind of trouble could I get into with French Cleat?
But then realized that there are certain truths that I know, and you are truly the wise man, and if I should leave it alone, not even going to think about where I could go with it...
Thanks Rich, for looking out for me...
A
Do you know what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted? Willie Wonka
The child is in me still... and sometimes not so still --Fred Rogers--
Nothing-- Nothing's better than when two Completely Empowered people come together with Love on their minds.
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rich
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