Squeak toy Adventures

This weekend has been a fun one :)
full of sunshine and flowers and toys!

I ended up skipping out on the yardsales to just do some exploring.


Friday

I woke up early and headed out towards the countryside stopping at the scary flea market ( not so scary anymore ) I mentioned it in one of my early blog posts.
I bought a few small items but I had remembered that they had some rare horror movie vhs movies that I had meant to get but never got because I wanted to see about getting them on dvd first but after doing some research I found that some of them havent been released yet and probably wont be and the ones that have cost 40.00 and up but they were all gone..so no horror movies for me.

We did however get lucky because the chair we had wanted to get last year was still there we couldnt fit it into our tiny little toyota so we gave them money to hold it for us.

After that we wondered off until we ended up at a park and decided to take some pictures.

                                                       My squirrel from russia

                                                           My unnatural pink squirrel

 My knee was messed up so Josh had to to do this picture of me of my little woodland bear doll

      The woodland bear doll had an epic adventure!!! and I went home and went to bed :)


     Saturday!!!

I almost didnt get up because my knee hurt so bad that I wanted to lay in bed and cry about it but the more I thought about it ..I knew Id regret missing out on a beautiful day.
I packed up some more squeakys and we went to some woods near by for picture taking
The woods we went to have a beautiful spring and a nice picnic area.

Here is one of my newer additions to my growing collection..he makes me think of the water babies
It took several shots to get it right but we finally did..he tried to get away a few times

 









 


Josh said it looks like he is peeing..I said no he is playing hide n go seek,

This ones name is Josh ( yes named after my husband )

 

 

And then I turn around and I see this

He Just couldnt resist making a fire :) we stayed around for awhile to enjoy it eating a few snacks and talking until it started to get dark.

Sunday
I got up today put ice of my knee to get it ready for a lonnnng hike in the woods
Of course on the way we stopped at a flea market that I had once found some nice toys at..not this time though I did however go to the animal charity booth to buy stuff for Merrills shop.
After that the long hike where I huffed and I puffed and almost passed out the whole way because most of it was uphill and I was carrying a ton of stuff on me...but I did get some good pictures and much needed exercise so it was worth it.

 And as we were taking the pictures I saw a bat and Josh had to look and then he decided to make cheeping sounds at them and they attacked..silly

End of the weekend..sleep time.

Epic Kewpie haul-The squeaky surprise

Monday was my moms spring break ( shes a teacher ) so I decided to spend the day with her and my dad.
First we had a freezeing cold picnic in the park of veggie subs they had their dog Boston a boston terrier ( my dad isnt good with the whole nameing pets thing )
 with them a really funny looking dog that looks like ...

After the picnic in the park my dad decided to drop off me and my mom at the first flea market
and what do you know as soon as I walk in I found 5 Kewpies I grabbed up most of them leaving a few of the lesser ( Ill  be back for them )
It wasnt long before I found a few more to add to the pile I grabbed up one leaveing 3 behind and went on looking about finally I had to have the lady watch over them because my arms were to full.
I found several more things I liked but nothing I had to have lots of neat retro dishes..I just dont have enough space for them :(
Right before we finished I found one more Kewpie but it was 10.00 the lady heard me say 10.00..noooooo and she said Ill sell it to you for 3.00 and that was fine so I spent 21.00 and all on Kewpies EPIC!
7 kewpies my largest haul yet!

Sorry the photos are a little blurry my camera was starting to die on me and I couldnt find more batteries Ill have to buy some more before the weekend.

The next flea market had just opened it was supposed to be HUGE but it was average and pretty empty I didnt find anything I wanted but my mom bought some pretty tea cups.
After that we went home and had a tea party and watched Murder Is easy with the cats Max and Chunk.


The Squeaky Surprise
Awhile back I had been bidding on lots of squeakys on ebay and bombing out everytime
and it was horrible because I was staying up all night to do so..and there was this one lot I was sure would get I was the only bid on it for a week and then at the last minute someone jumped it to 30.00 so after staying up all night watching it with high hopes I scooped myself up depressed and went to bed...a few days or so went by and I check my email and I see something that says I have a second chance bid on buy it now..it was the lot of squeakys that I didnt win the person who won never paid..so of course I bought them and waited for them to arrive.
Some of them Ill keep and some Ill sell..after of course my book ;)

Here they are

The bunny happens to be my favorite and a keeper for sure :)

 

This weekend I plan to be out and about in the fresh air in sunshine hitting the yardsales.

Next post should be about Merrills store..

 

Bye for now

Country Roads series 1

Yesterday was a great day!


For once I got out and got some sunshine...thats pretty rare for me ..I have the life of a vampire
I wake up when the sun is going down I go to bed as it is coming up ..it can be depressing at times.
But Ive had this type of schedule most my life but even more so the last 5 years or so because Josh works nights.

I woke up at 11 am ( for most people thats not early for me..it is )  I usually fuss and whine and cry for more time. But I was up before Josh and I actually woke him up and told him to shower so we can go on an adventure.
I packed up a few squeakys for photos and we got some coffee and went down a few country roads.

Ive been putting some thought in doing a book on toys and theres a toy im shipping off tomorrow so I thought Id better get a good picture of it before sending it off.

We looked first for a good place with daffodils and we couldnt find one so the first good place to stop at we did and it was this little haunted cemetary down the road from our house.
Yes haunted....
I think the photos turned out pretty good even though the lighting was a little off.

 This cemetary makes me a little sad its little and old most of the headstones are broken and there arent flowers..at the graves,,it was so long ago I think that most of the relatives are gone and no one remembers them.
I think Ill probably come every now and then to leave flowers.

                                          
                                                   Heres a headstone that made me very sad

 

Now heres some I found interesting and kind of funny its an amish crossing sign :)

 

 

 

One of the random dirt roads we picked with some cute cows :)

 

 Ive been meaning to get a picture of this house for awhile and finally got around to it
I love it ..Its sad looking and reminds me of an old dark childrens book.
One of my favorite things about exploring is finding the old houses and wondering what the people were like that used to live there and where they are now and how long its been empty.
I usually would go in and take a pictures but this one had a wire fence that I didnt feel like jumping.
                                            Where memories sleep but never die

It was a great day! Im sure Ill be writing more about this type of stuff now that the weather is good and Im getting to really like this blogging stuff :)

 

Happy Easter everyone

 I thought Id say Happy Easter to my wonderful readers!!!!!
I took pictures of a ton of my bunny stuff the other day.
My original post was going to be about the origins easter and how they changed..but I got caught up doing other things so Ill do that sometime or wait until next easter.

 My husband got me this for easter on etsy last year from https://www.etsy.com/shop/sleepyking?ref=pr_shop_more

 Heres my bunnie Sophie ( yes same name as my cat what can I say Ive always liked that name )
Ive had this stuffed animal my entire life she isnt very cuddly but she is full of personality
and almost 25 years old.

                 
   Retro kitsch little blue bunny I bought on etsy last easter.

          
Heres some pictures of my woodland bear doll going easter egg hunting,

                                           I call these guys the jolly rancher bunnies

Hope everyone has a fun and colorful easter!

Health issues and stuff

I decided to write this because Ive been very secretive about my problems
hiding from my old friends and family because I dont want them to see me like I am now..do to pride
I think this well be good for me.

First off..Ive had some health problems the last 5 years or so.... really Ive had them since I was about 12 but when I got married I couldnt afford to go to the doctor all the time

The summer before I started Junior High I got really sick we didnt know the cause of it I got weak and cold all over I had to wear layers and layers of clothes and Id fall down and get light flashes somedays I couldnt walk.I couldnt hold a tea cup because Id shake so much I lost count of how many I dropped and broke.
My mom took me to a local doctor who had no idea what was going on but she sent to me to some specialist and they did ekgs eegs mris cat scans and on and on
I had to home school that year because of all my doctors appointments
By the time I was starting 8th grade I had been to the doctor 100s of times with no answer I finally got sent to a neurologist in columbia missouri a fairly long drive from my house
we would have to get up at 5am and drive to get there.
He did spinal taps and all kinds of tests and finally found out that I had an enlarged pituitary gland which had been causeing seizures and migraines and not letting me sweat.
He said that it was most unusual that I was not a little person or a giant he said thats what almost always happens with an enlarged pituitary gland.
I forget to mention that I was a chubby little girl and that in the end I had wasted down to under 80 lbs partly do to health problems and partly do to the fact that I was in the self hateing stage of life that girls at that age go through.
I started topamax to help with the seizures and migraines and it did and it helped me in more ways than that ..as I came to realize when I went off it.
When I first started it though my body had a bad reaction and I lost most of my hair and had to start 9th grade with a bandana most people didnt recognize me I had went from being a chubby little girl with blondish brown hair to a very skinny girl with black hair also it helped that they hadnt saw me in 2 years.
I took topamax and prozac all through school and I only had one big seizure in facs class and had to go home but in 3 years that pretty good.
When I got married I didnt have insurance so I couldnt keep taking it..and of course I went right back to being sick..
I went from being beautiful with energy to being fat and tired and depressed.
Well the good news is Im back on topmax its in generic now and I can afford it

So im looking on the bright side of things right now.
Lets home I can get back to the way I had been once apon a time and not hide from the world anymore.

Thanks everyone.

The mystery of the floating feet

I know I did 2 blog posts already today but I just had to blog about it because I cant quit thinking about it because its CRAZZY!!!
I watched a documentary last night about feet that keep washing up on the shore of canada it was interesting because they used forensics and I love forensics!
It started in 2007 when a little girl was walking along the beach on  Jedediah Island in British Columbia,she stumbled upon a shoe and had to pick it up and will she found a nasty foot in it
You know how many times I have seen a shoe on the side of the road or at the creek? should I have looked? maybe I will next time.

At first they were only finding right feet they found I think a total of 5 or 6 finally some left feet came up to match.
Almost all the shoes were New Balance ( a type of shoe I hate ) they showed the shoes on tv and a lady called in stating she reconized the shoe and that her husband had been missing for sometime and had been depressed..so they said it was unrelated to the other feet,..um yeah right.

I thought canada had no crime..they said they had no crime on Bowling for columbine..they said only america had crime and only americans were violent...but no apparently canada has a serial killer who likes feet.




                                   Its aboot time Canada admits that they have crime.

If your interested heres the link to the documentary

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/mystery-disembodied-feet/

Remembering childhood through books2

Alright part 2

Harry the Dirty dog is a really fun book my grandma had it her house so I read it abunch

Another one from Mercer Mayer Little critter
I loved this one I always thought of me and my mom when I read it.

I didnt like it though when little critter grew up...that made me sad.

Miss Nelson is missing one of 6 year old vanessas discoveries at reading time and I love it and still do..The art style is fun and it reminds me of something but I never know what.

Peter pan a great book sad though
I didnt think that Peter pan was going to be a sad book but it really was if you havent read it give it a shot though because its worth it it is beautiful and brings back those magical memories of childhood.
Peter pan has been most of my inspiration for my whole life.. I live by it I refuse to grow up.

Heres an old old favorite The Princess Elizabeth gift book which I discovered in the upstairs of my grammys house my copy is more beat up and has tea stains and coffee stains and highlighter marks ( my mom when she was a girl )
It was published in the 1930s and it was in effort to raise money for The Princess Elizabeth Childrens Hospital,Its full of wonderful stories by  many authors it also had some wonderful stories
The book belonged to my grammy she had it most of her life
she gave it to me when she saw how much I loved it and not wanting it to get torn up by my cousins they can be pretty rough on stuff she told me to keep it

here are some pictures from the book

This one is from the Fairy washer woman its a great but sad story and its my grammys favorite.

Come and change............

One of my favorites it think its beautiful its everything that childhood is and should be

It reads
"All her path is strewn with flowers
round her shine the laughing hours"

The painting is by Frank Salisbury

We all have these days!
where everything just goes wrong and it seems like its never going to end.
I love this book his hair always  makes me smile.

This is one of the cutest little books who doesnt love a bunny!
I cant resist them I have tons of bunny stuff squeakys,figurines,stuffed animals,and when I decide to sew up a stuffed animal what is it I sew always a bunny :)

I had this book when I was a tiny one my mom always said this is you vanessa your fussy about everything even shoes but your so cute that no one cares..
I had forgot about this book for along time until the other day when shoe shopping I hadnt bought a pair of shoes in over 2 years  and I was being fussy we went to like 20 stores back and forth and I wanted red shoes and thats when I remembered this book I finally got a pair of red converse I had to order them because they didnt have my size 5's and then I got sent they wrong pair and had to take those back and order again..this is a book Ill have to buy soon.

Who came first Gus or casper or george? Anyone know?
I think I like Gus the best but they are all so cute and so lonely.
I found these in school in first grade and I loved the dark style of art work cute but dark.

Another book I got from my brother mine has a missing story though..maybe Ill buy a new copy someday and finally learn what happens with the witch..mine cuts off.
A great story with great art work check it out!

I started reading these books in fourth grade and I was hooked!
amazing folk tales Alvin Schwartz just travels around and gets them from people much like the brothers Grimm
I saw my town in the back index for one of the stories and the town I live in now and some near by ones.
Ill never forget the boys pet dog that actually turned out to be a rat with rabies wow.

The art work is chilling and dark I love it!
Its not really scary but its not ..not scary either.




Last but not least my first book my oldest book my most cherished book
Ill never let it go

Thank you for reading this

Id love to hear about some of your favorite books from childhood.