Charity store update

I mostly talk about my vintage toy store but I also have a animal charity store and I thought Id do a nice little update about its progress.



Its been open about a year now and for the longest time it hadn't been doing good very upsetting I almost gave up on it..but Im glad I didn't
I decided to give it one more good go and I so I added some really good stuff one thing being a Garfield teapot I had bought some time back and had never used and after some thought I realized the best place for it was Merrills store and in less than 3 minutes of posting it it sold..and I was shocked..a very very sweet lady who is now a friend of mine purchased it.
I had several more sales and made just over 50.00 which I donated to the shelter where I got Sophie :)
Check them out here

https://www.facebook.com/tailwaggers.springs?ref=ts&fref=ts

My cousin Holly helps out with so much there and its through her that I found out about the shelter.


Tailwaggers is great they do so much for the animals
they hold events to raise money for the animals and they walk them and spend time with them and make sure they get loving homes.



I feel much better about my shop now Im not going to give up on it
Ive always wanted to help animals somehow..and this is how or atleast one of the ways.


Ill be adding lots of new stuff over the next couple of weeks

Heres some of it

Check out my shop here https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWiseOldCat?ref=si_shop

Keep an eye out for more fun stuff nothing better than buying cool stuff that also helps animals.

In Memory of Merrill Young -Forever in my heart

 

 

In Memory Of Merrill Young

?-April 19th 2012

 

 

Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.

 

 

The day I got Merrill

April 19th will be a year without my love Its been a hard and sad year..Ive tried to smile and laugh and sometimes I do..but somedays its hard because I no longer have my best friend.

She was more to me than a pet..she was a companion on my lonely days,my daughter and sometimes even my grandma :) 



I thought Id talk about my happy memories with her.


Ill start with the day I got her ..I hadnt been married long and days alone while Josh was at work were hard,the apartment didnt allow pets but I took a chance when my mom told me that my old high school art teacher had a cat that needed a home..the cat had showed up on her doorstep and wasnt getting along with her cats..the cat wanted to be the only cat.
So my mom went to go get her for me. and when Merrill stepped out of the cat carrier it was like she had lived here her whole life..she came up to us and asked for a can and nuzzled and then went up stairs to look around and found my Alice and Wonderland picture book and started looking at it with interest..

The next few days were fun just me and her bonding and watching Sleeping Beauty and listening to music..Merrill loved music and movies.

                                                          My two favorite pictures :)

I never ever quit talking about Merrill I probably drove people crazy but she was my everything ..still is.

Merrill was in the window every morning greeting the sun and every evening saying goodnight to the sun...Sometimes if I look carefully enough I can still see her silhouette.

Merrill could watch classic Scooby doo all day everyday..she also enjoyed Ms Marple ..when she heard the theme  heard here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGmnLsDOxo she would come running and take her place on the chair in front of the tv.

She loved long car rides and sometimes if the ride ended before she was ready she would cry and growl.

One of her favorite things was for me to sing to her ..we had our songs

Here are some of them...I have a playlist I listen to sometimes.


1.Queen-Your my Bestfriend
2.Grandpa-The Judds
3.Bread-Everything I own
4.Candle on the water-Helen Reddy ( from Petes Dragon )
5.Bonnie Tyler-Total Eclipse of the heart
6.In a world of my own -Alice in wonderland
7.Once apon a dream-Sleeping Beauty
8.I wonder -Sleeping Beauty
9.Aty Garfunkel-Bright Eyes
10.All time High ( Octopussy theme )
11.Stevie nicks-Landslide

I kept her hidden for a few weeks and then got caught...I cried and cried thinking  that they wouldnt let me keep her..but we found a way to pay the non refundable 300 something and get a doctors note for me..

Josh and me and Merrill were perfect for eachother we had so much in common
we didnt like many people we had our health problems and we loved eachother.


I had a game I liked to play when Josh and Merrill would fall asleep I would take pictures of them with hats on.

I think I had more in common with Merrill than anyone..except that she was more of an angel than I could ever dream of being.
I loved her peanut butter smudge and carmel swirls and how she reminded Josh and me of bunny track ice cream..she made Josh gain weight because every time he looked at her he had to to eat ice cream.

Her eyes had a dreamy and wise look about them..I could tell that cat understood me.


She loved cherry flavored twizzlers and ice cream. ...:)





We had so many happy memories but not nearly enough
Id give anything to have one more day just one more.
I wish I had been there with her to say goodbye and I wish I could have given her a kiss.



Forever in my heart.

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 :)