Bella Dia

5 things meme

Jenny at Queenthings has tagged me with the 5 Things meme going around so here goes:

5 albums in your iPod:
:: Jack Johnson On and On
:: Keb'Mo Just Like You
:: Louis Armstrong Love Songs
:: Classical Silly Songs
:: Norah Jones Come Away With Me

5 movies you've seen recently:
:: Wedding Crashers
:: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
:: Sky High
:: Hitch
:: Supersize Me

5 nice things that happened to you lately:
:: a long lost friend got in touch with me
:: got tickets to see the Dalai Lama
:: my kids and their neighborhood friends brought me a bouquet of wildflowers
:: watched my kids play in the sand and water at the lake
:: found a bird's nest in a tree I just bought (it's supposed to be good luck!)

5 MP3s on your playlist:
:: Just Like You - Keb' Mo
:: Glass, Concrete & Stone - David Byrne
:: Here Comes the Sun - the Beatles
:: Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
:: Times Like These - Jack Johnson

5 friends you're passing this to (if they haven't already received it):
:: Kelly at Buzzville
:: Vicki at Turkeyfeathers
:: Theresa at Rock Paper Scissors
:: Abbyjane at While She Naps
:: Alexia at Craftopia

Here a Thrift, There a Thrift, Everywhere a Thrift Thrift

I've been doing some thrifting in the past few weeks and have accumulated quite a stash. Here are some pictures of my favorite purchases. First off, this cute pair of kitty measuring cups! The mama is 1 cup and the kitten is 1/4 cup :)

A turquoise planter in a silver holder - can you see the bird design on the side?

Lots of embroidered pillowcase ends that someone else has already cut off, so now I don't have to feel guilty about me doing it!

Some more pretty buttons.

For some reason I found a lot of trays, funny how that happens sometimes. The one with the white background will be hung on the wall with some others I have, as will probably the black one since I have several black ones now too. I thought the circus one was cute and I couldn't resist - I am so weak...

Brownie badges! Not sure what I'll do with these, any suggestions?

Lion and turtle placemats :) I got the pillowcases in the background too. I swear I had these exact same ones when I was little.

Three aprons - I love the gingham, it never fails to make me smile and this one has some great smocking on it. Closer look here.

I got these pillows at an estate sale. I had thought I might cut the floral ones up for the fabric, they're barkcloth, but I think I'll wait awhile, I love that shabby chic look they have.

I've gotten tons of scraps too and I photographed a lot of it for the Vintage Fabric group at Flickr. I'll be posting them over there very soon.

Back Tack Received!

Look what I got in the mail - woohoo for Back Tack! I received all these wonderful goodies from Takeyah who is living in Japan. She made a cute tote bag, zipper pouch and a couple of little pincushions. I thought the pincushions would look good as floor pillows for Barbie's pad too ;)

The bag and pouch were filled with so much goodness: bamboo crochet needles, embroidery floss, cute animal patches, stationery, a tissue holder designed like a shirt (!), a journal, a booklet on making cards, and this Japanese craft book that I've had my eye on!

*And*...all this fabric too! At the bottom is a preprinted Sashiko embroidery pattern - so cool because I've been wanting to give it a go and this will be a huge help :)

Thanks so much Takeyah - it was totally worth the wait!!

I've Got A Golden Ticket

Well, four actually!! After only a few hours sleep my sister and I went down and waited in the pre-dawn for four hours to get our Dalai Lama tickets. I'm so glad we did, they gave out all 10,000 tickets in 3 hours! I am so excited to see him and hear him speak and so happy to have tickets in hand. Yay me!