Alligators, Old Mink and New Money....

'Tucked in a drawer in my mother's dresser I found

an old navy slip whose fabric felt like butter in my hands.

 I knew that my mother had tucked away hundreds 

of such items throughout the house ~ from her youth, from childhoods

of my my sisters and brothers and me 

~but I didn't know that this had belonged to my grandmother until

I asked if I could borrow it.

I put it on, and if fit beautifully, I clinched the waist

with an inexpensive black stretchy belt and 

completed the outfit with sexy, strappy sandals, 

and a python ~ patchwork clutch.

As I prepared to leave the house, my Father was baffled.

" Where's your dress?" he asked.

" This is my dress, I told him......"

~

Taken with kindness from one of my most favourite books!

Alligators, old mink and New Money.

~By Alison Houtte and Melissa Houtte.

Hellooooo

 Lovely blog world....

I've read this book not once but three times..

~ I loved it from start to finish...

It's a old book and has been in my collection for quite some time...

~ Parts of it remind me of Bumble Bee...

( my little place of work)

The peeps that I meet and their stories and tales they have to tell....

~ 

And other pages remind me of my past....

 I wore an awful lot of old ~ vintage clothes from my Grandma

in my 'hey day' eighties...

The above extract reminds me very much of now!

~ Mr Rosey Tinted Spec's  often asks

" Just where is the dress"!!!.... ~ as Miss Olivia leaves the house...

~ Clothes can seem very short these days!!

hehe!

~

The book tells the story of

One woman's adventures in Vintage Clothing....

And the interesting folks that pass through her shop door!

~ to buy the clothes that capture their memories...

This week has seen me letting go of a little of old ~

~ in order to make room for a little of new....

I have three bags for charities...

I've also had a little spend...

~ 

I've been saving my pennies for a rainy day since before 

Christmas.......

~ And goodness knows we've had days and days of these....

This week I invested in the above little dress...

~ It's by Noa Noa .

~ and I am over the moon to say..

" It cost me a fraction of the price being in the late January Sales....

I'm a happy bunny, when this happens!

I was also treated this week to this beautiful corsage!

It's very lovely and was made as a gift for me by Lucy, a lovely customer

and indeed friend..

I meet the nicest peeps in my little day job, I really do!

Another peek!

The fabric is Liberty, and ever so pretty!

~ Thank you for kindest words on my last story telling's too...

~ They mean a lot...x

I bet my bottom dollar that you have a story attached to a

special some thing that you wore once upon a time...

~ I know I have a few....

But that's another post!

Take time to dream...

Love 

Maria x

Finding Your'e Own Wings...

The full moon in January..

Thursday 16th.

The full wolf moon.

According to lore, under this moon, wolves would howl

in hunger outside Native American villages.

When the moon is full in January, people tend to eat too

much, drink too much and play to much trying very hard to fill

a Winter emptiness inside...

(The girl who chased the moon)

Our week here at home started excitedly!

On Monday, Miss Olivia passed her driving test..

And I won the lottery!

£25.00!

They say that luck can come all at once..

ha-ha...

~ Olivia's wanted to drive since the beginning of time!

~ And I must confess, it's been a 'wish' in the

 wish box too!

I'm not a driver!

Yikes no, the roads are much safer with out me on them!

~ But Olivia, I believe has found her own wings..
~ and learnt to fly!

~ Mr Rosey Tinted Spectacles passed his test when he was

just nineteen too..

~ But I've never needed wheels or wings for that matter  to get

 me from one old place to another.....

I've always been able to do this quite nicely by myself..

~ 

Let me explain.

~ Many moons ago when I was quite small....

I could be stood  in assembly with all my friends at school

 and yet not be really there at all..

I had a way of magically disappearing in my mind!

~ to some where I really wanted to be.

~Some times it scared me as I could feel quite light 

and almost out of my very own body!

~

But for the most it was exiting and I could drift off

to some where more interesting...

Usually outside in the playing friends or in the nature garden to

the side of the school gates...

I remember telling my Mama, who said

 "It was most probably

my age".

But I knew she understood, because she could do this too.

she said we both needed to ground our energies...

and all would be well.

~ she also said" We were quite lucky to have this gift

of escapism"... handed down to us..

and I suppose we were...

  

~ I wasn't really sure just how to ground my self, but days were filled with growing up! 

and because my Mama moved house, almost every time the wind changed...

I forgot about the day dreams..

And just got on with

 filling my boots with real life!

I tend to only dream at bed times now.....

Some times they seem ever so real.

But I do always wear my' Rosey Tinted spectacles' in the day, of course!!

Wishing you a week full of lovely day dreams.

~ and hoping you are keeping as cosy as' kitten's in mitten's'...

Love Maria x

 After word

(I will be sending my £25.00 winnings to water aid.)

Writing New Pages.....

"The month of January rolls around

Like clock work it appears

I find it's timing most profound

as it brings us each new year

Right on time, It's never late

Has never ever blown it

apparently this wise old date

refuses to postpone it

Drink a toast to January

For annual consistence

It's coming means the old year's done

Let's drink to it's persistence"...

~

Stanley cooper 

New year 1926.

I'm going to try and embrace, January

 with open arms...

After all the' razzmatazz' and sparkle

 of Christmas..

It feels good to enter the new....

Write new pages, so to speak..

I've embraced  my new year again with tradition...

Some thing I started a little while ago in

2007.

My gratitude Diary.

It's a little musing of quotes, ideas, and dreams...

but most importantly

 gratitude for the new year!

Writing down words and feelings helps 

 keep me grounded almost

 and truly aware of 

what's most important in the here and now of things...

I know I'm not alone..

We all keep a journal  of sorts, by just being on here...

A glimpse into our own worlds

 in meaningful words and pretty pictures...

~ 

By my bedside my gratitude diary is...

for all to see...

I've never been a secretive one...

Musings of this and that...

Happy days, sad days, but most of all glad days...

Inspiration I pick up from who knows where..

It's all in here...

Mr Rosey Tinted Spectacles

 has running magazines by the plenty,

 at his bedside...

~ His grounding too, I believe....

 I've been reading each evening at bed time, this wonderful read..

A tale of folk lore, mystery and romance and even horror!

It's beautifully written words have stayed with me through the night and my dreams have been lucid.....

and almost real....

It's story line is based on the concept of two souls connected

over space and time.....

Part mystery, part love story, part tragic, told in different stories lines in different times...

" I will live seven times, and I will look for you and love you in each"...

I love the haunting opening lines...

I fell in love with the leaping hares on the cover!

~ Now they say, "You shouldn't judge

 a book by it's cover"...

Silly of them really as I nearly always do!

Mid winter blood

~ By Marcus Sedgwick..

A jolly good read.

Today...

~ I've surrounded my self

 in a little spring time dotted, here and there...

Peppermint tea, any one?

Today's one of those days to dust the room with a smile...

And drink tea in a pretty china cup!

A day off.

A day to putter!

A day to just be...

I do this best...

Take time to dream,

lovely blog land...

I read these words only yesterday...

" There are years that ask questions and years that answer!

I wonder which year this one will be?

Love Maria x

~ Let hope it's our biggest and bravest year yet!

( After word )

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http://bumblebeeatthehive.blogspot.co.uk/

We are new little blog to blog land and we would simply love for you to pop in!

Thank you x