rage against mediocrity

sharing some vintage stuff

obsession with vintage...

can't help it

don't care

won't stop

can't change

far too old to ever do so...

change that is.

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Lit up Santa and Globe, both from approx. 1950's

 

Red chenile and red chenile Santas and some tinsel for good measure, from the 1950's

 

Below is a variety of stuff, including vintage Christmas ornaments, pages from a kid's book, stamps, postcards (some from as early as 1912), light covers (or whatever the heck they're called)

 

These thingys below go onto the lights on the Christmas tree. I have NO idea what they're called...

 

Ornaments

 

Plastic Santa and Reindeer, 1950's, sitting on top of the Alan Shepard postage stamps.

 

A nice variety of postcards

 

A vintage rolodex with all the alphabet cards included and lots of vintage index cards!! a GREAT find for moi, the index card layout fan!

Three little angel voices (candles from 1950's)

Singing out to the world!

 

Chenile pointsettias (the lighting is skewing the colouring somewhat)

 

Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, riding down Santa Claus lane...

 

Vintage wreath.

It's a nice big one too! I'll post better photos once I take it out of the box (which is also original)

 

Some close-ups of a few of the postcards

 

Pages from a children's book

 

 

These will light up the nights

from now until the

Christmas season ends...

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I wrapped up Tammy's babelet's album BEFORE i remembered to take photos of it so you won't get to see it! Maybe Tammy will take some photos and post them. SO SORRY!!

I'll share some more creative stuff soon!

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UPDATE ON BRIAN'S DAD

John had major surgery on his spine a few days ago. The purpose was to remove 5 vertebrae, C3-7 I think it was. They were so damaged from the cancer that he was facing immediate catastrophic spinal collapse which would have rendered him a parapalegic for the remainder of his days and could have led to choking to death. The removal of the vertebrae and insertion of a metal bar will alleviate that possibility. He will undergo radiation to slow down the progression of the remaining cancer in his spine. There are tumors throughout his body, the ribs, lungs, abdomen etc.

It's been difficult, but Brian's dad is very adamant that we all continue with our lives in the normal fashion, which we have been doing.

Facing death is never easy.

However, I do know that as human beings, we're wired to be able to cope with the big things life tosses our way.

We'll just keep on coping and living life and accept this chapter.

pce

we're going to the FIRST WINTER YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES with...

CASEY!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Winter_Youth_Olympics

http://www.innsbruck2012.com/en/

 

She's competing for Canada in the Women's 2 man Bobsleigh.

Her and her driver qualified in Park City Utah and Calgary at the America's Cup

races over the past month or so.

The YOG are in...

Innsbruck AUSTRIA.

Jan. 13-22, 2012

We're very proud and excited and happy for Casey! She has worked SOOOOOO hard for months and months, training about 6 days a week, going to school and working part time.

 

We're planning to visit a couple of countries in Europe while there, Austria and ???? (for the second country, we haven't decided yet.)

We're all VERY excited! It's been many years since I've been back to Europe and I am SO looking forward to it!

Anyone have any ideas where we should take a visit while we're there, someplace that's "close" to Austria?

Hmmmmm? Any suggestions from anyone? Recommendations?

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IT'S  OFFICIAL   finally OFFICIAL

111 SSD is...

you can follow the progress of both 156 RRL and 8443, the current and next project, on

guffdesigns.com

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This is Ollie.

This is Ollie with his hippo.

I took the photo on my iphone with Hipstamatic and altered in Swanko Lab.

I'll be sharing the album I made that holds all those billions of photos we take of him, this weekend, right here. AND since Tammy's baby's album came back in the mail A-frickin'-gain, I'll take some good photos of it and share that album as well, before I mail it out for the THIRD time!

Have to get some artsy stuff on here pretty quick...

 

pce

 

111 SSD

 

is conditionally SOLD!

We couldn't be more thrilled and yet just a tad sad. Okay, a lot sad. We poured so much of ourselves, our energy into this little house. There were days when i literally walked away thinking i wouldn't go back. Days when I slammed tools into, onto, things...perhaps one could argue i exhibited some anger management issues every once and again. The coolers we started drinking on hot summer evenings helped with that. I became much more "zen" like. (Hmmmmmmm, I can hear Dale and Gerardo and Ron and Vanessa and Brian and the kids all laughing hysterically at that description of myself...not sure why???)

There were so many days of complete satisfaction over a job completed, such as the landscaping. There was so much joy many times throughout the progression. It was so hard to believe it was actually done and on the market. The journey was long, frustrating, but very, very fulfilling.

 I know the house went to people that will absolutely love it. They know the neighbourhood and could totally appreciate everything that was done to the house.

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IN OTHER NEWS

we bought our next project house yesterday!

8443 are the magic numbers this time.

there is a mad dash now to get 156 done so we can have a beautiful house to decorate for Christmas and everyone has a peaceful environment for a change. 

after that is done,then we'll start the gut of the new property, 8443.

i have this thing for numbers in case you hadn't noticed.

 

 

156 RRL

Just sharing some great photos of the next project. This one (project that is)   WILL    ABSOLUTELY WILL (it's written in red, so it must be true!) go much quicker...

I'll add photos regularly so you may follow the transformation of the outside of the house...

pce

 

well we finished 111

for the most part...

now we just have to sell it!

I'll share the "before", "during" and "after" of each area.

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THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE

before

during

after

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THE LIVING ROOM AND FIREPLACE

before

during

after

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THE KITCHEN

before

during

after

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THE BATHROOMS

before

during

after

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THE BEDROOMS

before

during

after

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THE BASEMENT

before

during

after

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THE BACKYARD

before

during

after

 

So, what was this project like?

For me, it was like a

life sized,

house shaped album

with individual room themed scrapbook pages!

seriously...

only much more rewarding at the end.

it was exhausting but so very gratifiying.

i would do it again in a heartbeat but

without the financial stress and strain.

we'll see if i go down that road again.

but first, i need a break.

 

Hopefully I'll be doing some actual scrapbooking soon that I'll share here. maybe my christmas tags again?

maybe an album or two?

maybe...just maybe...