Funky-monkey stuff

[primsong]

I just love it when I find funkier than usual goodies for my vintage Etsy shop - this time it's an antique wind-up tin toy of a cat that is knitting - it's little needles go up and down and it has a wee ball of yarn in its lap. I don't usually go for stuff that's purely decorative, but it's darn adorable. That one gets cleaned up for sale, but the other two things are MINE all mine, bwa hahaahaa... I found the coolest space-age looking lime green lamp with a built in fruit bowl and a funky-monkey (as my son dubbed it) old decorative yellow and brown narrow wooden chair that totally gets to live in my house. This makes up for all the reams of old mugs, dusty tupperware and cheap resin trinkets from China that I have to wade past to get to them when I go our treasure hunting.

Also, on the Dreamwidth block party of LJ-refugees topic - I found a nice "starter kit" of links over here for anyone else who is just finding their way around:
http://kate.dreamwidth.org/418805.html (many thanks to Kate for putting that together)!

Hello to my new friendly people - welcome! *waves*

Comments

[juliet316]

*waves back*

[ex_bel786]

antique wind-up tin toy of a cat that is knitting - it's little needles go up and down and it has a wee ball of yarn in its lap

awww... That does sound adorable! I will be browsing your Etsy shop for sure. (was about to ask for a link but I see you already put it in your sidebar, yay!)

ETA: OMG... I used to own one of those 1968 Barbie doll cases, when I was a very little girl! Back when they were new! Giving my age away here, LOL... :D

[primsong]

It's likely we are close to the same vintage, hah... Ahh, the smell of vinyl Barbie cases when they were new... I've collected Kiddles in good part because I loved the scent of them which still lingers even on the oldest ones, there's something very sensory about truly nostalgic childhood loves.

[ex_bel786]

Oh Kiddles... I had several, and I can still remember how they smelled! It makes me happy to know that the scent still lingers. ♥

[brewsternorth]

Tx for adding me! Just followed that DWth-for-newbs link and already found something useful!

[primsong]

You are most welcome. I just finished using that handy widget for tracking down LJ friends on DW and found five more of my flisters. The more the merrier!

[lothithil]

*poof!* I made it! Thanks for the helpful 'starter kit' links!

(((Prim))) I like your new place! It's lovely :)

[primsong]

*honks kazoos in happy triumphal blats* Yay!

[clocketpatch]

Silly livejournal losing all of its members. I haven't been on in the last few days because of school starting and all of that. Did they ever come up with some kind of fix for the Facebook fail, or are they just hoping we all forget about it?

[primsong]

No responses with any new info from anyone officially a part of the LJ staff yet - just the pats on the head of sympathy from the staffers who have no control over it themselves. Once I saw the Russian news articles announcing their acquisition of LJ and intent to purchase Twitter next, I knew there would be no rolling back and I packed my luggage for DW. I'm still getting used to it, but I like it and I think I'll experiment with a paid subscription here next.