Posted by: Magik Quilter | April 5, 2008

Japan and Thrift Thursday

Well here it is Friday and no thrift shopping done. Feeling really tired so decided to skip shopping for this week, instead I took some photos of some of the things thrifted before I discovered Thrift Thursday. The ginger jars are a real find as have not seen them anywhere new and love the design on them and the colours are just wonderful. Like everything in my home this week though they could have used a dusting, especially before photographing them. I tend to put things up high where I cannot see the dust…. my husband is 6′5″ and son 6′2″ but my husband just does not see dust, it is invisible to him!

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Am really enjoying taking pictures of all my fabrics and shoes and bags and sharing them with other mad collectors on flickr. Funny thing with flickr suddenly most of the offending people who have business links under their blogs have taken them down so am pretty sure my benign link to my blog was the cause of my being banned. Looks like the others were warned or word got around and it snowballed but still naturally no confirmation from anyone….flickr said my blog was okay but some zealous administrator obviously thought I was abusing the system.

Still looking for the fabric for little Ollie who lives opposite, I told them to give me two weeks then to go ahead and buy some and I will make him one anyway. Can’t have him without one the first real winter of his life, that he will understand anyway, he is about 9 months old I think and crazy about animals. Bumped into my friend Daniel the one of the Bar Mitzvah quilt today and I swear that in the month since I saw him his voice has broken! Time moves on for us all. My flickr friend Sally was asking today could it really be 40 years since their daughter was born?

Today I was awarded a couple of blog awards from Glassoffashion an amazing blog whereby GOF regularly lets us into her vast collection of vintage Vogue and other catalogues and patterns and by vintage I mean 1920’s and 1930’s, absolutely fabulous. She is currently creating a lovely bridesmaid’s dress for her upcoming wedding, flapper style of course for her cousin to wear.

I will take this opportunity actually to apologise to everyone if I appear not to be commenting as regularly as usual but after going to GOF’s blog I realised my blog surfer has more than the not unsubscribing of blogs problem going on, it is not showing all of my subscribed blog entries either. I fear that I have missed huge chunks of peoples blogs and that is not acceptable so am going with the something or other feeder or rather my son is when he has time to set me up with it. Hope you have a great weekend doing whatever it is that warms your hearts, see you next week.

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Glad to see you are having a week off - that’s what I really need.

Did you get warned by flickr or was it my mad email that made you think of it? I hadn’t read all the small print when I joined flickr.

Kara it was my being banned last week which led to me going to the help forum and they felt it was that but then a staff member then said my blog was okay as it was a personal blog that was not driving business to a site for profit. Unlike you I was just banned but think if flickr warns you, next time your account is deleted.

And boy do you ever need a week off. My Rss feeder is up and running now but yours won’t link to your posts…is that meant to be?

By: kara on April 5, 2008
at 3:08 pm

Kathleen, I like your vases. Have you been collecting them for a while or did you come across more than one at a time? Its hard to imagine that my boys are getting the age they are too…with Geoff’s b’day coming up next week and all. I remember when I was small and my parent’s friends would say “oh I remember when you were just a baby..or just a little girl”.. and now it seems so strange when I say it to others. Stranger too to feel much the same on the inside just that there are changes on the outside. Oh my where is this coming from… *s*..

Hi Judi I found the two black ones together and have been collecting for some time. Sometimes though with thrifting everything comes in at once. My aim was to have pottery etc with my quilts the way the magazines have them in their photoshoots but am running out of storage space. What I do is rotate different collections and looks in our home and will be bringing the accent pottery and china up when I rephotograph my quilts. I want some more artistic shots of them for my records!
I hear you on all the above…especially the discrepancy between the outside and in! It is just that my knees and things remind me that I am not twenty anymore or even thirty for that matter.

By: Judi on April 6, 2008
at 7:07 pm

Thanks so much for starting the flickr group. Such a great bunch of people to share with! I didn’t even know you could be banned from flickr. I’m new at all this stuff. I appreciate your kind comments about my quilts too. Glad I found your blog…and you’re a thrifter too! Yeah!!!

Jacquie I love the way you write on your blog. I shall put you on my google reader my son set up, I love it, no more missed posts of fellow bloggers. Isn’t the response great. I have not joined some groups before because of the rule about having to leave a comment each time….there are a lot of great quilts etc but I do not always know what to say to the one immediately next to me and think it would sound false if I tried. I have found that to be the case with a few of mine where the commenter [?] sounded like they had no idea what they were expected to say. Also I was next to Liza of Dorky quilts one day…way out of my league talent wise but she got in there and commented quite kindly on mine!

Yes who knew one could be banned? I certainly did not and as I had no warning it was disturbing….you know the “what did I do, my work is not good enough” etc etc then after fact checking with flickr found out that group administrators are effectively god for that group, though flickr prefers warnings to banishment with no recourse..they were really stunned. So it is not flickr that bans you it is the administrator, which is why I decided to set up a safe haven for us, as would not allow that to happen to our group members.

Do you photograph your thrift finds? I have not got far back enough in your blog yet to see.

By: Jacquie on April 7, 2008
at 11:06 pm

Hi Kathleen! Love your “thrift” posts…you seem to find some delightful things! : ) I think I’ve finally solved my problem with the WordPress changes…thank goodness…it was a pain!!! AAAgghh!
Hope you have a lovely day today! Hugs to you, Sunnie : )

By: Sunnie-oldcrowfarm on April 9, 2008
at 1:18 am

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