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I love the “It’s so easy to stick to your diet!”  Especially when the table is for one

and there is already someone occupying it!  See the look on the husbands face?

That’s how The Man looks at dinner time at our house every evening

1. 30 minutes on the Wii

2. Get crafts, snacks and food ready for Girl Scout Valentine Party Thanks #1!

3. Leftover cookies in the car.

4. School the monkeys

5. email Intern the verses he needs

6. POWER POINT for church eBay Fund Raiser

7.  pick up Cadets at Junior High

8.  Try to use my kitchen sink as little as possible (some pipe has a huge hole in it)

Tabled Items

1. Write up 10 eBay things
2. work on the Cooking Blog
3. stretch and block my friend’s needlepoint
4. finish #1’s Coat (make button holes)
5. make lining for the felted purse #1 gave me
6. Buy Valentine stuff for The Man and the monkey’s
7. Take pictures of charity eBay Auctions

I’ve had this thing for quite awhile.  I found it in the bottom of  a hat box I bought that had some quilt pieces in it.  I sold the quilt pieces, but never sold this.

It even comes in the original box!

It has the case to keep the compact from getting scratches.

I’m not sure why this didn’t sell.. except maybe people don’t use compact?

Here’s what I wrote about it:

Up for auction is a very nice vintage Christian Dior Compact in the original box.

• This has never been used.
• It comes with box, black case and the gold basket weave compact.
• This has the original puff.
• About 3″ square
• Box has some condition issues..
• Free shipping
• Back of box reads: Poudrier Damiers Dore Compact Checkered Gold Ref 2121
• Made in France

I haven’t listed it for awhile. I’ll try it again sometime soon..

If you saw this book at a library sale would you buy it?

Does this make you want to buy it even more?  It’s ok..

If you say no.. Don’t worry, I probably wouldn’t have given it a second glance either.

A friend of mine asked me to sell this for him.  I agreed to do it, but I was a little skeptical about it.

I’ve never see an song book sell for very much money.

Here’s my write up on it:

Up for auction is an antique book titled: The Christian’s Harp, Containing a Choice Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes suited to the various metres now in use among the different religious denominations in the United States: designed for the use Public and Family Worship by Samuel Wakefield, Esq.

• This is in great condition, especially considering it’s age of 175 years.
• Leather bound, and there is some wear around the edges of the cover, and a few marks on the front on the leather as well.
• The previous owner wrote their name on the outside cover: The Property of Alexander Still, 1833.
• The pages do have some discoloration and tanning – please view photos.
• There is a bookplate on the inside cover that reads: The Property of: Alexander Still, 12th of July, 1833.  It has a preface, a chapter regarding the Rudiments of Music, and is full of musical scores and the words to the hymns.  This is copyright dated (entered into the act of Congress) 1832, published by Johnston & Stockton 37 Market St, Pittsburgh, 1832.

Here are some of the emails I received on the book:

• Shape-note singing became popular in churches in the South in the  mid-1800’s. It was a way for congregations to more easily learn to sing and be able to sing in four-part harmony because it’s more visual.  Instead of having to know notes by where they fall on the staff, you can know what they are by the shape, making it easy for even illiterate people to be able to join in congregational singing. It is still used today.
• Your book is a nice early example of a shape-note tune book and I’m sure there are people who regularly search for this and have it in saved searches. Contrary to the title, it has nothing to do with harp playing.
  It’s a nice piece of Americana.
• I’ll give you $350.00 to end the auction now.
• Nice book, do you know they are talking about it on the book boards?

The book sold for $580.00.  My friend was ecstatic, and the buyer was happy.

Which really when you sell for other people, that’s all that matters.

I did have one hitch with this shape note tune book.  The buyer asked me to use his FedEx number to send it to him.  I didn’t have any problem doing that.  I made sure I checked off  “signature required” and insured it for the full amount.  The buyer however, has on his account “signature on file” and they left it at the door and it was stolen/left with someone… etc..  I filed the proper paperwork with FedEx and the buyer left positive feedback.  BUT…

This could have gone completely wrong.  How you ask?  If the buyer would have notified PayPal.. and since there was not a signature confirmation on delivery of an item over $25o.00.. I would have been out the money and the item.  AND to top it off.. it wasn’t my item to begin with.

We’ve lived in our house for about 9 years.  The Man and I designed the house  and built it thinking it would be complete and finished 6 months to a year after we built it.  Almost 9 years has gone by and we are still living in a house without knobs on the cabinets, properly set doors and landscaping, as in NO landscaping.

The Man is really good with all things electrical.  Putting up lights and the thought of being shocked doesn’t phase him… except the light in my kitchen.  For some reason he’s just doesn’t want to tackle that.  (it’s partially my fault.)  I don’t want you to think we don’t have a light in the kitchen, because we do.  It’s just we have a plain Jane kind of fixture and I want a fancier one.  What I would like for it to look like is this:

The man says that he would have to put extra holes in the ceiling to make this kind of light work.  (I would like multiple pendant lights.(

So here are a few “single” lights I’ve picked out.

Like this light?  You can get it on eBay! Go HERE

I love this pot rack type light.  I just don’t have any nice looking pots to hang from it.  My mother-in-law has one of these and she has beautiful copper pans and vintage copper things hanging from it.

Can you see the copper pots hanging there in the background?

This light fixture is on eBay to see it go HERE

I like this light a lot.. but I’m not sure if it will give the same amount of light that I am getting now.

These are re-purposed Blue Glass Insulators.  They are being sold on

Etsy.  Check them out HERE

These do not  meet The Man’s guidelines of  using  the existing electrical hole.  But I still really like the “vintage-y” feel to them.

Canning Jar Pendant Lights.  by emmajeansdreams Check it out HERE

I really like these, they are vintage-y and I think they only have one light “hole”.

Pienza 5 light Lamp Check it out HERE

I love this light.. but I’m not sure it will give off enough light.

So which is your favorite?

Here’s my “Bonus” Light

Handmade Esty Venetian Light Check it out HERE

This light would be perfect in my upstairs hallway… We have already purchased the fixtures for up there.  He hasn’t put those up yet. ..but that’s another blog for another day.