Winter Travel

The Christmas hussle and bussle has been laid to rest...and we've entered into a new era...2012.
I must say, therefore I will say, hurray!
 I'm totally looking forward...to a busy, challenging and prosperous year!
At the near moment we are traveling...Colorado, Florida and everywhere in between. Seriously having fun, finding perfect finds...vintage...retro...So along the way...I'll share with you some of my great finds, (which I will list in my Etsy shops upon my return) kind photos of scenery and such...
so stay tuned...
Here is the1st evidence of our winter travels...hope you enjoy the ride!

Windmill bliss...c/o Kansas...

Christmas Giveaway!

A $100 Christmas Shopping Giveaway!

Incredibly Easy Contest!

We're giving away to one lucky person 

a $100 shopping spree in our Etsy shops!

That's right you can pick items totaling $100

from either

"Uptown Thrift" or "Lovely Vintage Etc."

Just in time for Christmas!

It's so simple!

Post Daily ~Share to win!

Each day starting Nov.20th through Friday, Dec. 2nd,

use the Christmas Avatar (picture above)

or

share the photo of your favorite item from either of 

our Etsy shops...

Uptown Thrift or Lovely Vintage Etc

Once you share the photo, come back to our

fan page wall and post that you shared.

Here's how your entries count...

5 points

If you post the a photo of your favorite item

from

"Uptown Thrift" 

 along with telling us on 

our FB page or our blog, 

you're "I shared" daily post.

5 points

If you post  a photo of your favorite item

from

"Lovely Vintage Etc...

with "I shared" daily post....

and follow our blog, which is right here.

7 points

EACH day if you are the FIRST person to join 

 either Our new FB page or Our Blog,

and post your "I shared" or like comment.

6 points

If you post the pic above or a photo of favorite item with

your "I shared" daily post and you Friend us on 

Facebook @ Uptown Thrift-Lovely Vintage Etc.

Remember post daily to rack up points!

Yes, I must say...it's incredibly easy to win!

however that's how it should be!

Rules & Guidelines

One post  per day, is allowed per venue.

All other guidelines.

Winner will be notified within 24 hours of contest end with further details.

The Christmas Giveaway ends...

Dec. 2nd 2011...11:59 PM (CST)

Let the fun begin!

Magnet For Vintage

I must say, therefore I will say...somehow vintage treasures just seem to find my path. I feel like a magnet with a force that attracts and attaches vintage lovely's to me. It's a wondrous feeling knowing I don't really have to search or hunt for these treasures...they just seem to show up wherever my day leads me.
This is great news for you my friends and fellow vintage lovers...because you get first glance at these lovely finds before they become available in my 2 Etsy Shops via "Up Town Thrift" & "Lovely Vintage Etc".


My latest unique find...

 Enjoy! :)

The Return

Yes, I have returned after a seemingly long sabbatical...August 2010 was my last post.
Now more than a year later I've decided to reconnect...my intention is to reembark on this blogging venue with a renewed determination to follow through on a consistent posting basis.
People who consistently not only blog, yet can twitt, keep up w/ FB ,create and run an online Etsy shop amaze me! Or should I say more than amaze me! Not to mention many of them have other jobs and college obligations to boot. So Amazing!!
 How do they effectively juggle all such endeavors?
 Do they have a commodity on time...is there a facility where time can be purchased?
 Maybe they don't sleep?
Or just maybe I just move at a turtles pace...
So anyway, I've decided to devote one day to blog posting...I chose lazy daisy Sunday afternoons...however, I might just squeeze a couple more blogging days into the mix...I just never know about me.
So I look forward to seeing you here...reading and commenting as I will bring you on my travels for living vintage treasures...from say the mod hippie 70's to the radical sit-in 60's style...and of course such era's as...30's.40's, 50's etc...
stay tuned for fabulous finds and contests!

So your wondering...what ever happened to those little birdies?

Separate path in life...

As days went by, the four siblings diverted from one another,

flying as they may with feebleness along their separate paths in life.

I could no longer locate all of them as they traveled in a variety of directions.

Still yet, listening intently I could hear one or two of the chicks distinctively
intermittent chirps.  

Even though these small siblings no longer reside in the nest and are
individually apart, the protective parents are still very much apart of their lives.

The adult Cardinal's protective internal instinct powered up no doubt when the first 
egg became the centerpiece of their abode. This amazing instinct of love beckons
or even compels them to hasten with aid to the location of their offspring's sound.

Living alone...

 

 

Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal are always fastidiously close at hand...

flying to and fro...calling, singing and listening for the whereabouts

of their babes.

Always ready to feed and protect them,with their beaks full of food
the caring parents as they may,  make their way flying in the direction
of the chirping sound.
This particular black and white photo is the shadow
of  Mr.Dad Cardinal preparing to deliver food to it's fledgling wherever it may be.

PS:

A week or two later, I sadly found one of the chicks dead on the driveway. After close inspection
apparently it died from starvation or dehydration. Hopefully though, the other 3 have
survived and made it onto adulthood.

Growing Rapidly

Growing and gaining strength rapidly...they move upward to higher branches above the nest.  They are still very delicate at this age.  At first it seemed to me  they couldn't hold onto the branch very long with those fragile legs therefore the need to return to the nest for rest would be essential...however they do not return to the nest...sleeping upright in this position for hours feet clinging to the branches...waking only to eat or to change positions. The temperatures soaring each day in the 90's ,the upper branches apparently are a much cooler habitat for these little cuties.

First organic salad from my square foot garden!!!

This was just kinda fun, and thanks to Mel Bartholomew for All New Square Foot Gardening.
A great method for growing organic veggies in small spaces. These are cool weather crops of Lettuce, Spinach, Green Onions and Radishes.