Saturday, June 27, 2009

Happy Saturday

My mema Betty. The yard sale queen. 

She had me meet her at her house at 630 a.m.
I was there 15 minutes early :)
(Perhaps we have the "thrill of the hunt" in common.)
And we were off to find the bargains.
And we SO did.

Nice to meet you mid-century modern chair that I love: love the color, love the legs and love the price-$10! When the lady selling it said, "Have a seat..it swivels too." I was sold. Load it up.

And you, sweet elusive white rainbow stripe camera that I needed for my polaroid collection, I have found you. And found you for 50 cents. Happy me :) 

A few books and game treasures later and we were done. But not without a beauty salon stop first.

You have to know that my mema Betty is NOT a camera lover like I am, but of course I brought it along and had to take some pics of her getting her hair done. I don't have a whole lot of photos of her and these pics are "technically" imperfect: bad lighting, bad angle, etc.
But to me...perfection. 
I love that even at her age it is important to her to have her hair done and feel girlie.

We finished our time with a stop at the former Maid Rite and ordered some "crumble burgers".

As we were driving to her house she said, "I haven't had that much fun in a long time. This has been one of my most favorite days. I will always remember this time we had."

And I will too.

And I have those beautiful, perfectly imperfect pictures to remind me.

It was a good day.

Back later this week with more craftiness.
 

4 comments:

  1. OOHhhhh...Lex! I'm SOOO happy you found your elusive white polaroid! And the rest of your treasures---they simply...ROCK!! But the best treasure of all? Your memories, photos and thoughts from the day with your Mema.
    Hugs,
    Suz

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  2. Fun!

    So where's the former Maid Rite?

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  3. Hey Betsy!
    You know when you live in a town and really don't know the street names...just the location? Ha! That's me! So the Maid Rite was *kinda* close to the high school, down from the square. I am seriously no help! But now it's known as "Dairy Princess" and the burgers are not called "maid rites", but "crumble burgers"...which doesn't sound too appealing, but let's not judge a book by it's cover :)

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  4. These photos are great! What a perfect day!!

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