Find of the Week #5

A huge plastic bag with a ball of zipper tape was 

my find of the week! It is a great burnt orange 

color. See my "This into That" post for what I did with the ball

of zipper! A find at SCRAP.

Find of the week #4 Found Hearts

Wishing you all a Happy Valentines Day with your loved ones.

Here is a collection of heart rocks, shells and beach 

glass I have collected.  My found hearts  were collected on Baker
Beach and Fort Funston while walking our dog Herby.

 I dedicate this to my oldest sister Lindsay who left 

  us 11 years ago today.  Sometimes it seems like it was yesterday
only our children are not two and five heading to daycare and
kindergarten clutching Valentines in their tiny hands. They are now
thirteen and sixteen years  old. I still go to the mail box and
think of the packages she would send on my birthday and
Valentines Day....I miss her...

Lindsay forever in our hearts.....   photos of her at 18 months and 
 her kindergarten school  photo, age 5

Third Find (really a bargain) of the week!

My sister Tracy works as a merchandiser  so she knows a lot of people in the grocery industry. On the day after Christmas her butcher friend told her the fresh turkeys were going on sale for 29 cents a pound! So my other sister Stephanie headed out to the store and came house with two turkeys along with her other groceries. She took a look at her receipt and found out she was charged 29 cents per turkey! We took ours home to San Francisco that night and the next day guess what I made for the first time?

Check out the original price for this fresh turkey. $36.18. On sale it was supposed to be $3.51 but ended up at 29 cents!
This turkey was truly one of my better bargains.  Some of my other bargains include a 16 cent chair and my $20.00 wedding gown (retail $1000.00) but those are other stories...

Here is the result of the 29 cent turkey. My first one I have ever cooked. We have hosted a lot of Thanksgivings but I was never the cook for the turkey. It came out really tasty. Stuffed it with pearl onions, carrots and celery. And I made a side of garlic mash potatoes.

Second find of the week

 I was going to see the Houdini show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and stopped by the Craft and Folk museum but it had closed already. I spied a wonderful Christmas tree in the window made out what looks like magazines. Of course I want to make one for next years Christmas. I know better than to think I could make it for this year unless I made it sort of small.....hmmm

I wonder where it came from.... washed ashore

I carried this typewriter home with me and am transforming it into a succulent garden but not before documenting it on Baker Beach.