It Has Started! - Car Boot Sales and My Magpie Nature

"Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new." - Saint Augustine

Well a new season of CAR BOOT SALES has begun and I am REALLY trying hard not to bring too many lovely things home with me this year - which is something I find SO difficult to do!

I am afraid that a few things have already slipped through my I really haven't got the space safety net.

I just couldn't resist these things!

It was way back in July of last year that I first blogged about my dilemma caused by my Magpie nature! - See this post - at the time I was certain that I had come up with a solution that would allow me to continue collecting and adding to my abundant stash of treasures . . .

But as you can see, I didn't follow the idea through.

Instead, I was harsh and purged all but the most glorious and loved of my treasures and promptly packed them carefully away back in the boxes, stacked them in a big cupboard and forgot about them.
Until I started treasure hunting again. . .

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few,
and they are more beautiful if they are few." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So, the situation has come back around again - as situations tend to do when you don't deal with them!

Two choices - I shall either have to totally ban myself from bringing any more things home! - (bursts into floods of tears!) or perhaps I should reconsider my earlier idea and occasionally post a treasure here in the hope that someone may fall in love with it and want it to come and live with them!

What do you think?

Come and say hello at my new blog!

I have recently started another blog, it is called -

The Streaming Now

I plan to update it regularly with photos and random day to day snippets and it would be great to see you there! So please come and visit and say hello!.

Very best wishes
- Susannah x

Life just gives you time and space, it's up to you to fill it. - Anon

Shop, Blog Makeover and Getting Started

Well, everything has been on hold for a while in regard to the shop.

Sometimes, things need time to grow, to attain their shape. An idea has energy and the seed is planted and watered with the initial spark of inspiration and then needs time to allow it to germinate, to put down roots and begin to grow.

This is what happened - and today was the day the idea broke the soil and caught my attention again - so here I am.

I intend to blog about the 'treasures' as I unpack them and felt I needed more space for the photos, so gave the blog a makeover too - I hope you like it.

Now, to fish out the first box from under the bed and get started - stay tuned! - Susannah :-)

My Dilemma - Solution Coming Soon!

Well, when I first started this blog my intention was to share some of the beautiful items I find on my travels and just can't resist bringing home! You see, I find it difficult, no, REALLY difficult to say no to lovely or unusual items. I am like a Magpie and it brings me great pleasure to collect all these little treasures. Now, this was fine for a while! until my home started disappearing under all this lovely stuff.

This is when I got tough with myself and chose a few (hundred :-)) really extra special favourites that I just couldn't imagine not being able to look at and then quickly and carefully packed up the other things in boxes and put them in the cupboard and when that was full, stacked the rest of the boxes under the bed.

This gave me a temporary feeling of space and control! :-) I liked the new sparce (for me) look and vowed that for a while I would stop falling in love with all these gorgeous things - and I did! I walked away, shielded my eyes, forbade myself to look. Occasionally things slipped through the net and made it home, where I loved them, like I did all the others.

I adore beautiful things, quirky things, unusual things and I have decided that not being able to collect them if I want is inhibiting me!
(Screams and stamps her feet like a petulant 3 year old! ;-))

So a solution is needed - this is my first tentative step in that direction. I have signed up with a place online that lets you have a free shop in return for running ads in the side bar. It means I can securely accept payments through paypal and best of all it won't cost me anything to find out if my solution will work in reality.

The plan is that I will open the boxes up, one at a time and pick 5 of the beautiful items and offer them for sale to others who appreciate 'treasure' too, through the Incredible Joy Shop. Once an item sells, another lovely item will take its place.

Now I have no idea how/if this is going to work but I am going to try!

So, as I figure out the workings of the shop, the countdown to opening begins. . . .Wish me luck! :-)