New Year’s Day: 100th Sale!

Forty minutes to midnight, exactly one year after I started selling from my first Etsy shop, Dahlila, I just made my 100th sale on Dahlila Found.
Now that is a new year’s day! d.

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Winter Solstice Treasury West

 My very first EVER in a year on Etsy, Treasury West. I am so tickled. I had trouble capturing all of it, but this is most of it. Yay!

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Men Need Shoes Too

I’ve got some great new vintage men’s shoes in the shop. Men should have fun shoes too.

Pair #1 Fabulously supple men’s handmade dress shoes from Poland.
Pair #2 SOLD Vintage military boots
Pair #3 Military dress shoes
Pair #4 Military jump boots, steel toed.
Enjoy! d.

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A Good Long Walk

We are even deeper in fog today, think “Hounds of the Baskerville.” A good day to stay inside and work, but I took a very long, much needed walk and had coffee. Zephyr had to stay home, as he is still limping, which is torture on both of us. We both live for a good [...]

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Working in the World

A quick write before I slip into a hot bath, after a long day. This working away from home stuff is exhausting. I’m ready every night to come home, close the door and rest. Zephyr isn’t pleased with my new schedule, not always having time in the morning to walk. But we took a long [...]

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Jaunty, Happy Men

This just made me giggle, so I had to share. This photo alone is classic, but it’s also an advertisement for upscaled, upcycled “unders” for men at Panther By Hand on Etsy. As she states in her description, it’s a shame more men don’t have brightly colored unders. Looking at these jaunty, happy men. I [...]

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New Cafe Blooms

Hello, Just checking in. Letting you all know I’m still here. DahliaFound has been picking up business and I’m so happy. So I’ve been shopping and trying to get more posted. It never ends.
Meanwhile, amidst the world havoc I thought I’d take a minute today to appreciate my flowers. I’ve been gardening now for a [...]

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Typing The Afternoon Tea

I’ve been working on my cards for Dahlila. They’re fun but they aren’t photographing well. They don’t pop–but then they are typed, HAND typed on an old Olympia manual. The fun is fading, as is the ink ribbon. My fingers hurt and I don’t think the antiquity of it all is appreciated, really. The computer [...]

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June and The Green Desk Shelter Project

Last week we had a neighborhood wide yard sale. Apparently, it was huge and went well. I never got out to see, as I was stuck manning my own yard. I did okay, cleaned out the garage some, the book shelves (always hard to let go), clothes (also difficult–what if I want to wear that [...]

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Michael Hedges, Reinspiration

It is early evening and the neighbors are drunk and arguing so I have cranked up Michael Hedges, Aerial Boundaries. I can’t believe I almost sold this at my yard sale. I had two albums and a woman wanted to buy something instrumental for her son. I said, “he will love these. MIchael Hedges was [...]

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