I love your thrift find photos best Melissa!
I remember the first time I found your blog, don't remember how. I spend a looooong time just going through and falling into your photos. So inspiring.
Hugs from off-Cape,
Tracey

I have had "Don't Stop Believing" stuck in my head since last night when they did the Glee preview during Idol...so excited to see this show! I'm sure I'll start to reminisce about my days in HS choir & show choir...

Have you thought about being a redhead?

the ladies are a Lovely find and I agree they do look 50ish.
wow you have a good eye for beautiful things... awhile back you posted a pic of your watercolors and I loved them, this weekend I'll visit my local art store and get me some, thank you so much for being you and filling my head with inspiration, have a lovely day!~ SusieQ

Love the faces, I wonder what they are thinking. I think being a red head would be so much fun (better that the dishwater mop I have now!) I'm with you about the season change. I love the fresh new green and the roses, peonies, and irises are already to pop. Have a great weekend. Cheers.

Glad to see you back and trying to blog. I have missed you! Love those thrifting pics. Please post a pic of your dark hair! I wanna see! I agree with the above poster...have you thought about being a red head? When people like us have really short hair we can get away with playing with color cause we cut if off all of the time!

Hi Melissa - while I was on the east coast, I didn't have an internet connection, so I hadn't seen your blog to know how down you must have been feeling the day I stopped into your shop. I'm the woman from Oregon who was waiting for you with my sister who lives on the Cape, hoping to catch you before I left for Logan. I've felt a connection to you since finding your blog. Not only because I love your art and your shop, but because I've also suffered a deep loss. I lost both my parents when I was twelve. It has been many, many years since then, and I know the pain of not knowing. My best friend has lost a brother and a son to suicide and the despair is so hard, but we go on. I'm glad you feel the love of those around you. It will lift you and carry you when times are tough. The spring and the summer will buoy you, and hopefully, when the fall and winter arrive, you will find joys that come with those quieter seasons too. Chin up. You're fabulous, you're vibrant, and there's so much for all of us to live for.

Melissa... just stopped in to catch up and read back a few blogs and decided that I had to write to let you know that you are not alone... I find myself wanting to dig a big hole and climb into it... this can come on at any given time, season or events in my life. I don't think "non-depressed" people understand the need to crawl into bed, hide under the covers, turn in on our selves and hope for the best ... but, then the sun will come back and I hear the birds sing and I see the colors of the world and I want to do something artistic and then I slowly come back to the world. I feel for you and hope for the best ... take your time and regroup, find your purpose and your art again... Sometimes it's easier to instill inspiration in others than to find it for ourselves.
Debb

I want to trade noses with one of those lovely ladies.
Had some sister time today - one face to face and the other by phone - good stuff.

I'm so excited for Glee too! Hope you're having a nice day!

Oh those are just so awesome. I wish I was a thrifty kind of person, but I think that take some patience gene that I didn't inherit (my mom has it, so obviously I COULD have but no such luck.) I'm burying myself in a mountain of sewing and planting this weekend. That has to be good, right?

I'm loving the figurines!! So cute. I'm with you on the canopy of leaves over the roads. one of my favorite parts of this time of year!

I have come out of lurking to say, Hi, you wild and crazy chick! I am glad you are feeling better. Lovely ring your bud gave you. I even showed it to my Dave. He smiled. He knows how nuts gals can get over such a beautiful piece of jewelry. The shop is great. Have you been a redhead? You could match the fabric shows! Only kidding! XOXO from texas
Sending you good vibes and crazy fun days.

Hey Melissa
You seem to have a good "thrift" fairy with you, lately I can't find any treats when I'm shopping... oh well, I probably have enough anyway! I have to tell you that I TOTALY copied your idea and have put two book shelves in my studio with all of my toys and collectables. I'm am a bit technologicaly slow but I will try to find a way to send you photos. Thanks for the idea and inspiration!
well it has been a busy week for me and I'm hoping things slow down, my plan is hit up a street fair this weekend to see some of my associates from the Craft Mafia- I swear I'm not spending any money! hahaha- ya at least I said it!
I am sending you positive thoughts,take care of yourself lady. your cyber friend in San Diego J

Melissa i love your findings and your photos are gorgeous! Have a lovely merry happy weekend and love to you!

I love the photos.

I've been embroidering antidepressants, thanks for asking!

Hi!

I love the music link: thanks so much for it! I had to chuckle at your comment on Hallelujah, that you could listen to it all day, wait, you DO!

So do I! Love that song. One time through is never enough for me.

Leonard Cohen wrote it, you know, though he wasn't the one who made it famous. I love his songs, when other people sing them!

He kind of intrigues me: obviously of Jewish parentage with the name Cohen, and writes songs with so many religious references in them to BOTH Jewish and Christian stuff,but without the songs actually ever being about religion-- ("Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water"---never did fully 'get' that verse in Suzanne).

Then, I read last year in a Buddhist mag that he's spent the last 25 years or so as a Buddhist. I think he might be a monk. That really gave me a smile. Seems so apt. Of seeking and being at peace with not knowing. Like so many of us.

Which of course reminded me of your beautiful poem about your brother. Been thinking about you since reading those previous posts, praying things go well for you, with whatever process will help you grow and live most fully and richly. It's a such a lushly lovely, though painful world. I think you'll find your way through it. Sounds like you are doing all the right things. It will be okay.

You take care. And have a guilt-free, love-yourself-deeply, bowl of Captain Crunch cereal, on me, the next time you need it! love.

I really wish I could pull off buzzing my hair short and looking as good as you do with it..

I love the lovely ladies.. thrifting is SUCH a fun thing to do and from what I remember, you do it well!! :D

I just "found" you in the Studio Magazine and read the whole article on your amazing shop and studio. WOW :) Now I can't wait to read your blog and see what you are up to. I love in the San Francisco Bay Area and teach Art to Elementary School children. My blog is fun with some of my own mixed media "stuff", things I find and love and of course the children's amazing art. Come visit when you have a chance. I am off to check out the rest of your blog now. Chiao =^..^=

Just today I clicked on your yummy playlist and found I Try by Ben Taylor. That song is on some cereal commercial and my DH and I would yell.....there's that song....who is it? who is it? Who knew it was James Taylor's son! Thanks for the playlist..I've always loved Eva Cassidy...have you heard her Fields of Gold? Got any more picks?
Stay on the sunny side...Gail
ps....was clicking around on the Free Spirit designer page this morning....are you in great company or what?

Never mind about more picks....I just found pages 2 & 3 on blip fm. Thanks