This sold last summer and even with time passed, someone still sent their story today!
photo via VintageToGoEasy
There are a few remaining pieces from
my Day of the Dead religious folk art here
There are a few remaining pieces from
my Day of the Dead religious folk art here
I started this blog posting on April 23, 2014 and it got lost in all my other draft postings and was originally posted as story 188, but my draft area has turned into a diary journal of some sorts and since I'm techless different writings are getting mixed up with posting drafts and quite frankly I'm not sure how to organize them!
Oh well, another thing to put on my list to learn later. Here is the wonderful email I received:
I hope you remember me. I bought that nicho from you last summer, and
you sent me the most excellent letter with it. It really brightened my
day, and I really wanted to answer it, but I had a sad thing happen to
me and I didn't know how to answer you without saying something weirdly
morbid or whatever. I still might, but I wanted to acknowledge your note
before too much more time passes. So you know, I planned to make a
little nature shadow box with some of my dead flower and plant
collection.
Okay, I totally understand this person! I have sad confusing, sometimes conflicting or disturbing things happen to me too and have a hard time filtering what I might blurt out at any given time! Also these instances might take days to weeks for me to sort and process and I don't know what to do about it!
Some things are probably not even worth processing and best to just move on and not remember them, but I think that's why I'm a hoarder. I'm not quite sure what's important and what is not. And throw in some stress to hoarding as stress relief and it can mix into OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder and FOMO, fear of missing out. Yikes!
Hoarding is like my tangible journal of things, albeit without any organized linear timeline because if I stopped and analyzed everything I experience, I'd never get out of my head! I wonder how it transferred into "things."
So there it is, another clue to my hoarding ways! What to do about it? I have no ideas, except to keep moving forward as best I can, even if moving forwards means taking teeny tiny baby steps and at times of overload moving backwards in great leaps. It's like a game of "Mother May I," however as a child I preferred, "Green Light, Red Light!"
photo via VintageToGoEasy
There are a few remaining pieces from
my Day of the Dead religious folk art here
There are a few remaining pieces from
my Day of the Dead religious folk art here
and then shortly came this email:
Also, I think Palm Springs is a great place to live, and I love it here. I really like your project to get rid of things. I'm glad I could help a little bit. Hope you're well. Best wishes
I've debated which California desserts I'd like to live during spring and fall, when it's not too hot or too cold. The desserts I've considered are Anza Borrego, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Mohave, Pearblossom, Palmdale and Lancaster that order from favorite to least favorite.
Watching the movie, Obselidia rekindled my love of the dessert and one character lives out there in a very minimalist manner with very little and his bees. It's really about a man who is making a kind of dictionary of the obsolete and who perhaps believes love is obsolete for him too, but finds something in himself and others by taking a road trip to the dessert.
If you've ever wanted to go on a road trip to Death Valley and see some of the historical, kitsch and other notable locations, plus the bonus of seeing The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles without going or want to see what you might see if you do go, then this movie might be for you!
I watched it when it was available on netflix. If you can't watch the movie, some photos of the museum, on wiki, here or go to their link here for visiting hours and admission costs and/or shop at their museum online. I haven't been there because it's gotten mixed reviews and it may be too musty for me and my allergies.
Also, I think Palm Springs is a great place to live, and I love it here. I really like your project to get rid of things. I'm glad I could help a little bit. Hope you're well. Best wishes
I've debated which California desserts I'd like to live during spring and fall, when it's not too hot or too cold. The desserts I've considered are Anza Borrego, Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Mohave, Pearblossom, Palmdale and Lancaster that order from favorite to least favorite.
Watching the movie, Obselidia rekindled my love of the dessert and one character lives out there in a very minimalist manner with very little and his bees. It's really about a man who is making a kind of dictionary of the obsolete and who perhaps believes love is obsolete for him too, but finds something in himself and others by taking a road trip to the dessert.
If you've ever wanted to go on a road trip to Death Valley and see some of the historical, kitsch and other notable locations, plus the bonus of seeing The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles without going or want to see what you might see if you do go, then this movie might be for you!
I watched it when it was available on netflix. If you can't watch the movie, some photos of the museum, on wiki, here or go to their link here for visiting hours and admission costs and/or shop at their museum online. I haven't been there because it's gotten mixed reviews and it may be too musty for me and my allergies.
photo via VintageToGoEasy
There are a few remaining pieces from
my Day of the Dead religious folk art here
Here's what I wrote back:
Hi!
Thank you so much for you email!!!!! I'm the type that let's too much time pass too, so I'm so happy that you wrote me anyways! Thank you!
I'm also thankful that my note brought you a little light in a time of sadness, I struggle with random and bits of sadness every once in awhile and can lose my filter. I hope your sad thing is passing more gently now.
Now you've brightened my day!!!!!!! Thank you for your story! That nicho was so big and it was my last one and I couldn't stop thinking what an artist with a "pink chair" in the desert might create with it! I love your idea of your nature box and am curious about your dead flower and plant collection, since I have so many collections myself! If you feel like sharing more about it, please do! hoarderrehab@gmail.com
I've been thinking of living in the desert ever since I went camping in Anza Borrego, so I'm thinking either Palm Springs or Joshua Tree. I suppose you like Palm Springs better! lol
Thank you for you help and will use your story soon on my blog and I'll leave you anonymous..
I hope you are feeling better as well! Thank you for the best wishes for my Hoarder Rehab journey!
Kindest regards,
Kennedy
PS. I've always liked what's in your favorites and when I read your profile always wonder what it is this year you are doing? Are you still spinning and knitting? or has the new year brought you something else? Sorry I wrote so much, but you really brightened my day and now it's exciting!
www.etsy.com/shop/HoarderRehab
www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings
www.etsy.com/shop/vintagetogoeasy
www.etsy.com/shop/JunkDrawerLoveEtsy
hoarderrehab@gmail.com
Read 180+ stories from Etsy buyers who help me stay focused on my HoarderRehab!
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Thank you so much for you email!!!!! I'm the type that let's too much time pass too, so I'm so happy that you wrote me anyways! Thank you!
I'm also thankful that my note brought you a little light in a time of sadness, I struggle with random and bits of sadness every once in awhile and can lose my filter. I hope your sad thing is passing more gently now.
Now you've brightened my day!!!!!!! Thank you for your story! That nicho was so big and it was my last one and I couldn't stop thinking what an artist with a "pink chair" in the desert might create with it! I love your idea of your nature box and am curious about your dead flower and plant collection, since I have so many collections myself! If you feel like sharing more about it, please do! hoarderrehab@gmail.com
I've been thinking of living in the desert ever since I went camping in Anza Borrego, so I'm thinking either Palm Springs or Joshua Tree. I suppose you like Palm Springs better! lol
Thank you for you help and will use your story soon on my blog and I'll leave you anonymous..
I hope you are feeling better as well! Thank you for the best wishes for my Hoarder Rehab journey!
Kindest regards,
Kennedy
PS. I've always liked what's in your favorites and when I read your profile always wonder what it is this year you are doing? Are you still spinning and knitting? or has the new year brought you something else? Sorry I wrote so much, but you really brightened my day and now it's exciting!
www.etsy.com/shop/HoarderRehab
www.etsy.com/shop/thedestinyofthings
www.etsy.com/shop/vintagetogoeasy
www.etsy.com/shop/JunkDrawerLoveEtsy
hoarderrehab@gmail.com
Read 180+ stories from Etsy buyers who help me stay focused on my HoarderRehab!
hoarderrehab.blogspot.com
photo via VintageToGoEasy
There are a few remaining pieces from
my Day of the Dead religious folk art here
other religious and handmade by me, here
The Garden milagro cross was inspired by my black thumb! I am from fourth or fifth generation farmers and can't grow a bean to save my life! I've tried and tried on and off all my life, but the milagro cross did provide a sorts of small miracles!
Long story short, I have maintained a small garden of fruit trees, beans from seeds my family used to grow on their farms, chilis (another farm from my mother's side), basically a salsa and salad garden to eat from year round.
The Garden Cross represents many things for me with milagro and sterling charms (small miracle ex voto like charms) to remind me to stay steady with the ebb and flow of seasons. At each end is a reminder to take my time, with a snail to remind me that everything,even bugs that bug are connected and part of an eco system and a bench as a symbol to rest, smell the flowers and everything happens in it's own time.
I have corn and wheat to represent fertility and abundance. I have a rodent that actually has taken some bites out of the cross as a reminder that even disasters have a silver lining and even dandelions aren't weeds because the younger tender leaves are a good source of calcium, rich in iron, high in Vit A and C, aids in liver detox, helps purify your blood, settles digestion and on and on! Plus they taste great in a green drink or smoothie, salads and stir fry!
I love dandelion wishes and although they may be a nuisance to most pristine lawn owners, they do belong to the Sunflower family with over 22,000 species with siblings like the daisy and thistle!
other religious and handmade by me, here
This was made for my brother and we made it together. Well, we designed it together because actually we made all the crosses together. He made all the crosses, I did the rest. There are several more of these crosses some where n the hoard, a "Drive Safe" cross, "Housewarming" cross and a large plain one that I was going to make into a "Cross Cross" with lost of different crosses on it.
He had just gone through a bad bad awful break up and we hung this on his wall as the Lovers Cross and lo and behold he met someone and now they've been married for over 10 years! He insisted on the peace sign. I can't remember why. I insisted on another heart, but since it was his cross for love I gave into my own aesthetics to abide by his!
The crosses above were through the 80s to 90s. Below is one my latest pieces due to my love of hearts, doilies and rhinestone crosses!
handmade by me for you
I call it, "Hannibal Heart" because it's the remnant of what was left of the doily I used
and reminds me of the remnants of twisted weird love they ended up sharing and the deer antlers in Will Graham dreams, but instead of a deer it's antlers on a heart doily,
available here
What I Learned:
1. Well, well, well, I was wondering if this was going to happen and it kinda did....I waited over 3 years to become unallergic to my sterling and my other metal collections and never did. So I finally decided to let them go and was wondering if once I did my allergies would disappear and in some ways they have!
Now that all of my copper and tin nichos are gone, I am not allergic to them now! As in touch them allergic, so I bought some more! I know it may sound a little crazy, but I found 8 heart nichos all exactly the same, so I bought them all for my repetition art of loteria cards!
Now that most of my Native American jewelry is gone, I am not that allergic to sterling anymore, but don't even bother with jewelry. I have tried to wear some, but take it off within five minutes because jewelry just feels funny and in the way now.
Can you believe that? and how does that happen? No ideas here, but in the back of my mind, I did think it might happen!
handmade by me for you
Mexican religious folk art with loteria card, here
Thank you Etsy buyer from VintageToGoEasy for sending me an email many months later and remembering me! And yes, I remember you because you have I love your etsy name and all the stuff you have in your favorites. I even noticed that you bought something from my Etsy friend, Ali and her shop, HeyAlleyCat! Too cool!
It's always nice to know that a few words in a letter a can brighten someone's day, whether it's incoming or outgoing!
Thank you Etsy for helping me find homes for over 730 hoarded items and for supporting my ever evolving Hoarder Rehab journey!
Thank you US, Italy, Germany, Canada, UK, Luxembourg, Switzerland, China, Netherlands and other countries taking part in my HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!
My NEW GOAL is to have 175 items listed on each shop and one has just been met at The Destiny of Things, so I'll be listing at
least 1 new item daily on at least one shop five days a week!
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily: HoarderRehab with 174 items , The Destiny of Things-191 items , VintageToGoEasy - 168 items and now JunkDrawerLoveEtsy - 144 items! Thanks for looking! Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!
handmade by me for you
mixed media art calavera loteria card, here
Related Stories:
1. Not my favorite Cross Nicho! Story here
2. Beautiful Large Mexican Folk Art Virgin Mary Nicho: The Destiny of Things, Story #102, here
3. Mexican Tin Story with Papel Picado style cards from Hoarder Lite buyer, story here
4. 2 Sacred Heart Nichos for Coincidental Copper Anniversaries, story here
5. Calavera Skull Beads used for Day of the Dead Wedding Cake Topper, here
"The more you are motivate by Love, the more Fearless and Free your action will be." ---14th Dalai Lama
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