Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Loteria Mexican Bingo Game for Fiesta Birthday Party Fun! The Destiny of Things, Story 321

Loteria Mexican Bingo Game for Fiesta Birthday Party Fun!  The Destiny of Things, Story 321

Fun traditional game and learn some Spanish too!

Loteria Mexican Bingo game of 10 gameboards and 54 cards, available here

This loteria game is like playing American bingo, but some say it's more fun because instead of calling out numbers, you can call out the card's picture in Spanish or read or sing the riddle on the back.

Loteria means game of chance in Spanish and unlike American Bingo of choosing a random number, the caller chooses a card.  There seems to be more possible variations or ways to win too!  As seen here on the loteria link on wikepedia.

Not only do the back of the cards contain the riddles in Spanish, but the back of the game boards have old style games on them too!  Like dot to dots, matching games, box me in and perhaps even a cross word puzzle.

Loteria Mexican Bingo game of 10 gameboards and 54 cards, available here

An Etsy buyer let me know that these are for her daughter's fiesta birthday party.  She didn't mention if they were going to play the game or if she was going to use them as party decorations.

We've had many Etsy buyers use these in several different ways.  For fiesta party decor by stringing up the cards to make garlands, the game boards to make wedding programs, invitations and the cards for table numbers, like the example below:

they ordered 12 or 15 loteria game sets!

 Beautiful unique example of wedding seating arrangement display someone emailed to me.  photo via Etsyian

One Etsy buyer even took hers to Puerta Vallarta to play pool side with her friends on her honeymoon or was it bachlorette party.   

Another Etsy buyer plays with her friends to learn Spanish while taking Spanish 101 in college.

I use them to make loteria card art from the deck and the game boards for the nichos we sell on VintageToGoeasy and Hoarder Rehab.  I also make little loteria boxes to ship off the art cards too!

 My loteria art with nicho, available here
photo via VintageToGoeasy

Saying Goodbye:  I've been using these in my art since the 80s and have always loved the graphics on them.  During my teaching days I had at least 4 sets of them because with a class of 30 each would need a game board.

Great game to introduce to children and adults for Day of the Dead, Cinco de Mayo and Mexican Independence day parties through out the year.  My students would love to go find their own lucky magic pebbles at recess to play later in the afternoon.  Other traditional markers are pinto beans or pennies.

Frida Kahlo Day of the Dead mixed media loteria art collage cards
available here, photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

What I Learned:

1.  Finding alternatives to my hoarding habits has been more interesting and easier than I thought.  I've been trying different things and one of them was turning to my loteria art that I used to make in the 80s for gift tags, my nichos and ofrendas.  

Nichos are the little tin 3d framed Mexican shadow boxes and ofrendas a little alters that hold shrine items and nichos.  It would hold offerings your ancestors would like and be decorated with paper garlands and their Saints.

Here is an example of a mini nicho displaying an ofrenda:

 Mini nicho ofrenda, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab

2.  My love for Mexican folk art started with my miniature collection and trips to Mexico as a child.  When I went to college, I saw an exhibit of Religious Mexican Folk Art at the Mengei Museum in San Diego and fell in love with milagros!  I immediately started collecting them.

Milagros are little pot metal miracle charms people would offer to a Saint at church with a prayer.  Here are some milagros on a cross:

Milagro art cross, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab

3.  Most of my Mexican Folk Art from the 80s has sold, but I still have a large collection of milagros and Mexican wedding milagro necklaces that I'm not ready to let go of yet.  And even though I can't really keep my ofrendas and nichos due to my allergies to dust at least other Etsy buyers are enjoying them with my art work inside.

4.  I didn't realize til now how much I do love my religious Mexican folk art!   And I sure did get side tracked from loteria bingo to my different alternatives for hoarding to the love of my religious Mexican folk art!

Here is a cross made by Claudio Jimenez, available here
photo via VintageToGoeasy

Thank you Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things for letting me know your daughter is going to have a fun fiesta birthday by including the loteria game.  Your story brought a lot of insight to mine!  Thank you!
 
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!

Thank you all readers from all over the world who have stopped by to take part in my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things with your visit!
 
 A more modern looking version of the loteria game, available here

I am adding new items weekly to each shop until I have 800 of my dehoard listed!

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 192 items, The Destiny of Things- 171 items, VintageToGoEasy - 190 items and now JunkDrawerAndMore - 182 items!    
 
Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!  Thanks for looking!
 
 Gift boxes made from loteria game boards, available here
 
Related Stories:
 
 
2.  Loteria Mexican Bingo Game Wedding Crafts:  The Destiny of Things, Story 188, here
 
 
 
 
 
"Onwards and upwards!"  mdf club 
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Native American Pure Silver Sandcast Coral Bracelet: The Destiny of Things, Story 320

Native American Pure Silver Sand Cast Bracelet:  The Destiny of Things, Story 320

This little note came with an updated photo!

The last of my Native American jewelry, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab

The little note said:

Shipped quickly and even more beautiful than the photos! Made the perfect gift for my mom! Thanks! 

I am so happy this little bracelet of mine went to such a nice wrist!  I've had this bracelet since the 90s and it's a nice old heavy sand cast one.  My favorite Native American bracelets are the sand cast ones.

Here is the updated photo of her mom wearing it!  So cool!

 photo via Etsy buyer from Hoarder Rehab

I used to miss my Native American jewelry collection until about a year ago, when I tried wearing some jewelry again.  Some jewelry I was allergic too within five minutes of putting it on and others lasted longer, but jewelry just felt so heavy after wearing it for awhile and I really didn't miss wearing them anymore!

Here is how I used to wear them all the time when I wasn't allergic to silver!

Most of these have sold, expect for the carinated or pointed one, 
available here, photo via Hoarder Rehab

Saying Goodbye:  I would have never thought that I'd give up all my Native American jewelry or any of my jewelry for that matter.  I've waited over 5 years for my allergies to go away from wearing jewelry and now I'm so used to not wearing jewelry I don't miss it!  I can't believe I just wrote that!

Most of these have sold, expect for the carinated or pointed one, 
available here, photo via Hoarder Rehab

What I Learned:

1.  I used to love stacking these in different patterns and even learned how to pair them so they would make a nice jingling sound when I moved around with them on!

I used to wear them to work and meet up at recess with a couple other teachers who would collect them and we'd try each others on and trade bracelets for the day.

2.  My aunt used to wear her stacked too and let me try hers on when I was a child.  So fun!

3.  Even though I don't wear jewelry anymore I do miss it every once in awhile when I see some that I really like, especially religious jewelry which I still have a lot to list.

 This is my last sand cast bracelet, unless I decide to sell my first one
available here, photo via Hoarder Rehab


Thank you Etsy buyer from Hoarder Rehab for your little note and update photo because it's always a relief to know about the new life of my hoard.  My relief seems to be turning to joy on some days now!  That's progress!
 
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!

Thank you all readers from all over the world who have stopped by to take part in my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things with your visit!
 
 This is another heavy more unusual bracelet by HRM
available here, photo via Hoarder Rehab
 
I am adding new items weekly to each shop until I have 800 of my dehoard listed!

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 196 items, The Destiny of Things- 176 items, VintageToGoEasy - 195 items and now JunkDrawerAndMore - 182 items!    
 
Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!  Thanks for looking!
 
 This is like one my Grandmother gave me from my childhood, available here
 photo via Hoarder Rehab
 
Related Stories:
 
1.  I also loved to collect and wear children sized sand cast bracelets:  Native American Sand Cast Sterling Bracelet:  The Destiny of Things, Story 262
 
2.  Story about the rows of corn Tahe bracelet:  Cloud 9 to Corn from Heaven:  a small Native American bracelet I never received and forgot because I had bought so much and came later with a bigger surprise! 
 
3. Updated with photo from Etsy buyer:  New Home for Turquoise:  The Destiny of Things, Story XXXI  
 
 
 
6.  This Native American bracelet story that has 10 more related stories!  What a collection of stories I have!  Native American Sterling Watchband by Marie Dale: The Destiny of Things, Story 232
 
"Harmony.  It's not what's lasting or permanent.  It is about individual voices coming together for a moment.  And that moment lasts a length of a breath, or in my instance a transaction.  That's what I think about my time here."---Frank Underwood from House of Cards or in my case, I think it's "destiny, as well as harmony."   See the quote in one of my collages, here  
 
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Friday, September 25, 2015

Mini Tanuki & Obijime for Japanese Culture Classroom Lesson: The Destiny of Things, Story 319

Mini Tanuki & Obijime for Japanese Culture Classroom Lesson:  The Destiny of Things, Story 319

These bring back such teacher memories for me!

Mini tanuki Japanese souvenir, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab 

I received this story from a teacher!

Our school is studying different cultures (a preschool) and I wanted to share a Japanese story about a Tanuki. The little souvenir was a cute addition to my story. 

Students love realia or props that go with any story and this one will sit in a child's hand easily.  So cute to pass around so everyone can get a look and touch the magic!
Tanuki is an old Japanese folk tale about a magical supernatural animal that might be part wild cat, badger and raccoon dog that has eight super powers and can shape shift, into tea pots and humans.

The legend is basically about a poor man who finds a tanuki caught in a trap and sets it free.  Later that night the tanuki comes to the poor man to thank him by turning himself into a tea pot, so the poor man can sell him and have some money.

The tanuki teapot is sold to a monk who scrubs the pot clean and puts him over a fire to boil water.  The tanuki can't take the heat and sprouts legs and in it's half transformed state makes a run for it!

The tanuki returns to the poor man with another idea.  The man would set up a circus-like roadside attraction and charge admission for people to see a teapot walking a tightrope. The plan works, and each gains something good from the other—the man is no longer poor and the tanuki has a new friend and home.

In another version of the story, the tanuki-teapot does not run and returns to its transformed state. The shocked monk decides to leave the teapot as an offering to the poor temple where he lives, choosing not to use it for making tea again. The temple eventually becomes famous for its supposed dancing teapot.

Students love that story with it's variations and can debate over the endings and write new endings.

 Obijime obi tie, sold out, size 5 geta sandals with tabis available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab  

Here is another little note I recieved:

Our classes (preschool) were studying different cultures and this fit in nicely with our study of Japan!  

This is a perfect kimono accessory to pass around the class.  It will get imaginations soaring for all little classroom geishas and ninjas!

When I taught Asian culture to third graders, they just loved to dress up and try on clothes from different cultures!   I had Chinese clothes, Japanese kimonos and hapi coats, obijime ties, obis, geta sandals, saris, bindis, hair ornaments, etc.  It's a great lesson for costumes for Halloween too!

Kimonos and saris are not as easy to get dressed in as Western clothing, so usually for the Halloween parade I'd get dressed in a kimono or sari during my lunch break.  And students who did not have a costume to join in could wear the extra Asian clothing with a paper plate mask!

One would need many obi ties to put on a traditional obi, but sometimes I cheated and would wear my pre tied obi from childhood!

My obi is not listed, but if anyone wants it just let me know!
photo via Hoarder Rehab  

Saying goodbye:  I can not seem to let go of my childhood obi and kanzashi.  I have tried several times and my kanzashi actually sold to be made into another one for the opera of Madame Butterfly!

My students loved trying this on too!  

What I Learned:

1.  I still have a lot of stuff leftover from teaching, especially my favorite pieces of realia or props!  And to think I purged a three car garage of most of it when I retired.

2.  Even though I can not let go of my childhood kanzashi and obi I am trying to figure out what to do with them.  I'd love to incorporate them in some of my art some how one day.

3.  I do miss experiencing the excitement of students learning something new with realia, however I do not miss any of the administration restraints on lesson planning, paperwork and such.  I am happy to be left with my memories from my teaching days!

My class would have loved all the bells and whistles to this working musical jewelry box like the one from my childhood, available here.  It even has it's key, drawers, trays and a secret compartment!
photo via Hoarder Rehab  

Thank you Etsy buyer from Hoarder Rehab for your story and for bringing back memories from my teaching days!  I hope you are making happy fun ones at your pre school.

Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!

Thank you all readers from all over the world who have stopped by to take part in my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things with your visit!
 
 Students of both genders loved to clunk around in these!
Size 5 geta sandals with tabi socks available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab 
 
I am adding new items weekly to each shop until I have 800 of my dehoard listed!

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 194 items, The Destiny of Things- 179 items, VintageToGoEasy - 195 items and now JunkDrawerAndMore - 183 items!    
 
Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!  Thanks for looking!
 
For you little geisha: Nagoya Hinamatsuri obi, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab  
 
Related Stories:
 
 
 
 
 
 
"It's never too late to be what you might have been" ---George Eliot 
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

100 Strung #5 Manila Shipping Tags: The Destiny of Things, Story 318

100 Strung #5 Manila Shipping Tags:  The Destiny of Things, Story 318

Short encouraging words from a non hoarder is always a gentle reminder!

Choose an amount from 10 - 100, available here

I tend to buy things in bulk, like Costco bulk, for many reasons.  1) it's usually a better deal 2) I'll never run out.  3)  I will always have them on hand for quick gift tags. 4) as a teacher with 30 students I'd at least need one for each person. 5) I like to make art in repetition.  6)  I could go on and on, but as a recovering hoarder I am trying to break this habit and just buy what I need now.

Every once in awhile an Etsy buyer will remind me to buy only what I need for the moment with a little note:

Excellent quality! Thank you so much for offering these tags in smaller quantities. It would take me years to use up the quantities offered from other suppliers. 

And it does take me years!  I used to use at least 100 of these tags a year in the classroom, so I'd buy them in bulk.   Students could make Mother's day and Father's day gift tag cards, for emergency information on field trips for each student and for impromptu name tags for assemblies, etc. since a safety pin is not needed because it can just hang from a button or belt loop.

My teaching days are long gone, but I still find myself wanting to buy in huge mega bulk!  However these days, I'm doing much better and do not buy much in bulk anymore.

Choose an amount from 10 - 100, available here

Saying Goodbye:  I just love the look of these plain old industrial looking shipping tags.  So old fashioned from the days when people shipped things in brown butcher paper or newspaper with one of these tags tied to the string around it.

 I like to custom stamp mine for gift giving occasions!
Hand stamped gift tags, available here

What I Learned:

1.  I hope my buying in bulk days are soon to be over because when I buy in  bulk, many times the stuff gets lost in the hoard or when I need it I can't find it and then I end up rebuying more!

2.  I have sweet memories of my Aunt using these tags every year for Christmas and wondering what new theme would be on her gift tag!  They also make good, easy and cute packaging reinforcement for shipping small pieces of jewelry in the mail.

Just curl the tag in half, put the small gift inside and wrap the string around the outside through the reinforced hole and tie it closed.

3.  Since I come from a family where buying in bulk is the norm, it's always nice when I get a reminder and realize that most people only buy what they need at the time.

 An example of easy gift tags for kid's to make with sushi grass and sticky notes, kit available here or just the sushi grass here

Thank you Etsy buyer from JunkDrawerAndMore for the nice reminder note from a non hoarder to recovering hoarder!

Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!

Thank you all readers from all over the world who have stopped by to take part in my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things with your visit!
 
 Here's another quick easy example for kid's to make Christmas gift tags or even use as "thank you" notes, available in the Advent calendar kit here

I am adding new items weekly to each shop until I have 800 of my dehoard listed!

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 195 items, The Destiny of Things- 176 items, VintageToGoEasy - 188 items and now JunkDrawerAndMore - 181 items!    
 
Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!  Thanks for looking!

Super tiny mini strung gift tags, available here
photo via JunkDrawerAndMore

Related Stories:

1.  See how an Etsy shop owner uses these:  Tiny Mini Red Foil Label Tags:  The Destiny of Things, Story 277 

2.  For stamping logos for convention use:   300 Large Plain Shipping Tags:  The Destiny of Things, Story 217   

3.  Twilight Zone Ask Swami Fortune Card Slips make great tags too, see and read here 

4.  My washi tape tags went to a bookstore in NY:   My Washi Tape Quilt Cards:  The Destiny of Things, Story #119   

"Do it now, before later becomes never!"---Later and never used to happen to me a lot! 
 

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Monday, September 21, 2015

Swami Madame X Fortune Teller Cards Table Collage: The Destiny of Things, Story 317

Swami Madame X Fortune Teller Cards Table Collage:  The Destiny of Things, Story 317

So many different fun uses for these fortune teller slips!

Choose an amount from 6, 8, 12, 25 to 100, available here

An Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things left me this little note:

These are super fun and exactly what I was looking for! (I also enjoyed the other random goodies they were packed with.) I plan on incorporating them into a fortune teller's table collage on a furniture piece I am refinishing.  

A fortune teller's table collaged with these fortunes!  I want to see that!  I wonder if it's going to be like Ouija board style.  So curious!

If you need a full set of these I've sorted them, so there are one of each fortune of 52 cards, like a deck of cards, available here

This is a new idea that an Etsy buyer has told me about, which gives me the idea of using them for bathroom wall paper!  So fun, so inspirational!

 Complete set of 52, like a deck of cards with hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs, available here

Other ideas Etsy buyers have told me about and how I've used them:

1.  table confetti for Twilight Zone parties

2. gift tags for fortune party gifts, they just slip right on to twine or ribbon.

3.  to slip into napkins for a fortune birthday party.

4.  slip into Christmas or birthday cards for a little fun or what I call card confetti!

5.  filler for party favors for fortune themed parties or weddings.

6.  great ice breaker when slipped into cocktail napkins for a little surprise fun!

7.  pinata filler for fortune filled lucky pinata fun! 

8.  easy DIY mini garland for any fortune related party like lucky bon voyage or retirement.

9.  Swami and Madame X replacement fillers for the vintage napkin dispenser machines!

photo via VintageToGoEasy

Saying Goodbye:  I have my own stash of these and I use them almost daily as party of my "thank you" package with most orders.  I slip them into cards for all occasions and into napkins at parties.

 My "thank you" package items vary from season to season, but I always try to include lucky fortune stuff!  Above is an example, available here
There is a slightly different sample at each shop, try a shop search using "fortune" and you'll see each varying one at each shop.
photo via VintageToGoEasy

What I Learned:

1.  Some of my hoard is becoming very popular!  It's very surprising and inspiring!  I would have never thought that some of my hoard would become our shops "best sellers!"

2.  As the years go by, my dehoarding journey has become less painful, confusing and stressful and more enjoyable and even fun!  

3.  So I must say that working through and practicing letting go of my hoard one item at a time is helping me break my hoarding habits.

4.  I still have set backs, but they are becoming less and less as I find other ways to deal with my stress, disappointments and loss.

Just in case you need a stack of 500 of these to cover a large piece of furniture or use as wall paper or fill up your Swami or Madame X napkin dispenser machine, they are available here
 photo via VintageToGoEasy

Thank you Etsy buyer from The Destiny of Things for letting me know you are having fun using these in your fortune table collage!  Please send an update when you complete it!

Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever!

Thank you all readers from all over the world who have stopped by to take part in my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things with your visit!
 
 Here is what a complete set of 52 looks like, available here

I am adding new items weekly to each shop until I have 800 of my dehoard listed!

Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 192 items, The Destiny of Things- 175 items, VintageToGoEasy - 186 items and now JunkDrawerAndMore - 178 items!    
 
Maybe you'll find something to take home and share your story too!  Thanks for looking!

  500 replacement fortune cards, available here
Here is an example of a Madame X dispenser machine

Related Stories:

1.  If you want to see the Swami dispenser machine, the really cool Twilight Zone dispenser from the episode with William Shatner, which the machine was called, the Mystic Seer:  500 Replacement Fortune Teller Cards for Madame X Penny Napkin Dispenser Machine:  The Destiny of Things, Story 298

2.  My first story about these fortune teller cards:  Ask Swami Fortune Teller Cards:  The Destiny of Things, Story #115  

3.  Fun childhood memories from an Etsy buyer:  Madame X Fortune Teller and Parakeets:  The Destiny of Things, Story #149  




How well do you think the quote below pertains to making art too?

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone"---Opening narration of Seasons 4&5  

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