You won't believe what I got snail mail from an Etsy shop owner! BEFORE:
This was packaged simply but oh so cute with vintage tissue paper and drafting tape, so I can reuse it all again! and it came with a little note. You can see it in the upper left hand corner of the dress. The Chiapas dress from LadyFriends is obviously gone, but she has lovely unisex Chiapas shirt available here!
She had bought a religious medal from my shop and when I wrote a little thank you note I told her I love all the vintage clothes in her shop and I was eyeing her Chiapas dress and if it ever went on sale to email me and let me know and lo and behold.... it literally landed on my door step!
AFTER: Plus I love her little note back, it's very inspiring and motivating! It's on a post it, so I keep it by my packaging and shipping area as a reminder that miracles happen and that the kindness of humanity is boundless!
I wish my cat head looked happier because I sure am, but that's our latest feral cat, Tim Tim and he's been starved and overly suspicious! The Chiapas dress is from LadyFriends and she has beautiful Chiapas unisex shirt available here!
So here's my story: I've been hoarding again! but for my new vocation and I had a lot of packages coming in and I was saving them because I usually wake up at 3 am and get all my personal wellness protocol done by 7:30 am to start my day, but I got sick and ever since I haven't been able to get up without a reward!
Unfortunately, I'm a reward based person, even though I'm trying to get away from it. Anyways, my reward was to open my "vocation" packages if I got up at 3 am. So I was down to the last 2 and let's say it probably took me three weeks to a month of off and on getting up at 3 am.
I was quite surprised one Sunday morning when I opened this package and saw this Chiapas dress that I had been eyeing in LadyFriends shops for weeks! I kept telling my life partner over and over, can you believe this? Look at this beauty! I've been wanting this dress!!!! I think I carried it around for hours in a stupor of happiness beaming from ear to ear until it finally dawned on me to try it on!
And then I couldn't take it off! It's going to be my all time favorite summer dress!
So this surprise of all surprises was a great way to kick off the New Year! Thank you A from LadyFriends for the reminder that life is bigger than myself that you, a stranger took the time to nicely wrap, write a kind note and send me this heartfelt gift, as a random act of kindness. I love everything about it, literally and figuratively! Thank you!
Saying Goodbye: I won't be saying goodbye to this dress ever! And I'll be wearing it into my senior senior years! I'm going to take good care of it, so it outlasts me!
What motivates you the most? Unfortunately for me it's rewards and I wish it wasn't. I wish it was reward enough for me to get up at 3 am, but I'm just not wired that way.... yet!
It's been too rainy with flash flooding to get to the donation station with my purge pile, but maybe this weekend will be the magic purge day! I've started mending again since it's been raining so much and my garden of weeden is growing like weeds! I did some weeding some time back and placed some seeds of lettuce, cherry tomato, parsley, epazote and cilantro in those areas and now I have enough for soups and salads!
I love the embroidery on this Chiapas jumper dress and it has a unique red line embroidered down the front of it. I just love that detail too! The Chiapas dress is from LadyFriends and she has beautiful Chiapas unisex shirt available here!
So this surprise of all surprises was a great way to kick off the New Year! Thank you A from LadyFriends for the reminder that life is bigger than myself that you, a stranger took the time to nicely wrap, write a kind note and send me this heartfelt gift, as a random act of kindness. I love everything about it, literally and figuratively! Thank you!
Saying Goodbye: I won't be saying goodbye to this dress ever! And I'll be wearing it into my senior senior years! I'm going to take good care of it, so it outlasts me!
That's the back of the dress and that's me jumping up and down with joy! In fact, so joyful my cat head can't stop spinning. I am still dazed with happiness when I think about it all! Thank you A from LadyFriends and did I mention, she has beautiful Chiapas unisex shirt available here!
What I Learned:
1. Everyone is connected at all times and any time I need a reminder of that, I'll have this dress! The Chiapas dress of happiness and kindness! Whatever happens happens to all of us. I've been trying not to judge it as good or bad, but that is very very very difficult for me, but I'm taking the necessary baby steps.
2. My hoard started growing again. I thought it was growing in a good direction, but with trying not to be judgmental or opinionated, I need to say, it's growing again. At least it's stuff I love, oops that's an opinion. I probably shouldn't even call it hoard then. Hmmm... I wonder where all this is going to take me this time!
3. I can say, I'm living my life and I love it! Since I'm not out of the judgmental stage of my life at least I love my life, every minute of it. I couldn't say that much about it positively before. I have changed aspects of my life, but I would like to transform my life, especially to the point where I wouldn't need rewards to just get up!
4. I'm going to begin some experiments because I used to be able to wake up at 3 am without an alarm and without any rewards for a couple of months, although I did need both to get started. What am I going to try first? I'm going to start eating less cooked foods, eat more live raw foods and liquid fast again 3 days a week and see if I feel better than I do now.
Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Chinese Lunar New Year and Valentine's there's been a whole lot of festive over eating going on and I think that's why I feel dull, zoned out and a bump on a log!
3. I can say, I'm living my life and I love it! Since I'm not out of the judgmental stage of my life at least I love my life, every minute of it. I couldn't say that much about it positively before. I have changed aspects of my life, but I would like to transform my life, especially to the point where I wouldn't need rewards to just get up!
4. I'm going to begin some experiments because I used to be able to wake up at 3 am without an alarm and without any rewards for a couple of months, although I did need both to get started. What am I going to try first? I'm going to start eating less cooked foods, eat more live raw foods and liquid fast again 3 days a week and see if I feel better than I do now.
Between Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Chinese Lunar New Year and Valentine's there's been a whole lot of festive over eating going on and I think that's why I feel dull, zoned out and a bump on a log!
What motivates you the most? Unfortunately for me it's rewards and I wish it wasn't. I wish it was reward enough for me to get up at 3 am, but I'm just not wired that way.... yet!
Here's a close up on the embroidery part of the dress. What a creative way to use two different scraps! Dress courtesy from A from LadyFriends of Etsy.
Thank you Etsy buyer for ordering from VintageToGoEasy and then sending me the surprise dress from your shop, LadyFriends. Your shop has such much good stuff and after exploring, I'm starting to wonder if you made this dress! Did you? I love your other hand sewn items, like this top you made here and your quilted linen wall hangings! One here and the other, here. Both are beautiful and meticulously hand sewn!
There are several denim and chambray items I love in this shop, but since I'm hoarding again, I think I'll have to think about it until I can only choose one of them! I have my fingers crossed that you'll one day write me back, but I know how busy you are and how impatient I am, lol.
I've been rain washing a lot of boro, kimonos, happi coats and other stinko quilts and clothing. Laundry detergent smell so strong these days! I'll be trying Quilter's Rule soap soon and Odoban when the weekends get sunny again and I'll let you know if Odoban is one of those sprays that just masks the smell with another smell.
Any suggestions as to what you've used to take out musty odd smells from fabrics? Vodka seems to work on some fabrics, but later the smell just comes back, especially with some of the indigo fabrics. I've tried charcoal wash, Dr Schultz's air detox spray, baking soda, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide and more, but right now I'm drawing a blank, so moving on.....
Chiapas is officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the 31 states that along with the federal district of Mexico City make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Read more here on wikipedia.
My goal of listing on each shop until each has 180 items has been reached at 2 shops! Sales for January and February are up and down, but I haven't really been paying attention anymore, since I'm busy getting ready for the Lunar New Year and my new vocation.
We are having 20% off sales at all our shops at the moment. They are kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen, so I think JunkDrawerAndMore's sale will be ending soon.
Lately I've been in conflict with taking little baby steps to change my thinking about abundance, profits and how much my time is worth and pricing, etc and my new thinking of being more of service with labors of love towards Etsy and the world in general. It seems being busy with the Chinese Lunar New Year cleaning that I've fallen back into my old habits of pricing somewhat lower than the other prices I find, instead of what I think off the top of my head.
I'm still trying to figure out how to price items and how much I should charge for my time. I feel carefree about the time it takes me to make things, but not so much when it comes to new listing and describing it all. Anyone out there have a reference guide from their own experiences I could try?
My new love for making textile art automatically sets my priorities for me in a way I never imagined. Some of it's on Hoarder Rehab in the handmade by me section, here.
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 181 items, The Destiny of Things- 181 items, VintageToGoEasy - 179 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 177 items.
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
This is the results of the custom order request I got a few weeks ago, available here and here. I had to make a lot of them before they started resembling the request. They are small art patches for mending. The custom order request is photo 6, on the first listing via Hoarder Rehab.
Happy Valentine's Day! Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things!
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