Starting to Run Out of Flea Market Things...

I culled these old gardening/decorating magazines from one of the big bookshelves in The Library. You know what that means?

Yes...I'm starting to run out of flea market things and I'm starting to consider the process of Decluttering the rest of my house. My stuff.

And I keep coming across things I'm just not sure what to do with. Which fortunately for this project usually means they need to go.

For instance, this papier-mache woman that somebody (maybe Amber) once made. It was yellowed and crackling, but I toyed for quite some time with making some sort of Goddess figure from it.... No, I told myself, if you're going to make potentially Sacred Art, you don't really want to construct it from something that's been slowly decaying in a corner of the garage!

And, pictured on the right beside it, is a cardboard box covered with wallpaper--a somewhat dilapidated Touchy-Feely Box that could be used at the daycare.

Why has it not been used then? Because the RAT that lived in my garage at one point made it unuseable with the residue of droppings. Awful!

Then why, you may ask, why did I simply not toss it long ago? Well, it's because my friend Carol made it and now she has passed away. Four years ago this month actually. And I have to pause before I throw out something my dead friend made.

But really! I have better things to remember our friendship by. So out it went finally this week.

And lastly, here are a few of the dregs that were cluttering up the dark corners of the garage still. No more.

3056 less things to trip over.