Hobby Love

So you might be asking, 'Katie what have you been up to with all this spare time you've had since you finished the semester?' My response: ' Nothing. Knitting. Planting small plants. Cleaning. Reading (for pleasure NOT for school...). Cooking. Sleeping. Packing.' That about sums up my life over the past week or so, and it has been glorious.

My mom called me up Saturday morning and asked me to go to the outdoor antiques show in Liberty, NC, and I of course said yes; mom and I LOVE thrift stores, yard sales, antiques, essentially cool stuff for cheap. During our ventures there mom found a clock that is very similar to one my grandmother, who passed in 2002, gave to my mom. Mimi had painted the glass door of the clock by hand, but the clock fell off the wall one day, shattering all the woodwork but the glass managed to stay in one piece. So, mom is going to take the clock she found and my grandmother's glass piece and get them combined into one beautiful clock! She was very excited about her find and even more excited that she is going to be able to hang onto a piece of Mimi's handiwork. My find was a set of primary colored Pyrex bowls (mom bought them for me as an early b-day present, thanks mom!); over the past year or so I've become quite interested in collecting Pyrex, so it's a new hobby (as you can see below).

My Pyrex collection to date! The bowls on the left were the find from last week, while the bowl set in the middle plus the two casserole dishes were a find from the Raleigh flea market. The other two bowls were a thrift store find and a hand-me-down from momma.

Mom put these Zinnias in my Easter basket; I planted the seeds and within 2 days they had taken off!

Besides my antiquing and window sill gardening, I've been knitting mom a Mother's Day present over the past couple weeks, so I will wait till she has opened it on Sunday to reveal it in all its' glory in a Mother's Day blog post. Lots of love to all you moms and second moms out there, you rock!