eliza jane curtis » stuff http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Pete’s Place salvage in Hollis http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/2010/05/10/petes-place-salvage-in-hollis-2/ http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/2010/05/10/petes-place-salvage-in-hollis-2/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 14:10:45 +0000 admin http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/?p=964 my parents introduced us to this great place in Hollis, Maine, a sort of salvage yard and flea market that has a little bit of everything. I bought an old wire greeting-card rack to display my cards at craft fairs! And we’re thinking of buying an old kitchen sink from them too. Anyway, I love just poking around all the weird old stuff here.

pete's place salvage in Hollis

nice collection of old wooden crates

sink heaven

so many sinks to choose from

glass insulators

glass insulators

a trailer full of books

a trailer full of books

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]]> http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/2009/12/17/sorting-and-packing/feed/ 0 can’t keep up! http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/2008/12/08/cant-keep-up/ http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/2008/12/08/cant-keep-up/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:23:00 +0000 admin http://blog.elizajanecurtis.net/?p=125 Lots of exciting and awesome things have happened in the past few weeks/months, and all of these exciting things have been keeping me very very busy. Too busy to blog! I’d like to go back and write a more detailed entry about each of these things, but for now here’s a quick list:
-October: weekend at the beach in Uruguay with Julia and friends.
-November: taking Level 5 spanish course at the University of Buenos Aires aka La UBA
-November: got the worst flu
-November: Amy Sawyer came to visit, yaaayyy!!
-November: 8-day trip to Salta and Tucuman provinces in the north of Argentina
-November: nice mention of Morris & Essex on Design*Sponge, which brought me tons of card orders and wholesale inquiries! i’ve been working like a sleep-deprived madwoman to fill wholesale orders and keep up with it all. I am my own sweatshop.
-December: adopted a new puppy! we wanted a friend for Emmylou Elbows, who seemed terribly sad and lonely and scared all the time. new puppy is adorable and fearless and nameless. we’re thinking of calling her Inga Josefina.

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