You ever have one of those times where you're just sitting somewhere and letting your mind wander, or where you're sitting somewhere trying to wrangle your mind back into control...*Teehee*...and you see something that totally grabs your attention and gets your creative juices flowing?!
Well, that's what happened to me last night. I was so tired from a busy, busy, day and I needed to go to bed...but my mind wouldn't slow down enough for me to put it into sleep mode. {Note to self: In your next 'spare time and mental sleepy moment', work on creating a "sleep Mode" button for humans! LOL}
As I was scrolling through Etsy pages, nosing around in everybody's shops, I saw this stone covered in Lace Crochet by Monicaj and it stopped me in my tracks! {Or as Mario Andretti would say: it threw my brain out of "Race" mode, and into "neutral". LOL} WOW!! It's a smooth stone covered in a little lace crochet doily...kinda!! And it's so pretty!! :-)
Is it just me, or is this the cutest thing you ever saw?!....or, at least, the greatest idea for a paperweight you ever saw?! :-))
Okay, so I fully admit that it was probably the flower in the middle of the lace that initially caught my attention! But when I saw that it was wrapped around this black smooth stone...I was fully invested, mentally creatively-speaking. :-))
I had never seen anything like this before...So then I asked myself: "Is this another unique Etsy shop, or is it a trend that you are just the last one to find out about...like the "Angry Bird" thing! {Speaking of which.....WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?!! Why is the bird or duck angry? Why is it okay for kids to be trained to sling them across a room? and How is it that adults are getting addicted to the video version of the game of 'Angry Bird'?!....HUH?!! O_0 I don't get it! LOL}...But I digress. :-]
So, I went on an Etsy search for stones laced in crochet and this is what I found:
...Some more covered stones, this time a set of 3 Black Crocheted Lace Stones by Monicaj. In fact, she has a whole section in her shop dedicated to these...what she calls: Lacestones.
And then I found this Bronwyn's Crochet Covered River Rock...by StitchHappens7.
And found out that she's got a whole beautifully colored section in her shop with these crochet covered stones!
I looked some more, and Lo and Behold...found these 3 River Pebble Stones, Nature decorated, hand made, covered with vintage lace flower motif in the shop of Mintook!
And guess what?! She's got a section in her shop dedicated to these nature decorated stones too!
Now my mind is reeling over all the different crochet possibilities there are for these little crochet covered stones or rocks!! And the fact that I have a ton of rocks myself{My presumed black diamonds-*Teehee*}, has me thinking that maybe I should start making some of these babies with my crocheted flowers on them for my generous friends! What do you think?! :-) Hence, the title of today's post!! LOL
By the way, I saw something else in my search too.
It's a Pottery Bird Feeder by JimAndGina. My backyard would look Sooooo cute with one of these hanging in it!....Okay, so it didn't have anything to do with crochet....or rocks, for that matter! But it did catch my attention! ^_^ Just goes to show you that a wandering mind gathers no moss....or a sleepy girl needs to just GO TO BED!!! LOL
Tired
Sapped, low,
weary, slow.
Dragging about,
plum tuckered out.
Fatiqued, spent,
No power surge sent.
Depleted, drained,
almost empty-brained.
Pooped, sucked dry,
out of gas, can't try.
Exhausted, fried,
done in, mopey-eyed.
Tired? There's no doubt!
'Cause I'm all petered out.
This weekend was wonderful for hubby and I. Mostly because, with the new dryer, we didn't have to spend time thinking about wet clothes, laundromats, running from store to store comparing prices,.....or time. We didn't have to think about wasting time. We just enjoyed our time! :-)
I think I had almost too much time on my hands. That's never good for this brain of mind! LOL Thus....the rocks! The rocks are some of the possessions of a idle-brained collector of sorts...Yeah, I'm talking about me! LOL
I found this group of rocks laying on the ground all together a few years ago, and I just had to have them! Aren't they interesting?! Just like me, they're solid in the middle, smooth on the outside, full of age and substance,...but with a few cracks here and there...*giggle*
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that maybe I have more cracks in me than these rocks do!! LOL Well, hubby thinks that sometimes too! As a matter of fact, the day I picked these rocks up off the ground hubby was adamant that I leave them there. He said: "What are you doing?! They're probably just some rocks somebody dumped out with the water when they were getting rid of their old fish tank or something!!"
I thought about that for a second....then I realized it didn't matter! I loved them and they were going home with me!...And here they've been ever since. In this basket...
And herein lies my real story...the basket!
I saw an episode of Antiques Roadshow over the weekend that had me on a Google search for wicker baskets. Could it be possible that my little basket that I've been keeping my rocks in.....{my "fish tank rocks", according to hubby}...is actually a valuable collectible?!!
It's definitely old! :-)
It's very soft though...{Hmmm...Old, soft, a round bottom, and slightly colorful. Sounds like me! ^_^}
My Google search didn't produce much information for me, but that could be because I don't know how to search. But, from what I did find, it appears that it could be native American...Again, like me! (I'm part Cherokee Indian) If any of you know anything about baskets or antiques and vintage items ,and you know something about this, please help me out. I'd love to know if I should take my 'prehistoric natural diamond encased rocks' out of here! ^_^ Hey! We all have our own ideas about the stuff we collect!
Clearly, from talking about my rocks and my basket, I can see that I collect things for a particular purpose. I can see myself in them!...Like my basket, with it's twines, I'm strong enough to create something useful, but soft enough to be pleasant to the touch; I have some chewed up edges, but I'm also quite colorful...not to mention I also have a round bottom...*giggle*
And the rocks have nothing on me either! I can be smooth when I want to be, but hard....hard....hard....if you rub me the wrong way!
Do any of you collect things. And if so, what do your collectibles say about you?! I'd like to think I'm not the only one that thinks about stuff like this! ^_^
Yeah, I had too much time to think this weekend!!...But I also had some time to just sit and have some fun last night too. I watched some of the...
I say 'some of' because.....I fell asleep!....Somewhere around the time Taylor Swift was singing her new song "Mean"! ^_^
I guess that's another thing me and the rocks have in common...if you get us too comfortable...we'll drop!! And we'll just lay there until somebody picks us up...or, in my case, wakes me up! *giggle*
Okay, I'm off to start my busy week. Despite the rain I think it's gonna be pretty fabulous! {I'm planning a more personal post for tomorrow....that's your warning! :-)} Have a good day everybody!!
Antique and Collectible
Antiques and collectibles,
with their stories hid in time,
unlocked and displayed by me
in verses set in rhyme.
Worn and leg-less tables,
pottery and cuckoo clocks;
Paintings and some old tin cans,
coins, baskets and rocks.
What could be the story
why we gather this old stuff?!
And why appreciating aging
of ourselves is not enough!
I know, for me, I see
the symbolism of it all.
That 'Old' does not mean 'useless'.
It's just time, slowed to a crawl.
Antique and collectible,
is what I want to be,
so when I'm old, the folks I love
will hold and value ME!
{Attributions of the above photos: The 46th Academy of Country Music sign photo was from rihannanow.com; Taylor Swift performing was from aceshowbiz.com (Ap photo/Julie Jacobson); and the 2nd Taylor Swift photo was from setanchor.com}
