Hi there! Betcha' thought you'd never see me again? Thought I took off with the pirate in the teal blue boots, eh?
And not that you particularly care to know all the details behind the scenes of my insane virtual cottage ;) But I have been painting painting painting (which I will share soon, which is why I am cutting it short today). I have been creating 10 swap treats which I can't wait to show you -I shipped them off. I am filling wholesale orders and Etsy shop orders (by the way, I love packaging orders, you know me and tape and ocd) and keeping my household (furry and human) chugging along.
Plus, in more dramatic mysterious and horrifying news ;) – Well, it isn't smile worthy, but the description was rather melodramatic and giggle worthy, don't you think? Anyhow, in the realms of hand over forehead drama, I have been searching for an antique Victorian gown that is beyond beautiful and missing from its regular linen closet spot. 7 days of searching leaves me dumbfounded.
It grew feet and ran off, maybe with Mister Teal boots? I not only have taken both houses apart in my search for it, I have taken cars, sheds, storage, gypsy wagons and trash apart. I have looked in every nook and cranny for it. I have cried, kicked, screamed (not really) and given up. I have said, oh who cares… And then searched some more. Dun, dun dun…..
Will I ever find it again? Any tips in tricks or spells for me to find it? Will the mystery be solved? Who knows. Truth is, I suppose it doesn't really matter. Compared to anything important in life, it is totally meaningless, but the mystery of it has me entranced.
Has something ever mysteriously disappeared from your house?
In the midst of all my madness and nonsense, I let the elves into my abode at Hotel du France room 241…
The holiday buzz is buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!
Anyhow, lest I begin to babble incessantly (which I already sort of did), I best tell you that for today, you can find me at Olive Writes. She just posted a little tale of warm sipping delicacies and infusing your own hot chocolate with vanilla bean love, all told by yours truly. Will you come visit me over in her neck of the virtual woods?
Back here super sooooon!
🖤,V
ps: Don't forget your free printable Thanksgiving place cards made by me for you ;) Find them right here at the end of this post…
oh yes, i can relate to this!
and even though it isnt so very urgent, an unexplained, lost item which one has cherished can drive a person pretty much doollally!
i had a favourite hat with bear ears about 5 years ago that mysteriously vanished indoors. since moving house twice in the meantime i have totally given up, but the thing still really bothers me. it never made sense, and this is the part that keeps you searching like a demented fool.
nonetheless i do hope it turns up for you. if you stay put, it may even find you, first!
and i am loving the bike::)
Thank you for guest posting!! This is such a humorous post, but, oh, yes, I too have torn things from stem to stern trying to find a lost item. It is best to leave it be and then, magically, the items seems to come back home 🙂
Cordless phones constantly disappear in my home, two have been missing for years and another one disappeared last week. No amount of searching helps.
Ask St. Anthony to help you find your dress.
“St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come around, something is lost and can’t be found. St. Anthony please help me find ______ .”
(insert whatever you are looking for, for example ‘laura’s keys’) I’m telling you, it works. St. Anthony found my keys for me a few weeks ago when I was stranded because I’d lost them. 🙂
blessings
~*~
Hmmm, didn’t lend it out? I can never find things that I put away so I don’t lose them ~ I put them in such a safe spot that I can’t even find them!
Oh yes, I do that all the time. But I like to call it “menopausal moments!” Sometimes they turn up; sometimes they don’t. Or haven’t anyway. I’ll go visit you over there now!
Brenda
Yes. In fact, we lost a bag full of fresh cilantro once. It was sitting on the counter one moment and the next it was gone… perhaps the dog ate it? But I doubt he could get up that high being as small as he is. We never did find it or any evidence as to where it might have gotten to…
I lost my FAVORITE red sweater. And by favorite, I DO mean favorite. I haven’t a clue as to where it went! Maybe someday it will pop up – I always felt so wonderful in that sweater. So, I DO sympathize with you. Unfortunately, I cannot think of any way for you to be able to locate it – other than tearing your house apart. 🙁
By the way, is that CANDY I spot on your wrist? 🙂 Theresa
Hmmm, looks like you, Vanessa, and I aren’t the only ones to lose something that has no business getting lost. For me, last week, my nephew’s PJ bottoms. Just gone, from within my house. A sock, sure. But PJ bottoms?
That’s my most frustrating pet peeve. I hate to look for things…but yet I will NEVER give up! Maybe you’ve packed it away for safe keeping. I hope you find it! I know how something like that can haunt you. Thanks for the link..I’m on the way!
I had some Christmas rubber stamps mysteriously disappear from my studio two years ago and I just found them this week. I had them in a box and it had fallen behind a chest of other rubber stamps. I bet you find your gown once you stop looking for it.
The universe seems to have two rules regarding lost items. One is that as soon as you replace the thing you lost, it will turn up again. Which isn’t overly helpful in the case of antique Victorian gowns.
But the other is that for every item lost, another must be found. So as soon as you lose something else, the gown will show up.
Those seem to be the rules in my house, anyway. Maybe your gown is in the same black hole as my brooch with the purple diamantes. I’m quite curious about where that wandered off to, because it isn’t in any of the places it should be.
I’m pretty good about not losing things. I think that’s a result of neatness OCD lol. But I can understand how frustrating it must be. I hope it turns up in a place that makes you do that I-should-have-had-a-V-8-forehead-slap and say, “Oh, riiiiiiight. I forgot I put it there!”
Oh honey I hate it when things go missing…it always happens at my house and the thing that goes missing is ALWAYS my favourite…this works….sit somewhere quietly..really quietly and ask someone (from up above) to help you find it and then start thinking about places and then one will be clear, probably somewhere you have already looked….only problem is once you ask for help you sorta have to stay around waiting for the answer…see if it works if not you have a little destress instead. Hope you find it…can’t wait for the new paintings..
Kiss Noises Linda
Here are two ways I use to find lost stuff. They have a magical feel to it.
1) Ask out loud, please show me where my dress. Close your eyes and whatever the first image comes to you then look there.
2) Ask out loud, please tell me where my dress is. Listen four the words to come. Even if it sounds like your own voice, listen.
Try these and let me know. I use this for myself.
Much love to you, Lady V.
I have asked the Angels and sometimes I am gently guided in the direction of the missing article. I had a pair of crystal shoes missing for months, drove me to the point where I thought someone had come in and stolen them.. then one day when I was not looking for them low and behold they decided to show themselves. I honestly believe the fairy’s love to play tricks like that. Look under a white wooden chair in a white storage/closet/room in a box.. I sometimes am a right as a psychic.
I too have lost something and was absolutely SURE that I knew where I had put it last. I get so upset that I feel like my head is about to burst! So I stop looking, sit down and try to actually visualize putting it away and later as I calmly look again, I’ll find it. Then I’ll chide myself over getting so upset while this voice in my head (which I think is probably my DAD speaking) saying “If you didn’t accumulate some much STUFF you could find it!” Some people just don’t understand an artist’s need for “things”!
NO! NO!! NO!!!!!! Not the beyond beautiful Victorian Gown!! Those are the embelishments of life that sing to our hearts DEEP DOWN INTO OUR HEARTS!!!!! It is most important and I do hope you find it SOOONNNNN!!!!!!!!!! Now I’m off to read your guest post and I’m sure it will be ever so delightful!
xoxo Cori
I called an emergency gathering of the garden faries (they do not respond to the term emergency meeting…refreshments MUST be served). After many **gasps** and more than a few fainting, the garden faires proclaimed to form a convoy at exactly one minute after midnight, tonight, flying down to their cousins living in your garden, and there they shall dream up with a magical plan to find The Beyond Beautiful Victorian Gown. Sleep well tonight, Oh Magical Little One, for the garden fairies have your back.
**blows magical sparkling kisses** Deb
Yay for the Holiday Buuzzzzz Vanessa! I do hope you find that beautiful dress, hmmm…I’m thinking Mr. Pirate may have ‘borrowed’ it for Ms. Pirate and has been meaning to return it 🙂 Just a hunch, tee hee.
Jamie 🙂
The most important thing to disappear was my youth! It’s gone but not forgotten.
Oooh I have that same pink lollipop (as shown in your last photo). Isn’t it just delicious? I do wish you luck in finding your lovely gown, it sounds like a beautiful piece. (I envy your wardrobe, you have such amazing things!) Sending *virtual* fairies over, perhaps they can sprinkles some magic dust and *poof* it will appear!
xoxoxo
Krista
Loved your post on ‘Olive writes.’ The hot chocolate sounds divine…haven’t tried vanilla bean…all I know is I put TONS of sugar in my hot cocoa & mini-marshmallows.
Maybe your wonderful Victorian gown left with your antique sign a couple of months back…you just never know…or I should say…you wish you DID know where it went. Well, I just usually pray to the closest little small voice that will listen to my small pray and I usually get an immediate answer…i.e. from God. It really, really works, for me anyway, 100%!!!(And then sometimes I realize that one of my family members cleaned house for me while I was away on a trip and out went some of my childhood, vintage possessions.)
I am sorry you can’t find your gown.
Looking forward to what you have been creating.
Hugs,
Teresa
Oh yes, I think that there is a little black hole that occasionally appears out of nowhere and takes certain items that belong to me, just at the moment that I happen to be looking for them. After I tear of the house searching high and low with no luck, I usually throw my hands up in the air. I believe that it’s at this time, when I give up looking for my little treasures, that the pesky black hole reappears, drops off my items and then, somehow, I miraculously find them where I thought I looked a millions times before.
Well, I think I figured out the mystery to my missing items but your items are a different story.
Don’t you have a magical forest filled with gnomes nearby? I think if you ventured out into that forest you might just find your treasures. Those gnomes can be quite the pranksters. 😉
I hate when my belongings grow feet and leave me! lol I hope you find it soon!
V~
Come back…come back 🙂 I think I need some teal boots like above!! And about disappearing things…yes..oh yes…many things disappear from my home. Sometimes because I’m a throw-away-er as my hubster would say. So I’ll go looking for something and realize later that OOOPS I must have thrown that away!! (Of course I would never throw away anything of value..I’m not crazy like that 🙂
Hope you find your victorian gown soon!!
I can certainly relate to things disappearing. There was this four-issue comic series that I really enjoyed and have been looking for for years. I knew that I owned it and that I hadn’t given it away, but tearing the house apart once a year or so, whenever I would get an urge to re-read it, was yielding nothing. The worst part of it is that it wasn’t something immensely popular and I couldn’t remember the name of the story, so there was no chance to reorder it. A few months back we decided to do a basement clean for a garage sale.
Surprise, surprise, I found them in a box that I could have swore I had checked before.
I hope you find your missing dress…and find it much sooner than I did my comics! Ha!
i have to say how much i love your bike, i have an old bike from the 50’s which my hubbie rescued from the local tip and spruced up for a birthday treat, the best present i’ve ever got. Complete with dynamo lights, bell and wicker basket. I love it. And i love yours too. And always best when riden in a long flowing skirt;)
Things always have a way of going missing with me. Most recently, a pearl ring that was only in my possession for 24 hours. I told Rick that whenever I buy something for myself, bad things always seem to happen to it.
Your gorgeous gown must be residing in a magical place only to be seen in just the right light at just the right time. That is how it happens to me. Every time I lose something; it appears at just the right time. And so it will for you dear one!! I just know it!
Hugging you
SueAnn
Oh no. This is a tragedy of epic proportions. Mostly. Right? Were you giving up, but really in secret thinking that if you gave up the gown would come stalking right in, pull up a chair and want a cuppa? Because this sounds like something I would do. I HAVE indeed lost something in the bowels of Foolsewoode…one of the first socks my mother ever made me from a set she gave me at Christmas. So, I still have the one sock thinking that the other one is bound to turn up. Righ? Until then, I’m just left hopping around on one foot…
(in my tiara)
turn a plate over in the cupboard. The dress is sure to turn up then!
I find either some who really liked it took it
or someone who didnt like to from me since they didnt want to see it or they borrowed or ruined and then got rid of it.
I also find by closing my eyes and say a short prayer or just asking helps most the time.
When I clean I sort in piles, alot of time I accidentally throw good stuff out but by the time I figure it out the trash is long gone. I dont do much cleaning now lol.
Then there is the supernatural,playing tricks,that also happens,
Good luck,it was a very pretty gown