I can hardly type because…
I am on my way to go treasure hunting with my little brother.
And I am too excited.
It's amazing how when I look around almost everything I own is vintage or antique.
Old things all around me.
I love old things.
Tattered things.
Worn things.
Fraying, peeling, chipping things.
Things with stories and history.
Which is odd since I was raised in a house of newness and didn't even know the first thing about thrift stores until I was 17.
It was like, discovering pirate treasure.
That's when the collecting started.
Even my old piano, is well, old.
My piano tuner looks at it and wonders why I don't have a brand new Yamaha or something.
But I can't.
It's the tales within the tales, within the tunes of the keys…
That help me compose little this and that's of the heart.
In fact, Mister and I worked on some of my lil' creations this weekend.
Since he plays upright bass in his band, I wanted him to come up with a fun lil' bass line for me.
(he can play all instruments, wish I could)
He played around, I pumped the pedal.
We played together.
We do duets from time to time.
Even at a few parties.
Hire us.
Just kidding.
No really, just kidding.
I mean, just kidding about the hire us part.
I would be mortified to have to play.
I practically passed out from nerves doing piano recitals as a kid.
But if you did have a piano, and we were there, you might get a wacky dueted Heart and Soul out of us.
I jot down lyrics here and there.
I am not a fab singer but I LOVE to sing.
And I do make wishes for a good singing voice on falling stars all the time.
But I will say this, I can give you a stellar Disney Snow White any day 😉
Haha!
(My sister warned me that my skin was getting quite toasty from being outside so much, but I didn't notice until I took these pics)
I love treasure hunting, you?
It inspires my art and my piano.
All of it.
I tack it up everywhere.
Vintage bits that is.
Here and there and everywhere.
I do have to lift this guy's spirits everyday.
Even my beloved old little sewing kit is pinned on the wall.
If it makes me feel like a forever youngster trapped inside of a fairy tale snow globe, then it comes home with me.
The phrase I hate the most…
Boy, you have sooooo much stuff.
Bah humbug.
🙂
I played a lot in jewels this weekend.
I am toying with the idea of making something with my piece of giant crystal quartz.
If I could ever bear to part with it.
I am inspired by crystals too.
You?
I think they are so special.
And, sometimes…
If the mood is right.
And the prisms are shining just so.
We might be lucky enough to catch a sonic wave…
That turns up in a way that looks a bit like this.
And those are the amazing moments I love.
Sound waves morphing into tales.
Stories.
Some light hearted, some tear jerkers.
All welcome.
Mister Lovee gets old instruments in the mail alllll the time.
Or comes home with them after visiting old music shops or thrift stores.
Accordions, horns, guitars guitars guitars.
Music is beyond words, isn't it?
If you think about it.
All these sounds.
Invented sounds, instruments made to capture sound.
And all those sounds create emotion and vibes and feelings.
It's unreal.
Now that is real magic.
Of the truest form.
Do you play anything?
In your deepest dreams, what instrument do you play?
Or better yet, what instrument are you?
Off I go for now, an antique store awaits me!!
Loooove, V
I don’t play an instrument but also wish I could. I played violin in elementary school, wish I had stuck with it!
There is an antique store close to me that I have yet to visit…I think this will be my plan for Friday!
Easy questions for Me.If I wasn’t tone deaf,I would want to play the Irish tin whistle.Airy breezy-Most beautiful.
I can play the piano, if I practice what I want to play, and have music in front of me, but not well; I have not played since my daughter was about seven. My now 13-year old plays classical piano, and she has competed in various competitions, and this summer she was accepted to study at a festival in Italy. She also sings; she likes singing musicals and opera in her range. She dances too. She also paints and collects so many vintage things. Her collections are often on the piano, and some of the small things fall into the piano and create funny sounds. The tuner never knows what he will find in it.
I learned to play the recorder (plastic flute) in junior high. It melted in a fire. However, I did learn how to read notes and I’m currently refreshing my memory as I’m now learning to play piano/keyboard. I’ve always wanted to have/play a harp – a big, ornate one!
Anyway, I hope to hear some of your tunes on your blog one day… 😉
Have fun shopping for treasures with little brother, Vanessa! : ) I played guitar when I was a kid. I remember taking the bus by myself at age 10 to my lessons when we lived in Brooklyn. Getting on and off the bus with my guitar case. It was a different time then. I wish I could the drums. I actually have that on my “bucket list” and one day I will walk into a Guitar Center and ask for drum lessons.
Hope your adventure to the antique market was a delight.
Music, hummmm! I can play my IPod, does that count? Oh
so many years ago in another lifetime I played the piano,
but it just wasn’t me at that time. Maybe now if I could
improvise and play some jazz I would enjoy it. Who knows!?
I play the drums! How much fun to hunt for treasures!
Hope you and your bro have an AMAZING HUNT! I get just tickled inside when I get the chance to go out to find treasures that someone has given away!;)
Sooo glad to hear mamma hummingbird is well and yet saddened about the others who did not fare so well! I too would have been in tears and very upset! I have really missed seeing my cardinal that usually has stopped by here as soon as spring arrives! I have not seen many bees, either. 🙁
The instrument I LOVE is the violin and wished I would have learned to play, but my love came latter in my 20’s and I was busy with work and other things. I once worked with a Dr. who would play his violin at Christmas for us. You could see how happy it made him when he played and we cheered him on! It was just lovely and it remains such a wonderful memory for me!!!<3
Oooooo… I love musical instruments! =D
I play the piano and played the flute in middle and high school. I unfortunately had to sell my flute (which I dearly loved…) in order to get us our first apartment. But it helped get us out of an unsafe living situation, so that was it’s last gift to me. ^_^
I bought a guitar for the wife a year or so ago, but it’s kind of big for her small hands… lolz. So I’m learning to play on it. Our neighbor, whom I adore, is moving at the end of this month and gave us his 3/4 size guitar, which is the perfect size for Britt. ^__^
She also has a ukelele and a clarinet. Oh, and a harmonica! The cats, however, do NOT approve of the harmonica… lolz… they yowl. XD
I hope you had lots of fun treasure hunting with your brother! =D
XOXO
I luuuuv going to flea markets, antique and collectible stores. I will never get tired of finding that ‘thing’ I just need to bring home with me to add to all of my other ‘stuff’. I too have boxes of ‘things’ which I have been sorting into plastic drawer bins so I can see where my fabrics, and laces, and vintage paper is stored.
We have a music room which has an upright Steinway, a violin, a concertina, and a couple of guitars, a sitar (from San Diego where Ravi Shankar used to play and teach), and we also have a spinning wheel where Sleeping Beauty can come prick her finger, or Rumplestiltskin can come in the middle of the night and spin straw into gold. I don’t think the spinning wheel makes music as I recall. Hee! Hee! We also have a Juke box that plays ‘Goodness! Gracious! Great Balls of Fire!’ and other oldies on old ’78’ records. Our entire family is musical. Yeah! My oldest son comes over all of the time to compose his latest compositions which ‘pop’ into his head. Which is what I do too, basically. I just need a recording studio!!!
And…it was 110 degrees here today! Hot! And it will be hot all week.
Perfect weather for curing paper clay sculptures.
Ta! Ta!
XXOO
Miss Tea Time Teresa
Ooooohhhh…I surround myself with music, always. And if the music isn’t playing, I listen to the symphony of birdsongs and wind chimes. I always felt as if my life had a soundtrack! I play the piano….always have, but no other instruments…Ok, I can play the spoons…really! If I had to say what instrument I was…..well a harp, of course! My most prized possession is a turn of the century Victrola that was my grandparents. I played it over and over as a child, and one day it came along home to live with me (when I was all grown up). It still plays big thick records….hand cranked….all of its inner workings still intact. I cherish this Victrola and the fact that it came from such a simpler time….a time when there were no electronic means of producing music…just the needle scratching over the surface of recorded lines of music. Have a great day!! Share with us the treasures you found antiquing!! (my favorite type of adventure!)
I hope you had a great time on your adventure of treasure hunting. I’ve always said that there is nothing like looking through old things with memories of their own. I would love to learn all about the object and it’s life before me. Your treasures are wonderful.
I don’t play an instrument but I have tried. needless to say I’m not musically inclined at all. I do love listening.
I am actually watching Snow White as I read your post! What a funny coincidence! I am a treasure hunter extraordinaire though after a few (very necessary) clear outs of my spaces I’ve become much pickier about what I drag home! I get the “you have so much stuff!” from people all the time. Pffft, whatever, it’s all bringing me joy to look at and if something doesn’t bring me joy it goes!
I have always loved the strings (played the piano, but knew how it was supposed to sound, and I never got there!), and I sang in choirs at school, at church, community groups, but any time I’d mention that I’d like to learn to play the violin or, gasp and be still my heart, the cello(!), I’d be told it was too hard. Then, last year, not long after I celebrated my 55th birthday (I believe in celebrating them all because some people don’t get to) I started taking cello lessons–me, a cello player! (I think I need to get a little better before I can consider myself a cellist.) I take lessons from a wonderful woman whose main instrument is the violin, who keeps warning me that soon she will pass me along to her friend who is a “true” cello teacher, but for now, I come in and warm up before my lesson and listen to the 4th grade girl who has a lesson before me as she plays “Twinkle.” When I leave, exhilarated by what I’ve learned, how much my brain is working, and the music–the sound of my cello, I say hello to the next student, a lovely little 2nd grade violinist. We have group once a month, and I play the cello with five violinists ranging from 5th to 9th grade, and one other adult who is about my age who just started taking violin. It is WONDERFUL! I love playing the cello!
Miss T, ditto on everything, looove your music tales, and yes its the same
heat here, DYING!!!
LIlli!!!! OH MY!! You are so inspiring, yes yes we should
celebrate all of our birthdays you are so right. And learning new things
at any age really, its what keep life special and interesting and fresh.
You are awesome!!
I played the clarinet in elementary school, but haven’t played in 20 years now. My lovely on the other hand, he can play all manner of things – piano, bagpipes, violin, brass instruments of all sorts and is currently learning the banjo and the guitar.
I got so in the mood to learn to play something watching him pluck at those strings that I requested a powder blue ukelele for Christmas. And since it turned up under the tree, with a painting of a giraffe on it, I’ve been very slowly learning to play it. 🙂
I so get the vintage thing! I have lots of old things from my grandmother and great aunt and I just can’t bear to part with them. I used to play the piano (and still wish I did) and played drums in high school. I still have my old cowbell, I think! 🙂
love & blessings
~*~
Sigh… hands on piano… such an emotive photograph. ~Tricia
No musical instrument playing for me. But collecting of treasures for sure. I also get the comment of “you have so much stuff” I think they are saying it in a not so nice way but I turn it around and say, “Yes, I love my treasures. If you didn’t understand me before entering my home, you will once you do. My home reflects who I am.” And I agree, it is the story that comes with the things that you are drawn to. At one time that item was loved by someone and it brings that love into my home so that I can pass on my love for it to the next person. I’ve already told my son he is not to just throw out my lovely things when I am gone..he is to pass them on to someone. He just looked at me. Boys…..I will try to “poison” my granddaughter with my collecting spirit and love of everything old.
Patty, that is brilliant!!!!
Ahhhh piano! You are so lucky to have one!! I’ve always wanted a semi-out of tune old rickety upright piano….but, alas, we just have no room to keep one (or any flat walls against which to place it…tee hee. Oh but I had to comment for the sake of your poor, forlorn looking old chap from long ago….he does look ever so down, I’m so glad you do your bit to lift his spirits each day! : ) Poor fellow. Wishing you all the splendidness of an afternoon cup of tea and a good, old book!! : ) And happy antiquing, too! (from your post above) What fun!! I’ve not been to an old-goods shoppe in ever so long…..I do miss it so!!
Cheerio to yeeeeee!
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