My Poor Poor Book

Do you ever feel like saying,

Why me?

I'm sure you do,

everybody does, right?

Well I have kind of a funny story for you.

I have been drooling over a huge,

hand blown cloche

at Trish Land for MONTHS now.

They are beautiful as well as expensive.

So I finally put one on lay-a-way.

I thought....

I won't feel as guilty,

if I just pay maybe $5 here and there.

Well, God stepped in.

I had gotten some really cool

Enamel French House Numbers

from a Rummage Sale

and when I took them in for my friend

to see that owns the shop...

She just had to have them!

She basically said I wasn't leaving with them.

Don't get me wrong,

I LIKED them,

and I'm really sure I coulda' took her

if it had come down to it...

But to save all that.......

I traded her for the beautiful Cloche

I've been wanting.........

(Sorry, bad pics, took with my cell phone)

and she also threw in several

other things in to make it EVEN MORE

appealing to me.

One thing that closed the deal

was this DELIGHTFUL French Decorating Book.

The LAST one in the store I have to say.

I loved it!!!

It was LOADED

with wonderful photographs

that I had only begun to explore.

Yes....

I said had.

Yesterday,

In my haste to get home from work

and unload the car

to get 2 kids to

2 separate ball practices,

on 2 completely different sides of town.....

I (notice I have NO ONE else to blame here)

must have left my prized book

and a Victoria magazine on the back of my car.

I didn't even think of it

until we got to the ball field

and I started to look for it

so I could longingly savor the glorious photographs of France and all the wonderful
decorating that is only French

while my kids played in the red dirt.

So I called our 17yr old son

still at home,

he went to the street to look for it for me.

He found the Victoria magazine,

that I had gotten at the THRIFT STORE

by the way.

My book, however,

my $40 book

that I probably wouldn't,

in a million years,

buy for myself,

gone.

Not a sign of it anywhere.

Oh well,

easy come.........