Reinvinting ME!!

Ok, this is not what you think.  This is not about changing my hair color, or makeup styling or even about losing all that dratted weight, nope ... Its about my changing attitudes over the years.  You see there was time when I thought that people who were big into Broadway plays were just snobs.... yes, I am sorry to have to admit I was once that small minded ... but there it is.  Of course those of you who know me realized that this changed about twenty years ago when we fell in with some serious 'groupie types', and we have never looked back.  

This week we had a chance to go and see Legally Blonde, the traveling version of the Broadway play.  It was fun to find out that our groupie friends happen to have a neighbor who just graduated from BYU's drama program.  She tried out for a part in Legally Blonde and got the LEAD!!

  We drove to Reno this weekend just to see the play, and were well rewarded!  The play was amazing, but the tour the star of the show gave us before the show was fabulous!

This is Nikki in front of some of the wigs for the show.  She wears two different wigs.  Oh, you may have noticed she is not blonde!  She told us that she is the first actress to play Elle who is not blonde, even though all have worn wigs made especially for them.  I guess in this business you can't risk a 'bad hair day'!!

                      Nikki showed us her 'finale dress' which cost $5,000.  Whoa, its definitely pink!!

 These are our friends Randy and Barb Moe, and their daughter Trina with her husband, Ryan. (Nikki, the star of Legally blonde is second from the right)

This picture is of friends, Robin and Jeff Heuer who are next door neighbors to Nikki's family in Highland.

We had a great time, and found Nikki to be a very gracious hostess.

Reinvinting the Antique Mall .... and how Polly is sadly reduced to stripping!

Its a time of change and upgrading around here. Treasures Antique Mall is looking better and better, AND so is my granddaughter room.  It must be that renewal you feel in January taking over.  I am shown to the left in Cathie's new booth at the antique mall.

 And opps ... we  got caught stripping.  I am working with my twelve year old granddaughter Kim remodeling her room, unfortunately it involved a lot of 'fingernail destroying' wallpaper stripping.  The wallpaper above the border zipped off in full sheets .... the bottom half, not so much! (Kim and I had a contest to see who could pull off the largest piece ... I held the record for three days, and kept bettering myself until Kim was finishing off the last corner and came up with the largest piece yet!! )  I am just lucky that Kim is an amazing worker, she even worked on it when I was not there!!
                                                  
                                     Here is the work-o-maniac in person ... still smiling anyway.

And when I was not busy stripping wallpaper, I spent much of my week at the antique mall.  We have recently welcomed a new dealer to our Mall, Cathie Cox.  Cathie has been a great addition to the mall.  She seems to have a sixth sense for the business, and has been doing amazingly well.  Cathie has a lot of experience, having been in an antique mall before, as well as having done flea markets, antique shows and street fairs.  Here she is in her cute new booth!

   She has lots of fun fifties stuff, as well as vintage clothes, books, cards, and kitchen stuff!  Even those that don't buy from her make comments on how well put together her booth is. 

 Then, our common friend Jennifer stopped by to pick up a chair that Cathie had found for her at an estate sale last weekend!  Look at these buff women!  Being in the antiques business is better for building biceps than weight training, and there are no gym membership fees!!

 Well, here's the three of us, Jennifer Reid in the middle trying out the new chair, with me on the left and Cathie on the right.  Good times!
                                    

And its back to real, post holiday, life!!

It finally happened.  All of my Christmas decor has been tucked away for another year.  Of course taking down holiday decor is not just something I have to do at home, it also happens at the antique store where I work, Treasures Antiques in Springville.

I am including a few pictures of the display I had the opportunity to redo this week, after taking down the Christmas display with a coworker.  My coworker had redone another display and gave me the opportunity to put this one together, with her helping with gathering.  It is all done in red and white, and is very cheerful when its cold and frosty outside,  (and sometimes in the store as we have the front heater on the blink at the moment, burrr!)   We added some Valentines elements and it feels quite festive.

   This display includes a vintage window, and I found a cute red dotted trimmed sheer curtain to which I shirred onto a yard stick to complete the look.  The curtains, that had been in the store for 6 months, sold within an hour.  Fortunately I was able to talk the dealer who bought them into letting us leave them in place for a week!  :-)  When she apologized I reminded her that the point of these displays is to sell the items in them!