Decorations

Thank you very much. Long time no see, lady. Are you on holiday from myLot? Or are you uhm... avoiding someone here?

@DaddyEvil Yes, holiday, thats a good way to think of it lol. You know my life, its been one thing after another, just trying to get back into some old habits.

@cintol Oops! Then you just found out I'm not here very often at all... Too many books to read, movies to watch and people to avoi... uhm... I mean other fun things to do.

I would have used those glass pebbles you can buy for fish tanks @DaddyEvil

@DaddyEvil , Some scents are pretty strong, but I have lost my sense of smell so now, I could not smell them.

Thank you. Oh, heck no! The colors are all very pretty but the scents many of them have are very regrettable! I swear, whoever decided on the scents they use in some of those beads really need to have their sense of smell checked! I've carefully sealed all of those jars so they will last as long as I want the decorations and so I am not forced to get a whiff of any of them. (There are four, possibly five, of their scents that Pretty and I like. There are six, I believe, of them we can't stand! One of the scents is so bad, in our opinions, I pitched the container I bought without daring to add that one to my collection. *shake my head*)

@DaddyEvil I have too and so much is still packed I forgot what all I had left sad yet funny

@bunnybon7 We've been here almost a year and are still hunting for things we know we kept but still haven't found... We've given up and have been buying things we know we still own. *sigh* If you came to visit, that would give us another pair of eyes to point out the places we think we've looked but have obviously missed. Moving is such a pain!

I'm sorry, hon. I do understand. I bet the dolls and cups made your house feel special to you. This house is half the size of the one we left. We lived in that house for over 22 years. We had to do a lot of giving away before we even came close to fitting into this house. A lot of the stuff we did bring with us is stored in the garage of this house... but we gave truck loads of stuff to the charity places here.

@DaddyEvil I'm not into scents myself . . . I get a headache . Maybe if you leave all the jars open, the scents will be heavy enough that it would even scare any viruses away .

@much2say If we opened all the jars it would be US who would be scared away and the viruses could have the house!

Thanks. I thought it was rather pretty, myself. I sealed all those jars. But if you want to come over Pretty and I will leave and let you open them all and see. Just make sure you seal them all back up and air out the house before we get back home.

@just4him Maybe... We've been rearranging furniture and putting up new curtains...etc. I hope you're right. (It's right at the edge of what we can afford to pay for a house.)

Thank you. Yes, we're still in the same city. We only moved two miles from our old house... Yeah, we moved in November and are still trying to make this new place feel like home.

@DaddyEvil I think it takes a year before a new place feels like home.

Thank you! The thing that took the longest in setting up my collection was making sure the jars were sealed well enough to prevent leakage. Some of those beads stink to high heaven!

@JudyEv The gel beads are actually made to be used as room air fresheners. As the gel scents the room the beads shrink until they are the size of a pinhead and need to be replaced. Some of the scents don't smell very nice, in Pretty and my opinion, of course. (I have ask the opinions of some of my friends who have come over and they didn't like the ones Pretty and I disliked, either.) One scent is called "Pine Forest". When I was a kid on the farm we had three different types of pine trees. I always liked their scent(s). "Pine Forest" doesn't smell like any of those trees and I'm very happy we didn't have that kind of pine tree on our land!

@DaddyEvil Why would the beads stink?

@DaddyEvil I hear ya!

Thank you! It was either seal the jars very well or move out of the house! Some of those scents stink!

@DaddyEvil I’d have to chose like one or two colors to go with if I decorated with the scented beads. I assume you will open only one at a time for the scent to go through the room.

@shaggin I won't be opening any of those jars you see in the photo. Those are all different scents and I only like five of the ten. The five I don't like smell like uhm... poo to both Pretty and I. (I sealed the jars really well so no scent could leak out and threw away the remaining beads of the ones I disliked. The remaining beads from the ones I like I've been slowly using in the bathroom and our bedrooms here.)

Too colorful for you? I'd think, with your beautiful red hair, that you'd be into everything colorful! Pretty and I both love color. The window treatments in the living room and dining room are a dark green. Same in my bedroom. Pretty livened up her bedroom with maroon carpet and curtains. You should come visit for a while. We'll teach you how good bright colors can make you feel.

@DaddyEvil You have no idea how many old magazines, newspapers and stuff I threw when we moved from Monte Carlo (where we lived 31 years) to this house in Switzerland. Now it's time to go through all that stuff again and clean up a bit. I am sure we do not have another 31 years to live. I am sorry for the coins collection, this is something I did not throw, I checked everything first.

Thank you! Uhm... you wouldn't believe how many car loads of stuff I saved in our garage that Pretty threw away/donated when she packed for our move. (Unfortunately, she didn't bother to check all the boxes, though. I suspect she was simply tired of going through 22 years of things I'd felt we might need/want some day. One of the boxes that was hauled to a thrift store as a donation contained a collection of coins and their display mountings worth $1,500 USD. I still haven't told her about that loss. She was doing most of the packing since I was putting in 12 hour days at Walmart. Overall, it's a small loss.)

@LadyDuck Oh, I see... I never save newspapers or magazines. Those can draw roaches! Mostly, I save things I buy, use for a while and then pack away. (But only if they are still usable.) Sometimes, those things are small toys that catch my eye, I buy them, play with them a while and then they sit and draw dust. I love flying things. I have several different types of helicopters and "floating" (battery powered) flying disks. Every time I am asked to work in toys at Walmart I end up bringing home some new flying thing. Pretty rolls her eyes, takes them away from me for a few hours and then gives them back. I play with them a few months, show them to my friends, let them play with them and then stick them in the garage. I bought two of the coin collections. One of the collections I put into the picture frame they came with and had it hanging in our dining room. (I wanted to be able to see it but didn't want the collection in view from our living room since you never can tell who might see something like that and decide to steal it.) The second set I left in their original packing box and put it into the garage. When we finished moving I hung the first set in the hallway between our bedrooms and then went looking for the second set. (I was going to store them in my bedroom closet since the garage here doesn't and can't be locked.) I ask about the sealed box and she informed me that if it was still sealed after 15 years, we obviously didn't need it I simply agreed with her and went on.

I am something of a pack rat. If something is still usable, I keep it. When we were forced to move last November Pretty went thru everything we own. We donated two truckloads of furniture, as well as two carloads of clothing to a local thrift store. (Virtually everything we had stored in our garage at the old house was given away.) The garage at the new house has two lawn mowers, ramps for my car as well as outdoor tools and that is it.

@MarshaMusselman It is slightly smaller than the other one was but we gave away so much of the things I had kept over the years than almost nothing needed to be stored out there.

@DaddyEvil so the new garage is smaller than the old one was?

Thanks. Believe me, I sealed those containers very well! Some of the beads are pretty but they stink to high heaven! No joke!

@DaddyEvil Yeah, I have a hard time with those kinds of aromas. I guess I have sensitive sinuses.

Oh, thank you, Faye. The move was actually not voluntary. We rented our last house for over 22 years but the owner passed away and his family sold the house so we had to move. We really miss our old house. We moved in November so couldn't even take any of the plants I planted there. We're hoping the new owner will let us retrieve starts from my favorite ones, at least. We left a note on his door asking. He hasn't replied yet.

@FayeHazel Thanks... but things do tend to happen when we least expect it. *shrug* The new owner called last night and told me to come by this Saturday and he'll let me get starts from all my plants, so that's good! I really love the Green Stripe Bamboo and the Pampas Grass the most out of all the things we had planted there. Pretty had several kinds of mint plants she's hoping to retrieve Saturday, too. There is also a black fern a friend gave me a couple of years ago I'd like to get, too. Everything else will be missed but I can always replace them. (One sprig of the bamboo cost me $150. And now the bamboo "clump" is huge! I've had it for about 20 years. I'll post a photo of the bamboo in front of that house for you to see.)

@DaddyEvil Oh Im sorry to hear about the circumstances of your move. It is a pity. I hope this new place will be as much, if not more of a blessing to you. I also hope you are allowed to get some of the plants you put there. What were your favorites? If not maybe keeping an eye on your area's free listing on classifieds or marketplace? Seems like a lot of people with perennials like to thin them and give them away. I just got momma some Iris, Rhubarb, and Hostas

Yes, they do. And yes, how we decorate or not is all up to the individual.

@DaddyEvil

@mynameiskate Thank you... Anyone receiving a gift of one of those jars would have to promise never to open it. The five jars on the left have gel beads that smell delightful... the ones on the right uhm... DON'T! I can't imagine why that company produces gel beads that stink to high heaven but apparently their development team all had severe colds when they were judging the scents they were considering using!

Uhm... if it wasn't pretty, did you buy it purely for the glass? *grinning and teasing you*

@DaddyEvil I bought it for a candle. Only after I bought it did I realize it was a glass if I went to the work of removing all of the wax. Though it is isn't pretty glass and takes its place quietly on the shelf reminds me of the event. The jars on your shelf could be a present too. They are pretty.

Thank you! I bet they made beautiful flower pots, too!

Thank you very much. Some of the leftovers from filling those bottles I actually used in our house as room fresheners but a lot of the leftovers ended up in the trash.

Thank you very much!

@DaddyEvil and you can open one up, I assume, to have the smell hit the air?

Thank you very much.