Essential Embrocations...

Ok I love the title of this post and have been toying with it for quite a while now....

em·bro·ca·tion (mbr-kshn)


n.


1. The act or process of moistening and rubbing a part of the body with a liniment or lotion.


2. A liniment or lotion.
 
The other day I was cleaning out the bathroom cabinet for expired products and I found these...
 

 Ok count them....9! 9 rubs, oils and linimments....

Yep 9!

 And they say 3 or more is a collection! Could I be suffering from Essential Embrocatiis?

Look at the cool graphics on the boxes! They look so vintage and mysterious....Truth be told I need these...

Maybe not 9, but I have pain. Not just pain in the ass, LOL!

But back pain,neck pain,tennis elbow,shoulder pain all from 18 years of Bell Canada. A lethal mix of stress and computers...

 Also when I was a kid the smells of BenGuay, A-535 and Tiger Balm  were familiar and reassuring ones.

So whenever the air turns colder (it has been unseasonnably cool this past week) I turn to my essential embrocations...The bottles are priceless as well! I'll be hitting Chinatown today and the chinese pharmacy too. So much fun and relief and all under 3$!
 
I'll also be hitting the Salvation Army....Bring out the Pyrex people! the Queen's in town! LOL (I always wanted to say that!)

Yawn! I'm falling asleep allover!

A very warm and vintage welcome to my new followers! I hope you'll find your visits entertaining!

 So this morning is my first day of freedom from PCOU (postal counter of unjoy). After I supervised Dan's morning , I went back to bed with a book and cats...needless to say I was asleep before you could say cacciatore!

On Friday, my last day; I started freaking out that I had no pics in my uniform! So some autoportraits were in order!

Here I am in the backstore with my dinky polo shirt and name tag. This is the best pic of the bunch, really, I tell no lie. The rest made me look totally retarded, mentally ill, serial killerish and ginormous; sometimes all in the same pic. And boy do I need a haircut! This summer was so hot and humid that I wore ponytails,clips,barrettes and all kinds of assorted hair thingies, I barely noticed that my hair grew long and shapeless!

On my way in I saw this in the parking lot...

 

I guess this is a floor cleaner/polisher. I found it strange and wonderful just waiting there. And definitely vintage! Yum turquoise and white!

And on my lunch break I visited the grocery store where this vintage lovely was hanging out...

A toaster oven of some sort...The electric cord was covered in fabric!

Look at that control panel!

I'm glad I got to capture these delightfully out of place sights! Thank God I carry my camera EVERYWHERE!

Have a happy week! Man h man I'm still sleepy!lol

BYE BYE Postal Counter of UNJOY!

Oh my, oh my how time flies! At 4:30 I'll be saying BUH BYE just like these guys from SNL....



When I first this skit I LMAO! They are sssoooo obnoxious! Heck most of my postal clients were obnoxious as were my colleagues....EPM is not working today and she didn't even say bye last night!

So good riddance to this crappy job!

Have a nice weekend!

VTT: A Flea to Get LOST in!

Good morning everyone! I'll be linking to the original vintage party VTT @ Colorado Lady .Check it out for some vintage lovelies!

On the way home from Kingston, Ont we decided to stop at a flea market we had recently heard about. Heck I don't even know its name!
All I can tell you is that it's in Morrisburg, Ont, it's held every Sunday from 8 to 4 and there's tons of interesting thingies!

It doesn't look like much from the outside but it is huge inside! There are different levels, at least 4! Since we arrived at 3pm and it closes at 4....We were running all over the place trying to see everything!

You know how I am with Pyrex! I couldn't help myself and I took some pics!

Yummy casseroles!

I still think about that cup...but i left it there it was too expensive!

Those were really pricey...sad face.

Those pics were all from the same booth! Is that crazy or what? There was a booth with just Depression glass and one with just Jadeite!!! Ever wonder where all the Jadeite went? ALL IN ONTARIO! LOL

We will go back for sure!

Have a great VTT!

Woohoo! Roadtrip!

We left bright and early saturday morning. I was imagining tons of yard sales....after all it was Labor Day weekend! The weather semi sucked, some rain,wind and chilly temp. And there was not a lot of goodies by the side of the road...

I found those cuties at one of the first yard sales. It was full of gorgeous but heavy stuff: A wood burning stove,a carved bed, chairs etc...We have a small car...so I only took the tins (they are still full!).

 

This adorable coffee set I found in Brockville. The insides of the coffee pot are missing so it's now a tea pot!

It was made in England in the 60's...SWEET!

 

We stayed at the Radisson and this is our view....

Not too shabby!

We took the last room (lucky) and at the restaurant we took the last table (weird). We are creatures of habit. I'm a firm believer in the phrase: If it's not broken don't fix it. We always eat at Café Amadeus a nice little quaint crack in the wall kind of restaurant. The food is austrian and delicious! The portions are huge and we always take the leftovers in a doggy bag. There's a fridge in the room and we ALWAYS travel with a cooler. When we go home the next day we have supper all ready! How thrifty and practical!

We walked and walked and froze. Frozen people on a stick! We left home with t-shirts and shorts (capris), but the temp kept falling; we had to buy fleece jackets to keep warm and I lost my voice....

I also found this...

a dark green eeg plate to go with the S&P hens I found the other day!

On the way back we stoped at a yard sale that just had boxes on the grass, some closed. I opened all the boxes and found some antique canning jars, I asked for the price and they were 25cents each! I took them all! As you can see, I already put them to good use!

2 small and 3 large Crown canning jars with the glass lid. In the pink one I have pickled red onions I made last night, delicious and so easy to make! I cut a red onion that I placed in the jar, I heated 1 cup of white vinegar in the microwave and zapped it for 2 mins, I added some agave syrup to taste and poured the solution on the onions. They were ready to eat in 30 mins. I stored them in the fridge after.

They are great on a salad!

I was inspired to make these after having lunch at the Keystorm pub in Brockville on Sunday. Their salad was delicious and had pickled red onions! I had my all time fave sandwich...A Reuben! Those are very hard to find in Québec! So whenever I see one on a menu, I have one! I just love the sauerkraut, cheese, meat combo...LOVE!

Come back tomorrow as I will blog about a fab flea market for Vintage Thingy Thursday!

Where Have I Been?

Well around mostly! I had stuff to do around the house reducing my blogging time!

I had to install a new clothes line. The old one was broken when a big tree branch fell on it a couple of weeks ago. I procrastinated but I still wanted to dry my laundry outside until winter. I also had to fix the toilet that was leaking....yeah I know....But It was easy as pie! A new gasket did the trick!

I had more hours at the postal counter of unjoy....I went to Kingston Ontario for the weekend! For my
B-Day asked me what I wanted : A gift or a roadtrip? I said ROADTRIP! But I got both! I'm such a lucky girl! I got some U.S. mad monies for my upcoming vacation and a roadtrip! YIIIIIPPPPPEEEE!

And it's harvest time around here....

I was just in the veggie garden. I found some cute lemon cukes!

And sweet string beans

A ton of cherry tomatoes!

Do you remember the tower of beans? Well it's full of big pods! Here, I'm drying them a bit before I can remove the 'skins'.

Here are the beans drying. I'll be able to enjoy some this winter!

More on my road trip later this week!

Guaranteed Pure Milk bottle

One of my favorite Montreal landmark is the Guaranteed Pure Milk bottle . I would look at it everyday getting off the train to go to work and again at night going home. It is I think one of the oldest advertising sign still standing.

It was built in 1930 and designed by by architects Hutchison, Wood & Miller as advertising for the Guaranteed Pure Milk Company. It is located on Lucien L'allier st. Here are her specs: 6 tons,10 meters (33ft), and is a water tower (I didn't know that!)

It was built by Dominion Bridge Company with riveted steel; it has a capacity of 250,00 liters (66,000 US gal).

After years of neglect and graffitis, it looked horrible! Just like in the top picture. All sad and rusted.

Thanks to the efforts of Heritage Montreal, volunteers and private donors it was restored to its former glory in 2009.

Tis is an actual picture I took in June this year. I couldn't take it facing me because I didn't have acces to the site. I'm glad it's back!

LONG LIVE THE MILK BOTTLE! 
P.S: I took my info from Wikipedia :)