Seen around

This post has been long overdue! how you

My neighborhood is super quirky and you never know what you might find!

 I love walking home and I take the same route most every day.

Funny how you can walk by something every day and not notice it...

 Yes your eyes are not deceiving you!

It is a mannequin sitting on the ledge of this building with a bucket on

its head! FAR OUT!

Besides this awesome sighting, life is what it is.

you get up , feed the pets, go to work, 

go home, pay the bills, watch tv and go to sleep.

And do it all over the next day. It does sound terribly boring

but I enjoy it.

I love the structure of the routine.

On the food front I am deeply obsessed by Indian food.

I don't know why but I dream of the spices, the heat and the comfort.

 Yesterday I made curried chickpeas with cauliflower stew.

This hit the spot! I added some sriracha sauce for some heat

and served it over basmati rice and Tikka Masala turkey breast.

GOOD!

 I saw this Barbie cake in a nearby bakery.

I don't like this bakery because the owner looks dirty

(her nose is full of HUGE blackheads)

and she reeks of smoke. And let's face it the cake looks way too

handmade (Pinterest fail)

I also saw this cruddy but vintage oven on the sidewalk.

I love the design and I am sad it is ending its life that way 

I will go in a Quebec road trip to Saint- Barthelemy village.....

(100,000.00 pieces of antique hardware)

Vintage Thingie Thursday: Weird Vintage Stuff

Hello readers! Today for my VTT (Vintagr Thingie Thursday) I will talk to you about the hen and the ladies.

First the hen. I saw it 20 years ago in my mother-in-law's trailer. Well not really in the trailer but in the kitchenette attached to the trailer. That trailer (and kitchenette) was sooo 70's I actually had a gag reflex when I first set foot in it.

Everything was brown or orange with beige accents, except the 'bathroom'- a glorified broom closet with a harvest gold chemical toilet. And the hen of course. It was nailed to the wall of the kitchenette ready to accept a bar of soap.

It was quite an experience for a city girl that had never set foot on a camping ground. My mother-in-law would spend most of her summers there chatting with neighbors,sunning and building fires in an old wash tub. She invited us quite often. I learned to love that place. We actually bought it some years later. It was before my vintage phase, so unfortunately a lot of stuff was thrown away, but not the hen! It is now on my window sill in my kitchen, the only surviving piece of the kitchenette (the wind ripped off the roof and the walls collapsed 3 weeks after we sold it AS IS). I never found out what happened to the trailer....

The ladies

I saw those ladies in a window display of a small shop on Wellington Avenue in Verdun(near Montreal). All had knitted caps and seemed to wait for something....I used to live in Verdun before buying the house and moving to Ile Perrot. I hadn't been there in more than a year and it struck me how most of the shops looked vintage. I had never noticed while I lived there for 4 years...Then again I didn't have the vintage eye back then! LOL

The shop owner was not amused I took a pic of his window....

Be sure to stop by ColoradoLady's blog for more VTT! http://coloradolady.blogspot.com/