Went antiquing this weekend.

I bought a couple of the "souvenir travel plates" that I have been using to decorate my bathroom wall - a really nice (old looking) one from Pike's Peak, showing the railway they used up there and giving the altitude (14,110 feet), and one from San Simeon's "Casa Grande."

I also found a sideboard (finally) for my dining room. Oak, 1930s, pretty good shape, $250. Being the frugal sort I asked the woman running the store if the seller would come down on it. She tried calling them and couldn't reach them, so I left my number. She called back yesterday - $225 but only if I pick it up myself, it would still be $250 with delivery.

As the people I rely on to help with heavy lifting are on vacation this week, I guess I'll pay the $250 and have it delivered. I'm going to go down there as soon as the shop opens and pay for it and arrange for the delivery.

There is also a new quilt shop in Sherman, so I had to go there to see what it was like. I found some fat quarters in "fabulous fifties" style prints, and decided to make a pink and green fat-quarter quilt. As I was picking out the fabrics, the friendly woman running the store commented, "I can tell you're an experienced quilter."

"Oh?" I replied, "How do you know that?" (I was genuinely curious - understand that I still occasionally get "carded", so I know I don't look that old)

"You don't have 'fabric fear'." she replied, "You don't buy all your fabric from a single line, you mix and match." She went on to explain that she had seen many new quilters come in and only buy fabrics from a single line to use in a quilt because they were afraid mixing lines would make the fabric clash.

I laughed and replied that of all the things I do in my life, using clashing fabrics in a quilt is the one that carries the least bad consequences.