Sleepless in Seattle

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I cannot seem to fall asleep at night anymore. A day after being awake 36+ hours I can spontaneously and randomly plunge into a complete exhausted stupor at utterly convenient times... such as while driving; hosting a party; or in deep soul-baring conversation with a loved one... but once that sun sets - wiiiiiiiiide awake.

I could use that extra time to deep clean my house; discover my lost ancestors; edit decades worth of family films; write the Great American Novel; learn to speak Chinese; work my way thru all of MIT's open sourceware; but do I do that?  No, no,no, that would be far too sensible. No, instead I Etsy. I aimlessly click thru all the little shops on etsy.com simply to see where it takes me.  Like when my dad would take us on road trip excursions following back roads and logging trails until we'd be perched on the edge of a mountain looking at the prospect of backing up for three miles. Except the Etsy road never narrows or ends.  When I type "Vintage Toys" into the search bar and receive 978 pages of hits, do I decide that would be far too many to look at?  Oh no, I click away until carpel tunnel and restlessness starts to set in, and then I do something really clever - I begin clicking from the end forward, because we all know that clicking backwards thru the pages somehow doesn't count, just like calories eaten while the fridge door is open don't. So, alternating from front-of-the-line to back -of-the-line to front-of-the-line like that I zip thru those 900 some pages so quickly I don't even notice that half my life has gone by.

Of the many draw backs to this obsessiveness one is that there are very few uses for the information garnered from my persistence. I did learn that basically all the things I think are cool and would luv to own have very narrow market appeal, whereas glass bead trinkets and homemade soaps are some of the all time best sellers. Can you believe that?  It's true; I checked  the list.  I don't think I have much of a future as an Etsy Seller, which probably won't stop me from trying, though, because  I'm brilliant like that. 

While I sleep-walk thru the rest of my day ( I did find an off-Etsy  product that would come in really handy right now) here's my Etsy Show and Tell from last night/this morning:

Put some sprigs of lilac 
in this sweet vintage beaker
and it becomes a charming vase.

And these  would have a
tulip in each one - 
What a set!

You could store a year's worth
of family photos in each cannister
and then display the reels
in this open 1950's film case.

This vintage letter holder
would look really good 
with some family photos in it

If I were a finalist on 
Project Runway all my models
would walk Bryant Park
looking soft and sweet 
and wearing spikey eye patches!

How fun for the kidlets!  
Twoallbeefpatties
specialsaucelettuce
cheesepicklesonions
onasesameseedbun!

I have been looking all over
for a good M to display-
this one's perfect!  Luv the
character from the reflector holes.

This astronaut puzzle's 
70s' graphic is just too cool.

This seller cracks me up - she's 
selling mismatched puzzle
pieces and calling it 
Vintage Assemblage. Silly me,
  I've been calling it my junk drawer. 
Well, m'am, I'll see your
game pieces and raise you 
a Monopoly top hat and
a Clue candlestick!

More astronaut deliciousness!
It's the faces that make them
extra special.