I spent a lot of my weekend browsing local antique stores and flea markets, something I haven’t done in a long time.  I love antiques.  One of the things I’ve always wanted to do is have my own quirky little antique store, but I really don’t see that happening.  I have been thinking about selling some stuff on Etsy, though.  I’m lucky enough to live in a town that is chock full of little antique stores and huge flea markets so I can do a lot of looking.  This weekend I went to a brand new shop that specializes in mid-century modern furniture, which is where I picked up my new purse.  It’s called Funtiques Market and I can’t recommend it enough.  If I had the money and the space, I would buy everything in the store, the prices were really good, too.  I picked the camera up at an antique mall (if you’re a local, it’s on East Trafficway, just west of  Freemont) that I spent hours browsing in.  This store had everything, art, clothes, tons of furniture, electronics.  The staff was very nice, too.  And they had free coffee and cookies, which always helps.

The camera is a Kodak DuaflexII which takes 620 film that is no longer in production.  I’ve read a few places that you can use 120 in it, but I stuck a roll of 35mm, braced it with some cardboard (following the instructions here) and shot that Sunday night.  I dropped the film off last night and it won’t be back until Friday, but I can’t wait to see how it turns out.  I got the camera dirt cheap (they can go for over $40 on Ebay) and cleaned it up a little, tightened a few screws, and it seems to work really great.  You can see pictures taken with the camera on Flickr.

Since this is, primarily, a knitting blog, I suppose I could talk about that.  I (mostly) finished my work project over the weekend, it needs blocked and a little finishing, so I thought I would cast on something for me.  I’ve been wanting to try one of the shawls from Victorian Lace Today and I decided on the “Three-cornered shawl in clover pattern” so I popped in a movie (Frozen River, good movie) and settled in with a skein of Helen’s Lace and a size US5 needle and cast on 624 stitches.  It took almost two hours but I finally finished the cast on and since yesterday I’ve only managed to knit six rows, and this is after knitting for two hours straight last night (while I watched Waking the Dead, another good movie, on Hulu.  But I want a long range project, something that’s a bit of a challenge, and I think this will be a good one.

Now for some cat talk.  I had to take Peanut back to the vet yesterday.  No fights with strays this time, but she quit eating over the weekend and went for about two days with no food.  The vet gave her some fluids and some pills (an antibiotic and an appetite stimulant) and she’s doing a lot better today.  She ate some canned and dry food last night and some dry food today and she’s been a little more active.  Looks like she’s on the mend.

Now I need some coffee and I need to check on the cat, so I guess that’s it for today.  Maybe I’ll have some progress on the shawl tomorrow.