quirks

i may have a few, yes.

i love old things. i want it worn, raggedy, with a random tear here and there. one reason why i love my volunteer job so much with the charity shop, is the opportunity to snag a random vintage goodie for my home. believe me, the restraint i have to exert every time just to resist buying everything i fancy is enormous! sometimes though, the temptation is too much to resist, and off goes my lunch money. i have no regrets though, even if it would mean a lunch of tea and biscuits only.

yesterday, i went home with a bagful of vintage goodness from work. among the loot, is a set of linen tablecloth with three napkins, all with matching embroidery of dainty flowers. i also bought a tea towel in soft linen with a beautiful applique of wildflowers, and a small crocheted pot holder which looked soooo lovingly handmade. the rest of the loot consisted of a handful of buttons, some old pillowcases to be made into aprons, and a vintage doily.

another quirk would be, my love for some domestic sounds. i get spellbound by certain sounds, one of the many things that holds no valid explanations whatsoever, except that i'm queer. for one, the "pop" sound when you open a new jar with a metal lid. do you know what i mean? it's like popping bubble wraps for me, sooo soothing. i also love the hissing sound of stir-frying...the glob-glob of an egg fried sunny side up in the pan...the sound of water being poured from a pitcher to a glass...a whistling kettle in the stove...the faint and slow rumble of a coffee maker...the chopping thud of a knife against a wooden block...the rip of a plastic seal on a milk jug...ripping openings of food in cardboard boxes...and so so much more.

when i was younger, i preferred "farm sounds" than listening to music on the radio. since i spent so many weekends and summer vacations on our farm, i've grown to love nature sounds more than any other music by any other singer. i loved the rain's pitter patter, the cackle of hens and the roosters' crows, the crickets' and cicadas' chorus in the early afternoon and their subdued singing in the evening, the tension of a thunderstorm, the endless melody of a river (just behind our house), the deafening silence at noontime broken only by bird calls and chirps, the strong wind whipping on the wooden door...to name a few. this fascination with nature sounds is one thing my husband and i share. in fact, we have our own recordings of nature sounds while on holiday in the philippines. we're so simple, i know!

and if i don't sound crazy enough, i love the smell of a tomato plant.

have you any quirk?

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p.s.
we're moving on sunday!
hoooraayyyy!