A Priceless Work of Art

My friend Julia loves France, junk, collecting sea glass and anything chocolate. In short, we are twin daughters of different mothers. Julia is also an artist. For my birthday, she painted this gorgeous and delightful portrait of our Cockapoo, Hazel. Our cat, Frankie is there too...just to right of the lady's maid. The painting is based on the masterpiece Olympia by Edouard Manet. Mine is better.

The Best Thing About Olympia, Washington

We took our annual holiday trip to Olympia to visit Fun Junk. Well, the actual purpose of the trip is to see my husband's family, but my consolation prize is an excursion to Fun Junk. Here's how the shop looks this year...











Stop by and say hello to Nancy. And tell her that One Gal's Trash sent you!
3644 Mud Bay Road ~ Olympia, WA ~ 98502

Part 3 of the Vintage Christmas Junk Trilogy

Here's the final leg of the Fun Junk tour and I've saved the best for last!

Bottle brush trees and Santa's plaid trousers,

The keys to my heart,

Pile O' Pennants,

Just beautiful stuff,

Jingle Bells,

And the ultimate in holiday kitsch. I want to be buried with it clutched in my hands.

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The World's Most Fabulous Christmas Junk - A Trilogy

Our annual Thanksgiving trip to Olympia, Washington means I get to spend Black Friday here:

Girls, I have so many pictures of the holiday delights at Fun Junk, I have 3 posts worth of stuff to show you. Let's get started, shall we?







If you are in or near Olympia (or even if you have to book a cross country flight to get there), stop in for a visit ~ 3644 Mud Bay Road ~ Olympia ~ 98502
or head over here for shopping without even having to get out of your SNUGGIE!

Fun Junk, Indeed!

Fun Junk is like heaven on earth in Olympia, Washington. Some of you gals were lucky enough to meet Nancy and shop at her booth at Farm Chicks. I am lucky that my in-laws live right around the corner from her shop. I have this deal with my husband; when we are on our way to his parents' house, I get to stop and wander and drool at Fun Junk. In return, I promise to be really nice to his mother. Lets' go inside, shall we?

As you can see, Nancy has impeccable taste and amazing talent for display. She has a blog too. You can find it here.

Olympia and Hazel

The last time I posted about our cockapoo Hazel, she looked like this:

In the meantime, she got a very cropped hair do. In fact, she was shaved. She looked....naked. Something about her reminded me of this painting titled 'Olympia' by Edouard Manet.

So I decided to produce a photo shoot in order to replicate the masterpiece; including the pink flower placed just so on the side of Olympia's head. Hazel had other ideas...

This was the best I could get: