Start of a new collection!

Yesterday we went to Frederick to an antique mall and walked around. I didn't get anything old but bought some Polish pottery which is new. I love the blue colors and think I've have just started ANOTHER collection.

Here are my first three pieces.

The mark on the bottom.

I should have taken a picture of the booth with all the different pieces - next time I will. Though I didn't walk yesterday morning, later in the afternoon when we got back I went on a shortened walk and Ken came along with me. We walked 4.3 miles. I didn't walk this morning because of this.

Out my front window.Out the back window.

I really hate winter and want it to be spring!!! For my exercise today I did my exercise tape and then I walked 2 miles in the house walking up and down all three flights of stairs! That was so boring but at least I got a little walking in. I thought it was a good day to do a little baking. So I made some chocolate chip cookies.

I also read and finished Cross Country by James Patterson.

This was an another Alex Cross book which had him chasing a criminal to Nigeria. Though I usually like James Patterson I thought this book was just soso.

This was book number 9 for my LibraryThing Challenge.

I just got back inside from shoveling snow off the front steps, sidewalk, and the driveway. For the rest of the afternoon I'm going up in my loft to do needlepoint. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I saw this on Vee's blog and thought it was a silly fun thing to do. If you want to play go ahead and have some fun. What's in a name? 1. YOUR REAL NAME: Karen 2. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother and fathers middle names): Marie Robert - I used my kids middle names because my mom and dad both don't have middle names. 3. YOUR NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad): Rein John 4. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name): Sprka 5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal): Red Giraffe 6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, town where you were born): Paterson - no middle name for me either. 7. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning):The Blue Coke It's really diet coke but that didn't sound so good. :-) 8. YOUR FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name): Kasp 9. YOUR STREET NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie): Chocolate Chip Chocolate Chip 10. ROCK STAR NAME (pet's name and street where you live): Sammy Arsenal 11. YOUR EXOTIC NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on): Cookie Hopper 12. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus-izzle): Karizzle 13. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets): Black Star