Emery's 5&10

*Ok, WHY is blogger so frustrating sometimes?! I had to do this post three times to get it to work...and i had to just put it back like I usually do. I was trying to be more creative...it squashed my creativity... :-p Oh well.

I think my kids are almost all better! Hopefully I will get to see them soon. I haven't been away from them for this long since my baby was born and they went to FL while Wendy was on maternity leave! (They were gone even longer that time, but still...)

Since I had nothing planned for today, I just wandered a bit. Went to a couple antique stores (another post about that later...) and then headed to Emery's.

This store amuses me. It's old. It's filled with random stuff. And I mean random. And it's not so much filled as it is stuffed. Someone needs to come and do a store makeover on it, but then it might not amuse me quite so much. :) I keep meaning to take Michael here because I think he would appreciate the randomness as much as I do...but since I never remember, i snapped a few pics while I was wandering through today.

This is the first thing you see when you walk through the door. Stuffed. All the way to the back and in between. If you could see this picture larger (why can't we have LARGER pictures on blogger??), you could see all the bajillions of items in this picture alone!

Birdhouses hanging from the ceiling. And a ton more randomness. You never know what you're gonna find!

HA! These are awesome! They're just rubber bands...in the shape of people! If they didn't cost $7 I would have been tempted to get them. Just because. But seeing as how you can get like 100 rubber bands for $1 at the dollar store...I moved on. :)

Aren't these just some of the coolest piggy banks you've ever seen?? You "feed" the dinosaur a coin and watch him "swallow" it - all the way down to his piggy bank tummy! There is a flower one too behind it. Cool.

Hey, Michael - need a hat for your history class? :)

Oooh, looved this section! All the color!! It's a little early for Christmas stuff though, sheesh!

And I loved these adorable little tables too! If I had my own house - and kids - I would put them in a playroom. :) The pink/white/red stripey one makes me think of the Candy Land game. :)

Hey, Rebekah - so these were essentially just pillow cases decorated all cute. How easy would those be to make? And actually, I think a simpler version would be cuter. I can imagine it would be so fun to be a child and have that on your chair for your birthday. :)

These birthday hats were just so fun and sparkly! I started to think..hmm...we have a birthday coming up later this month.... Then I looked at the price. $34. Um. No thanks. :}

Michael, you may have already found this store...if you haven't, we need to go sometime soon. It cracks me up. :)