Feathers, Lines and Traveling....

Whew!  I missed the last installment of  the "feathers" theme at ESN, and I've also missed the "lines" theme for this week, well, so far anyway, but getting it done now!  I went on a little trip to see my mother in Pennsylvania last week.  A town called "Quakertown", population a little under 9,000 and some of the citizens are actual Quakers.  I forgot how beautiful PA was, the trees are so different than what we have here in Colorado.  It is autumn there as well and the colors were brilliant.  It was a pretty quiet time as mom doesn't get around all that well anymore.  But she did have a party in the hall in the park she lives in for my 2 brothers, my nephew and myself because all of our birthdays are in October!  It was quite fun and we had cakes with our names on them and a wonderful meal with good wine and many of my mother's friends.  It was a great visit, but I am glad to be home, a lot of stuff to get done (like renew my expired drivers license...) before I go back to university on Oct. 29th (can't wait to get back to work!) So I looked around at some of my fellow scavenger hunters stores to see what I could find in the vein of feathers and lines and here's what I found.  This shirt from Eccentric Thrifter is a feather design, so it doesn't have any feathers fluffing off of it, but it's pretty cool design all the same.

Ladies Top Briggs New York - Feather Design

For lines, I have found in my own store Le Petit Marché a few items that are more like "striped", but lines are stripes and stripes are lines, right?  Or they probably can be.  

Espresso 3 Cup and Saucer Set                                             

  Amanda Smith Multi Color Stripe Purse

And to finish up the "lines" theme I found this fishing cap at Embroidery Fashions Boutique.  She custom embroiders all her items herself and has lots of different fishing caps to choose from.  I chose the fly fishing one because there is a fishing line embroidered on it as well!

Mens Custom Embroidered Black Fly Fishing Cap

Beat the Heat with this Cool Hat!

We've had record heat just like everyone else in this country and I nearly fainted when I got my utility bill, the a/c's been running almost non stop during the day.  I only turn it off at night because thankfully Colorado cools down at night and it's pleasant sleeping with just the windows open.  We got a huge downpour of rain yesterday which was great in helping all the fires still going on, and the week-end calls for more.  But it's still real hot in many places and in keeping with ESN's theme of "hot weather", I found this really cool sun hat at Hazel's Hodgepodge, it's light blue with red hot chili peppers on it, how fun is that?  It's got red, white and blue Texas state with the peppers, well, here,  look for yourself.  It's the perfect hat for fishing on a boat or on the bank of a lake or river as it offers great sun protection with that wide rim.  So grab this hat, your fishing pole and don't forget the cooler of beer!

Custom Embroidered Dog Breed Caps

I'm wrapping up the scavenger hunter's theme of "puppies" for the week here at Ecrater Stores Network but not a puppy is to be found at any of my cohorts stores.  But I did find this lovely collie hat at Embroidery Fashions Boutique.  She makes all kinds of custom embroidered clothing, and I bet she could make a hat, or a tee shirt with your favorite breed of dog on it.  Check her out and all the other fine merchants at ESN. 

Custom Embroidered Collie Hat