• Buried Treasure

       Moving is rarely enjoyable.  Packing, unpacking, cleaning, misplacing items, schlepping things around, cleaning again … and so on.  But if there is a silver lining, it’s discovering those things you had forgotten about.  And since I have had personal items packed away in storage between anywhere from five to fifteen years, it feels like Christmas all over again now that I’m tackling the dozens of boxes in my house.  It’s pretty exciting to unwrap a nondescript package and find a vintage shagreen cigarette case I purchased twelve years ago.  Does it get any better?  And since the renovation of my new pad could take awhile, accessorizing gives me a little instant…