Leafy cactus and Sunday bargains!

Good evening!! :) it's Sunday night here and i am soon off to bed, but had to pop in to blog before hitting those sheets! hehe i have been staying up till midnight almost every night last week so i can download all those WONDERFUL freebies out there. Let me take a minute and gripe, er, um, i mean, explain my internet provider. with our provider, they have what they call a Fair Access Policy where we pay for them to allow us so many megs in a 24 hour period. if we go over that set amount, then the service DROPS LIKE A BRICK to worse than dial up speeds!!
But they don't explain anything important, like what the download actually means... we thought it meant ONLY what we download, but come to find out that it's EVERYtHING we open or view too! SOooooooo on occassion, with THREE of us using the internet, it has happened that we unknowingly go over and when that happens, we are basically locked out of using it at all, until it resets.
oh it's truly a real pain cause now i find it hard to visit all the blogs i want to or view the videos i want!! so to cut down on the STRAIN of my download usage, i download in between the late night hours of 11pm to 4am... in that time, it doesn't go onto OUR download numbers... it's actually ENDLESS during those hours and nothing counts against us! and still i don't view videos and keep track of all downloads, in some kind of way of keeping us from going over! but NOW it's impeding on my sleepytime, my time with that pillow! hehe oh the ways we sacrifice for the LOVE of our crafts!! lol
ANYWAYSssssss onto better things!! i wanted to ask if ANYONE knows of a cactus to suddenly start growing LEAVES???? lol just check this out!!

Funny, huh?!! we don't know what it is and why it's doing that, but i will keep you posted, if it does anything else!! lol
Today we went to the swapmeet not really expecting much since Sundays have been REALLY light on the vendors but was pleasantly surprised to find more than usual!! :)
we stopped to check out a vendor that sells REALLY expensive and tiny gemstones! but today I looked at her clothes hanging there!! wound up buying two pieces!! Now since i gained this weight (gained 40 over the past few months, keeping 30 so far)i have been looking into BIGGER sizes! lol and that is what drew me over. Got this skirt for just THREE dollars! can hardly wait to wear this one! :)

and then i saw her tops!! WOWZERS!!! she had two beaded tops and some kind of expensive and GORGEOUS sweater and was saying how she is selling them cheap with hopes that if someone doesn't wear them, maybe they could cut them up and use them for something since they were soo PRETTY!
Cut THIS up???? i don't think soo!! lol

FIVE dollars for this top!! can you believe it?? i couldn't either!! the photo doesn't do it justice either, just take a look at this close up!

i bought this little hummingbird candle holder (with candle) for a dollar cause the lady that got my little pomeranian LOVEs hummers and i thought it would make a nice gift for her some day!
hehe i am tricky like that! :D

Then i found this headband with some black velvet scrunchies and asked how much. fifty cents each!! well, DH told me to get two and gave me a dollar, so i got two of the headband since my hair is too thin for that kind of scrunchie and the vendor tells me to take another! COOL!

Then i came across a little stand where the mom was letting her little girl help sell jewelry.
the prices were INSANE and when i bought this watch for two dollars, i saw a bracelet for a quarter but gave the little girl fifty cents (big spender, i know!)for it (i didn't see the photo and know it HAS to be uploaded from the camera and will share when i find it! LOL that kind of day, sorry!)
here is the watch i got though. :)

do you know what i got from the bookman??? NOPE!! not a book!! hahaha i got this COOL 16x20 framed print for a BUCK!! i was drawn to it and not sure why but i really like it! :)

got this silly little cage for three, was five until the guy came down for me!

oh and there is this one vendor there that we RARELY buy from since he is sort pricey. well, i was sure GLAD when we glanced over and saw signs for some of his necklaces for just two dollars each and jade turtle necklaces for four! i got these two for two dollars each. just FILLED with different stones.

and this tiger eye one for four!! just look at the multiple seed bead strands!!! i certainly appreciate THAT kind of work for what i paid!!! sheesh!

then i paid a dollar for this stone! yea, i hear ya!! i must have rocks in my head!! lol but just look at the grain in that thing!! looks like wood to me but am told (by the rockhounders at the potluck picnic today) that it is a Wonder stone! i have to look that one up! but it sure made me WONDER! HAHAHAHA ok it's late here!! hehe

this will probably be the first stone DH practises a wire wrap on, since it's nice and big but also very light!! :)
Then lastly, there was a new vendor with jewelry that drew my attention! Five bucks was on almost everything she had and i mentioned it to DH. she overheard and told me depending on how many i decide to buy, she could come down in price. well, we decided on the two earrings in the photo (goldstone and what they called fool's gold but i could swear the one of fool's gold is peacock ore, since it has so many colors, that probably don't show in the photo.) and she took off two bucks each,
totalling $6.00 for these!

FUN FUN FUN!! but the funny thing was, at the rockhound picnic, i brought out some of our bought stones and not too many people really cared about them! lol these are TRULY rockhounds in the rawest sense! lol i just thought it was funny, as i am OBVIOUSLY a newbie (not collecting a year yet)
but i can LOVE all KINDS of stone! polished AND raw! but they didn't seem to have the same appreciation! lol
oh well, i have gone on now for over an hour!! LOL it's late and i think DS can get my downloads tonight! he's a good egg that way, since he stays up late most every night anyway! And he has off tomorrow too, so he can sleep in!! :D
i hope you enjoyed our trip today and stop back tomorrow to see a true rockhound's home...well not actually his home but AWESOME things around it! hehe
HUGS!! Have a WONDERFUL night, my friends and i will surely see you in the AM!! HUGS! :D