Oh, I love a nice vintage tray. I always look for them in my travels. They are useful for so many things! Plus if you put everything on a tray, you can just pick up the tray and dust the table underneath it. I look for mid century Japanese trays in plastic or lacquer, vintage […]
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One of the reasons I love old stuff is that it has survived through so much. When I buy a plate from 1943 or a vase from 1900, I think of who bought it, how they used it and what journey did it travel all these decades. I am not as interested in very fine […]
My mom would take out her best china cups at Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving only. When I grew up and got real furniture and started collecting nice dishes and cups, I did the same thing. I would never think to use the Johnson Brothers Ironstone vegetable bowl for anything but a Very Special Occasion. Maybe a […]
When I was a little girl, I loved Holly Hobbie. My mom has a cassette tape recording of me opening my birthday presents for my 3rd birthday, May 9th, 1978. On the tape I loudly exclaim “HOBBIE HOBBIE!” after opening one of the little doll playsets, clearly my favorite gift that year- (a much bigger […]
Oh man, it is so easy for me to become a collector. At the moment, I have 3 main collections: Milk glass, colored art glass like Depression glass, Fenton and Indiana, and American pottery like McCoy, Shawnee, Haeger, Roseville, Abingdon. Then I have my smaller but growing collections of ginger jars and original oil paintings […]
I love birds. I recently noticed that a little Carolina wren mother seems to have taken up residence on my front porch. I hope she knows she is welcome! When my 3rd child was born, a little delicate girl -(after 2 strapping boys)- we named her Nora. She reminded me of a bird from the […]
We moved a year ago and I still feel a little lost in my new neighborhood. We left a tight knit, loving bunch of neighbors who we had called friends. Our old house had many garden beds and over the 18 years we were there, we had added many trees, bushes and countless perennials. This […]