a few views

I was in the process of assembling a Raggedy display on my hutch.

The shelf trim was made from the stock market page of the newspaper!!

At left you can see a peek of one of my red and white patchwork quilts I made.

Some Milk Glass, ironstone and vintage red and white crochet goodies all set up to take photos for listings. A few favorites will remain living with us.

Raggedy Ann collection, many of the items to be listed. Antique soft sewn 3 bears set on top shelf with 3 bears pottery porridge bowls. Bears to be listed.

The chair was Bill's Mom's. He said she always had a sheet over it the whole time he was growing up with his 6 siblings... we had it reupholstered, cuz I wanted it to be red.

My painted stencil work in the hall.
Blue Willow and brown transferware on the shelf

and vintage calendar plates above. Only the brown transferware from England will stay with us...the rest to go to new homes.

Double Take

I can't remember if there was an occasion attached to these photos taken of me in the 1980's...but dig those cool feathered bangs! O man!

Did you have feathered bangs too?

Mother & Daughter

Mother's Day, back when my E. was almost 2.

You have to do the matchy-matchy thing before they are old enough that they can argue against the idea!

Teenage Vintage Vignette

I loved to do different little vignettes on my dresser top even as a teenager. I didn't have any friends who did this with vintage things, as I preferred. I guess I was odd.

The photo in the oval frame is my Grandma Bubbles as a young girl. The picture of the little girl in the white bonnet says at the bottom " He loves me..." . It sat somewhere in my room my whole childhood. My Mom cut it out from a magazine when I was a baby and put it in that pretty glass frame that she had thrifted. (She thrifted; how cool is that!)

The heart sachets are filled with lavender and were my first sewing project on my Montgomery Ward sewing machine. I bought it with my own money. I still have it and use it (so do my girls). It lives happily with my other 5 sewing machines.

Yes, that is a real bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume. It was a "Please forgive me. I'll change!" gift from my first fiancee. He also gave me a beautiful string of hand tied real pearls. He didn't change that time either. Needless to say, he wouldn't/couldn't change his ways and I didn't marry him! I did give the ring back!

Click photo to enlarge.

No Glamour Here

This is just an ordinary , everyday, plain, no frills, boring photo of me and my Momma in the kitchen, where her blue Royal Copenhagen plates dance across the soffit, sometime in the early 1980's. I think she was cooking and I was unloading the dishwasher...it doesn't really matter the composition of the photo. I'm sure it is pretty unimpressive to you.

To me it means just me and Momma together. Period. I miss her.

Sand Artist

Anna has been out in the sand box trying out some very detailed sand sculptures she found in a magazine in preparation for heading up to the sand dunes next week.

We'll be doing a short vacation packed with lots of beach time!

These photos are little me in 1965.

Vintage Dream Girl

According to this ad from 1951,
lanolin in your shampoo
can make you
be his dream girl tonight!!

Hmmmmm?! I'll pass... on the lanolin part, anyway!