Whew have I been busy! Whenever i have time I am in the garden, which means by the end of the day I am too tired for blogging. I have scaled down my original garden plans, hehehehe. I have much more time and energy in my imagination! I got a LOT accomplished today, too bad I didn't take pics to show you. Maybe tomorrow I will. I do have some I took a couple weeks ago, when TNMOMTOMANYBLESSINGS posted some pics of old things she likes, so I will do that now. These are some old jugs my MIL gave me, and some semi-old, probably as old as me, books. Arn't their colors great? I guess that makes me semi-old too. Naww, not yet! Books age faster than people. Also, if you look out the window behind the jugs you will see a bunch of old windows my dear husband bought from our garbage man and used to enclose the porch. I absolutely love them.  Here are some old oil cans on a shelf above my front door. The one with the spout was used to put water in radiators. I just got it at a yard sale a couple weeks ago. The small rusty can on the far left is from my old bestest friend growing up. She bought it on ebay, wrapped it up cobwebs and all and sent it to me for Christmas. Guess she knows me pretty well, not too many people would be as happy with a rusty can as i was :)).  I love old aprons! i find them at yard sales, usually less than a dollar. I always try to picture the woman that made them and wore them in her kitchen. The old bench below them my dh bought me at a local antique store.  There are a few things in this one. First of all the old printed dish towel, given to me by mom2fourtreasures......bet ya can't guess where she got it! She knows I love these things, you should see the blue and white tablecloth she almost didn't give me that I used for a curtain. I'm glad she was able to repent of that greed and do the right thing.....thanks Geanine! The cast iron muffin pans I got at a thrift store years ago. Spice tins, yet another yard sale. The dishes are almost brand new, my mom got them for me for Christmas. I told her I had been collecting all kinds of different white dishes so she bought me a complete set. And guess what? I had actually picked up some bowls like this somewhere, and they were my favorite pattern out of all the odds and ends I had. She lives on the other side of the U.S. from me and hadn't seen my dishes, she just has naturally good taste! You can't see the pattern in the pic but it is just simple white raised designs, very beautiful! If I was more sophisticated I would remember the name of that pattern. Now that I am really looking at the stuff in this picture there are a couple other things from my mom. The white Corningware casseroles at the very top of the pic, and the little magnetic box with fruit on it on the side of the fridge. Last but not least the yellow reproduction bowl I bummed out of mom2fourtreasures' shed!  Another yard sale find, a neat old quilt for $2. You can't beat that with a stick, as my husband would say. I daydream about old quilts too. Where did the fabric come from.....an old dress her little girl grew out of, a shirt her husband stained so she salvaged the good parts, maybe some faded curtains. I just looked back over this entry to proof read. I noticed that I had much more to say about the things that were given to me as gifts. I love all the memories attached to these things. Geanine always does a great lesson at our mom's night out, and her this time it was on our legacy, what kind of memories we are making, spiritual and physical. Everything in these pictures is just "stuff", even though it's neat stuff that I really like, on it's own that's all it is. But the memories that play back in your mind are what you enjoy most and hold close to your heart, even after the "stuff" and maybe even the person is gone. I am so thankful the Lord has placed all the people he has in my life, that He put me in the family He did, and gave me the friends I have. Amy |
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