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Show and Tell Sunday

Cindy over and JunqueArt is hosting our S&T Sunday.  This week’s theme is to show a vintage collection (or as many as you so desire).  Here is another topic that I have so many choices to choose from…the entire house, and garage, and carport, and shed is abound with vintage collections and since Mommy doesn’t blog much and Daddy doesn’t blog I decided to write about one collection from each of their collections.

 

Daddy used to have a “hobby” room in our old house…basically it was just a room to house some of his junk, umm, excuse me, I mean special things.  Daddy has constantly been a collector of stuff and I always knew that if a toy of mine came up missing and Baby Boy didn’t have it then Daddy did.  I would go into his hobby room and sure enough I’d find whatever little toy or gadget that had previously been in my possession had now magically found its way up onto one of Daddy’s display shelves.  Sometimes I was quick to acquire it back and other times I’d let it stay, even if just for a short time.

 

One collection of his that I always enjoyed looking at is his gathering of glass and ceramic insulators. They used to line the walls in our old patio and now they are displayed amongst the rafters of the carport.

 

Here are some found on the property before they were cleaned up

 

And here's a small section up on a shelf in the rafters

 

and another area of insulators

 

 

We see them in antique stores and at shows quite often but we don't purchase them (most can be pricey for what they are) and we enjoy finding them on the property and maybe at a garage sale or two.  I did happen to acquire a few of the posts insulators used to sit on when they were attached to the power poles and plan on giving them to Daddy for part of his Christmas present so shh don't tell.

Mommy's new obsession is vintage paper dolls and she has amassed quite a few. 

 

Here's part of her collection including Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Young Miss, "Sixteen" and others.

 

 

Here are the girls

 

 

and their clothes

 

 

and one young miss Nancy

 

 

and my favorites; ones I call the family.  Here are some of them

 

 

and the rest of them

 

 

They have so many clothes and accessories, costumes, everyday clothing, dress up, you name it and they probably have it.  I could spend hours playing with them, dressing them, photographing them, so much fun.

 

To see a few other items I’ve previously blogged about including the small figurines and vintage fans check out this post.  However as I wrote, that isn't even the tip of the iceberg as far as our collections go as seen from the post I just wrote about and a previous S&T entry of vintage aprons so you'll get to see bits a pieces here and there

 

Enough about that though...thanks to Cindy and Cerri for another fun S&T.  Don’t forget to check out the others who are participating.

 

Happy Sunday!!!

Show & Tell Sunday

This week's S&T is  hosted by Cerri over at Little Pink Studio.  The theme...vintage art bits...those things that we all save (and sometimes use) to make our creations.   Well to tell the truth my rooms overrunneth...modern, vintage, new and old I love it all but right now I'll just show and tell about some of it.

My favorite vintage bits stash is kept near my desk here...it's a candy cup but it's only filled with eye candy

Look at all of these doll parts just reaching out to be put into a project

Here are some vintage playing cards

and other tidbits

I hope you have fun blog hopping and Happy Sunday!!

Show & Tell Sunday

Yep, that's right, Show and Tell Sunday (S&T) is back.  A special thanks to our hosts Cindy and Cerri for bringing back this fun event.  And don't forget to check out Cindy's blog to see the other participating bloggers.

This week's topic is: VINTAGE APRONS

Now Mommy has a HUGE collection of vintage aprons but because of the weather I wasn't able to get to them before this topic was due so I'll being showing some aprons that we washed and had hanging out on the line this past summer, that are vintage, but are really just a small sample of what we have collectively.

The aprons originally belonged to my grandmother's best friend back when my mom was a kid.  My aunt somehow gained possession of them and they ended up joining the growing collection here at the house earlier this year. 

They are all handmade and in really good condition and I love the colors and fabrics.

This one reminds me of the neighbor lady when I was growing up.  She always wore aprons that looked like this and kept busy doing the laundry, the dishes or canning.

Wearing such fun aprons with such bright colors could actually make housework fun...well it's just a thought.

I love the flounce of this one and the colors are so pretty.

Look at the darling flower carts on this delicate little beauty.  It is in desperate need of ironing but tat happens after they air dry of course.  I love the smell of lined dried fabric, so fresh and crisp.

So there you have it, a smattering of vintage aprons to look at and enjoy and don't forget to check out the other ladies...I'm sure they'll all have something impressive to show as always.

Happy Sunday!!

Show and Tell Sunday

I’m back!!! I am so happy that I get to participate in a real Show and Tell Sunday again; this time with pictures and everything.  Thanks to Cerri and Analise for hosting another S&T Sunday.  So come along and look around my area while I make mental notes of what I need to do and after looking around my blog for a while you can check out the other participants here.

This week’s theme is “How you store your stuff.”  These topics have been so perfect for me because I’ve either already posted about the topic or I have a post in the works on it.  This is one of those “in the works” topics.  Once my workroom is completed (being set-up) I’m still going to write an entire post on it, but since this topic is on how I store my stuff I can easily show that.

I am an organized person.  I organize and re-organize as I see fit and evaluate what’s working and what isn’t.  That’s why I’m so happy that I actually have a workroom now.  I still work in my bedroom as well but this really gives me a space to store items in an organized fashion and I if truth be told do work in both rooms, sometimes simultaneously.  I’ll start in one room and work on parts of a project then go to the other room and work on other pieces (especially if drying time is needed) and spend the day (okay, night) going back and forth.

My style of storage is very utilitarian.  One day I would really like the space to have bowls of ribbons and pretty wire baskets filled with this and that, but my current space doesn't really allow that yet, but I am working on it. 

I asked Mommy to paint these old spice racks white

(she’s always painting things white so one day I went out and had her slap some paint on these while she was painting two dressers, a couple of chairs, and probably about fifteen other things).  They’ll be hung on the wall and some of my rubber stamps will be displayed on them.

My bedroom is really my scrapbook and sewing room because I have a really cute little corner desk to work on and I like to do those activities with the TV on in the background, usually a movie that’s I’ve watched a million times. 

Here’s my thread and silk ribbon rack

And my large plastic storage bins that contain scrapbooking supplies and sewing notions

I also have shelves with boxes of this and that

Oopsy, I haven't put on proper labels on some of those boxes yet.

I also have lots of nicely labeled drawers for other items with galvanized tin buckets: one for colored pencils, one for pencils, markers, and pens, and one for paintbrushes.  The old gelatin molds and other containers are for sorting beads and various pieces of whatever.

and my scissor corral

I do have some of my glitter in a pretty and functional storage container.  Here it is

 

made from an old spice holder.

I can’t forget all of my bookshelves with books and binders galore

Then the hallway with boxes of fabric and other craft items that haven’t found a home yet, other than the boxes they currently reside in.

   

In the workroom I listen to music and have my main storage center.  There are labeled plastic boxes in the closet

An entire shelf of various craft supplies

And I know it looks like a lot but it really, okay it really is a lot of yarn and I think it looks like I can open my own little store, luckily my shelving unit came from a store, so it all works.  I have this one filled with yarn and the other one is beginning to store different bits of ephemera.

Sometimes when I’m working on projects I use just about anything handy to hold my items like box lids and baskets, my bed, a chair, the floor, whatever's closest.  Here’s some fabric and interfacing that is washed and ready to be made into some fantastic.

And finally a container that will be gussied up one day…an old magazine holder, so far just painted white to hold some of my wrapping paper and wallpaper.

Thanks for joining me while I showed and told my stuff.  Come back tomorrow when I start my real countdown to The Farm Chicks Show and write about some other big announcements.

Happy Sunday!!!

Show and Tell Sunday

Sorry to those who came by to see my Sunday Show & Tell.  My Internet provider cut off our service so we’ve been out of commission for the last couple of days. 

This week's theme is Vintage Linens.  I guess I could declare a gimme since I already posted a vintage linen post on last week's Fabulous Friday Finds but that wouldn't be right.  You all didn't come here to see a previous post (but don't mind me if you want to look around a while). 

I really love well made things.  I also really love handmade items.  That’s why I like all of these edged pieces.  Some are pillow cases and others have been cut up (that's how I got them)

Thanks for visiting me again for Sunday’s Show and Tell.

Thanks Cerri for hosting another S&T Sunday.  Now go check out my other blogmates to see what they are showing and telling. 

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Living out in the woods has its drawbacks.  As I began my post, my Internet connection (satellite) is acting up telling me that we’ve been using too much time, ugh, so I may not be posting as much this week (there goes my post a day in May, if that happens) but I’m hoping I can sneak it in during lower usage times.

Happy Mother's Day

Today's Show and Tell Sunday is being hosted by Analise over at Sugar*Sugar, go check it out and "support" the other show and tellers.

If you don't already know about it, Show and Tell Sunday is usually hosted by Analise or Cerri most Sundays.  Each Sunday is themed and other bloggers sign up and post about that theme.  They've had themes of vintage hankies, bling, and favorite places to shop and now this weeks theme celebrating mother's and motherhood.

When I taught high school I participated in all of the spirit week activities.  I thought it was only appropriate for hero day to dress as a mom because they are everyday heroes and usually don't get the day to day accolades they deserve.

So here's to you mom, an extra special Mother's Day present, where I won't be posting any of the millions of funny pictures I have of you that would only lead to embarrassment (those can be posted later) and I'll only post pictures that you'd really enjoy.

That's Mommy with all three of us...

Here's Mommy and Daddy at Mommy's ten year high school reunion (she already had all three of us at by this time)

and at Daddy's twenty year reunion

and Mommy's twenty

And here's she participating in her favorite activity...softball.  (Hey Mommy, I told you, just like that lady at WalMart yesterday.)

and after her second favorite activity tennis (a few years later).

Of course for Mommy no pictorial would be complete without her favorite picture.  Now she can look at it whenever she wants...

Older brother was in high school when this photo was taken.  He didn't like that she looked like this, however his friends did.  She would pick him up from school and everyone wanted to know who his older girlfriend was...his college age girl.  He hated it, she loved it, and so it goes.  By the way, that's my skirt she took out of my closet (got to love the acid wash of the 80's) and she still loves it.

I'm sure she thinks that this is the best present ever, just ask her.

Happy Mother's Day one and all!