Rose Teapot

She's a little rough but I think she's pretty!

I saw this teapot and just had to have it. I love that crazing and even more so when it has a little browning. It's been well used.

I look at this and wonder, where did it come from? Who owned it? What was she like? Was she a quilter and brought it out when she had the ladies over to work on her quilt and served them tea before they went home?

She must have used this a lot for the wear it's seen. The only real damage is a chip in the spout and how many of us have chipped that! I want to believe she really cherished this pretty rose teapot.

I'll take good care of it, I won't use it to serve tea but I will enjoy seeing it every day. It makes me smile to look at it and think about what it could tell me about it's past life.

That will remain a secret.

Isn't she a beauty!

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The end of Autumn....

The first freeze was on its way so I thought I better get outside and pick all the P.G.Hydrangea flowers that I could get. I've had this small desk for years with the same old 'stuff' sitting on it for almost as long.

I decided the old crock that's been on the floor might look good here, a velvet pumpkin, an old rock from Marble Mountain in Arizona and then I just picked up this really rough old Big Ben alarm clock for almost nothing and it seemed to look right at home with the old crock. In Autumn I always hang up this oil painting that I did when I was about 20.

I think the old clock has such character, it's pretty decrepit and it doesn't work but I like it.

And of course the pretty shades of fall in the flowers. I love bringing these inside...they last all winter and keep most of their color. I have vases and old pitchers all over the living room full of Hydrangeas.

Vintage Mother of Pearl Buttons

Just a few of my buttons in pretty little dishes for White Wednesday.

The wind is so terrible today and it's gusting worse tonight. The airport has major delays and the trucks are not traveling. We are surrounded by trees and I keep waiting for a branch to come through a window...that's how bad it sounds out there!

I don't deal well with strong wind but looking at the soft shades of the white buttons is calming my nerves...a little...

Several of these buttons came from one of my favorite Etsy shops...

Exhuberant Housewifery

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Thanks Kathleen!

White Wool Pumpkins

I made up a few white wool pumpkins last weekend for the mantle.

I sew then up, stuff them and tea stain them.

I picked up the white mice plate at an antique sale this spring... I tend to go for the unusual things and this just caught my eye...works well for Halloween although it stays on the mantle all year.

A few more white wool pumpkins and a few dried maple leaves.

The vintage glass pumpkin candle that my mom always had out for Halloween when I was a kid, she was pretty big on decorating for the season.

My wool applique "Pumpkins in a Row" that was featured in Create & Decorate Holiday 2010 magazine.


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Junk Pickin' Treasures

I walked down our driveway to pick up the mail one fine autumn day last week and as I was walking back up I noticed the old junk pile. It's a small old dump from an old farm homestead that was torn down many decades ago. It's about 30 feet off the driveway and in the bushes so you can't see it.

We've said for 20 years we should dig in that small pile so I got the shovel and came back and started digging.

Not 5 minutes into it I heard the sound of the shovel scraping glass so I took it easy and out came the aqua Ayers bottle...not a chip or crack anywhere...just dirty. So I got excited and started digging more and found the old Hamm beer bottle. Back before they called it Hamm's. ( A popular local brewery)

I spotted a little blue glass sticking out next to an old bed spring. I carefully dug it out thinking for sure it will be broken but it wasn't, just has the metal cap rusted on. There was also a funny piece of metal partly showing so I carefully pulled that out and here it's an old license plate reflector 'thing' from the 20's or 30's. The glass reflector was perfect! It says Silvertown Safety League which had to do with Goodrich Tires back in the day.

I was so excited that I talked my husband into helping me dig the next day...we pretty much just found junk! I uncovered the white cold cream jar and the cast iron wood stove vent which is pretty cool.

Trying to get a good shot of the Ayers Cherry Pectoral, Lowell, Mass U.S.A.

A wheel barrow of junk...literally! Maybe I can scrounge a thing or two, the seat cushion is pretty rusty but might be able to be used for something...some day! Any ideas?

There's part of the old wood cooking stove and another bottle with some tar stuck to it.

A pile of junk! There is the old stove vent...up side down.

The excavation site! Lots of broken crockery, it was a 10 gallon crock and a couple of brown jugs...wish they were whole!

I can have the best time digging in an old junk pile!