Flea Market and Vintage City Finds September 2018

September ended up being a good vintage-finding month for me, after the summer being kind of a bust.  Would you believe, I found all of these goodies (minus the bowl of apples that my mother gave me from her tree) all in one day!?

 

 

The first flea market of the 2018-2019 season began on September 9th and I scored a couple of fun items including this flour sifter...

 

 

...and this Ladies' Home Journal from June 1939.

 

 

Then it was on to Vintage City and I couldn't believe it had been since February since I'd stopped in to say hello and to treat myself!

I can never pass up the Apple Pear pattern and these little mixing bowls were calling my name!

 

These antique hair combs will be perfect to wear next summer during museum tours.  They are large combs which is nice because the small ones just don't cut the mustard when it comes to keeping my hair in control.  And it's always nice to have a really white pair of gloves, that fit well.

 

 

I picked out a package of birthday candles to go along with the box I already had at home, when Marla pointed me in the direction of a Tiger box of candles.  Can't pass up a neat-o favor from ESSO Gasoline!  "Put a tiger in YOUR tank!"

 

 

 

Now, along with the little blue ones I had at home, I now have three boxes of birthday candles and THREE makes a COLLECTION!  Yea!

 

 

One of the first things I spied was this Silver Birch tea cup and saucer.  It is my Grandmother's pattern and I have a few pieces from her already and am always looking for pieces here and there to add to my collection.

 

 

This fun little drinking glass will look cute on a red white and blue themed table.

 

 And it kind of matches two other glasses I already had at home.  Again....Three equals a collection! (I wonder if this could becoming a sickness with me ha!)

 

 

And I can't leave Vintage City without a little jar or bottle of some kind, right?  This one had candy decorations inside at one time or another. I'm guessing they may have been like little Red Hots.

 

 

Well, I think that was about it, and did I ever have fun finding places for all of my goodies!

I hope you're all having a terrific fall!  Until next time, have a happy, Vintage Day!! 

Embroidered Fruit Placemat

A little Connie Francis to start off our post today.

Connie Francis--Everybody's Somebody's Fool

It hit #1 on the charts June 27th of 1960

The new little casserole dish needed a little something to sit upon, so I made it a matching place mat.  And what fun it was to make!

I started with a small bit of flour sack towel and hemmed up the sides.

I found these little fruit patterns on the Internet and played around with them in my scrapbook program to make them the right size.  Then I used a friXion pen to copy them onto the towel (without faces).

I used DMC 725 yellow to outline the pear, DMC 703 green for the leaves, and DMC 3790 brown for the stems.
But when it came to the red apple and the red stripe I didn't seem to have the right shades of red.  The reds I had were very dark reds, brick reds and Christmas reds.  The red in the casserole dish is more of a tomato red.

So, off to the craft store I went for red floss, one of my favorite things to do!

The correct red ended up being DMC 350 red.

And I learned how to do the herringbone stitch thanks to Big B's Embroidery site.  http://bigbgsd.blogspot.com/2010/10/100-stitches-herringbone-stitch-and.html

Here is the finished product after being ironed and all of the pen marks have magically disappeared.  I put a couple of our little jam jars next to the casserole to keep it company.



Have a Happy Stitching Day!

Harker Red Apple Baking Dish

I'm taking a little break from the Prairie Village Museum tour just for today and will share my new little baking dish instead.

A few days ago while searching for red striped vintage dishes I came across this cute little tea pot on Brookhollow Lane's  blog.   http://brookhollowlane.blogspot.com/2012/06/kitchen-hutch-re-do.html

Tea pot from Brookhollow Lane's Blog.  It has a very unique lid!

I decided that if I ever saw anything like it at a flea market or antique shop I would gladly buy it. 

Fast forward to this past weekend.  In a small town antique store I found this bowl!  And as luck would have it, it was a very reasonable price. 

Mom found the tea towel on which it is sitting (thanks Mom).  Fruit tea towels are the coolest!

The markings on the bottom of the bowl

After doing some digging I've found out that it is a baking dish and is called "Harker Red Apple"

Now, just yesterday (after I'd bought my bowl), I was looking at Creative Breathing's Blog (love her blog) and what did my eyes spy in the background?   Another piece of Harker Red Apple! Here is her link.  http://creativebreathing.blogspot.com

Two of my favorite bloggers have pieces of this!  Mine has a bit of browning and crazing, but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so tickled to have one!

I'm working on a little towel to sit underneath the bowl.  I'll share that with you soon!

Have a Happy Vintage Day!

Bon Ami

For about a year now my husband has been wanting to buy new dishes, but I'm the kind of person who buys something ONCE and expects it to last a lifetime.  We bought our dishes at Target when we got married about 14 years ago and they are still good.  They are no longer in style but the plates still hold food, the bowls still hold cereal and all are in pretty good shape.  The one problem they have are these annoying gray silverware scratches.

BUT I FOUND A SOLUTION!  Woot!  Bon Ami Cleanser!

Well, actually I got the solution from Apron Revolution, one of my favorite 50's Gal blogs. 

Bon Ami is French for "Good Friend" and what a friend it is!

First I rubbed BonAmi on half of this dinner plate then rinsed it off.  It's hard to see the difference in the photos, but the BonAmi really does help!

Once all of the plates are scrubbed clean and put away all nice and white again, hopefully the subject of "new" dishes will not come up again for awhile.

Bon Ami has been around for quite awhile, since 1886!  If you Google "Vintage Bon Ami" you can find many images of vintage Bon Ami.

Here is a magazine ad from my October 1933 McCalls Magazine.

Here are some interesting facts about Bon Ami and it's chick. http://www.bonami.com/static/slideshows/chick_history_modal2.html

If I WAS going to buy new dishes they would REALLY have to speak to me "buy me! buy me!" They would have to be ones similar to these I saw on Brook Hollow Lane's Blog.  Love the fruit glasses and how she uses everything on the table to their full, vintage, colorful potential.

Here is a link to Brook Hollow Lane http://brookhollowlane.blogspot.com/  It's such a FUN blog!

I like these...a lot.  But still can justify new dishes when the ones we have are perfectly good!  This photo came from the site below.

There is a site for Homer Laughlin collectors!
http://hlcca.blogspot.com/2011/10/stay-tuned-for-new-retro-red-stripe.html

 

  

This glass is SUPER cute!

This tabletop design is very cute from TableTopTime's Blog

                                                        http://tabletoptime.blogspot.com/

Until tomorrow,

Happy Cleaning Everyone!

Homer Laughlin China

I'll admit it...I have an addiction to china.  No, not the country, the plates, the cups, the saucers....THE TEAPOTS!  It's a tricky thing to love when space is limited.  So I have to get creative in how I store and display my favorite finds.
My addiction to beautiful china comes from my mother.  She also collects china, and has a beautiful china hutch, that once belonged to my Great Grandmother. 
My mother has been kind enough to store my full set of Bavarian China in the Blue Garland pattern for me.  I found the Bavarian China in an antique store in Williston for a very reasonable price.  My Uncle (who is an antique dealer on the side) has helped me find extra pieces here and there.

Because my china isn't here, I couldn't photograph it.  But I found this exact cup and saucer on Ebay, so I'll borrow the image to show you.   It is NOT microwavable because of the silver edges.  Found that out the hard way!

The other set my Mother stores for me is the china I inherited from my Grandmother.  It is a set of Royal Albert china in the Silver Birch pattern and is very pretty.  My Grandfather bought them for my Grandmother when he was stationed in Alaska during WWII.  When he returned on the train, he carried them on his lap the whole way so they wouldn't get damaged.  I have half of the set and my Aunt has the other half.  My Uncle has helped me collect other pieces of the set including the sugar and creamer. 

Again, I don't have the china here so pictures from the web will have to do.  See how colorful they are!  It's been said that the pattern contains the state flower of each Canadian Province.

I love the thrill of finding a good piece of china at a garage sales or thrift stores for 25 cents.  The following are all garage sale and thrift store finds!

Here is the little display that sits on my antique sewing cabinet. 

Sorry the pictures are so fuzzy, low light.  This is a Homer Laughlin Eggshell Georgian Pink.  This was a garage sale find.  It was in a box of dishes marked $5.00 but I explained I only wanted this particular little bowl and she was kind enough to let me have it for 25 cents!

This is another beautiful pattern from Homer Laughlin.

This is a serving bowl by Homer Laughlin.  I like both the blue boarder and the pink.  Would have a hard time choosing if I were having to pick out a whole set of china.

This is another serving bowl, but this one is unmarked.  Someone once told me that dishes in this pattern were grocery store premiums back in the 40's and 50's.  You received a dish each time you spent a certain amount of money or bought certain products.  I have a platter just like it that was my Great-Grandmothers that is also unmarked.  I'd like to learn more about grocery premiums but there isn't much out there on the web about them.

This one's kind of hard to see, but is also Homer Laughlin and sits on my high dresser chest.  (That's Foxy Loxy standing next to it.)  This platter has seen better days, but I still think it's pretty in a shabby chic sort of way. 

I've always liked this pattern Homer Laughlin Eggshell Georgian.  This isn't one of my cups and saucers, I found this photo on the web.  But I do so love it!

I wish I could remember which blog this picture was from!  I'm not positive but would say that these too are Homer Laughlin Eggshell Georgian. 

I think it would be fun to hang a collection of plates and platters above the bed in the bedroom.  I know that the idea is becoming quite cliche and can be found in just about every shabby chic book and magazine on the market, but it's a neat idea for display. 

Here's an example from the blog Love and Life at Leadora.  I would use flowered plates instead of just white ones, but the concept is the same.   By the way, I'm totally coveting that wrought-iron headboard.

I'd need about 5 more saucers to do it successfully, so this summer I will be keeping my eyes peeled for flowery saucers at the sales.

New Blog to Share

Wow!  I just stumbbled upon the most amazing Blog called Meadowbrook Farm.  The title caught my eye just because it sounds so dreamy.  Then I saw some photos and I was totally sucked into it's fresh, country air goodness.

How wonderful it would be to live on a little farm, with a little pond, (with fish in it of course), some chickens and a couple of cats?   



Seriously!  There is actually a REAL place this beautiful!??  Apparently so.

 Their family moved from the city/suburbs to the country, to persue a simpler life.  Their farmhouse, built in 1902, has been redone.  The kitchen is amazing!  She's quite the photographer, so the photographs alone are fun to look at.


When I saw this I actually said aloud, "Oh come on, you've got to be kidding me!"  This is TOTALLY my dream place.  It could be on the front page of Country Living Magazine.




The dining room with Homer Laughlin plates on the wall (some of them just like mine)!  I love love love Homer Laughlin china.   




And of course there's just HAS to be a front porch swing!  The pillows and cusion are so perfect for the vintage/garden setting.

 This is an amazing place and such a fun blog to look at.
If you jump to November 15th 2009 you can see some before and after pictures of the farm house.  They put many hours into it. 
So, brew a cup of tea sit back and take a peek.
 http://themeadowbrookblog.blogspot.com/
Have a good one!