Vintage beauty

My favorite consignment shop had this vintage beauty just sitting on a back shelf.

Hidden on the bottom..like it was waiting for me.


We love punch at our parties. I do wish I had this in time for my little

Princess's 8th Birthday party (we always have punch).

I picked up these sweet little candle holders as well.

Milk glass has always been a weakness of mine...

what is your weakness?

Rednesday

I am participating in Rednesday again today, but have been experiencing

technical difficulties due to the very wet wires outside my house.

Today I will show you where I blog from...

no, it's not red...

it's Happy Green, but look closely,

my vintage tablecloth has lovely strawberries

perfect for my blog pal, Sue..host of Rednesday

this and every other week.

Go see the delicious redness over at her Secret Garden.

Vintage Thingies Thursday

I'm back to celebrate Vintage Thingies Thursday, I've been absent as I try to
figure out how to get my photos on my brand new lap top Farmer Dad and Princess
got for me as a Birthday gift. (Yes, I finally found one I liked, and he thought was good
enough, that I didn't think was way too much money.lol)
Anyway, I wanted to post about these dishes, and couldn't figure out how to get the photos
on here, when I remembered I posted them on my homeschooling blog originally, so here
I give you that original post, along with some small editing. I still LOVE these dishes,
but I was never able to use the beautiful Vintage garbage can for my potato growing, Farmer Dad is using it to store tools or something. He confiscated my lovely,pristine garbage can,
to prevent me from "damaging" it by filling it with compost and soil!
Just a reminder Farmer Dad..you still owe me a can for said potatoes!
One Thursday, I saw an ad on Craig's List about people clearing
out stuff from their house a few blocks from us, and had thought
about going, but just hadn't done it. Friday afternoon I drove past
on my way to the library, and recognized the house as having belonged
to a friend of my Grandfather's who died a year or two before my Grandfather.
I didn't stop and after reading a bit at home, I thought about it and realized that
they may have some old
pots and pans or canning jars, I should stop by. It was raining again, but I got out and saw
stuff lining the driveway next to a dumpster, and a box of canning jars was there amongst a bunch of stuff I didn't need or want. I rang the doorbell to be sure it was all right to take what was there, and the man told me they had more on the side porch. He gave me a garbage bag
and pointed out some stuff I might want. I put them in the bag more because he thought I should than because I wanted them. He went back inside and then came out and said he had some dishes in the basement..would I like them? I asked if they were heavy and he said yes, but he would drag them to next to the stairs and I could look at them. He went inside and came back out a minute or so later with his son carrying one of those old metal garbage cans.
My first thought was "I'm taking whatever it is to get that can!" (perfect for my potato plans)
He shows me a dish with a pretty pink flower and I said "oh that's pretty" and he said
"you'll need a truck to get it home" I told him I had one. He went inside and I carried the can
(boy was it heavy!) to my truck in the drizzle. It took me a bit to get it up high enough,
but I did it. (I really wanted the can!) I went back for the plastic bag and the box of canning jars,
and he came out again..shocked that I got it by myself. He had gone in to put proper shoes on
to help me carry it apparently. We laughed, he thanked me for helping him get rid of the "old stuff",I said thank you petted the poodle who had befriended me and drove carefully off to my house. I honked twice to alert Farmer Dad that he should come help, and he carried the can inside.
It was musty smelling from being in the basement filled with old newspaper (1961 and 1963)
on top was the plate he showed me,
and then we unwrapped, and unwrapped until we had unwrapped all of this.
They are Stuebenville ! Service for 8 and only a few pieces even have any signs of wear.
Who tosses them out? They were going to toss these
into the dumpster if no one wanted them. The jars are old jelly jars..9 of them just like this
One man's junk truly is this gal's treasure! Baccala..wherever you are..we are enjoying your dishes..thank you.

Vintage Thingies Thursday

Today is Vintage Thingies Thursday over at Colorado Lady's blog

It took me a while, but I got a few vintage thingies to post about

for this week. Three sugar and creamer sets we have picked up

over the last few years. This first set, from the lady who gave Princess

the small tray in Yesterday's post. They are quite small, possibly from a child's set.

Here is a photo of the markings, for those who like that sort of thing.

The second at a yard sale/estate sale last summer. These were in a box of

china I paid $5.00 for.

Here are the markings.

I'm not sure where this last set came from, but they are un-marked milk glass.

I love and use each set often! Actually, I use all of our "stuff" as the mood or season hits.

I will not buy something I can not "use". Our house is just too small for that. ;-)

If you'd like to join in, sign up over at Colorado Lady's blog, but even if you don't want to

share your vintage thingies, go check out all the loveliness from the other participants!

Rednesday

I love joining in with my friend Sue celebrating REDnesday!

Here are my red picks this week. A vintage tin from my Grandmother's

house, this one filled with buttons and sewing needles.

here is a close up..

This little tray was given to my daughter at an estate sale we stumbled

upon last year,(she also has a yellow one). She admired it, and the woman gave

her a box and told her to fill it, she refused to let me pay for it. Princess also cleaned them out of "fake" flowers and garden hats. ;-)My favorite of the picks this week...this vintage souvenir from

Niagara Falls found in the back of a closet at my Grandmother's.

Isn't it lovely? May you all have a lovely Rednesday!!

It's Rednesday Again

It's that time again, my gal pal Sue has her Mr Linky up and ready.

If you are too shy to join and post your lovely redness, won't you stop

by to see what others are sharing? Feel free to tell her I sent you!

I love RED, so here is my contribution this week...

Our local "Red-Red Robin",

Some lovely red vintage linens, and since this is supposed to be a gardening blog,

I picked this "tomato" from my Grandmother's closet, we don't have any tomatoes growing

in our corner of the Garden State just yet, but take a look at this lovely red popping up

in the garden this week.....

Thanks as always for stopping by to check out our corner of the Garden State,

I'll be back tomorrow with new pics of what we're up to here.