Great Weather for a 1515 Get Away

I got to go to 1515 for the first time since the infamous, water main break in January

Oh what a glorious weekend!

I actually got off work a couple hours early thanks to my friend Jan. So I headed home Thursday night.

Friday we had big plans

I took cousins Marty, Mary and PJ to the beautiful renovated Mattoon Amtrak station for them to board for a short trip. It was PJ's first train trip.

So 30 minutes later...........

I picked them up in Effingham

On to Greenup for lunch

at the new BBQ place...yummy!!

Went to my favorite store, Grandma's Place

She just happened to be having a open house for her 25th anniversary!

Guess what...?

I won a $25 gift certificate! Thanks Sue, now when I come back I can buy myself a little something.

More shopping and antique hunting

Cumberland Road Antiques moved to a new store and it is wonderful

No Pyrex to find but wonderful finds abound!

Cathy has done a great job with moving her mothers inventory and creating a new space.

Back home

Everything is blooming, tulips, narcissus, Bradford pears

Beautiful day for swing on the porch

10 friends and family out for dinner

We celebrate cousin Fred's birthday a little early

On to the local coffee house to hear local singers and musicians.

The next day was long walks, sitting on the porch and some yard work and Pyrex hunting. But only after going back to Greenup at 8am for a estate sale with my friend Cheryl, I will show you my finds Friday.

We took turns mowing with the hand mower, who would think in March!

A walk through the neighborhood.

Checking out a new house going up at 1414!

Dinner was pizza and salad with cousin Fred.

The Indiana gang left about 1000 and I stayed till have my Charleston Riot Committee meeting.

Oh yes, they nominated me Committee Director....hope I can live up to this. I have never done anything like this before, everyone else on the committee are historians and published authors. I have exactly 2 years to pull a 3 day historical event together in a town I do not live in...yikes!

But before I left I spruced up the kitchen with my new Pyrex finds.

Have a wonderful Monday, I need to get the laundry and cleaning done before it is back to work.

Sorry I did not visit over the weekend!

Being at 1515 sure made me feel relaxed and recharged.

ANN

Saturday Flea Market Vintage Thingie

On Saturday I told one of my coworkers that the monthly flea market was on this last weekend at a local fair grounds. So after she got off work she met me there. And oh did we have fun!!

Check out this sugar sacks for $1

C&H sugar

Domino Sugar

But my favorite is this one

My friend who grew up in California recognized this Holly sugar

sack instantly

So what to do with them?

After a good wash and re-starch I am going to make pillows out of them for the kitchen at 1515.

What do you think for $3?

 I also picked this up, 1/2 off the price you see

A pretty creamer for $4

My friend got some sugar sacks too, a hand crotchet tablecloth.

Then I spied some Pyrex for her, about daisy and spyrograph

casseroles with the lids..both for $15

and I got a primary color bowl set in great shape for $35!

It had the blue missing but I just found one 2 weeks ago for $4.

Can't wait to get them to 1515 this weekend and displayed in the kitchen.

Thank you to everyone for your kind words of love and support in our loss of our precious Pinky

Joining

Easter Table Top

The dining room is ready for Easter

The dining room is ready for today the first day of Spring

Dining table centerpiece

bunnies galore

At the gate to welcome you

Vintage paper mache bunnies

The paper eggs were my Grandmothers I had never used before.

My Tetee daffodils in my glass and silver vase I purchased at the wonderful antique store of Richard from

My Old Historic House

I may not be visiting today and I did not visit anyone since Sunday morning.

After I did my post on Sunday I went down to start laundry and found my 

beautiful Pinky in the basement. We are not sure what happened, he was only 10 and not ill.

But my heart is broken......I miss my Pinky Wink so.

He has always been a big part of my Pink Saturdays.

He has posed for some too at Easter.

So I will close with this before I start crying again.

Mr. is heart broken too.

Easter 2010

A Letter to Aunt Annie

Dear Aunt Annie,

I wish you were here for me to wish you a Happy Birthday.

You were born on this day, March 18, 1885.

Because of you I know so much about my family.

The tireless work you did for so many  years, to find out who we are, where we came from is used almost everyday by me.

I am so grateful to you that because of the journals you kept, I know so much about my Great Grandparents that I too refer to them as Mama and Papa. You brought them to life for me by your words, your description of their day to day life.

Since I never met your sister, my Grandmother, the words are priceless.

You seem to be able to transform me back in time.

I feel as if I am at my Great Great Great Grandmothers 90th birthday party in 1915, only because you told us the weather that day, who was there, and who made the 90 layer cake!

Cousin Fred gave me your bookcase for my birthday in October

I cherish it so and have put all your things back in it. All the journals, the letters, the bibles.

The pictures have all been scanned and put on the Internet for any descendants to see.

You would of loved the Internet to do your research.

I have met many a Mitchell and Galbreath family member through your work I try to continue on.

You would love the research days we have with our extended family before the Galbreath reunion, which is in its 105th year! 

I have even scanned all the pictures you took and developed in your dark room. They are now on the Internet for all too share.

One cousin even wrote a historical book about the Mitchell's and he mentioned you in the sources, some 40 years after you left us. You would love reading about Adam Mitchell your Great Great Grandfather.

I hope today you are with Mama and Papa and all the Galbreath Clan.

If there was ever a person that brought a family together, it is you.

Your spirit and love of family lives on everyday we are at 1515.

Thank you for being such a huge part of my Sentimental Life.

Love, Ann

Annie Rebecca Galbreath Meyer

1885-1965

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Top of the morning to you!

My Irish postcard purchased in Paris

I don't have much Irish blood in me.

Most of the ancestors who lived in Ireland, were stopping by from Scotland on their way to America.

My husband on the other hand is 50% Irish. He Grandmother was a Sullivan and her mother was a Kennedy.  His Great Grandparents were born in Ireland. I on the other hand have to go back 7 generations to my 5th Great Grandfather John McMachen.

My cousin has written two wonderful books about the Mitchell-McMachen family and their adventures in the new America. The links are on my side bar.

Being a good Irish lass, my MIL has given all her DIL's some of her Belleek.

And of course I chose the Pink!

My Belleek collection

I better go find some green to wear. We have 2 huge parades in St. Louis, but a friend and I our headed out to the monthly huge flea/antique market to hunt Pyrex!

Vintage Thingie Thursday

This little cup and saucer were my Grandmother's. I think it is Flow Blue?

It is so tiny

It has always sat on the same little cup holder

It is a hard plastic

pretty scroll work on the sides

I know it has to be old

It was made in the USA!

It has a place of honor on my Grandmother's corner cabinet.

The corner cabinet sat in my Grandmother's living room, then my Mom's and now my dining room. And the tea cup and stand have always been on the same shelf.

thanks for stopping by to visit!

Have a great VTT

Spring Planting Cloche

The weather is warming up and my Bunny is busy planting.

The Bunny cloche in my garden cottage

He has planted his pansy seeds and is seeing his reward of a beautiful bloom.

I think he is saying, "shhhh, don't tell people I have pansies already"

I love all pansies but this is my favorite color.

The cottage mantle is all decorated for spring, with sweet pastels and vintage Easter postcards. And of course the Bunny Cloche.

Joining the Egg-xciting Egg-xellent Spring Party

 Cloche Party

Hosted by Marty

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