New Find for Pink Saturday

Out antiquing I found a great addition to Pink Saturday!

A great metal trash can. I just always love the graphics.

It is going in the Pink bathroom at 1515

Well, how does it look in the Pink bathroom?

If you don't think Pink makes a difference, here is the bathroom when I bought 1515

Yes Pink does make a difference!

A New Friend

A few months ago when I posted about the auction I attended and stuffed my car, some of you said I needed a bigger car other than my convertible.

I had no desire for a new car.....I loved my baby

she still looked good for being 9 years old and 110,000 miles, I still got frequent complements AND she was paid for!

Isn't she pretty

WELL...................

Don't you hate the words "electrical problem, minimum cost $1700!!

With some tears, yes the dealership probably thought I was a crazy lady. I have a new friend, a larger 4 door friend. I feel like an old lady driving it.

My Mother in law can get in and out easy, now I can take people with me and the best part.....

it has a "Soprano trunk" my husband calls it, big enough for bodies!! So I have plenty of trunk space for the next auction....just a very empty pocketbook!

So my new friend and I are off to 1515. I am sure we will become close friends, but I do miss my old friend, wonder where she is............

Have a great day!

The Most Wonderful Memories

I wonder if this was one of my Mom's birthday presents?

Today is her birthday.

This was her last birthday gift

Pinky, posing for a picture. The last present I gave my Mom

She gave me so much over the years.......mostly the undying love of a Mother.

She was my best friend, my travel companion, my confidant.

Tea at the Ritz in London, one of our several overseas trips

I know many people think they had the best Mom in the world. I know without a doubt I did.
She use to tell me the happiest time in her life was when my brother and I were little and
she was home with us.

We never held back saying " I love you"
Normally this week I would have some days off, so we could go on a small trip together, stay at a B&B, buy trash magazines to read and junk food to eat in the room while we giggled. Of course antiquing would be involved in our travels or a trek through a cemetery to find a long lost relative.

Mom, I miss you so today but only because the love you gave me was so everlasting.......



White Enamelware Coffee Pot

When I was at an auction last month, I saw these and thought for some reason I wanted to get them.

They were two different sizes, white enamelware in great condition for $7

So how could I display them other than just set them on the stove or a shelf?

Sitting on the kitchen table on top of an crocheted red and white doilie with a bouquet of hydrangeas from the garden.......Yes that will work

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Joining White Wednesday

Vintage Thingie Thursday

Fall Finds

So many of you are mentioning Fall, Fall decorating etc.

Seems I am not ready.

However a trip this weekend to Dollar Tree may of gotten me started!

( Cass, if your reading this see I got a wire basket too!)

pumpkins in every color, great doilies in the colors of fall and the shape of leaves in pumpkins.

I am thinking they could make a great Fall banner?

I had some of these last year, I think the colors are great, bought some for 1515 and some for home.

So when I go back to 1515 there maybe some Fall decorating to do!

A Walk Around the Square

I was so glad to get to 1515 this weekend.

Work has been hectic and it feels good to get away even if it just is overnight.

No one else is here this weekend and I can honestly say I don't mind the alone time.

But the reason I came this weekend was this!

and a historical tour of the square.

My cousins new shop Forest Road, it was the Grand Opening

Kris, beautiful and very talented

Here is a look at the shop. Mix of vintage and new, just what I love!

The new shop is on the square where my friend Duska has her shop and there is another new antique store between her and Kris, Ambero Antiques

 

The inside is beautiful exposed brick and tin ceilings

Historian Nancy Easter Shick (my idol) and cousin Fred in deep conversation about the old cannon that use to sit on the courthouse square.

I was so happy the turn out was better than expected, 70 so they had to break up the crowd into 2 groups.

This the same square Abraham Lincoln walked as a Circuit Lawyer and when in town to visit his parents who lived south of town and are buried here.

Steep in history, they are working on get the entire square on the National Historic Register

So happy they are working on the bell tower and clock. As a girl walking the square shopping you always knew what time it was when the big bell chimed.....I have missed that but it will be finished by my birthday!

Cousin Fred and I walked to the square from 1515 so when the tour was over....

how about steak and eggs at the old diner on the square?

On the walk home there was a  house in poor shape for sale.

The place looks familiar?

The house where Fred's Great Aunt Emma and Alice lived (my great great)

This picture was taken in 1912 of the Galbreath siblings

on this porch!

A simple 24 hour trip home has brought me comfort and energized me for the week.

I click my heels and think.....there is no place like home.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

64 years ago.........

64 years ago my Mother and Father were married.

I had planned a more elaborate post but my work schedule has been torture lately, so here is a snippet.

I think they look pretty happy!

August 10, 1947

My Moms wedding book that she so meticulously filled out.

The invitation

Tell me where they first met

I guess making fun of the men!

Family tree

Even memories of their first married Christmas....they got a pound of bacon!

My parents were only able to celebrate exactly 30 years of marriage before my Dad died.  I now realize how young my Mother was. But the memories never faded.

And one last note...

Facebook has a page about my home county, "you know your from..."

I have been so touched by the number of people that remember having both of my parents as their teachers. I have even had people send me private messages to tell me how my Father touched their lives and made a difference in their life which continues to this day. It touches my heart to think after all these years, people remember 2 such wonderful people.

I think they were a pretty fantastic couple!