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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Made in Holland? Not Really!
The moment I read "Made in Holland," I know I am dealing with souvenirs.
We still bring Dutch Treats to our American friends and family. As I never kept track of who received what, I am sure I have repeated some blue/white cuties in the 35 years since I first made those trips over the "puddle."
On Saturday we visited one of our favorite Dutch second hand shops "Het Goed." As we still need a couple of pieces of furniture in our newly remodeled Beltway apartment, we first checked out the furniture. My hub was on a roll, and he found two good rotan chairs that we can use as "extra" living room chairs. At 10 Euros each, I can whip up some new filling for the ecru pillows. And they cleaned up nicely!
Then he found these two petite cornflower pans from Corning that were popular in the 1960's.
Then he found these:
In search of Pyrex ( preferably European), I found the following:
Top right is a Sovirel France bowl probably made in living memory (vintage).
And I found a cup and saucer like a breakfast set we received as a wedding gift (Eschenbach Bavaria-Germany) in 1980.
Nothing on this table costed more than 1.50 Euros each. In fact, the cup and saucer were 75 Euro cents!
Friday, March 21, 2014
"Vintage" Verses "Made in Living Memory"
I still have trouble distinquishing "vintage" from "antique." But yesterday on BBC's television program "Flog It" I heard a great way to define old stuff--made in living memory.
From now on in this blog I will use MILM (made in living memory) to identify my vintage finds. I will also probably expand the living memory part to my mom's memory back to the late 1920's.
As we are presently at the Beltway Apartment in The Netherlands, here is a chair that was left behind when my sister-in-law and her hub moved out last summer. The wooden part was almost white from wear and tear. According to my SIL, it had been in her family for almost 40 years.
I polished it up to be a brown piece, but I left the "bandage" on the right arm post.
Laundry Room Gallery
The areas above and behind our utility sink in the washroom were left bare when we built our house seven years ago. A couple of years ago, a tile setter put in the backsplash with some of our leftover bathroom tiles. But still there was something missing. A shelf and towel rack. I had one! Bought many moons ago for practically nothing and still safe in my collection of "maybe will come in handy/too cheap to leave it in the store."
After fiddling and faddling, my husband installed the shelf. Perfect fit! And now I plan to use it. Maybe not for hanging wet towels, but as a little art/junk display area. My latest Heart Art has found a place there, too.
Looks useful with the dust cloths, doesn't it?
Glassware found behind my neighbor's house. She gave these to me, and I finally got around to extracting all the mud. Think her husband had found them behind old deserted homes in our area.
Old Dr. Pepper bottle. Can you believe my Dutch hub likes Dr. Pepper?
Look carefully! This is an old RC (Royal Crown Cola) bottle. Wonder how many Moon Pies were eaten with this cola?
French's mustard jar. I threw away the rusty, crusty lid (oops!), and there is a huge chip on the F.
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Secret Auction Entries
Last Saturday our local Beauregard Master Gardeners group had their first annual Spring Garden Festival.
Two of my At Vintageous creations were offered in the Silent Auction.
This garden totem bird feeder.
And
This table ornament/ bird feeder totem.
The two items on the left of the Silent Auction table are mine (Wetcreek Designs).
I have no idea if either sold. But they were made of mostly vintage glassware (and, yes, that is a 2 year old Perrier bottle) and did not cost over $2.00 each to make.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Garden Cake Pedestals
Recently I found three perfectly good stove burner covers that are just perfect for gardeners. I think they were 25 cents each. Just my price range, hehe! These are even signed by artist Sandi Gore Evans.
Then I glued on a lovely (10 cent) candlestick using E6000 glue.
And although my lighting is horrible, here is a charming cake/cupcake plate.
Here is a taller model. Same top, but different stand.
Great candlestick holder (50 cents) sets it up high. May be a little high and risky for a cake, but cookies would work.
Here is the smaller and squattier version. I used a short white votive candle holder as pedestal.
Fun project, and they will be for sale at our Beauregard Master Gardeners Garden Festival tomorrow (March 1, 2014) along with some garden aprons made from recycled jeans.
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