Thanks to
Kelli for hosting Show and Tell Friday. To learn how you can join go to:
Man, I'm just going to get this one in under the wire. Totally spaced it plus main computer tanked tonight. DH finally got it up and running. I'm in big trouble in cyberland without him.
I'm going to show not only a great item but a great gift. Yep, that's right. A friend in our neighborhood called me about 6 years ago and said " I have this beautiful pedal organ and I've decided I'm not going to use it, but I want it to have a good home. You can have it if you want it." You have never seen me move so fast. Grabbed some cute neighbor boys that could lift and
we moved it from her basement to my living room. I love it.
The little blue china dishes on the top are identical to a smaller set my grandparents split between myself and a cousin when we were very little. I only have about 4 pieces of the original set and a couple of them have been broken and badly repaired. I looked for about 15 years for a complete set that I could afford and finally found them in a great little shop in Livermore, California. The red floral tea cup and saucer belonged to a Grandmother.
The little Roseville flower pot had been my Grandmothers but what I didn't know until reading my Mom and Dad's WWII letters last year was that my Mom had given it to her for Mother's Day in 1943. The dark blue teacup, saucer and dinner plate belonged to a Great-Grandmother. The little heart is a gift from Grandchildren.
Handpainted picture was done by my Mother and the handpainted tea pot and little dish under the creamer was painted and given to me by our oldest daughter for Christmas one year. She had taken china painting lessons from her Grandmother. The little "turning purple" creamer also belonged to a Great-great grandmother.
The green carnival glass? also belonged to a Great-grandmother.
