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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 31 2008 : 7:47:02 PM
O.K. .. I WUZ 'SINGIN' THERE! I posted these photos (with stories) to my True Friends list .. i quickly down-loaded them to photo bucket .. and will post pictures here .. if you wanna' hear the 'stories' .. jus' e-mail me to get on my true friends list .. (i added about a dozen gurlz today already!)
these are the things i 'put back' in the kitchen after baring the walls, cupboards and nooks and crannies!
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| 25 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| palmettogirl |
Posted - Feb 13 2009 : 1:02:51 PM
i absolutely love all your things!!! i collect old kitchen things, too. what caught my eye is in the first picture.....a green mug, but the one on the left that looked more like a barrel....i have a brown one from my grandmother. we use it to hold pencils and pens cause that's what she used it for?? i also collect green depression glass and red-handled kitchen utensils (but i now include some other colors if i really like it!) i also love the old doors and stone walls in your place. how lucky you are!! sue |
| electricdunce |
Posted - Feb 13 2009 : 12:24:54 PM
Wow, what a wonderful array of treasure. I love your cupboards and the old pottery, and of course the cast iron pots! Lots of beautiful things...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Feb 13 2009 : 07:39:12 AM
So nice to revisit her fabulous home and collections! :)
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Feb 12 2009 : 5:01:24 PM
OMG at all the cast iron pans!!! Wow! I would love to have that many. I'd use every one of them, too. And I saw one just like Mary Jane has that she showed a picture of on the bread thread with the garlic rolls. It's so neat. I am going to have to hunt for one of those now.
What a beautiful cabin you have, Frannie. Have you gotten the other cabins done yet so we can come visit???
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
| janiee |
Posted - Feb 12 2009 : 2:11:25 PM
me too! I love all those all things....especially the wall of pots/pans and etc....
janiee
farmgirl #390 |
| gramadinah |
Posted - Feb 12 2009 : 2:04:53 PM
Nice job great to look at I love alllthose wonderful pictures.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
| ruralfarmgirl |
Posted - Feb 12 2009 : 2:01:23 PM
Just bumping up a few favorites and this is one of my favorite things
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
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Circumstances made us FRIENDS; MaryJane's has made us SISTERS :) |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 11:10:56 AM
belle .. it jus' seems to 'skip a generation' doesn't it!
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 11:05:08 AM
thanks judy .. i love my 'donut maker' pan .. thats the only one in my collection that i've not seen elsewhere.
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 10:20:22 AM
You have some very nice cast iron there....
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 07:31:18 AM
Frannie, your nannie sounds like my Daddy. We were eating at a restraurant (Cracker Barrel maybe) They had all kinds of farm tools on the walls. He said "This stuff should be in the barn not in the dinning room". He thought it was awful when people used old beat up farm equipment to decorate the front yard. Ever since he passed, I have tried to get someone to help me get the old manure spreader from down in the pasture so I can plant flowers in it. Someday maybe. |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 06:48:50 AM
oh ha Star .. (what do your friends call you?) i'd pay them to help me de-clutter it all! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| StarMeadow |
Posted - Aug 04 2008 : 06:29:25 AM
I think you should charge admission just to peruse the contents of your home!!!! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 11:35:45 AM
jeannie .. freedom valley has a wonderful flow. starting from one end to the other .. you walk through the front door of the UPPER cabin (it's the 1863 one) .. this cabin has TWO rooms ... downstairs and upstairs (downstairs is our 'living' room) .. upstairs is our guest (stranger) room. to the right is a doorway (no door) that opens into my little 'sewing/tv room' .. and just off that is the guest 'privy' (bathroom.) and if you walk from the front door of the upper cabin to the back door .. we have a darling 'garden porch' .. which is enclosed off the upper cabin.
NOW .. if you have just stepped into the upper cabin through the front door ... if you look LEFT .. you are looking into the KITCHEN .. there is a door that you go through (it's almost always open) .. step through the doorway .. and you are in the KITCHEN ... which is part of that big green 'addition' between the two cabins .. (it's just like walking from one room in your house to another through a doorway) (no outside between them).
There is a PANTRY in the kitchen .. and a back door to this kitchen addition .. with a HUGE back porch.
there are two steps down from the kitchen into a hallway (this is still part of the 'addition') .. half-way down the hall .. there is another door .. that leads into the laundry room .. and you pass through this (through another door) .. again .. which is usually kept open .. into our bathroom. you turn left out of the bathroom and you are in our BEDROOM. there is no 'door' leading out of the bedroom .. we look at the log wall of the LOWER cabin.
now .. if you didn't turn into the laundryroom door .. but take a couple more steps down that hallway leading from the kitchen .. there are two steps down (and by the way .. the wall to the LEFT of you as you walk down .. is LOG . it is the "outside" wall of the lower cabin .. which is actually INSIDE the house. at the bottom of the two steps . .there is a landing and a door (to your left) .. where you enter into the LOWER cabin.
but .. if you are on that landing .. and step up two more steps (i'll take pics so all this will make more sense .. we're getting ready to go to town to get paint for the floors and to dinner and a movie .. sooo .. i'll take the pics tomorrow) but anyhoo .. if you take those two steps up from the landing in front of the lower cabin door .. and look RIGHT (the wall is on your right up to this point) .. but here it is just 'open' .. and if you look right .. you are looking into our bedroom. (see above about that).
now .. if you did turn left and took one step down through the doorway (we leave all our doors open from room to room to room in our home) .. your are now standing in the first floor of the lower cabin. (this is hank's tv/reading room).
the lower cabin also has two rooms .. one upstairs (our computer room (which is a MESS .. looks like world war THREE .. with my piles of 'stuff' .. but i SWANEE . .i will clear it out before the year's end! we have jillions of books on shelves here too!).
neithere cabin istself has a bathroom .. but there are two in the 'house'. now .. there is both a front and back door to the lower cabin .. the front leads back out front looking at the other cabin .. the backdoor is where we have a wonderful screened in back porch that looks off into the woods. (ha! this porch is more for our dogs we find than for us!) but it keeps them out of the weather. they are INDOOR dogs most of the time . but have a HUGE fenced yard off the back porch to run and romp.
ha! we even have electricity, air conditioning, hot and cold running water, washer/dryer, and two 'indoor' bathrooms.
ya' gotta' come visit sometime gurlfren! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 11:22:23 AM
oh belle .. it is truly wonderful to have family ties to our treasures! my family didn't save too much .. ha! i remember after i started liking 'primitive' olde peely paint, early farm furniture when we moved to the mountains of Colorado .. (i liked sleek, modern lines when i lived in d.c.) .. my nannie, who raised me had 1940' highly polished MAHOGANY (ohhhhhhh the saturday's my sister and i spent taking 'doilies' off and dusting polishing that furniture).
well, when i returned from colorado where i fell in love with EARLY furniture .. my nannie visited my house .. she was truly talking to herself as i saw her looking at my hoosiers and step back cupboards and pie safes and benches and i heard her whisper: "tsk, tsk .. what a waste of perfectly good firewood!"
i laughed and asked her: "Nannie .. you don't LOVE my olde stuff" .. to which she sweetly replied ... "lawsy no honey .. it reminds me of when we were poor". (she was one of nine children and they lived on a farm in virginia and were dirt poor .. and made everything they wore, used, furnished with, ate, etc. etc. etc.) when she and her brothers and sisters grew up .. they all moved to D.C. and got good jobs where they could afford all the new-fangled stuff .. and they never looked back. (i did love hearing their stories though) .. OH .. there was one aunt and uncle (sister and brother) who STAYED on the olde farmstead t'il they died .. and .. our family had all our gatherings there .. sooo .. their hearts were in the country (to visit) .. they just didn't want that life-style anymore.
i guess it skips a generation .. cuz' my children love my NANNIE's STUFF!
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 10:15:43 AM
Frannie, we do pots hanging over a fire pit and dutch ovens with coals under the pot and on top of lid. Depends on the recipe and who is doing the cooking. I use my iron skillets everyday here in the house. I have several that are my favorits. One was my great grandmothers. She used it, my grandpa used it, my mamma used it and now I use it. Sure wish pots could talk. What stories they could tell. |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 09:23:18 AM
Frannie - I have a question I have always wondered about when I read of your cabins. I hope you don't mind my asking.....Is there a cabin with a kitchen, living room, and bedroom where you "roost: most of the time, or do you both have to go from cabin to cabin when you move from "room to room" so to speak?
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 5:59:47 PM
hi belle .. welcome to the farmyard!!! yes, i do cook in them .. and in my olde grey enamelware collection too. cast iron is great to cook in .. (ha! no matter what i cook in .. you can be sure i'm probably going to BURN it!)
do you cook in firepits outside inyour dutch ovens (heaping hot coals on the lid)? i haven't done that yet .. but want to! i love it when i go to 'rendezvous' and they 'soldiers' are doing that!
our town has a rendezvous each year .. and they do a dutch oven contest .. and we all get to taste a little of everything!
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 10:43:55 AM
WOW, you've got more favorite things than I do! Do you cook in your iron pots? We love cooking in the iron dutch ovens. |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 04:49:16 AM
hi maryjane .. i was just reading in a magazine last night that it is 16 by 20 feet! TALL ceilings .. and it is EMPTY again .. yep! everything is back on the floor in the upper cabin .. gotta' scrub them really good to have them repainted.
i 'think' i've decided to have the kitchen floor done PUMPKIN .. the hall a shade of earthy green (mossy) .. and the bedroom/bathroom and laundry room a slightly darker shade of the moss. brought some samples home from the paint store yesterday.
kathy sugarbucket is doing them .. but she has her SALE today .. and a couple days of REST .. then OH YAY!!!
i'll surely post pictures!
oh MJ sweetie .. i put you on my True Friends list. xoxo and thanks for the sweet words.
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CountryBorn |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 3:30:36 PM
Hi Frannie I would like to be on your friends list! Your kitchen is amazing. It must of taken a long time to collect all those
goodies. How big is your kitchen? It is truly like a lovely country shop.
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 3:00:16 PM
ohhhhhhh lordy! i gotta' take EVERYTHING outta' the cupboards and offa' the floors .. by next week .. so we can get the floors painted! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| joyfulmama |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 1:45:58 PM
what fun! I love all of the old cupboards.. and the thingie that holds the rolls of paper! how cool!
Blessings, Debra
"Your life is an occasion, Rise to it." Mr Magorium..
http://myvintagehome.com
http://woolieacres.net |
| dkelewae |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 10:59:05 AM
Frannie-Please add me to the friend list also. I sent you an email yesterday with my request. Let me know if you didn't get it and I'll resend.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #272
St. Peters MO
Country Girl trapped in the city! |
| Nigella |
Posted - Aug 01 2008 : 10:51:35 AM
Wowee Frannie! I would love to mosey around your house and just look at everything! Your thingys are so neat! :D
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If the ways is long
Let your heart be strong
Keep right on 'round the bend
Though you're tired and weary
Still journey on to your happy abode
Where all that you love
And are dreaming of
Will be there at the end of the road.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder |
