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Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 10:49:22 PM
i was standing in my kitchen this evening .. looking around at how cozy it has all become . it made my mind wander back to other kitchens i have had in my lifetime. some i can remember exactly what was where .. others i cannot. (hank and i were trying to remember WHERE our step-back cupboard was in our tiny DENVER kitchen. (large house .. not so big kitchen) .. we had a wonderfully HUGE and sun-shiney bright SUN ROOM .. totally surrounded by windows with a HUGE olde turquoise stove. we 'think' it was in that room.
do you ever look back at how you decorated your home at various times in your life? do you have a 'favorite' ... i have loved every kitchen i've ever had i do believe! it has always been my most favorite room to decorate. i think we are about as close to perfection with my heart-love with this one as we have ever been.
time simply does not stand still. and SOMEDAY .. we will all have our 'last' kitchen! i was reminded of this as i remembered a WONDERFUL play that we saw in Annapolis, Maryland many years ago . it was called "THE DINING ROOM" ... it was a series of 'vignettes' of various families who lived in the 'same' house over generations of time .. the 'dining room table' had been passed from generation to generation .. and they each told their 'stories'. Some entertwining with previous ones. ahhhhhhh .. the stories our kitchen tables could tell!
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 6:02:35 PM
what a wonderful class!!! would love to hear YOUR story as the kitchen table! ha! maybe we should all write a short story from that very perspective.
the play that i saw in Annapolis, Maryland called: THE DINING ROOM .. was much like that too. i have never forgotten the concept .. albeit .. i don't remember all the stories. They ranged from the early 1800's to current day.
it was FASCINATING!
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| bbteacher |
Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 5:54:04 PM
Frannie,
It's interesting that you chose the kitchen table for reminiscing . I actually have had several classes write a creative writing piece about this very thing. They had to imagine that they were an actual kitchen table and then tell their story from the table's point of view. It was a great project and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I guess that's why I love and appreciate antiques so much. Oh the stories each piece can tell!
Hugs,
Bonnie
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 5:06:26 PM
and oh .. my! think of BEDS in our homes. we had a high-top cottage-style bed with wonderful high mirror dresser .. hank never much liked sleeping in it because of the footboard .. he felt too 'confined'. so, our daughter, kristen slept in it for most of her youth .. i started a tradition that i had heard of long ago ... EVERYONE who ever slept in it .. SIGNED the headboard (it was unpainted pine .. it had actually been striped many years before) .. in our Maryland home .. it became our 'guest bed' .. i must have well over a hundred signatures on it.
just before moving here into these teensy cabins .. HA! the ceilings are shorter than that headboard was tall! i gifted it to my 'daughter-in-love' .. the daughter of my ex husband and his sweet new wife. she now uses it in her guest room and has continued the tradition of having it signed (and dated).
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 5:02:49 PM
our 'kitchen' table .. (we don't have a 'dining room' in these little cabins .. other than our kitchen!) this table is from the early 1800's .. so it has lots of stories of our forefathers and foremothers .. and all the children that sat around it too. i'm sure that in some humble home if the past .. the table top was flipped up so that it became a bench with a tall back to sit in front of the fireplace to catch the warmth.
we got our table many years ago in LEESBURG, Virginia .. right after moving back 'east' from colorado. our daughters and two of our grandchildren have grown up around it. many family celebrations have been held around it. i believe just about every member of my family has sat at it and had many a meal. i love that it has been 'touched' by everyone in our family.
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 4:55:32 PM
michele .. someday .. i bet your darlin' daughter will want that table too!
i find that the 'patina' of age is what i immediatly notice about an olde piece. and i'll guarantee you that sturdy oak table will be around for many generations to come! (can you just IMAGINE your Great-Great-Great Grandchildren sitting around it someday.
i think we should all write our stories of our tables ... put them in a protective envelope and tape them firmly to the underneath of our tables!
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 4:52:53 PM
MJ .. has your honey-man heard the stories? remind him of all the fond memories of your chilluns sitting around it. EVEN if he reeeeeeeeeeeeeely wants a new one .. try real hard to find a special place in your home for you table .. and give it a new little spot and stories.
what great memories kitchen tables evoke in each of us. thanks for yours! xo
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| luvnlife |
Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 4:50:07 PM
I bought my table and chairs right after my 16 year old daughter was born and in that time the wood grain has been worn smooth at the four place settings. You can't see it in the oak grain but if you run your hand across the table you can feel the difference. It makes me smile when I do. My dh did very well when he found this table and as always, he buys top quality. This table should be around for 50 years or more and I wonder what stories it will tell?
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 4:49:00 PM
linda .. such sweet memories. ha! it is amazing where a mouse can get if it has a mind to! did you see the cute animated film RATTITOUIE ... sounds like they visited your momma's PIE!
why no chairs? was the room too small to hold the whole family? i love the idea of taking your dinner to the porch! (how about wintertime .. where did you go then?)
you are so right .. familes need to gather around that table AT LEAST once a day .. three would be preferable! thanks to you for telling us of your 'family table'! xo
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 4:44:53 PM
oh debbie .. how dear our tables can be .. if we just stop to think about them. and can you just imagine the stories it brings from England!!! thanks for sharing gurlfren! xo
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 2:01:14 PM
You are so right about the kitchen being the heart of the home. I can still remember sitting by the big black wood cooking stove
in the kitchen of our log home in White Lake. My Grandma was always cooking something and I would sit near the woodbox on a stool listening to the radio. Then all the holiday dinners at her house down here and the kitchen in my Mom's home always cooking too. There were some great memories there. For the last 42 yrs. my own kitchens. I have had the same table for 40 yrs. I can still see my children around it and all the friends and all the fun we had. My husband wants to get a new set, But, I don't know if I can. There are so many precious memories associated with the table and chairs. I wish I didn't attach myse;f so much to things, but I do!
MJ
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 10:45:20 AM
KY Frannie if I had my head lay'in on a table don't bother me, I'd be catchin some zzzzz'z. I still got milk stains and hard on crumbs from my kiddies on our oak table chair legs and spindles, those hard to reach areas, overlayed with grandkiddies spills. I like that really distressed look.
But oh how your thread reminds me of the kitchens we had and the smells of Mom's cooking. One old farm kitcken was big with tall ceiling. We were poor and couldn't buy much , it already had a table , no chairs. and a stove ,that was it. Oh we had an icebox and it had a sink, what more could you want in a kitchen alto chairs would have been nice. It was either eat standing up or go out on the porch steps.
One time Mom made a pie it was warm, so we all went down to the water hole to get cooled off, came back to see Mom's pie that was cooling had little mouse prints all over it. Dang dab it, mouse sure had a climb with no chairs to help get to that pie.
But all the Holiday dinners on the dinning room table that make the memories, yesterday and today. Family dinners and chatting and all the homework, science projects, sewing projects, wild crittters, chicks, medical supplies to doctor up a wound,board games and cards and all the decoration for the seasons layed on our table. When Y2k was about to happen we had jars of beans on that table, ahhhh I still have those jars of y2k beans :P And all the Birthday cake , wow if table could talk, lots of history. Just in a short while.
Families need to get back to slow food, eating with each other and talking around the table. The kitchen is the heart of a home. You get some homemade bread going and you got company fast 
tc linda
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 10:00:08 AM
Thanks KY Frannie for this great topic, it has made me stop and really think. Our table used to grace a great hall in England and has been re-purposed by us now for almost 35 years. Our kids did homework there and we have had many wonderful meals with friends and family and entertained angels unaware I am sure. Tears have been spilled and laughter has abound and it has served us in every house we have lived in, no question if it would work, we could never think of changing it for another. It is octagon shape and I think it causes everyone to feel a part of things because of that....Debbie
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 09:08:48 AM
Ohhhh Frannie! Ha! I would never let ya be swooped up by a Butterfly Net, Cause I would Presume I'd Be Going Too!!!! I've never QUITE laid my head up against my Pie Safe!!!....... but I Sure have Wondered about the pies that were put in there before I started using it for extra spices and stuff!!! ........ Friends Don't Let Friends get swooped up in Butterfuly nets!! ;)
Until Later,
Audrey
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Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 07:20:28 AM
audrey .. thanks for sharing that sweet story .. that is EXACTLY what this play was all about.
i had a dear friend come visit and sleep in the 'stranger room' .. when she came to breakfast the next morning ... she told me she 'felt' a baby crying .. not a distressed cry .. jus' calling out to it's momma.
i asked her what she meant .. she said she just 'touched' the old log walls, closed her eyes and got very quiet .. and she 'felt' a baby crying.
ohhhh .. ever since then i have often walked past an antique piece of furniture ... stopped .. put my hand, or forehead or cheek on it .. closed my eyes .. and got very still inside. i've not heard any 'voices' ya'll be glad to hear .. but i do honestly 'feel' lives lived .. more a feeling of 'history' than any specific pictures conjured up. it is wonderful.
NOW .. if you happened to pass through a room and saw me with my head laid up against a pie safe with a dreamy, contemplative look on my face .. you might jus' be tempted to get the 'butterfly net' after me .. but .. i'd jus' take your hand .. and put it on the piece too and quietly go ... 'shhhhhhhhhhhhhh' ...
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| Back Home Again |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 11:33:02 PM
Frannie.....Every home we have had was "our favorite".....in every home, we have adored the process of making it OURS!!!...... starting with our first home in Manhattan Beach, California. Our old round oak table and chairs was originally our dining room table in our cozy little dining room (it has 4 leafs so it has accommodated many wonderful family/friend Holiday celebrations), it is today our kitchen table and chairs. The 1920's chandelier that hangs over our table in our kitchen was also originally in our first cozy dining room. We have many pieces that find a new use, a new space and added memories. I have often wondered who celebrated at our table for years and years before us! And actually, I have wondered about that on many of our cherished antiques. I do know, that we have lovingly contributed to the "History" of each piece.
Until Later,
Audrey
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