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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 28 2006 : 7:37:21 PM
that's the title of my Winter 2007 Mercantile Gatherings Magazine article which will be out sometime in January or February. It's about the "things" that make our heart smile. Our 'collections' that are dear to us as we live life and add these things to our life.
What is ONE thing that you 'collect' (it has to be a 'thing' .. like books, baskets, quilts, photos, etc. etc.) that 'pleases you well'? And why?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| lamamama |
Posted - Dec 03 2006 : 08:45:58 AM
Frannie, this is such a fun thread!
As an Obstetrics Nurse, I like to collect things related to babies. Kind of like a "busman's holiday," I guess, but I do love those babies! My main collection centers around antique/vintage birth announcements with storks. They are both colorful & amusing. (Intersting to read the backside, too.) I also enjoy collecting antique chocolate molds that are in the shape of babies. Not too many of those around, but some. It also combines my love of chocolate with babies - a little inside joke, you could say. I also have a small collection of antique figurines of storks & babies. Well, I think you get the picture.........
Melanie |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 02 2006 : 11:09:31 PM
oh nance ..
cardinals in snow ...
and bluebirds in spring ...
these are the things ...
that make my heart sing ...
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| Nance in France |
Posted - Dec 02 2006 : 1:14:57 PM
Frannie, don't red cardinals just look like 'the ultimate' against a backdrop of snow covered branches? No snow here (yet, please, please please, Mr. Weatherman) but the cardinals, chickadees, wrens, sparrows,thrashers,etc. are vying for the seeds on the front porch feeder nowadays, along with the errant squirrel whenever he gets a chance! Back when I was enthusiastically cataloging every species I could in Massachusetts, I would set the alarm clock for 5 a.m. and sit at the kitchen table with my pad, pencil, bird book and binoculars and wait for whoever came to breakfast. One afternoon, as the little birds were frolicking among the feeders, suddenly a hawk swooped in and pinned down a little bird. I banged on the window immediately and it spooked the hawk enough to fly off without his intended prey. The little bird shot off like a rocket after being freed, and when I looked at the spot where he'd been pinned down, a pile of you know what was left. Guess that encounter literally scared the **** out of him! For several minutes the air was so still, not a chirp or a peep outta anybody! Nance |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 6:44:31 PM
gloria .. do you have 'rafters' in your kitchen that you can hang them from? they would look great 'nestled' inside each other on a shelf too!
oh lordy! i do love pincushions (make-do's) too!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 6:42:54 PM
jonni .. do most of your bird post cards say things like 'merry christmas' or 'happy new year' .. or 'joyous easter' ... most of mine are 'holiday cards'
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 6:38:11 PM
NANCE .. i get great joy from 'bird-watching' too. haven't gone so far yet to find out most of their different 'species' .. but i'm looking for the red cardinals to appear any day now!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 6:36:30 PM
BB .. I LOVED HEARING ABOUT ALL YOUR CRITTERS!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| berries |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 10:30:32 AM
Oh Frannie, I have way to many to display. But I use them a lot. My favorite is a red speckled one with white. And I have my mothers aluminum one which I love. But mostly just old collanders! Along with my red and white kitchen! Also I love pin cushions!
Just too many things to collect!
enjoy, farmgirl hugs, gloria g. Richards, TX
strawberry fields forever and ever!
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 10:10:57 AM
I started my collection a few years back, inadvertently. I purchased an old postcard from 1911, and it showed these beautiful little robins, perched in a nest, sitting on these pretty blue eggs, high above a little country church and winding road. I picked it up because I just loved the feeling of peace I got when I looked at it--then our friends got married, and we bought them a antique picnic hamper filled with goodies, all tied up with yards of baby blue tulle and I attached that postcard as the gift tag....So, I set out to find another similar, and came back with more than one--10 differnt scenes, all with birds and churches, and since then, I've also found pretty watercolors with the theme and lithographs. I've saved the postcards for gift tags, because that one was such a hit!
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| Nance in France |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 08:13:58 AM
Ah, a nostalgic flight into my bird memoirs! I rarely find things depicting them, but love the chickadee most of all, because it is the only bird I ever hand fed, in the dead of a cooollllld Massachusetts winter. What a rare treasure that was to experience. I have had chickadees and wrens make themselves at home in houses in my backyard, rearing their young and then off to the wild blue yonder. Also had a pair of birds, the species escapes me at the moment, nest in a tin roofed birdhouse I bought at an antiques/flea market. I hung it on the dogwood tree that is next to the back deck, within six feet of the kitchen window.....lots of comings and goings; definitely not tranquil and secluded! Supposedly these are seldom scene birds in urban areas so I was thrilled! Maybe it's because I love 'feathering my nest' (don't we all?) that bird nests, old postcards with bird themes, etc. touch my heart so much. Nance |
| beachbuminthecountry |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 08:13:00 AM
Well I have one long haired rescue pound cat that has been with us for over 10 years (dad's little girl)Sandi. Mommy's little persion (spllg?) boy Ralph pasted away 2003 at the age of 14 a few days before my b'day We paid for him and worth every penny. The people who gave him to the shop almost took him back to use him as a stud. Well he was a stud--my little stud. He was the sweetest cat I ever had. Before we got Sandi we had Alice (yes they are named after the honeymooners--thank God she wasn't a male-Norton,hehe but I would have named it Norton if a boy) another persion (spllg?)but she pasted away in my arms from liver failure at the age of 5 in 1996. He was a dwarf. She was a 5 year old with a 17 year old body. It is so funny how they have there own personalities.
Now the ducks that I got from a friend 2 yrs ago, but they are 5 years old. Huey, Dewy, Luey, and chewy are pigs/clowns in duck suits(all girls). Huey had surgery in July ($1100.00, but worth it). She had a girlie parts removed. She almost died from the infection. She broke her leg from all that, her body was sucking calcium from her bones and the extra weight from the fluid in her body. It was very interesting giving pills to a duck. I had to have the surgery for the infection first, but didn't have the money, plus her chances of permentantly losing full use of her leg. So, she limps now, but gets around very well. She can even get in and out of the baby pool. She is amazing. She almost was put down to sleep until I had a second opinion. They are the best and so fun to watch. Oh, yes they live outside. It is funny how many people ask me if they live in the house, that would be great but nasty (I'd be cleaning poo every 10 mins or so).
Are sorry you asked what animals I have
I do have a question. I have been thinking of getting a kitten to keep Sandi active (she is gaining to much weight--trying to adjust her food--it's working alittle), but the only thing that is keeping from doing so is dealing with the lose and affording to take care of them but the main thing is losing them when the time comes. It hurts so much, but not giving Sandi a quaility life hurts too. I play with her but she is so lazy she just lays on her side a swats at the toy. She poops out fast.
Anyway, Thanks for asking.
Thank you and God Bless
BB
If Satan comes knocking at your door, just say " Jesus can you get that for me" |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:36:12 AM
BB - we 'farmgirls' sure do tend to gravitate to things OLDE don't we! what 'animals' do you have and what are your animal collections?
vivid in my mind is a most wonderful collection of BEACH things in an olde Mary Engelbreit magazine! always wanted a 'seaside' bungalow .. just so i could decorate it with beach-y things!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:34:47 AM
theresa .. it is so dear that you have family quilts and blankets .. i don't have any that go further back than ME .. but they are olde ones .. and they will be passed on to MY future generations. i love olde BLANKETS .. especially here in the cabins .. but those wool ones sure can be ITCHY!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:33:40 AM
vintage hankies .. i must have over a hundred of them. i LOVE starching and ironing them! i used them as 'napkins' at tea parties .. bright flowery ones for the more festive tea parties .. and snow white ones for the victorian tea parties. they also make GREAT dolly aprons! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:32:37 AM
gloria .. i love collanders (and all olde kitchen collectibles!) how do you displaya them? my favorite in my collecting in a green enamel one. what's your fave?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:31:38 AM
Oh and snowmen for the holidays and nativity scenes -- we don't do Santa very much.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:31:03 AM
jennifer .. vintage gloves .. oh do tell us more about your collection? what started yo ucollecting these? how do you display them? i used to have a pretty good size collection .. because when the little girls came to my "yesteryear's children" tea parties .. they each got 'hat and gloves' to wear .. at the prissier tea parties ... sunbonnets and aprons at the 'pioneer' tea parties.
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:16:58 AM
Debbie .. fiesta ware is truly so 'festive' .. i only have about 20 of the 'bread plates' .. in autumn colors that i use for 'desserts' when lots of guests come.
xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:13:32 AM
oh amy .. i love teacups, olde photos and vintage linens too. used to have many vintage teacups/saucers (when i did the tea parties when we lived in maryland) .. have slowly but surely sold and/or gifted most of them. just no room in these olde cabins!
i do have a large collection of 'instant ancestor' photos .. just put them in a nice olde primitive box for people to go through .. AND .. i have some clothespinned (with miniature clothespins) on 'clotheslines' hung across a room .. will have to take a pic of that to show you! i change the displays from time to time. I, too, had a 'wedding room' at our Crooked Tree Hollow home .. had 4 guestrooms .. and had two vintage wedding gowns and the gowns of both of our daughters, bride and bride's maid dolls, etc. it was so wonderfully 'prissy'!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:10:48 AM
Jenny .. did you stop collecting Longaberger baskets? I did .. (gave them all to my girls) .. just don't have time for ALL baskets in these cabins .. and decided to only collect the older hand-did ones. What great quality longaberger baskets are! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:09:42 AM
jonni .. how unuusual and what a great 'treasure hunt' .. looking for post cards with both birds and churches! how did that collection get started .. and how many do you have?
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:08:11 AM
Nance .. birds .. i used to collect things with 'blue birds' on them .. now mostly go for the BLACK BIRDS .. crows, ravens and such. do you have a 'most favorite' bird in your collection? tell us the 'story of it'. xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| beachbuminthecountry |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 05:22:52 AM
Ok this one is a tuff one. I collect alot of different things and baskets are at the top of the list, but mostly old fashion stuff from wayback. Maybe that is why I married hubby (18 yrs older than me)hehe But yes old fashion things and things I think are just plain cute. I also like stuff related to my animals and stuff that is related to the beach. That is why I picked the name beachbuminthecountry. Anyway, I told you this was a tuff one. This is fun
Thank you and God Bless
BB
If Satan comes knocking at your door, just say " Jesus can you get that for me" |
| Annab |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 03:44:02 AM
Frannie,
I have maybe 50 or so marbles but only display 10 or so of the really nice ones. The biggest is a Sulfide. It has a bear inside it. These hale from Germany I think and have white 3-d animals inside them. The real rare and collectible ones have numbers. This, and one called an onion skin were give to me by a special friend, so when I see these it remids me of happy times.
The bull's eye agate is of course displayed too, and I also have one that's called a mica. It's yellow and has real flecks of mica inside. That marble cost 30.00 from a dealer here in NC. |
| CutiePatootieFarmgirl |
Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 12:03:23 PM
Oh, I love blankets. Especially quilts that are homemade. The favorites in my collection are the baby quilt my great-grandmother Nana Elizabeth made for me, the quilt a group of wonderful women made my mother when she was going through chemo and was passed on to me when she passed away, the blanket my mother gave to me as a Christmas gift, and the blanket my cousin/best-friend gave to me as another Christmas gift. |
