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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Nov 26 2005 : 10:07:13 PM
anyone collect these? i have lots of the clear glass ones .. sometimes i line them up on window sills for the sun to shine through them. i once saw a wonderful 'chandelier' made from them. funky .. but great in a kitchen! |
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Feb 07 2006 : 8:47:47 PM
All my grandparents (both sides) met after coming to Calif..so I am glad they did it too. Intersting history..I loved to hear my grandma tell of the trip and all..she was the oldest of 12 kids and I think there were at least 8 at the time.
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
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Posted - Feb 07 2006 : 6:20:32 PM
Aunt Jenny, just saw your post from Jan. 30th. It would indeed be funny if they knew each other. I think alot of Arkies and Oakies were heading for California and better times in the 1940's. Not sure if they would do it over again if they could. But my parents may have never met if they had not moved to California and found each other there...then I would not exist, at least as I am. So there it goes!
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
| greyghost |
Posted - Feb 07 2006 : 11:24:56 AM
I wish I had some salt shakers. Mine are from Target. lol.
My maternal grandma's side was poor, grandma was lucky when she had shoes growing up in Illinois. Part of my grandpa's side had money but not much. They were big on pictures tho - we have lots of scrapbooks of ancestors on my mom's side. We have some heirlooms - there was TONS of awesome old furniture in my grandpa's parent's house, but somebody broke in, stole it all, then burned down the farmhouse to "hide it." That was quite a loss, my grandma still has part of the foundation and a key that they found in the rubble.
On my dad's side (which is very muddy)there was some very good money at some point. I don't know what happened to all the furniture, but my mother has the expensive crystal glassware from that side of the family. I do have my great-grandma's engagement ring - very pleased to have that!
My hubby's family must have been poor, there are no pictures save of his mom as a child, and one day we found a picture of his granddad in WW2, just posing near the barracks. So on my wall I have DH's granddad WW2 photo, and my grandpa's WW2 photo next to each other. I wish they had wedding photos, but DH's parents are divorced, and his grandparents did a justice of the peace thing, so no wedding photos.
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| SmallTownGirl |
Posted - Feb 07 2006 : 08:08:10 AM
I just bought a really cute pair of shakers. It's on big brown oak leaf holding the acorn shakers. I love watching everyone look for my shakers and then the surprise when I show them the acorn. Ugly but cute. Rose |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 11:41:24 PM
Wow...my grandparents (dad's side) moved to Calif from Arkansas too!! And my Mom's side were from Oklahoma and Texas...all ended up in Calif. Wouldn't it be cool if they knew each other?
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
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Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 9:23:33 PM
I am so fortunate to have lots of family photos. I'd rather have these than anything else. I can look at them and feel like I know the people in them, somehow. I treasure the scrapbooks I have put together with those old family photos. They would be the first things I would grab if I had a house fire.
And you are so right Aunt Jenny when you say that the families were bigger and so the 'stuff' had to be spread out more. I think the other thing that has happened is that we are so mobile now that we move off and leave relatives and along with them may be those treasured belongings. I know this has happened in my family. My grandma would talk about things her family had but when she moved to California from Arkansas they left everything behind. People seemed to just take what they wanted from the homestead and when her family went back it was all gone!
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 07:00:37 AM
Back then folks tended to have much bigger famililes too, so I guess the stuff that was left behind had to be distributed between alot more relatives..so I guess we are all very blessed to have the wonderful treasures we have. The little vases sound like a sweet keepsake too, MaryAnn,how neat that they are two.
I have nearly nothing..not even pictures from my dad's side of the family..we just wern't as close, and I think that is so sad. My grandma on that side lived to be 90 and her mom was over 90 when she passed on too, but besides a couple little doilies, not much. I really need to dig and find some pictures. My mom should be able to come up with at least some that I can copy. I don't have a good picture of my dad's parents together..and I have dozens and dozens of my other grandparents, greats and all.
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
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| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jan 30 2006 : 04:04:44 AM
Pamela and Aunt Jenny, my mother's side of the family was much more modest. They were in fact poor people, sharecroppers from the rural south during the Depression. They had little to nothing, so there was little to nothing to leave behind.
But my mother was given two small cobalt blue vases that were her mother's. Other than a couple of photographs, it's all I have of my maternal grandmother. She died very young, at 52, from complications from diabetes that she was too ignorant and poor to deal with correctly.
The vases were almost certainly dimestore stuff; but it's still that connection to the women who have gone before me that makes them precious. Aunt Jenny, I understand totally what a treasure that coin purse is. I'm so glad you have it. |
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Posted - Jan 29 2006 : 10:33:37 PM
How cool to have had both your great grandpa and your grandpa be cowboys! I have been trying to collect vintage cowboy decor to do a grandkids room up in western style. It is a fun thing to collect. Not sure when I will actually decorate a room like this though. I kinda am waiting until I get into a rancher. I live in a tri-level and do not like the stairs. So we are looking to find something that meets our needs a little better. Oh, do I have plans for a house that fits us better. (I'd love an old house, but I want one that works for us and most of them have stairs if they are of any size). I've got a lotta stuff, so I need a big house for all of these collections I have.:)
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 29 2006 : 9:58:20 PM
I don't have anything fancy or worth much either..but thats okay. I come from the same sort of folks as you Pamela!! It seems like that makes the things passed down even worth more to me..they didn't have much to leave !! I have a little coin purse that is plain brown leather that was my great grandpas and I treasure it. My grandpa gave it to me a long time ago with a silver dollar in it and I have kept in just the same for all these years. My great grandpa died when I was a baby so I don't remember him. I just know he was a cowboy..a real one like my grandpa was.
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Posted - Jan 29 2006 : 9:43:40 PM
Sometimes I wish my ancestors were of 'means' so I could have inherited some quality furnishings...but my roots were more salt of the earth people...farmers, fruit pickers, preachers. But I do so LOVE what has been handed down to me...as simple as it is. They are treasures to me.
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
| Horseyrider |
Posted - Jan 28 2006 : 05:12:10 AM
Family stuff is the BEST. It helps us feel connected to those who came before us. My father's parents were very wealthy, lived in fine homes and had the most beautiful furnishings, linens, porcelains, silver, etc. I've been fortunate to have inherited much of that. But one of the most touching things I have of hers is her wedding band. We all know how dear and how very personal a thing that is to a woman. I'm so touched to have been given that simple, plain band.
And no, I don't collect salt and pepper shakers, but I have some sets that were my grandmother's.  |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jan 28 2006 : 03:18:17 AM
isn't family stuff wonderful .. i don't have lots and lots of olde things from my ancestors .. but i sure have lots to leave to my chillun and grands! xo
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 27 2006 : 10:51:14 PM
My beloved grandma had quite a few. My sister grabbed most of them after she died..but I got one set that were always on her deep kitchen window sill that were from Tombstone and are shaped like tombstones..one has Pepper Tate "he was right, we was wrong, but we strung him up and now he's gone" and the other says Salty O'Day " a good strong rope and an old oak tree and Salty isn't what he used to be". I grew up reading them and all my whole life and I am so thrilled to have them in my white metal china cabinet that also came from my grandma..and I got a little brown and white cow that sat on the same window sill..it has an open back..like you could use it for a vase or planter...when my Uncle came to visit he was so thrilled to see that I love his Mom's stuff so much. I have other things from her too..but those are a couple of my favorites...OH>>and I got a filet crocheted BIG picture of 2 horse heads that she did dated 1945..it is done with very fine crochet cotton..like a big doily and framed with med blue behind it..it hangs in my bedroom..it is proably 16 by 20" or so.
I got off the subject of salt and peppers now didn't I??
Jenny in Utah
It's astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen...Frances Burnette
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Posted - Jan 27 2006 : 9:48:48 PM
My mom collected salt and pepper shakers when she was a young bride. About 25 years ago she decided to get rid of them. I picked out some that I liked, but I was just not that interested back then...silly me. So she gave some to a niece and sold the rest to an antique store. (She may have needed the money too, so I did not feel like I could just take them all). I wish I had them all now, because they were my mom's. I have found that as I age the more and more of my family things I can acquire I do it. I love displaying them in my home and having them there to remind me of them and of the harder lives they lived than I have had to live. So I do have the few sets I did get from my mom displayed proudly.
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
