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Farm Kitchen:  My dad made me a Hoosier!!  |
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
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 Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 4:00:23 PM
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Would your Dad like to adopt me?
Farmgirl hug,
Patricia
check out my etsy site http://ThePlayfulFarmgirl.etsy.com
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 4:10:11 PM
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What a wonderful father you have and the talent just shines. when my family lived in Missouri in th 1800's they were known to make fine furniture. I'll be darned if I have ever seen any of it, just found it out through a genealogy search.
I love woodworking as well and hope one day to get back into it. Being a farm girl sure is fun isn't it? I lived on one most of my life.
This piece of furniture is an inheritance worth passing on! By the way, hello, I'm Pauline or Holiday Angel, and I am new!
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 4:15:39 PM
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| Hi Pauline! Glad you have you on board. Did you post in the welcome wagon yet? I will check and see. It is good to be a farmchick! I only have a little land, but it is precious to me and I raise my chickens here and love it. Talk to you soon. |
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 4:17:54 PM
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Yes, actually I did. I am not at present, on a farm, although my heart is there. I really don't think you can get the farm out of a girl. I'll catch you there so as not to muck up this section of the forum.
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Photobugs
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Pamela
Post Falls
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 6:00:52 PM
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It is a lovely piece! Be sure to have him sign it somewhere and date it.
My first husband built us several pieces of pine furniture years ago and I did not get them signed or dated. He is now deceased and it is too late. These pieces are all family heirlooms to be passed down to my children. But they would be even better if there was a signature and date on them.
It reminds me of a Little House on the Prairie episode where in the first scenes they show a modern day (well it was like in the 80's when the show was first airing)couple going to a farm sale and buying a table. They are wondering who the craftsman was. Then the show goes back to when Charles made some furniture and does so well he starts his own business in the city (I think) and then it does not work out. So he goes back to his old job. Anyway, he had put his logo/signature on this table and it was the one the couple had bought at the a farm sale/auction. So if you did not...get your dad to label it if he comes to visit you. You never know what might happen to it in the future.
Pamela
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
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Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 6:54:50 PM
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Pamela: Dad did sign and date it and he also put my name as the recipient on the back. It would be terrible for my future great grandkids not to realize where the hoosier came from, huh?
Patricia: I will ask my dad if he wants any more children! That will give him a thrill since it has been eons! |
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Holiday Angel
True Blue Farmgirl
444 Posts
Pauline
Sweet Home
Oregon
USA
444 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2007 : 7:01:18 PM
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I used to do wood burning and build furniture when I lived in Post Falls, Idaho and Kenniwick, Washington. I draw, paint, and woodwork, but I just dream of doing this kind of work. I love the smell of the wood burning or cutting..UMmmmmmmm
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2007 : 06:21:09 AM
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| I used to do woodburning too. When I was a kid, my nana got me the equipment and I did it for years. You'll have to post some pictures of things you've done so we can see it! |
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cabinmoose
True Blue Farmgirl
218 Posts
Lorna
Forest Hill
MD
USA
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Posted - Jul 19 2007 : 06:38:23 AM
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I love woodburning and the smell too!
Your hoosier as well as yourself are beautiful!
I tease my husband and tell him with the exception of my Saturday morning trips to the local farmers market, I could spend all my waking moments at home! I don't need the commercialism of todays world. The hurry up and get no where mentality drives me nuts.
I recently donated my wood burning tools to a local girls scout troop who was looking to borrow them for projects. They ran an ad in a local paper and I had several burners. My friend Arthur Ritis doesn't let me burn like I used to. Actually Arthur and I fight over my crocheting but I refuse to give that one up!
Enjoy that hoosier and definately get Dad to sign it!
Cheers,
Lorna
Forest Hill, MD
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Kathie
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kathie
Thonotosassa
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jul 19 2007 : 06:54:00 AM
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Wow Sheryl! That is so detailed & beautiful!!
I bet you had a fit when you finally saw it finished!!!!
Couldn't get it home & in it'splace fast enough i'll bet!!!!
In a World Where you Can Be Anything, Be Yourself.. |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jul 19 2007 : 07:20:47 AM
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What a beautiful piece of furniture. And it has love written all over it. A treasure forever. Thank you so much for letting us see it!
Psalm 51: 10-13 |
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Jul 19 2007 : 08:33:58 AM
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It's funny about the actual seeing of it for the first time. I had been driving for two days and nights and I got there at like midnight. I ran right in and almost croaked over it. My mom has a picture of me seeing it and I look like I just won a million bucks!
I wanted to leave right away and go home!! But, that would have been so wrong!! LOL I needed to stay at least a few days! It was funny because they knew I wanted to get it home and they laughed about it. Yes, when I got home, my son and my husband took it out of the truck and set it up right away! I have been in love ever since!
I am so like you guys. I can just stay home and work around the house, do a little writing a lot of sewing and cooking. If I could find a way to teach my middle schooler students from home, I WOULD!! |
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countrygirl
Farmgirl in Training
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Brenda
Western Mountains
Maine
USA
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 8:59:56 PM
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How did I miss this?!?!?
How beautiful!! I LOVE it!! How wonderful that your dad made it for you! I just bought a 1923 catalog (for some research on a book I am writing) and they had some in there that were so neat! I was drooling over them with my sweetie teling him how I want one in our kitchen when we finally settle...they had so many types and sizes! But yours is amazing and wondeful and full of love too...what a winner and priceless I think!
Thank you ever so much for sharing! I love it!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 6:59:07 PM
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Brenda: Loved that pie on your blog. I could not enlarge the picture of the hoosier, but it looks like mine from the picture! I do have a lot of fun with mine.
Talitha: What is the book you are writing about? I am still so excited about my hoosier. Whenever I go in the kitchen I am almost surprised to see it there after waiting so many years for it. Since my dad made it for me, it is so special and a real family heirloom. |
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Farm Kitchen: My dad made me a Hoosier!! |
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My dad made me a Hoosier!!
Very nice hoosier you will have so much fun with it. I also have one go to my blog and check it out.. Your dad did a super job enjoy..countrygirl