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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 07:19:04 AM
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Well, I'm taking pics of everything I can think of in my house, just to practice with my new camera. I wish it was spring, so I could take pics of flowers. I'm trying to use different settings so I'll be used to it when spring does come.
   
The fan shaped stained glass window was designed by my dh and myself and put in a useless window about 3/4ths up the wall in the living room. What a dumb place for a window! And a curtain just didn't look right up there. The second window I found in an architectural salvage place and when we added a sunroom, I made them make a window hole for it. The coke tray dates from around 1918. The cake topper was from my mom and dad's wedding cake - 1948.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
2087 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 07:46:19 AM
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That's a really nice arts and crafts style window, Janice (the long one)....such a pretty detail with those yellow lily's--how fitting for you!!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 07:58:09 AM
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I especially like the window you and your hubby designed for the spare window! Beautiful! Everything else is cool!
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 08:04:28 AM
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Beautiful Windows Janice. But I'm confused, which mind you is not unusual. Are these pictures in the house you are in now or the farm house you are re-doing? Are you going to keep both houses?
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 08:09:57 AM
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These are in the house in Louisville, Nancy Jo. The farmhouse still looks like an empty shell inside - stud walls in the new part and lathwork in the old. Progess is being made there, though. Next week(if the weather isn't too bad), a furnace company is going to start installing two gas furnaces and two fuel pumps(how to pay for that.....don't know.....). But soon after that, we'll have to get insulation in there. Home for Christmas in 08 is my motto! LOL!;)
And I will be taking all those windows with me when I move. :D
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 09:10:46 AM
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It's a Kodak. It has a really high pixel count(don't have it with me today & I can't remember). The two things I like best are all the different settings(little icons that tell you what conditions they work in) and that after you take the picture, you can click on a setting they call 'Perfect Picture' and then it shows you your photo, with and without the perfect picture improvements and you can keep either one(or both). I'm not the greatest picture taker, and that really helps me(and how the pics look!). When I was taking pictures with a regular camera and taking them in to be developed, they would ask me if I wanted to add the Kodak 'Perfect Picture' to them and they always came out much better. So when I found a camera with that already on there, I knew that was the one for me. I need all the help I can get. :D
Mary Beth - Do you have any of your mom's stained glass art? Any photos?
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
Edited by - Miss Bee Haven on Jan 30 2008 2:34:39 PM |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 6:05:22 PM
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Janice, she has kept an album of her glass work.Next time I am over to her house I will borrow it and scan (I have a scanner now) some pics and send you. She made one for me that is a mirror with a horse on it and it placed at the county fair one year. I'll take a pic of that. MB
www.strawberryhillsfarm.blogspot.com
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 6:13:07 PM
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I love those stained glass pieces! They are so pretty!
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2008 : 05:09:24 AM
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Oh, wow, Mary Beth. That is really beautiful. It is hard to take a pic of stained glass that makes everybody else see how beautiful it is in person with light coming through it. Your mom is so talented. I'd love to see more of her work. And yes, I've seen how mirrors reflect things in some of Nancy Jo's postings! :D
Miss Wilma - Maybe I'd better list the tray on my insurance policy. ;) I wonder how much the metal Grape Nuts poster I took a pic of last week is worth.....The bad news for me is that I could never sell the things that came to me from my great,great aunt and her daughter. And it's weird that a lot of these things date to the time my farmhouse was built(1918). Her dining room furniture is pictured in a 1918 catalog I bought on ebay. I think I was meant to own my poor old neglected farmhouse. Fate caught up with me.
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2008 : 06:31:29 AM
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Wow! Congrats on that Coke tray Janice, it's really nice. I love the windows too, stained glass is so nice. Thanks for sharing the pics with us Janice and Marybeth.
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/ |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2008 : 06:44:25 AM
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Oh, my goodness! I had no idea it was worth that much. I don't think I'll tell my dh. He might think I should sell it to help pay for the furnaces.....;) Maybe I need to buy one of those price guides. I'm going to the flea market at the fairgrounds on Saturday. I've seen those Schroeders guides before. Thanks, Miss Wilma!
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2008 : 07:51:02 AM
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Janice , I get my books thru collector books , They have wonderful doll books and the price is much cheaper if you buy 6, Email me and I will give you my friend that has the d oll collection in Louisville Good people deserve good things, When you call her talk a little loud she has a hearin problem, I am so happy for you
Farm Girl #96
http://www.picturetrail.com/misswilmasplace
http://misswilma.blogspot.com/ |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 31 2008 : 11:18:05 AM
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I used to always buy the 'Blue Book of Dolls and Values' when it came out every two years, Miss Wilma. I think I'm behind a volume or two on that. I need to get one and check the prices out before I send them to an auction house. Most of my general price books are old ones, I just kind of guess at prices. :)
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
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