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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 14 2008 : 12:47:59 PM
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i've started collecting beautiful linens and silver for both Sophia and Iszabel with their 'initial' on them. found a very sweet victorian-era hand-embroidered (white on white) pillow case with an S on it at my fav toledo antiques shoppe yesterday.
if you ever come across anything exceptionally SPECIAL with either of those intials .. and i do prefer at least a hundred years old and in near-perfect condtiion .. let me know about it ... i am willing to pay a very fair price for anything you might find.
am especially interested in beautiful JEWELRY (not costume) .. i want to have a beautiful 'trousseau' for them when they are grown.
haven't decided what to collect for lucas yet .. but when i do decide .. it will be with a vengeance that i look for whatever i choose. any great ideas? xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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handyam
True Blue Farmgirl
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Ada Mae
Greensburg
KY.
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2008 : 5:35:32 PM
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Frannie, that sounds like a great idea. I love to start "collections". I have 4 grandchildren--I collect John Deere toys for the two boys and paper weights for the 9 year old granddaughter. The other granddaughter is only 9 months old, so I have started anything for her yet. I also get each one of them an uncirculated silver dollar each year. I'm planning on doing that until they are each 21 before I give them to them. (I hope they don't blow them on something--probably will have to trade them in for a tank of gas!!!!!)
www.adasadorableaprons.blogspot.com
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jun 15 2008 : 6:49:53 PM
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i collected tiny vintage 'angels' for a Christmas tree for my grand-daughter, jennifer ... i also got her a precious vintage tree to put them on. i bought one (or set of them) each christmas .. i still have them for her .. will give them to her when she has her first home.
i collected antique teddy bears for my oldest grandson ... but he lost interest in them pretty quickly when he became a 'teenager' ... hopefully, someday, he will have children and will want to give them to them.
so far, i've mostly given sofia pottery barn toys (the pink kitchen set .. it is ADORA./BLE ... and 'AmericanGirls' BITTY BABY and accessories....
i collectg 'lambs' for great grandson Andrew LAMBert .. he will probably also lose ingterest in about 10 years! havne't done a 'collection' of anything particular for lucas yet .. i do buy him lots of books!
i love the John Deere toys .. and paper weights is such a sweet idea too!
i'm loving my apron .. i let wednesday wear one of them at our gathering today. xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
1818 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2008 : 04:57:46 AM
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Frannie -- For Lucas, the first idea that popped into my head was pocketwatches or timepieces. I like the idea of a boy in this modern age -- what with cell phones, digital clocks and everything else, Ipods, etc. -- having a time keeper from the past. And it would be great for him to have one of Gaa Frannie's pocketwatches in his pocket at his first Inauguration!
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
2701 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2008 : 05:16:18 AM
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What a wonderful idea. I will be on the lookout for such things.
Take care and best of luck with this.
Marcy
Farmgirl #170
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2008 : 07:07:06 AM
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katie-ell, that is a great idea for a masculine collection! I gave my hubby a gold pocket watch for his 50th birthday, and I found it through a jeweler in Chicago who sold antique timepieces on the internet. It was a Rockford timepiece and he is from there.
I see beautiful pockeet watches at antique shows, many of them engraved.
I collected sterling silver Buttercup for my daughter as she was growing up and on her wedding day, I gave her an entire set of 8. Myself, I have only ever had silverplate, and I wanted her to have something nicer. Many of the pieces were vintage, and some engraved, but all the same pattern. I even bought her a vintage silver chest.
This idea of Frannie's has sparked in me the desire to do something similar for my grandchildren. I made each of them a quilt and a needlework first christmas ornament, and now I have found out I have to make a third quilt and ornament! So in addition, I can start looking for something lovely to collect for them. Hm......and Frannie, I will keep a lookout for you!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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Edited by - jpbluesky on Jun 16 2008 07:11:13 AM |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jun 16 2008 : 09:35:55 AM
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i love all the collections ideas. i bet lucas would love pocketwatches (if i can just keep him from taking them apart to see what's inside. he is amazingly clever at 'engineering' ... i've watched him take a toy set with about a zillion loittle strange shaped pieces and make something wonderful of them.! ha! when i need help putting something together .. you will hear me call: LOOOOOOOOOOOO-CUSSSSSSSSSSS ... ga needs your help!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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LunaTheFarmLady
True Blue Farmgirl
448 Posts
Luna
Rineyville
KY
USA
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Posted - Jun 17 2008 : 06:13:25 AM
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Frannie
Don't get discouraged that they lost interest as teenagers. When they are older and sane again and have wives and families, they will appreciate what you have done and their families will also. I love the pocket watch and fob ideas for the boys. I may do that for my boys as well. My 'engineering' boy who also took things apart and rearranged them, also loses things in thin air so even though he is 18 now, I will hold on to his treasures till a later point in his life.
Luna The Farm Lady
http://blueballmountainspindleneedleworks.blogspot.com/
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handyam
True Blue Farmgirl
394 Posts
Ada Mae
Greensburg
KY.
USA
394 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2008 : 09:50:29 AM
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Have you had any luck finding "I" & "S" collectibles for your grandchildren?
www.adasadorableaprons.blogspot.com
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2008 : 11:49:18 AM
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ada mae .. i haven't had time to do very much antiquing .. after lucas leaves for home .. i'll get the cabins back in order .. THEN go antiquing! so far, just the one beautiful pillow-case. I think i'll find more S's and i will I's though. xo
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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