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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 7:06:20 PM
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we bought this wonderful olde step-back cupboard in Niwot, Colorado about 30 years ago ... it's been in the 'schoolhouse' since moving here to Kentucky in these little cabins.
now that the 'stove' has been moved from the 'fireplace' stone wall .. i reeeeeeeeely wanted to put this cupboard there. this evening while i was at our Arts Council meeting in town .. the guys moved it to the kitchen. i just leaped for joy when i came home!!
can hardly wait to pick and choose jus' the perfect antique pottery to go in it!!!
ohhhhhhhhh .. color me HAPPY!!! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
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fionalovesshrek
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Paige
kinston
North Carolina
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 7:18:56 PM
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Do you just like antique pottery? I've got a friend here who does clay things and is fairly good. I'm already thinking of sending you bread, if you'd like a coffee mug or something I could see about that as well.
P~
www.fionaswampington.blogspot.com
http://homespunhensfarmgirlchapter.blogspot.com/
Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments, owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 7:26:18 PM
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paige sweetie .. i do indeed have some 'newer' pottery .. but i mostly just collect the 'olde' now. have lots of wonderful olde mugs .. been collecting the round-barrel brown and GREEN ones ... greens are my favs! i know where there are two more at an antiques shoppe about an hour from here .. if she is open tomorrow .. i'm going to go get them. (along with four more grey enamel 'biscuit' tins! i have some newer mugs that i pull out when i have more company than i have olde mugs.
now BREAD .. or COOKIES .. lordy! lordy! chile' .. send them along .. i'll get the milk jug out in anticipation!
you are a sweetie-pie!
hope you got that 'chocolate' fix ... ha! or WINE! and are feelin' better now! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 8:04:05 PM
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Holy Crow Frannie...that is rockem sockem!!!! My MIL has one that looks really similar...just a darker stain. The guys get a high-5 fo sho!!!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 8:07:02 PM
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thanks sam! i think it is one of my fav pieces .. i was just about ready to sell it cuz' there was NO WALL in my house for it .. until we moved that stove! that was such a silly place to put a stove in this beautiful cabin! but now .. oh my! my cupboard has found it's FOREVER HOME. where did your MIL get hers? xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Back Home Again
True Blue Farmgirl
584 Posts
Audrey
Albuquerque
New Mexico
USA
584 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 8:17:45 PM
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Frannie what a Really Wonderful piece!!!!
Taking things out of "storage" is like having something New! We have alot of things still in a storage unit we rent to keep extra "things". Dave brought out my Grandmothers ole upholstered rocker and ottoman from the storage last week for me to put in my sew room. We have had it for 30 years too and have re-upholstered it 5 times .... We have had 5 houses since we have been married and every time we moved we changed the fabric! I had it in my living room in this house for many years and then changed things out some in my Living room a few years ago sooooo it has been sitting and waiting for me to figure out another place for it! .......... Just decided a couple of weeks ago that I had to have that ole Rocker back in the house soooooo made room for it in my sewing/studio!!! ......We Rocked our son in it when he was little so it holds many memories for us as well as my memory of it in my Grandparents home!! It has the most wonderful squeak when you rock in it! Very comforting sound! Have FUN deciding what to put in it!!!
Until Later,
Audrey
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2008 : 8:37:33 PM
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thanks miz audrey ... t'is truly a wonderous piece!
what a precious story of your grammie's rocker .. ohhhh .... do write the history of it .. put it in a protective plastic envelope and tape it securely to the bottom of the rocker .. for future generations! what a wonderful 'find' that will be for your great and great great grands! you do your grammie proud! xoxo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
2701 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 04:25:18 AM
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Beautiful! Sending you the very best of wishes that you enjoy it for many-many years to come! I always look so forwards to your posts. I really do need to learn how to post some pics.
Farmgirl #170
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 06:14:55 AM
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Gorgeous cupboard with potential! I see a nice collection of yellowware housed in there. Or...colorful pottery such as Fiestaware. It looks nice against the brick wall.
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
Edited by - junkjunkie on Sep 09 2008 06:21:01 AM |
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paradiseplantation
True Blue Farmgirl
1277 Posts
julie
social springs community
Louisiana
USA
1277 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 06:21:54 AM
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Frannie, that cabinet is wonderful! Gee, darlin', you ever get tired of it, let me know! :) (Of course, dh will KILL me if I bring in another piece of furniture!)
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 06:23:48 AM
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Frannie...she found it at a consignment shop here in town...got it for $35!!!! I was so jealous...but it fits just right in her kitchen corner. I call it her sweet shop, b/c she has a cookie jar and pie plate that rests on it and they are always full!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 07:12:24 AM
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MARCY: Beautiful! Sending you the very best of wishes that you enjoy it for many-many years to come! I always look so forwards to your posts. I really do need to learn how to post some pics.
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thanks for the sweet wishes dearheart. that beautiful olde piece has lots of memories already ... including all those that came before us .. i hope it will find a place in the home of our grandes someday. (postin' pics is reeeeeeeely easy) i think the instructions are on here somewheres or t'other. i use PHOTOBUCKET to do mine. once you open your account .. all ya' gotta' do is grab 'em .. put them on photobucket .. then come here .. hit the little 'mountain and sun icon .. and copy it between the little symbol that comes up. ha! i know .. that is clear as mud .. but that is indeedy doooo how easy it is. xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 07:21:13 AM
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oh sam .. what a devine PRICE! hank and i were trying to remember what we paid about 30 years ago .. and i think it was $750. it would go for 2 to 3 thousand (or more) UP NAWTH today. ha! or at HEART OF COUNTRY SHOW down south!
i love that she keeps sweets on it .. ha! i'd probably be invitin' Mr. and Mrs. Mouse to live here if i did that! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY 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
9093 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 09:48:28 AM
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Just love that cupboard Frannie, and to think you had it hidden for 30 years. Its a real beauty thats for sure.
NANCY JO
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 10:27:56 AM
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oh honey .. it's only been hidden for the FIVE years that we have lived in Kentucky .. it went from our Colorado Mountain home to our Rocky Mountain High Denver home .. to our Severn Riverside Beach House in Annapolis .. to our Magothy River forest home jus' outside annapolis.
jus' wasn't any room for it here until we moved that dang stove from in front of that beautiful stone wall.
it's like meeting an olde friend.
p.s. i've been peeking in on your blog and all your wonderfuls too!! you are a DELIGHT! xo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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lilwing
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Brooke
Fulshear
Texas
USA
1403 Posts |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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bbteacher
True Blue Farmgirl
134 Posts
Bonnie
BALTIMORE
Maryland
USA
134 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2008 : 5:05:51 PM
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Frannie,
Girl, you've got the "eye!" To think you had the foresight to pluck up this piece 30 years ago. I know that you'll find just the right treasures for it-maybe those green barrel jugs!
Hugs-
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 2:14:06 PM
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Frannie, I love the cupboard it fits in your home so well. I love the look of that table too! I wondered, I have seen many mentions of your other homes, do you have any pictures of them you could post? I would love to see how you decorated them as well. The places where you lived are such beautiful parts of the country.
Mary Jane
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Sep 10 2008 : 5:48:10 PM
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mary jane .. i do have some photos on those olde 'floppy disk' things .. but i just cannot figure out how to get them configured into this new computer of mine.
our mountain home in evergreen, colorado is where i first fell in love with 'primitive' .. the 'poor people's' kind .. the hand-dids and home-mades. our home was a three story A frame (actually, the third floor was a LOFT) .. VERY mountain-dahling! with all glass on one side of the A-frame from ground to tippy top. our view was nothing short of MAGNIFICENT!!!
we then moved to a big DENVER SQUARE home in 'denver .. colorado' .. just a ways down the mountain. i was still 'transitioning' as i slowly got more and more primitive antique furniture .. HA! many a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for dinner as 'mom' spent all the grocery money on more olde stuff! (this is where my kids started calling me an 'antique-a-holic'!
THEN we moved back east .. to a 'beach community' .. but in a wonderful olde dutch colonial home just off the Severn River. yep! MORE PRIMITIVES!
next move .. a most wonderful large home on the Magothy River which we named: Crooked Tree Hollow (for a big 'ole Crooked Tree in a Hollow' of our land!). NOW .. all of a sudden .. i started loving prissy things too .. NOT FURNITURE .. but turn of the century crisp white linens .. children's antique furniture, toys, clothing, games .. we had four guest rooms upstairs after the girls went off to college and/or got married. i SWEAR they were often referred to as a "DOLL HOUSE" .. i had them so wonderful decorated .. floor to ceiling .. wall to wall with delightful treasures. This is where i 'retired' from the Government in D.C. and started presenting both children and women's TEA PARTIES .. and started our WONDERFUL doll club ... i once had quite a famous doll teacher (elinor peace bailey) come and after a weekend with me .. she said: Frannie .. you have as much of a Friendship Club as you do a Doll Club. You have created a 'theatre' here .. and you STAR on the stage" ... HA!!! i had never thought of it that way .. but she was sure right! i loved drama (only the happy kind though!) and .. oh gosh .. i guess this is why i am so in love with the VERY VERY .. FANCY NANCY doll that i got for my two year old grand-daughter.
Downstairs it was all LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE ... upstairs .. the four guest bedrooms and two baths were completely a FANTASY world! oh lordy .. most of that stuff is still packed up in the big 'schoolhouse' here!
Next Stop for honey-hunk and me ... KENTUCKY and two civil war log cabins .. which BEG to be honored with PRIMITIVE!
(i did have TWO rooms that were prissy .. my laundry room .. which i have now stripped (when we had it painted .. have not put ANYTHING back on the walls in there .. waiting for our stackable washer and dryer .. then i'll have fun playing 'doll house' in there.
My guest bathroom is still TRES PRISSY! (but, in time .. that, too, will be primitized.) GOSH .. i do wish i could get those dang disks to spit out some pictures. i tried to give a 'verbal picture' here. thanks for asking sweetie! xoxo
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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