Old school home appliances

Hello Homebuddies!

I'm milling about smartly today, had no particular chore I wanted or planned to do, but decided to wash down the countertops, to freshen things up put some things away or re arrange them, and some things will find their way to the charity shop. 

Fall is arriving, my favorite time. I'll be adding a few special things around over the next few weeks, and in September.

I mentioned in my previous post about an item I purchased for $12.95 at an antique shop in Amish country. It is an electric skillet. I had one back in the day, and have regretted giving away since then, many years passed and I found a "new version" with the teflon which eventually stopped working. 

I do not spend hours at the shop looking at every item, or even most of them. I will sometimes have an idea about something like the vintage picnic basket, but it is always a walk and scan situation.

HeyBooBoo Pic a Nic basket

But rather I am a scanner, I walk and I scan each booth, if something attracts my attention then I stop and look what else there is. Finding this skillet was exactly that. It just stood out from everything else.

Oh,this a beauty, and I cannot wait to try it. Some of you may have memories of these or may have one yourself. Stainless Steel. Not made like this anymore. I often think about the homemaker who had loved these things before I got them. They took such good care of everything. Everything was used until there was nothing left of it. It was not a disposable world. 

Do you have an electric skillet? Did your mom or grandmother?

Be of Good Cheer, Do good things!

  
 

  

A tisket a tasket hey BOO BOO!

Greetings Happy Homebuddies!

Would you believe it got to 51 degrees F, we got out of Dodge, and drove south to Amish country, where I must tell you the snow was much prettier than hear in the hood.

Birds were singing, sun shining, warm enough for a light jacket or not one at all. This temperature in the middle of summer would be considered cold; everything is relative isn't it.

It was a lovely day overall, and the beauty part no traffic.

Internet Photo

So we stopped at our favorite antique store. I've been looking for something to keep my crochet thread in. I don't like keeping with yarn. I thought about an Amish made basket, I do have one and keep my yarn in it. When it is full, I don't by yarn. I'm there now. 

Looking around the antique store were many baskets, mostly I would say were very overpriced and not overly special enough to pay. My husband spotted one a nice basket, $100. No, not the one. I looked at a few here and there. I saw just the corner of this one peeking out as there were things stacked upon it. 

I carefully removed the items, and found this lovely vintage picnic basket $15. It will hold all my threads very nicely. I thought about who may have owned it, the pic nics they took as a family and what might have been in the basket.  Fried Chicken? Bisquits, maybe a pie. What fun times they must have had. I wonder where the picnic basket traveled to.  

That is my story & I'm sticking to it. Thread going in it today. I'm making chicken soup, we've got a sick one in the family even with all this cold. And, I've got some curtido fermenting. 

Curtido, Fermentation Post

~Be of Good Cheer~

Something old and lovely, and something new fangled show & tell

A repost from the back in the day 2019

Howdy Do?

Another week has flown by, where does time go?

A trip to Goodwill today, I needed a small saucepan to melt down the soap brick I bough a few weeks ago. I'm all set I have that and the scent ( Rose) and a pretty mold.  Maybe next weekend, my guys will be at a Scout campout...

While I was there, I do like going through the dishes and plate section, more likely than not I find something. Today was no "eggception".  I had been on the lookout for one of these, but was looking for one which ( in my mind) cream colored with maybe pale yellow, pinks and blues. 

But I found this delicious vintage glass one. I picked it up and put it back down, to think about it. 

Which is usually a big NO NO. I went around again because I hadn't chosen a pot yet, and if it were still there I would get it. It was there.

I don't suppose there is a run on these anymore, which is why it was at Goodwill. I'll be

happy to the benefactor. 

A lovely cut glass dish for deviled eggs. (heavy) $ 3.00

or crochet eggs

This is the handi work of my husbands mother, she gifted this to me and I put it up every Easter, there is lovely cut work around the edges.

so lovely and dainty

this is new fangled. It is my jelly bean candy dispenser.

It's not brand new, had it for a few years, I love jelly beans, anyway this holds 3 bags of the Brachs. 

Just a fun little do dad. ! Mason jar, and a chicken feeder...ha! who knew?

It's the week of Easter

Easter Week

 

I'll be doing most of the preparation for the meal at the end of the week. 

This is a re visit to another Easter posting from days gone by....

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to do something here on blogger, so I'm going to post a link. 

This is an Easter Posting with some eye Candy....from back in the day.

Easter Eye Candy 

 

Hoppy Easter

 

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Vintage Wooden Heart bread bowl

 I had no idea until recently that bread bowls ( of the wooden kind) were a thing. 

And when I did learn of them, other than buying them brand spanking new, I never figured that I would find a pre loved one, and certainly not in a heart shape. Aside from my love of the glass doorknob, I like heart shaped things.So when I saw this at the Amish Antique Mall, I scooped it up for $5.00, and then went on to find several more, so they are available out there, I guess I just never noticed them, not all of them are heart shaped, in fact this was the only one I saw. 

It looks very primitive, and I always wonder about the history of something when I find it. I have not made bread in it as I intended to do because I keep forgetting I have it. I use it for decoration purposes, and I suppose that suits me just fine. 

 When I look at this, I can tell that it is not mass produced. Someone lovingly carved this out for someone they love. I get the feeling that a nice husband made this for his wife, who loves to make him bread. I wonder what kind of wood it is. There are chisel marks, it's not finely polished, not perfect as things are today, it has character, and it was I think made with love. 

Life can be so simple, and joyful. 

I do Love a Vintage lovely

  Hello Neighbors,

How are all of you? I'm doing ok here, we've cooled off to more seasonal temperatures, after several days of humid  &  high temperatures. All of which were good for my tomatoes. I got windows open and letting in fresh air.

  I was parusing around the web,  looking for a vintage waffle maker. We have a waffle maker, it's the teflon thing, a dime a dozen. I wonder if there will be any remaining in say 80 years. I did find alot of really nice ones, which were of a vintage nature, and I spent over 4 days reviewing and thinking about the ones I had seen, but did not place any orders.The last day I went one page further, and this one caught my eye. It is different, in fact I've never seen anything like it. 

 it is from the 1930's. I got it on Etsy. Look at the details in the handle. I'm going to clean it up today, it is stainless steel. They just don't make anything even close to this today. 

It is a treasure. Well, I've got to run, there are towels to be folded, chicken to be in the food saver bags, .99 a lb for chicken thighs, a very good deal. Various other sundry things as I go about my day, before I rest.  

Enjoy your day.    

What's the secret blogger code for....

replying to comments? Is it a handshake or code word. Oh bother.

                                                        Please share the secret, won't you.

 So, I thank you for the comments, and if I can get them to work, I'll be responding....in the good ole meantime, I thank you very much. 

I do have something ever so cute to share with you....

 Isn't she ever so cute? She is a pie vent. I've been looking and looking for one, decided to look on Ebay and there she was. Vintage too. Cute right down to here lacy blouse, and hair bun.

I have named her. well of course I did..Her name is Gerty.

I've been a lazy bum with the hook n yarn...but I did manage to make a few bars of melt and poor goats milk soap this week, it is so nice and doesn't dry my skin out. I do hope to find a project of the crochet kind soon....don't like not having anything on the hook.

Until next time.

 

These do speak for themselves

 

                                                      The wire cage is about 5-6" long. During the daytime they take on a yellow/topaz look, and night it is more of the blue topaz. 💓💓💓💓💓

The very vintage dresser

Oh I just love it!  I have never ever seen drawers so wide and long.

At the Shoppe

Ornate Carved legs

Love this keyhole

Inside the drawers, they are all laqured, sides and all, also on the outside (sides)

The foot of the dresser, (in the van)

This was wrapped up and in the drawer.

There were 6 screws in the paper, wrapped up in 1945

In her forever home Oh those glass drawer pulls💓 Remember Aunt Clara from Bewitched? She collected doorknobs, I can relate. I love the old doorknobs especially the glass ones.

The top of the leg

I didn't get a picture of the mirror frame, there was no mirror, and that is fine. There are 2 pieces very ornate fish which I suppose went on the sides of the mirror. A wee bit to much for me, 
 

 

I've been banned

from shopping at the Second City store. My youngest tallest has banned me from stopping, consider stopping, or even looking in the window as I drive by.

I bought just one more lovely. I think I told you in story post about the farmhouse table, and how I really needed a dresser, and everytime I go into that shoppe I come home with anything but. 

My eldest son was looking for a nightstand table, so I suggested we stop there, as he usually has one or two nightstand tables, prices reasonable, and the quality is better than "W".

 It happened again...we were looking for his table, and I found my dresser. 

Never fails! I looked at it, I didn't measure it and tried to stay focused on his purchase. He found a very nice wooden trestle table with the lamp attached 5.00. Every day the price is dropped 1% on every item in the store. 

We left, and came home with his table. 

I woke up at 2:00am thinking about this dresser, for you see it has glass knobs, that is what captured my heart. I was worried that somebody else would snap it up. The store opened at 10:00 am, I was there at 9.45 am, I dropped my eldest son off and work and went straight to the shop about 1/2 mile away.

It was still there....And as I write this it is in the back of my van, and will be brought into the house I hope this evening. She'll get a nice cleaning with Murphy's oil soap, and some Liquid Gold spray.

Mahogony. Glass Drawer pulls, good condition. Some dings which give it character....The man who owns the shop said it is from the 1920's, has the skeleton key holes, and carved feet. 

$186 out the door. The price on the sticker was 245. It's been there since Oct 7.

I'll get you some pictures for the next posting. I'm done now. The two items which I really wanted turned up, coincidence? No I don't think so. We have no room in the house for any more than we already have. But it was a fun ride I can tell you that.

A sweet little something somethin

My MIL gave me this sweet little diddy. She did beautiful embroidery work in her day, and I had hoped she would finish this up for me, she no longer can do her embroidery. Oh she did lovely work, birds, flowers, & announcements.

 

I ran across this the other day, and I like it just the way it is, how much more lovely would this be with thread? So, I think Iwill give this a try, I'm not a good sewer, and have done some crossstich in my day, embroidery another issue. NO CLUE.

 I have no idea how old it is. Since the original price is 49 cents. I'd say it's fairly old.

It just makes it more lovely.

Hope you enjoyed the little something something

 

A sweet little something somethin

My MIL gave me this sweet little diddy. She did beautiful embroidery work in her day, and I had hoped she would finish this up for me, she no longer can do her embroidery. Oh she did lovely work, birds, flowers, & announcements.

 

I ran across this the other day, and I like it just the way it is, how much more lovely would this be with thread? So, I think Iwill give this a try, I'm not a good sewer, and have done some crossstich in my day, embroidery another issue. NO CLUE.

 I have no idea how old it is. Since the original price is 49 cents. I'd say it's fairly old.

It just makes it more lovely.

Hope you enjoyed the little something something