Leaf Looking

Judging by the pictures you would think fall had come; instead the high for Thursday is supposed to be somewhere around 99 with a very high dew point making if FEEL like 104.  I don't mind, really, because you see, I don't like winter and living in a state where we get a lot of it, I can wait.  

Still, I love the Back to School time of year, the excitement of new pencils and backpacks and chalkboards...

The date on this little easel desk and chalk board says 1913; Mr. Wonderful's Grandma had it for her days teaching in a one room school house in Iowa.  A stoic Norwegian if ever there was one, Grandma lived to be 107 and died on the farm where she was born.  Good stock those Scandinavians!  This treasure came home from the last trip to Iowa  two weeks ago; the roller still works like a charm with lots of pictures including the solar system and 'teaching the calf to drink'.  

My Big Grama was a school teacher too, starting her career teaching in a one room schoolhouse as well.  My Grama taught eight grades in southern Minnesota.  These two books called  Prose & Poetry The Sunshine Book and The Emerald Book were from her storeroom of all things academic.  I put them on top of my mantle with the little figurine that I found at the thrift store for $ 1.75 a few years ago.  

I love to decorate for the season and fall colors are so beautiful, even when the bounty is artificial.  I weave a garland alongside the books and pile of pumpkins and gourds.  The runner is one I sewed about five years ago; Jo Ann has such an awesome collection of autumn prints, sigh...

I haven't taken my vintage turquoise and yellow print tablecloth off the dining room table yet, it looks so cute with my turquoise Fiesta dishes, bright colored napkins and striped tumblers.   I bought two of these English patterned plates; another thrift store save that cost me $ 1.30 for both of them!  I like to buy two dinner plates and change out my dishes.  Since it's just us empty nesters, I have lots of sets of two, well, I have lots of sets of more than two but we won't go there!

Not in a Million Years!

I was going to the Dollar Store in search of something for a craft project when I thought, I'll just run in to Good Will.  My first isle, I looked up and THERE IT WAS!  I haven't seriously even looked for the Friendship Large Red Bowl!  I mentioned it yesterday in the post about the Pyrex at the Flea Market as a joke.  I never thought I would find it!

Are you ever so shocked to see something that you stop in your tracks?  I approached, I looked, I saw the price tag and then I fainted!  I protected the bowl by falling on my head in a summersault position.  Then I looked underneath that shelf just to see if the others might be there too.  They were not there, probably because last April I had found the rest of them at a DIFFERENT thrift store!  

I took Big Red home and washed it up, there are a few light black scratches (almost like pencil lines) that didn't go through the paint but it's almost perfect.  I'm wondering if someone with a real case of Pyrexia will tell me what to try cleaning that with.

I told you I would show you my finds from the Gold Rush Flea Market in yesterday's episode:  here's one.  It's a $1.00 find, full skirted rosebud apron!  The colors are bright and it's like new, only better, 'cause it's old!  I don't suppose you know where I could get a big red bowl to do some mixing when I don it, do you?  Oh!  it's right here!

The price for this red Cinderella, and I'm still in shock:  $ 4.99!

Harry the Hairless Horse

This is Harry, a horse like the one I got for my second birthday.  My horse had a red saddle but when you spend years looking to buy back your memories you don't get picky over a blue saddle!  Harry was made at Moulded Plastics in Maple Plain, Minnesota.  My original Harry was sold at a garage sale in 1970.  I checked frequently on line, apparently there really is some kind of horse that is 'hairless' and several times in my searches that would come up.  

I can't ride Harry the Hairless Horse but this is my millinery when out in my '57 Bel Air!  I added a vintage rhinestone pin to the ribbon for fun.  No, I'm not a RED HATTER, I just like red!

Drivin' my dream.