Old Broads

Old Broads

ECLECTIC COLLECTION OR I’M GONNA GET YOU MY PRETTY!

I was bouncing around the net yesterday and ran across a website that has a section called Pink Monday where she shows pictures of all sorts of pink things.  I thought this was a great idea but I didn’t want to steal her idea.  So I took a stroll through my house and then Fawn and I tossed it around and we came up with the Eclectic Collection because we both like so many different things.  I am giving Fawn the honor of having the first thing displayed on it because she has this wonderful old … well, I’ll just let her tell you the story.


Wishing You Joy and Laughter Every Day!

FAWN’S $28,000 PITCHER OR I CAN’T BELIEVE I DID THAT
Fawn has the most beautiful pitcher and glasses that I have ever seen so I asked her to tell her unusual story for you.

Before my husband, Bob's step-mother, Promise, became an Alzheimer's victim, she had designated that when she was gone, I was to 'fall heir' to a ruby crystal pitcher and glass set which her brother had purchased at the Jamestown Expo in 1907.  She explained that her only son, Joe, and his wife didn't care for antiques and she knew I would treasure it. 

However she never told Joe about this wish because the Alzheimer's ravished her mind a few years before she passed on.  Joe then took the pitcher and glass set to his home.
 
My father-in-law had lent a large sum of money to Joe and was receiving annual payments.  Shortly before he died he turned his finances over to my husband explaining that when he died, Joe was to make the payments to Bob until the lien was satisfied.
 
Shortly before my father-in-law passed, Joe approached Bob and asked him to mark the lien 'paid in full' when there was, to be exact, $28,000 still owing.  Joe justified this request by saying that he felt that 'he had it coming'.  Bob complied with his request and marked the balance paid in full.
 
I told Bob that Joe's mother had wanted me to have the pitcher and glasses and I asked Bob if it would embarrass him, if I were to ask Joe's wife if she would sell them to me.  Bob replied that since it had not embarrassed Joe to ask for the lien to be forgiven, it would not embarrass him if I asked to buy the pitcher set.  I called Joe's wife and explained about Promise's wish and asked if she would sell me the set.  "Oh, I will gladly give it to you, Bob's been very kind to us!"  Within a few days it arrived at my home and since has been referred to as, 'My $28,000 pitcher set'!

When I awoke this morning, my beautiful ruby crystal pitcher sat on its place of honor in my living room.  My friend, Emma, was coming to lunch today, so I decided to use the pitcher for our iced tea.  I considered that the tea might be too hot and break it, but then I thought, 'I will only put a little at a time into the pitcher'.  POP!   The crack is not visible, but it does leak.  I bet my pitcher is no longer worth what it cost me!  Fawn
When I walked in Fawn’s back door that day she bent over with her rear toward me and told me “Kick me, kick me really hard!”  Okay, is this a weird new game she is playing, or what?  But I asked what happened and she showed me the ruby pitcher sitting on the sink with tea leaking out of it.  Fawn said that she knows that you can’t pour hot liquid in old glass because it will crack but she tried it anyway.  My question is, “Fawn, don’t you consider 103 years old?”

Actually I told Fawn that this set was probably worth several thousand dollars before the crack!  We decided that she could still display it, just not use it, so here it is in all it’s glory.  Don’t you just love it!

LAUGHER – WE’RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD!
I have always been fascinated, enthralled and enraptured by The Wizard of Oz and my other favorite movie is of course with Rhett, Scarlet and Tara.  But back to the Wizard which has been shown on TV every fall for at least 41 years and I have watched it every time it has been on.  Cat and I watched it together from the time she was three and when she married and left home I still watch it all by myself and I still love it.
 
I love it so much that when I had the scrapbook store I named it Auntie Em’s.

Some years ago I found the wizard dolls at Target and bought them all.  Mag was a munchkin then and she borrowed Glenda when she was about two.  Ray made her return it some months later to teach her that borrowing meant returning.  She brought it to me with big alligator tears in her eyes so of course what could I do, I “lent” it to her again and that was the last I saw of Glenda for many, many years.  That’s okay, I knew she was being loved.

One of my customers when I had the guy store made me two hanging men.  They are made out of tin cans of various sizes and while the other one was painted in several colors and this one is painted silver.  Oh my, I thought, I’ve got my very own tin man.  He hung in the guy store, he hung in Auntie Em’s and now he is hanging on my deck where I can see him through my kitchen window.

Here’s my guy, Enjoy!

 I REALLY WANT THIS AMAZING LAMP

I spied this wonderful lamp the first time I was at Mary’s home and I told her that I wanted it.  “Fat chance!  My kids would hunt you down like a dog” was always her answer.  I even asked her to will it to me and got the same answer.  Through the years when I have gone to her home I have had to be (almost) content just to love on it a little.
 
This beautiful lamp is a family heirloom, passed down in the mid 1980’s from Mary’s husband’s Aunt Minnie.  The best we can date the lamp is the 1920’s or 1930’s.  It’s about 18 to 24” tall and is solid punched brass with a very thin, delicate gold silk lining. The top part of lamp is the shade and is also punched brass with a half moon design on top and those pretty beads hanging from the edges. The lamp is very unusual because you can light the top or the bottom or both. 
When Mary found out I am putting her lamp on my website she told me that whenever I showed up anywhere with my camera, people would start locking their doors.  I’m assuming that is after I am inside. Duh!

This lamp is truly gorgeous and since I am taken with almost anything really old it really talks to me.  I bet when you look at the pictures it will talk to you too.  So here it is in all of it’s glory, enjoy!

HOME AND LAUGHTER – I JUST LOVE THIS LITTLE GAL!

She’s having a reallllly bad hair day but she is smiling anyway and gals this is too true – it says “House Work Makes You Ugly!”  Why is she so happy, because she is as cute as can be and is hanging among some of my patriotic stuff!






SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!

A few years ago my generous daughter gave me this wonderful fall glass platter.  But I just can't put it away for the rest of the year so it stays in a place of honor where I can enjoy looking at it all year long. 






Living by myself I don't do a lot of decorating and a few years ago I put some red glass on my coffee table for Christmas and liked it so well that now it lives there everyday.  I also found that if I put some fall leaves and such around it works just as well for fall too.

Wishing you joy and laughter everyday!

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