My Inheritance

My mom called me last week and told me a box was on the way. She called it my Inheritance. lol She goes thru phases of cleaning things out and getting rid of them. Sometimes asks me if I want something.

Over the yrs there were only 3 things I wanted that would have disappointed me a lot if I didn't get them. Two Ive gotten already and the third came yesterday. The first was my grammas very fragile hand blown Christmas ornaments.  I remember these on a silly plastic tree that stood on top of grampas big floor radio. It had bubble lights (I have some of those too) and these ornaments. Grampa would put a night light on in that room so he could come and go and not be in total darkness. (I have that too!) But come Christmas time it was magical in there. The tree was lit instead. I fell madly in love with that little plastic tree with the bubble lights and delicate glass ornaments.

One day when I was home for a visit, mom packaged them up for me to hand carry home on the airplane. Every yr. now they are the first ornaments put on my trees. My kids and grandkids have all had the honor of doing that and hearing the story.

The other thing I wanted was my Dad's. He was in the Navy many yrs ago. He had a pea coat he kept from that time. And in that pea coat were dragons! You see back in 1945 he was in China. And he had a Chinese tailor put beautiful embroidered dragon panels on the inside of his coat. It even has his name and the yr. When I was a teen, pea coats were all the rage and I wanted to wear my dads. But he wouldn't let me. Yrs later he let my brother tho and I was heartbroken. I told him how much that coat mean to me and how I loved the dragons.

A few yrs. ago a pkg. came in the mail for my birthday. I opened it up and inside were the dragon panels. I burst into tears. I called dad up to thank him and he said why are you crying? You see I grew up hearing about his stories of being in China during the war and seeing those panels. They will always remind me of my dad. And when I couldn't have the coat I was sad. Dad told me tho the coat fell apart after all these yrs. He saved the buttons and these panels. He knew I wanted them. They were the best birthday present.

 And so there was one more thing left and it came this week. Makes me kind of sad too knowing time is passing so much that now I'm getting these things. Long ago when my mom was little she drank from a Shirley Temple mug. It has Shirley's face painted on there and its cobalt blue glass. When I was a little girl I would spend summers at grammas and gramma would pull out the mug for me. Now I loved Shirley and I love blue glass so that was the perfect cup for me.

And so I grew up using it. Gramma passed away and mom got it back. But I always wanted it. Over time my moms birthdays came and I found out there were more pieces. They were actually a set. So I bought mom one yr. the bowl to match it. Another yr. the creamer. And they sat on her shelves for many yrs. She knew I always wanted them. She said maybe this trip home she would give them to me. I just knew I wanted to get them before mom died. My brother will be handling her affairs and I was afraid he would just get rid of them before I could get them. 

 And so this week, mom sent my inheritance. I love them! And now maybe one day Ill pass them on to my family. Sadly by the time I got this, my own grandkids were grown. But maybe my daughter can save it for hers and gramma would be smiling knowing its getting passed on still.

A day to get the dust blown off me...part two

I am so in love ♥♥♥♥♥ with this chandelier.♥♥♥♥♥ I swear if we find a nice house up in Ore. and I can afford this, I'm going to call them and see if its still there and buy it! So don't any of you even try .........its mine! giggle.

There's a shop down in my favorite antiquing town that Ive never been able to get into. They have certain days and certain hrs and it seems Ive never been able to be there at the right time. I would look in the windows tho and drool. I love Victorian things and there were always so many delicious things Id spy thru the windows. Today finally I hit jackpot and they were open. I asked the lady if I might take some pictures to blog about and she agreed. I found out they have a blog too. Les Belles Antiques.  http://lesbellesantiques.blogspot.com/

There's such beautiful little vignettes everywhere you look in this shop, even each couch has something to perk it up.

And what a great idea. Several lamps there have fringed silk scarves tied and knotted over the lamp shades. I don't know what the shades look like but I think if you like Victorian, its a quick, cheap way to get the look without having to buy new shades. Awesome idea!

This is what you see when you walk in, off to the right. I love this couch but then its purple, my color. 

And this is what you see right now from the front door. Its like stepping back in time. 

And I ♥ this light too......its so yummy.

 Couldn't you just faint on this couch ? I have to get me one of these one day.

Everywhere you look in this shop is girly frilly things that I ♥.  Look at how gorgeous this lighting is.

Look closely at this, yes its a bit busy for my taste but its a lighted epergne and its beautiful. This is victorian at its best but way too much for me today. Still.....having one corner like this, I could handle. The colors are so pretty.  

 Another one of the pretty couches. Sigh..cant buy anything right now with this move pending. But oh how I want to when I come here. Makes me feel like I'm in another time. If you get a chance to pop into this shop, do it. If you love this kind of thing, you will be in heaven browsing there.Maybe you will find a treasure you just cant live without.

A day to get the dust blown off me...part one

I had to get out of this house today. We have been inside so much, only going  out to do errands. Ive had it. Its fall here but around me it doesn't look it yet. So when I need a touch of autumn I like to go to my favorite town, antiquing. I managed to talk the man into going. So we took a nice country drive there thru the canyon. Got out and started to wander and could already see his eyes glazed over and bored lol. He saw a barber shop and decided to get a haircut so at least it wasn't a total loss for him. But I brought my camera and this is what I saw. That pic up there is a mural painted on the side of a building there...of Charlie Chaplin. This town used to be a movie town many yrs ago and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was filmed here along with many of Charlie's others. 

I just loved this Mummy. It looks like a skeleton that was just wrapped up in Vet wrap. He has his arms crossed over his chest like a mummy too. But they decorated him with Halloween jewelry for display in the window. Cute Idea tho.

And this one is hard to see, the darn glass was shiny no matter what angle I took this shot at. But its a giant crescent moon and I love it!

 

This is the front window of my favorite shop My Friends and I . They have a blog too I found out. http://myfriendsandiniles.blogspot.com/ I always go in there no matter what else I'm doing down in that town. See those dancing witches....I almost bought them, I just love those. But ......its big and doesn't fold. All I could think of was, more stuff to pack since Im moving soon,  so sadly I passed on it.

I loved this turkey too. Yea the photo is a bit fuzzy, hes not. But he was really cute. Again ...wanted it, didn't buy it....have to pack it if I did. 

Ive got a couple of these resin pumpkins big and small and I adore them. This one is perfect for Thanksgiving but.........not packing anymore stuff. 

And I ♥ this punkin! Its a mercury glass pumpkin, I love that stuff......but...it would be just another fragile thing to pack......sigh........so I passed on it too. This moving stuff sux.

But at the very back of the store they had a whole Halloween corner. I had to wait for a bunch of ladies to get outta the way. At first I thought they were just setting it up but they weren't. They were shoppers....in my way lol.

 More cute stuff on the other side of the Halloween corner. 

And the only thing I did buy. ...these bowls are smaller than my usual pottery ones but still useful. And they were half price so I got both for only $8. 

As you can see, if you remember my other blue pottery bowls, they match the ridges on those too but are blue and white. I love this old pottery stuff.

To be continued......