Happy Mother's Day!

From our little cottage to yours, Happy Mother's Day!

I just had to share my favorite picture of my Mom. She was so young and pretty in that shot! She's 85 and is an avid gardener and still enjoys the hunt for treasures at thrift and antique stores. Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

Vintage MOTHER Prints and Cards For VTT

Please make sure to visit Coloradolady, where Suzanne hosts VTT every week!

Whether you call her Mom, Mama, Maman, Mutter, or Ima, I think we can all agree that Mothers have the most important job in the world! This collection of Mother prints and cards started out by accident. I certainly didn't set out to collect these, but like alot of my collections, they just sorta happened. I had to have the one above because of the little red cottage! It's dated 1936.

This card was just too pretty to pass up, with the cute cottage and the birdhouse.

The sentiments on these are just so sweet. Click to enlarge any of the pictures, so that you can read them.

Another beautiful card, this one is dated 1933.

I love the poem on this one, and the picture of the mother and daughter is just gorgeous. All of these have been collected for under $5, and I suppose if I stumble across any more, I really should buy them, right? Because I don't think I can safely say that any of my collections are complete. Are yours?!?

Weekend Finds

I was so disappointed that the flea market got rained out. But I've got my fingers crossed for next Sunday. I think it would make a lovely Mother's Day outing! All of my finds for this past week are from garage sales, Ebay, and antique stores. I think I made a very unflattering sound when I saw that pink tray! Not a squeal. More like an "oooaahhgg" type of sound! And an equally loud noise for that pink pottery piece!

This vintage sheet music was won on Ebay. I thought it would look nice with all of my patriotic decorations.

And I certainly couldn't pass up this old postcard. If it says "Old Glory" on it, don't I have to have it?

Four melamine plates, just perfect for summer dining on the porch!

A little white pottery poochie planter.

It goes rather nicely with my other white dog and cat planters.

And last is a McCoy pot from what was probably the stinkiest estate sale I've ever been to. As I walked up the driveway, I saw this right away and grabbed it. As I continued up the driveway, I was hit with wave after wave of cat urine. Needless to say, I did not continue into the house! Well, I hope you found some treasures this weekend, and you didn't have to hold your breath to get them!

Vintage Avon for VTT

Welcome to Vintage Thingies Thursday, where our hostess is Suzanne at Coloradolady. Please pop over there when you're done looking at my things!

I think alot of us grew up with Avon products. It was always so exciting to get the new book to pour over, and I remember being over the moon when our Avon lady included lots of samples with our orders! I've been collecting Avon things for many years, but just things that I remember from my childhood. Mr. Old Glory won that ladybug perfume on Ebay for me. To this day I wonder where mine went, because I was not the type of girl to throw my treasures away!

A perfume kitty pin, and an old roll-on.

A honeysuckle scented demi stick, and a chocolate pomade that still smells chocolatey!

Some of those lipstick samples I was talking about. Didn't you love getting these with your order?

Two "Her Prettiness" rollettes, both honeysuckle scented. Honeysuckle was always a favorite for me, and it still is to this day!

My Grandma gave me this American Belle, full of Sonnet perfume, ages ago. It's one of my most prized possessions.

I remember my Mom having these bottles. She packed hers up a long time ago, so I got these at garage sales. Isn't that little purse cute?

And I'm pretty sure we've ALL had these bottles at one time, haven't we? I'm still on the lookout for some "Her Prettiness" talc, and then my Avon collection might be complete!

A Total Mish Mosh For Rednesday!

I usually try to have a theme for Rednesday, but today we're in the kitchen, we're in the dining room and we're outside to see my reds. And for those of you that have said that they can't believe that I have more reds every week, no one is more surprised than me! Just a few short years ago, I didn't care much for the color red. But then I decided to decorate my kitchen with things from the 30s-50s, and that's when the red thing happened for me!

This rooster hung in my Grandparents' kitchen for as long as I can remember, and when they passed away I was so happy to be able to have it.

My friend Jacqueline sent me this teeny tiny hand-painted chair, for no reason! Check out those cherries, Sue!

Jacqueline also sent me that little red pixie, to go with my collection. He looks like the naughtiest one of the bunch!

And finally, we have an old ice cream maker. This thing has been every color of the rainbow, but it started out black. Once the chance of frost is past, around May 15th, it will have flowers spilling out of it. We're having a frost tonight, so I better go cover my pansies! Now, if you would like to see all kinds of red things, head over to It's A Very Cherry World, where Sue is our hostess every week!

Weekend Finds And A Sad Day

There was only one garage sale this past weekend. The type where they should have just boxed it all up and donated it. You know the type? And it was too rainy for the flea market, so a-thrifting I went. I found these two little cottage-y prints.

And another little yellow pottery deer to keep the big one company.

Mimi Lucy
R.I.P

We had to put our little furry friend down this weekend. She was the sweetest kitty I could ever imagine. I feel blessed to have adopted her 10 years ago, because she brought nothing but joy to our lives.

She was a very patriotic kitty.

Mimi loved to be outdoors. I know cats can't read, especially cats that have gone to kitty heaven, but.....thank you Mimi for laying on my head when I had a migraine.

We "planted" her in the garden, along with some perennial pansies, and Autumn Joy sedum.

When we were digging the hole to bury her, we found this old bottle. Campana's Italian Balm. I knew that there was a dumping ground somewhere in the yard for this old house, and I guess we finally discovered it. We found a little treasure, while burying another one. Is it silly to say that I am brokenhearted?

More Vintage Compacts for VTT!

Welcome to VTT, where we drag out our vintage things, dust them off (well, some of us do), and share them with the world! Suzanne is our hostess over at Coloradolady, so please stop by her blog and check out everyone's vintage treasures.

Last September I shared some of my vintage compact collection here. Today I'd like to share a few more. I had wanted to show them all in the shadowbox where I keep them, but I realized that the velvet inside the shadowbox was very dusty and had deteriorated alot. So please bear with me as I share alot of pictures. First up is this rather large pink and red one with the pretty cameo in the center. I'll just let the pictures do the talking for most of them, instead of blathering on about them!






This one opens up to reveal.....

a little comb and tube of lipstick too!

This ballerina is one of my favorites, with her little jewelled tutu!

These two things were also displayed in the shadowbox with the compacts. Sorry about the glare! On the right is an oh-so-elegant cigarette holder, and the deer pin on the left, which my Dad gave me when I was a little girl. It's one of my most prized possessions. Want to see more vintage things? If so, head on over to Suzanne's right now!