Misi's Tuesday Display Chain- Spring Cleaning

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 and if I hit 50 or more, I will enter everyone's names at that time.  

Once again, Amy from http://bumblebeelanecottage.blogspot.com/

is hosting Misi's from http://1890gablehousemusings.blogspot.com/  Tuesday display chain.

Below are my versions of Spring cleaning over here at Prims by the Water. 

A few things I added to an old chair with an old blue tick pillow in the back.

A collection of soaps with a few soap savers in my 1896 Post Office cubbies

While in the barn of one of our antique friends, I noticed this pair of long johns hanging up in a rafter.

I asked him if I could buy them, and he laughed at me thinking I was very strange. He actually gave them to me all the while probably thinking I was very nuts. LOL. They have been hanging on my wall ever since...except at Christmas time...then I hang a red pair that I bought! 

An early 1900 hooked rug with some soap pretty enough for any prim lady.

An early Victorian dress hangs on the hanger in my bedroom.

This wood ironing board was my gramma H's.

The brown bottle is sprinkling bottle. Usually if this bottle got broke, then a glass soda bottle would have taken its place. I remember my mom using an old Vernor's Bottle! For those who are not familiar with Vernor's, it is a famous Ginger Ale company from Detroit Michigan. Hmmm, I can just taste a Boston Cooler right now, with some of that ginger ale and vanilla ice cream.



One of my rug beaters.

I hang rug beaters along the top of three walls in my living room.

Just love the simplicity of each of them. It's my version of a wallpaper border!

I have a total of 8 different hanging.

Well that does it for my Spring Cleaning. Next week Bob and I are on vacation, and I am going to try and do some real cleaning..as I have to clean out the spare room so that we can start work on our bedroom. The spare room looks like a tornado met up with a hurricane...seriously, not kidding, that's how bad it is. LOL. I will have to take pics to show you...plus, I only have two days to make at least a dent in it, cause we are going on a vacation/ buying trip for our store. Some of our friends think that this should not be considered a vacation, but to us it is...and we have so much fun looking for items for our house and customers...and our customers are the greatest!!!

Take care everyone

Janice    

Monday Montage

For this weeks Monday Montage, I wanted to feature everything about mom's in honor of Mother's Day. Take a look...

A mother will always keep you close to her heart.

Her boots are hard to fill.

She always went without to provide for her family.

She helped alongside her husband to build a homestead for her family.

And finally, her kisses always made things seem better.

Hope all you ladies had a wonderful Mother's Day, and even if you are not a mother,
 you deserve some recognition too!

Take care everyone

Janice

10:00 and All's Well

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I remember reading about how in colonial times a rider would ride through the streets of town and shout out the time on the hour. I cannot even fathom what it would be like not having a clock or a tv...I would never know which Idol would win, or which doctor betrays another on Grey's Anatomy, or whether House gets back together with Cuddy, or see the episode of the Pickers when they came to my town last month....LOL

I started with 10:00 and all is well because we have the grandkids spending the night and they are snug tight in bed sleeping now...of course after much spoiling on my part...pizza and ice cream tonight!

Pondering about of Mother's Day coming up, made me think of what it was like when my Great gramma Rosemary first became a mom. I know my grandfather was born in 1899, but he was a middle child of nine. If only the table in my kitchen or the few chairs that I have left could talk. If she only knew her great great great grandchildren now sit at her table. What would she tell me?

There were no hospitals back in her time. I'm sure she had her children at home with the help of a midwife, or maybe not. No lights, but candlelight, no tv or radio. Life truly was simple then, but a hard life...I know this from stories of hardship my own grandmother told me of.

It was perseverance that kept out fore mothers going...yes...they were strong. They had to be. Life was not easy for them...no modern conveniences or restaurants if you did not feel like cooking. Most of the pioneering women died from being overworked more than anything else. So this Sunday, I wish all the ladies out there a wonderful Mother's Day...

But please, everyone, take a moment to remember those fine woman of the true primitive era who made our lives a lot more easier, because without these courageous women, most of us would not be here right now.

Take care, Janice 

Do You Believe In Ghosts?

Being an antique dealer we have heard many stories from other antique vendors on how some spirits stay with certain pieces of furniture or items. Both Bob and I have experienced...what we call not explainable things which have happened to us over the years. One such experience happened most recently in my own home...

In the antique business we call photographs or portraits like these instant relatives. This particular portrait I have hanging in my back room. It is not a relative of mine, but I was drawn to this picture from the moment I saw it hanging in another antique store in town. Every time I visited that store, I had to go see if this painting was still there...until finally I just ended up buying it. My son hates this picture because wherever you move in this room, the gentleman's eyes follow you....it gives him the creeps. I on the other hand am not bothered by this picture, but Bob hates it too...

Well, the grand kids were spending the weekend with me on a snowy January weekend. I was making dinner and forgot the time and had to pick up Bob from the store. He did not take his truck that Saturday because we were expecting about 8 inches of snow...and his truck was small and lightweight and he did not want to get stuck in the snow...

Well to make a long story short. Bob did not want to leave me stranded with the kids and a truck, so I had to take him to the store and pick him up later in the car. Three quarters of the way to the store, I remembered that I did not turn off the stove and left the pan on the burner.

I was in panic mode. I made Bob rush out of the store, so that I could get back home...hoping and praying all the while that the house did not start on fire...as I was already gone about 15 minutes because of the snow, and the drive should be 20 minutes round trip.

When I got back to the house, I rushed in leaving Bob to get the kids out of the car and this is what I found.

The pan was pushed off to the left back burner and no longer on the front right burner...which was still on when I saw it. I recreated this picture so you could see what I was talking about...spooky  right.

I stood there at the stove until Bob came in with the kids and he saw what I saw. Well, I was a bit shook up, so I sat on the couch in the back room to compose myself. My grandson Michael asked me what happened, and I told him that gramma had left the pan on the stove and God sent someone down to move the pan for me.

Right after I said that, this happened.

The glass case to our early 1900 clock opened up. This case cannot open on its own..never has. We keep it locked with the key. But when it opened that night, I looked up first to the clock, and then back to the portrait....and he was looking back at me.

I'm not saying the man in this portrait saved our house from burning down....but I DO BELIEVE IN GHOSTS!!!

This is a true story...one that I just cannot explain....

Take care everyone, Janice

Tuesday Display Chain

Hello everyone,
Amy from http://bumblebeelanecottage.blogspot.com/ is hosting Misi's display chain this week. Misi's blog is http://1890gablehousemusings.blogspot.com/

This weeks display chain is for a SETTLERS KITCHEN.

Here are my displays for the week.

You may click on the pics for a better look if you choose.

Hope everyone enjoys the pictures of my Settler's Kitchen.

Thank you Misi and Amy for hosting a great display idea. This was fun!!

Make sure you check out these ladies blogs.

Take care, Janice

Sunday Crafting

Yesterday I was able to work on a bit of crafting, in between laundry, making 24 homemade chicken enchiladas (yesterday and today's dinner), and homemade ham and pea soup (tomorrow's dinner).

For my Sunday crafting, I decided that I wanted to start make something pertaining to Spring. Below is  what I started off with.

A bit of red and green wool and two patterns I whipped up.

Voila... some prim strawberries for my wood bowl.

Finally, add some yellow seeds to finish.

Now I'm not sure if I should prim these berries.

Should I, or shouldn't I?

These strawberries reminded me of another childhood memory. Gramma H always had a vegetable garden, and in this garden she had strawberries and raspberries. It was what we did with the raspberries, that my gramma disliked. You see me and my cousins decided to go fishin' down by the creek and being without worms or bait...one of us...and not really sure which one of us, decided to pick a mess of raspberries and use them as bait...LOL Our first batch of strawberries did not catch us anything, and when we went back for a second batch was when gramma told us not to do it any longer....well being kids that we were, we did not know gramma was lookin out her kitchen window. She only had one East window, and that was the one that overlooked her garden. As we started pickin our third batch, gramma came through the patch of shrubs that separated the house from the garden and scared us half to death. We dropped all of the berries and high tailed it out of there and left her laughing.

Moral of the story: Shrubs are not the best camouflage when a gramma's window is taller than the SHRUBS...and at the time we just thought she had eyes behind her back like all mom's tell you!

Take care everyone

Janice



Monday Montage

So for this weeks Monday Montage, I have decided to pick the color yellow. When Bob and I redecorated our back room, it originally was a back porch full of windows...Three full walls of windows. I wanted a more "homey" feel to this room, so we went to work...or I should say Bob went to work. LOL We decided on a deep yellow with red trim. Bob did all of the trim work and painted everything himself. The red of course did not look like the red on the paint card from the store....so after Bob's grumbling...he went over the red with a stain to darken it and make it look more aged.

From these few pictures you can see a little bit of this yellow and red, but I really wanted to showcase my collections that have yellow in them. So here goes.

This is my grandson (Michael's) favorite chair. My granddaughter Mikayla has her fav too!

I made what I call these prairie flowers and placed them in a milk bottle with some sweet annie. The white flower is a cream wool felt. When you wash and dry this felt, it makes it bumpy. In this picture you cannot see this unfortunately. Some apple gourds in a wood bowl and my clever candle concealer wrap up this little display. When I light my candle the holes from this grater dance on the walls. Pretty at night when it is lit.

The yellow wall sure does make this red lantern show off its stuff!

Bob makes these signs...and at the moment we only have one left in the store.

One of my quilts.

This is our early 1900 clock that chimes on the hour. I bought three prim tool box inserts one year at a garage sale. I just thought they were different, so I made up some fabric pears, tucked them inside this insert and now this is my year round fruit arrangement...except for Christmas of course!

I made this penny rug almost 10 years now, and I still do not get tired of looking at it. I made it from wool felt and coffee stained the entire piece after it was completed for that prim look.

I have to admit, going yellow and red in this room was a bold decision. The pictures do not really show the true colors. We already had an old wood floor in this room which we painted from gray to brown. At Christmas the reds really do look nice against it. Plus at night it has this cozy aura about it. 

                                           

 Well, off to work on my Sunday crafts. Wait til you see what I have been sewing up today!

Take care everyone

Janice