Time-Warp Tuesday

For a little fun yesterday, I went through some photos I had posted on Facebook in the past and pulled up some that caught my eye. Here are 10 that I want to share today. 

1. Adorable rhinestone candles. These would be perfect for decorations on the tables of weddings, wedding showers, or anniversary parties

2. This was me at 18. I am still this skinny. I just hide it under 40 extra pounds of flesh. I was 5'0" and weighed about 87 pounds back then.

3. Oh but what a difference a year makes. Me at 19 and up to a whopping 90 pounds. I do miss my thick long hair but can't stand it as it is growing out. I did love my hip-hugger bell bottomed jeans though. Oh, those were the days.

4. This was my favorite set of spring flowers I ever had. Over the years they got shabby looking and I had to replace them. I need to try to find some like the light pink on the left. That looks so real.

5. Something I had in my old place but don't do now. I am going to remedy that real soon. I had forgotten how convenient it was to have all my cleaning supplies in one place. Plus the bigger pockets on the bottom was a great place to keep cleaning rags. I do have one of these full of flip flop sets. And another one in my craft room that is full of craft supplies.

6. Aww, my twins one Easter. I think they were 2 1/2 here. Because I married Allen when they were a little over 3 and this was before we got married.

7. I needed a bowl to complete a Pyrex collection that was really hard to find. So I traded this bowl for it. Now I want one like this back again. let the hunt begin.

8. It was 2013. It was September. It was the last year Hubby and I made homemade apple butter. There are crock pot recipes for it. I need to try to make my own. We made it to taste, no recipe. And Hubby was the one that knew just how much sugar and how much cinnamon so I've been afraid to try it.

9. Back before I discovered Thirty-One, I had a tone of Donna Sharp quilted purses and bags. This big bag was my craft bag for when we went on vacation. It also was great for taking my laptop place. I need to see if they still make this style of bag. 

10.  Many years ago, my husband was laid off all winter and bored to tears. So he decided to teach himself to cross stitch. Most people start with something easy, but he wanted something worth spending time on he said. So this was his first piece...with no help from anybody. I still have it. He even made and stained the wood frame it is in. I always talk about what a great chef he was but the man had many, many talents. 

Weekend wrap up

Boston Pear 1950's original.  Mid 60's to early 70's reproduced had R
Madrid pieces in the yellow (amber) were never created in reproductions

On my way to work yesterday, I stopped into Heartland Antiques in Sevierville, TN. There is a lady who has a corner booth and puts everything in it a yard sale prices instead of antique prices. I found two pieces I fell in love with and decided to get them. I love glassware and if they turn out to be vintage that is awesome. But if they are reproductions I am fine with that as well. The reproductions were made in the 1970's so that is 48 years ago so it is still vintage. 

The first thing that caught my eye was this gorgeous creamer. I had never seen this pattern on anything in my antiquing years. Since it was just $2.00, I bought it. I didn't care if it was just made yesterday. Turns out it was a pattern that the Jeanette Glass Company came out with in the 1950's. It is called Boston Pear pattern. This is the original design. The "knock offs" don't have a ridge feel at the top of the pear. The Indiana Glass Company brought the pattern back in the late 60's/early 70's and called it their Recollection line. You can tell the difference because under the left pair, in the leaf pattern is a small R. Mine does not have R but it does have the ridges. Scored an original for a bargain.

The next piece that caught my eye that came home with me was this Depression Glass Madrid pattern (same pattern as the saucer I showed you last week). This is in the yellow which I believe they call amber. This one is harder to tell if it is real or reproduction. From comparison pictures I saw, I think this is the real thing. The pattern matches my original piece perfectly. And the one site that talked about the ridges around the outside showed some close ups of a reproduction ridge and it isn't like what I got. So I picked this up for $1.00. SCORE!

I made a quick stop at Dollar Tree to pick up my favorite stain remover, Totally Awesome Laundry Pre-Wash. While I was there, I decided to make a quick browse around to see what they had new. If you follow my blog regularly, you will remember I want to get a few artificial succulents for the house. Walmart they are $3.87 and I haven't been able to find them again since the first time I spotted them. But on the end cap of an aisle in Dollar Tree, there sat the exact ones I saw at Walmart. So I picked me out three of them. Three at Walmart would have been $11.61. So I saved $8.61. 

Now I have to go back to Pinterest to find that cute idea I found on how to display them. Have a great day!

Sunday's Songs

That moment when....

That moment when you are going through closet containers and you had out some scissors earlier and you stumble across a mug tree that you keep sticking back in storage because you don't like it with your mugs but you hate to get rid of it and don't know what to do with it and inspiration hits. Next thing you know you finally have a use for the mug tree.....

The next day, you decide to see what other uses there are for mug trees since you were so brilliant in thinking this up. So you go to Pinterest only to find out you weren't so brilliant after all. Others have had the same idea...

And the ones you see have the scissors hanging better than yours and you realize brown isn't going to get it and now you know that you are going to need to paint yours. 

And then you stumble on this idea and realize how many bracelets you have and how much you really hate to paint. Then you think about how it would have to be painted for bracelets too and you remember once again that you hate to paint.  

So you decide maybe you will just get rid of the stupid mug tree and not have to make any decisions about what to do with.

Friday Foto Friends

I haven't had much time to take photos this week, nor has there been much to take photos of. So I thought I would go through my pictures and just post some of my faves from the past. So I went back to February 9th from the past 9 years I've been blogging and pulled a pic from some of my old posts to see what interested me on this day back then....

This was the day I found a use for my deviled egg tray that did not involve deviled eggs. Jello eggs. I loved the idea so much that I did make them for Sunday School for the kids' Easter party that year.

I just loved this so I posted it one year.

I had gotten a Thirty-One order in one year on this day. 

One year, I talked about daffodils and how we used to have them on our hillside. My brother lives in the old home place and my cousin still takes pictures of them every year. (This was just a stock photo I posted one year when I was talking about them).

I posted one year that I wanted to do this on my porch rail some spring.

And yet another year I wanted a Swedish ivy, which I finally found which FYI died later that year. I want to find another this coming spring.

And I posted the orange creams my hubby always bought me for Valentine's Day. I may treat myself to some this year because I have missed having them.

That's it for today. Have a great Friday.

A step back in time.....

One of my favorite things to do is to visit antique stores and look at all the treasures they behold. Sometimes it can be depressing because she see something and think "Oh, we had one of these when I was growing up." Then you look at the tag and it says "Very old". Not always a happy moment. Then you see they are asking like $300 for something you just took for granted when you were younger.

One of my favorite things to look at that I don't collect is Depression Glass. The blues, the pinks, the greens, the yellows, even the clears are all so beautiful. My friend collects it and we always look at it on our antique trips. Since I have changed the decor in my room, I am looking for a few pieces of the Depression glass for the bedroom. I especially love the pinks, but am going to look next week to see what I can find whether it is pink, blue, green or yellow. They all go with my new quilt and pillow shams. I know one thing I want is a candy dish. I really love the daintiness of this one.

I have never seen a tray like this but oh how I would love to find this for my dresser.

This vase is absolutely beautiful.

I always have a watch and my favorite earrings and rings that I like to just drop in a tray on my dresser. This would be really cute for that.

And I never knew that depression glass came in perfume bottles. Check these out. 

Yesterday I was at my friends house and told her I wanted to look at some of this when we go next week because I want a few pieces. She reached in her china cabinet and got a little saucer out and handed to me and said "Well, here is something to start your collection. You can put it on your dress for jewelry." I was so excited. It is the Cherry Blossom pattern. She said there is a tea cup to match it but she's not been able to find that.

When I got home, it reminded me I had bought a little saucer sometimes last year for just $2. I just thought it was cute. I got it out to look at it and decided to research it. Turns out it is original depression glass made somewhere from 1932-1939. I found a sight with the old and the reproductions on it and was able to confirm it's old. I am so thrilled. 

I also have this sherbet cup that I researched and it is depression glass. Now, whether it is the original old stuff or a 1970's Federal Glass reproduction is not known. I can't find anything to separate the two. But even if it is from the 1970's that is close to 50 years old so I am happy with that.

Well what do you know. I have three pieces of depression glass and wasn't even planning on collecting it. 

For such a time as this....

  For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” - Esther 4:14 (NKJV)

I did a Beth Moore bible study several years ago on the book of Esther. One thing that stuck with me and still stays with me today, was the last part of chapter 4 verse 14. The words FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS are very powerful.

When you are filled with doubt and you want to question God, do you sometimes think why me? Why now? WHY WHY WHY?

Since I have learned the power of those simple words "for such a time as this", I have come to realize that He truly does have a plan for my life. He does know best despite what we may think at times. There are times of change that I end up thinking, "Well that worked out okay after all." But I still will never know WHY it had to happen in the first place. 

We may never know the reasons and we may never see results of changes He provides. But we can rest assured that He leads us where He leads for a reason and we need to understand that we don't always need to know why. Unquestionable faith should simply allow us to follow where He wants us to go and trust in Him to direct our paths. 

Is it always easy? No, it never seems to be. But if it is God leading you there, no matter how hard you fight Him or struggle with what He wants, it is right. 

You have to wonder how many more blessings we may receive and how much more contentment would we have if we simply accepted what He expects of us and realize that we are where we are, doing what we do "for such a time as this." Trust and Faith. They go hand in hand. If we could learn to simply follow those two words as our rule of life, we could make things easier on ourselves.