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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Dish Cabinet

When I saw this tall painted cabinet in a junk shop I was immediately interested.

Could it work in our dining room?

My friend Beth gave me those pretty Staffordshire knives.

It was not made to hold dishes.

Originally it was a gun cabinet.

Someone built shelves in it.

It's narrow profile works in this walkway perfectly.

The whites, red transferware, and David Austin roses seem at home.

One huge negative to this cabinet was it smelled terrible.

I have worked on this issue relentlessly.

I might do a post on removing odors from cabinets if y'all are interested.

What do you think?

Is it a keeper?

To see our kitchen island filled with transferware go here.

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joy and peace

Olive

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Poppytrail Daisy

eBay

We are looking for this Metlox Poppytrail Daisy pattern.

A happy dinnerware pattern my friend Beth is enthralled with.

I am usually the china/transferware freak.

For her to fall heavily for this pattern I thought I might put out a call for assistance.

Poppytrail Daisy was released in 1964.

If any of you have a few pieces you may want to sell for a reasonable please let us know.

She has 6 salad plates and the gravy bowl.

Thanks bunches

Olive

Monday, February 24, 2014

Teapot, Teacups, Pitchers

Good morning my friends.

This crazed, creamy, and blue teapot is the cutest.

I found it in a junk shop.

It is on my dining table where I have a vintage bedspread with intricate embroidery.

If you see cat hair-this is where Gremmie hangs out.

We eat elsewhere.

Thank you all for your comments in my last ice storm post.

Y'all are awfully sweet.

I have the best friends here too.

Look at that old embroidery.

Do use vintage spreads and quilts as tablecloths.

They work quite well.

Two Meakin {made in England}small pitchers from the same junk shop.

Forgive my blurry pics.

I am in bad form.

We picked up more truck loads of limbs yesterday.

We are making progress.

We can now walk to our mailbox unscathed.

A leaning tower of Meakin teacups in a cloche.

I like that caddy wampus look.

Caddy wampus is where it's at for us these days:}

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joy and peace

Olive

Monday, September 16, 2013

Primitives and More

Happy Monday my friends.

Isn't this a great tower of primitive crates?

It is in Bob's booth in Ridge Antiques.

He is one of the owners.

I love this beautiful religious piece.

I have a similar one, at my house, that I cannot let go of.

Yes, I am a terrible seller.

A marvelous urn.

I think this is Jimmy's.

It is hard to keep up with all their booths.

The three of them have a lot of space in these two joined buildings.

They also have a lot of knowledge about antiques.

Mary Ann has quite the collection of flow blue in this magnificent corner cabinet.

These tear drop knobs are something serious on this chest.

The image is blurry but I love this piece that Mary Ann has in the kitchen area.

Mary Ann has a great flair for primitives.

All you rooster lovers look at these old rooster dishes.

She has an enormous set.

I am eyeing that chippy red toolbox in the center of the farm table.

I hope you enjoyed Jimmy's, Mary Ann's and Bob's booths.

They own and/or manage Ridge Antiques.

They are lovely people and I am honored to work with them and Beth.

Ridge Antiques

605 Main St.

Ridge Spring, South Carolina

An easy way to remember how to find us is we are by The Nut House (woot)

on Highway 23.

CC has written her first blog about South Korea here.

I have told her to turn off word verification.

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Joy and Peace

Olive

Thursday, February 28, 2013

You gals know I visited some high end outlets last weekend (see images of Pottery Barn Outlet in my last post). I bought little as the purpose of the weekend was to see our daughter. We did drop in on some thrift stores and found two Pottery Barn items. Woot. This "tea" cup was one of the finds. It was fifty cents. CC and Joe have already done one cup intervention. Guess it did not work.

The Pottery Barn coffee canister was two dollars. I will use it for coffee storage by the coffee maker.

"Honey Bunny" is a tea cup I ordered, at Christmas, from One Kings Lane. I ordered a few more for gifts. Crafted by artist Keith Bryner Jones a British ceramic designer. Each of his pieces has a word in a font recalling old type writers.

On the next post I will show you my dark little coffee station. Prepare to enter the Coffee Cave.

♥♥♥

In Olive Out news I am now on tumblr. The link is on my sidebar. I did not need another blog but Pinterest got me interested in tumblr. Where does this stop? Anyhoo, I am stumbling through tumblr. I will be posting other peoples beautiful images and sometimes mine there. Sprinkled with quotes. This blog needs tons of technical work that I constantly avoid. I prefer fiddling with the pretty images and writing. I need Joe to retire and be my technical assistant. The pay would be awesome. Wink.

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joy and grace

Olive

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Pottery Barn Outlet Spring 2013

Pottery Barn Outlet was brimming with Easter items this visit. You could not walk for tripping over a cotton pickin rabbit. I saw not one cross. The Eiffel Tower pillow cover was pretty and selling fast.

A slip covered Carlise sofa was priced for $999.00. Two thoughts kept me from taking it home. I was not driving the truck and I cannot spare that amount of money right now. But still, what a fabulous price. I will be quiet now for this photo heavy post. All images taken with my iPhone. Technically they do not allow photos. I misbehave for you my darling readers.

I bought two Turkish hand towels for $1.97 each, on clearance, and one other small item. Walking out of there for less than twenty dollars was not bad at all.

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Shelley and I are traveling to our yellow house today.
We plan to take long walks and do some tall thinking.

Olive