tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68601543570542813232024-02-18T20:19:08.722-08:00Laura's Rose GardenCome sit down with a glass of wine, or cup of tea and see what I have been up to. I love thrifting, sewing, gardening, redecorating and refinishing old furniture and lamps. I do sell someof my items, so if some pretty thing grabs your fancy please ask me; I may be willing to part with it!!Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-46986545920541702922013-04-30T14:19:00.000-07:002013-04-30T14:19:43.780-07:00More Fun With Annie Sloan Chalk Paint!<h2 align="center">
I was surfing through Pinterest last week and came across a table painted in ASCP Antibes Green then coated with dark wax. </h2>
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This is a finish I have wanted to achieve for a long time!</h2>
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This is the table I had that I wanted the finish for!</h2>
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But!!! I was a chicken...a fraidy-cat....to try something new.....so I chose something small to see how it would look first...</h2>
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I chose these two sewing machine drawers.</h2>
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The one on the left has two coats of paint.</h2>
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The one on the right has had two coats of paint and dried for 24 hrs, then sanded with fine grit sanding block, then waxed with clear wax, then dark wax and allowed to dry for 24 hrs. Then buffed it well with a piece of an old towel. And I loved it!!!</h2>
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So I felt fearless and transformed the table....</h2>
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Instead of sanding after painting, I used very fine steel wool to smooth out the surface and distress it a bit.</h2>
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Then a coat of clear wax.</h2>
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And then a coat of dark wax.</h2>
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And voila!!! </h2>
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The buffing made the finish gleam!!</h2>
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Next on my list of transformations.....</h2>
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some vintage bird cages!!!</h2>
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Stay tuned for more fun!!!</h2>
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Love and hugs, Laura</h2>
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Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-25003508547299620262013-04-29T07:47:00.000-07:002013-04-29T07:47:30.730-07:00Discovering Annie Sloan Chalk Paint!<h2 align="center">
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Where have you been all my life??!!</h2>
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For a very long time now (years!) I have wondered about using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint (from here on in referred to as ASCP).</h2>
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I found a local stockist, The Melon Patch in Bath, Ontario, but I did not venture out to look at it until about a month ago.</h2>
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During that first visit I met the lovely Elizabeth Harvey who is the proprietress of this quaint village shoppe.</h2>
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I purchased a litre of Provence ASCP and a can of clear wax.</h2>
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I HAVE NOT LOOKED BACK!!!</h2>
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I have been a painting and waxing fiend since I got my hands on the stuff and I have been breathing new life into some wonderful old treasures!!</h2>
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Here are a few of those pieces before during and after.</h2>
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An antique mirror, probably from the 1920s. Some of the ornate edging was missing, but I thought it would look great painted Provence ASCP.</h2>
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And it turned out fabulous!!</h2>
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After I painted the fancy work, I gently wiped some of the paint off so some of the old gold would show through. It looks very French Provicial now!! I later moved the mirror to hang over our bed. </h2>
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Next, I tackled an antique dresser vanity mirror. It started out like this:</h2>
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I have had this next table (it is called a "dumb waiter") for about five years. I used it for a while, then stripped it because the finish was truly shi&%$#!!</h2>
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Is it not truly pretty now?!</h2>
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I may distress the edges some and give it another coat of the clear wax, but for now I just love it!!</h2>
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Last week I returned to The Melon Patch in Bath, Ontario and purchased a litre of Old White, Pure White and Antibes Green as well as a can of the Dark Wax. In a few days I will show you what I transformed using these colours!!</h2>
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Keep well and until next time!</h2>
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Much love and warm hugs, Laura.</h2>
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Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-53306076880005868332013-03-08T05:58:00.000-08:002013-03-08T05:58:31.677-08:00HELP!!! I am redesiging my blog!!!!!I suddenly had an urge to redesign my blog and I have messed up the whole thing!!! I am trying to fit the picture of the house into a better size and for some reason the title of the blog is not showing. I want a pretty blog!! Please help!!!Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-9556834015476899382012-08-24T07:26:00.003-07:002012-08-24T07:26:49.944-07:00The decorating of an Aqua bedroom.............<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This has been such a busy summer for us. Our son graduated on June 8th and moved out on June 10th and of course you know what that meant............many sleepless and tearful nights worrying about how he would manage in the big, bad World.</div>
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It meant it was time to haul all the stuff he had left behind in his bedroom and store it in the garage then rip out the carpet (have I mentioned before that I hate carpet?) and begin with a new canvas!</div>
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The walls were painted a latte colour. We had new windows installed last fall and he had so much "stuff" in his room that I could not get in to repair the damaged wall.</div>
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I think the measurements for the room are about 12 X 10 feet.</div>
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This is what the floor looked like when I tore up the carpet.</div>
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I decided I would paint the room an aqua colour. I spent a few weeks looking for the "right" shade!</div>
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I also "shopped the house" looking for anything that had aqua in it to inspire me and possibly use in the room..</div>
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An antique framed print.</div>
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Pretty fabrics to make cushions.</div>
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Another vintage print. I pick these up whenever I see them. </div>
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An antique hooked rug.</div>
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A large McCoy flower pot.</div>
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Antique vases.</div>
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An antique green painted flower basket. The green is a fabulous 1930s colour!</div>
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Aqua in the flower arrangement of these t.v. trays.</div>
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Antique and vintage majolica bowls and a Royal Haegar basket vase.</div>
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This clock belonged to my Auntie Reet (Rita). </div>
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She gave it to me years ago. It lived at her cottage and when she painted her cottage back in the 60s, she painted the clock, too!</div>
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This little lamp used to live at our cottage when I was a little girl.</div>
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A few years ago I bought a pair of old curtains. The lining fabric was rotten, but I knew that with a few hours and a seam ripper I could salvage the fabric for cushions or "new" curtains.</div>
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This is an old chandelier that I thought might look nice in the new room. Not as is of course! I planned to paint it white! And replace the socket covers.</div>
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Below is a picture of a vase and pretty plate.</div>
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The rim colour of this plate is what I chose for the wall colour!</div>
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It was made by the "Doulton" pottery company in England. This bone china plate was made between 1886 and 1891. That was before the company received the royal warrant whereby they could change the name to "Royal Doulton"</div>
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Here is a pretty aqua and roses cup and saucer.</div>
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A collection of antique glass marbles.</div>
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There is aqua in this tote I made a few years ago.</div>
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Another aqua vase. The young man is my father, Wes, when he was about 22 years old. The woman is my late mother-in-love, Marjorie. The clock was given to my father's mom and dad on their wedding day November 26th, 1913.</div>
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I thought I may use a bit of antique silver in the new room.</div>
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Here is a pretty aqua plastic frame with pictures of my mother and father around the time that Tim and I got married in 1983.</div>
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"Gift from the Sea" is a lovely book written by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. This cover is........aqua!</div>
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I looked at many magazines searching for inspiration. This one magazine featured below was the Cottage Style summer 2011 issue. </div>
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A vintage wicker purse that I purchased in Vancouver's china town while I was on an exchnage trip in highschool in 1978. OMG that was sooooo long ago!!!!!!!!!! I bought the bird cage that same day for my mother. It came to live with me after mom died.</div>
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Here is a lovely needlepoint cushion that has the same colours as the curtain fabric.</div>
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Martha Stewart has line of office organizational stuff and I bought one of the binders with dividers etc for organizing my decorating projects. It is aqua, too!</div>
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I thought of using a Martha Stewart colour for the walls...........</div>
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This is the colour I chose. It is called "Weathered Glass"</div>
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I took the paint chip to Home Depot and had them colour match with their "Behr Primer and Paint" in one paint. IT IS EXQUISITE PAINT!!!!! I have not nor will not receive any rewards from Home Depot for telling you that. It is just freaking wonderful paint to work with and it hides dark colours very quickly ie., 2 coats and you are done!!</div>
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An antique Victorian jardiniere with deep aqua/turquoise and ............</div>
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A painting with more roses and a hint of aqua!</div>
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A beautiful aqua and pink majolica jug. I love it!!</div>
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I knew that I would use some antique books for vignettes.</div>
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OH! This a picture just to show you the condition of the lining of those curtains that I salvaged.</div>
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I picked this mirror up at a yard sale earlier this summer. It was in a pile of "FREE" stuff!</div>
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I love the flowers and scrolls and other features of it.</div>
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It needed a bit of elbow grease and a sharp knife to scrape away the pealing paint.</div>
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But I knew that with all the old paint gone it would be great repainted a gloss white!!</div>
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An now for a little snack. My hubby makes excellent and delicious home made pizza.</div>
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This one had pepperoni, tomatoes, fresh basil and chunks of mozzarella on it. It was so yummy good! </div>
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The crust was just right!! He swears by this pan with the holes it.</div>
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Presenting our new spare room.</div>
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It came together just as I had imagined it would.</div>
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The last picture features a cushion that I bought from my Ebay and blogging friend Lynn at Teacupstitches.</div>
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Introducing Maplethwaite Manor 2012.</div>
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So named due to the many Maple trees which grow in our yard.</div>
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The west view patio.</div>
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Lavender on the edge of the patio.</div>
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Vintage iron furniture. The sofa and two arm chairs were purchased at </div>
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I found this "sideboard" which matches the table suite sitting on a lawn in a nearby village. It had a sign on it....$100.00. So I quickly turned my car around and bought it!!! What are the chances of that happening!!</div>
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A southern view.</div>
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Coming up our driveway.</div>
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View from the north.</div>
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View from the front lawn. My lavender walkway is in the middle of the pic. I still need to remulch the right hand side of it.</div>
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Pretty front door where we sit and drink our morning coffee and watch as the sun comes up.</div>
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Lavender, day lilies, phlox, delphiniums, shasta daisies and a globe cedar.</div>
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</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-8317336597441269132012-07-05T10:45:00.000-07:002012-07-05T10:45:37.513-07:00The Transformation of Maplethwaite...before and during.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I am finally back to post about our renovations which began last July with visits from our contractor.</div>
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Our house was built circa 1978. We purchased it in February 2002 and moved in June 25, 2002.</div>
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After living here for the past ten years we needed to make some big changes due to the siding and windows deteriorating (read: rotting!!!) </div>
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I have wanted to change the back entrance since the first winter we lived here because it faced west and each time we opened the door the wind would blow in leaves and dirt and rain, snow and sleet!!! </div>
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Below you will see the back/west entrance which is the white door.</div>
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There is also a patio area here which we have plans for later on.</div>
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The large dark brown door entered into an unheated wood staorage area (we heat with wood primarily)</div>
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In this next pic you are viewing the north west corner of the house. This corner receives the brunt of the weather which arrives from the west.</div>
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Woodshed door again. Notice the iron bar propped against it. The door hinges were broken and fell off each time we opened the door!</div>
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This big heavy door entered into a garden shed. It orginally was a garage door. The hinges were broken on these doors also.</div>
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This window faced north onto our driveway/parking area. Inside is the family room and behind the curtains was out t.v. The window was large and drafty and really was not required due to the palcement of the t.v.</div>
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This is what I mean by rot! I pulled hunks out with my bare fingers! Squishy, yucky hunks!</div>
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The north view of the house.</div>
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North view again with more of the front showing.</div>
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I forgot to mention that our large chimney need extensive repairs, too. Here you can see that the top 20 courses of brick are being removed.</div>
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View from our entrance driveway. I called the design "Mock Tudor". </div>
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The windows on the left belong to our huge porch.</div>
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Some of the rot above the livingroom windows which flank the fireplace.</div>
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The southwest corner featuring the porch. Our bedroom is on this corner as well.</div>
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This is the northeast corner. The two windows for the room upstairs used to be our son's room. He graduated and moved out a month ago and is currently living in Ottawa looking for a job in computer graphics and animation. </div>
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A shot of our old mudroom, the door being the one where we entered from the west. It was six feet by eight feet and always had..........</div>
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A view from the kitchen into the mudroom.</div>
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The chomney is coming along nicely in this pic below.</div>
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CHEERS!!! Don't you just lurve my sexy apron??? It's a Jennifer Paganelli Sis Boom design.</div>
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I bought it at my friend Patti's store "Nesters Home" in Toronto. You can check her website here:</div>
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I am overdue for a visit to her great store!!</div>
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Here is a pic of the front door which enters into "MY" livingroom. No t.v in here, no sir!!!</div>
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A pic of the old woodshed/garden shed interior. The door enters into the old mudroom.</div>
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My hubby likes to drink beer! ;)</div>
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The old barnboard door of the woodshed.</div>
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The old garden shed door facing north.</div>
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My new Toyota Camry XLE is peeking in behind. I love my car!! Tim calls it "the land yatch"!!</div>
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The old front door. I hung drapes over it because it was drafty!</div>
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Our soon to be north doorway.</div>
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Our soon to be enlarged mudroom, now 8 feet by twenty feet!</div>
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Floor insulation with the metal rod grid on top just waiting for the concrete truck to show up!</div>
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The concrete truck is here!!</div>
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Concrete going down!</div>
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More concrete!</div>
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Leveling things out.</div>
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Yowsah!! The old concrete/stucco board is coming down!</div>
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This wall faces west. To the left is our bathroom and to the right is our bedroom.</div>
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New window for the family room going in.</div>
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Inside view. The family room mess!</div>
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Old kitchen window. Kitchen mess!</div>
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This is an old light fixture that my sister-in-love, Cindy, gave me. This is a "before" pic. I will feature its transformation in another posting.</div>
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Interior of the mudroom facing the new exit. Our new door was back-ordered, so the crew left the old one in so we wouldn't freeze our pattuties off! It was late November in this pic.</div>
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New window, one of a pair which flank the living room fireplace.</div>
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I chose to paint the interior door and window frames myself. There are still a few left to do.</div>
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The contractors cleaned up and left mid December. We are still living in a bit of a mess around here. Our daughter moved to her own apartment at the beginning of April. Sadly our Honey-girl died on May 31st. And as I mentioned earlier our son moved out a month ago. </div>
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Tim and I are enjoying our empty nest!! </div>
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Wesley's room is empty and awaiting a beautiful rebirth. I will post about that job later as well.</div>
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I will be back in a few days to show you some sunny pictures of what our house looks like now!!</div>
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<br /></div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-79835776531182415182012-06-05T06:04:00.001-07:002012-06-05T06:04:56.233-07:00Who Is She???Hello Blog friends,<br />
I have had an extended hiatus from blogging but am now returning with renewed energy.<br />
I have found many treasures over the last nine months and want to share them with you. We have also done some fabulous renovations to our home and I will be featuring them over the next while as well. <br />
This return post is featuring a door stop, bookend or figurine of a young girl. She looks so familiar to me and a few of my friends, but I have been unable to name her. I am sure that if I could speak with Mary Engelbreit, she would know in an instant who "she" is!!! So without further ado here are some photos. Please leave a comment if you have any idea of who she may be.<br />
Love and hugs, Laura<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My latest treasure is an antique Mueller Volksteadt Dresden lamp. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is soooooo beautiful!!! I think she is from the 1920's to the 1930's. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She needs a very gentle bath in warm soapy water, a new cord and a special shade. When I get her all spiffied-up I will do a post about her!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWJBSIFWB84CM7TGdC546jiEfo9kNEq7I3p5EdtIfm56oTx-FM63rxFcleqIhyphenhyphen0ixvoSb1glqHpdpMldTL1iEkpv8zkj_O4kBBy8r2hWCfAYFUA9isE5gH0p0roBrVcTJ2XaFuXBcGWD5/s1600/DSCN4509.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWJBSIFWB84CM7TGdC546jiEfo9kNEq7I3p5EdtIfm56oTx-FM63rxFcleqIhyphenhyphen0ixvoSb1glqHpdpMldTL1iEkpv8zkj_O4kBBy8r2hWCfAYFUA9isE5gH0p0roBrVcTJ2XaFuXBcGWD5/s320/DSCN4509.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope everyone has a restfull!!!!! and wonderful weekend!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Love and warm hugs, Laura<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97tcX8A-fPz5DjJmS5X6brfPclqkCTgVy7JxsduJiaQmgZdDdAENX8BZP_H0i-O2aX1EPAoyLdLGYmmQ9G5yJoYmXg7t3s3tT281GrtrCLwtP3TWV7k6c2brux2IQUG4fTCRPoW06ROJs/s1600/DSCN4513.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div align="center"></div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-48481448550363871382011-03-05T10:42:00.000-08:002011-03-05T10:44:23.757-08:00Happy Pink Saturday From Your Long-lost Blogging Buddy Laura!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Pink Saturday!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I haven't posted since mid January and I cannot believe that it is now the fifth of March!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have come to realize that the older I get the FASTER time flies by!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much has happened since I last posted, so here is quick update.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Monday January 17th I handed out 5 resumes to local nursing homes (all within 20 minutes drive of home).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By 4:15 that same day I received a call for an interview. It was from the nursing home where I really wanted to work! By noon the next day I had received calls for two more interviews. The next day, Wednesday I had three interviews. I was offered a job at the hursing home where I really wanted to work on Friday and started the next Tuesday January 25th. I received job offers from the other two nursing homes as well. What a boost to my ego that was! This nursing home is brand new and absolutely the best one in our area! I love working there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our daughter experienced a huge cut in her hours where she was working and moved home at the beginning of February. She is back in her old room, the new sewing studio/guest room. The only piece of furniture I would let her move back in was her bed. (I didn't want her to get too, too comfortable in there). She has now found a new job and it is turning out to be great for her and will soon be full-time hours, so we expect that she will be apartment hunting very soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last Saturday I woke up with a sore throat and that quickly manifested into influenza. I was smart and did get the flu shot in the fall, but the dag-blasted bug got me anyway! I have spent the better part of a week in bed. I did manage to read abit, "Coming Home" by Rosamunde Pilcher ( I have read it three times and I still LOVE it!). I sipped on weak tea and toast when I felt like crawling out of bed. My sweet hubby looked after me when he was home in the evening. He is just the best in the whole wide world!! My chest still feels heavy and my strength is coming back slowly and I do feel better, but I will be going up stairs for an nap shortly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yesterday, I received a letter from Sweet Beverly at "How Sweet The Sound"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My Uncle Jack, who is now 87, sent me a letter a few weeks ago and in it he included a $5. bill with a tiny note stuck to it, "To buy a treat!". Last Saturday when I was feeling yucky witht he sore throat, I purchased two little pots of pink! hyacinths. They have opened up and are filling the house with a lovely spring-time fragrance! Thank you Uncle Jack!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Malay-Kadazan Girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br />
<div style="text-align: center;"> Congratulations Sweetie!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Please contact me so I can get these treasures into the mail for you!!! </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">I am still working on getting items listed on Ebay. I am not a technical gal, so it is taking me a bit longer than anticipated to get things up and running. I think I have most of the glitches (brain farts!!) worked out (EEGads!!! that sounds sooooo bad!!!) LOL!! </div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll post tomorrow and introduce you to my Ebay listings. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Take care! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Love and warm hugs, Laura </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-7181550532614231642011-01-11T16:58:00.000-08:002011-01-11T16:58:12.417-08:00Please Pray For Sandy, Sarah and Simone in Australia!!<div align="center">Hello to all my blogging buddies world wide. </div><div align="center">Three of our blogging friends in Australia are facing absolutely horrific floods in Queensland, Australia. </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Simone at</div><div align="center"><a href="http://beachvintage.blogspot.com/">http://beachvintage.blogspot.com/</a></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Sandy at</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.paintmewhite.com/">http://www.paintmewhite.com/</a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I am sure that you know of others in our blogging community who live there also.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Flash floods are occurring and sweeping cars and people away into rapid currents of turbulent muddy waters. </div><div align="center">The loss of life and wellbeing is catastrophic!</div><div align="center">Please say a prayer for all people facing these challenges and send this message far and wide so our positive thoughts and love circulates and keeps them safe and sends them hope for recovery soon.</div><div align="center">Love and warm hugs, Laura</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-39397082265716161062011-01-04T09:07:00.000-08:002011-01-04T09:07:26.538-08:00Happy New Year to Everyone! A New Venture for Me and Presenting My First Give-Away!!!!<div align="center">Happy New Year!!!</div><div align="center">I hope everyone had a blissful Christmas and Holiday Season.</div><div align="center">2011 is here and with the new year comes a sense of adventure and new beginnings. </div><div align="center">After many years of telling my hubby that I am going to sell on Ebay, I have finally taken some measures to do just that. I have been collecting treasures, crafting and refinishing furniture and lamps for more than forty-five years and the time has come for me to let these beauties travel to new homes where they can be appreciated and loved by others. I have thousands of antique and vintage items such as jewelry, clothing, shoes and purses/handbags, crocheted and embroidered linens, art, figurines, depression glass, milk glass, pottery, china, majolica, American and Canadian Brilliant Cut glass, silver (sterling and silverplate), copper, brass, lamps, books, dolls, toys and just about anything you can think of!! So stay tuned for more information about my Ebay selling. I will be posting again in a few days to give you the particulars.</div><div align="center">Today is also Tuesday, so I will be participating in Teacup Tuesday with the lovely Martha and Terri of</div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.marthasfavorites.com/">http://www.marthasfavorites.com/</a></div><div align="center">and</div><div align="center"><a href="http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/">http://artfulaffirmations.blogspot.com/</a></div><div align="center">These two wonderful ladies have hosted 43 Teacup Tuesday celebrations. The weekly party allows bloggers to invite new friends into their blogs, showoff their teacup collections, and share a cup of tea or coffee and the happenings in their lives. Martha and Terri were very supportive when I first began blogging in May 2010. I cannot thank these ladies enough! They are both genuine, beautiful human beings to the core!! </div><div align="center">We are having a late morning tea today, as it is now eleven o'clock. I am using one of my favorite tea sets; it has roses on it!! The teapot, milk and cream jugs, cups and saucers were made by Wedgwood under the Imperial Porcelain manufacturing name. Some of the cups and saucers do state the name Wedgwood. This pattern is especially dear to me because it bears the name of my father-in-law, "Vincent".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkdlzS7SUn7Cdkof0AlKHx2162rFHi6RzwW8RsftWF6qUZyZHmnRdPymAnQDurmeMwxRHtSv9WeNzhAsKFLJQiWeyJ9KTnFAcm2OCmvsP4VF8oq7f3TLlkpJFjDFEI1meKh0mX3Y5_SSB/s1600/DSCN4258.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkdlzS7SUn7Cdkof0AlKHx2162rFHi6RzwW8RsftWF6qUZyZHmnRdPymAnQDurmeMwxRHtSv9WeNzhAsKFLJQiWeyJ9KTnFAcm2OCmvsP4VF8oq7f3TLlkpJFjDFEI1meKh0mX3Y5_SSB/s320/DSCN4258.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ther is a wee guest joining us. His name is "Mai" and is made by Goebel of germany. Do you see the butterfly he holds in his hand? He is telling us that on this cold and snowy day we should remember that spring is on her way! Do not give up hope!!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3gVt9qn5jHtMU3AWjybtT6_ksFB9TR7IZ3o6q-NPfzqdzMoyxQ6Fqu4ByLHacxBMcOBdECEC1N_eCMoL9LSTwifyzfu690YBE557xeAbW835WbD7orpeJxf-wv8-AQ17SKphe1IQYDNQ/s1600/DSCN4260.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL3gVt9qn5jHtMU3AWjybtT6_ksFB9TR7IZ3o6q-NPfzqdzMoyxQ6Fqu4ByLHacxBMcOBdECEC1N_eCMoL9LSTwifyzfu690YBE557xeAbW835WbD7orpeJxf-wv8-AQ17SKphe1IQYDNQ/s320/DSCN4260.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have not yet found a sugar bowl in this pattern so I am using the sugar from my Birks silver tea service. The spoon belonged to Laura Mulligan, my maternal grandmother's best friend; she was one of the women I was named after.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The gorgeous tray that the tea set is resting on, is from England and made in the 1920s. </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxfKpGmJTYS3hCjT6531DTDZMTQ5yTmAB2Kx3U-vnREZrm80xvXyljzzy5JQfIRkhHi54qPMmfzH0yXvFPNjUAFlG6X1JtAFf40qvuXvVmfZ8h1a30HPOZdXqv0w-fwwjZG0PKrJlcmS2q/s1600/DSCN4269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxfKpGmJTYS3hCjT6531DTDZMTQ5yTmAB2Kx3U-vnREZrm80xvXyljzzy5JQfIRkhHi54qPMmfzH0yXvFPNjUAFlG6X1JtAFf40qvuXvVmfZ8h1a30HPOZdXqv0w-fwwjZG0PKrJlcmS2q/s320/DSCN4269.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">NOW!!!!! Presenting my first EVER give-away!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As many of you already know I love roses! So, I have collected a couple of items which I wish to send off to a lucky someone. This give-away is open to anyone on Earth. I am sorry to exclude my alien friends from Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and the other planets, but I am sure you can appreciate the fact that the shipping to Pluto would be (tee-hee!) astronomical!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am giving away a Royal Albert "American Beauty" cup and saucer, a gorgeous scarf covered with roses made by Tabi, a sterling and freshwater pearl bracelet and a pair of sterling and freshwater pearl dangling earrings. I will draw the winner on my fifty-first birthday!!! January 13th, 2011 at twelve o'clock noon EST (my time zone).</div><br />
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</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-19588042190874561442010-12-23T13:34:00.000-08:002010-12-24T05:22:54.711-08:00Christmas at Maplethwaite Manor.<div align="center">Good morning everyone!<br />
Merry Christmas!!!<br />
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</div><div align="center">I still have some last minute shopping to do. Tim and I are going out this morning to brave the crowds and watch the craziness of last minute shoppers!! </div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I roasted a small turkey on Wednesday and Wes, Tim and I ate it with dressing (stuffing), mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy. I usually do my turkey dinner the week before Christmas, but with all the cleaning and decorating I have been doing, I had to postpone for a few days. It was worth the wait!!</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Our house has been very quiet at Christmas time for the past four Christmases. In 2006 I was recovery from a breakdown. In 2007 we were grieving the deaths of my Mom, June 2, 2007, Tim's Mom, June 16, 2007 and Tim's Dad, December 1, 2007. In 2008, I was having more health issues. In 2009 we were grieving the death of my Dad, February 4, 2009. Plus, I had just had shoulder surgery at the end of October, 2009. </div><div align="center">Now Christmas time 2010 is here and I have decorated the house inside and out! Our tree is the best one we have ever had. My mother would have loved it! <br />
On Christmas morning we will be having a huge brunch with ham, eggs, latkes, orange French toast, special coffe and Mimosa! (champagne and orange juice mixed)<br />
During the afternoon we will relax and watch movies, read our new books and go for a walk across the fields in our back yard.</div><div align="center">Merry Christmas everyone!</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4R6rlhrvug6Ztn2sBf4MwyomFNkOHthjNGGbh2hdLQChWtCSC4FzGLmDIgHPlSuOM85UydZ0-NT3HHkR1Ee-Hz1FfqQJ7fNTmrB_inAchDM1J19HQtnPbdNGbJ7SamlsStLssGL3bVAQT/s1600/DSCN4198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4R6rlhrvug6Ztn2sBf4MwyomFNkOHthjNGGbh2hdLQChWtCSC4FzGLmDIgHPlSuOM85UydZ0-NT3HHkR1Ee-Hz1FfqQJ7fNTmrB_inAchDM1J19HQtnPbdNGbJ7SamlsStLssGL3bVAQT/s320/DSCN4198.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-9196235557800233552010-12-21T15:44:00.000-08:002010-12-21T15:48:50.007-08:00Christmas in "My" Living Room.<div align="center">Hello and Merry Christmas My Dear Friends.</div><div align="center">I have taken some pictures of "my" living room. I will do a post tomorrow and show more pictures of the rest of our home at Christmas.</div><div align="center">I hope you enjoy your visit here. </div><div align="center">Would you like a glass of champagne or rum and egg nog or mulled wine?</div><div align="center">This old radio cabinet houses my stereo and cds. The photo is of me and my Dad summer 2006. The felt mice on the windowsill are special; Mom made the chubby one many years ago, and the tall skinny one my daughter Alyx made about ten years ago.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4SylPcV7oY03mfqm3RH7bBOkE0-yjGAXkgBAGg8b_v4HMKUuuXb8GoljGVmKZoHR4CH1bkDZ3owDGfl7VTiShZW0bjfo1iBV8vI3I9mKuJciV4BP7iXwrxiruJ90A9SeX9AQkHjs5kTp/s1600/DSCN4182.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4SylPcV7oY03mfqm3RH7bBOkE0-yjGAXkgBAGg8b_v4HMKUuuXb8GoljGVmKZoHR4CH1bkDZ3owDGfl7VTiShZW0bjfo1iBV8vI3I9mKuJciV4BP7iXwrxiruJ90A9SeX9AQkHjs5kTp/s320/DSCN4182.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The lamp was my mothers. It is from the 1940s, I think.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The other set my children gave to me years ago for Christmas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also have golden birds and angels, a porcelain doll and vintage brooches and other special baubles and bling! The satin roses were made by my friend Lynn from Teacup Stitches!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRYergrKXJf3Y6XVNEGTF9O7MtuxQaqDye6KEg8CmcsezpiiFUIr5cthMVYNBbPxf_ZVyV4IYxVyOEsIgmv9ekmalczM2w4B3O8joGRJXRIHAA1fkamzXpVG06sS7jX_IB1dW3BNaxWGBe/s1600/DSCN4196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRYergrKXJf3Y6XVNEGTF9O7MtuxQaqDye6KEg8CmcsezpiiFUIr5cthMVYNBbPxf_ZVyV4IYxVyOEsIgmv9ekmalczM2w4B3O8joGRJXRIHAA1fkamzXpVG06sS7jX_IB1dW3BNaxWGBe/s320/DSCN4196.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have had the oil painting since we were newly married, around 1983/84. It is signed and dated 1877. I love the greens and the reds in it and usually hang it above the mantle at Christmas time. The silver centrepiece is from before 1900 and is made by the world renowned Walker & Hall Silver company from England. I bought it at the same auction where the man gave me the bride's basket. The bride's basket is unsigned, but it has the same frilly lace edge that this centrepiece has, so I think that it is a Walker & Hall piece, too. The youing couple to the right is me and my baby Christmas 1981. It was our first Christmas dating. Our son's graduation picture from highschool is on the left. </div><br />
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</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-44000462115049772432010-12-20T09:40:00.000-08:002010-12-20T09:40:50.263-08:00Finished the TREE!!!!!! PHEW!!!! I finally reached the point where I had to say "ENOUGH!!" I still have a couple hundred glass balls to hang on the tree, but I keep having to remind myself that I used to decorate three trees and all will not fit onto one tree!!! So here "SHE" is.......TAADAA!!!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">She is my "Memory Tree". So many years, so many memories, so much love!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'll be back soon to show you pics of the house!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Merry Christmas!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Love and warm hugs, Laura</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-50030969897003960632010-12-19T19:05:00.000-08:002010-12-19T19:05:45.323-08:00I'm getting there!!!!! decorating continues............<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well..................Like I said..................I'm getting there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was up at 5 this morning. I knew that I had a lot of work ahead of me if I wanted to get all the decorations up today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It took me a while to wake up enough to get working. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I started with the bins of wreaths and garlands.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last year I bought a pinata at the dollar store. I copied some pics off the net and printed them and then cut them out and pasted them right over the existing pic on the pinata.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Viola!!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Saturday my Blogging buddies!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One week until Christmas!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gasp!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been busy cleaning and tidying and making room for the TREE!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I started pulling the bins of Christmas decorations out of the garage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I store the large wreaths and garlands in large garbage bins (pic below).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have wheels so are easy to move from the garage to the house.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9Gn6B8wgOEYOe55w0Bb9oY8RPcq6I-3-nz3NtO6EhJ0DOMhYcfPrIpdSSEu8NwymyFP1V-pfDuJ741s0gRuls330ZsgERELc4s1XvRaz-O7W9MZIFwwtbgvup0GPXIRlHnR0-DWW45ui/s1600/DSCN4125.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9Gn6B8wgOEYOe55w0Bb9oY8RPcq6I-3-nz3NtO6EhJ0DOMhYcfPrIpdSSEu8NwymyFP1V-pfDuJ741s0gRuls330ZsgERELc4s1XvRaz-O7W9MZIFwwtbgvup0GPXIRlHnR0-DWW45ui/s320/DSCN4125.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Earlier last week I looked for a tree at the local country store. I had picked up a nice one there last year, but this year they were very short (less than six feet).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I grew up in an old Queen Anne Victorian house which had a large bay window. My mother's mission was to fill that bay window with the largest tree that could be found. She always had a spectacular tree!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I inherited that desire for a large tree. One year the tree I picked took up half of our livingroom! It was a beauty!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I stopped at the Salvation Army store on Thursday and noticed that Christmas trees were being sold across the street. I drove up to the lot and found THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BALSAM FIR TREE!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">IT IS NINE FEET TALL!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">AND SOOOOOO BUSHY!!!!!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is my baby! I told him to smile and show his teeth!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He did!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love you Babe!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy70ZblfdTrwoLO54T4RaBqzVP56eeZ5pIRxwltgXOveUbgyAVxbR3E9UavFrK8pHBduzZKsG2vCcq3WtZE-QpUy73bIE69nK7hrMxZydX8tPBCUlIHgcrp1p7fbUkWkeYcpab-mdpYkSl/s1600/DSCN4144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy70ZblfdTrwoLO54T4RaBqzVP56eeZ5pIRxwltgXOveUbgyAVxbR3E9UavFrK8pHBduzZKsG2vCcq3WtZE-QpUy73bIE69nK7hrMxZydX8tPBCUlIHgcrp1p7fbUkWkeYcpab-mdpYkSl/s320/DSCN4144.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I place an old towel on the floor then cover that with a plastic garbage bag to protect the floor.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I quickly took a few photos this morning to give you an idea of what I use and how I set up for this little task.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like I said, I use "Silvo" for the silver and "Brasso" for the copper and brass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has been a few years since I have polished the brass so it is beginning to look kinda grunggy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have placed a large garbage bag on the top of the kitchen island then layered newspaper on top of that. I have shown the old metal can that Brasso used to come in and also the new plastic bottle that it now comes in in the picture below. I wear old crappy clothes, 'cuz I always get some gunk on my clothes. I also wear a work apron and rubber gloves (buy them at the dollar store, when the chemicals begin to kill the rubber, just throw them out and grab another pair). Music on the stereo is a must!!! I am listening to Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the right you will see an English brass candle stick with a green candle in it. That is "before". On the left you will see the mate; it is covered with the polish. I used 0000 steel wool and a small wire brush to get into all the nooks and crannies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*****WARNING!!!!*****</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">******DO NOT USE STEELWOOL OR A WIRE BRUSH ON YOUR SILVER!!!!!!******</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I have been busy, busy, busy polishing brass.<br />
The candlesticks below with candles have been polished.<br />
The ones without have not been polished.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have finished the redecorating of the upstairs hallway and stairway and have spent a number of days cleaning and tidying the house. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have started decorating for Christmas so I have uploaded a few pictures to tease you! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will be back later this week, hopefully by Friday! to show you our Maplethwaite Manor at Christmas Time!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good Day! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been redecorating our upstairs hallway and stairway for about ten days and I finished last night!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BOY!! I am exhausted!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, I am going to tackle today at a much slower pace!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In September my friend, Dee, opened her store, "Simply Eclectic" in downtown Stirling, Ontario. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I featured her store the second week she was open.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last Thursday, as part of my day out with my girl-child, I drove to Stirling so Alyx could experience Dee's lovely store.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxByeb0S3VTbvQum-uUtbTil0iCl27LIDW8FvWwkRwMSeZQ1Vl9OvV0cNyzjxW-eDUAz6wf0Aljht95ZkntbrJWMP1XXFbz4CBeq6RPU1f1CUwQ5EpZtS6xVunCS3heTQorc33h5dPwlpQ/s1600/DSCN4047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxByeb0S3VTbvQum-uUtbTil0iCl27LIDW8FvWwkRwMSeZQ1Vl9OvV0cNyzjxW-eDUAz6wf0Aljht95ZkntbrJWMP1XXFbz4CBeq6RPU1f1CUwQ5EpZtS6xVunCS3heTQorc33h5dPwlpQ/s320/DSCN4047.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hello Sweet Dee!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Honey, I love your store!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I could live in it!!!!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7G4VhC5wxzNFrjnOGs-UXYH9Nn_12wLEU4Op_mR3_2JTGL1_KrOl3KzN6zaHJX4cfExXFATvAPyZU7jjBrj__ycJ4lLT7g327BXrvoz7o8qpwcVKIiKhiDDwfjwl6VErjV1WxnV_M3X4T/s1600/DSCN4048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7G4VhC5wxzNFrjnOGs-UXYH9Nn_12wLEU4Op_mR3_2JTGL1_KrOl3KzN6zaHJX4cfExXFATvAPyZU7jjBrj__ycJ4lLT7g327BXrvoz7o8qpwcVKIiKhiDDwfjwl6VErjV1WxnV_M3X4T/s320/DSCN4048.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I get over to Simply Eclectic a couple of times each month. I have always! found something to "feather my nest" with. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are a number of eating establishments in Stirling, a lovely bookstore, a bakery, a fabulous thrift store and other boutique shops as well!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Try to plan a late morning or afternoon visit. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Simply Eclectic is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am until 5 pm. Occasionally Dee has to close a bit early, so call ahead at 613-395-4152, if you are planning to visit later in the day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope you have a chance to visit Dee at Simply Eclectic before Christmas. The store is filled with eye-candy and marvelous gift ideas for just about everyone on your list. I am sure you will find one, two or three things for yourself as well!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Take care my lovelies!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Enjoy this Christmastide!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much love and many warm hugs, Laura</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-56323884433982175702010-12-05T07:23:00.000-08:002010-12-05T07:29:11.971-08:00Funk & Gruven A-Z........One Of My Favorite Stores!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our daughter, Alyx, flew out of the nest about a month ago. She is renting a townhouse with a couple of friends and working fulltime hours at Belleville's Pizza Hut. I have seen her a couple of times and spoken with her a few times on the phone, but I was trying hard to give her some space so she could get her independent feet on the ground. I was really surprised (and very excited!!) when she told me that she wanted to spend a day "hanging with me!!". So last Thursday we got together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First off we headed to Stirling to visit my friend, Dee's, store, "Simply Eclectic". I'll be posting about her store in a few days. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Across the street from Simply Eclectic is a bakery that acquaintances of ours opened a year ago. It is called "Not Just Desserts". Daily they have fresh baked breads and pastries, homemade chocolates (their Cranberry Biscotti Bark is 2die4!!!!) and they serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in a quaint eating area. We'll be going back to try some items on their menu!! I'll post about this experience later also.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were getting pretty hungry after sampling the dark chocolate cranberry biscotti bark, so we headed back into Bellevile for lunch at The Red Lion. I had been there the previous week with my friend, Wendy, and had eaten the chicken fingers and fries and WOW!!!!! they were sooo delicious!!! They were hot and tasty and my platter was filled!!!! So we returned to have lunch because Alyx likes chicken fingers, too! We were not disappointed and our bartender/waitress, Christine, was friendly and wonderful also!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally, with our bellies full, we drove around the corner and up the street to my friend, Mike's store. I don't know how many years Mike has been in business in Belleville, but I am thinking that it must be close to twenty years! I have a wardrobe that I bought out of his warehouse (the old St. Vincent de Paul Store on Coleman St.) when the kids were little and they are now 25 and 22, so that's why I am thinking that "Funk & Gruven" has been open for that many years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Funk & Gruven A-Z is located at </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">52 Bridge Street East</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in downtown </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Belleville, Ontario, Canada.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Their phone number is 613-968-5612</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Their website is here:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I parked across the street from the store and as we approached it my daughter, Alyx, exclaimed, "OH MY GOD!!!!! I love that chair!!!!! She was talking about a very yellow, Retro, bucket-like chair that was sitting outside the store. I told her, "There are actually two of them!!!" She had to try them on.....and.....they fit!!!! LOL!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJCPZo6Kupny-9hlYBYQ9sTsivefLmnfvB0pb3zuRteVd7bVFW4DoPK6RSRhyphenhyphen__vxexLl7t9An4bwYFOpdINHLFrzbX7_D-2NZtSVXGSFFXFsZuuAv8CMp3UDxjzn1RDU0MTBXLFHLXsS/s1600/DSCN4052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJCPZo6Kupny-9hlYBYQ9sTsivefLmnfvB0pb3zuRteVd7bVFW4DoPK6RSRhyphenhyphen__vxexLl7t9An4bwYFOpdINHLFrzbX7_D-2NZtSVXGSFFXFsZuuAv8CMp3UDxjzn1RDU0MTBXLFHLXsS/s320/DSCN4052.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The store is in a brick Victorian building and it just oozes vintage charm!!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnj7ERxdRro8vle-iDEyLQ8iS-O5XFT-D8b_Z46SLqrpKOacWLNwmz_Q6jJ-NOOouvA-rRsZ47uX316RKnMMtMm5mebcwba2NHf7h4EPuweHl6uvA91iNTbTcue2iHp1icL39lN96OrOM/s1600/DSCN4053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsnj7ERxdRro8vle-iDEyLQ8iS-O5XFT-D8b_Z46SLqrpKOacWLNwmz_Q6jJ-NOOouvA-rRsZ47uX316RKnMMtMm5mebcwba2NHf7h4EPuweHl6uvA91iNTbTcue2iHp1icL39lN96OrOM/s320/DSCN4053.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When the weather is favourable, Mike has a selection of furniture on the sidewalk. When I am in Belleville I will drive by Funk & Gruven at least twice, just to get a fix on the eye-candy that is waiting to be purchased and taken to a new home. Often I am forced to find a parking spot and take a closer look at Mike's new inventory!</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sIMCWn3j_8BDPSajF7wytP-EcIMUxJGs5RfGXdzig47L88Kwq0-rcVERRI9MLnMjU1khmZZHEBkzIAldhYKBuZa0VMxS00V1cOPOcSf5Iciz50m49U0p3TiRxAZBgDZfTYgIb_X4DqSe/s1600/DSCN4055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6sIMCWn3j_8BDPSajF7wytP-EcIMUxJGs5RfGXdzig47L88Kwq0-rcVERRI9MLnMjU1khmZZHEBkzIAldhYKBuZa0VMxS00V1cOPOcSf5Iciz50m49U0p3TiRxAZBgDZfTYgIb_X4DqSe/s320/DSCN4055.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Inside the door is this gorgeous vintage naugahyde club chair from the 1930's. The cushions are removeable and are covered in a fine silk tapestry fabric. The fabric is a little worn, but it has that shabbyfabulous patina that is so much loved by us Shabby Chic, Romantic Cottage chickies!!! Come to think of it, it would look great in a Paris Apartment decor as well!!!</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5j-TIgnCLs01-2MhTZU8Kka__PZXBijltqk_2j5ZrrAcLBJA3Yl_7tlfhK8uf3-wzkUQmF8nkDoBvuuPQXSDUVRPzcHk7WBztPJ4zLbOzInmUex87QZJ0zuE727XkWM1QTAOsXX3MIswA/s1600/DSCN4056.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5j-TIgnCLs01-2MhTZU8Kka__PZXBijltqk_2j5ZrrAcLBJA3Yl_7tlfhK8uf3-wzkUQmF8nkDoBvuuPQXSDUVRPzcHk7WBztPJ4zLbOzInmUex87QZJ0zuE727XkWM1QTAOsXX3MIswA/s320/DSCN4056.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mike has an excellent selection of vintage and antique art ranging in styles from Victorian, to Retro/Eames era to Traditional to Modern. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo-1ITjgcEUMQwInRrJn7Cvxm3O5TrG463zvDOgFATvxoquPO_xi0ReW3swNRb6rPmAiIt2LdY4zPJl6td79_uxrd8Z5YNgU7m6m9e83to_H8ebANb0a3iVWZ9MyEKhRKHII5DmZMmCfm/s1600/DSCN4057.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJo-1ITjgcEUMQwInRrJn7Cvxm3O5TrG463zvDOgFATvxoquPO_xi0ReW3swNRb6rPmAiIt2LdY4zPJl6td79_uxrd8Z5YNgU7m6m9e83to_H8ebANb0a3iVWZ9MyEKhRKHII5DmZMmCfm/s320/DSCN4057.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The mirrors he has hanging are beautiful. Again, he has a varied selection of styles of these as well.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAitFno6euPz4mgUN-Toh9ejEy814XwRl4rpk3j4DXC_WtmoRMxnyU-S5vJEarwMUebfl2i9ZHhEf3W6qq8K9JWeGqZnInBJ1C_p_wZf5rmD6Vo9VCMb8h1BNOPBXCDycPcOxzHhk-PnCo/s1600/DSCN4061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAitFno6euPz4mgUN-Toh9ejEy814XwRl4rpk3j4DXC_WtmoRMxnyU-S5vJEarwMUebfl2i9ZHhEf3W6qq8K9JWeGqZnInBJ1C_p_wZf5rmD6Vo9VCMb8h1BNOPBXCDycPcOxzHhk-PnCo/s320/DSCN4061.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Alyx "lurves" these 1950's aluminum and turquoise plastic spice jars. She really grooves on mid-century stuff!!! (I don't know where she came from!!!) "To each his own" I guess!!! LOL!! </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXBaRG8GXPMAEWpCDGfAikjsy9eXzMOQ54LOcRlNgtksinXgnnAbYXwiWMCNkKpoY8uvVlnVietLK-jt5Zzef2Xt9L1qaffsusPJ6ZH4jN9mNUQSavsHGj54JVsOllM453jLs5OR21N4Mg/s1600/DSCN4063.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXBaRG8GXPMAEWpCDGfAikjsy9eXzMOQ54LOcRlNgtksinXgnnAbYXwiWMCNkKpoY8uvVlnVietLK-jt5Zzef2Xt9L1qaffsusPJ6ZH4jN9mNUQSavsHGj54JVsOllM453jLs5OR21N4Mg/s320/DSCN4063.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Antique English brass candlesticks and a collection of vintage stemmed glasses!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See the French pine dining chair in the foreground? (It's a little left of the centre) It is part of an excellent French Country dining set. It would look magnificent in a Provencale (thingy under the c to soften the sound) kitchen or dining room. Mr Rooster lamp would look great in this decor, too!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hello Michael!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love your store!!!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a darling handpainted pale blue with white accent Bombay Chest. It is the perfect size for a bedside table or end table in a small livingroom. It looks like a piece of Wedgwood jasperware. It would look marvelous in my livingroom! (BUT....I don't have any room for it!!! Sigh!)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope you have enjoyed this virtual tour of Funk & Gruven A-Z. Belleville is located "smack-dab-in-the-middle" between Toronto and Ottawa. It is a two hour drive from either of these large Ontario cities. I can assure you that it is worth your while to make a trip and check out the wonderful and ever-changing inventory in Mike's store. Like he says, "Come in...Have a good look!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Take care my blogging friends!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll be back later this week to feature my friend, Dee's store, Simply Eclectic" in all it's Christmas splendor!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much love and many warm hugs, Laura</div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-73414436807050351892010-11-20T10:01:00.000-08:002010-11-20T10:01:03.131-08:00Happy Pink Saturday Showcasing My New Sewing Studio and Guest Bedroom!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good afternoon dear blogging friends!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am so sorry for not getting this post up earlier today, but I just had to spend some extra time "tweeking" around with the little extras. I also wanted to wait until the sunshine was shining in the south window. When that happens the room just glows!! I will have to write captions later (hopefully by Monday) because my BFF Tammy is coming over for dinner to celebrate her 50th birthday and then she is staying the night. She will be our first guest staying in our new guest room!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I hope you enjoy the pictures (there are quite a few!!!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ask any questions and I'll try to answer them when I write the captions later. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Pink Saturday Chickies and extra special thanks to Miss Beverly at </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/">http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I came to my senses!</div>I will repeat.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I CAME TO MY SENSES!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My senses were saying.....my senses were SENSING (and screaming!!!!) that I was IN DANGER!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I realized that if I stayed there it would not be long before I was sick again either physically or mentally!! I tell ya, the chest pressure I had was very real AND I DENIED IT!!! And I am a frickin' cardiac nurse!!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I QUIT!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">IMMEDIATELY!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(after some long hard thinking!!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Monday November 15th!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And so now I am a free agent. I am unemployed. I have no income.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I know....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One door has closed...............</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another door has opened! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Please come with me as I walk you through a new beginning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This used to be our daughter's bedroom. She painted it a dark chocolate brown a number of years ago. She moved out on her own a few weeks ago. A few hours after she was gone (October 30th) I started to tear up the carpet!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybe3w6J46REOOUZ5RmSbbOvTy0YOpi7f5sCERathgXN_4zqrh_YrgdBGUB0V65Z0Vxk1Ps1Ge2-A0i6yJwT10Z3r2IHWLHOVhOC0AwENzKTxgfx2IUJhqqzFyOGO90XVL2QaTP4mUa8gt/s1600/DSCN3822.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybe3w6J46REOOUZ5RmSbbOvTy0YOpi7f5sCERathgXN_4zqrh_YrgdBGUB0V65Z0Vxk1Ps1Ge2-A0i6yJwT10Z3r2IHWLHOVhOC0AwENzKTxgfx2IUJhqqzFyOGO90XVL2QaTP4mUa8gt/s320/DSCN3822.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was such a dark room. But it was her room, her cave, her refuge from the world of college and every day life. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">THEY ARE GONE!!!!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laura xoxoxoxo</span></div>Laura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860154357054281323.post-12704217683750152662010-10-29T17:50:00.000-07:002010-10-29T17:50:24.328-07:00Pink Saturday October 29th, 2010 Pink Vases and other stuff.<div align="center">Hello Chickies!!!</div><div align="center">I have been busy with life in general. After being off work on LTD for 32 months and having two shoulder surgeries I am finally returning to work as an RN in a busy Cardiac Sciences Unit at a local hospital. I have spent some time tidying the house and getting ready for orientation and getting back into the swing of things. PLUS!!!!! Tomorrow, our 22 year old daughter is flying/fleeing the nest!!! She is sharing an apartment with two friends of hers and will be only a ten minute walk from her work. (NO more driving her to and from work!!!) WHOOOT!!! WHOOOTT!!!! </div><div align="center">I will be turning her bedroom into a sewing room and guest room. I have spent the last week washing, sanding and painting three pieces of 1960's French Provincial furniture and will post about them and the room transformation later in November.</div><div align="center">Now, let's get on with the show!!!</div><div align="center">Thank you to sweet Beverly at </div><div align="center"><a href="http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/">http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/</a></div><div align="center">for hosting this weekly party.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">I have to admit that I feel some-what guilty about not posting for more than 22 days. So this post is going to be picture heavy. I hope you enjoy it, though!</div><div align="center">Last summer I picked up this tiny little treasure of a vase at a yard sale up the road from us. I paid a mere dollar for it. It is exquiste porcelain; very thin and delicate and is only about three inches in height. It is not marked. Could it be R.S. Prussia? Or French procelain? Whatever it is I love it. The pink and peachy colours along with the greens makes it look kind of autumny in nature. Next spring I will fill it with a big bunch of Lily-of-the-Valley. Oh...I can't wait!!!! But...I will have to endure this coming winter.</div><div align="center"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61UWkRwjXy8hEQ1NQqP0mHyTlfm0qpx5MeLo3bzBgl2QY7ovg-Elc4oEl3sHDDBW3j-AAdUHEql2mU6JNdBMMwePf1Hy83hFYzvmOkm3UyGfUsVXEyb4dT0ONcSwuwNXIOhvB7I6mvS8J/s320/DSCN3803.JPG" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This next vase I purchased from my friend Wendy, who sells on Ebay. It is Nippon and has a beautiful rose on the front of it. (That's my Aunt Ida in the background)</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5Brg8_p3AzK9QGf9gyhG1yeOp0hhyrovOCD-8E63vvW039AdYNlKpUfwmUISzuxHHA9F5MeGS3iwDYzr-_CUAiFJYFa0EKtXc4guPtaaySLmDLPT-Su4czs_Z4glFNbl3X0E3r6zpzyB/s1600/DSCN3805.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5Brg8_p3AzK9QGf9gyhG1yeOp0hhyrovOCD-8E63vvW039AdYNlKpUfwmUISzuxHHA9F5MeGS3iwDYzr-_CUAiFJYFa0EKtXc4guPtaaySLmDLPT-Su4czs_Z4glFNbl3X0E3r6zpzyB/s320/DSCN3805.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you tell that I love rose vases? Actually, I love just about anything with a rose on it!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you see the foot dangling in the upper right corner?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It belongs to......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Miss Bear.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I have a story to tell.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Many years ago my mother picked up an old blonde Persian lamb coat with a mink collar. A friend of hers asked her if she knew anyone who would like it and she exclaimed, "Laura would love it!". And she was so correct!! I held onto it for years. My daughter wore it for Hallowe'en in 1994. It hung in my closet for more years after that. One day in the fall of 2006, I was shopping at Value Village and started talking with a woman about silk scarves. She said that she bought them to spiffy up the bears that she made. I asked her what she made them from and she said, "Sometimes I use mohair and sometimes I use old fur coats". Bazingga!!! I asked her if she would be intersted in a blonde Persian lamb coat and she said, "Yes!" So I got her address and phone number and a few days later I took her the coat. She made me a coffee and showed me some more of her projects. She was a retired court reporter and had lots of time for crafty things. She said to me, "I'll call you when I get your bear made". I was so excited! I did not expect anything in return for the coat and here she was saying that she was going to make a bear for me!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">About six weeks later, Joan called to say that the bear was finished. I invited her over for coffee and she brought "Miss Bear" with her. </div><br />
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Brenda sells on Etsy and you can get there by visiting her blog.<br />
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I hope you have enjoyed your visit today. <br />
I am on my way now to pick up my daughter after her shift. Tonight is the last night that I will be doing this, because tomorrow she will be moving into her new "pad"!!! Whoot!!! Whooot!!!! We are all excited for her!!! <br />
Happy Pink Saturday to everyone. I will be up early Saturday morning to visit as many Pink Saturday participants as possible. <br />
Take care!!!! Love and warm hugs, LauraLaura's Rose Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056247547385843072noreply@blogger.com7