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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Share Your Favorite Pins Sunday #2

A big "Thanks You" goes out to:

and

for linking up last week!

This week I've found some wonderful ideas for making Mason Jars chandeliers


There is a tutorial here on making one



I think the last photo on a smaller scale would look great in my breakfast room or how about this:



So many ideas...how did we ever get along without Pinterst?  Join the party this week and show us your Pins.


1. Publish your post sharing your favoite "PIN" for the week.
2. Paste the button above on your sidebar or in your post making sure it links back to this post.
3. Come back here and add your link below.
4. It sure would be nice if you became a follower and I'll follow you back.
5. Please visit other particpants and and leave comments about their "PINS"


Warm hugs,



Friday, February 24, 2012

Shades of White

When out looking for treasures at estate sales, garage sales or thrift stores I'm always on the look out for ironstone or most anything white!  It always sells well in my Ebay store.  I also love white vintage chenille bedspreads.  Here are a few photos of my white finds not all are ironstone but still very lovely:



I did a little research on ironstone and found this info on the White Ironstone China Association website.

Ironstone china is not porcelain; it is a porous, glaze-covered earthenware, consisting of clay mixed with iron slag and feldspar, and a small amount of cobalt. First patented in 1813 by Charles James Mason in Staffordshire, England, it was decorated with under-glaze transfer patterns. Eventually, by the 1840’s, undecorated, or white ironstone china, was being manufactured for export to the Americas. This is the white ironstone china collected today. Older white ironstone has an almost bluish cast to it, due to the cobalt, while later examples have a creamy color.

Other related collectible china includes Tea Leaf ironstone, which is white ironstone china decorated with copper lustre banding and tea leaf shaped and other variant lustre motifs. Transferware is the transfer-decorated ironstone that was first patented by Mason. Flow Blue is ironstone with a blue design, either a transfer pattern or hand painted brush stroke, that has been fired in an atmosphere containing volatile chlorides which has caused the design to blur or bleed into the clear over-glaze.

It is hard for me to tell exactly what I have if it is not marked on the bottom, I'm always very impressed when someone can just look at something and know it's maker! There are some other whites I've found recently...I'll post about them later.


Warm hugs,

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Fat Tuesday

This was my our treat today from my husband for Fat Tuesday!  I've not been feeling well since Sunday with head cold, cough, and fever and he thought this would make me feel better...and it did!



This last one is all mine!

Linking to:

Warm hugs,

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Share Your Pins Sunday #1

There are a few pin that are special this week.  First this one from Vintage Garden Gal and shows a herb garden in wine barrels. Very clever idea!



These lupines are beautiful! I imagine this to be in England with a fire in the fireplace and tea and scones set on the little table in front and I'm waiting for a friend to enjoy!


I'm having so much fun Pinning things on Pinterest that I thought I'd do a blog party every Sunday and we can all share our favorite pins!



1.  Publish your post sharing your favoite "PIN" for the week.
2.  Paste the button above on your sidebar or in your post making sure it links back to:
                                   http://shabbycottagecollectibles.blogspot.com
3. Come back here and add your link below.
4.  It sure would be nice if you became a follower and I'll follow you back.
5.  Please visit other particpants and and leave comments about their "PINS"

Thanks so much for joining in.

Warm hugs,

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentines Day

My dear husband gave me these beautiful roses today for Valentines Day! They make me happy and I wanted to share.



Warm hugs,

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Funny Girl

One of my all time favorite movies is "Funny Girl".  I think Barbara Streisand and Omar Sharif  are outstanding in the movie.  I watched it again tonight and at the end they can still make me sob!  The songs were wonderful also!


YOU ARE WOMAN
You are woman, I am man,
You are smaller, so I can be taller than,
You are softer to the touch,
It's a feeling I like feeling very much.
You are someone I've admired,
Still, our friendship
Leaves something to be desired.
Does it take more explanation than this?
You are woman, I am man--
Let's kiss.



MY MAN
Oh, my man, I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright all right
What's the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back on my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I am his
forever more
Oh my man I love him so
He'll never know
All my life is just despair
But I don't care
When he takes me in his arms
The world is bright all right
What's the difference if I say
I'll go away
When I know I'll come back on my knees someday
For whatever my man is
I am his forever more
 
When I saw this movie for the first time  I was pregnant with my first child.  Back then we didn't find out the sex of our babies until they were born...it was like opening a Christmas present...surprise!  If we had a girl her name would be Leslie and if we had a boy his name would be Omar!!  OMG I was so in love something with that man! Thank goodness I had a girl and we named her Leslie!


Warm hugs,

Link Parties:

Saturday, February 11, 2012

This Weeks Favorite "PIN" Find!

I'm fairly new to Pinterest only been doing "PINS" for a couple weeks but there is some really amazing stuff out there in blog land!  Pinterest is really addictive... it pulls you right in and before you know it you have spent hours going from pin to pin.  My favorite "PIN" this week is from ... Suzy Homefaker  she has some interesting recycled planter ideas.





There are lot more ideas on her blog!

Linking to this great blog party:
Warm hugs,

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