Sitting Pretty

Grandma Lila's needlework pillow looks a bit like cabbage roses and works perfectly in the sewing chair in the Pantry / Sewing Room. 

inherited -- if I find this in the shed I want to put it at the cottage

Off the Wall

When you can't find exactly the wallpaper border that you want, you MAKE some!  That's right...I printed some vintage toiletries pictures onto Manila paper, cut it to the width I needed, and covered it with clear Contact paper to waterproof it.  Custom wallpaper border that didn't really cost anything because I already had what I needed around the house! 

T V Rewind

Here is the spot next to the window by the entry hall. 

The Hoffman 1950s television came from B's Aunt Boodie 

The feed sack picture was bought at an antique store on Main Street. 

We got black "chair" at an auction and found a white and black enamelware pan to go underneath it at an antique store in Fredericksburg. 

Added a needlepoint rooster chair pad from an auction box lot. (Love box lots!) 

Finished off the chair with a patchwork pillow made bu S's great grandmother. 

Texas Vignette

The top of the chest of drawers in the master bedroom. 

This Indian painting was done by J's aunt Gail. 

Little buffalo statuette was inherited from J's parents. The five books on the bottom were gifts from various family members or flea market and garage sale finds.

Antique American Indian book has an inscription dated in the 1900s. It was a gift from S's mother.

Taxidermy Armadillo. Another inherited piece from J's parents.  We got the rock   / Grinding stone at an auction. 

Brass armadillo ashtray. Belonged to J's parents.  

S's cannon.

Ezra Brooks Eagle Liquor Bottle

1980 vintage Ezra Brooks Heritage China RH-77 

Eagle liquor bottle 185 

from $15 to $70 online 

From a Shadow Box

Miscellaneous lighters that were in one of the shadow boxes 

Miniature bottles of soda. (There are 4 so I guess each of the boys could choose one) 

Vision from the Past

We helped a family member move and clean a relative's estate / home.  Our work was rewarded with this awesome vintage heirloom television.  J is looking into putting a flat screen tv behind the original screen so that it is usable!