A Few Of My Favorite Things Saturday

Welcome to Applejack Lane on this A Few of My Favorite Things Saturday.  I am a retired school teacher.  One of my first "school collections" was started by  hubby-ABC plates 

This is the first plate that started my collection.  Of course my MIL found it and suggested that he give it to me for Christmas...

My sister-in-law gave me this religious plate for Christmas one year...

Some can be small like this one only 5 inches in diameter...

Ben Franklin's maxims...

Tin plates...

Two alphabets share this plate...

A rabbit plate for Spring...

Special English mugs...

A creamer, bowl, and mug...

I have over 30 pieces to my collection and I still continue the hunt.

Thanks for joining me today.  Visit Bargain Hunting with Laurie for more Favorite Things Saturday and Chari with Sunday Favorites.

An Egg-stravaganza For Tabletop Tuesday

Applejack Lane has been snowed under for over two months now.  This weekend, I pulled out some Spring decor.  I always put this dough bowl on the dining room table with my collection of Victorian blown glass eggs.  It's a very simple eggs-travaganza! 

All kinds of blown and painted eggs... 

Some are embossed; some are plain...

All are egg-tra special.

Thanks for dropping in today.  Marty, our new hostess at A Stroll Thru Life has more Tabletop Tuesday participants.

Blue Hobnail Monday

It's Blue Monday again at Applejack Lane.   Last week, I started to do some cleaning in a bachelor's desk, and I shared some blue Bristol glass.  Today,  I have a few pieces of blue hobnail to show from that same desktop.

 

A round vase with a fluted collar...

 

A skinny hobnail vase...

Two very similar flat vases...

All these were collected by my MIL.  I didn't know how much I liked blue until I met her.

Happy Blue Monday.  Thanks to Smiling Sally for hosting this party.

White Pitchers For A White Wednesday

It's White Wednesday time at Applejack Lane.  This is a relatively new event for me.  Today, I'll share an ironstone pitcher collection that I have.  All were acquired through various auctions.  The tall pitcher on the left is marked Wedgewood and Co., England, the short one i is marked Homer Laughlin, and the one on the right is just marked Warrented.  They make great flower and dried arrangement containers.  Everybody needs at least one!

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A Winter Cloche Party

Welcome to Applejack Lane.  I am joining Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for her Winter Cloche Party.  I found my new cloche one day while shopping with my friend.  Sadly, it came from one of my favorite shops that was closing in downtown Staunton.

It's not quite six inches high so I thought I would add a miniature tea set in it...

 How about a little St. Patrick's Day cloche?  This is a hand painted necklace made by a friend that I used to wear in my teaching days. 

Thanks for stopping by Applejack Lane.  Marty at A Stroll Thru Life has more cloche party ideas.

Ring-Ring

Hello!  Welcome to Applejack Lane for the last Silver Sunday of the season.  I am happy to have participated in this and that it will become a monthly event. Today, I want to share my napkin ring collection.  Napkin rings are easy to find and do not take that much space to display. Mine edge the shelves in a corner cupboard in the living room. Most are sterling although some are silver plated and pewter. It is interesting to me to examine the intricate designs and monogramming on them.  Some of the script is so elaborate that I cannot tell what letters they represent.  If I turn some of them upside down, I can see totally different initials. 



 Here are some of my favorites mounded in what else but a silver Revere bowl...

A mosaic with my very favorite in the middle...

Thanks for stopping by Applejack Lane.  Gypsy Fish Journal has a list of more Silver Sunday entries.

Weight Watchers-VBF #1

It's a snowy morning here at Applejack Lane!  With so much WHITE stuff coming out of the skies,  the idea of Vintage Black Friday  on the first Friday of the month just caught my fancy this morning.. So with great haste, here is a weighty subject.



My MIL bought this scale at an auction well before I knew here.  I like to use it in the kitchen and fill the scoop with fruit or seasonal items.

The weights laid out all in a row...

After doing some research, I believe the weight marked with a "1" is not original to the set. I also believe there should be a "2"...

The base is marked Reading Hardware Co. Reading, PA 168.  This scale was probably produced around the 1880's...

All stacked up...

A brass scoop...

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An ABC Mosaic.

 I recently shared some "silver" ABC plates that I had collected.  Today, I have a mosaic of glass, ironstone, and china plates in my collection.  Two are identical except for color.  One has a missing letter of the alphabet. I have shown the detail of one plate because there are actually two alphabets going around the edge-the second being the hand alphabet.  Most of these plates are English, one is marked Germany, and one is stamped France. 

 

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ABC

It's Silver Sunday time.  I have thoroughly enjoyed this party hosted by the Gypsy Fish Journal.  I hope Beth will sponsor this event again sometime in the future.

One of the things I collect is children's ABC  and nursery rhyme plates.  Some are glass; some are ironstone;  some are tin. Some I have bought either at auction or in antique shops, and others have been given to me by friends and family.   Here are some that are "silver" in color.

This tin one has a raised rim and is somewhat like a bowl...

Another tin plate with nursery rhyme figures...

A close up showing the detail on the rim...

This tin plate is fairly common.  I have two. My mother had a plate like this one.  I surely wish that I had hers...

This is not a fine example, but it was given to me by an old family friend who was born around 1910. There is some type of silver coating on this one that is flaking off with age..

If turned just right, you can see the alphabet...

Thanks for stopping by Applejack Lane.   The Gypsy Fish Journal has more Silver Sunday participants.

All In the Family, Part II

Last week, I shared a table vignette that I called All In the Family.  This week, I could easily name this post All In the Family, Part II.  We are very antique oriented in our decorating.  We've held on to a lot of family pieces as well as collected other old ones.  We're back in the living room today to view a small tabletop.
 
My mother had a pair of oval marble topped tables.  My brother took one and I took the other.

We have very few pieces that came from my husband's grandparents.  One thing my MIL salvaged was this lamp base.  I found someone who could paint a shade,  and I had the brass  refurbished...

My daughter gave me this porcelain pitcher for a Christmas gift one year.  She made it while she was in college.  The color goes so well with her great grandparent's lamp...

When my husband was in the army stationed in Germany, his mother asked that he bring home some Hummels.  This is one of two that he brought her..  The colors are perfect beside the lamp...

Thanks for stopping by Applejack Lane. Please visit Barb at Grits and Glamour for more Tabletop Tuesday fun.

Silver Dresser Items

Welcome to Applejack Lane.  We have many  sterling silver grooming items that have been passed down to us.  This hodge-podge collection rests on an antique dresser in our bedroom. Not a single item has a match.  I just saw a wonderful matched collection on eBay with a starting bid at almost $1500!  Wow!  I sure wish ours matched!

A hand mirror, hair brush, clothes brush, and tortoise comb with monograms...

The mirror is dated 1899...

A few grooming utensils:  a shoe horn, button hook, cuticle tool, nail file, brush, and crystal jar...

The button hook is great to scratch my back!

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