A Few Changes

This bookshelf was given to me by my former mother-in-law. I had children's books on it for a long time. Now it's being used in the kitchen to display some of my bowl collection.

 It was Xenia King's bedside table when she was a little girl growing up in Boston, Massachusetts. She kept her storybooks on the shelves. She gave me three of her childhood books that have her young signature inside. (I need to search for them; they are stored away somewhere around here. A future post may be about her, those storybooks, and other mementos she shared.)

I took the Flea Market sign down from the corner cupboard in the apartment and brought it to the top of the hutch. You can tell some of the things I love to collect from the displays on the hutch.

Old and new blocks were dumped into this recent basket purchase.

I liked that the basket had a lid and handles.

Finally this golden rooster is a new addition to the kitchen windowsill.

Treasures, Old and New

 

I dug these out of a storage trunk. They were used in my first apartment in the seventies. Even back then I loved the color brown. 

This brown jar was bought recently at Goodwill for one dollar. I was buying it to put in my booth, but then I started to like the two owls.

 

Now the two owls have replaced the three vases on the mantel. I am never satisfied with that mantel! Maybe one of these days I will find the right art and accessories to hide those awful vents and center outlet.

 

 

I bought this hanging plaque for the message. I plan to change the ribbon to red and hang it on the Christmas tree.

 

The wooden blocks were sold with the wooden scoop so I couldn't resist the two together.

 

 

 

For now I have the scoop resting on a highchair in the dining room.

 

Thanks for coming by.

 

Let's hope that September will linger so we can enjoy her cooler days, football games, flea market adventures, and craft fairs.