How is your weekend going? Yesterday, Saturday afternoon I had a meltdown in the Simla Room, actually a book meltdown, which lead to a rearrangement of a kitchen corner. You know I love books, it's my Achilles" Heal, just cannot stop acquiring books. I had so many piles of books in the Simla Room, that I had recruited this cake stand as a book pile stand, plus trying to do needlework, it was all too much of a mess leading to a meltdown.
This meltdown lead to a clean out of books, one's I might have liked to keep, but they just had to go, so I could be organized, I cannot work for continued periods of time in clutter.
I moved my cake stand to a little corner of my kitchen, replacing the basket that held veg, and good job I did because the potatoes had also had a meltdown in this hot weather, to wet stinky mass, ugh! So now comes a cleanup of this little corner.
I am enjoying my little teapots here.
On the wall above are these lovely little hooks that I bought while in Halstead, UK. A milk scalding jug, from Italy. As a child we always were served coffee with hot scalded milk, in fact it was served about half and half, and when ever you went to a friends this was the way coffee was served, but not so much now. Actually it's a nice way to serve coffee in the winter.
Also cleaned these sweet three dimensional replicas of two places in Bury St. Edmunds. While in England a friend of my sister's was going to put these in a car boot sale, and I liked them so much that I said that I would buy them off her. They were in the most ugly black plastic frames, which I replaced with shadow boxes. The one at the bottom is the smallest pub in England, Wellington Arms, a Green King Pub, the other is a Florist's shop.
Sorry about the reflections.
While I was cleaning out books, I came across this Mennonite Cookbook I found at the Thrift, published in 1951, such a nice find.
I love the indented tabs on older American cookbooks.
Grandmother's table, notice the plate of cut bread. There was always a plate of cut bread on my father's mother's table. I think it's because they had a small holding and ate dinner midday. And a lovely Pennsylvania Farm scene sketch below.
This is the Household Magazine cookbook that they used to put out, this dates to 1947, I also have another one that was Bob's mum's that dates earlier than that, but is in a much more worn condition. Here again you see the use of indented tabs along the side.
Well that's about it.
What a terrible week news wise so sad. I guess we'll all be checking flight plan pathways on future flights.
Christy
This meltdown lead to a clean out of books, one's I might have liked to keep, but they just had to go, so I could be organized, I cannot work for continued periods of time in clutter.
I moved my cake stand to a little corner of my kitchen, replacing the basket that held veg, and good job I did because the potatoes had also had a meltdown in this hot weather, to wet stinky mass, ugh! So now comes a cleanup of this little corner.
I am enjoying my little teapots here.
On the wall above are these lovely little hooks that I bought while in Halstead, UK. A milk scalding jug, from Italy. As a child we always were served coffee with hot scalded milk, in fact it was served about half and half, and when ever you went to a friends this was the way coffee was served, but not so much now. Actually it's a nice way to serve coffee in the winter.
Also cleaned these sweet three dimensional replicas of two places in Bury St. Edmunds. While in England a friend of my sister's was going to put these in a car boot sale, and I liked them so much that I said that I would buy them off her. They were in the most ugly black plastic frames, which I replaced with shadow boxes. The one at the bottom is the smallest pub in England, Wellington Arms, a Green King Pub, the other is a Florist's shop.
Sorry about the reflections.
While I was cleaning out books, I came across this Mennonite Cookbook I found at the Thrift, published in 1951, such a nice find.
I love the indented tabs on older American cookbooks.
Grandmother's table, notice the plate of cut bread. There was always a plate of cut bread on my father's mother's table. I think it's because they had a small holding and ate dinner midday. And a lovely Pennsylvania Farm scene sketch below.
This is the Household Magazine cookbook that they used to put out, this dates to 1947, I also have another one that was Bob's mum's that dates earlier than that, but is in a much more worn condition. Here again you see the use of indented tabs along the side.
Well that's about it.
What a terrible week news wise so sad. I guess we'll all be checking flight plan pathways on future flights.
Christy
It is so tempting to keep collecting books. Even though we have so much online now, there is just something special about a real book. I like your teapots on the stand. It does you good to have a reshuffle.
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