Way-Back Wednesday

As most of you know I am moving on Saturday. I have been going thru all of my storage boxes, and found these neat little figurines that I'd forgotten I had. My Mom gave them to me when she and my Dad were cleaning out my Grandpa Schanding's home after he passed away. Here are photos of the three figurines.

The cow is a little cream pitcher. And I think the donkey used to have something that would lie over its halter on its back. The pig is just a pig, albeit a little creepy looking! Here is a better shot from the side to see more of the figurines.

I do treasure these because they are so old, and my

Grandma Schanding probably picked them out. I never

knew her since she passed away in 1958. But in seeing

photos of her in her twenties, I look quite a bit like her.



Hope you enjoyed these little pieces for a Way-Back Wednesday.

Take care Ya'll, and have a blessed day.

From central KY - Fayette Co.

Treasure-Find Tuesday

I have been on the look-out for a rocking chair or two to go into the cabin and/or go out on the main floor's deck/porch. I found this one on Craigslist for $15. The cushion came with it, and I did notice that the cane seat needs some work, but it will do the job. It needs refinishing or painted. And if anyone can tell me if I need to do something to it before painting, please let me know. From the looks of it, it has been outside some, it has that weathered look and feel about it. So I know that something needs to be done to it to prolong its life. I also contacted another person with a rocking chair for $10, but haven't heard from them. I will continue to look on Craigslist to see if anything else comes up before my move on Saturday.

So, without further ado - here is the rocker that I just picked up this evening.

OK - sorry for all of the mess in the background, I'm still packing up stuff for the move. Please forgive! Whaddaya think?

Take care All - and have a blessed Tuesday evening. From central KY.

Tuesday's Treasures

Andrea, over at Rural Revival had a Thrifty Thursday Link-up last week.

So, I decided to show a couple of things that I might have found

going Thrifting, but instead I got them from my Grandma's home

when my family was cleaning it out. I should say, the stool below

I got from my Grandma's house. The next piece I got

from another relative.

The stool is from my Grandpa's parents' home that used to be

on Ross Ave in Hamilton OH. I remember my Mom having

kitchen chairs that match this stool, and using them in the

basement to sort laundry on. And I think they still had

the same color paint on them. She got them when they

cleaned out her Grandparents' home after everyone

had passed on that side of the family.

The stool is pretty heavy and completely solid wood.

Trouble is that I don't know what to use it for, so it's just

sitting in my livingroom by my computer desk,

but I wouldn't trade it for the world since it belonged

to my Mom's Dad's family, and I never got to know

any of them. But before they moved to Hamilton in the

early 1900's, they were farm people from the towns

of Landeck and Delphous in Van Wert and Allen Co's, NW Ohio.

Please excuse the clutter in this next photo. I moved back in November

and am still unpacking, and will be moving again soon,

so what's the use, right?

This washstand was also from my Mom's grandparents' home

on Ross Ave in Hamilton OH. My great aunt had it at her place.

Not too sure how she ended up with it since my great aunt was on

the other side of my Mom's family - but she gave it

to me a number of years ago when I moved some of my

Grandma's furniture to KY to use in my home.

I collect stoneware pitchers, and that's what all of those

are doing on the washstand. Some are Louisville Stoneware,

some Bybee Pottery from Bybee KY, some Roseville OH

Pottery and probably made by one of my favorite potters,

Robinson Ransbottom. I found these pitchers on eBay.

And I also collect the pottery made by the M A Hadley

Company located in Louisville KY. Sometime I'll post

photos of those items. And I guess looking at the photo

there are some odds and ends pieces of pottery there as well.

I like to collect hand-thrown rustic pottery because each piece

is unique, and I like the heaviness of the rustic pieces.

Sometime I'll post about Bybee Pottery. It has been run by

the same family since before the Civil War, in the same location

in Madison County KY.

These are my treasures and mean a lot to me since they belonged

to some long gone relatives whom I only know by visiting their

grave markers at St Stephens Cemetery in Hamilton OH.

And seeing them in very old photographs. Sometime I'd like to post

some of those old photos.

Feel free to stop by Andrea's Thrifty-Thursday Link-up and post your

finds or treasures so that others can view what you have found.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my Tuesday's Treasures.

Have a good evening. Take care, All, from KY.