F lea markets, love 'em or hate 'em. I have vast experience with flea markets because my mother loved them.  My mother was a driver...

                                                Dear Granddaughter,              July 13th, 1916,  McAllen Texas                ...

In the early 1900’s holiday postcards became popular.  For a penny stamp you could send a small greeting to your friend, family membe...

    Pipes have been found throughout most cultures for centuries. There are many different kinds of tobacco pipes, but the shapes of pipes ...

    Can you believe it? Mother’s Day is over, but Father's Ms. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd Day is just around the corner. It is only ...

    Razors have been around since before the Bronze Age. In prehistoric times, cave drawings depict blades made of clam shells, shark teet...

Have you taken the challenge? Can you tell the difference between old and new Fiestaware? If not go the the following blog "Fiesta Te...

   People that live in Minnesota are hearty souls.  We can endure snow for six out of twelve months of the year, thirty below zero temperatu...

   In 1965, my husband decided to build a house.  A new housing development was being built around a new elementary school.  Since we had ...

Milk glass doesn’t just refer to the glass you use to drink your milk. The term is used by collectors referring to a special white opaque...

   In 1896, my grandparents were married in a double wedding. The other couple were my grandmother’s older sister, Carrie, and George, a bo...

During the 1880 the Homer Laughlin China Works company became well known for it ceramic dinnerware.  Frederick Rhead, and Englishman,...

About the time my grandmother , Hattie Griffith,  was making lace to decorate her hankies, construction on the Heisey factory began. It ...

Before indoor plumbing, this is your modern bathroom facilities with all the latest accouterments. Can you just image what it was like to ge...

Just tea for two, And two for tea, Just you and me, How happy we will be!  This is my first tea party. Take off yo...

To Tuft or Not to Tuft.... That is the question! This gem of a chair was bought at an auction 5 years ago. I just recently tackled the cha...

Decorate your home for the month of February with antique or vintage valentines.  Fill your home with their beauty, their artistry, their ro...

Antique valentine's are fun to collect and over the years I have had a lot of fun collecting the m . Whatever your particular taste, th...

    It was our first Valentine’s Day as a married couple. We had no money and my husband was laid off from his job that winter. Our only in...

    I am a collector, and almost everything I collect is antique. I am not sure they all started out as antiques, but they are now. Let...

 Farm 1972     Quite a few years ago, my brother-in-law bought a farm that had an old farmhouse. This farmhouse had many bedrooms, ...

My grandmother received this letter from her youngest sister in early November of 1903.                                                  ...

My Sister My Sister & Me     When I was five, my sister was twenty, she worked in a bank and had a steady boyfriend.  I was the...

My Father My Mother: At 1st sewing machine on left, facing camera    I grew up with Fiesta dinnerware on the table. During Worl...

To decorate your holiday mantel, start by r emoving everything from the mantle to allow yourself a fresh clean start. Then choose a the...