“I’m very picky with who I give my energy to.
I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively
to those who reflect sincerity.”
“I’m very picky with who I give my energy to.
I prefer to reserve my time, intensity and spirit exclusively
to those who reflect sincerity.”
“There is a feeling they all say… Walking through the aisles of indulge … An inspiration of hope and a sense of encouragement… where many enter as strangers and leave as family.” Not only referred to as the secret place of Springfield… It is our happy place. 1461 Mohawk Springfield Oregon
I found this journal entry from 3 years ago, I am putting it on my blog today. BTW thanks for reading my blog!!
We just moved and it feels like acres of Rubbermaid are surrounding me. There’s a variety of colors categorized by my own quirky system of organization. I never planned on moving; I planned on my daughter getting married in the front yard and how I would live in my dream house until my dying day. I planned out so many details with my idyllic home I even matched every drawer with coordinating wallpaper. Then life happened, I didn’t plan on moving but I guess no one can truly plan out one’s life, things happen. I would have to take the bumps in the road as they come. This is the month that has been full of cleaning and packing, tears, hugs, unpacking and more cleaning. Before we left the “perfect home” to go to the “temporary home” I placed this little glass thing in the dishwasher. The item was small about two inches, made of glass, with perfectly formed ridges and a real silver band around the top. I had seen it occasionally maybe gave it seconds of thought. It reminded me of an upside down gearshift knob from the 1980’s, there was a curious fleeting thought of not knowing what it was but not excited enough about it to research. We’ve been living in the cottage with just the basic necessities all our frivolous items in storage I was reading one of my collector magazines I’d used as packing material, and there it was, one just like it. A small collectible listed with a picture, a purpose, A match striker, yes it’s a match striker! For all those years it was here and there in my house, mixed in with all those fabulous antiques just a simple little Match striker! The thought came blaring back to me, Oh, you left it in the dishwasher for the next owner. Ugh! I Google it and walla a match striker from the turn of the century, prices
Match Striker
listed from $100-$1000! I asked myself why would you put it in the dishwasher? But these are the crazy thing that happen to me…. as luck would have it the same day my husband opened his briefcase to give me some kind of paperwork and said, “Oh, I forgot to tell you, you left this in the dishwasher,” as he handed me a small little glass thing with formed ridges and real silver band around the top! A Match Striker!
*Notes one listed at 1stdibis.com for $3900!A wonderful large sized globe match-striker with English silver collar & fine ribbed glass which is in perfect condition, dated London 1916 by makers Finnigans of Old Bond Street W1 as shown.
I just want to say thank you for being a part of my life through my blog!
Happy New Year 2015!
I am so excited to see what the New Year brings!
2015 !!!!
“If you could spend the day with me what would we do?” Go thrift shopping! Now is the best time of year to go thrift shopping! After Christmas a lot of people purge items in their house and donate, to make room for the new stuff they got for Christmas. If you’re like me and like “old Gramma stuff” it’s time to make your way to the thrift! Today I bought two Shabby Chic books I’ve been looking for by Rachael Ashwell, a pair of new black flats a cashmere scarf from Scotland and the movie Under the Tuscan Sun for less than $20.00! But wait there’s more… I bought was an antique vase, cobalt blue hand painted from the turn of the century for $4.99, and I can sell it on OLA.com and make money! Okay well Thanks for reading my blog! Dig out the change and get to shopping!!
“If you could spend the day with me what would we do?”
xo
Paris, France- On the edge of the city of Paris, in a grimy neighborhood known as St. Ouen, is the holy grail for lovers of the secondhand, the rare and unusual. The Marche aux Puces, or market of fleas, is the best known market of its kind in the world. Here you will see more than 3,000 stall in a variety of buildings, under tarpaulins and along rambling alleys. You’ll find china, porcelain, furniture, postcards. posters. lamps and rugs, silverware, toys and art. But there is very little you won’t find if you look hard enough. This flea market is the grandaddy of them all. The Marche aux Puces was founded in 1885, when the city farthers banished Paris’ junk dealers and ragpickers to St. Quen near Porte de Clignancourt, just beyond the city limits. 
The “market of fleas” no doubt was an apt description of conditions at that time and for years after. But today’s Marche aux Puces is marked by the kind of professionalism rarely found at American flea markets. Most of the dealers are specialists, and your chances of unearthing a forgotten Matisse are virtually nil. But you can expect savings of 15% to 20% as compared with city prices.
To get to the flea market, take the subway to the Porte de Clignan- court station. You will see dozens of people heading for the market. Follow them past the dozens of stalls selling jeans, T-shirts. American radios and cheap leather and past the multilingual fortune tellers wandering through the crowd. These are the preamble. The real market is beyond the elevated highway, the Boulevard Peripherique.
Essentially, several markets make up the flea market. For antiques, Marche Biron and Marche Cambon are recommended. They are for serious antiques collectors and dealers as well as for people looking for a perfect piece or two. The third market, Marche Vernaison, is the most fun of all. It is a labyrinth of alleys lined with stalls that sell all the things that you go to flea market to see.
Martine Dupuy at stand no 81 has one of the best selections of postcards, many form the turn of the century, with prices starting at about $10. M. Horde, and no 111 has dozens of allumettes, those match holders that once could be found on every kitchen wall. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19901020&id=jCohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5n4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7134,4046045
Everett Potter
Vintage Flemish Art (Pyrography) Glove Box
I love to use the items I find during the year for Christmas presents. This year I found this fabulous pyrographic box to put some of my husband’s items in. I know it sounds silly as it was a woman’s glove box originally. I thought it was so unique though, and I especially like that it was marked with the person’s initials and December 25, 1910! It is a Victorian Flemish Art pyrographic box, and is stamped Flemish Art Co of New York with the two standing bears. Pyrography was the burning of designs on wood. They also produced pyrographic tools for the hobbyist. This box is more unique because it is one actually produced in the factory buy a experienced artist, look below you can see the actual factory in the photograph!
P.S when I went up to the counter to purchase this awesome box from the antique mall, they called an ” expert in antiques” over to explain to me that this box was made for a gentleman to put his fishing pole in, and that it is a process of wood burning called pryography. Omg! NOT SO! ugh! It’s a Glove Box, and for a woman’s knick knacks :0
Pyrography or pyrogravure is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning.The term means “writing with fire”, from the Greek pur (fire) and graphos (writing).[1] It can be practiced using specialized modern pyrography tools, or using a metal implement heated in a fire, or even sunlight concentrated with a magnifying lens. wikipedia
Flemish Art Co. Factory, Brooklyn, New York
Photograph courtesy of John P. Lewis, © 1979
I love going to Heceta Head, and I’m wondering about the ghost stories, strange events referring to this wonderful spot that descends into the magnificent ocean. It seems some of the incidents published don’t add up. I’m curious of this 1894 Queen-Ann style house perched on this cliff. Documented encounters with this ghost that has apparently haunted this dwelling for many years. According to legend there was a light keepers wife who lost her only child on the property, a little girl. The child is rumored to be buried on the grounds in the thick vegetation, black berry bushes. Another account I read said the baby was accidentally dug up years ago. The little girl either drowned or was lost in the ocean, or had scarlet fever it’s suggested the mother then killed herself out of grief. Throwing herself onto the rocks from the path leading to the lighthouse. But then the names are mentioned Frank and Jenny DeRoy who came to the light house in the eighteen-nineties.
In another account it is listed that The only lightkeeper’s child to die at Heceta Head was a baby daughter of the first Head Keeper, Albert Peter Cornelius Hald. The Halds–were at Heceta from 1894 to 1899.
Notes * Movie filmed 1982 a CBS movie-of-the-week, The Fog, was filmed at Heceta House.
There’s a detailed account of all light keepers and their families … but nothing mentioned about the tragic story or any mention of any ghosts. It’s also rumored teenagers playing the ouijji board in the old house spelled out the name Rue and they thought it to be Jenny’s only daughter whose spirit haunts the house.
1980 when Life magazine included it in an article titled Terrifying Tales of 9 Haunted Houses
* These are my notes, need to research more….
going to stay at the night at the bed and breakfast in 2015 and take pictures, can’t wait!! thanks for reading my blog!!
I’m curious of this 1894 Queen-Ann style house perched on this cliff.
Heceta Head Lighthouse Keeper’s House
On my way to mail packages to my favorite’s! All year I collect vintage treasures I find at vintage shops and on OLA.com, I then pack them up at Christmas time to send out. They are sent with love and care! Hope they love them too!! Have a fabulous day and thanks for reading my blog!
*I saw this simple book of matches on the auction, Fide et Opera got my attention, not knowing what it meant I had to look it up! Reading ” MacArthur ran his billion dollar empire from a booth in the Colonnades Hotel’s coffee shop,” is so intriguing!!
“Fide et Opera”: the latin is also sometimes translated as simply “faith and work.”
John D. MacArthur, born in poverty as the son of a preacher, became one of the greatest financiers of his day through the building of Chicago’s Banker’s Life and Casualty Insurance Company. By purchasing over 100,000 acres in this part of Palm Beach County, MacArthur became the largest landowner in the area. In 1976 he suffered a stroke and died 14 months later in the hotel. The hotel was razed in 1990 and the Marriott Corporation began construction of its time share resort, Marriott’s Ocean Pointe Resort, on the land.
MacArthur also owned many acres on the north end of Singer Island and he donated a large section of that land for a state park. The MacArthur Beach State Park opened in 1989 and his foundation provides funds to improve the facilities.
http://www.onlineauction.com/auction/2065023/Vintage-Matchbook-Colonnades-Beach-Hotel-Singer-Island-Fl.
* note A similar crest and motto was on the cover of printed copies of Ben Hecht’s eulogy for Charles MacArthur.
http://www.singerisland.com/history.html
No power, no internet, horrible weather… What’s a girl to do? Cleaned up all day, I couldn’t help but notice the detail, and loveliness of my thrifty finds! Of course it’s the Merry Christmas season, everything red and green which I love! But I was feeling Blue today! 🙂 thanks for reading my blog and putting up with my insane post…. xo
The look and design of the book cover I am always drawn to and lately the 1950’s artwork is always catching my eye at the thrift stores, hence, these vintage books seem to be piling up in my bedroom as I can’t manage to pass them up! The grandeur and style of the art is made all the more intriguing to me by their faded, worn dust jacket and I can’t help but wonder about the anticipation and excitement they held long ago for the receiver as the “book of the month.”
You can find me at OLA!
And at Indulge 1464 Mohawk Springfield Oregon
Thanks so much for your business ~ Merry Christmas!! 
Notes *
Georgian Jewelry 1714–1837
Georgian-era jewelry is handmade and rare. This era often featured nature-inspired designs, such as leaves, birds, and precious stones. Memento Mori jewelry was also popular at the time. The phrase Memento Mori means “remember that you will die.” Memento Mori jewelry contains heavy usage of skull and coffin motifs.
Early Victorian, romantic jewelry 1837–1855
Early Victorian-era jewelry also featured nature-inspired designs, similar to jewelry of the Georgian era. Frequently, these designs were delicately and intricately etched into gold. Lockets and brooches were popular in daytime jewelry during the early Victorian era, whereas colored gemstones and diamonds were worn during the evening.
Mid-Victorian, grand jewelry 1856–1880 Because the Grand or Mid-Victorian era corresponded with the death of Queen Victoria’s husband, many jewelry pieces have solemn, somber designs. Known as mourning jewelry, the pieces feature heavy, dark stones. Jet, onyx, amethyst, and garnet are frequently found in jewelry from this period. Compared to previous periods, Mid-Victorian-era jewelry feature highly creative, colorful designs using shells, mosaics and gemstones.
Late Victorian, aesthetic jewelry 1885–1900 During the Late Victorian or Aesthetic period, jeweler used diamonds and feminine, bright gemstones such as sapphire, peridot, and spinel. Star and crescent designs as well as elaborate hat pins were also popular. Some scholars believe the aesthetic era began sooner, in 1875, and ended as early as 1890.
Edwardian jewelry 1901–1915
The Edwardian period began upon the death of Queen Victoria, when her son Edward became King. During this period many of the Edwardian-designed pieces incorporated more expensive gems such as diamonds, emeralds and rubies in elaborate designs.
*Because of my job I get to photograph really awesome jewelry! Great deals to be found! http://www.onlineauction.com
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