Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Decorating, and Kitchen
I’m on the hunt for a nice cabinet for my new updated kitchen, so when I go to auctions these days, I earnestly check out the furniture. It’s different from how I have looked at…
Posted in Black history, history, and Kitchen
When I saw the two pendant necklaces, they brought back memories. I had one like them years ago, wearing it to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The pendant is a simple inexpensive piece of…
I was browsing some of the vintage cookbooks I had picked up at auction and came across one with illustrations of kitchen items from the 19th century. I realized that I have updated versions of them…
Posted in Kitchen, and Uncategorized
There was nothing distinguishing about the two dinette sets – except their age, and the warm and homey memories they stored. They were dinette sets from the 1950s, one with deep yellow upholstery and the other in…
The tools looked like any others you’d see in a vintage kitchen: rolling pins, hand mixers, ceramic mixing bowls, sad irons, meat grinders. But one thing stood out about them. Most were one-third the size…
Posted in Antiques, collectibles, and Kitchen
All of the items were rather lovely in their simplicity. On first glance, I was totally befuddled about the identity of three of them, and the fourth was so similar to its contemporary counterpart that it was…
Posted in collectibles, Cooking, and Kitchen
When I saw the tray of ceramic birds, I thought they were those cute little items you stick into a potted plant to water it as the soil dries out. These were much too lovely and…
I was first drawn to the polished wooden patina of the item on the auction table. It looked to be vintage with very little wear from age and use. I wasn’t sure what it was, though,…
