It's a Jumble Out There

I have an odd assortment of things to share today...

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Just because I needed some photos so I could post something...anything, I took some pics around my mother's house. It's the pleasant little Cape Cod where I grew up and where my mom has evolved from loving modern furniture and those ghastly geometric patterned fiberglass curtains of the fifties to a comfortable country mix. This includes a lot of her own mother's and grandmother's dishes. Dishes, dishes everywhere! You may remember my sharing my mother's teacup collection. Those photos are right *here,* if you'd like to take a look back.

So that's the kitchen where some of the cabinets and the woodwork are painted blue, which you can see from this photo of sweet little pansies in a cobalt blue votive cup sitting on the windowsill above the sink.



Seems that I am spending a lot of time in the kitchen lately. Three meals a day plus snacks. Speaking of which, last night I made Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puffs to go with our Sleepy Time tea ritual. Alice always has good recipes! We very much enjoyed these even though I couldn't find any confectioner's sugar to make the glaze. I'll be giving them another go sometime soon.

My sister gave our mom twelve great dinner napkins a few years ago. They're red plaid and big. Sis thought that they'd be the perfect complement to mother's dinner table dishes, which are cream and red. I found them being used as doilies instead and where the other eight have gone, I have no idea.


















Love my mom's calendar picture for August. It makes me smile every time I see it and I can see her sitting in one of the Adirondacks at the front of the camp reading. I imagine that she's thinking that August is going by fast, too fast.



These dear ones are my paternal great-grandparents. They had seven boys the oldest of whom was my grandfather. Sadly, his mother died in 1918 in the dreaded flu epidemic. Her baby daughter died the same day. My grandfather was just nine years old and I can only speculate about how much that event effected his life and the life of his own family even to this day. Ripples ripple out for a long time.



Mother has interesting vignettes all over her home. Here's one that I enjoy. The teacup sits atop a cigar box from Havana. It makes me wonder which one of the ancestors was into Cuban cigars. Must ask.



Here's another little odd juxtaposition of elements...an old cocoa tin, a wee pair of carved boots, and a nest atop Les Miserables.



Hope that you've enjoyed the jumble. I so want to get a few more photos for you because my mom does some neat decorating things.

Have a great Tuesday!