Riddley, Riddley.......

Well, it's today is Wednesday and I am pleased to announce that it is a very wet 46 degrees here in Cincinnati. WooHoo we have rain folks! My allergies are just jumpin for joy...yippee...but being almost 10 inches below in rainfall, we really need this rain. It'll help a little. Though, for those of you who have talked to me on the phone in the past 2 weeks I still do not have my voice back completely and that cough sounds just as bad. I realllllly do not sound like a cross between Brenda Vaccaro, Darth Vadar, and Yoda. I felt I should clarify that before I go on.....you can ask Susan over at It's a Very Cherry World....

we've spoken before...she knows.
Alright, enough about me bein a moldy oldy.
As you've all noticed I haven't posted lately, well, seems our phone lines have been acting up here at the house off and on for a while and finally they just went off. we had no dial tone. Yesterday the phone Co. finally found the problem in the line back in the woods....seems a squirrel decided to chew a phone line..in several places...and the main phone box had a chewed hole in it too. Moisture got in and killed with line....just ours...go figure, but happily today everything is back to perfect chaos not apocolyptic mayhem.
I am getting ready for my last craft show of the year................
The Holiday Extravaganza
Saturday Nov. 27th
Sharonville Community Center
9A-3:30P
If you're in town I hope you can come by. Last year was a great show...they have such a diverse array of crafts. Since this is Craft Show weekend I'm scambling to get the final touches done on some creations  I won't be on the blog again, sooooo I thought I'd join Susan and everybody for Wednesday Rednesday at It's A Very Cherry World. I thought I give you a game to play that my Mom taught me. It's called, RiddleyRiddley. The object of the game is to guess what the color object is. Well, we are having Rednesday..celebrating all that is vintage, red, and cherry

Riddley, riddley, I dee dee.

I see something you don't see

and the the color of it is red......

Can't guess? Well scroll down...........

It's my Thanksgiving postcard with cherries and all the fixins you'd find for your Thanksgiving!
It comes to you with my best for this Thanksgiving and to let you know
how thankful I am for all my Blog Pals.

A Traditional Thanksgiving Table

Hi! You caught me setting up my Thanksgiving table for Tablescape Thursday over at http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ . When it comes to Thanksgiving I'm a
traditionalist. Warn fall colors, vintage tableware, family hand-me-downs, and lots of old-fashioned comfort food. The turkey and gravy, of course, with buttery mashed potatoes, peas with pearl onions, sweet potato casserole, roasted root veggies, jellied cranberry sauce, corn, green beans flavored with ham hock (done the night before and refrigerated to be reheated. It always tastes better the next day) and top it all off with pumpkin pie. Yummmmm! Okay, we're getting sleepy thinking of all that food, back to the tablescape.







I hate to cover the natural wood of our cherry farm table. I layer with a woven table runner topped by my vintage mirror and add 1960-70 Town and Country Living placemats. The little hot pads were hand-knitted by my Mom.





I then took my aluminum lazy-susan and placed my turkey platter( new from Cracker Barrel..great vintage look) on top of it. When turkey is on the platter the lazy-susan makes it easy to turn to the piece you want.















My Amber Glass chargers go on next. They were a great find at the Longest Yard Sale. The vendor was very honest....these are reproductions of an 1800's pattern......she had catalogs to order any pattern available. They were $5 each. I couldn't pass them up, they go perfectly with the 1960's Amber Medallion Goblets given to me by my Mother-in-Law

This is how the table looked so far......

These are my Thanksgiving dishes. I found this 20 piece placesetting at an indoor flea market in Columbus, Ohio for $15.
They are from the 1930-40's. They have no mark so I've never known the name or maker. I have seen individual pieces in blue, so they must've been available in two color selections. I love the different scenes on each piece. My fav is the soup/salad bowl with the pic of the waterfall. It reminds me of a place in Cosby, Tn. (other side of Gatlinberg, Tn.) called 'Valentine's Fall'.

Add the serving pieces..................................

Yes, they are two serving pieces to go with my plascesetting

found at two different antique malls in two different states. Both were $3 each!

This 1930-40 pitcher is the only piece of this pattern I have found so far. I love the brown transferware, but it also has touches of yellow, red and blue. Almost a watercolor effect. It goes great with the turkey platter. I use it to serve the gravy.

This hand-wrought aluminum lid was a find at $1. It has a pea plant motif with a pea pod handle. I purchased an acrylic hobnail bowl at Target for $2 and it's just the right the size to serve a can of peas.

I forget where I found this salt and pepper, but it matched the dishes motif perfectly

This is a 1960-70's, pyrex I think, veggie dish.
A very colonial pattern

Blenco Amber Water Carafe

Pressed Glass Turkey,

another Cracker Barrel
find, for the cranberries

Silver is Onieda, 'Southern Garden' pattern.

Put it all together and here is the table.......................

This silk and dried centerpiece will be on the table til the real centerpiece, the turkey, appears next Thursday.

Thanks for stopping by! I am so thankful for all the new blog friends I have found this past year. Blogland would have been very lonely if not for you and I can't wait to meet the rest of you! I hope you all have a Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving.

Now, let's stop over at Susan's betweennapsontheporch.com and see what everyone else is doing.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This time of year is so hectic. Centerpieces for clients Thanksgiving tables, redecorating the flower shop for Christmas, getting ready for the Sharonville Holiday Craft Show on Saturday, shopping for my own Thanksgiving fare........it's time to slow down, take a breath and recall what I have to be thankful for.
The best blessings are my family, including my furry family members too, and friends, old and new, are at the top of the list. All those who have stopped at my websites, the shop, and my show booths.
The little everyday miracles throughout the year are the most surprising and oft forgotten... a flower arrives in the exact color needed, you find all the socks in the dryer, the antique mall is closing, but they let you browse till lights out. A stranger gives you the last bunch of green bananas on the display. Someone you don't know stops you to say they like your outfit or tote. You press ENTER on the computer and it doesn't go blank. I have a lot more and I know these are little things, but they remind me God is on my shoulder watching. Let me know what your thankful for.
Okay I have to get back to work. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. If you're in the Cincinnati area for the weekend e-mail me and I'll give you directions to the Craft show.