Friday, Already

This has been a quick week.  Two days I spent in a class with twelve other quilters doing a fused flower wall hanging.  The construction of the piece was quite time consuming and it also entailed fabric painting.  I did not get mine done and will probably not get back to it until after Christmas.  I intended to take my camera and forgot both days.  Some of the girls finished their pieces and they were lovely.  Sorry I don't have photos. 

This picture and the one at the beginning are my Christmas cactus blooming nicely.  Always in late October and early November.  The color is so bright it is almost neon.

Here are three of my favorite antiques all in one little group.  The spool cabinet is one that was an anniversary gift from my husband a long time ago.  He gave our daughter money and she found this at a wonderful antique store in Lawrence, Kansas, called Quantral's Flea Market.  I so love this piece.  It was probably used on a counter in a notions department at a department store years ago.  We added the legs which could be easily removed, but I love it as a side table.  I had enough of the old spools of thread to fill the fronts of the drawers.    On top sits my first ever antique purchase.  An old hotel in Ft. Madison, Iowa, sold out the furnishings and I got this old pitcher and bowl for $1.50.  I never had much to spend on things like that in the 50's so I was elated to have this neat old set.

This is the chamber pot that my dad got from the old lady who owned our house and had a summer cottage close by.  He took care of her place.  When we came over from Iowa to visit my parents and I saw this I flipped.  It came back home on the train with us. 

Second Time Around

I think I featured this little chamber pot that I have in my potty collection a couple of years ago.  However, the rulers have never been seen before!  Feldman's was an actual store in Chillicothe when I was growing up and this ruler was in Ray's mother's things, along with the little six inch Churngold ruler.

This is what is inside the little potty.  I bought it at an antique shop or show someplace and thought it was so funny.  Figured there are some of you that might remember this but others will not.  I do have good old chamber pots!!  (Click to enlarge)

Still have More Chamber Pots

When we moved back to Chillicothe in 1984, one of the things I loved to do best was go to auctions. There were lots of them. You usually had to plan to spend most of the day there if you wished to bid on something that was a long way from the auctioneer at the beginning. They were a lot of fun and you could find some great things. At an auction at an old farm west of Chilli I bid on these three pieces and got them. The big chamber pot has one of the handles missing but the smaller one and the pitcher are in good shape. This probably had a pitcher and bowl with it at one time. At this same auction, I bought a couple of boxes of sewing supplies and there were a lot of goodies in those. What fun going through them. There were lots of old embroidery transfers, old floss, needles, etc.

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Ready for Some More Chamber Pots?

While I am waiting for "Dancing with the Stars" to start (can you believe Cloris Leachman?), I will post three more of my potties. The blue one I found in Minnesota lots of years ago. I do have some very pretty ones. (Click to enlarge)

Can't Resist Another Potty Post

Photographed some more chamber pots today - promise I will just put up two for now. Singling them out reminds me that I have some very charming chamber pots!! The one that will be on top is a darling little child's potty and on it is a teddy bear that I made in my teddy bear making days! Then below that is one with a beautiful girl and lots of pretty flowers. Can't remember where I got that one, but it is really pretty. Hope you enjoy these two. There are more waiting in the wings! (Click picture to enlarge)

I Have a Chamber Pot Collection

Way, way back in the 1950's after we had moved for the first time away from Chillicothe to Ft. Madison, Iowa, I brought a chamber pot back from my parents' home when we went for a visit. Dad had always taken care of some summer cottages that belonged to the people they rented from - we moved into that house when I was 7 years old and they lived there for quite a few years after Ray and I married. There were three cottages - one belonged to the older mother and two belonged to each of her sons and their families. The elderly woman was referred to as "Grandma Lynch" and she had, as I didn't know then, a house full of treasures. Wish I could see it again. Anyway, she gave Dad an old chamber pot. When I saw it, I went crazy so Mom and Dad gave it to me. That started my collection. Really didn't get any more for quite awhile as extra money was hard to come by. However, through the years, I have acquired over three dozen potties in one form or another and will post some from time to time. Hadn't had a new one in a long time, but just a few weeks ago a friend and neighbor of mine here at the condos gave me one she was going to get rid of. It's very pretty and loves to be here at my house with all the other little potties! Thank you, Jane!! I will post that soon, also.

I am never sure of the order in which the pictures come up and I have not learned how to move them arround in the way I would like to have them, but my very first pot is the one with the raised flowers on it and a kind of ratty plant in it!! Then there is a pretty one with a lid that I have on a chest in my dining room. Two small ones - one with an eye in it and one that says it's the "Best Seat in the House". One of my favorites is the oak commode that I found at an antique show in Peoria. You can also spot another pot under the commode. Kind of like "Where's Waldo?" When I bought that, we told our youngest granddaughter that it was our third bathroom. (Click picture to enlarge)