New acquisition

Well, I have been meaning to “share” with you all regarding my new dining room but just haven’t had the opportunity. So I will now take a few minutes to pass on some lovely photos. I am so excited about it because it is the first time we have ever had a “real” dining room suite in our 25 years of marriage. Previously, we used a little wood & glass table and chairs that we bought from a friend for $100 back in 1985. It served us well and we sure got our money’s worth out of it! (And we haven't had that for over a year because we sold it at a garage sale, thinking we would get something in its place rather quickly, so the room has been basically empty for a long time now except for a card table!) Of course, there was NO other furniture to go with it, but we did eventually get a sofa table that I used in there and a couple of cheap pressed board cabinets that I used to hold all my cookbooks and extra serving dishes. Not at all attractive but functional. So, now that I have ‘real furniture’ in there, I get a kick out of just passing by and stopping and looking in there! We have eaten one meal on it and that was the day it arrived; Mother and Daddy just happened to be here so we ate our supper in there. I don't have any "before" pictures on this computer but maybe will find some from home to put on here later. The first picture is looking in the dining room from the entry way, near the front door. The walls were a mauve color and now they are blue - a real transformation! (Although they look greenish in the photo below, they are really very blue!

I think it must be the lighting or just my camera that made them look that strange color!) I have been collecting the blue & white dishes and other pieces for many years now and finally have somewhere to display them nicely! And one of my favorite pieces is the bookcase that holds my cookbook collection! At last count, which was a few years ago, I had over 250 cookbooks (not counting cooking magazines and pamphlets), so a place to keep them all was a necessity! I have said that I am going to stop buying cookbooks, and for the most part, I have. But on rare occasions, I 'll come across one I just can't resist and it ends up in the collection! The strange (but good) thing is that I actually READ all these books! Crazy, huh?? I take them to bed with me at night to read, much as some people keep a novel on their nightstand, I keep cookbooks! Now, if I could just find the time to actually COOK a meal, from one of my many wonderful cookbooks, and have some company over for dinner, that would be a wonderful thing! What I miss most (now that I work all the time) is spending time in my kitchen!!!!


The photo here showing the table is from the entry way also. The hutch in the background is missing its "top" - that piece hasn't come in yet. They were having to make it specially for us, as this was a discontinued line and they told us they still had all the pieces available, then found out they didn't have that top piece! But because they had promised it to us, they said they would make one for us, which is good because that was my favorite thing in the whole set! Well, that and the china cabinet (display case). Well, those two things and the bookcase .... sounds like all of it is my "favorite" thing, huh? :) Now I'll have to find a photo of the bookcase (or two) to stick on here.



Below is the hutch (minus the top part). In the middle display area are the "Jewel T" dishes that were mother's. (They are actually made by "Hall" but we call them "Jewel T" because she bought them from the "Jewel T" man, who came house-to-house back in the '60s selling to folks in our neighborhood.) You can find these types of dishes in almost EVERY antique store you go to, they are huge collector's items! I am fortunate to have them! And love them!


Well, that is about it and all I have time to post anyway! I hope you enjoy seeing my new dining room!!! Y'all come see me and I promise I'll cook you a meal and we can eat on the new table! :)