Brown Transferware

It's been a while since I have had a change to post anything. I totally dropped the ball on posting a few Christmas projects. I will save them for the 2010 holiday season! So, I decided it was time to share some of my other collections! I collect brown transferware! It all started with this set of brown transferware that my mom had when I was a kid! She passed it on to me! Funny thing is I hated it when I was a kid! I thought it was UGLY and know I appreciate it and value it like I never thought I would!

I have the transferware from my mom in the kitchen area! It is in the small hutch you saw in the first picture. The hutch belonged to my husband's grandmother. I also have some of the transferware behind a glass cabinet in the kitchen.

Here I have some of the serving pieces hanging on a wall in the kitchen. I love this stuff!

Here is a mixture of 2 pattens that hang in my bathroom. The small ones with more white on them are small bowls! Many of these came from The Gresham Barn Sale I am always talking about.

This pattern of transferware hangs over my magazine/book holder in my toilet area! These came from Roundtop!

This little trio came from the Barn Sale too many years ago! They hang to the left of a mirror in my bathroom!

These are 3 of my favorite and they hang above my nightstand. I have the same three handing above my husband's nightstand also! So, there you have it. . . another thing I like to collect and collects dust! :)

Vanity Trays And The Gresham Barn Sale

I thought I would share a small collection I just completed and finally hung up on a wall by my bathtub. For several months I have been looking for vanity trays of all shapes and sizes. This idea started in April of this year when I purchased my first several vanity trays at the biannual Gresham Barn Sale. I go to this sale twice a year and find lots of the treasures in my home there.

If you live in the East Texas area you will not want to miss the Gresham Barn Sale. It's October 15-17. Be sure and click on Gresham Barn Sale or the picture above and see the blog for the sale and get more details! I can't wait to go and find my treasures for myself and others next week! Will I see you there?

A Closer Look

Ok, here we go. Let's take a closer looks at the vintage baby shower I shared with you the other day. These next few things have to be some of my favorite things. They can be used for baby showers, wedding showers, a girly luncheon, or whatever.

Notice the tall stack of plates behind the cake to your left. . . . .

I have been collecting dinner plates, salad plates, and dessert plates for nearly 2 years. They are all different patterns. My rule for collecting them is they have to be white/cream with pastel flower patterns on them. I have found them at Round Top, Canton, & Resale Shops. It's so much fun hunting for these treasures. This baby shower was my first opportunity to use them! It was so much fun! I have enough of each plate right now for 26 people. My goal is 30 so just a few more to go!

Rose growing is very popular this time of year where I live. People just sell them on the side of the road and it's only $2.50 a dozen. So, for my project I needed 9 dozen roses!

So, at the biannual Barn Sale one year I bought 3 candelabras like this one. I had a great idea a few weeks before the shower. I wanted to find pegged votive holders to put in the candle stick area. Easier said than done. Finally found enough online and had them sent to me.

Instead of putting a votive in the pegged votive holders, I had this idea to put roses in them. I think it turned out pretty cute! What do you think?

Mulberry Transferware

I have to say I absolutely love my Brown Transferware that I will share with you later, but I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, Love my Mulberry Transferware more! I don't have very much of it, but what I have I adore!

They call it Mulberry Transferware, but it is really a black color.

It all dates back to the late 1800's and it is harder to find than Brown Transferware and Flow Blue Transferware. I lucked out and found a lady that had downsized and needed to unload a few pieces of it! Five pieces to be exact :)

Pack Up

It's been a little while since I posted. A while back I started sharing my collections with you. I showed you my globe collection and my tole tray collection. Here is my antique suitcase collection.

This collection of suitcases is on top of the cabinets in my utility.

These are on top of my entertainment center in my living room. There are so many that I love I can't decide on a favorite. What kinds of things do you collect?

Tole Trays

As we were cleaning out our attic this weekend, I went through tons of Rubbermaid's that were filled with things I have collected over the years. Most things were from childhood like old Cabbage Patch dolls, New Kids On The Block dolls, posters, VHS, trading cards, Care Bears, Annie dolls, and the list goes on and on! Don't ask me why I still have all this stuff because I won't have an answer for you. All I can say is that it is all organized nice and neat in a labeled Rubbermaid on a metal shelf in the attic! Now that I am all grown up (NOT) I collect things that are much different than the stuff in the Rubbermaid's upstairs. I collect things to decorate my house with. Today I want to share one of my collections with you. It is my collection of tole trays. . .

This collection of black tole trays was a gift on my 29th birthday form my sweet husband. Every single one of them came from eBay. He shopped for a month or more before my birthday to have all of these in time for the big day. One day I was home and it was a blank wall and then by that evening before I could get home, he had come home without me knowing and hung them all up for the big birthday surprise! This is my favorite collection of tole trays and I didn't even have a hand in hunting for them!

This tole tray came from our local biannual Barn Sale! This one is in Baby Girl's room! I think it is beautiful!

These two tole trays belong to Baby Girl too! The larger one came from the local Barn Sale and Daddy bought the small one for Baby Girl on eBay when he bought my birthday collection! He loves both of his girls :)

This collection of 4 small tole trays hang above Baby Girl's doorway! I found them for $8 at Canton! What a steal!

These two have to be my next favorites! They hang by the vanity in my guest bathroom! They were a find from Round Top!

This one is on the dresser in my bedroom and for the life of me I can't remember where it came from, but I do remember it was cheap!

Well, these are my tole trays! I really do enjoy them when I see them around the house! What kinds of things do you collect to decorate with????