I am more of a flake.

GrammyB-I have several blue speckled enameware items, including large spoons. I have some green and black and a really distressed looking pale yellow with green rim that has held tea and posies but not yet polliwogs...once loose change. I just got a really cool picture of critters in tea cups from my shofar girl friend today, check it out not polliwogs but critters nevertheless.

There was a book series about Boxcar Children....Henry, Jessie, Violet and Ben. Ben finds a tin cup and treasures it. I wanted a tin cup since then and have several. They speak to me of hardiness and simplicity and being much loved. Just can't microwave in them and you know what, I actually like that! It means they refused to go too modern. :)

Joey ...you are not a flake...but a smoochy dahlink cutsey betty boopy glass.

Lynne, I had a friend tell me she spent about a  hundred -eighty bucks on a new comforter set. She described it and it was all floral and satiny and if she offered it to me free, I would not want it because my tastes run more handmade quilt. I got 4 handmade quilts at a yard sale. I asked the man how much and he said 3 bucks each? I was thrilled! I don't know who made them but I am blessed by the handwork just the same. 12 bucks total. I got another velvety soft blanket that is King sized and almost like rabbit fur soft and white for a buck, and it's twin in pink. I gave the pink to my niece who won't sleep with anything else. She is 25 and loves pink like a four year old girl.

My white one is on my bed all winter. Makes you feel like you are in a furry rabbit nest.

I suppose that it is a blessing I have inexpensive taste. :)

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Amen! Guess I'm the real silverwear, that I so love to look at.......yeah, the old stuff, the spoons are always worn on the ends, from being put to use (I can always picture some dear lady in the kitchen stirring stuff with them). But if they sit and aren't used, they tarnish. That's me......

Ken and I buy these at antique stores for about a quarter a piece....he makes wind chimes from them. As I go through them and look at each one, I try to picture when the lady first got them new, how proud she was, how shiny they were, but their beauty to me in in their aging. (ok, I liked them soooooo much, when we redid our cabinets in the kitchen I had Ken make my cabinet handles from them!)

What a great Idea!  I saw a picture of a flower garden with bright and colorful plates of all patterns buried half in the dirt as a border instead of bricks. It made me think of all the single plates out there at yard sales. My daughter in love buys odd plates, wants NOTHING to match, just plates that make her happy. I had never seen them as a flower border though. I wanted to hang birdhouses, lots of them on a tree or colored bottles but Mr. Hubby said NO WAY so not sure how my plates would go over.

Windchimes and cabinet handle idea is brilliant! I could make a HUGE windchime from my tin cups. I have a balcony deck off the mother in law suite that it could hang from. hmmmmmmm

Plain white crockery thats me I like simple things.

Love poppys and have several clumps in the garden (Well I could always go into business  lol)

Add a comment...plain white crockery can be beautiful with a steaming pile of green beans and potatoes. yum!

Shofar Girl sends some really cool stuff, doesn't she? :)   The cartoon mice and parakeet are adorable!  Of course, in real life I get MAD at the mice when they try to come in my house. LOL!  Not nearly as cute and cuddly.

I'm all about the mis-matched dinnerware, too. :) It's sorta like a patchwork quilt effect on the table.  Oh we could all have fun going antiquing, couldn't we?

antiquing or early yard sales and remote thrift stores, for sure and for certain as the Amish say