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Cottage Home & Garden, Feminine Ready Wear & Miscellany

Cottage Home & Garden, Feminine Ready Wear & Miscellany

Monday, November 10, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving 2025! See the Cast of Vintage Characters!

These are the reoccurring characters in the annual Thanksgiving play. They have been performing for decades! TY for your service.










The thought this month is old but it still works for me: Is your glass half empty or half full?

Sunday, October 12, 2025

October but online it looks the way December used to look (Christmacy). I have some Italy Angels & Cherubs to share with you!

All are marked Italy. Musician figurines. Vintage polymer (repose) resin (I am not an expert). The attention to detail is noteworthy.














I found these in an unlikely place, and they are ready to view in my Etsy shop.


Bucket List: Popular with some people, long for others, exotic even. Mine is simple and just recently acquired.

#1: Be a bell ringer at Christmas for the Salvation Army which I plan on doing this year.

#2: Probably odd. I want to become friends with a horse. I don't want to ride it, or sit on it or be responsible for it. I just want the social aspect. I have always underestimated horses even though I like animals. A co-worker pointed this out to me 20 years ago. She had a horse with a sense of humor. That piqued my interest. So I am working on that one...



 

Monday, September 15, 2025

September already! This month showing you Easy Mis Match!

It doesn't get any easier than this. Of course, everything is Vintage. The plates are like snack trays (made in Japan). They just don't have an indentation for a cup. These work so well with a pastry and a cup of coffee for breakfast or for a snack. I have four plates, good for a small coffee klatch. (klatsch)

Usually, it is a good idea to stick to the same weight or type of china but I even threw in a tea cup for contrast. Melmac works too. I find it fun to shop from my own cupboard.

Before you pass up that orphan cup or saucer or any lone item, think creatively and how you could set a table with mismatch. Many years ago, I first saw that type of table setting in a Tea Book. Later, I saw it in practice at a tea place in Old Downtown Orange, CA. It was called Someplace in Time located in the window of an antique store.

If you have a FAVORITE, leave a comment.









The Thought this month is: 

Keep changing insecure thoughts to secure thoughts. It really makes a difference.


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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Let's Look at the Color Green. Meaning Vintage Green. Sometimes, Green is Hard to Find in Home & Clothes Items.

Tin Can Doll Furniture
Homemade Small Reversible Quilt
Green Rosette: Off of Something
Green & White Bavaria Soap Dish


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The THOUGHT this month is:

One of my brother's favorite expressions: You can't get there from here

 

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Yellow! Butter Yellow. Lemon Yellow. Popular this year.

Yellow is a popular color (colour) this year. It has always been popular with me.



Yellow Lily of the Valley Hanky. C. 1960s.



Yellow Ralph Lauren: Pair of Standard Pillow Cases.



Yellow Coasters. Hand Crocheted.



Yellow Western Metal Plate Monterrey Ware.
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The thought today comes from the Eagle Scouts. "Do A Good Turn Daily,"


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