More Christmas Decorating....and Cleaning!

This is kitchen/eat-in area.
My very sweet DH made most of the pieces in here.
I'd love to have a table made by him.....but this one is sentimental...
It belonged to my DH's grandparents....although it isn't that old it still means
something to us.....It came with ladder back chairs that we have put in storage because
the seat bottoms were coming undone.....our son wants this set when he gets his own place
so we're going to just pass it on to him.....then one day maybe DH could make a table using
some planed oak or poplar barnwood planks from off the farm for us a new table!!


Sorry this is not a good picture of this piece.
It's a one door pantry with a beadboard inset in the door.
I store my cookbooks and extra whatever in there.....
I've also started a food grater collection....I would love to find another round one.
This one is not in the best of shape, but I like it.
I use it to put over my candles for a pretty luminary look.


My DH made this cabinet too....it's one of the first pieces he ever did.....

I'd have to say this is one of my favorites he's made so far: (Below)

It was for my birthday about 3 years ago.......

The old butter paddle hanging on the door belonged to DH's grandad.

His dad told him when his parents (DH's Grandparents that is) married the only two things they started "setting up house"with was his grandad's old mule and this butter paddle!!

It's hard to pick out in this photo....but there's an old blue enamel dish pan back in the left corner behind the flour sifter.......my FIL said that belonged to DH's great-grandmother and that he had

eaten many a blackberry cobbler from that pan! It's been mended several times as there

are little tiny metal things placed to stop up the holes!!

Another thing I enjoy collecting is the old crock type mixing bowls.

DH bought me one of the white ones on top at a yard sale he stopped in it

on his way home from working on a semi truck.....BTW......he hardly ever will stop

at yard sales! The other white one was from a dear elderly neighbor lady.....she gave it to me years ago and I treasure it very much.....She and her husband have since passed on.....

Their home was one of the oldest if not the oldest in our county.

Part of the walls were huge log beams....

Sadly it was struck by lighting and burned to the ground last fall....

It was still complete with all their things just like they had left them.....

I truly miss them both.

One of his favorite songs was "Go Rest High"......they had lost both of their adult children to cancer and I know their days here were bittersweet without them....

Now they are all together again.....

Thank you for looking!

I just want to say thank you once more to each of you that take the time to come by

and look at my blog.....I really appreciate the kind comments that you leave behind...

I hope more of you will drop a line or two as you can..... :)
I'll post more pics as I get more cleaning and decorating finished up!

Bye for now!