Fall Touches in our Vintage Kitchen

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Fall Touches...I looked around the kitchen this morning and it was clean for a change. Yesterday I scampered about the yard, battening down the hatches because of a wind/storm threat and snapped off a bunch of flowers just in case they got wiped out.

A little of this and that, as I've said before our summer was so hot and the flowers were stunted and now are exploding everywhere, just in time for the frost.

The arrangement echos all the colors in my fruit thrift store tablecloth. Nice and wide and long for our large table and only $2.99 never washed tag still on it. 

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Behind the table in the corner is the hutch. I only added my few hydrangea blossoms to dry. I haven't located any major fall decor---as our basement is still in plumbing alteration mode. ---meaning I can't find anything.

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My container is an old porcelain tea canister I found this summer. It has transfers on all four sides...and in my favorite blue and white.  

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Add a stuffed pumpkin and my mom's antique coffee grinder. 

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My cookbook counter has a coordinating??? tablecloth in soft fall tones. We had a frost warning last weekend, so I brought in the plants I winter in the house over the weekend.

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My Rex begonia I thought was dead---but revived in the cooler days. It also has an annual impatiens and a grass. We will see what makes it.

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We love naturals, and here are some gourds and mini pumpkins. Some from my plants fostered and a few E planted in her backyard. Funny my gourd plants did nothing here and she had tons of gourds---all different kinds.

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Another thrift store find...this sweet kitty pumpkin...her ears are scraped a bit, and Im tossed between painting them or scraping them some more...

My mom's ancient Settlement Cookbook---

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The Mandilla is on the end in full bloom---and twining away...Happiness is Homemade sign---only new thing I purchased for Fall---at 70% off. Honestly the seasons are so rushed in the stores now...it's crazy. Life is flying by enough, already. 

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We had many a gathering here with family this year. We are having Thanksgiving this year, but not much else.

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I love sunflowers...and pulled out a faux bush, now that they are done in the yard.

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Normally if I serve buffet style off the island. I can't remember what it was like when this kitchen didn't have the island. It functions so well...and this little end I always have something going on! Right now it is 'harvest' for sure. Antique pickling crock, enamel coffee pot, grandmother's crocks, more gourds and peppers that are to go to our neighbor---we had SO many this year.

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The sink is seldom empty, and here is the basil I need to process for the refrigerator and freezer. I need to buy garlic, olive oil and pine nuts to make pesto, this afternoon.

I still have to dry a huge crop of Sage and Majoram. Also, bring in the Thyme and Parsley plants.

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The busiest place in the kitchen is our coffee station....pumpkin spice is always nice!

Staples, actually some need filling...

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The workaholic in the kitchen the toaster/convection oven. Use this constantly for two people...it's perfect. Plus throws off less heat in the summer. Now we turn the stove oven on for dinner and taking the chill off.

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I haven't done anything above the stove, yet. I still have some heirlooms that are inaccessible at the moment planned for this shelf! 

Almost everything is inherited or thrifted in our home.

 I love the hunt and let's face it, old stuff was made to last!

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Last bit of clean counter---more staples...in our family antique blue jars. My mom-in-law's Kitchen Aide. Love it, except it is so HEAVY! My old mixer went to my kids.

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Hope you enjoyed this, since my kitchen was clean...

now to go mess it up with PESTO!

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Great Grandmother and Pansies.

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Early Spring makes me think of my IMMIGRANT

Great Grandmother Anna, who adored everything Pansy.

(Expanded moldy-oldy post)

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My great grand parents, Anna and Niels's wedding picture 1895 in Denmark. Her dress, while not white was perfect for the cold wind on the west coast of Northern Denmark or 

Nordjylland. 

Niels was a fisherman and might have wooed my great grandmother with Pansies, she was 19 here.

Source: The Graphics Fairy

I wonder if she had beautiful prints of pansies, such as this one from the era.

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In 1911 Anna and Niels and family had enlarged to three girls and one boy, my grandfather.

My great aunt who passed my mother the pansy items, is the baby girl. She lived to be 100.

This was a photo taken before their immigration to the United States that same year.

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I collect many Victorian cards and graphics including Pansies.
The Victorian meaning for Pansy was "to think," or "thoughts," about love.  So to give a pansy was to say, "I'm thinking about you," fondly we would hope.
The pansy was considered a bad-luck gift to give to a man.

Violets or Violas, the smaller pansies meant modesty, where 'shrinking violet' came from. The colors also added to the message.

Blue pansies meant, "I'll always be true, faithful and watchful,"
while white pansies meant "let's take a chance.

A wonderful site about flowers is The Plant Farm blog.

One of Anna'sOld Plates Plates
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I have two OLD Alumina plates which were everyday wares produced at the turn of the century

by Royal Copenhagen Potteries.  Produced with a thicker/ironstone tan clay body this line of pieces were underglazed with white and then a design was stenciled or hand painted on top and then clear glazed.

Sturdy and utilitarian, they made many pieces for the home and kitchen,.

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This thick porcelain thunder mug or porcelain potty had a gorgeous top, 

which bit the dust a long time ago. 

I have used it for a planter, table decoration, and held my curlers for awhile. The piece moves about the house seasonally. It is beautiful and weighs a ton made of heavy white stoneware.

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Pansy thunder-mug, Anchor mark on the bottom circa 1906 or there about. 

Anchor Pottery Company in Trenton NJ, produced this piece probably in the early 1900's. 

Perhaps it was the first item Anna purchased when coming to the USA.

Wikipedia tells us that “the pansy is a group of large-flowered hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers. Pansies are derived from viola species Viola tricolor, hybridized with other viola species. 

These hybrids are referred to as Viola. The common words “pansy” and “violet” are often used interchangeably. When a distinction is made, plants considered to be pansies have four petals pointing upwards, and only one pointing down. Violets have three petals pointing up and two pointing down.”

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I have a few items from Great Grandmother Anna since my grandfather was the only son. The daughters most often inherited all their mother's pretty items. These pieces were passed down  

to my mother through my great aunt, the baby in the second picture.

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In America, Great Grandfather and the now grown Grandfather (left) opened a fish market in 1922, their specialty was smoking Great Lakes' chubs, as well as imported foods from the old countries that they supplied by making a weekly trip to Chicago, for fish as well as canned goods and imported cheeses.

I have many advertising odds and ends from old Chicago companies, some of which are on my pegboard wall.

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I have the OLD original tools from the fish market, cleavers, sharpeners, a scaling knife, the notes hook which was in the small office where all the books were kept. 

On the right is a picture of a woman serving fish, which I had always thought was Great Grandma Anna, but wasn't as it was a generic print that an advertising calendar was made from. 

The year is 1923 and was printed for my family's fish market, probably the first Christmas/New Years present for customers. I found enough of these in my parent's things to have them all framed as gifts for the family.

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The major piece I have from her is this lovely teapot. The mark on the bottom is 

 Plant Tuscan China made in England 1936 or later. She passed in 1938. 

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What is unusual is how beloved this pot was, as it is smashed into at least 20 pieces and was lovingly glued back together. Anna had eight-grand children by then, and was Aunt to another dozen. 

Somehow this precious teapot was broken and then repaired. 

I handle it very gingerly and it is on display in a locked china cabinet most days.

This is what I call a monumental REDO.

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I can imagine Anna's garden was filled with pansies, Forget-me-knots, and other lush flowers that liked the chill of the North Sea or Lake Michigan.

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Another piece I know very little about is a a silver plated brass tray with matching lid, 

holding an enamel glazed milk-glass bowl. 

My guess it is very early 20th century and the milk glass has that 

tint of green so desirable in old milk glass.

 I don't have a black light, but I imagine it would glow green. Nothing was marked on this piece,

 despite how beautiful the enamel glazed decorations still are on this. 

Those are Mom's antique books, the dish sits on.

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So with "Pansy Thoughts" of  Great-Grandmother,  Mom, and great Aunt...I post a Spring gift of Pansies for you, remember I'm thinking about you

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