A blast from the past and more carnival glass

The reason I am psoting them, is that I see Top of The Pops is coming back on the air in Britain starting with programmes that were first aired in 1976, which will be neat.


Here is a really funny site: Awkward Family Photos..........which should be renamed....."What were they thinking!!"


This is another song by The Wurzels,





Eddie Stobart is one of the biggest trucking companies in Britain, and is from where we come from in England.  My brother drives for them.  I noticed that some of the trucks have names, I must ask my brother if his truck has a name next time I talk to him.

On Thursday I went to town as the fumes in the house were horrible and my poor head was pounding.  Anyhow, I had a look around a couple of stores and I picked up this carnival glass Blackberry Marigold  Two Row Open-Edge Ruffled Basket for $10.  It's worth between $35 to $45.

There looks as though there is a scratch on the base, but it's part of the firing process.

Lots of photos.....

So we headed off to a place called Elora, hadn't been in years and it's very pretty, but boy was it chilly, and then most places were closed?  Anyhow, there is a big river with a gorge and a mill on the river.  Here is a couple photos of the river, notice the ice!!

There is a small 'mall" with half a dozen stores in there, and I took this photo of how they decorated the where the windows of the building.......

We then decided to head to St. Jacobs, where there are a lot of Amish and Mennonite families.  This is an Amish farm but look what they have:

Not sure what I am talking about, here is a close up:

They are obviously harnessing the wind, and believe me it was flying around when we passed by.

Picked up this little chap, it's a boot cleaner:

And you can't go to St. Jacobs and not call into Picard's Peanuts:

So of course I HAD to buy something, so got these:

I am quite sure they are both fat and calorie free?

On the way back home we passed by this:

I know you're not supposed to take photo's of them, so that is why I took it from the back.

When we were first in Elora we called into an antique store and I saw this bowl.  The guy reduced by $20 for me to $65.  I wasn't too sure about it, but on the way home I decided to call back in and bought it. It is called Waterlily, and features Lotus and Poinsettia flowers, it is a 9 1/2 inch footed bowl.  However I have ran into a problem as all bowls seem to be 10 inches and there is a chop bowl that looks like mine that is 11 inch and is worth a small fortune, like $4,500......shame mine isn't it!! 

All in all we had a super day and wished it could have been longer as we didn't get to see as much as we would have.  The only downside of the day was a stone flew up from a passing car and chipped dh's windscreen on the truck.  Otherwise we had a lovely day....

Carnival glass and cranberry wear....

I got some money given for my birthday so I decided to start my collection of carnival glass with this Two Flowers footed dish, marigold colour.

Where I bought it from they were having a 25% off sale which was a bonus.  Also the couple were very helpful and showed me some pointers on what to look for when buying Carnival Glass.

While I was there I also saw this vase its Cranberry Glass and very delicate.  Where I have it placed is where the old window of the house would have been.  It's been shelved and opens onto the family room/the "new" extension on the old house.

I was looking on e-bay to see if I could see something similar and this was the closest I came to mine.

You know how it is when you buy something but are not 100% sure if it was a good buy or not.  Pleased to say I think I got a fair deal on both of the items, despite me only having enough birthday money to buy the Carnival Glass.

Thanks to both sets of parents for buying it for me!!!!

By the way is it just me or is the month of March just flying by?

Dd sent an email to the Bridal store, we'll see what happens............