Brown Gingham Creations: November 2011

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Wait for me!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy Cremoly, Where has November one? For pete's sake where did the warm sun go...the colorful leaves.....it was all here a couple of weeks ago! Sigh. Things have been so hectic here. I feel like I'm just bouncing along behind. I didn't even get to post for Thanksgiving. I apologize for not getting my usual Thanks. cards out to all. This is the first year I missed. I think I've mentioned this before, but our phone co. has some bad lines in our area. They are threadbear for lack of a better term and moldy...we live in a woods, but in a suburb of Cincinnati..not the country!!!....they give it temp fixes...I think they ducktape em for pete's sake...then when it rains and rains and rains and rains even more...the connection goes wonky and I'm offline! ERGgggg. It must be nice to be a monopoly.
Anyway, on a brighter note, Christmas lights, Snowmen, Santa, and Elves went up on Saturday. Now it's time to get the porch and inside decorations out. This year it'll be a slow process. Jim surprized me with an early B'day present.................................

since he knows I take pics of tabletops and porch decor he set this up on the porch. I haven't been able to get a pic at home so this isn't our porch, I got the pic off Walmart's site. I had been looking at a table and chair set like this for months. It's bronzetone with folding chairs in brown with candy stripes in red, springy green, and blue that match the two retro looking metal chairs I have. When I saw it I was so excited then the price tag flashed in my head from the store. It must've shown cause Jim quickly told me he got the table for $40 in one box with two chairs...the others were bent. The Garden Mgr. told him he had 2 extra matching chairs in another box that had a cracked glassstop, so they sold him those for $5 each...$200 set for $50! He even found a $5 vinyl tablecloth in country red, green, and cream in holiday motif complete with some snowmen! Gotta love a thrifty guy! When I get to finish it I'll post a complete pic.
I'm gonna be working on some new decorations for the porch Snowman tree.

I found some cute vintage images at Imagimeri's................................................

On Saturday Jim took me to lunch at the Cafe in the Oh Valley Ant. Mall and look what I found....................

It's the Dec 1972 issue! There are a lot of groovy things I remember inside this paper time capsule. I'll show some pages in later posts, but the one page that jumped out was this....................................................................

This 8 volume set of themed cookbooks by BHG. Look what I have....I know I've showed these before........

Over the past couple of years I have searched for this collection and now I have all 8! I wondered how many came in the set. In 1973 the books changed in look.....................................................................................

They are still great cookbooks, but slightly larger, with a dull finish on the cover, the paper used feels different, and the pics are nice, but not quite the same somehow. I'm happy to know I have the complete set. Now I guess I'll look for the ones in the early 70's. Past '75 they look way too modern. Can't help it I just love vintage!!
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I thought since it is Pink Saturday I'd Incluse some of my Fav Christmas things.....................