I'm not an "antique" person and rarely go into the many antique stores in our area... To me, an antique store is just filled with a bunch of old boring stuff. Occasionally we will have friends visit who love to go antiquing, so we head off to the stores. When I'm with someone who knows what they are looking at and appreciates and loves it -- the "old stuff" becomes much more interesting!
So I find it a blessing that I don't care for antiques -- otherwise I'd go broke with the many antique stores in my area!
Today at lunch, I thought I'd check out one of the stores in my little town. I was on the lookout for something to go with an upcoming St. Patrick's day tablescape I'm planning. Since I live in a predominently Irish town (complete with an Irish name!) and St. Patrick's Day is practically a national holiday here, I thought maybe I would come across something.
Two items in the store that interested me were this duck (and it didn't look very antique to me) and the pitcher:
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| This guy was a cutie! It said "cookie jar or casserole" so they probably don't know what it is either. I liked the basketweave on it.
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A few more photos from around the store:
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| I did like these dishes -- they were marked "Royal Mail" Fine Staffordshire Ironstone. Made in England. Each piece had a stagecoach on it.  |
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| These were different. Kind of a western theme in green. |
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| Many complete sets of dishes... |
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| The blue stemmed glasses said Avon and had George or Martha Washington on them. Cute for a President's Day theme or 4th of July. |
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| The bunches of glass grapes on the floor reminded me of the ones my mom had back in the 70's. |
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| Old cookie jars |
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| Some pretty linens all over the store |
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| Tall green vase on 2nd shelf down is something I did like! |
The 'old' stuff may not be interesting to me, but ALL dishes are. Definitely a place I need to go back and check out one of these days.
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