"It's Table Scape Thursday" Grandmother's china

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Today I am showing off my Grandmother's China. It is pink little flowers and is trimed in
22 karate gold. I would guess that this china is around 1925 or 1930. This china was made in the U.S and the company is Eastern China, New York. The name is Homer Laughlin.
This was a wedding president from her Aunt. And then past down to me.

This is a picture from the top looking down. Thought it was kinda different.

I used gold napkins to bring out the gold in the plates.

I used a white linen tablecloth and added a mint green table topper with a silk top outlined in silver. I thought these pastel color's would look pretty with the light color of the dinner china

This sugar and creamer with the deliciate cups take you back to another era. When things moved slower and everyone enjoyed coffee and tea and talked about there day. Youcan see the pink flowers and gold leaf pattern. the gold is showing silver. It must be the lighting.The silver carafe for the coffee is in the picture below. I bought this from Southern Living at HOME.

Ahah we can not have a great dinner without wine. This is a Chautauqua Florida Blush Muscadine. Very good.

I chose this wine glass because of the vintage look it has. These glases have a notch halfway up the stem. It looks very delicate. I bought these also from Southern Living at HOME.

These glasses are sitting in a antique crystal coaster. I found these lovelies at a antique market.

I love those places.

These pink flowers have different sades of pink and different shades of green . The vase it set's in has what they call a frog at the top. For those of you who do not know what a frog is, it's a top that has holes in it so you can put your flowers thru the holes and instancely you have a great looking arrangement. The vase is a Southern Living at HOME piece.

As you can see with the above picture these are the candle holders I used. I wanted to bring more of the pink's and a splash of purple. I love these candle holders. I love the beautiful colors that are in these holders. These are sold by Party Lite If you have never heard of this company they sell candles and all the holder's to put in them. Very cool company.

Now this is just so delicate. The soup Tureen is covered with gold. I hope you can see the gold when you click on the picture's. Very delicate design. Very ornate.

In this picture I tried to show some items that you might not have gotten to see. On the upper left there is the silver carfa. There is a dinner plate with a salad bowl, and to the left there is a saucer with a dish for fruit or for whatever you may need it for. I put the gold napkins in the coffee cup's and the cups sit in a saucer.

This is a better picture of the dinner plate with the salad plate .

Here is the marking that is on the dishes. His last name is hard to make out. I might have misspelled it early on in this post. As you can see it has what the company made and where it was made and even the number is the pieces.

This is one of the cookbook's that my grandmother used. along with some more comming up.

This is my grandmother's cook book that is her own recipes. Now this is wonderful but she is one of these cook's that just puts down what ingredients not the measurments. And to top it off this is a wedding dinner for 250 people that she and some other family members helped her cook for my Mother and Father's Wedding Reception. So we are talking large quanities. It also had other things she has taped in like the rehersal dinner, and what the paper wrote about the couple.

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We Love You Tres Belle!!!

If you have ever loss a friend or sister then you know how sad I am.
We did not loose this friend in death but in separation. She has gone away and
does not want to be bothered with anyone from her past. All family and friends do
not know why she chose to go away, but they know how heavy their hearts are with
her not being here anymore.
When you love someone then out of love you are suppose to not question why and to
believe this is the best for her. But what is best for all that loves her. Are broken
heart's just bleeding openly waiting for her to come back and heal our broken hearts.
What and How do we get thur this kind of hurt. I wonder if she is hurt so badly that she
can not see the hurt that she has inflicted on all that she left. Or if this is what she wants us to feel.
So I say to you Tres Belle that I love you and miss you very much and I am sadden
that you can not open your heart to forgive what we do not know why you walked away.
We have been waiting very patiently for you to miss us as we miss you, but I have to speak
up because it has been 3 years that are hearts have been sadden and I want to ask you
to please find forgiveness in your heart of heart's and let the love flow that once was there.
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We love you please come back to us Tres Belle.

80th birthday Party/ Reuion's

Saturday I went to my Aunt Bonnie's 80th birthday party. Aunt Bonnie is my mother's youngest sister,

My mother passed away 4 years ago and her oldest sister Martha passed away a week ago.

Now my Aunt Bonnie is the only one left out of 3 brothers and 2 sisters,and she turned 80 years old Saturday.

My cousins worked very hard in getting friends and family together for this big event. I my self was looking forward to seeing my aunt and all my cousins, some I haven't seen in 20 years or more.

My aunt and my mother did not look a like when they were young but as they had gotten older they started to look more a like. Now when I look at her it is like looking at my mother and it makes me smile and think about my mother. I miss my mother very much. My aunt is also very active and full of life. She has had her share of grief. She lost her Youngest brother when he was 21 killed in world war II, Watched her favorite sister have a break down and watch her get put into a state hospital, buried her husband of 30 years and bury her oldest son when he was 48 years old. Then she buried her 2 oldest brothers and her 2 oldest sisters. I would think that is very hard to take of life. but she took it in stride and went on with life and living and showed us that we must grieve but then pull are self's up and go on because life is not over for us yet.

After visiting with her for awhile all of us cousins got reacquainted since it had been so long since we had seen each other . And she sat back and smiled at all of us. you could tell that seeing all of us together once again brought back memories of yesterday,and made her happy.

We talked about when we were kids and all the things we did when we got together. We showed all our children and grandchildren pictures and we took a lot of pictures to mark the event. One of my cousin got up and impersonate Elvis and the late great Louie Armstrong and we gave him standing ovations and laughed till we had tears.

Aunt Bonnie's children made a video of her life and all her siblings. There were 6 all together 3 boys and 3 girls. All our parents were in this video when they were young and through all the years and get together's and it made us laugh and made us cry and made us look once again back on yesterday's when we were young so long ago and life was so new and exciting. I walked away with the thought of where did the years go. It was just yesterday when I was 10 years old playing with my cousins at grandma & grandpa's house at Thanksgiving.

I was glad that I went and I had a very good time and touched base with everyone and even got some e-mails. Now we can stay in touch and not wait so long to see one another.

It was a very good day that I will cherish.

I never expected my life to end this way!

Here it is diner and he still hasn't made it home from work. I've had dinner ready since 4:00. I could use some help with getting the kids ready for bed and with their baths and tucking them in. Washing the clothes and keeping the house clean with four children under my feet. Thank God it did not rain today or it would have been just to much to handle. I know that he has to work late with the new business and getting the deliveries out and doing all the office work but I miss him and I am tired. With being pregnant with my fifth child and dealing with the other four What a day. God I love them , but please if you could send him home soon I would appreciate it.

Alan will you get Scott out of the bath and put his pajama's on and Lynn will you make sure Beth brushes her teeth? we don't need anymore cavities. Yes mom Alan and I will take care of Scott and Beth.

Mom did you get my pretty party dress done? I want to show it off at the birthday party Saturday. Everyone will be dressed in their party dresses and I can't wait to wear my pink lacy pinafore. I told my friend Tress all about it. She said she wished you would show her mom how to sew like you, so she could have new party dresses. Mom it isn't fair that Lynn gets a new dress and you haven't made me one. I like pretty dresses too! even though I don't go to school yet I still could wear them to Church. Beth just wait I will make you the next dress when I get done with Lynn's now you two girls get into bed and no playing or arguing or your father will pay a visit with the belt. OK. Alan are you and Scott in bed? Yes! Then turn the lights out. But mom I'm afraid of the dark! and Lynn won't let me sleep in her bed. OK ! OK !I will leave on the hall way light just this one time but you are going to have to get over being afraid of the night. There are no boogie men in your room and no tigers in your closet. Now kids go to sleep!!!!

8:00 and he still isn't home from work. I just wonder if there is another women in his life? Between the working and hunting I feel like I am not even married. It's me and the kids every night. And him home long enough to get me pregnant , I sure didn't bargain for this when I married him. "Lord forgive me I do not wish bad luck on the baby that is growning inside of me." If it is your will I will have as many as you give me. All I ask is help in raising them. At 29 I surely didn't see my life going along this route. What has happen to me? Somewhere along the way I've lost what I wanted my life to be.

What has happen to all my dreams? How could this have happen to me I am at a loss at knowing how and when my life changed so completely. one day I was in high school going with the most popular guy in school and planning our engagement and then all of a sudden the rug was pulled out from under me. Marian Biggs broke it off with me, his reason was that he was going to collage in California and that he didn't want me to wait for him and that since I was going to Business collage in Indiana that the distance would be to far to keep a relationship together. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. All my dreams with him were gone. How could I go on? How much it hurt me. He was my first love and my life was all about him. But I did go on after awhile and I went to business school and graduated and landed a good job working as a Secretary at Servile. I finally had gotten past the breakup with Marian and was going to dances with my sisters and friends and just having the time of my life when at a VFW dance he came up to me and ask me to dance. My life was never the same after that.

He was tall, and lean, blond hair, brown eyes and dark brows with a dimple in his chin.

Very good looking and very Ivy league. When he smiled I just melted and he was coming up to me! He ask me what my name was? Louise I said and you are? Monroe but everyone call's me Bud! He ask me how come he hadn't seen me here before. I just moved down here with my sister. Are you from around here? yes. After some more small talk we danced and he took my sister and me home and asked to take me out on a date. How could I have said no he was the perfect gentlemen. We dated for about a year and had a grand catholic wedding with all the trimmings. We were both 21 and were ready to start are life together. And not to soon either for I found out a month after we were married I was pregnant! " what so soon is this really fair"

And now we had started our family. I have had four children in 5 years and then I rested for 3 years and now I'm pregnant with my fifth! "Whew". How the years have flown by and I haven't done anything I wanted to do.

I wanted to have my own piano so Icould learn all the new songs on the radio. I wanted to open my own shop and sell the clothes I would make. Or belong to a women's club!! But with having all the children I had so close together I never had the time to do any of these things. So what have I accomplished? nothing. Iam just a wife and a mother. My mother says that should be enough.That I have a good man that loves me. He converted from Baptist to Catholic so I could raise my children in the catholic religion, he has started a trucking business and built me a new home and buys you the newest things that he can afford.

I guess she is right. I guess I should not ask for more. But why do I feel so alone, so sad, that there is more to me than to be a cook housemaid, mother and wife. Aren't these titles of what I do and not of what I am? What will become of me?

Honey I'm home come give your baby some sugar? What did you save me for supper? And did you wash and starch my white shirt's for work.

Where have you been all this time? It's 8:00 and I know you couldn't be at work,working all this time. You could at least call and told me that you were going to be late.

Forget the sugar and get your own meal and iron your own shirt. I know you've been with some other women! Good night.

Gee why are you yelling at me? I've been at work all this time and the work won't get done by itself. Oh go ahead and go to bed!

This is part one of my story I hope you enjoyed! Iam new at this and would welcome good criticism. Just no bashing!