It is Time for a Change, Summertime!

"Aren't daisies the friendliest flowers?"  

Why yes, yes they are Kathleen Kelly, especially when they are on vintage Pyrex.

Can you name that movie?

It's sunny, it's yellow, and it is in the shop.  Yes, you heard that right.  There are items in the shop!

The name of my shop has changed from "Mom Wald's Place" to "Mary Wald's Place" at Etsy.

In fact, my old blog, has changed to Mary Wald's Place, also.  That is where I will be from now on posting vintage goodies and handmade fun.  The web address for that if you do not want to use the link is; marywaldsplace.blogspot.com.  

How many of you noticed that has been the newest watermark on my photos?  Sneaky, sneaky.

I am so excited.  This is so much fun!  I already have another summery goody to share.  Here is a hint the designer has a "V" and a "B" in their name.  

Thanks for joining me, I cannot wait to see you there! 

Hazel Atlas Apple at Home

It is almost summer, not autumn, but I found a lovely yellow apple.  It is the salad bowl size from the Hazel Atlas Apple Line.  You might remember the pattern from my place a few years ago.

It is already proving its usefulness by keeping my pencil from rolling off of the table.  I don't believe I have shared that draw.  For years folks have been suggesting that I publish embroidery patterns.  Maybe that can be a new Texas adventure.  Until then my apple and I will just keep having fun.

Hello Finally

Helllooooo!

I was afraid that I would never get to let you all know that I have not forgotten you.  Blogger is having issues again, and this is the first time I have been able to post since April third. Almost two weeks!  Let's hope this means the issue is fixed.

That is the good news.  The sad news is the final and ultimate demise of my dear, dear camera.  This is the last photo from it that was salvageable.

  

I am so thankful that Little Miss is sharing her little camera with me.  Busy colorful things have been going on here in Texas, and she is making it possible for me to share them with you.  What a gal!

This honey pot is one that I have wanted since they first came out, and I was able to thrift a brand spanking new one.  I was so afraid of dropping it that I did not do a happy dance.

These are my first two crocheted Easter Eggs.  They are so cheerful, that I  cannot put them away yet.

Happy Colors to You!  

Hopefully I will be able to "see you soon".

Yellow Texas Ware Sun Plate and Golden Friends

Imagine my surprise to find that this striking melamine plate is Texas Ware.  It appears hand drawn, but was actually a decal applied by the company.  I would love some more information on it, because I can find absolutely no information for it online.   I did find out that Texas Ware was made right here in the Dallas area.  

A dear friend who understands my love for vintage plates and decorating with them wrote a poem for me.

Plates

Plates on the wall

each smooth, round

with no end in sight.

Pictures and images of life

colored so varitable

gives dreams of a new

place of beyond.

Design of an artist

sets ones mind all a flutter

and calms ones mind

of another...

Place to be

and things to do

ideas to feel.

How I love my plates

on the wall.

This flower still had its label on it in a local courtyard,  Carolina Jasmine.  We are starting to have so many flowers blooming, that I cannot keep up with photographing them.  Every time I go out I am surprised by blossoms that are familiar and new.

My your day be full of blossoming surprises and poetic moments.

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Speaking of poetic, this is a lovely sunny post, right?.  I am trying to focus on sunny positive things instead of the fact that a surprise blizzard blowing in stranded our teenage son in Chicago's Union Station yesterday, and it took three hours to find a way to rescue him.  

Praise God for beautiful (close by) friends!

I will be getting my boy two days late for spring break, but at least he is safe and sound.  AND, he is having too much fun to talk to his folks on the telephone.

Colorful Furniture

The last post with my bags had a smidgen of our wood bench showing in the corner.  It is our wood bench, because  Hubby made it to hold firewood.  For years it has been handy up north, but with its new lighter duties I thought it needed a new color.  We are all getting a makeover!  Little Miss painted it for us.  She is handy too!

This table is my first piece of vintage furniture found in Texas.  I have been wanting a mock Bamboo piece to paint this shade of green for years and years.  It is a nice solid piece made by Drexel.  The burned in trademark is so neat I painted around it inside the drawer.

It was actually refinished a few weeks ago, but I was holding out for my camera to work again.  I have been fiddling and tweaking ever since then to get it to take photos.  Yay, it has worked for two whole days!

This is my new night stand, and I am rather thrilled.  

The nifty opalescent dish by Tiara is from a dear online friend, and if you have visited my old blog you probably recognize my Moonstone bowl.  They are two of the few pieces that traveled with us.

Another Texas first!  My first vintage jewelry in Texas.  Three Bakelite bangles.  Not one, not two, but three!

Why have a plain basket when you can have a colorful one? Seriously, why?  "Why would you choose orange?" is probably what "Dear D" is asking.  

I was inspired by a vintage towel.  More birds "Dear J"!

More Pork?!  If you want a laugh look this fellow up online.  There are plenty of video and audio clips.  What a hoot!  (I had to, and I am not one bit sorry.)