my daily pix #24 UPDATED

**forestdale** · 09-25-2004, 04:19 PM

This is my favourite colour of green. It's a sort of milky green with a bit of grey in it. I made the colour myself when DH bought a cheap raw pine shelf unit and he wanted to stain and varnish it. I started mixing my colours like an old witch at her cauldron and DA DA! I invented this colour. I've painted a lot of things with it now. A couple of kitchen windsor chairs, some photo frames, a little table. I'll paint anything if it stands still long enough

I keep this shelf unit near the kitchen, just next to the kitchen table. It hold my cook books, teapots and a few olds and ends. That little rectangular blue and white plate was given to me last birthday by my son, Shane. It's says: "Gardening grows the spirit" which is something I truly believe. That plate and the other round b/w ones are Spode plates. The yellow plate at the top is my mother's favourite cake plate, the one next to that is a Hamburg plate (where DH was born), next to that is a Tea Time plate - it holds the saying "start slow, then taper off" and next to that a calico plate.

Do you have a cupboard or a shelf that holds your cookbooks and odds and ends?

**DaisyLady** · 09-25-2004, 05:21 PM

Bethany, I have a large collection of teapots. Some of them I display on the tops of my kitchen cabinet. My favourites are in a lovely antique china cabinet that belonged to my grandmother. The cabinet had been sadly neglected by the many relatives that my grandmother chose to live with over the years (she would live with which ever of her children had the youngest children and mind them until they were old enough to go to school so that their mothers could work). When all her grandchildren were grown she moved into her own apartment. My dad found the cabinet, stripped it of the mess, restained it and put it back together for her. When she died two years ago she left it to my father and when he moved in May he passed it along to me. She and I used to have "tea" together when I was little so it is fitting that my teapots live in that cabinet.

My cookbooks are on a cheap shelf in my family room (which is actually part of my kitchen). I can get at them quickly should I need them.

I love your cabinet and your teapots. I too have a reputation of painting anything that doesn't move. Fun isn't it

**Darlene** · 09-25-2004, 07:27 PM

To me out of all the pictures you have posted, this one touches me the most. I have tears in my eyes. Cookbooks & special this & special that... that's me. Your shelf is just beautiful, thank you for sharing it with me.

**forestdale** · 09-25-2004, 09:05 PM

Awwww Darlene, you are so sweet. I think this is my favourite pic so far, so again, we link up.

**canadian gardener** · 09-25-2004, 09:11 PM

Bethany, I love that colour of yours. soothing and peaceful. Such a good colour to set off the pretty blue and white plates.

My cookbooks are in an IKEA oak bookcase in the kitchen (plain, it's the Billy series).

I have my good china in a cabinet arrangemnt (buffet and hutch they are called here) beside the table off the kitchen.

**PrairieRose** · 09-25-2004, 10:50 PM

I don't display my cookbooks but they are neatly kept in a cabinet above my microwave in easy reach at all times. I have lots of my special things in my china cabinet in my dining area. It was my Mom's cabinet and I just love it ( she didn't have room for it when they moved away from this house). I decorate it with antique hankies on the shelves. One of these days I'll share it with you Bethany. I love that color and the special things you keep there too. From the pics that you've shared (I think one of your kitchen....am I right? a while back) of your decorating I really love your style Bethany.

**kimmee** · 09-25-2004, 11:34 PM

I like your style to = very romantic. And I positively love that color almost like a whispery sage to me. I had a nice collection of teapots once but they got "kitty'd" these things happen.

**Julia Kimber** · 09-26-2004, 04:56 AM

The colour is lovely Bethany, you certainly picked a winner there! I love all your bits and pieces, they look great the way you have them displayed. I have a shelf in my kitchen with some knick-knacks but my cookbooks are in the dining/family room.
Julia

**forestdale** · 09-26-2004, 04:12 PM

I really love all of you. Each and every one of your comments has brought a smile to my face that I didn't lose all day yesterday. Thank you, Chriss, Darlene, Margery, Lisa, Kim and Julia.

I was thiking about what Darlene said and I think that this picture is the most personal one I've posted so far. It's of pieces of myself that show the sort of person I am and what I treasure. For instance, that little teaset (it's a Peter Rabbit set), was given to me by my wonderful friend Kathleen and the little card with handbags on it is from another beautiful friend, Susan. The blue and white coffee pot at the end is from the first dinner set I ever bought in the 1960s, and the tiny jug and sugar set behind the pink egg cup was given to me by the staff when I left the first nursing job I got as an RN.

This shelf is part of my history and I'm so pleased I shared it with you.

Chriss, I love your very special china cabinet - that's part of your history now.

Darlene, it didn't take this picture to tell me that we are very similar. One of the things I have near this shelf is the collection of tea towls and potholders you sent me. I cherish them.

Margery, our parallel universes have collided again over the Ikea stuff. I don't have any of their furniture but I have a lot of their kitchen things. You've given me the idea for todays pic too, my china dresser.

Lisa, I love your idea of decorating the shelves of your mum's/your china cabinet with antique hankies. I'd really like to see it if you can take a pic one day. And you're right, I did post a pic of my kitchen yonks ago.

Kim, I hope you build up your teapot collection again. They are such old fashioned things but I like how the tea is made in a pot and it becomes part of the slowing down ritual to make tea the "proper" way (as my grandma would say).

Julia, I've seen pics of your kitchen and I think I know where you keep your stuff. Your kitchen is blue and white so I think I lot of my stuff would probably fit with your scheme too.

**Katybird** · 09-26-2004, 04:47 PM

That is a beautiful shelf. I love the color and your items in it are lovely.

**Goodwin17** · 09-26-2004, 06:33 PM

Bethany, I really love that color. I love all those pieces, and it is such a wonderful glimpse into your life. I think it is awesome how you open up your world to us. I find it all so interesting and even comforting. Thanks so much! I look forward to these posts.

**DaisyLady** · 09-26-2004, 07:31 PM

Bethany, you're gonna make me cry. What a wonderful and special lady you are!

**frugalmel** · 09-26-2004, 09:55 PM

Bethany, thank you for sharing your beautiful world with us.

**forestdale** · 09-26-2004, 10:12 PM

Wow, it's amazing how typing away a few lines on a keyboard can make you feel fabulous.

Kathy, Heather and Melody, thank you so much for being part of this sharing. It really is a small world isn't it. I can take a pic here and minutes later you can be veiwing it in all your corners of the world. I thank you for your kind comments. Heather, I just want to say a special thanks to you because you visit my thread every day and I really like that you do that. And you always have positive comments to make - that's a bonus. Thank you, my friends

Chriss,

**Julia Kimber** · 09-27-2004, 06:59 AM

Originally posted by forestdale
I really love all of you. Each and every one of your comments has brought a smile to my face that I didn't lose all day yesterday. Thank you, Chriss, Darlene, Margery, Lisa, Kim and Julia.

Julia, I've seen pics of your kitchen and I think I know where you keep your stuff. Your kitchen is blue and white so I think I lot of my stuff would probably fit with your scheme too.

I forgot I'd posted those pics of my kitchen Bethany! LOL!

Julia