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Across the Fence:  A GOOD USE FOR MY OLD OLD CROCK BOWL  |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9094 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9094 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 06:30:27 AM
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This old bowl is one of my favorite things, I awlays keep it somewhere serving some purpose. Just found a new job for it and I think it looks nice.
Going for a big grocery order this mornig, You know Christmas food etc. I expect to have a real good time trying to get the shopping cart through the snow and slush. I may have to lay down when I come home.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 06:34:29 AM
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I love my old crock bowl too, Nancy. I found it out in the barn... left here by this house's former owners (who'd built the house). It was so covered in dirt and muck that I couldn't even tell the color or if it had any etchings.
I keep it sitting on my dining room table and my SIL's want to steal it every time they come over! ;)
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
777 Posts
Lea
TN
777 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 07:06:41 AM
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Old bowls are one of my passions ~ I just can't seem to pass one up. I use them for everything. In fact, there is a gift from my parents under my tree right now and it feel suspiciously like a bowl --- he he he. I don't know if I can keep from peeking another week.
Your old bowl is just delightful, Nancy. I really like how you used it for towels. Guess I have to get another bowl for that as well!
Blessings, Lea
www.farmhouseblessings.blogspot.com
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliot |
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 08:01:28 AM
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I've got a bowl much like that one. Found it packed in a box when we cleaned out my mother-in-law's house. I wonder how old it is? And I've got another bowl holding my dishtowels on the kitchen counter. All of them, though, because I've got a total of 1 drawer in my kitchen. Can you believe that? What were the previous owners thinking when they installed these cupboards?
When in the world do you find time to do so much embroidery, Nancy? Seems like every week there's a new finished project on your blog. Very pretty bags. |
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 08:40:07 AM
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Amie, when we got married and DH started planning our house, he told me of one he'd built that had only one drawer in the kitchen. I was really naive, but even I knew one drawer wouldn't make it. Maybe he built your house.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 08:43:57 AM
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Nancy Jo, I love your bowl! I have my grandmother's old brown bowl. Dad calls it her "pancake bowl". That's his memory of it from childhood.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
There is a Redeemer. |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 09:49:05 AM
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I have a bowl passion, too, and have one just like yours Nancy, except there is a pink stripe along with the bluish one. Sad to say, I paid a pretty penny for it. So lucky for you all to have found yours, or had them passed down to you!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
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Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 10:58:26 AM
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Hi Nancy Jo! Checking in with ya! Hope your sewing machine gets better and hope you took a L O N G nap after pushing that cart! XO
Hugs, Maryjane Lee
Farmgirl Sister #44
The Beehive Cottage~est. 1971
Sisters on the Fly #595
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 6:08:11 PM
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Nancy I love your bowl, I have a lot of them and I am looking for a GREAT big one, They go good with my primitives, Miss Wilma
I am a farm girl married to a sewing machine
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
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Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 6:33:14 PM
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I love bowls! I have (gulp!) 18 yellowware bowls, collected some time ago. And one just came to me last week, stained and with a crack, but still lovely, with a blue stripe. Couldn't let it end up on the reject pile!
Often I think about the history of these bowls -- the women who used them in years past. I love them for their beautiful colors and for their beautiful history.
Nancy Jo -- love your bowl.
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abbasgurl
True Blue Farmgirl
1262 Posts
Rhonda
USA
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Posted - Dec 18 2007 : 9:24:58 PM
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I collect/hoard bowls too... Wood, yellow ware, salt glazed...they are all beautiful and oh so practical. Good enough reason to "collect", eh?
I found a Rowe pottery bowl at Goodwill last week for $3-let out a whoop that scared small children nearby!
I have a HUGE bowl just like the one you pictured Nancy. You could bathe a toddler in it! Makes a fine punchbowl-after you let out the bathwater. It came to me from my granny. If I put that sucker on the stovetop there'd be no room to cook. Hmmmm...an idea is forming!
Rhonda
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yarnmamma
True Blue Farmgirl
4247 Posts
Linda
Clarks Summit
PA
USA
4247 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2007 : 05:59:59 AM
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I really like the old country theme...all you gals are inspiring me
I live in the city (don't tell anyone LOL) but lived on a farm in southern Missouri when I was a teenager and sure relate to ya'll on this forum.
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Happy Holidays to my FARMGIRL sisters!
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
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Ronna
True Blue Farmgirl
1891 Posts
Ronna
Fernley
NV
USA
1891 Posts |
Posted - Dec 19 2007 : 09:10:55 AM
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I have my MIL's Bauer bowl that she used to mix her bread dough. Has a crack-maybe many years old and I don't put anything heavy in it. Watching her mix her bread when I was 8, long before I had any clue I'd marry her son 8 years later, is a good memory. She told me she bought it used for a quarter in the early 40's.
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