Sheffield Serenade & Saturated Shingles

I didn't beat my old record and make it three days in a row with blog posts. I still need to post about paint colors and take some photos of the original labels on the bedroom doors. It seems like I am never home during the daylight to take some nice photos of the paint. We haven't really had decent internet since we moved in. To make a long story short. Stay away from Mediacom Cable if there is anyway you can possibly avoid them. Much of the past month we have been frequenting coffee shops for most of our internet needs which has limited my internet time.

Instead of telling you about paint I decided to post a photo of our new china. This photo is not really of our new china but it is exactly what our new china looks like and probably a much prettier photo than I could manage without breaking a few pieces in the process. We got it at the same place we got the Catherin Holm pot I posted about last time. George's Resale is a great place to find quality stuff at a decent price. George always has furniture that is much higher quality than anything your could find in most furniture stores today. When we bought the Catherin Holm pot I saw these dishes and I loved them except......they are yellow. I liked that they looked kind of retro without going over board. I think the tea cups that are a different color on the inside than the outside is what really got me. I always love that! But, I wanted olive green. So, we went back a few days later to look at the stamp and see if we could do some googling and find them in olive green. Turns out they were never made in olive green but George gave us a bargain we couldn't refuse so we settled for yellow. The china is called Sheffield Serenade. It is by Homer Laughlin who is also responsible for the well know Fiesta china pattern.

Another bit of excitement has happened since I last posted. I woke up the other night and heard an awful banging noise. I thought it was one of our cats being "bad". I decided if I ignored it they would stop but they didn't. Then I decided maybe it wasn't a cat. At this point I thought about waking my sleeping husband up because he obviously wasn't waking up on his own. It was around this time I realized that I very likely could be murdered by a serial killer in my bed and my husband would not wake up to save me. I was on my own! I laid there and thought about where the sound was coming from and what it could possibly be. It was very repetitious so I decided it was not a serial killer unless he was unsuccessfully attempting to bang down the front door. I finally pinpointed the sound to the shed door which is off the carport and under our bedroom. I realized it was raining and decided the door had blown open in the wind and possibly a critter had even gotten in there and was banging around. Again I told myself if I ignored it the noise would stop. After a bit longer I realized the noise was NOT going to stop and I was not going to be able to sleep.

So, I decided to wake my husband up. He went outside with the flashlight. After some time he came back and reported that our roof was sagging and it had pushed the door open. At first I thought it sounded quite dramatic and had visions of the roof sagging down and almost touching my car. We had known there was a small leak on the carport roof but didn't realize how serious it was. It was pretty amazing what happened and how quick. The physics behind the whole thing took me a while to figure out! From what I understand the frame around the door filled with water, it expanded and started coming apart and caused the door to come open. On Saturday we had someone come and take a look at it. He didn't seem to be too phased by it and thankfully it is just the carport roof and not the whole house. We think it is very likely the original roof! We don't have an estimate on the roof yet. We are hoping it is nothing to exorbitant and the people are of higher quality than the folks who did our floors. These people come highly recommended (as did the floor people). So, maybe soon I can post some photos of our new rubber membrane roof and gutters.

Weekend Finds

Hopefully someday our art glass shelf will look something like this.

OK, I said I would post more about our weekend finds. Besides the dining room table we also found four pieces of art glass. There is a shelf above a kitchen cabinet that divides our kitchen and living room. It catches the light nicely and we thought we would fill it with mid-century Blenko and Viking art glass. My grandma had a lot of Viking glass when I was a kid and I always thought it was neat looking. Orange seems to be a very popular color. (That is what my grandma had a lot of.) We are trying to collect greens (especially olive), yellow, amber, browns and blue (turquoise). We have not done a lot of research on the glass at this point but it seems that most of it was marked with stickers that have long ago fallen off so it can be hard to identify what is authentic. Right now we are just collecting whatever strikes our fancy and has the right price and we aren't worrying too much about authenticity. Apparently the kitchen cabinets they sit on are not original to the house. Everyone was telling us we should tear them out because they block the light that comes in the living room windows. At first I didn't like that idea but I am becoming more open to it. I think even if we do eventually decide to remove the cabinets we will keep the shelf. I have a Pinterest board for all of the Blenko glass I love.

The newest pieces of glass are the farthest to the left, fourth from the left and the two farthest to the right. The two turquoise pieces came from my grandmother's house when she passed away.

Our new olive green Catherin Holm enamel pot.

We also found a Catherine Holm enamel pot yesterday. We first got two hand me down Catherin Holm bowls from my husband's grandma. After doing a little research we found out how collectible they are. I really like the way they looked and I was especially fond of the fact they were olive green. Right now our kitchen is still white but soon the kitchen and living room colors will be olive green. So, when my husband found this Catherin Holm pot at a reasonable price I was all for it. It comes in several colors like blue, yellow and I believe orange. I am partial to the green. We found some yellow china yesterday that looks very similar. I would have snapped it up if it was green. I wish we would have taken a look at the brand so we could look it up and see if it came in green. We may stop back by tomorrow and see if we can get the name.

This evening we made an attempt to go shopping for fabric to recover for the dining room chairs.  We arrived just as the fabric store was closing. We are supposed to pick up the table and chairs tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow I can post some more pictures of the house. I haven't really posted finished photos of the floors or paint because things are still a bit of a disaster. But, maybe I can post some small peeks. I will save the overall photos for when ALL of our stuff is finally moved. (Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.) There is a big hole in the living room right now because my piano is still at the old house. Last night as I was getting ready for bed and brushing my teeth I thought of another little odd thing about this house we didn't discover until we moved in. The bathroom sinks are REALLY low. It is very strange. I'm not really sure why they were made that way. Maybe I will have time to post again tomorrow and break a record by posting three days in a row.