by Wendy Scheel | Jan 1, 2016 | Life, New Products
Last week we went to Chicago to visit Wade’s side of the family for Christmas. The weather cooperated for driving to get there and to get back home, but in between, not so nice. Fortunately the week was pretty laid back and my in-laws live with in walking distance of great shopping and restaurants.
We had a nice visit but it is always good to be home.
As much as I enjoy going to a nice restaurant with family and friends or finding a great people watching spot while partaking of a few cocktails, I am not a big New Years Eve party person.
Last night was all about sharing a bottle of champagne with Wade and making plans and dreaming about 2016. Some of those dreams were personal and then there is the business side of dreaming.
I am so excited to start on my Old Lake George dream list!
My sister in-law Mara owns a very successful shop thru Ebay named Heirloomlady.
She has a selection of vintage, Victorian and new items. Her taste is exquisite. She let me shop her shop while we were visiting. I knew when I saw these wooden barrels that I needed them. Wait until you see what I am going to make. 🙂
While I was filling orders yesterday, Wade went into town and ran errands and bought me this beauty.
Okay, so it’s technically just a picture of a box, but again wait until you see the things that it is going to create for Valentine’s Day! Hold on tight and wish me a little luck that scroll sawing will be as easy as people say.
In no particular order, here are some other items on the dream list that you will see in the coming months and year:
- Birch tree branch vases
- Larger pillow covers
- Colorful pillow covers
- Neutral pillow covers
- Unique pillow covers
- Updating my 17 step staircase
- Outdoor décor
- Guest blogs
- Haven Conference
- Improving my photos
- Organizing
- Traveling to Hawaii
- Planning Sam’s college graduation party
- Planning Jack’s high school graduation party
- Estate sales
…. to name a few.
Today is full of putting away our Christmas décor. First “organize” of 2016.
Every year after Christmas I say that I am going to organize it all. Toss the broken lights, properly store the ornaments and mark all of the boxes correctly as to what they contain.
This is the year people! Either that or I will have nothing to chat about on Monday. 🙂
Cheers to a great 2016!
Wendy
by Wendy Scheel | Nov 11, 2015 | Life
Sometimes I have no idea what to blog about. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I have a list of things I could blog about but I mentally filter those ideas as to what makes it onto the blog and what doesn’t.
That filter has one question.
Would I be interested in reading about this? That’s it. One question.
For instance, today I was going to share about this little Christmas tree that I have set up. But, it’s 61 degrees outside and I’m not feeling it. By the way the average high in Minnesota in November is 41 degrees. Believe me, no one is complaining but it’s not normal. Last year on this date we had 3 inches of snow on the ground.
Wait, where was I going with all of this? Oh yeah, my filter.
Christmas décor didn’t make it thru today’s filter.
So I took advantage of the warm fall day and went on a walk with Nikki. Nikki as in Jimmy and Nikki.
When we returned I had a text from my Mom.
She saw on my Instagram account (OldLakeGeorge) that people have commented on the green glasses that are in this picture.
These were given to me by my Mom. And now that I really look at that picture, so was that duck, the lamp and the card catalog. 🙂 My Mom has great taste.
The day that she gave me the glasses and decanter, I was at my parents house and my Mom asked if there were any dish sets I wanted. She has so many beautiful sets of dishes. The set I wanted is a blue and white set that for me represents the many loud and festive family dinners we shared. BUT, she was not quite ready to give them away. That only makes it more special for me knowing those dishes hold great sentimental value for her.
So as we moved on to other things, I spotted these green and gold glasses and decanter in her glass front kitchen cupboard.
I thought they were pretty but I don’t remember seeing them around our house as we were growing up. Reason for that; my Mom had recently purchased them at a garage sale.
So, the text she sent read, “Hey, I just saw the comments about your gold and green glasses I gave you. Did you look up how much they are worth? I got them at a garage sale for probably $10.”
I read the Instagram comments, which I love getting and someone mentioned that they might be Culver green and gold glasses. So I googled Culver green and gold glasses and yep, that’s what I had.
This is a set of 3 double Old Fashioned and 6 Old Fashioned glasses along with a decanter. The pattern is called Valencia. The gold is 22k and I found prices from $10-$20 per glass up to $250 for the decanter and 6 glasses.
Told you my Mom had great taste!
In honor of Veterans Day and green and gold cocktail glasses, let’s raise our glass to all of the Veterans, men and women that have served and are currently serving our country! Thank you!
See you on Friday,
Wendy
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