One of my nearest and dearest friends follows along on this blog. She also is one of the gals that is always eager to hear about my most recent finds. Mary has a keen eye, for both beauty and bargain! I find her enthusiasm about Goat Hill touching. Not everyone in my friends&family web is as crazy for this collecting business as we two. So, my fellow devotee of junking said she'd keep an eye out for any Tent Revival treasure while she was out and about.
Here's what she handed me when last I saw her ~
A stack of Bibles...
Two of them have sweet, intimate touches. Markings, verse and quotations written in the margins. They're also adorned with the most peculiar page indexes. Numbered metal pieces.... See here >
Lo and behold when I browsed the pages of one Bible the name of the owner was written inside the cover... and the funniest thing is - she's from the same small town in which I was born. Now is that strange, or what?
Willows, CA
Ask and ye shall receive!... or like me, have a friend like Mary and lovely things just come....
I've not been hunting for treasure much as of late...
Still have my Pops in the hospital....
I don't have much motivation.... or is it energy??
My little world is in slow motion....
I've slowed down, the hunting is slowed too...
Here are a couple of FINDS though ~
kiddie finds
Cow-baby boots!!
I 'spect the slow down is fine as far as the Goat Hill show goes. I should have plenty of treasure to fill my space and a little something to please everyone....
'spect the non-accumulation of further finds is also good for my house and my psyche....
For some unknown reason these finds remind me of gadgets that would be in a manly-type store. Hanging upon the wall for employees to use. Maybe in an old garage for mechanics to wash up? Possibly the back of an old hardware store? I dunno.... just thinkin' - and where in the world do I come up with this stuff?
soap dispenser
fabric towel dispenser
Maybe I saw these in a bathroom somewhere along Interstate cutoff 505, or Hwy 99 as my Dad tootled down the road with his wife and kids toward his childhood home....
Every summer my parents packed all of us and the dogs into the station wagon for a visit to my Grandparents. The route to their home was North, and while we lived in the City - they were in an itty-bitty town in the country. The roads that lead to that place of fabulous memories were once very small. We had each landmark etched in our brain and likely our hearts too! Miles and miles of sun bleached landscape. Golden hills where very few humans resided. HOT as Hades and in those days no air conditioning! YAY!! we're now on I-5 almost to the town where Craig & myself were born. Landmark #1. A few more rounds of I spy and we hit Mom's hometown - a landmark we never miss. A predestined right turn off the main drag to drive by the shack (said with love & respect) where she was raised. Maybe even a cruise past her old, beautiful High School. Through the dusty little business area with long forgotten shops. We're getting closer!! A left turn onto 99 and into the home stretch. The ever popular landmark BIBLE QUOTATION sign whizzes past. Now is the time that we're on our knees in the back of the wagon.... we're turning right, nearly into the orchards. WE'RE HERE!! there's our sign that reads the town name, the bump of the railroad tracks at the dead end we go left. Quickly we look down to our right.... YEP! there's enough water in the canal to go swimming - HOORAY! for that is what summer is all about!.... And after hours of wait here is the street that contains the homes that house the people that dwell in our hearts.... all the way down to the end, on the corner, on the left. That ever magnificent walnut stretched out forever in the yard. The dahlia and cactus garden too.
I have paragraphs and pages of memories to write. Maybe I'll do a little series all about this enchanting place. Including all of the people that I have a soft, weak spot for - the family that I dearly cherish.
But, to make this story come full-circle (which I like to do)... well, those finds pictured at the top?? ya know the Borax soap and running cloth dispensers... It's very possible I did see them in a hardware store, in a little place, in the middle of nowhere, on Main Street. I think I just may have!
One of the first items of business once we arrived at Grandma & Grandpa's was to cross the street and grab our cousin to go visitin'! We have lots of family in that small place. We would walk to "town" - just us kids - and the first stop would be the Hardware Store. Our Aunt and Uncle owned it. We went to say our hellos and our we're-in-towns. The Hardware Store got the news as we burst in the door.
Just maybe that bathroom in my Uncle's small town shop had just these sort of fixtures?
I've also found this little ditty. May not be 'bout a Hardware Store, but a small country shop, just the same. The photos are completely reminiscent of MY place.... oh the memories!
We too eventually said goodbye to the store. The building still stands; no longer housing manly wares. My Uncle passed long ago and retired from this piece of life much before that. I will have to travel back sometime - physically and spiritually. I'd like to take that journey!
Self portrait of the uncommon kind! Can you see Mary's spokes... and well, mine too! You can glimpse me in the photo if ya really concentrate. Big ol' helmet head!
Took the ol' girl out for a spin.
FIND - Magpie is in Willow Glen. Willow Glen is in a nice neighborhood near me.
Stop for all yard sales.
Find- interesting treasure.
wedding dress box & gown
Here's a close-up of the treasure box ~
How cool is that?..... Did not take her home though.
If you haven't already seen the post that was written by Cindy Santiago of Romantic Home fame...... (This is her blog address) http://www.romantichome.blogspot.com/. You can click on the link below to read the recent post she did on GOAT HILL!!! She was letting her long list of followers know about our show! That is very exciting in that she has done this blogging thing for quite some time and is very liked and known! Hopefully a big percentage of her readers are locals that will be able to make plans and attend the show.
