wow! It's been awhile.

Lots of new stuff.  I am enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant course at my local Tech college.  I will be done a week from tommorrow and I just have to pass the state exam and I will be a CNA.  Back to work in a couple months for this SAHM.  I will be easing back into work by working part time for the next couple years until my youngest is in school full time. 

I recently learned how to water bath can and have becoming a canning nut.  I have only canned applesauce, apple jams, apple pie filling, cranberry jam, cranberry sauce and cranberry juice so far.  I am enjoying the ability to preserve food for the coming months.  I hope to start blogging again more regularly. 

food storage

I picked a bunch of these up at the thrift store.  I LOVE these for storing dry goods. 

as you can see, I am working on moving all my baking supplies to hermetic glass jars. 

more storage!

Mirro storage canister. 99 cents at Goodwill.  1950 ish. 

storage!

I love these.  The biggest is flour, the next is sugar, then coffee and finally tea.  They are made by West Bend.  They show up copper colored in the pics but they are actually pink with white lids and black knobs.  I believe they are from the 50's.  I got them for Etsy.

Fire King Milk Glass set.

These two pictures are of my fire king milk glass set. I inherited this from my grandma.  I don't have an entire set yet but I am working on that.

I have:

3 mugs

1 sugar dish

8 tea cups

6 custard dishes

10 saucers

9 soup bowls

10 dinner plates

10 salad plates

I would like a set of 10-12 of each piece.  I found a thrift store that had oodles of this for really cheap.  I need to get back there and get the rest I need.

serving bowl

This is a neat serving bowl I picked up at the thrift store for $1.  I like it.

What the heck?

This is a pfaltzgraff piece.  Creamer?  I, at one time, had an entire set of these dishes that were given to me by my Aunt.  I HATED them.  I thought they were ugly!  However, I now know they are actually pretty valuable. This is the only piece I have left.  I use it as a gravy boat.  I don't want to replace the set.  I still think it is ugly but it works for me as a gravy boat.