little things......

For those of you who know me well, know that I have a "thing" for little things. I love details and so I especially like to not only bring the details out in my merchandise at the shop, but also the everyday details in my home......right down to the table! Which means, when Tim is with me and we are shopping in the "dish" section of a flea market or antique store he knows to....BEWARE.....


I found these little guys last year at the local Good News shop across from the Bistro downtown {for all you locals}........




The reason why I HAD to snatch up these (8) little gems is because of the memories of silver dollar pancakes and homemade orange juice with LOTS of pulp served in identical juice glasses at my grandmother's on a Saturday morning!! Ahhhh...sweet memories! :)

Then while browsing in Walmart of all places I found these........



I got eight of them and my initial thought was that these would be perfect ice cream dishes for smaller children when they come for a visit (since they are plastic). Even though they have been put to good use for that reason, they have served their purpose more for this.....



Sauces, syrup, fruit and grits! We don't like these things spreading to the rest of our food on our plate so it is PERFECT!

I adopted these (10) little ones from my Papa's house.......



We were served many a sweet tea in these as we sat around this table......




We have moved out all of the belongings of my grandparents house. My beloved grandmother passed away over 7 years ago and Papa moved in with my mom over a year ago after suffering a massive stroke. The house that had been their home for over 50 years is being turned over to new owners and therefore required moving out of ALL it's belongs {you can only imagine}. As my mom showed me pictures of the empty house on her small camera screen, I spotted this table STILL on the glass enclosed deck....

"whose taking the table?" I asked... "nobody wants it, it's too hard to move" she replied.

I might have mentioned before that sometimes I feel sorry that my husband married me because of the "yes we can" response I have on certain things...like this:

YES WE CAN move this 12 foot solid steel/oak slab 2000 lb. table {that was built ON the glassed enclosed deck because it wouldn't fit through the doorway} back to our house. {I am beginning to think that my Nana had the same "yes we can" response to life as well}

Fortunately, Tim works with a guy that can do just about anything! He is the first person I thought of for this task (don't you love how I worded it task as if it was so easy:) ) because he has welded some things for us in the past. He jumped on board, because he is just about the kindest person we know {seriously, he replace piping under my house after I heard running water under it and ran out to see my craw space full of water and Tim was out of town, with NO complaints!}! He and Tim cut the table apart, loaded it up on a trailer and hauled it to his house around 9:30ish at night and by 7:00 the next MORNING he had it welded back together and ready to be put on my back patio. AWESOME!

We have squeezed 20 Plus people around this table for every holiday and I just couldn't see it left there!

Can't wait to create more memories around this table with friends and family!!