tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159228762767166312.post9192711231575086739..comments2023-10-30T04:14:51.935-05:00Comments on Designs By A Rose: My blue and white obsession and my ugly kitchenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01618581543499359037noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159228762767166312.post-91035203739538396102009-01-12T16:07:00.000-06:002009-01-12T16:07:00.000-06:00Hi Annette. It's me, Elizabeth from Grand Occasio...Hi Annette. It's me, Elizabeth from Grand Occasions again. I love blue and white plates too, but mine don't have sentimental meaning. My Fostoria does however. It was my mothers and she collected it for years and used it for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. She also had some ruby red glasses which my sister and I had to divide so I have been on the lookout for years for more to add to the few I had. Once I found them in an antique shop, but came home to ask my husband if I should get them. By the time I returned to the store, they were gone. I was fortunate enough to find 4 on Ebay from Canada last year. My mother also sewed and tried to teach me, but as you said a child in the 3rd and 4th grade doesn't have too much interest in those things. I remember taking sewing in 4H and having to hem a tea towel. I thought I'd done a good job, but my mom made me take it out and do it again. Maybe that's why I'm such a perfectionist with my sewing now and can always find things I think are wrong with it. By the way, my mother died when I was 10 as well. My sister was only 5. Memories are a very good thing. Treasure them. As for your kitchen. It has good bones so I know you will be able to turn into a darling room. I'll try and do a post on my kitchen curtains I made. They are toile, but they are multicolored with roosters, but they do have blue trim that I bought at Hobby Lobby in Knoxville. Yep, my sister is a Tennessee girl and we always shop at Hobby Lobby when I'm there visiting. Now she's the seamstress. Comes naturally I guess. Better run and put away groceries. I'll talk to you again. Can't wait to see your new kitchen.<BR/>Hugs, <BR/>ElizabethElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12568522154097573644noreply@blogger.com