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Recently acquired a Singer Feather Weight and tonight when my modern Brother went down with tension issues I pulled it out and continued piecing the quilt top I’m working on.

This morning as I’m scrolling through marketplace on FB I came across a listing for a fully restored and functional 1949 Singer 31-15. When I went to check it out I was thrilled. She’s been a one family machine since she came to the US from Scotland where she was manufactured. Grandfather bought her new for the family upholstery business, dad got it when he ran the business and daughter inherited from him. It came with all its manuals and maintenance records as well as the restoration records. She has all original parts including the fully restored table top! Took her for a test drive and I am in love!

He sits in the weirdest positions

Found this beauty at a vintage/thrift store for $10

This afternoon, as I was scrolling through another social media platform, I noticed a post in one of my favorite groups. A gentlemen was giving away nine vintage and antique chairs, I immediately said that I would love to have them. All of them need a little love but they are just beautiful. There are three sets and three singles. The two big white ones are I think from the 1940s and in a Hollywood Regency style and the rest are 1880s Victorian Eastlake and Rocco Revival style parlor chairs.

Scrolling through facebook marketplace looking for a couch when I saw an ad for 26 vintage sewing machines! With parts and tables! I don’t have room to keep all of them but several will go into my personal collection and the rest will be restored and sold. I will not say how much I paid, suffice to say that I am comfortable with the amount based on the fact that I have bought, restored and sold single sewing machines in the past. I only have a picture of the one table this far as the rest are wrapped up in blankets for transport. They came from the estate of a gentleman who had a small business restoring and selling vintage sewing machines, thus the three boxes of carefully labeled parts. There are Singers, Kenmore’s, Pfaff’s, several y the Free Sewing Machine Company.

Scrolling through facebook marketplace looking for a couch I saw an ad for 26 vintage sewing machines! With parts and tables! I don’t have room to keep all of them but several will go into my personal collection and the rest will be restored and sold. I will not say how much I paid, suffice to say that I am comfortable with the amount based on the fact that I have bought, restored and sold single sewing machines in the past. I only have a picture of the one table thus far as the rest are wrapped up in blankets for transport. They came from the estate of a gentleman who had a small business restoring and selling vintage sewing machines, thus the three boxes of carefully labeled parts. There are Singers, Kenmore’s, Pfaff’s, several y the Free Sewing Machine Company.

Today I came across this matching set and fell in love!

I don’t have any one style I collect, I just get what I see that I like. These four came from a moving sale that I stopped at as I was thrifting for my birthday last week.

When my father-in-law passed away all of the jewelry that had been his late wife’s came to me. Including these gorgeous pieces that originally belonged to her mother. They are all from the late 1930s and early 1940s. I love them and where them as often as I can. I want to say that I did not clean or polish the pieces that was my father-in-law. I do know that they had been sitting in a safety deposit box for at least 25 years since the last time he cleaned them. I am just wearing them and letting them re-patina.

This is a little different but still glass. My husband and I will occasionally purchase estates and then resell the contents. We specialize in families in distress that need something moved right away. Once in a while, I will come across something that is just a diamond. This was my diamond out of one of those estates. I have been looking for one for a long time as I have a friend that has a very similar necklace. It is a 1920s era glass beaded necklace on its original silk cord. And yes, I do wear it once in a while.

A Fenton puffy rose vase circa early 1960s.

A Fenton peach crest ruffled bowl, based on the shape of the foot this one is most likely from the 1940s. And is in stunning condition just beautiful, not a scratch.

And a pair of Fenton swung bad vases one in a satin blue and the other one in the adolescent plum.

Gorgeous Italian Empoli Carafe that I acquired today. The sweet gentleman I got this from is one of the most knowledgeable collectors I’ve met and I am very lucky he was willing to part with this.