Vintage White Pottery

I did a pretty good job of packing and labeling all my breakables. Boxes of Transferware (brown, red, and green) ironstone, majolica, china, etc... and several boxes of White Pottery. At the previous place I kept it put away in the basement bar area because I just didn't have room to display it. So now that I have the garden room, I'm making a seasonal spot for it here. I may rotate it after Summer is over, but for now I've gathered all the white pottery pieces together for a little collection.

Nothing fancy, just a few pieces of McCoy, Hull, Haeger, USA, and some unmarked vases and plant pots. I had this little shelf in the basement at the other house on top of my "family" washstand. Here, it's on top of an antique foldout table that had also been downstairs.

This little shelf was in pretty rough shape, but I had given it a coat of white paint before we moved. I was hoping it would work in the Garden Room, and I think I'll enjoy using it for seasonal vintage decor. So right now it's holding a few pieces of the pottery and some other little Springtime odds and ends.

My favorite of the rectangular pieces is the one on the right that looks like bamboo.

The little lamb covered butter dish is new. 

I'm really fond of the matte vintage pottery pieces, but for some reason I don't see a lot of it here in the Midwest. I haven't been frequenting the flea markets like I used to, so it could be that I just am not out looking enough. I do have enough pieces to put together a little display, so that's really all that I need. I've mentioned that my closet and cupboards are full of stuff, so I need to take it easy with the "collecting".

I have a few little pieces of green kitchen glass shakers, and I have to give my paternal grandmother credit for this. She kept sugar in the larger one on her kitchen counter. Not sure why she used sugar from a shaker, but she did. I used to keep a cinnamon/sugar mix for toast in it in the past, but I didn't use it fast enough to keep fresh. Anyway, it's out here now with a few other green pieces.

As you can see, there's a little sheep theme going on here as well.

Katie had a really sweet birdcage with a lamb figurine at Easter, so I thought I'd put together one for Mother's Day. I just changed out the vintage Mother's Day postcard for a "Best Wishes" card last week.

I remember growing up, these rectangle pottery flower pots usually contained a Philodendron. Did your mom or grandma have one on top of the TV console? I think every house back in the 50's and 60's did. They came in all colors and were perfect for Philodendron because they are really hard to kill. haha. They can withstand almost anything. Sitting on top of a hot TV was perfect for them! 

I have a few more pieces of the white pottery on my Baker's Rack out here too. 

We had a horrible group of storms come through on Tuesday, several hours apart. I can say I've never seen it rain that hard or forcefully in real life. It looked like a "remote" on the Weather Channel of a hurricane. It was crazy, you could not see the street from our house. I get a little nervous during wind and rain events, since they usually come with strong straight line winds and tornadoes. Having a basement is good so you can head down there to wait things out, but it always makes a person nervous on another level concerning possible leaks or flooding. We made it through okay, but I know there must have been a lot of damage in other areas. I wouldn't be surprised if there were many in our town with water coming in.

We're actually having storms again this evening (Wednesday evening) just to the north of us. These strong and massive thunderstorms always come up from Texas, roar through Oklahoma, then come through SW Missouri up to St. Louis. That's our weather pattern 95% of the time. I'll be glad when were through this month because it's the worst for tornadoes and wind related thunderstorms. Plus we now have sticks to deal with... a boatload of sticks to pick up from the boatload of trees. 

Stay safe everyone, 

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