Escaping Suburbia

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Check out what is gracing my living room these days! I just want to sit and stare at her, she’s so pretty. This is a late 1800s production spinning wheel from St Hyacinthe, Quebec. The lovely lady I purchased it from said she’d found it in an antique store with string wound around the bobbin. Apparently, someone had been using it solely for decoration. She had it beautifully restored — it’s seen some good use — and it still works great.

Yes, it works great… but I need a lot of practice with it! It’s very different from my other wheel.

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Our house has a cool formal dining room which we think was the living room in the original layout. It was a tiny place. Anyway, because we like to have everyone over, we decided to get a nice table.

Having a nice table means… trivets!

Trivets mean… antique stores!

Okay, to be honest, before it occured to me to look in antique stores, I bought a trivet at Ross. But then I found this pretty little cast iron trivet in the store that closed, and now I’m hooked.

It’s not rare or anything… these Wilton cast iron trivets are pretty easy to find online. This may be around 50-60 years old, but I’m really not too sure. I just like it!