I started a separate blog called “The Late, Great Carthage Fair” where I could write memoirs of my long history with what is now called Hamilton County Fair here in Cincinnati. I write about all kinds of thing on Nudged …
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Category Archives: My Collections of Stuff
November 29 – Next Up in the Photo Above
The transfer-printed dish in the background is a saucer I bought at an antique mall that used to be open in a big industrial building in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. I bought the saucer because I thought it looked old, and it …
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November 18 – Next in the photo up there…
If you look between those two sheep I talked about in this post, you’ll see a small cup. This is one of the many little treasures I own that I purchased on eBay. It’s a child’s graniteware (or enamelware) cup. …
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Posted in Just Rattling On, My Collections of Stuff
Tagged children's dishes, enamelware, graniteware, NaBloPoMo, toy dishes
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November 14 – A pair of folk art sheep
This is another in my series of posts discussing the items that appear in the photo in the heading of this blog. After the stick kachina doll and the orange salt shaker, we now move on to the pair of …
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Posted in My Collections of Stuff, Sheep
Tagged folk art sheep, folk art show, NaBloPoMo
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November 9 – The Orange Salt Shaker
As I explained here, I’m doing a series of posts about the stuff that’s in the photo across the top of my blog. Continuing the left-to-right progression, I now back up a bit to zero in on the orange salt …
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November 6 – Wherein I Explain the Photo
See that photo at the top of my blog? I’m so desperate for something to write about, I’m now going to embark on a series of posts in which I explain everything about each object in the picture. The first …
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Collecting Sheep
I don’t know when my love affair with sheep began. It certainly wasn’t a childhood thing. I mean, I saw them at the county fair, but they didn’t impress me that much. I probably paid more attention to the …
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Posted in Ireland, My Collections of Stuff, Sheep
Tagged collecting, Folk Art, Ireland, Sheep
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