"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
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> On Sun 21 Jun 2009 10:59:50a, jmcquown told us...
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>> After over a year of basically living in someone elses' house, now that
>> I've officially moved here I'm making it my own home. I've rediscovered
>> my own (sort of) belongings. Some of this stuff my mother gave me years
>> ago. Like the set of copper-tinted Jell-O molds from the 1950's. I've
>> had them packed away in a storage room for the last 20 years. They're
>> now back out, freshly washed and shining brightly! I'm going to hang
>> them in my kitchen just as though I was a 1960's housewife. LOL
>>
>> I've unpacked my Fiestaware. (No, not the stuff that was lead based; I
>> bought mine later.) I have several lovely bright soup bowls, a purple
>> art-deco style pitcher and a spoon rest. It's good to see my own
>> housewares again.
>>
>> I removed my mothers old boring Corelle dishes (I had the same ones for
>> years) and put my white lattice patterned dishes in the cabinet. I
>> removed the 1970's gold glassware and replaced them with my cobalt blue
>> goblets.
>>
>> Up until now I've basically been living out of a suitcase and feeling
>> like I was staying in a time-share (as Nancy Young put it). Now that
>> I'm getting to unpack my own things, decorate my house, it feels good.
>>
>> OB Food: dinner tonight will be baked flounder fillets with steamed
>> spinach. Served on my own plates!
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
>
> Did you move your furnishings up from Memphis?
>
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> Wayne Boatwright
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> Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. ~A. Kerr
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>

Yes (and I moved down, not up LOL) There are boxes all over the place
I'm having fun unpacking them.

Jill