China Cabinet, Thread Cabinet, China Hutch, China Buffet -

This is NOT a China cabinet.

Evidently it�s a thread cabinet � oh, my stars! 

Melinda stood there patiently, right next to it � just waiting for me to round the corner from the next booth where I was poking around � in search of the right China Cabinet, Hutch, Buffet for the long wall in the dining room at Quiltville Inn.

This is NOT a China hutch, and I don�t think I could even fit a teacup into it � but again - Oh, My Stars!

Can I just sit here and breathe for a minute, please?

This is the ELVIS of all thread cabinets.

Roll up side panels and all!

A thing of beauty -

I am filled with abundant reverence and wonder!

And unabashed thread cabinet lust.

Door up � oh wow!

Inside storage, thread sizes numbered.

And we turn the tag over to find�.

It�s $700.00.  *SIGH*

I love it dearly � but it would just be a �sitting it out and having it do nothing� thing.  A space taker-upper.

There are no drawers to hold Keurig pods or rulers or pencils or stencils � it would just be a big box of a thing to collect dust with no useful space within it � but oh, what a thing of beauty!

I�m thinking of the shop counter on where it once resided.  Can you see it in your imagination?  

Bolts of fabric-of-the-time on the shelves behind the cutting counter, other sewing notions of turn of the century or 1910s or 20s all around � the dress patterns, the buttons, the needles� 

Another sigh escapes me as I round another corner into another booth once again on my mission � I need a China cabinet for the dining room at Quiltville Inn.

Too small, not in great shape -

And I want things more "visible."

Too fancy and WAY too pricy!

There are others, but I�m not a fan of the �federal� style that has those curly ornamental things on the top.  

Who wants to dust those?  

And it makes it hard to use the top of the cabinet as a display area if everything has to go behind those curly bits.

PRETTY!!

This is mirrored in the back.

I like the open airiness of this � but the shelves are clear glass, and if you think I hate dusting federal curly things, you should see how I react to dusting glass with every bit of fluff that shows.  I like it though � but I don�t think this is it.

OOooooh!  Wrong style, but look at that tin punch!

WILD CHAIR!!

It looks like it just dropped out of a scene from Alice in Wonderland.  Can�t you see the Queen of Hearts plopping herself down into this hounds tooth chair?  No, it didn�t come home but I loved it!

I�m afraid to say that the only thing that did come home is a big china platter � marked $8.00 and when I got to the counter, I found it was 20% off.  I left with only 6 bucks and some change out of pocket � not even enough to pull out a credit card for.

But there were beautiful quilts to touch -

Lovely 1900 Double T -

A slinky rayon spiderweb!

A delicate chicken scratch embroidery on the hem of an apron.

(I have one of these, do you?!)

We thought this was a cool way to hang wine glasses -

But you can only really fit 5 per rake or the bases of the glasses would overlap making them hard to remove.

And the weird or fun thing of the day to search for � and the thing that made us all laugh at once?  �I had one of those!!!�

The first generation Ipad!  LOL!

We all agreed � if our childhoods are now found in the antique mall, that must mean we are antiques too!  And that makes us limited editions, one of a kind, and priceless as well!

Or at least worth $12.00 as the tag on the Etch-a-Sketch says - 

I did some more antique mall wandering yesterday after a very painful visit to the dentist � I�ll share those finds with you tomorrow.

It�s raining, raining, raining outside today.  I think it rained most of the night, and that softly falling autumn rain played it�s magic on me and I slept all the way until 8:30am this morning.  This NEVER happens.  But maybe I needed it.

And this makes it a very good day to stay in and stitch.

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

This much is true! It would be really easy to lock myself away in a closet and use every reasoning in the book on why I have every right to do so right now. As it is I slept until 8:30, which never happens!

Sometimes we have to work even when we don't feel like it because the working makes us feel better.

Push through!

Have a wonderful Thursday, friends.