Bodica, I love that picture. I wish I could have known your grandma. Thank you for sharing.

I think the weirdest item I have owned is... a pair of stained 1860's drawers (as in underwear). Yep, they're stained in THAT area. But I study mid-nineteenth century costuming, and the drawers are a really rare example of everyday wool flannel winter drawers. Mostly, the finer stuff is what survives, so my patched, ratty, worn-to-a-frazzle drawers are pretty neat. And, yes, they have been a proudly displayed decorator item in the past. They just went home to live with my mother, who also studies the era. I wonder if they will be a decorator item there?

Cooperbailey- nope, I'm in Sanford NC now. Don't ask how *that* happened LOL! However if you are in this neck of the woods, feel free to pop on by.

I'm a city girl by nature, and even in this tiny city, no farm animals are allowed. I have to make due with 5 dogs, Josephina, an Amazon parrot, and a ferret. Sometimes I get to see pigs and goats at work- being a vet has perks!

Fifty-three cow creamers.
Actually, they belong to my DH...we saw a fine antique collection on a trip to Britain years ago, he thought they were wonderfully ridiculous, and immediately began a completely valueless collection that has gotten entirely out of hand. When you line them up on a shelf with all their little open mouths pointing at you, they look like a moo choir. Too funny.

I wasn't gonna play as I have no pics, but bodica's photo of her beloved grandmother forces me to post just to say how much I loved hearing about her, and see the photo Very evocative. Hope you frame it nicely! I, too, had a beloved grandmother. Allison's wins my heart for the most beautiful. Makes me wonder how anyone could walk into that shop after viewing such beauty. Different times,place and ways, I know. Having it in her home makes me feel she has rescued it!:>) Judiegals dressed up duck and reno's hen purse make me smile the most. So much great stuff on here!

Meghane,

Me too! In my home office - in Baltimore!!

-Pam
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I won this at a Christmas party a few years ago. I haven't used it yet, but I think it's a cookie jar. My husband has begged me to trash it, but I think it's cute! I think it was originally from Target-

Sorry it's so BIG!

Pam- she's a beauty (assuming female)!

Josephina is from MD too. A friend of a guy I worked with knew this person who was going to let her go outside. In November. In Maryland. I had LeeZard at the time, and word got around that I "needed" another iguana, so of course I took her in. She was woefully malnourished- has many healed fractures, was very small for her age, crammed into a tiny aquarium and fed iceburg lettuce. The kids lost interest in her. I guess they got a puppy or whatever. Anyway, I took her in, thinking she was Jose until she laid 2 eggs about a year after I got her. I got her spayed at that time- LeeZard had been eggbound and I wasn't going through *that* again, but the experience did make me go into veterinary medicine. LeeZard died a month before I started vet school at 12 years old. I don't know how old Josephina is, but she's at least 10 and still doing great.

Bodica, what a lovely story and photo. Thank you for sharing.

Aww.....I had an iguana named Ralph when I was a kid. He was so much fun. :(

Yes maghane, she's a female. Although I probably wouldn't have been certain had she not become eggbound. We also got her spayed to prevent it from happening again. (I must confess, I looked into the vet's eyes and said "But, but, there's no... daddy!")

We took her in from a guy who was getting married in 2 days and his wife-to-be said it's the iguana or me. That was 12 years ago and I know he had her for 4 years. I hear they can live for decades. Oh joy. I am a firm believer in keeping a pet when you make a commitment which is why she is still here. I could not imagine letting a pet go, especially one who is so dependent upon the heat. So did you go into exotic vetrinary medicine? That was another lesson - you can't just take an iguana to any old vet, it has to be an exotic pet vet!

While not mass produced I think there are some on here that have one or two. She is spoiled rotten and loved to death.

Here she is doing what she does best, sleeping in the sun.

Our Maggie.

Laura

shoot, i have tried and tried to post pics of my one-of-a-kind-bed,, but i must be missing an intregal step. gotta wait until a kid comes home to help me! menawhile, i can email pics easily if some kind soul would post it for me...

awn & camlan,when you two stage the literary Grudge match of the century, you'll need Nancy Pearl for the referee.

southernheart, I didn't get to go to Graceland either, but when I was in town on an extended vacation over 30 years ago, I traveled EPB every day and mentioned how cool the sign was. One of the guys hanging out with us offered to "borrow" one directly off the pole from the City of Memphis, but my good Baptist upbringing would never let me accept something with that kind of colorful past. I declined his generous offer, and bought this one from a street vendor instead. We used to have it on the gate at the other farm, but some guys baling hay snagged the gate and ripped it off, dragging it a half mile before we could get them to stop, so it looks a little used. Still cool, just rough.

Walkin, LOVE the pillow.

Well...how about a chicken in the kitchen?
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meghane I have that lizard handle! It's on a closet door - love it!

Too many other wonderful postings to even comment on - these are great! Well, except for bodica's grandmother - be still my beating heart - what a precious person to have in your life!

And btw, I had a visiting peacock living part time in my back yard for a month or so once. I could never figure out where he went at night, until I discovered a pile of peacock poop on the sidewalk at the back corner of my house - looked up & there he was, perched on the roof. Apparently they do that - fly up a short distance to roost.

And yes, this was right in the middle of town - never found out where he came from, or where he went.

littledog, I worked in our high school library until recently. We gave Nancy Pearl to our head librarian as a birthday gift!

Finally got DD off the computer so I can finish. :^P
Bodica, what a wonderful photo! Your Grandma reminds me of *my* Grandmas; I also come from a long line of brood-the-chicks-behind-the-woodstove women. Gorgeous peacocks too. Furletcity, what breed of chicken is that?

Awm, you just can't beat that amazing shushing action. ;^)

As for my "bet no one has", since turtles, Elvis, chicks *and* livestock have been spoken for, I'm trying to decide between the 1950's two story Colonial tin dollhouse in the dining room, or the crescent moon and star graveside wire floral arranger. (goes so well with the "Furniture and Undertaking" advertising plate.)

littledog, show them both!The peep is now a full grown bantam (miniature chicken)of mixed parentage.His name is Atlas, and he used to hang out on the top of my head whenever I let him.
Thanks for asking!

a baby fawn in my childrens playground!
It saw me and cried for mama who came a stamping her foot at me. So precious! Two pictures, look closely at the first one!
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sueb20 - I would love to see pics of your moose. Many years ago, in a junk shop in Ohio, I passed by a huge paper-mache wall-mounted cow head. It was made by a theatre department as a prop for a college play, and it was wonderful - it was a black/white spotted cow with the most goofy expression on its face, and it was huge. (It was also $200 and impossible to fit on the plane to take home, which is why it's not hanging over my fireplace right now, LOL!) It's one of those "ones that got away" that I still think wistfully about even now, 10 years later. Oh well.

Camlan - love the action figure (and the Riverside Shakespeare book) - your bookshelves look a lot like mine. Where did you go to grad school and for what?

Reno - I must own that purse! It cracks me up every time I scroll down this thread. I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to carry it, but to heck with it! I know what I'm asking for for Mother's Day, LOL!

As for my own entry, how about a picture of dogs peeing hanging over the toilet in the powder room?

littledog - if you are still reading, please post pics of the dollhouse, I'd love to see it! (DH just built DD a wooden one for Christmas)

Our super powerful tomato machine!!

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A pipe organ.

I try to keep most of my house tasteful. But last year a wonderful friend sent me this birthday card, and even though I don't normally put things on my refrigerator, other than a calendar, this is where he's been ever since.

She drew the tattoo on his butt, and the inside reads, "See, there are things more frightening than having another birthday!"

And, I am happily single/divorced, and take pride in doing most household repairs, etc myself, and always say that if I need a man I'll rent one by the hour. So she wrote, "Hey, stick this on your fridge, and when you miss having a man around, take a good look at what you're missing!"

These are hilarious! Here are my entries:

Our 1957 Norge Customatic fridge. Runs like a top and keeps things cold, cold, cold.

Or, a few naugas. When Uniroyal introduced Naugahyde back in the 1960s, it created the "Nauga" to tell the story about the origin of this amazing new hide. My grandpa got a new chair and gave me the Nauga he got with it. Over the years I collected several more. But I have since divested myself of all but a few of them.

Kitchendetective, I found you a steer head, though it's not cheap....and it's painted. More American looking than French although it says 1910 France.

Igloo, there are several zinc horse heads on 1stdibs.

Here is a link that might be useful: Steer Head

My3Dogs, I sent that exact card to my DS at grad school last year! I thought it was soooo funny and so did he. He tells me it's now permanently displayed on his fridge.
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Thanks, Allison, but I've already seen him and he is just so wrong. I want the real deal, IYKWIM. Since we raise Charolais breeders, it seems only right. LOL. Hope you keep looking, though. This isn't one of ours, but this is how our babies look (sans ear tag). Darling, huh?

Here is a link that might be useful: Here's how the calves look

Oh, that's not my You-tube or my calf and I'm not advertising, BTW.

I didn't think you would like him. He looks too new. Wonder who painted and when. Will keep my eye out.

Oh, what a cute baby! You should post pictures sometime!

Here's a pretty good replica on 1stdibs.

Here is a link that might be useful: replica

My3dog, that's just disgusting. LOL

Jake, that is beautiful. I cannot believe that old fridge is still running and am wondering how much electricity that baby is pulling. HA!

"line them up on a shelf with all their little open mouths pointing at you, they look like a moo choir."
Oh, I like that. :^)

Jenny, here's the dollhouse (with the turtle shell thrown in for good measure):

That Norge is so fun! What memories that brings back. We had that fridge when I was growing up. It was built like a tank! We moved and left it behind for a modern kitchen" 60s" in a newly built house.

Thanks for the pic - that's a very formal looking dollhouse ;-)

I love the turtle shell!

Bodica ... beautiful post.

Sorry budge, I have two sheepskins on my living room chair! The brown one was a souveneir from our trip to Salt Spring Island - I think it looks more like a teddy bear than a sheep!

However, I'm willing to place my bet on a camel saddle stool purchased by dh's dad when he was stationed in France in the 60's. He says it was from Istanbul originally - I don't think there are many camels in France, LOL. The originally but badly worn teal tooled leather cushion is intact under the new cover:

Or how about a cuckoo clock featuring beer drinkers and dancing girls? Here it is in the dining area:

People ask me if the cuckoo drives me crazy, but truthfully, I don't even hear it.

Here's the exact clock I found online:
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CarrieM, I love your camel saddle. I have one, too, that we took out of the trash before the previous residents moved out of a previous house...it was like yours but without the wonderful camel head pommel. We reupholstered the cushion (which was a horrible cheap white leather with gold embossing on it) with red leather, and have been dragging it around for twenty years. It came from Dubai, I think, with the aforementioned previous resident who was an architect who had built some hotels in the Middle East.
We love ours, but yours is much nicer!

bronwynsmom - dh says he remembers "riding" this stool around the living room when they were kids. The legs were broken and the seat, as I mentioned before, was terribly worn. I decided to have it repaired and recovered as a surprised for dh. I found a site with the most amazing camel saddle before and afters, and decided to add the fringe myself as an extra detail.

When I gave it to dh, he was touched. He also told me he remembered there was once fringe on it originally, but it had been lost somewhere over the years. It is a cool piece of furniture.

Carrie

Here is a link that might be useful: Camel Saddles - B&A!

....a pillow from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair on my bookcase. A very old woman was selling almost the entire contents of her house at a garage sale, and I was thrilled when I saw it, being from Chicago. The woman told me her late husband had hitchhiked from Michigan to Chicago to attend the fair, bought the pillow, then hitchhiked back to Michigan. She sold it to me for $7 and I told her I'd take good care of it.

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An antique large jade foo dog whose head comes off and there is a cavity inside, for storing incense apparently. Apparently the ones that have a removable head are extremely rare. He's really beautiful, and unlike any foo dog I've ever seen, and don't ask how much he cost, but he's one of my most treasured posessions. He's somewhat chubby, which I think is what makes him so endearing.

Actually, I hope someone else DOES have one of these so I can figure out what it is!! I spotted this on the checkout counter at a thrift shop I was in several years ago. I was having such a laugh watching the odd looks on the faces of all the customers in line who passed by it. I brought it home and periodically freak my family out by moving it to unexpected places around the house. They all despise it!! Then a few months ago I stumbled upon what appears to be it's younger cousin (the one in the bottle) in a different thrift shop. Perhaps I should start a collection . . .

What an interesting thread!

I have nothing unusual here, but I remember as a child seeing several rattlesnake rattles around the house. My father and older brothers would save them from the snakes they killed on our property.

Ok, after googling rattlesnakes, let's hope those rattles I played with were FOUND from shedding or already dead snakes instead of acquired from direct encounters. Yikes!

A picture of the dog's graduation hanging on the wall. Hubby insists that they passed her just to get her out of the class because her brain is the size of a peanut and she doesn't show any indication of ever being in an obedience class!

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Oh. Mah. Gawd. You guys are freaks -- freaks, I tell you! And I love you all the more because you're so freeeeaky! There is some amazingly awesome stuff in this thread. Makes me want to add even more bizarre stuff to my house, because, really, who wants to live without humor and whimsy and ... freakishness in their lives? ;-D

Well, I'm the only person I know of whose house is Tudor cottage in the outside, Little Mexico on the inside. What's odd is that I recently learned from the woman who grew up in the house in the 40's that her mother was fluent in Spanish and had a love affair going on with the Latino culture. I had sent this woman some current house pix, and she said her mother would have loved it.

Here are a few of my oddities:

This hideous little truck - how I love it! It's moved from my kitchen to my living room mantle. My nephew came over one day and played with it, and ended up gouging the wooden bun feet of my sofa with it. ::sigh::

I have a Tatouage chicken on my hallway wall:

There's a rusting rooster guarding my side entry:

And a scary troll dude sitting on my front porch.

teeda, I think those are precious and I'd love to take the one with the flute off your hands when your family can't stand it anymore. They look like little vintage music fairies :)

jboling, that is incredibly touching.

Love the pillow, jboling, and your chicken, Auntjen.

OK..I don't have it myself, but my for years my father had my mother's gall stones in a covered glass vessel, arranged with lovely plastic flowers, behind his bar. Courtesy of a surgeon friend I guess?? Sorry, I don't have a pic.

My husband was gifted with a red fire hydrant. It sits in our den.