Showing posts with label tartanware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tartanware. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2015

Y is for YES and Yippee! ~ Tartan Parade 2015


Y is for 

YES and Yippee!




MacKenzie-Childs Pocket Watch Ornament

Yippee!

Alison @ Polohouse 

 decided it was time for another

Tartan Parade!




iPhone Tartan Case ~ Mackenzie-Childs Glasses ~ Tartan Wool Scarf

To quote Scott Meacham Wood, the King of Tartans,

"All tartans are plaid, 
but not all plaids are tartans."




Tartan Ware Tea Caddy c1880 ~ Marburger Farm Antique Show

But who wants 

to be that technical?




Part Of My Personal Collection of Tartanware


I simply adore all the 

vibrant colors and textures.



Vintage Brass Lamp With Tartan Shade

I say a resounding 

YES!



Tartan ~ Plaid ~ Paisley @ Marburger Farm Fall Antique Show 2015


Tartans ~ Plaids ~ Paisley ~ Checks



Vintage Paper Maché Tartan Balls c1970

 I'm a fan of all.


Sadie Mercedes In Tartan Frame

Be it fall, 

Winter, Spring, or Summer,

Y'all!




Antique Tartanware Napkin Rings At Christmas


Around the house ~



Wool Dress and Scarf @ Madewell ~ Part of My Fall Wardrobe

Around my neck.



Stack of Tartan Plates From The Cupboards

Tartans ~ Plaids ~ Paisley ~ Checks




Arita Tartan Cup and Saucer ~ Antique Tartanware Glasses Case 

 Life's Little Instruction Book

 I say YES!


Store Window ~ Madewell in Austin, TX
Are you seeing a pattern here?


Yes!

 Tartans ~ Plaids ~ Paisley ~ Checks

 I never met one I didn't like!

 How about you?




Alison @ Polohouse 

 is hosting a Tartan Parade.

 Join the fun HERE,

Click HERE to enter my Fall Giveaway!


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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Hopping Down the Tartan Trail





Used with permission ~ The Ribboned Crown

Donna @ The Ribboned Crown

  has the most charming Tartan Hare,

 so last year I asked if perhaps

 he had some tartan eggs to spare.




Used with permission ~ The Ribboned Crown

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Yes, please ~

Tartan eggs in my basket!





A fruitful year of

 hopping down the Tartan Trail,

 and now I, too, have a basket of beautiful tartan eggs.





Victorian ladies skilled with needle and thread

 spent many an hour engaged in the art of needlework,

 so it's no surprise that many items were marketed

 with the art of needlework in mind.

 Both a collector and a stitcher since childhood,

 one can only imagine my delight with a few tartan eggs,

 little sewing treasures from the Victorian era.





They open to hold a spool of thread,

 a thimble, and a needle.




One of the eggs also has a little surprise ~

 a coin tucked up in the point of the egg.

 It's definitely nestled in as if

 it were original to the egg.





I polished the coin to see if I could make out

 the inscription, but it remains a mystery.

I hope a reader will have some information to share.

 Is this a real coin or perhaps a commemorative piece?



One of the eggs is 

 in the Mc Donald tartan.





The other two eggs look very similar.

 One is marked Mc Lean, but the other has no mark.





The gold zigzag lines that segment

 each egg, are hand painted.

          


A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Yes, I'm very pleased with Tartan eggs in my basket!

 Wishing all a spring fresh 

with good health and happiness!

National Tartan Day ~ April 6, 2015

 Click the links below to visit previous Tartan Day posts.

 Tartan Day 2011 ~ Tartan Day 2012 ~ Tartan Day 2013


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