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August 12, 2008

Grandma's Lamp..who remembers this one?

Who can guess what kind of buggy this was once on?
Anyone from my family that has been to Grandma Junes, is going to remember this old buggy lamp. It hung on the post between the den and kitchen for years...and she would actually burn lamp oil in it at Christmas or during power outages...and still has the aluminum foil "plug" she used , to replace the missing cap to the base of the lamp. ...Myself, I am not that brave! Instead I converted it to an electric candle lamp...see? I am still making lamps. LOL ! I have it hanging in the downstairs family room as a night light and leave it lit all the time. ( whoops, I see I need to dust!)
(answer to the quiz...a hearse!)

9 comments:

  1. I remember it! Looks like you have snazzed it up a bit and made it look ever prettier. That was a quick walk down memory lane. :)

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  2. Mom would be so glad to see that you are using her things and not just having it packed away. How many years did it hang in that spot? As long as I can remember.

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  3. this is my first comment to your blog I have lots of favorite blogs that I go to now and then and yours is one of them. Love what you did with the lamp but one thing that has also caught my attention is your front porch picture, love the doll you have sitting in the chair,, did you make her and if so who the patterns maker is?

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  4. Just went through more of your posts and noticed that you talked about Hazelruth.One of my friends knows Cathy her name is Gayle our little quilt group drove up to Idaho one day and met Cathy at a house that belonged to a gal named Kim who had amazing quilts. Do you belong to the P&R group? And the lilttle apple farm you went to visit did it have a wonderful barn on it if so that is around the Santaquin area. I am farther north in between Salt Lake and Ogden. Thanks for taking a peek at my blog.

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  5. thanks whitney..Your blogsite is wonderful..love the meory garden idea. I bet you mom was thrilled!
    Yes..I do post occasionally on P&R and SAH forums...I am a nurse and have been working some part time hours latey, so I dodn't get there as often as I would like to.
    Hazeruth patterns are wonderful...so neat you got to meet her! I think my dd lived not too far from you when out in Utah. Cindy

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  6. OMG I just love what you did to the lamp, it's beautiful! I can never find good things like this.

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  7. How lovely that you took something that held great memories and gave it continuing life. Somethings just touch our lives and hold such pleasures. I have a framed pillow top that my grandmother embroidered when she was twelve. It hangs in the diningroom.

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  8. A Buggy Lamp! What a treasure you have! and a family heirloom to boot! and you have made it look so wonderful! If only I had half of your talent!!

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  9. I HAVE ONE IT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. MINE DOESN'T HAVE THE TOP PART ONE IT, I BOUGHT A LONG TIME AGO AT A JUNK STORE WAS NOT SURE WHAT IT WAS USED FOR. I THINK I PAID $20.00 OR $30.00 FOR IT. MY DAUGHTER HAS BEEN WANTING IT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.


    TAMMY SMITH
    primjunkbug@yahoo.com

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