1950's Ceramics: My Fragile Obsession

So much of my time is spent searching for, buying, selling, and collecting figural ceramics from the 1950s and 60s. My profile picture is of the valuable relish condiment jar from Holt Howard's pixieware line:

I love these things. I also have a Jam n Jelly, Olives, Mustard, Ketchup, and Russian Dressing from Holt Howard. The ones I bought for myself are repaired, the ones I got as a gift (Relish and Ketchup) are in excellent shape. I also have several peices from the Cozy Kitten collection, other condiment jars, and other random things.

The quandry I face as a collecter and a seller is that it is hard to justify keeping things that I could get money for. So I haven't added much recently to my own collection, something I'm sure my husband is not too upset about! We also have to re-do our kitchen (it is currently wallpapered with "not my taste" bird wallpaper - I should post about that separately). We had a kitchen in our last house that matched all this kitchy stuff - I gotta get the new kitchen updated and looking good so I can move this stuff to that room.

We moved last September into a house that needed something done to every room. You know how it goes, you swear you will never do that again, and then you go and do it again.

But right now my stuff is in the den, where it looks fine with the yellow walls.

Back from the Beach

We're back after eight and a half hours of driving, or for me, riding in the passenger seat. Ed as usual slipped out of his seatbelt harness before we left the driveway of the beach cottage. We gotta get some new seatbelts for the dogs. Jenkins and Ed are very cute in the backseat trying either not to throw up or get thrown up on (J gets carsick).

It was a nice trip. Unfortunately my family brings enough food for a small country (there were 10 of us total there) which makes it kinda hard for a compulsive eater like me to not eat. We got home from dinner last night, I was completely stuffed and as soon as we got back I was looking for something to eat. My sister expressed shock when she actually had the sensation of being hungry yesterday, that is how much we eat!

Below is a pretty picture Tom took outside the Aquarium.

First Bloggy Post

This is my first post.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this blog.

I like to polymer clay (using it as a verb), watch TV and movies, buy and sell vintage kitchy ceramics, and rescue dogs. I'm sure I'll be mentioning all of these in the future!