Catching up: Tablecloth Thursday and Friday Fiver

We interrupt your Silver Bella recap to bring you:

Tablecloth Thursday! I took the photos yesterday but didn't get them posted, so I'm a day late.

This week it's my vintage Thanksgiving tablecloth, an excerpt of which you see here. I bought this last year sometime at a thrift store and I feel so lucky to have found it, as I know it probably wasn't a common design. It has a mustard-colored panel in the middle and a design of orange and mustard fall squash & veggies in the border, punctuated by cute little Pilgrim village scenes like this one. It has a few stains that I now suspect are rust, so if I can get hold of some Whink I'll see if I can get them out. Otherwise, I love it!

And today's Friday Fiver:

1. What's the last thing you threw away?
A sodden diaper and the eggshell from Maren's scrambled egg breakfast.
2. Have you ever been to Paris?
Yes, almost this exact time of year, but in 1998. We spent Thanksgiving there. Can't believe it was so long ago! Maybe I should get working on that scrapbook, eh?
3. What do you stare at?
My Bloglines, waiting for it to update. :) I'm addicted!
4. What do you hurry for?
I hurry get things done during Maren's naptime, my only chance for a little peace & quiet.
5. Friday fill-in:I could have been ___.
I could have been showered & dressed by now if I hadn't gotten sucked into looking at the extra clearance items on Talbots.com.

More Silver Bella to come!

Tablecloth Thursday and Good Mail

I swear I do own an iron, but you wouldn't know it to look at my tablecloth photos today. Nice. This rooster and farm cloth is one of my favorites in my very small collection. I found it at a thrift and it is in perfect condition and the colors are still really vivid--it doesn't show any signs of its likely 50+ years of age. It's one of my only cloths that has a label (made by California Hand Prints, who also produced beach towels. It's not particularly rare--they pop up on eBay all the time--but I think it's charming and I love the bright colors. I normally use my tablecloths on my table and we even eat on them, but this one is in such nice shape that I just can't bring myself to chance spilling salad dressing on it, so it lives in a dresser drawer for now, until I can find a neat old ladder like this to display it on.

I received a wonderful surprise thank you treat in the mail the other day from Kirsten of Preppy Pink Crocodile, who won my pie giveaway earlier this summer. Kirsten sews really fun stuff and she sent me an envelope just stuffed with goodies! She made me a luggage tag and coffee sleeve out of the most darling fabric printed with pies, a cute tissue holder with chickens, a neat bookmark made of ribbon and tiny green ball trim, and a very cool pink and orange reversible smock for Miss Maren! Kirsten's package was totally unexpected and absolutely delightful!

More Tablecloth Thursday here and here and here!