Tolentreasures

Today was my monthly day to work at Diamond Antiques and Gifts in  Tarentum, Pa.  Such a fun job!  The place is so colorful and cheery!  The first two pics were taken in my booth,  the remaining in other booths.  If you are in the area, stop in,  you won't be disappointed.  Check out the links at the end of the post  and  stop over and like them on  Facebook.   Loving the  Colors of Spring!  https://www.facebook.com/DiamondAntiques http://www.diamondantiquesandgifts.com/

Last night, these all got washed and polished up. My grandmother's Jewel Tea dishes, Bits and Pieces of a set, many of them chipped, but such a nice keepsake of my Grandma's. My Dad's father passed away at a very young age. My grandmother was left with a 12 year old boy and a 10 year old girl to raise in the 1940's when single motherhood was not the norm. She became a nurse and raised them. Later she would remarry, and later she would develop what would seem now to be a very early form of Alzheimer's Disease. Long before any of us had ever heard of that disease, she slipped away from us. I was only 13 when she died. She was in her early 60's. I have so few memories of her when she was healthy. Those that I have, I cherish. She loved to garden and was a beautiful quilter. I can remember helping her with her flowers and I remember her reading to me in a seat in a rose arbor in her backyard. After she passed away, my step-grandfather remarried. His new wife never a...