irenem you cannot imagine the pleasure and comfort and Warmth when you put on a pair of socks you have knitted. if you are so inclined, try the library (or book store) for a book on how to knit 2 socks at the same time on two circular needles or one long circular needle. i am such a procrastinator that otherwise i would have a drawer full of sock.

helen that sounds like a no fun way to spend an afternoon, but if your swallowing improves it was worth it.

irenem after 10 years of trying, i have finally taught myself how to knit socks, but i only use wool blends because i want machine wash… i cannot abide the feel of acrylic yarn.

stepping genteelly off soapbox.

kick up your heels.

beautiful table, fran.

i forgot to put vanilla extract in the lime glaze for the key lime pound cakes, but they will be ok.

marty - oh, how i love webster.

a friend has her anna pig (a pig shaped pottery bourbon flask with a cork in its, um, derierre) up for auction on http://www.glswrk-auction.com, and while i was wandering around their site open mouthed, i thought some of you glassies might want to look. it isn't all ugly little brown pottery pigs. the glass and bottles are amazing, and it was a real education for me since everything is identified and dated.

bob in ky it's beautiful. it reminds me of what atlanta must have looked like when sherman set fire to it.

decoqueen i'd think that's a very good price. i see just the inserts, like i have, listed on ebay for $45 all the time. and the tire is the hardest part to find.

i think every tire company must have made the rubber tire ashtray with glass insert. i have a uranium glass goodrich silvertowns insert without its tire (circa 1936). jimd is right. the first thing to go was the tire.

from someplace other than photobucket (thanks carl)

as usual i appreciate any help you can give me with pattern, maker, and anything else. am i even correct in calling these powder jars?

powder jar
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powder jar with celluloid lady
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gail thanks for the woodchuck info. they are so chubby, i can see how they might wind up in the oven.

fran we have armadillos galore, and i am not far from manatee park. manatees love the very warm river water that comes out of the florida power and light plant. i have never understood how sailors could mistake them for mermaids. those men had been at sea far too long.

goodnight, y'all. it is almost time for the twilight zone and i have to take out my contacts and floss.

i love horse racing, although i understand that it is very hard on the horse. when i was way younger and way, way thinner, i used to gallop race horses. there is nothing like it as far as the adrenalin rush goes. i cry every time i watch phar lap. i read recently that he was probably a victim of arsenic poisoning.

Love the bear pics. A friend of mine was held hostage in his house all night one night because a visiting black bear discovered the refrigerator under his carport that he kept filled with cans of soda and juice boxes for his grandkids. he said he wasn't sure if the bear was biting into them or opening them with his claws, but that the cans made a loud hiss every time he opened one and there was a huge sticky mess the next morning. and he was more worried about the bear cutting his mouth on the cans than anything else.

hi, mike.

bob in ky with all those flowing lines and plant forms you could call it art nouveau. the phillips head screw was invented by henry phillips in the early 30s.

bob those candleholders are killer bee.

suzy i'm a draftsman and i believe in using only one case, upper or lower, but never both. and sometimes wow is the only description that fits.

i just spent hours trying to list one stone age paleo-indian artifact. it seems ebay does not allow you to mention native american artisans or use the word indian unless you give their name and tribe. unfortunately, it has been 8,000 years and his name was probably something like ugg and i don’t know the tribe. they make it so hard sometimes. they really are trying to weed us and our musty old antiques out in favor of the fancy new chinese stuff.

i’m going to scroll and look at beautiful old glass and soothe my soul.

great peachblow site, gail. thanks. i have a hard time getting my mind around that one; there seem to be so many shades of peach.

suzy also be on the lookout for the more new fangled version with a slit in the middle of the box holder, so that the box could slide down, or book matches could be inserted into the slit. these ashtrays come from a time when smoking was glamorous and good for your health and everyone was encouraged to smoke.

belated happy birthday, janice
belated happy anniversary, don and laura
fran, i am happy that you have such a good patient, and that he is on the mend.

congratulations to y'all with the great sales. i read your copy and luck had very little to do with it.

my show and tell for tonight, where i show and y'all tell me amazing things and i am forever grateful, deals with really old glass. i bought these pieces for first century roman, as a tear vial and a rose bowl from a dealer i would have trusted with my life in 1980. my own research has led me to believe that each is properly called an unguentarium (yuck). the 'rose bowl' has a smooth neck and beads at the shoulder and impressed squares on the body for about two thirds down. i have also read that unguentaria used to hold poisonous or caustic things were not smooth sided, so the roman wouldn't grab the bad stuff by mistake, sort of an early take on a poison bottle. as always, i so appreciate your knowledge and help.

tear vial 1
tear vial 2
tear vial 3
rose bowl 1/
rose bowl 2
rose bowl 3

as always, i need some help with glass id.

the ashtray? is 5" from outside ball to outside ball. i have the same one in pink with a 7" diameter, but an old glass head form full of old marbles is sitting on it. all i know is that lots of companies made things that looked like candlewick.
dish 1
dish 2

i was told the pattern on the bowl when i bought it. something and medallion, maybe button and medallion? anyhow that is all i know.
bowl 1
bowl 2

any light you could shed would be greatly appreciated. thanks.