how very sweet, and fun!!

facinating.

Wish I could post picture of myself in hat

What a great place. I am going to put it on my bucket list as a must see!

Great post, I just watched the 1925 Phantom of the Opera last night on Halloween. Would love to go there, my husband would love it.

Love it

Hi there,
I so thoroughly loved your article about the hoosier cabinet. My grandmother owned one and I don’t know who inherited it. I also have loved vintage and antiques of all kinds, especially in the kitchen. I grew up in a house that had been built shortly after the civil war. When we moved into it in December of 1941 it still had gas lights throughout. These were gradually replaced with electric lights. We also had a water pump in the kitchen sink.
I was only 3 when we made that move so I’m surprised that I remember so much. I still have wrought iron brackets and holders for kerosene lamps that were removed from the walls of that house.
My neighbor, when I lived in oregon has a hoosier cabinet that is beautiful and I drooled over it everytime I was in her kitchen for a visit.
At my age (81) although I still dream of owning one of those cabinets, I doubt that I will.
BUT, I can always love reading and re-reading about yours.
Thanks so much for your pictures and your posting.
Suzanne

Hi Nicole,
Your Hoosier is beautiful!
I also have one I purchased from a local Bed and Breakfast in 1993. Mine is white with red trim and has many of the same features yours does.
My Hoosier has mainly been used in my kitchen, but there were a few years when I used it in my sewing room to store some of my quilting fabrics and notions.
Thanks for sharing the pictures of your Hoosier!
Bonnie, in Oregon

WOW! What a beautiful blessing. I am so happy for you. I have wanted a Hoosier cabinet for many years. You have it decorated beautifully.
I look forward to your monthly blog! Thanks for all you write. Keep inspired 🙂 Rose

I have an original Coppes Brothers and Zook Hoosier Cabinet made in Nappanee Indiana. It belonged to my great-grandmother. I have all the original cards with weights, measures, spices, things to know, etc that came with it. All spice racks, sugar ring, flour bin, cooling racks, bread drawer, etc are still there. Everything is perfect! My TREASURE!!! I’m 65 so you know it’s an antique. A beautiful piece in my open kitchen! I love your cabinet and all the glassware treasures you have in it! Just beautiful!!!! I’m a Hoosier Farmgirl born and raised in Leesburg Indiana, but living life in North Carolina now.

It looks in great shape. You really got a prize!

I also have a Hoosier cabinet, which of course I love. Mine does have the flour sifter. When my oldest grand daughter (now 22) was 18months old she loved ‘Splorin’ my kitchen as I cooked, washed dishes. One day I could not find her, then I saw the lower door on the Hoosier move, ever so slightly. She had found her perfect hiding place …until she went kerplop to the floor, when the thin bottom board have way. She was surprised, not hurt, but could not play in there until I fixed it. We also have an old icebox. It keeps my cup towels, table cloths, etc. Don’t you love the metal pull out top on your Hoosier?

I love the Hoosier have one in fact. How cute yours looks and glad you found one. I’ll share where mine is on blog for you to see. It was painted years and years ago has the sifter but it is now rusty. Love mine as well it was my well you can read about it if you want. Here…https://www.hibiscushouseblog.com/2011/10/traveling-hoosier-cabinet.html

What a great article! I love my Hoosier. We owned the Michigan Hoosier Company and built reproductions hoosiers years ago and I still have mine. Such wonderful memories.

I enjoyed reading about your “new” Hoosier cabinet. I wanted one for years, as I am an old soul as well! Finally several years ago I found my beautiful cabinet that is red and white, which I LOVE! Recently, I moved across country, from TN to MT! I was worried about it in the move but couldn’t bear to be without it. So we carefully packed it with the two parts separated. I am so thankful that I did since our condo is small but has the perfect place in the dining area of the open kitchen. I keep spices, baking powder and soda, and have it decorated with my husband’s grandmother’s wooden bread bowl, crock type bowls, and an old butter churn found in a barn in MT. I store almost all of my cast iron (which I have collected), and my small “appliances” such as two cheese graters and a cherry pitter that needs the enamel top to attach them to. When visitors come that is the first piece to usually get a comment and it takes them back to special memories. If I could I would attach a picture of my cabinet because it makes me smile each time I use it or look at it. When you mentioned being at the “right” place to find your cabinet, that is how I have felt about my cabinet as well as about several of my other pieces, like a treadle machine and wooden flour bin. It’s funny how I can remember when and how my pieces came. I know you will enjoy your cabinet for many years as they are so versatile and “easy” to find things in. Do you ever notice how things get lost in built-in cabinets but not in this cabinet? 🙂

Love Hoosier cabinets – so handy and useful!

Like you, I’ve always wanted a Hoosier cabinet, but don’t know where I’d put it! However, I’m sure I would figure something out if I found a good deal. 🙂 What I really want is one that still has all the original parts, including the flour sifter, but those were often removed over the years since people weren’t really using them. Maybe one could be found and added back in.
I love yours, and am glad you got one with the feathered windows! That’s extra special, I think? And, I love your kitchen. 🙂
I must admit, though, that when I just saw the title of this, “Who Loves a Hoosier?”, I first thought you meant the people – like me, a born and bred Hoosier, still living in Indiana. 🙂

Hi! I inherited my grandmother’s Elwell Kitchen Cabinet, The tag also says Minneapolis, Minn. I believe Elwell was somehow involved with those who made their cabinets under the name of “Hoosier”. It it made of oak, has 2 metal lined drawers, along with a large storage area on the bottom portion, along with 6 smaller drawers, and a large bread board. The top portion has storage inside the 2 doors, and, shelving along the back. The top portion has a smaller bread board, a spice cabinet, a roll-down compartment for sugar storage, and, 6 smaller drawers. My mother paid someone to make the brass pulls shiny bright. They married in Iowa in 1919, spent some time in Moville, Illinois while my grandfather was studying to be a dentist at Northwestern University, ended up in McHenry County, North Dakota. I’m not sure when or where they bought this cabinet. My mother told me that, when she was a child, my grandmother would remove the bottom middle drawers (2) and all the pots and pans from the storage area below those. My mother could then crawl into the pots space, closing the door behind herself, and play “store” through the cavities left by the removed drawers. My grandmother had reserved empty food boxes and tins for my mom to use when”customers” came to make a purchase. I have enjoyed having this cabinet in my home for many years. I am 71 years old, now. I do hope that one of my grandchildren will want this cabinet, in due time, and love it as we have loved it.

Nicole: There can always be two, one in kitchen, one in sewing room. I had one in my younger years but down sizing is hard in getting rid of all the beautiful furniture. Enjoy while you can. Love Ann

I love the story, also I previously contacted you as I grew up in the Palouse country and lived just a few miles from Moscow. I now have the lovely position as caretaker in a heritage house in Langley B.C. I have found many lovely antiques for the old house (built in 1888) but no hoosier.
Sandra

I enjoyed your article on the Hoosiers and can certainly appreciate your excitement in having one. I have four, yes four, that I bought in the 70’s and 80’s and have moved them many times. They have served me well in various rooms in my homes throughout the years.
My regret is that now, hardly anyone wants them, so they will probably be a very cheap item in my estate sale!

Nicole, I too had always wanted a Hoosier and year before last I found one on Facebook’s Marketplace. We, my son and I, had been looking for a long time for one and one day when I got on Facebook and went to Marketplace, the first picture there was of a white with red trim and black knobs Hoosier. I had been having trouble walking, but when I saw the Hoosier I almost ran to where my son was and told him to come and look at what I had found. The excitement flowed that day and we contacted the owner who was having a yard sale about 60 miles away in Indiana. We told him we would be there with our trailer the same day to buy it and bring it home to our unfinished house. Our house was not completely done yet and I always wanted white cabinets with black knobs, and this Hoosier fit right in with my ideas. It has on the top half, two long doors, one with shelves, the other where a flour sifter bin used to be, and a small glass front door between them and below that an open area where I store my cookbooks, and below the doors are two small drawers on each side. The lower half has the pull out table top of white porcelain, with the red trim. On each side are two pull out drawers that are as long as the depth of the cabinet, great for storing numerous items, and between them the bread drawer with the metal inside that does keep our bread from spoiling as it used to in a wooden bread cabinet. Below those drawers are two doors that open up to a half shelf and a full shelf which holds many of my baking dishes. This was my first piece in my kitchen and we now have all white cabinets with round black knobs and on either side of my vintage kitchen sink are two glass front cabinets that hold my glasses, plates and bowls for everyday use. I also, because of your blog about vintage treadle sewing machines was able to purchase one from the Habitat Restore the same year. My son also collects cookie jars and the top of the Hoosier holds five of them. I also was able to find an older metal wine rack that holds five wine bottles and has a handle and I use it to hold our five rolling pins and it sits in the middle of my kitchen table until we have company, then I move it the Hoosier. I love reading all the blogs from Mary Jane’s Farm girls and especially those about vintage things.

LOVE IT!!

Thank You for this article……….MJW

Probably 10 years ago I convinced our ladies at the church “we” should have a tea party done in style. A lady who does this for a living directed us through the preparation and serving and another lady came and talked with us telling the history of the high tea and its place in society. It was a BIG success and some of them still tell of it. We all learned a lot also. It was a bit of trouble coming up with all the lace tablecloths.
Thanks for prompting the great memories.

Loved this article! Once moved into our new farmhouse, I thought inviting gals over for “”Tea at 2 on Tuesday” might be fun!

Nicole, I always read your blog and enjoy it. I should be a better friend and reply to each one telling you how special it was or what special meaning or memory it gave back to me!…I’ll try to do better, ha ha ha.
Also, I really appreciate the lovely pictures you share with us! Being an avid photographer myself, I know how much time is spent editing, framing and preparing the pics for your articles….thank you.

Oh how I love an afternoon tea! A morning tea! An evening tea! Oh how I love tea! My grand doll and I have many tea parties!

I love this blog! The pictures are so pretty of the you and your friends, tables, food and tea servings. I love scones because you took me to a tearoom in Connecticutt and they were delicious.
Love,
Mother

A good book about tea is THE TEA GIRL OF HUMMINGBIRD LANE. Not about high tea but more about the origin of tea. Found the book very interesting..

Hi Nicole,
Thank you for your always interesting blogs and pictures. I can’t wait for your next one!
You have not experienced “high tea” until you have gone to high tea at the Plaza Hotel in New York City! I took my daughter when she was 16 years old. It was absolutely WONDERFUL! If you are in Connecticut, hopefully some day you’ll go to the Plaza for high tea!

Hi Nicole –
That is a great day with the ladies in your life. In November my church hosts an Autumn Tea and each table has a different theme. People really go all out and it is a very nice afternoon with friends, sipping tea and just catching up with one another. Thanks for the wonderful story! Diane

Do enjoyed reading your blog.
Rodella Johnston

Hi Nicole –
The Knit In is the first Sunday in May. We had another great turnout. You will have to come sometime and bring a friend or two. It is so great to bond with these women and a few of them that I met have now become members of my Prayer Shawl Group. I will definitely be at the Wool and Sheep show in Rhinebeck. I am even taking a class in Needle Felting as I always wanted to learn this craft. Are you going? Hope to see you there. Have a great day! Diane

Just got home from a 10 day stay at the cabin in the Rockies. The lake is full to the brim and the wild flowers are profuse. Color is everywhere as are the deer (and spotted fawn), the, Chipmunks, hummingbirds, fox and, of course, mosquitos. There’s a moose up there but as yet we’ve only seen what he’s left behind. BIG piles of what he left behind. Our guest house is almost done and that’s our little camper, including a red coffee maker.

I enjoyed reading your newsy blog and the pictures added so much. Thank you for allowing us into ÿour world” for a bit!!

Nicole, I love how you decorated your camper and home!! I too love red and have lots of red touches everywhere all year long. My passion is Apples and they make the perfect vehicle to add red and feed into that “American as Apple Pie” sort of thinking!

Enjoy these long hot days of Summer with your perfect get away vehicle and restful porch!

Your Camper is so cute!! I love all the decor!!

Everything is so cute! We have spent most of July at our northern Minnesota lake cabin where it has been often hot and rainy. Many gorgeous days as well.

Enjoyed the blog. Great pictures, especially the bee pictures.

everything you decorated looks so adorable, inside and out!

While our weather has been a bit cooler and cloudier than usual (Willamette Valley OR), my berries have been producing like crazy and my orange pepper plant as well! Go figure…. I love red as well, and you’ll find pops of it throughout my bungalow-arts and crafts-inspired little house. Love the pics of Gidget!

I adore your camper! We have used ours a few times this year, but it rained most of the month of June and now July is becoming increasingly humid and hot.

Enjoy your blog-takes me home to New England. I am a transplanted suburbanite from Massachusetts. Have learned to appreciate my 4 acres in rural Kansas. Loved your beach experience-too fun (wish I had been with you), beautiful wildlife pics, and the adorable decorating of your camper. Nice touch with your your love of pink and red especially in vintage pieces. There are so many simple but special times
with country life. Saw a fawn & mother drinking by a creek
today. Yesterday took a friend to a breakfast cafe and
blackberry picking. They are so big & sweet; I don’t
know if any will make it to the baking stage!! Country Life is good! Pamela

Everything looks relaxing and inviting…so charming is your little Gidget Glamper.. 🙂

Glad I found this in all honesty. I’m enjoying this article pal.

I have been to New Milford Connecticut many times. This was all before 1998. The observatory sounds like an interesting ,educational and exciting place. Glad you enjoyed yourself. Thank you for sharing.
Marilyn

Very interesting….

Golly gee Nicole, what a great blog as always. It is so amazing that we live on such a small planet and our universe is so big. I didn’t realize the earth was so much smaller than the sun either. I am going to check out more information on space and our universe as you have piked an interest in me to do so. Thanks for a great blog and until next time, have a blessed month.

Beautiful post, Nicole!!

I loved how your daughter looked, the dress was wonderful.
I enjoy your blog and every time I see a vintage trailer, I think of you.

Hi Nicole;
I saw a picture of a mantis with a hummingbird in it’s clutches on Facebook and I was shocked to see it. I also didn’t know they could eat a bird, even a small bird. I love both of them and was thinking about making my pond and garden mantis friendly, but not now and also I read that purple martins, which we now have in our birdhouse, will also eat mantis’ so everything is a meal to something. We also have a cat that lives outdoors and catches mice, rats, robins, squirrels, bluejays, starlings, ground squirrels or chipmunks, and he doesn’t eat them, just kills them, so I am wondering if he is weeding out the weak and old, which is good for the species, and actually makes them stronger. He gets plenty of food in our garage where he sleeps and hides from the marauding dogs in our area, who have chased him up a tree, off our porch and he, so far has always made it to the garage pet door we put in for him. Our dogs do not bother him and we keep them on leashes or in a fenced area of our yard. I love your spring post and your pictures of your daughter and her boyfriend and the prom dress. Wonderful. So glad she likes vintage. I fear modernization has left the best of the best to be wanting. I love vintage and comfort.

Spring is my favorite time of the year! It just doesn’t last long enough. Here in South-Central Il. it is starting to thaw, robins and song birds have returned. The buds on the lilac bushes and the red bud trees are swelling. Soon, when they flower and the leaves are just about half unfurled, I just relish in that time!!

We have had a very long cold, snowy winter also and I am ready to throw open the doors and windows so my spring cleaning (and this year, new paint on the walls) can begin!

My peonies are peeking through and I love them so. Mine are double whites w/the pale pink centers. Oh, they smell wonderful.

Have a FABULOUS Spring!

LOVE that Gidget is out…truly spring has arrived! And the mixer is amazing…a step back in time, I love the 40’s…music, clothes, ahhh, the look. Pink, well I’ll tell you it’s not one of my favorites but that mixer, oh my, may have just changed my mind!

Love pink too my work station in salon is pink evern the ruffle on my haircutting apron!And April is my month too

I adore pink all year long!!! Your blog is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Spring is arriving slowly here in Columbus Ohio. Like you, I adore the spring babies. Have a wonderful spring and a joyous Easter!

I love all the pink. Pink is my favorite color. Thank You for sharing.
Marilyn

Hi Nicole
Spring is definitely here. My yellow and white with pink Daffodils are blooming all over the place, and our Irises are up along with blooming tulips already and my hostas have appeared also. We just planted a Japanese Snowball bush and a mini yellow rose bush that I received for my birthday last November. The Snowball I received from my older son this week along with my favorite annual, a pot of pansies. Our apple trees, lilac bush and our tulip poplar are budding. The robins are numerous already and we have rain but also lots of sunshine. As for the color pink, I like it in some areas and in some shades. I used to always wear a pink lipstick as it looked the best on me with my skin color; couldn’t wear red or orange or any wild color. The pink depression glass is lovely but my favorites are the amethyst or blue depression glass. Love your blog. Until next time.

Enjoyed your March Blog Nicole, as I always do. Still have your goodies in my car. We have to get together. It’s been crazy lately. ❤️ Linda

Yes, my daughter is a senior this year and college in the Fall – where did the time go? Just yesterday I was bringing her home. We already bought her prom dress, bag, shoes and jewelry. Still have to get the hair and makeup appointment, but do far so good. Your daughter is a beautiful girl and I hope that she enjoys her prom. It was one of the best nights of my life! I had my prom in 1980!!!! Have a great day!
Diane

Hi, Nicole – just read and enjoyed your blog – I have chickens also (usually 14/16 !) and with our weather being so bad this year (it is now snowing again which is not the normal weather up here in B.C. (Canada), the hawks and coyotes are always circling ’round the coop ! One thing I have tried for the past couple years is hanging a big flowered flag on one of the 8′ posts and have had no hawk ambushes since … I like to think this works and it also looks nice !

Hi Nicole,
Love the pictures ! What great memories . Can’t believe Audrey is going to the prom already! Where has the time gone! This summer my eldest daughter is getting married! Sorry about your chicken, we certainly have lots of hawks , coyotes , and foxes here! Hope to get together soon.
Jackie

Winter is still hanging on here in KY too; low temperatures, brrr and snow which I like. Oh, poor Cocoa; my friend has chickens and a hawk got one of hers also; but she has a herding dog also, who tries to catch the hawk and protects the chickens and herds them back to the coop when they get out. He is such a good dog. Your daughter is very lovely and looks a lot like you did in your picture. Hope she has a wonderful time at the prom.
Can’t wait to see her in her prom dress. I love that red microwave oven. We use ours mostly for heating up leftovers and cold coffee too. That’s a lovely picture of your parents in 1959. I love looking at old black and white pictures of family members; also like watching black and white movies, classics mostly. Until next time, have a great month and hopefully it will start warming up soon.

Thoroughly enjoyed your post with all the wonderful photos. Having spent all my life in snow country I agree with getting out when you can or staying in and cozy making the most of this peaceful season. Thank you for sharing!

Your potted pyrex pie is on my menu for this weekend. Looks delish! Such sweet critters you have, Mittens, Pip, Odin… Enjoyed your update on winter in New England.

Nope, nope, nope!!! Lived in your kind of winter for ever. Now my snow scenes consist of looking out across the valley and up at the lovely snow covered mountains (Yosemite National Park) and thinking, “Yay! I don’t have to be out in that!” Bless y’all that do. Keep warm and safe.

Nicole,

Love your blog about the beauty and peacefulness of winter! I am a skier so I love to get outdoors in the winter months. This year, Chip and I have been able to use our snowshoes and cross county skis in the surrounding farm fields.

I enjoyed reading your blog for a slice of a New England Farm Girl Winter. Thank you for the dinner recipe! I found some vintage pyrex in an antique store last summer. I am excited to cook this healthy meal in the baking plate.

A winter pet tip for the dogs would be to apply commercial or homemade paw wax to their paws before going out in the snow and ice. The paw wax will keep their paws moist and prevent heavy snow accumulation in between the toe pads.

Stay warm!

Rosemarie Niznik, DVM

I’m a wannabe farm girl living in a small apartment with my husband, our youngest daughter and two dogs! It’s cold (not as cold as the northwest) and snowy here in Flagstaff, and I’m the only one who isn’t sick, but I do have a bit of a sore throat which I’m fighting with lemon, honey and a small clove of garlic squished into hot water, which seems to be keeping the worst at bay. I love your vintage cookware. The most vintage things I have is some of my mom’s De Havilland china, and one Corning baking dish! I cook from scratch 99.99% of the time. Besides that I love to sew, quilt, embroider, knit, crochet, sometimes draw, sometimes write! This spring I’m hoping to grow a few veggies in containers! I enjoyed reading this post and am looking forward to more posts!
Amy

I know it must take a lot of your valuable time to do these articles and great photos, BUT it sure is interesting for all of us! Thanks for sharing.

Great column. I was so happy to see a comfort food recipe from you! I want to try this in the week ahead. I thank you for all you do for us readers! Stay warm. Spring is on it’s way. Happy Valentine’s Day a little early. Winnie jackson of CT

Wonderful messages to those who don’t understand winter’s beauty. Personally I love winter and the peace it affords those of us who appreciate it. Thank you for once again sharing your beautiful thoughts and pictures.

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