Happy Friday Flea Market

I’ve had several requests for more vintage vanity items, so I’ve obliged! For this weeks Friday Flea Marked at The Pink Rose Cottage you’ll find this fabulous vintage powder box among other wonderful items!

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And if you’ve stopped at The Pink Rose Cottage lately you’ll have noticed a new category, Vintage Travel Souvenirs! Fun items, mostly from the 1950’s, when family travel was so very popular. I have many more items to add to this and other categories, so please stop back.

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Do you love whimsical and designer vintage hankies? I’ve thinned my personal collection and will be listing them on ebay starting Sunday, August 2, 2009. You’re invited to check them out!

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Happy August my friends!

Friday Flea Market again!

Wow! The week went fast!!! It’s Friday Flea Market time again at The Pink Rose Cottage!

I love these two vintage plates. They have the sweetest cozy cottage window! Lots of hollyhocks and pink roses. What more could you ask for? Oh, how about a darling birdcage and potted pink roses?? Use these with depression glass or take a plate of cookies to a friend on them. No matter how you chose to use them they just sing “cottage charm!”


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Have a great weekend my friends!

Friday Flea Market

Welcome to Friday Flea Market at The Pink Rose Cottage! This week has been all about vintage linens! I’ve added a few sweeties to Friday Flea Market including tea towels, tablecloths, and cutter chenilles.
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I’ve also added cheerful and colorful vintage tablecloths in the Vintage Linen Category. Tablecloths are the prefect little extra to make your home cottage cozy!

In the next few weeks I’ll be adding and stocking two new categories. To give you a hint the first one will be FUN! The second with be SWEET! So please stop back!

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Weekend Finds...

Hope all had a wonderful weekend. The summer is going so fast! But then again, it always does! My parents and I took a ride up to New York state to visit a few of our favorite antique shops. On the way we found a wonderful estate sale. It was the third day of the sale, but the old farm house was still full of treasures. Here are a few of my favorites.


Music books with beautiful ladies

Vintage Advertising Cards

A photograph of a beautiful little girl

Embossed pink rose and violets greeting card

Silver napkin ring

My favorite find – little sheets of face powder in a linen case hand painted with pink roses.

A booklet of soap leaves to carry in a purse or pocket

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

Mangle Mania!

Some of you asked to see the mangle and here she is! As you can see it has a nice countertop like cover.

There is a knee control lever that makes the ironing roll go around. The back has a long metal bar called the ironing shoe that gets very hot. I just feed the cloth though a few times and it’s nice and crisply pressed! It's great on all linens, but you wouldn't believe how wonderful it is with linen damask. It just makes the design pop from the cloth!

I purchased my mangle at an estate sale on the second day so it was half price. I paid $2.50 for it! It’s extremely heavy and was very hard to load in my van, but so worth the effort! It came with its original instructions.

Here they show a beautifully pressed christening gown.

And a mans dress shirt.

Can you imagine?? I’ve only done flat items with the mangle. It must take a lot of skill to do detailed pieces.

And while I still use an iron when I don’t want to be down in the dungeon (my basement laundry room, lol), I know my mangle is going to get quite a work on in the next few weeks. I recently purchased tons and tons of vintage linens. I’m soaking and pressing and loving it!!

Future clean, crisp vintage linens!

I’m trying not to keep too much, so check out my store The Pink Rose Cottage or my items on eBay at the*cozy*cottage. I’ll be adding these linens soon and often!

A few pictures of my garden and more….

I don’t have an award winning garden like my parents, but I’m pretty happy how it’s turning out so far this year.

The pink roses are ready to pop!


I love my yellow roses but so do the bugs! It’s early enough that I’m not fighting the critters for them.


I wish I knew what this rose was called. It’s so unusual. A pretty red, but the underside of the petals is a silvery white.


And this is how I found a rose one afternoon. Some little bird broke out of his egg. I just don’t know how the shell got there!


These peonies were from my great-uncle’s garden. He passed away last year. So I will think of him every time I enjoy these flowers. I love how they are soft pink with a creamy white center. And oh, how I wish you could smell them!


Pretty soft pink fuchsia.


My garden shed.


And while I’m so enjoying wearing sandals on my nicely polished tootsies (Thank you my kidlets for my wonderful spa pedicure for Mothers Day!), I’m looking forward to wearing these gorgeous pink cottage rose socks! They are from Victorian Trading Company. They also come in blue. So I’ll have to get those next time. Aren’t they the sweetest??



I haven’t found any fabulous vintage tablecloths at sales lately. But this weekends find sure made up for it. I got this framed vintage print of embossed pink roses by Catherine Klein! I couldn’t believe it when I saw it just sitting there on a picnic table! It was late morning and things like this are usually long gone. But there she was just waiting for me! And – get this – I paid $3.00 for her! Yep, only $3.00. That never happens! Beautiful understated gold frame, wooden slat backing, great colors…all for only $3.00!! Oh this so makes up for any missed tablecloths! Now I just have to find the perfect place!

Congrats to my parents! Fairview Garden Club Garden of the Month!

My parents have the most beautiful garden and was nice to see them recognized this past May. Like to take a stroll with me?


Their picture was in a Saturday edition of Homes in our local newspaper.

Dad’s decorative contribution!

This is Harmony. She loves the porch too! She even has her own swing. This dog adores my kids so much, I swear she’d walk though fire for them. She’s not the prettiest dog, but she has tons of love in her ol’ heart!

Well, there you have the garden tour. Mom’s always adding and changing her design, so I’ll be sure to share updated photos!