Items From Other Rooms Now On-line
Churns, China, Figurines, Miniature Bottles
Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that fill my mother’s home are now available for viewing.
A more accurate but also more awkward title for this category would be “Items From Areas Of Mom’s Home Other Than The Rooms Listed In The Other Family Home Photo Safari Posts.” These are items located in the hallways, stairwells, bathrooms, the guest bedroom, etc of Mom’s home.
I’m especially fond of the glass jar butter churns, one of the few nostalgic collectibles I distinctly remember being employed in my childhood home. I have no memory, for example, of oil lamps, two man saws, ice tongs, or even the dash butter churns being used.1
One photo, I see now, requires further explanation. While many items are, obviously, displayed as parts of a collection, some pieces aren’t formally displayed but have been accumulated in quantities far beyond the level that would be routinely needed for utility’s sake. To provide a sense of this phenomenon, I have included a photo of the blankets and quilts Mom keeps stacked in the guest bedroom - other than the covers already on the bed. Ostensibly, these are made available in case the temperature drops precipitously during the night. Given that I have visited my parents’ home as an adult many, many times during the winter without needing that extra dozen quilts, I think it fair to consider these quilts one of her “hidden collections.”
Mom’s Collectibles - Index & Description Page
The full story of my mother’s houseful of collectibles and its metaphysical implications and links to all published photos of items from her home can be found at
The Photos
All of the Family Home Photo Safari pictures were taken by me during our Thanksgiving 2007 trip to Mom’s home. The vistas on the title panels of the photo displays depict Table Rock Lake as seen from the cabin’s deck during the same Thanksgiving 2007 visit.
I hope you enjoy viewing these photos as much as I enjoyed photographing my parents’ collectibles and as much as my mother and father enjoyed finding and displaying them.
The photos of the items found in hallways, stairways, and transitional areas are available at
Coming Attractions: Photos of the final room of Mom’s collectibles, those from the Living Room, should be posted later this week.
Footnotes
- The home in which my family lived for the first ten years of my life, however, was heated by a wood burning stove that was re-installed each winter and removed each spring. ↩
