Pottery Chatroom Board

i will try to get some pics taken and links posted t them this afternoon...........thanks fr the inf so far!!
~~~~~~~~~~~waving at leon

hi to everyone! let me apologise in advance for any dropped 'o's, i have a sticky key and don't always remember to read to catch them.
i don
t see much activity on the jewelry or antique boards and so am hping some of you might know something about silver. i have two heavily patinaed small trays that i don't even remember buying, neither of them have any marks at all on them. a magnet is not attracted to either one of them and they are 'embossed'(?). if they were handmade i would say they are repousse but they are nt handmade so i think they would be called embossed. i do not have anything to test silver with but am thinking silve they are old enough nt to have marks as to metal content they might be really old and maybe sterling. does anyone have any ideas on another way to test without buying chemicals or taking them somewhere?

good afternoon everyone, just did a little scroll......glad to see that everyone is doing pretty good. loved the pic of christmas lights, LOL!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO LOOKWHATBOBFOUND!!!

bill, thank you so much!!

love the photos of the budgies!!! what an incredible sight to be able to see. gordon, i don't know how far that is from where you are......but since you and sam are mobile maybe you should head that way!

hi everyone, i haven't scrolled yet to try to catch up......hope you are all well. 🙂

i have a question, i have some Sone dinnerware and it says 'made in occupied japan'.........does that mean i can find a "made before ...." date for it?

good morning everyone......hope you all have a good day planned. 🙂 just rushing through before i have to go to an appt. but wanted to do a quick scroll and see that we all made it through the night, LOL!

hmmmmm, thought i had posted earlier than my last post.....but don't see it now? so sorry if this is a repeat then.......good afternoon everyone. i had a computer crash so am scrolling and trying to catch up with all news on here and one the jewelry board. 🙂

nancyg, in the 1950's my mom had to put a leash on my little brother when she went shopping......the only way to keep him safe, he had no fear of being separated from whoever he was with. people would stop her and tell her how mean it was to make him wear a leash! the leash was attached to a harness, not to a choker collar!

amber, i just saw your post about your doorman passing......i don't have your email to send you a message privately.....please just know you and his family are in my prayers. i am so sorry for your loss.

good afternoon everyone.......i had a computer crash and it looks like i have a lot of scrolling to do today!

nancyg, my little brother had to wear a leash........he had no fear and would run off or hid while we were shopping. after scaring my mom and my aunt almost to death a few times, the leash was attached to him any time we were going to a large store. this was back in the 1950s and people were constantly stopping my mom to tell her how cruel having him on a leash like a dog! heck, the leash was attached to a harness......not a choker chain!

gordon, good idea! now i will be trying to think of anagrams (?) for my own pack, lol

hello everyone......seems like i have just been too busy, there are not enough hours in the day to get to the stuff i WANT to do, LOL. i only scrolled a tiny bit.....gordon, who is sam? i thought you had nice and hugo.
waving at amber in particular and everyone else also~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

good afternoon everyone.

amber....happy belated birthday! i hope you had a wonderful one. 🙂

i do enjoy reading this board in the mornings......you all are like a big well-adjusted family. :))

good afternoon everyone!
(cough) (cough) i think maybe i'm coming down with a cold........amber? is the brownie nut cake already gone?? LOL! not really coughing or coming down with a cold but i figured it was worth a try if amber had any cake left. 🙂

i'm getting ready to take the dogs for a long fast walk.......they were getting a little out of line in the evenings so i got some cesar milan books and have been reading them and using his methods. the long fast walks are working great........they make me fall asleep on the couch in the evenings and i don't know or care what the dogs do, LOL!

gordon, my fiance had his grandaughter (14) in the car with him recently and in the midst of the conversation he said, "but i'm probably just an old fart". to which she immediately said to him, "papa, you're not an old fart! you're just old!"

at 63, i would be offended at being called a fart, old or not, it is just a word that i don't think has a place in polite conversation. i would much rather be call an 'old tart'! 🙂 but polite conversation has deteriorated to the point where words that would have gotten my mouth washed out with soap are now commonplace........unfortunately.

hello everyone. a few months ago i had some prescription meds that i tried to turn in to the drs office, thinking maybe they could give them to someone else who might not have insurance, etc. they told me they were not allowed to 'pass them on' and said if i really didn't want them they would dispose of them for me. i said go ahead and a nurse had me follow her into the bathroom and watch while she poured them in the toilet. i said, 'you're not supposed to do that',and she said, 'i know'.
taking them to a veterinarian is a great idea and that is what i will do next time. i worked for a vet years ago and learned that so many of the same drugs are used for humans and (the rest of the) animals.

shelly, did you say your buyer was resisting returning the item with usps? maybe i am overly suspicious, but i would tell him or her that usps is the only way i would accept the return. if he tries to send back one that does not have your mark on it to get a refund.......that would be a felony for postal fraud.

gordon and amber........you both talking about turkish delight and halva.....i am going to gain weight just reading your posts, LOL!

good afternoon everyone!

katie, sounds like it would have been a hoot to see!

reen, syd is a beauty!

good morning everyone. beth, the first snowflakes of the year are always bittersweet to watch aren't they?
~~~~~~~at amber......you are so sweet. 🙂
gordon, great van! now i can understand about your galley kitchen, bed at chest level to the outdoors, etc. i was having trouble visualizing.

good afternoon all. gordon, how large is your van......i had it pictued in my mind as being small, but you have a galley kitchen so it sounds larger than i thought.

amber, maybe you should see the dr again.....doesn't sound like you are getting better. 🙁

hi shelly, somehow i missed the coffee dan made......must have been still more asleep than i realized. 🙂

jhill, what wonderful memories you have! as i was reading your post i could almost see people skating on the pond and a table set with good hot food waiting for them! when you have memories that nice you don't need as many 'things'. 🙂

good morning, i came over here looking for coffee seeing as how i thought i remembered you all having it on this board in the mornings........and there isn't any!
oh well, hope you all have a great day......even without coffee. mumble mumble mumble 🙂

my fiance wants to do what gordon is doing......and i have no doubt he will be perfectly happy if he does it. give most men a tv, a recliner and a microwave......oh and something to drive....and they will adjust just fine.
he wants me to go with him, but being a woman, i am trying to figure out how i can take my favorite dinnerware, the full size refrigerator, the dogs and cats and birds, oh, and i have to pot up some of my favorite plants in the garden so i can take those, my computer of course, my mccoy vases, my boleslawiec collection, my bookends collection, all my books, the sewing machine, boxes of vintage fabric, the christmas trees and ornaments..............you get it, i'm a woman, we nest, we don't travel easily generally. there are women who can just pick up and go within minutes, but i think women like myself are more common and we find it difficult to understand how men don't need THINGS around them to make them happy.
to live like gordon is doing makes me think of freedom......maybe i am really thinking of freedom from all the material stuff that weighs me down. 🙂

amber, i understood what you were saying about 'being free' perfectly. 🙂 and i have been giving a lot of thought in the last year about doing something very similar to what gordon is doing. as to responsibility i know you were not meaning to relinquish all responsibility......even gordon still accepts responsibility, he takes great care of nice and hugo and visits his mum, as well as (i am fairly certain i am guessing correctly here) is polite to strangers, does not run through the streets in his birthday suit, and does not chew with his mouth open.
and not going to the work in the career you selected voluntarily as your life's work would not be freedom to me........being able to select your career is what i see as freedom.
i don't know gordon's age, but he has almost certainly 'put in his time' and is now living his time of retirement....or 'freedom'.
as far as i can see, peer pressure leads to alot of rude language and general misbehaving. 🙂 peer pressure can be bad as well as good.
anyway, what i meant to say is that i understand what you were saying and i, also, see the freedom in gordon's way of living right now. 🙂

gordon, i'm sure you feel frustration and helplessness that you aren't able to help her be happy. my mom was a very independent and strong willed woman also, and i remember her frustration at not being able to will away copd. the hopeless fighting to regain control of her life was so sad to watch and nothing we could do to help. but i guess we almost all have to go through some variation of that as we age.......... i remember lurking on the pottery board several years ago and how devotedly you took care of your 'mum'. 🙂 you are a good son.

good morning to everyone! i hope all of you looking for treasures today find them.....and those of us trying to avoid going on the hunt for treasures manage to control ourselves.

marty, thanks for telling me about your frankoma, LOL! (i am not going to even look........i might be tempted!)

good afternoon everyone, just grabbing a biscuit that amber (?) made......yummmmm!

susan, i don't know you but you and bear are in my prayers that everything works out right. VA hospitals can be very difficult to work with.

i can rarely pass up a piece of frankoma, and i don't even find it attractive. i live in hope that it will become 'IN' again and the odds and ends i have will become incredibly valuable. meanwhile they are among the many things i pay to store, LOL!

gayle, i rarely hear of feral dog packs.....i think maybe single stray dogs are often taken in by someone or are picked up by animal control....i don't like to think about the ones that are shot by farmers or ranchers...........before they find other dogs to form a pack with.
there is a place in the kansas city area that will neuter feral cats. at the same time they neuter them, they give them their vaccinations, worm them, etc.....i had 7 feral cats done at once last year.....all for slightly over $100. total. i feed the cats and provide water and good shelter for them. i have met vets who believe that feral cats should be caught and euthanized "for their own good, because if left alone to live free, they might be hit by a car or a coyote get them". NOT something i agree with at all.

gayle, wow on the low vet bill! i am in ks and here it is also a minimum of $35. to take the animal into the exam room. and wonderful that you found one that didn't immediately start adding on unnecessary things to run your bill up!

chocolate? someone said 'chocolate'? i see an empty chocolates box and some cups with the dregs of hot chocolate in them......i must have missed the party. 🙁

gordon, no, it is a second site opened by ruby lane, they are trying to get more traffic......so, the free stores. and they mean free.....no fees at all for anything in the store or for having the store. http://www.rubyplaza.com/
i have always found their listing forms so easy to fill out.......ebay could take a big lesson from them on that one.

gordon, you might also do duplicate listings on ruby plaza......a store is totally free on there until the end of 2012.....and traffic is picking up a little.

Replacements got back to me very quickly! the lid is CHELSEA BIRD-BLUE by ROYAL ALBERT CHINA
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/ROACHBB.htm
and the price they have for the lid is $139.95. since this is not ebay, does anyone have any suggestions for asking price for me if i list it on ruby plaza?

good morning everyone. i broke down and email replacements last night asking if they could ID the pattern........i told them i would appreciate any help they could give and that i had spend hours searching their site. hopefully they take pity on me and are able to ID it.

susan, what a weekend! congratulations on the marriage and i hope bear gets well very soon!

gordon, very good idea to move on a ways.......too many people out there who spend time figuring out how to get their money illegally rather than work for it.

gayle, a friend of mine who is very involved in animal welfare and very active in a large humane society told me that because many shelters are advertising as no-kill, people are making their donations to those instead of the other shelters. as a consequence, the not no-kill shelters are having fewer/lower donations and are having to euthanise more than they used to.
i base my donations on how much of the donated money goes to the animals or whether the majority of it goes to pay the people who run it. believe it or not, there actually are places where EVERYONE donates their time and no one is paid. 'north shore animal league/ comes to mind immediately.

i have 9 rescued dogs, one rescued cat, and a feral cat colony i maintain......so all my 'donations' now go to the vet or 'science diet'.

gordon, i don't have the lid handy right now but as i remember it would be porcelain. and not hand-painted.
still looking on replacements.......
and gayle, thanks! it never would have occured to me that anyone would collect just the lids.....hmmmmmmmm
amber, are you talking about the bracelet marked 950? it really was very unusual looking!

ok, next question, how do i tell if the lid is pottery or porcelain? from what i think i know, porcelain would be more translucent when held to the light? of that is correct, i would say the lid is porcelain. but......i am off to replacements to give it another try, you have given me some stuff to go on and check out.

hi gordon......yes, i have lurked here occasionally, and love your posts about hugo and nice.:) and i have to say, i have often thought of how much i would enjoy living as you are now, in a motor home with just me and the pets and going from place to place. (i guess i would take the fiancee......he would be good for driving and stuff, LOL! actually he is a wonderful man and i love him very much, just not sure if he would survive my moods in such a small space)

katie, i am usually on the jewelry board, but dinnerware and american art pottery are my weakness. i have always had great experiences when i have asked for help on the pottery board and just might start spending more time on here.....the people are sooo nice!

hello pottery people,
gordon, i take it that hugo is completely recovered from the tick bite? how fortunate that you were with him to see immediately that there was a problem and able to get him to a vet for treatment!
i have a lid that i have had for years and never listed because i know it will probably take a looooooong time for that one person who needs it to come along.............on the other hand, if i had listed it when i first got it, it probably would have sold by now. so i am going to list if......if i can find out who made it and the pattern name. being just the lid it has no markings. 🙁
hopng someone recognises the pattern: http://photos.imageevent.com/glitzytreasures/ceramics/websize/MVC-001S.JPG
http://photos.imageevent.com/glitzytreasures/ceramics/websize/MVC-004S_3.JPG

good morning everyone. gordon, i have small dogs and i picked up a human baby stroller for $2.00 at a tag sale (it folds up so it can be tucked in a closet when not in use)........If one of my dogs is not feeling well, the stroller is brought out and the dog and blanket tucked into it so we can still go on our walks and the sick dog can get some fresh air too.

hi everyone, just hopping over from the jewelry board for a minute......i lurk on the pottery board occasionally......i wanted to tell gordon that my prayers are with him, hugo and nice (don't want to leave anyone out.) 🙂
i was shocked at how quickly the paralyzing started.....i don't think we have those sort of ticks here in kansas, thank goodness! absolutely terrifying to see how quickly one of them can take a dog down........
you are a good doggy daddy gordon!