Happy Birthday, Mother

Welcome to Vintage Thingie Thursday sponsored by Suzanne at Colorado Lady. This is the best time of the week when friends share their vintage goodies. Sunday was Mother's Day but it was also my mother's 81st birthday! She still looks the same as she did twenty years ago. If it weren't for the small strokes causing her to have to use a walker and a brace on her leg, she would still be going to yard sales with me! We were a great team because we always looked for things that each other liked. We didn't try to get to something before the other one could get out of the car. I miss her going with me because we could gossip and talk about things without someone telling us to stop. So, my vintage thingie post is going to be about my mother and some items that will always remind me of her.

This is a picture of Mother and my son, Craig, taken a couple of years ago. She still looks like this today. No, she has never dyed her hair! That is her natural color and it is still that way today. We just have good genes!

This teapot is not that pretty but mother always had one on her knick knack shelf.

I don't know the name of this plate, but she had a few that we used when I was growing up.

This is one of the many Duz detergent dishes that she collected each time she bought laundry detergent. We used these as our "fine china".

She had a set of dishes that included a coffeepot like this.

This tin is like the one she always kept her bobby pins and rollers in.

These things are not valuable in money, but in memories! I love you, Mother! You have always been my best friend.