Favorite Furniture Pieces

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I'm connecting some more of
My favorite things to Leigh's
"Thrifty Thursday" Party.

My focus today is on several of my
Favorite pieces of furniture.
Some of these were truly thrifty
(free to me thrifty)
Others - - - not so much.

Hope you enjoy,
Leave me a comment so I'll know you were here,
And come back and visit often!!!

My little school room desk.
I don't know anything about it's history
Except that it came to me FREE
About 32 years ago
When it was cleared out of
A Boy Scout Club House.
And I didn't even HAVE a Boy Scout!!!!

I purchased this dresser in an antique store.
I'd been looking for just the "right thing"
For a corner in my family room.
I walked into the antique mall one day
And this dresser jumped up
And SCREAMED my name.
I wrote a check on the spot
And brought it home.

Perhaps you will think me CRAZY
To place a DRESSER in the family room.
Well, crazy I am
For I LOVE it there.

This is my GEM.
My friend, Vangie, had this dressing table
In her antique booth.
It was love at first sight - - -
And the love only deepened to PURCHASE status
When she told me the story:

This dressing table was
Hand made in the late 1800's in shop class,
WITH LOVE
By a young man for his sister,
Right here in Marion Indiana.
Vangie knew all the names involved,
I have forgotten them,
But NOT their story.

The two side mirrors can tip
In so the lovely sister could
View the back of her hair!

I use it as a sidebar in my dining room - - -
Which just happens to be
My favorite room in the house,
But I'll post more about THAT later.

And last for today is this precious little stool.

When I was a mere toddler,
My Grandpa Butcher made a little stool
Quite similar to this
To put in my chair at the table
In the dining room at Family Camp - - -
Sort of an original booster seat.

Years later when I was speaking
At that camp,
I FOUND my little stool!
I know it was my exact stool
Because my name was
Written in pencil in my Grandpa's hand,
Underneath the seat.

Foolishly, I thought it belonged to the camp
And left it there.
BIG MISTAKE.
A few years later when I wasn't there,
They SOLD that camp - - -
And I'm sure MY little stool went with it,
At least I NEVER saw it again.

So, when I saw THIS stool in an Antique shop
I didn't care WHAT THE PRICE TAG SAID,
To me it was priceless.
I coughed up the money
And thought it was quite a thrifty deal!!!

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