Not ALL Ladders are For Roofing and Other High and Lofty Chores

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It's been a long time since I joined Coloradolady for Vintage Thingie Thursday, mostly because I think I've already shown most of my vintage thingies!

I decided to join in again today, maybe some of you haven't seen these things.
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This is my vintage-esque kitchen ladder.  It is made out of old boards that look like barn boards.  They are so chippy that I can't even wiggle it without leaving some barn-red "crumbs" on the floor.

Hanging from the left side of the ladder are two vintage aprons.  The blue one I won in an online give-away and the mauve one I found in our church's "clothing swap" store - called the Shepherd's Loft.

On the right side of the ladder is a cranberry swag - - - not vintage at all, but since this is cranberry country I am very partial to it.

Hanging from the rungs of the ladder are pieces of my grandmother's linens.
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Scattered up and down the ladder are vintage kitchen utensils, cookie cutters, and tools.

When I first got married I still mashed potatoes using a masher just like this one!   Not sure what happened to my old potato masher, but am glad to have this one now.
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I've used an egg beater of this style many a time too.

These kitchen tools that I have on my ladder all came to me via antique shops or friends.  I wonder about the folks that once upon a time used them to whip up all kinds of goodies in their kitchens.

Now they are "retired" (the tools, I know not what has happened to their former owners) from their labors and just get to chill out and "hang around" in my kitchen.
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An egg beater from across the tracks.

Oh, I do kid about the tracks - - - but it is a different sort of egg beater or whisk.  I have never used one like this.
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A flour sifter of the "turn the handle" variety.  I believe this was the type my mother had as I was growing up.

I have, down in my cupboard, the sifter that was given to me at a wedding shower.  It is of the "squeeze the handle" variety.   I imagine it too is now vintage, though I still have it in my cupboard as a WORKING kitchen tool on the OUTSIDE chance that I ever again in my cooking life decide to sift some flower.

Probably never gonna happen, but I'm not about to put something that was NEW to me, circa 1975, into vintage display just yet.
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One more little vintage item I just found in my picture folders.  I believe this is the "button" I first used when playing Vintage Thingies Thursday.  I don't remember why it says "Apron Queen" instead of Coloradolady.  I bet Suzanne can tell us!
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That's it for this version of VTT.

Please head over to Coloradolady's place

To see all the vintage goodies 

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