ARROWS IN THE AIR

It must have rained during the night as there are puddles in the drive.  Temperatures outside today are cooler at 76 degrees but humidity is at 86%.  More rain may fall which is a blessing to cool off the atmosphere.

Today I am tired as I was out and about in the HOT TEMPS yesterday that would melt your hair.  I had some blue jean laundry to do, buzzed over to TOPEKA to purchase a GRANDSON's birthday gift, buzzed to the cottage across the river to dry the jeans and meet up with HUBBY and a SON for MEXICAN FOOD for supper.  

My SWEETHEART mowed the cottage lawn after we ate as I fell asleep on the sofa waiting for the bluejeans to dry.  When I woke up, my legs didn't want to raise me up off the sofa.  So tired.

Cooling off after the yard was mowed, we loaded the car with laundry and traveled across the river to go HOME.  Unloading the car in the heat doesn't agree with my delicate nature.  I am the weaker of the sexes after all.  Inside where the air is cool we sat in our easy chairs to relax before bed.  

I watched the 2018 movie version of ROBIN HOOD.  Very violent.  Graphic, but kept my interest as we had watched some videos beforehand about LARS ANDERSEN.  I can honestly say this Danish guy is a full blown athlete in a slender body that handles a bow and arrow like no man I have ever witnessed.  

He has studied historical paintings and artwork about archery styles and I believe he's spot on about how ARCHERS truly were from other countries instead of the AMERICAN ARCHERS of this day where they stand and fire one arrow at a time.  The WARRIORS.  True warriors.  Also he has read literature about ARCHERS.  

He might hold four arrows and send them flying around a corner.  He is unbelievable.  An ARTIST and AUTHOR as well.  He trained the main actors in this ROBIN HOOD movie.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Andersen_(archer)

http://www.23.dk/testforside2.html 

UNBELIEVABLE.  

 HOW ON EARTH CAN THIS BE?  

So very talented and fast.  

When facing evil, 

I believe it would benefit us to be more like LARS 

with his arrows.  

Chronicles-1 12:2

[They were] armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in [hurling] stones and [shooting] arrows out of a bow, [even] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

Today, I am resting and researching THYROID HEALTH where I learned that having hypothyroidism/hyperthyroidism can cause MUSCLE MYOPATHY.  There are test that can be done to determine muscle function as well as damage to muscles.

I have to sigh as my endocrinologist does not volunteer information to me as a patient.  I believe he is more concerned about his reputation and stats then actually helping me understand this journey I am on as a survivor of thyroid cancer.

My HUSBAND, a thyroid cancer survivor as well, explained to him that his muscles are shrinking.  There's weakness.  The muscle weakness was never addressed.  We have had to find out about this without the aid of the specialist.

I am beyond frustrated.

Frustration can help fuel us to use our strength 

to dig deeper.  

I'm digging,

d

DREAM

Seldom do I remember my dreams.  As I wake up, the dream vanishes fading away into the cloud inside my mind.  Gone.  Poof.  This morning was different.  I have some recall.  I caught the dream before it turned into a foggy thought.  

We were preparing to open a restaurant near our house, but weren't telling anyone yet of our plans.  I'm outside sweeping a wooden porch.  As I am cleaning a friend that I haven't seen in years from high school shows up and visits me.  Sue's her name.  

Our house is small like the one I grew up in.  I continue to clean house as she looks for something to eat.  A cold cheese sandwich with mayo.  Some of my sons' friends come over to play and I cannot keep an eye on them.  They're hungry as well.  By the time supper comes the fridge is mostly empty.

I scolded myself in the dream that I should have told the boys that it was time for them to go HOME as it was supper time.

They are playing in my boys' bedroom.  A small television set is in their room on a cart.  One child was laying inside a Longberger basket that is on the bottom shelf of the tv cart.  He has broken the basket and I am trying to stay calm as this upset me that my Longaberger basket is broken.

Multitasking as I go, I could not get my high school friend to talk.  I ask her how things have been since high school and she is just so quiet.

I woke up from dream.  Must be some anxiety in here somewhere.
grins,
d

COTTON HEAD

Monday has arrived and I sorted some laundry like a good lil maid making way to do some laundry.  I'll take off here in a minute to go to the matt.  First I wanted to read about certified organic cotton.  The pain of it all.  It seems like I have awakened from a deep sleep and found myself in a matrix not very people friendly.

All the news I have read about the world I live in, breathe in, dress in, etc. isn't people friendly.  COTTON is promoted as healthy to peeps until one reads how it is taken care of while growing.  Even the seeds are a concern.

Genetically engineered,  genetically modified, sprayed with pesticides and herbicides that stay with the product.  Truly I am on overload with all this information that I have read that I need to tune out and sip some coffee in a quiet room far away from noise.  Rest my weary head.

I had no idea that at 64 years of age I would be studying up on COTTON.  Cotton undies, cotton towels, bedsheets, cotton sanitary products, etc.  I started thinking on if the pesticides used on cotton used for underwear might be part of the reason so many men are dealing with prostate issues.  Why so much breast cancer as these cotton items in the underwear department are next to the skin.  Then there's sanitary products such as feminine products that are next to a females sensitive body part.  Tampons are inserted and fibers remain even after removing the pon.  

When I suffered with urinary tract infections, I troubled myself to think about what was contributing to this issue.  I telephoned a sanitary pad company and got PASS THE BUCK answers.  I suspected these pads had something to do with infections.

I suspected that I needed to avoid nylon undergarments to fight the infections.  Use white toilet paper.  

I switched to cotton undies thinking I was doing the positive thing to help fight infections.  AT 64 I'm questioning what type of cotton is being used in cotton undies and sanitary products.  I find out that about 70% of the cotton being used has been genetically altered and also sprayed with pesticides, herbicides, toxic fungicides.  engineered.  

You know those cheaper priced cotton articles that come from India are more than likely made of Bt COTTON.  Bt.  Well what the heck is that?  It's genetically altered cotton.  More on this.

Known as a dirty product, cotton has been altered.  Now I have to consider CERTIFIED ORGANIC COTTON up against my private parts.  ALSO I have to consider what feminine products are made up of.

I'm new to Bt COTTON.  Bt cotton is a genetically modified organism or genetically modified pest resistant plant cotton variety, which produces an insecticide to combat bollworm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bt_cotton

What was once one of the healthiest products to wear has now been genetically altered.  
This is another time I am weary.

When I found out that some vaccines used aborted fetuses I was dazed.  Sickened.  
When I found out that Billy Graham was a freemason, I was dazed.

Finding out that good ole cotton has been molested

is doing a number on my head.

Jeepers Mister Wilson,

I think I need a rest.

A bit dazed,

d

Phasing Out VS. Fading Out

BLESSINGS TO YOU TODAY!  
Tis Saturday and I couldn't be happier about it.  Had the luxury of sleeping in until I woke up on my own.  I slept a very long and peaceful sleep throughout the night.  No tossing or turning.  

A wonderful full night's sleep until I could sleep no more.  Rise and shine.  A precious gift to myself and my HUSBAND as I was staying out of his hair.

He worked at popping the Irises that will go along the fence this go round.  We had rain throughout the night so this morning the ground was muddy to work in.  He's making progress as the flowerbed full of Irises will be out of the middle of a yard section morphing along the fence.  I will LOVE the results.  Such work to get there.  After we moved to this present house, the Irises went where they are and we were happy to have them.  After two blooming seasons we can now relocate them to suit our fancy.

Along the fence.  SO traditional.  

He had to prep a flowerbed first which required digging in the heat of summer for hours.  SOmething even a young man should not do.

Not happy 'bout that so encouraged him to dig in the cool of the day.  Which isn't a very wide window of time meaning that the digging time is a little here and a little there.  He successfully got 'er done and now is completing phase two in which the rhizomes are dug up or popped.

SPRING 2019

If he can just stick with this until completed this project will have long lasting effects each time the flowers bloom.  Gorgeous variety of color to feast our eyes on in the SPRING for about 6 weeks.  42 days of beauty.  A dose of contentment for a nature lover.

Phase one: new flowerbed made and prepped.
Phase two: rhizomes dug up.
Phase three: rhizomes arranged and planted in circles of six rhizomes of like kind.
Phase four: previous flowerbed cleared out, emptied and rework the soil.
Phase five: new grass seeds planted in previous bed. 
Phase six:  RELIEF it's done.
Phase seven:  Wait and enjoy the blooms.

LAST NIGHT I ate a piece of DAVE's KILLER BREAD before I turned in for the night.  I did the same thing the night before.  Both mornings upon taking my BLOOD PRESSURE reading I had excellent numbers.  I couldn't believe it.  BLINK BLINK.  Shall do this again tonight to see if the numbers are spot on again.  

awesome.  a w e s o m e.  awesome.  

Perhaps my vitamins are kicking in and helping as well. 

http://www.daveskillerbread.com/our-products#nutrition

When ones reading are too high and you finally have a great reading it's exciting.  

So now adays my social events are classified as going to a medical appointment and I get really excited over having a normal blood pressure reading.  SOunds lame doesn't it......but I'm alright with that.  Lame and alright.  To each his own.  

Do we sometimes not nourish our bodies the way they should be nourished?  Yes, I am so guilty.  So much dieting and cutting back I have done in hopes of thinning down.  I have no thyroid which is the MASTERMIND of metabolism and energy.  It is heck and oh so frustrating to be told to cut back and exercise to lose weight.  The standard medical doctor sometimes looks at you like you are over eating and not busy enough in the motion department.    

I have one of these doctors that will not acknowledge that hormones play a huge part in being able to lose weight.  HORMONES.  Being insulin resistant, lepid resistant, thyroid resistant and resistant resistant.  Keeping a proper attitude is in the works and is work to embrace.  

If I eat iceberg lettuce all the time instead of nutrient dense foods then I am depleting my body and not nourishing it with the nutrients needed.  Feeding the cells throughout the body is a must.  We are fearfully and wonderfully made aren't we.  Lord help.

Zeroing in on what to do is ongoing.  

Taking a quiet time break before moving forward for the day.  COFFEE has not happened so far.  Better get some.  

grins,  

d

ALMOST TIME....

GRINS

Sippin' my afternoon coffee.  I came HOME tired and needed a break.  Feet up and laptop on.  Typing and relaxin'.  ALMOST TIME FOR MY afternoon apple SNACK.  I missed my morning coffee as I OVERSLEPT this morning and dashed out the door to meet HUBBY for a HEALTHY  ORGANIC LUNCH.  

I got to the eatery a little early and decided to check out their organic pads for 'ole women that need a little extra protection when they laugh too hard or sneeze too loud.  Achoooo and they didn't have any.  Shucks and a half.  Will continue looking and may order via mail.

Will check DR. MERCOLA and company and see what they have to offer.  When I started going the way of cotton in underwear back in the 80s and using non-perfumed/colored toilet paper I thought I had done something absolutely awesome UNTIL I have studied up about cotton being one of the dirtiest crops sprayed heavily with pesticides that stay with the product.  So all this time that I proudly thought I was doing something wonderful for 'me' privates, I had not taken into account the pesticides that stay with the product.  humpf.    

This particular store was all out of the SEVENTH GENERATION PADS that I wanted to try.  In fact one of their shelving units was completely gone and the floor swept clean.  It's not a good sign when the store only has one or two things on the shelf.  Been here long enough to know that this is a bad sign.  Business closing shop OR moving to a different location.

The decorative menu sign that hung above the deli is G. O. N. E.  GONE.  What happened?  Redoing it?  Unhuh.  Shame.

I picked up some miniature notebooks and ink pens that my SWEETHEART enjoys.  ALso some special castor oil for a castor oil treatment I will be doing this coming week on my abdomen to help with fibroid tumors.  Let you know how that goes.

IS THIS A GOOD CHOICE?

We had a delicious LUNCH and nice convo.  Conversation.  I am ready for HUBBY to be retired so we can do some serious playing and enjoy a different pace of life.  With the organic changes in our diet/LIFE I might just KEEP at this thing and call us HEALTHY.

After LUNCH I went to the Goodwill store and walked out empty handed.  Okay.  
ALDIs was a place to purchase organic milk, coffee creamer and some cauliflower for the week-end.  I buzzed by the Market to buy some special PEACHES.  Stopped by the DOLLAR STORE for a couple of pillows to fill some pretty shams that will lay on the Victorian Bed.  BY this time I needed a rest.  Headed HOME for coffee and time to unwind.

The body needs nourishment and as much as I thought we were eating healthy, we weren't.  To nourish the body with real food void of chemicals and preservatives is a different way of eating.  The world with dense nutrient foods and the world with fake food GMO altered filled with preservatives are two different things completely.  Kind of like real religion being a relationship with Christ verses entertaining false preachers that don't glorify GOD, but mammon.  

YESTERDAY I watched a brief movie about AMERICAN GOSPEL.  Will check out what the producers and writer of this movie support before I promote it 100%.  What I heard was well worth hearing.  Still, before I go in over my head, I will need to do some more HOMEWORK as I have failed before to be in the clear before promoting a Christian movie.  This one is very good, but I did not see the entire movie just a shorter version of the longer one plus comments by some peeps who watched it.    

I am not a CALVINIST nor am I a WORD of FAITH Charismatic Pentecostal Christian or a supporter/follower of the New Apostolic Reformation where new apostles and new prophets have rule to reign verses CHRIST CENTERED preaching with the use of the WORD of GOD which is the BIBLE as the center of the church. 

This new apostolic reformation movement is enough to scare one silly.  The new apostles can have a dream siting a vision and thus sayeth the lord anything they want it to be and the people of the congregation or those hearing the sound of their voice are suppose to jump through their hoop and do what they say which is mostly to give them yo money and be their servant.
  

Tis safer and better to follow the Lord Jesus by reading and studying His Godly instructions.  Knowing that He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.  Not the new apostle that wants to oversee 3,000 new churches while wearing stiletto heels and showing off their rear end in a form fitting red dress that looks like it has been spray painted on saying to give a sacrificial offering two or three times a service or place your jewelry into the offering plate.  Paul-La.   

Tis better to put your trust in the Lord Jesus as Savior and not attend a service in California where Martha Stewart Glitter rains down on the congregation when the authorities say it's the presence of God.    

The spasmodic body jerking while under the spell of a kundalini spirit laughing like a hyena has no place for a balanced Christian that is filled with God's Holy Spirit and understands the things of God.  Be Holy as God is Holy.  Amen. 

SO glad the week-end is here and hopefully will have time to relax and have little demands upon my ole self.  Plans this week-end are to have a slow paced time.

God Bless you and yours,

d

BORN AGAIN

John 3:7

“Marvel not that I said unto thee, 

Ye must be born again.” 

King James Version (KJV)

CRINGE WORTHY

I could cringe at what I have ate and used on my aging body over the years that are not healthy for human consumption.  

ca R I N G E.

Makes my head spin.  My head is spinning.  spaINning.

Very sobering to an old woman that suffers from ongoing health issues that don't go away by taking a pill.

Now to decalcify my PINEAL GLAND.

Is it possible to do so?  Will have to research that one some more.

Having had THYROID CANCER surgery in 2010
and a Gangrenous Gall Bladder removed in 2018....I began to think more on the lines of how did this happen?  What should I do differently?

AMEN.

RESEARCH TODAY:  Newest discovery was CASTOREUM.  I read today that vanilla flavoring is enhanced by adding a natural flavoring to it.  Manufacturers do not have to label what the actual ingredient is other than NATURAL FLAVORING.  FDA approved.  FDA approved. 

Labeled NATURAL.  That which comes from a beaver's rear end adds to the flavoring.  NATURAL FLAVORINGS such as what comes from beavers is used in VANILLA FLAVORING.
Because of its FDA label, in some cases, manufacturers don’t have to list castoreum on the ingredient list and may instead refer to it as “natural flavoring.” Yum.
  
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/beaver-butt-goo-vanilla-flavoring/?fbclid=IwAR04qDBANIgvphQvcKViDF0dXT7fEcCtoe7ci4IAfHvEk0jSbdPbmrS51DI

What Is Natural Flavor?

The FDA’s Code of Federal Regulations defines natural flavor as “...the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.”

While not purposely dubious, the FDA’s definition is rather tough to unravel. In short, natural flavors are any substance with plant or animal origins. Let’s dig deeper into one of the terms—essential oils. In Dr. Mathew Attokaran’s Natural Food Flavors and Colorants, he defines essential oils as “volatile, generally aroma-contributing liquids produced by plants.” Essential oils can be derived from any number of plant materials including fruits, herbs, and spices, typically through a process called distillation. Essential oils may be added to chewing gum or candy to add a spearmint or peppermint flavor.

What consumers need to know is that “natural flavor” does not necessarily point to one single ingredient. One natural flavor may be comprised of multiple ingredients, but current FDA regulations do not require companies to list each one. All ingredients must have the FDA's "generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS status, which is determined by experts and scientific evidence. For those with food allergies, not knowing the full ingredient breakdown could prove problematic. However, the FDA encourages companies to list potential allergens found in flavors, spices, or colors in foods.

https://www.cookinglight.com/eating-smart/what-is-natural-flavor

The final part of the FDA’s definition is crucial, as it shows that natural flavors have nothing to do with the actual nutrition of a food. Instead, natural flavors serve to impart flavor to a food or beverage so that it is more palatable for consumers.

Ingredients Classified as Natural Flavors

There are hundreds of natural flavors created by food chemists. Here are a few that are commonly found in foods and beverages:

• Amyl acetate: This compound can be distilled from bananas in order to provide banana-like flavor in baked goods.
• Citral: Also known as geranial, citral is extracted from lemongrass, lemon, orange and pimento. It is used in citrus-flavored beverages and sweets.
• Benzaldehyde: This chemical is extracted from almonds, cinnamon oil and other ingredients. It is frequently used to give foods an almond flavor and aroma.
• Castoreum: A somewhat surprising and unsettling source, this slightly sweet substance is found in the anal secretions of beavers. It is sometimes used as a substitute for vanilla, although this is rare due to its high cost.

Other natural flavors include:

• Linden ether: Honey flavor
• Massoia lactone: Coconut flavor
• Acetoin: Butter flavor

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/natural-flavors

Welp.....I'll feel differently when I see a BEAVER and think about natural flavoring.

Bless you and may you have a more natural day, 
d

TRICK OF THE TRADE

Just finished my small tub of OIKOS TRIPLE ZERO strawberry flavor greek nonfat yogurt where I stirred in walnuts for some crunch.  Yogurt with some crunch nutrients.  

110 calories yogurt.  
183 calories for handful of walnuts.  About 7.  
110 + 183 = 293.  
Under 300 count for lunch.  Gosh that quickly added up.
Coffee with creamer = about 35 calories.
Boiled egg = 78.
35 + 78 = 113.
113 + 293 = 406.
406!!!!!
Striving for under 300.
Didn't make it.
Should have had the boiled egg for breakfast plus coffee with creamer.
Stretch this out.
I didn't have breakfast today.  My bad.

Makes me sigh how quickly the calories add up.  Pop goes the weasel. 

Supper will be TACOS.  About 156 calories in one TACO.
I can eat less.  I can do this.  Drink a full glass of water an hour before eating.

The GOAL I have this week is to eat a 3:00 PM red apple and drink a 8 oz. Naked Juice.  Take my vitamins.

Trick of the trade....don't eat anything else 3 hours before going to BED.

Leaving a good twelve hours between meals.  

Exercising or being in motion for at least an hour a day.

Pulling a RABBIT out of my hat 

was a little easier today,

d

Pressure To Do Well

THE WEEK-END FLEW and we are now headed into a new week.  Think I'll rest most of the day today as I have been on the go go go the last few weeks.  Blood pressure has been too high and trying to lower it.  For years I used a arm cuff monitor to find out BP reading.  Recently purchased a wrist one.

LOVE IT.  The easiest way to take BP.  So easy.  SMARTHEART.

SmartHeart Wide Range Cuff Automatic Arm Blood Pressure Monitor

I believe that stress causes my blood pressure to soar.  Do my best to keep BP in a normal range.  One of my triggers that contributes to too high of blood pressure is a MESSY HOUSE where rooms are dirty and in serious need of attention.

The messes are stubborn about disappearing.  Stubborn and ever so loyal about not budging to go away on their own.  duh.  Wishful thinking comes to mind.  It isn't mind over matter without muscle that gets the job done.  Having a right mind set can get more accomplished than just thinking about it.  Brilliant.

Hubby took my blood sugar reading and I wasn't happy with what I was told.  Blood sugar level was also too high.  OUCH.  I pray that I be in better health.  Eat better.  Eat super foods loaded with nutrition.  Eat more plant based foods that are organic and NOT sprayed with pesticides that linger.  It's one thing to be in great health and quite another when health has some issues that positive thinking does not touch.

It isn't mind over matter.
WAYS TO NATURALLY LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE......

1. Walk and exercise regularly. Exercise is one of the best things you can do to lower high blood pressure. ...
2. Reduce your sodium intake. ...
3. Drink less alcohol. ...
4. Eat more potassium-rich foods. ...
5. Cut back on caffeine. ...
6. Learn to manage stress. ...
7. Eat dark chocolate or cocoa. ...
8. Lose weight.

My plans this week are to write out bills,

work on Kitchen cabinets and relocate the beverage glasses,

wash the kitchen floor,

clean the bathrooms,

reorganize the linen closet and bathroom closet,

do some laundry,

switch out the air filters,

polish french doors.

HUBBY hopefully will have dug up the remainder of irises.

This time next week-end...the kitchen cleaned, bathroom closet worked over and linen closet full of extra bedding.

Supper Meals will be:

Spaghetti Supper with salad,

Tacos,

Chili potatoes with salad,

Sandwiches with salad,

Taco Casserole with salad,

Baked Chicken with mixed veggies and salad.

Health GOALS:

Eat an apple a day at 3 PM.

Avocado a day early in the morning.

Take Tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.

Vitamins and minerals.

Drink SPRING Water.

Write down what I'm eating.

Take a deep breath and relax.

Hard at it,

d

ZECHARIAH 2:5

ZECHARIAH 2:5

For I, 

saith the LORD, 

will be unto her a wall of fire round about, 

and will be the glory 

in the midst of her.

ELEGY

el·e·gy

/ˈeləjē/

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noun

1. 1.

   a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

   synonyms:

   funeral poem/song, burial hymn, lament, dirge, plaint, requiem, keening; More

2. 2.

   (in Greek and Roman poetry) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.

Ada wrote for the local newspaper and was well known to the community.  I didn't know her, but one of my friends was a close friend to her.  This is one of the articles she wrote about her dear friend, Florence.

1971 Ada and Florence inside the old rock house that I lived in for close to ten years.  We bought the house in December 2006.  Started living in it in January 2007 until October 2016.  

We lived in Ada's house until the house was seriously damaged in a devastating house fire that started in a kitchen plug destroying the kitchen and upper bedroom above the kitchen.  Smoke damage was beyond awful which molested all the rooms with dark stains that looked like someone had painted everything with walnut stain throughout the entire house.  Even in the cellar the smoke damage was extensive.  

I tried to figure out which room this was they are pictured in and I think it's the Living room by the front door that's to the left.  Looks to have been papered with a light colored wallpaper and beautiful draperies are pulled by a tie back.

I miss our old stone house beyond words.  We sold the shell and moved on to our present residence in a different town.  I still have fond memories.

Perhaps a elegy has been written about our old stone house that now has been completely remodeled with a young married couple living in it these days.  

Blessings to you as you live life to the fullest,
d

Mottahedeh SCORE

Image found on the internet

Image found on the internet

Visited the THRIFT STORE yesterday and noticed Mottahedeh dishes on the shelf.  I've never heard of MOTTAHEDEH.  The fruit design on these reminded me of gorgeous dishes I once saw at the Historic St. Louis Campbell House Museum with fruit images sitting on their massive dining room table and also stored in the Butler's Pantry.

I knew these were reproductions because they were in too good of condition to be from the 1880s.  Anywho, I thought I could get them at the price they were marked and possibly sell at a later date.  HUBBY was with me and he used his handy dandy phone to check on these.  Pleased with what he shared.  Will get them and figure out what to do with them later.  AM VERY PLEASED.

                                       Dishes at the St. Louis Campbell House museum.


The Mottahedeh salad dishes found at the THRIFT STORE were at one time sold by Scully & Scully.  I'm aware of Scully & Scully company catalog of upper end items.  Did some more research and believe the thrift price was exceptional.  


Mildred Ruth Mottahedeh founded Mottahedeh & Company, a prominent designer and supplier of luxury porcelain made in Italy and Portugal for the U.S. market, based on historical models or direct replicas, that were sold in part through Tiffany & Co. and other luxury retailers, and museum gift shops. Her large personal collection of Chinese export porcelain for the European market, formed together with her Iranian husband, Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, who died in 1978, was catalogued by David Howard in China For The West (2 vols., 1989).^[1] Mottahedeh porcelain table services were purchased for the White House, three Presidential Inaugurations, and the State Department's reception suite.^[2] A well-known and iconic service is the Mottahedeh "Tobacco Leaf" pattern, based on 18th-century Chinese export porcelains for the Portuguese market, which employs 27 underglaze and enamel colors and gilding.

I think I'll find a nice place to display them on the Dining room wall after I paint the Dining room in September.

HOME SWEET HOME,

d