Laura Bells

01/02/2023

Vintage; another word for an item that has stood the test of time. The beauty in the wood is only surpassed by the detail in the craftsmanship.

07/07/2021

Vintage Wade Whimsy’s Selection
Porcelain
Each approx. 2” sq
Excellent condition
$5.00 each unless otherwise marked by description

All photos have quantities in brackets. Prices are per figurine.

In the 1950s, the Wade potteries created 'Whimsies', small solid porcelain hand painted animal figures first developed by Sir George Wade, which became popular and collectable in Britain, America and Canada. The figurines became a collectible when included in Red Rose Tea in Canada beginning in 1967. Series releases included Nursery Rhymes, Circus, Animal and Zoo.

07/06/2021

Laura Bell was my Granny. I have always loved her name. It’s cozy and sweet and brings to mind the goodness of teacups and aprons in a farm kitchen and fresh laundry on the line. It also makes me think of giggles and dances and picnics in the woods. There was such joy in every wee moment and nostalgia shows up in these pieces. Who drank from that cup, who stirred cookie dough in that bowl, what favourite dishes stood out in the cabinets and what flowers were in those vases? Each piece stirs a question and the fun of thinking back to what may have been. We hope that you will find something that stirs a memory in you. Perhaps if not a memory, a delight nonetheless.

07/06/2021

Mary Margaret McBride Encyclopedia of Cooking 1958
Volumes 1-12 $135.00
Pic 1 of 3
2nd picture tells what each volume contains
3rd picture is the one I used to sit and dream about while my Momma baked. 😉🍰

07/05/2021

“Back in the ol’ days” was an expression I heard a great many times in the conversations of my parents and their generation. There became a general teasing that we would do as we grew older; reminding them of hearing stories of having to “walk uphill both ways to school “ and that “ the snow was as high as the telephone poles”.
Even in that comfortable teasing towards our parents, there was something we couldn’t see, even in the vastness of details as they would regale us, of their adventures of bygone days.
Was it the wholesomeness of a freshly cut slice of bread with molasses dripping off of your hand as you ate it; the sweet and aromatic smell of the mix of the two? Or was it in the crispness of the cool creek where they spent time in the heat of a summer day; after the early daytime chores were complete?
Perhaps that is what brought us back to the living room floor, time and again, as our parents and their family or friends would sift through the stories. Stories that had been told before with such hilarity and laughter now, once again, would undeniably draw out the belly laughs and thereby the “laughing” tears would pour forth.
Down in our souls, tied to these past generations, is where we knew a longing for those days. Although we may never experience as they did, we can hold those memories and pass them along the generational line.
It may stir your memories as you see the treasures here within Laura Bell’s. Craftsmanship and the worn degree of an item engrafts the stories of it all to our hearts; we just need to listen.

07/01/2021

06/14/2021

Milk glass vase
$9.00