Peggy's Pretty Picks - Vintage Stuff

Finally made it to historic Yardley’s in Ottawa, a many-floors antique and lighting haven on Bank Street, only to find it’s closing. I have never seen so much historic lighting (especially shades!) in one place! 😳😙great deals and many pieces I’d have loved to bring home to Halifax.

With Wooden Rose Auctions Ltd – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

Anyone recognize this mark?

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Another new coat & hat for Miss Mouse and I made the little sofa from an old Ladurée macaron box & some pretty Liberty fabric 🫶🏻✂️🌸🧵🪡 ❤️🌷🐭💕

Love to sit in this cozy space and read - imagine all the oxygen!

Cute things from this week’s auctions with Clean Slate Auctions Inc. and Wooden Rose Auctions Ltd love them! Popeye child’s cup and saucer from Cleanslate and Pinocchio salt and pepper from Wooden Rose. On a dreary day like this, the small things can bring you delight!

Love this bowl - Peacock Garden - from Wooden Rose Auctions Ltd isn’t it pretty as a breakfast or serving bowl? Designed in England by Carly Dodsley. I saw a few other pieces available online.

Rescued thrifting treasures today: Ten Commandments box, pottery from Israel that reads “put your teabag here,” Masonic teacup, cute linens and yummy cookies (not thrifted). Basket is for wedding decor. Gabrielle Macklin made in Canada Torah box (?!)

Little treasures from Wooden Rose Auctions Ltd These Kermesse baskets have me dreaming of spring…and I think the little vintage rug will be perfect for the Pugwash house!

Buddy in thrift shop: “I don’t know if this is a CD or a hard cover book (it’s got a 155 p. booklet), but a CD is cheaper, so I charged you that.”

$1.99 (less seniors’ discount- that works!

Grazie! Weekend listening…

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Today’s thrifted treasures for a very special wedding…

Wowzers - a great collection at a great price (so far) Mariner Auctions

120 Piece Set - Mason's Patent Ironstone Vista Red / Pink Ceramic Dishware Set, Made In England 120 Piece Set - Mason's Patent Ironstone Vista Red / Pink Ceramic Dishware Set Made In England **Spoon Is Damaged (Has Been Taped Together), 1 Tea Cup Has A Chip**

Oil on canvas by Russian painter, Julia Zaretskaya.

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Since Elsie's Used Clothing is one of my favourite stores EVER, and they’ll be moving sometime in the new year, I paid a visit and took a few pics to remember this historic old house. So much funkiness! ❤️👏🏼💐🎀

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Stop the Demolition/Love Nova Scotia – Development Options Halifax Talk and Walk

I've got several items for sale in this great upcoming auction with Key Auctions - check them out!

Worth saving…

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Help save this gorgeous family home from Dal’s wrecking ball!

Can you spare a minute to help Peggy Walt? 100 signatures are still needed! Save Historic 1245 Edward Street, Halifax, NS from Dal's wrecking ball

My thoughts about who gets remembered, ballet and the P word (Putin)

What’s in a name? The R(t) word From the blog of Peggy Walt at The Times of Israel

Peggy's Pretty Picks - Vintage Stuff updated their website address.

Sailors by artist Louise Shattuck, pen name Ann Dyer (1919-2005).

About Louise Shattuck, from the UMass (Amherst) Libraries, that house her papers:

A life-long resident of Lake Pleasant, Massachusetts, and a third-generation Spiritualist, Louise Shattuck was an artist, teacher, and noted breeder of English cocker spaniels.

In her long life, Louise Shattuck wore many hats — artist, teacher, dog-breeder, writer, and Spiritualist — but to her, she only wore one: that of an art-making, skill-teaching, dog-breeding, writing, and spirit-talking resident of Lake Pleasant, Mass. Somehow, Shattuck managed the difficult feat of knitting these disparate strands into a single, seamless life, her professional and personal interests weaving together in a uniquely creative way.
Geographically, intellectually, and spiritually, the center of Shattuck’s life was the village of Lake Pleasant, Mass.


When Louise was born on December 24, 1919, the only child of a railway electrician Frank Shattuck and his wife Sarah (Bickford), Lake Pleasant was in its heyday. Like their adopted village, the Shattucks were committed Spiritualists: Louise’s maternal grandmother, Anna (Dyer) Bickford, was one of the early mediums at the resort, and Sarah Shattuck (also called Sara or Sadie) followed suit, delivering spirit messages and inspiration from spirit sources up until the time of Louise’s birth. Louise inherited mediumistic tendencies from her women forebears, and although she never acted as a professional medium, throughout her life she engaged in automatic writing and in use of the planchette and Ouija board to contact spirit beings.

In the years following the First World War, Lake Pleasant experienced a slow decline, driven in part by the decrease of summering as a middle class activity and of Spiritualism as a religion. Although the rise of the automobile and decay of the American rail system hurt many summer resorts, Lake Pleasant was hit particularly hard after access to the lake was curtailed, then shut off, when its waters became a reservoir for the town of Montague. The Shattucks, however, remained loyal. Although Louise was born and raised in Medford, Mass., she and her family continued to summer in the cottage that Frank had built barely twenty yards from the TNSA temple, and following Frank’s death in 1948, Sarah became a full time resident.

Louise emulated her mother in more than just mediumistic talent: the two shared a passion for animals, particularly dogs, for art and teaching. By her senior year at Medford High School, was already set on her future life course, entering Massachusetts College of Art (class of 1941) intent on making a career in the graphic arts. Although she taught art off and on for many years, beginning with a stint teaching ceramics at Garland Junior College in Boston (later absorbed into Simmons College), she began as early as 1943 to produce ceramic, clay, and bronze figurines for commercial distribution. Striking her first contracts with the Boston firm Contemporary Arts, and taking her grandmother’s maiden name (Ann Dyer) as a pseudonym, she began to distribute work through Hudson Pewter, Lance Corporation, and the American Pewter Company.

Thematically and stylistically, Louise’s early work was quite diverse, ranging from a figurine of a ballet dancer to a small sculpture of an Arab rider on horseback (one of her favorite pieces) that was sculpted under the influence of a spirit named Charles Memling.

By the mid-1940s, however, her work acquired a real focus when she settled into a niche as an animal artist, dogs being her distinct favorite subject. An early member of the Society of Animal Arts), she also did a great deal of graphic work for magazines, particularly those associated with dog breeding, producing pen and ink drawings and cartoons, as well as pastels and paintings, both for private commission and retail distribution. Her love of dogs extended well beyond her artwork, and dogs assumed a greater prominence in her life as she grew older. As proprietor of Carry On Kennels, she became well known as a breeder of English Cocker Spaniels and stalwart in the English Cocker Spaniel Club of America.

Louise also became an author. In addition to two humorous works on her experiences with dogs, From Riches to Bi***es (1979) and In Stitches Over Bi***es (1983), Louise wrote and illustggrated a children’s book, The Donkey and the Tree (1999). Her last book, co-written with her friend David James, wasg “portrait of the body, mind, and soul” of her beloved Lake Pleasant, Spirit and Spa (2003).

Never married, Louise joined her mother in Lake Pleasant in 1967 as Sarah’s health began to fail. Louise remained active as a sculptor and illustrator well into her 80s, remaining in her family cottage until her death in October 2005.

Link to one of her books:

From Riches to Bi***es: Being a Mirthful Recounting of the Carry-On Kennel Chronicles (And a Cadillac for Your Vet! : Being a Mirthful Recounting of the Carry-On Kennel Chronicles)

https://www.amazon.com/Riches-Bi***es-Recounting-Carry-Chronicles/dp/087605548X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529685330&sr=8-1&keywords=from%20riches%20to%20bitches&fbclid=IwAR3QpBKLBzuRhgumHLwsXuZQtRIDGdgq6FnnZL9bEwnyCA3YPQ-vIPfiuCQ

Three sailors by artist Louise Shattuck (pen name Ann Dyer, 1919-2005). A few nicks and chips but really sweet chalkware. I'm selling them as an auction item and will be making a donation to the Halifax Gay Men's Chorus from this sale.