I was just cleaning out my china cabinets in our living and dining room area. Then I came across some of my collections that I did get from the different parts of the Pacific Northwest on some of our travels before. We did travel and stayed a lot of times at the Oregon coast area since Bob’s mom owned a beach house there in Nehalem bay area near Seaside beach. I loved cruising there at the coast. I’ve seen good finds there. I’ve seen good ceramic rabbits by Fitz & Floyds in one of the antique shop there. I used to collect rabbit for my kitchen there. In Seaside, they had a nice flea market. Loved to browse there and just go to the shop and talked to those vendors. They had good stories.
I saw a place here for antique stuff and some crystal especially for my Christmas crystal glasses. When I asked the price, it’s just too much. I didn’t buy it. Way too much for my budget. Lol. It’s just so limited here in Davao for a good antique finds. But its okay, it might be good too so that I don’t have to spend money. Ha ha ha.
Really I think I got a big influence from Bob’s mom. She had vast collections of antique dolls and those fine china sets. She’s also really good in decorating. She’s also good in decorating ceramic stuff. She gave me lots of what I have now like tea cups and tea pots. I think you can say that I’m different instead of asking clothes or something for myself for my birthday/ Christmas. I usually ask for some decor for the house, antiques stuff or furniture or fine china. I had a good set of Noritaki china (I had the Shenandoah set). I’m so glad I collected that over my 10 year stay there. I think I completed the whole 15 place setting with the teapot, gravy boat, salt and pepper, butter dish and others. I collected that slowly, it’s not a cheap collection though. Thanks to Bob and Mom for that. 🙂
Talking about fine china. You can find good Noritaki or other brand of china in every mall now here in the Philippines. The better the design the higher the price. My problem the plates that I like are way too expensive, even without looking at the the price. The design that I like always the one that’s way too high price. So thankful that I already collected those plates in the States. Also Bob’s mom gave us few other china set. She even gave us reproduction of Chintz china for our daily used here. I save that and just use it whenever we have family celebration. Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter we definitely uses good china for that occasion. I also had good Christmas plates that I bought there in the US.
In the US, I used a good kind of plates for our everyday used. I brought that here, but when our helpers handles it so many of them have chipped on the edge or they accidentally break and won’t tell me. I knew that something was broken when my kids informed me. It’s frustrating and annoying. So what I do now I used a cheap plates but I also had good ceramic plates that can also be use everyday too. Same with our daily drinking glasses. I will buy cheap glasses. I’m not into plastic glasses though.
Good thing now here in the Philippines many products that you want and like abroad you can almost find it anywhere in the big cities of the Philippines. Too many good stores now in that’s growing in the Philippines. Plus you can order from abroad and ship it here now if you can afford it.
Gold?
Hi Alica – Not sure of your question. Are you asking gold for the rim? Some color of the plate? A treasure?
Thanks for dropping by!
I have some of this too Bob mostly Cup and Saucers…..and Feyma! 🙂 <3
Hi Inday – Good for you. You must have pretty big selection now then? If you started way back when I was there you must have huge selection now. Have fun. Do you go to flea markets too and garage sale?
Have fun shopping. You take care and good to see you here!
I don’t know if you know…But I had dishes that were called “Apple”and also collection of “Blue Willow”..Bob probaly knows these also…Gave to my kids before coming here very expensive now collector items…
Hi Lenny – Yep, I’m familiar with that Blue Willow. Not sure if Bob’s mom had some before too. I love the design of the Chippendale collections though. I like the pink or mauve color. Lol… Good inheritance for your kids. 🙂
Always good to see you here. Take care!
Mrs Feyma,
My parents gave us a nice almost 100 year old China Set that they received when they first got married. We also received a 50 year old set of Silverware from parents. It’s the way silverware used to be made. For our daily use we just use corelleware.
Hi PapaDuck -That’s nice, that will last for a long time. Have fun with it. Have some fancy dinner once in awhile then. 🙂
Bob’s parents got something from his grandparents on his father side that came all the way from Ireland. Bob inherited some of it already.
Good to see you again here PapaDuck. Take care and hi to Ann!
Hi Feyma,
I also brought a lot of quirky dishes, glassware, barware, tiki decor and framed artwork with us to the Philippines. I was glad too, because as you said, there isn’t a lot in the way of flea market finds here. That was the end of ebay and etsy purchases when we moved here too:)
If anyone is settling here and has a particular taste for antique, vintage or quirky one of a kind things, they had better bring them here with them, as they will never be found again.
In certain parts of Cebu City and surrounding areas though, we have come across some kooky embargo and pawn shop type places. I’m sure certain areas of Manila would have similar kinds of curious places. It seems like maybe some foreigners might have pawned some furniture and paintings etc. upon leaving the country, and you can pick up something unique and imported.
I recently found a place that carried old weed wackers, wheelchairs and furniture, but among all that were some really nice imported sewing machines. My nephew even found a good used piano at one such place!
I’m glad that you still have a nice collection that you brought back with you and can enjoy. I know I get a lot of pleasure out of my unique collectible things too.
Hi Queeniebee – Good thinking. Yep, its really hard to find an antique shops here in the Philippines. Not much garage sale here too. If you saw one its not really much of good deal most of the time. Unlike in the States, every Saturday and Sunday almost always a garage sale day especially during summer. Flea market, antique shops, craft store are all over the place. Yep, ebay is out of reach here. Not much stuff there for my liking.
Good that you can find some good deals once in awhile there in Cebu. I’ve seen before on FB someone from there in Cebu selling some antique stuff on line for foreigners. Not sure if they’re still on line. I can’t remember the name and the url on those people.
Do you do fancy party during Thanksgiving and Christmas? My kids are already used to having fancy dinner during those occasion. They saw the way Bob’s mom having fancy dinner during those occasion. We’re trying to follow and pass it on to our kids. Hoping our kids will pass it on too to their kids.
Good to see you here . Have a great day!
Hi Feyma,
We don;t make too much of a deal on Thanksgiving, but Christmas with the extended family is at our house, and everyone gets a kick out of my colorful Christmas dishes and funky Christmas decor. Of course there are a lot of Christmas stars and lights hung up too!
Cooking is mostly a group effort, so it’s home made and some pre-purchased things. I agree that having festive dishes and glassware that are special make it even more fun.
Queenie
This following is sort of on topic. We brought Corelle plates as we knew they were expensive here. In fact we know people that display the plate boxes in their cabinets and only use them on rare occasions.
As we know Corelle is pretty common in the States.
Rusty