New Leather & Cosmetic Products Have Arrived!

There are a lot of fantastic products coming to Grandma's Pantry over the next few weeks. These items will be from various categories so there should be something for everyone.

I hope that you will take the time to stop by and check out the great new leather items that were just added to my Bonanzle booth.

The link to my booth is:

http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/GrandmasPantry

Here are a few examples:

Genuine Leather Purse Pink Snap Closure Zippered Pockets New

23 Inch Genuine Leather Duffle Bag Black Gym Sporty New


Italian Stone Design Genuine Leather Purse Faux Snake Skin

Rimmel Of London Black Mascara Soft Kohl Kajal Eyeliner NEW

CoverGirl TruShine Lip Color #500 Cranberry Shine New


Rimmel London Lycra Wear 10 Day Nail Polish 307 Grape Sorbet

Growing Up Years III

Well, Grandma is back with some more of her growing years.

Really, when I think about it now it was an interesting time and a time of almost pure innocence of both children and adults. There were few cars and no TV's. We played outside for entertainment. If only we could go back without bringing the war back too.

My mom's parents, my grandparents, lived up in the mountains. It was very pretty up there. The name of the town was Goldendale, Washington. It was a logging town at that time. I don't know what it is like now as I haven't been able to go back out there. Sometimes going back isn't the best thing to do as you expect to see things that were there then to still be there and most generally they not there anymore.

When I was 6 yrs. old, my dad got a letter from some of his relatives that his grandfather was dying and if he wanted to see him he should come as soon as possible. So we got our belongings together and started our journey to Flandreau, South Dakota.

We took a train and for us girls it was exciting and entertaining. You see, we had never seen running water in a fountain or an inside toilet and boy were they fun! That is, until the porter locked the bathroom and told us that he would unlock it for anyone who wanted to use it but then he would relock it. That took our sails out.

On this train was a lot of returning military people that were on their way home. They read to us and played games with us. I'm sure we aggravated them but when you're a kid, that long on a train ride becomes boring (4 days). Those days, the train would stop at just about every town.

When we came into South Dakota we had breakfast in the dining car to celebrate our birthdays (my sister and I were born on the same day but a year apart). That to us was really something! They had tablecloths on the table and fancy dishes! It would be fun to have trains like this now as you get to see the country and you meet such interesting people.

Needless to say that we didn't arrive before his grandfather died. One of his uncles asked my dad if he would work his farm for him as he wanted to retire and my dad told him yes.

I'd never been to such a small school before as the one in Flandreau. It was a one room school with 35 kids from all 8 grades and only one teacher. I really enjoyed it there. There was only one other person in my grade.

Until next time, when I continue my story....

Fantastic New Items At Grandma's Pantry!

Wow! I've been adding some fabulous items to my Bonanzle booth - Grandma's Pantry. You can visit my booth by clicking this link: http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/GrandmasPantry

Please stop in and check out these and other great products that I offer when you have some free time.

Here are some of the latest:

Sticky Mosaics Fashion Frames ® 3D Kit Age 5+

Jazz up your favorite pics with this sparkling mosaic frame set. Just follow the numbered templates, and you’ll be creating with style!

2200+ sticky foam and jewel pieces
3 sparkling designs
4 stands
Two single photo frames and one double frame for you and your BFF.

A picture frame as pretty as you are! A fun craft alone or with friends, create dazzling frames decorated by you! Sticky Mosaics make it easy to create your own magnificent mosaic artwork. Follow the numbers to place the colorful sticky foam squares onto fun patterns. Combines self adhesive jewels and holographic foil pieces for even more sparkle and shine!
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12 Wood Magnets You Paint It Kit Age 4+
A fun magnet kit for your child to paint which includes:

12 wood magnets of various designs

4 - .6 fluid ounce tubs of paint

2 paint brushes

Easy to follow instructions
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Rimmel London Renew & Lift Foundation 101 Porcelain
Mineral enriched retexturizing, firming foundation with Time Reverse Complex.

Smooth, radiant skin tone.

Oil free.

Look up To 8 years younger in just 12 days! Tested among women 30-50 years old.

Rimmel Renew & Lift is a liquid makeup formulated with peptides and ceramides that help to shrink pores and firm skin in as little as 12 days.

This oil-free formula moisturizes skin for a dewy and radiant complexion.

About Rimmel Of London

Beauty loves a legend, and legends don’t come much more compelling than the story behind Rimmel, one of the world’s oldest cosmetics brands. In 1820, a respected French perfumer who had been trained by the famous Lubin, perfumer to Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon I, accepted an invitation to manage a perfumery in London’s prestigious Bond Street. By 1834, the move to London had proved so successful that, together with his son and apprentice Eugene Rimmel, then aged just 14, he opened a perfumery of his own. The House of Rimmel was established.
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Covergirl Incredifull Lipcolor #916 Mauveful .12 Oz.
Moisturizing lipstick pumps-up your look and improves the overall condition of lips.

Covergirl's easy, breezy classic with a moisturewear complex provides rich color hour after hour.

Get fuller, younger-looking lips—instantly.

This volumizing lipcolor helps draw moisture to the lips, improves the condition of your lips.

And its formula provides a refreshing, cooling sensation…so you can feel it!

Hydrates lips for up to 8 hours.

Contains Vitamin B3, Pro-Vitamin B5 & Vitamin E.
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EZ Towel Disposable Towel 50 Pieces Water Activated
EZ Towel is compressed into a tablet shape the size of a stack of five nickels. Adding water when placed in the palm of your hand the tablet will expand. It can then unroll and unfold to become an 9 by 10 inch towel.

One EZ Towel does the work of over 10 paper napkins. Conveniently packaged in a resealable bag for storage until your next cleanup.

The towel is of biodegradable rayon, and, unlike paper towels, it is durable, soft and absorbent. It contains no chemicals or other ingredients. The form makes it ideal for travel, carrying in a purse, pocket, car, backpack, picnic basket or anywhere children and adults go.

It comes in a plastic bag that contains 50 compact EZ towels. Each bag also includes a tube to conveniently carry in a purse, pocket, tackle box, etc.
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Pitcher Clear 2.5 Quarts Virtually Unbreakable Polycarbonate
Virtually unbreakable

Dishwasher safe

Food safe

Capacity - 2.5qts/2.37 liters

Made of virtually unbreakable Polycarbonate

NSA approved

PVC, phthalate, and lead safe

From everyday dining to partying on the patio, this is the ideal drinkware.

Smooth edges and modern lines enhance any table setting.

Enjoy the appeal of elegant glassware without the concern of broken pieces.
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Once again, here is the link to my Bonanzle booth - Grandma's Pantry:
http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/GrandmasPantry

Growing Up Years Continued

Hi everyone:

Grandma's Pantry is back again. It was interesting living during this era. Us kids never realized that we were so poor. If I were to go back to that era at my age now I would've wondered how we ever made it at all. The thing that saved us,I believe,was the fact that we grew everything we ate.

When mom went to the store to buy flour, us girls would argue over which one would get the bag it came in. You see, in those days flour came in a printed cloth bag. Mom would make our dresses, shorts, and shirts out of this bag. We really felt like we were really dressed up when we put on a dress made of this bag as the prints on them were colorful and pretty. Things were a lot cheaper then but since we had very little money we couldn't afford to buy much.

One day my dad brought home a dog BUT guess what? He brought it home in a match box. For those who aren't familiar with the term match box, I will try to explain it. A match box is about 4 inches long and about 1 to 1 1/2 inches deep and the lid would slide either way to get it open and inside were the wooden matches. Anyway, this puppy was so small that when we took him out he fit in the palm of our little hands. We called him Fuji. He was a teacup chihuahua. We trained him to sit up to the table when we would have ice-cream - that was fun to watch.

One day my dad asked us kids to go out to the pasture to bring the cows in for milking. So when we got to the cows we started to bring them in and for whatever reason my sister decided to grab hold of one of the cows tail. I told her to let go but she turned a deaf ear to me and boy did she ever pay for it! The cow started running and every time that her hind feet came off the ground they would connect with my sisters face but she still wouldn't let go. She was about 4 or 5 yrs. old.

So much for now -- TO BE CONTINUED

Hearts & Roses For Valentine's

Hearts and roses will let your Valentine know you think she is wonderful. Grandma's Pantry has several variations of hearts and even rose earrings and necklaces.

Let that beautiful lady know that she holds a special place in your heart!

Here are a few examples:

Swarovski Crystal AB Pinwheel Heart 18MM Pendant Gold Plate Rope Chain

Swarovski Crystal Red Heart 18MM Gold Plated Rope Chain Necklace

Swarovski Crystal Blue Heart Intaglio Rose Necklace - The heart is about 3/4" long and about 5/8" wide at the widest point.

Swarovski Crystal Rose Frosted Iridescent Post Earrings - These earrings are about 1 1/4" long and about 5/8" wide at the widest point.

Grandma's Growing Up Years

Here is just a little more on the person who has Grandma's Pantry. I was born in Goldendale, Washington, up into the mountains. My folks had 3 kids (2 girls & a boy). The boy didn't live very long.

We moved down to the Toppenish area on the reservation. My dad worked for the Indians at that time. He had an old Model A pickup and he would toss me into it and we would take off for the mountains as his job was to bring the wild horses down to where the Indians would put them into corrals and then would sell them to the rodeos. I really thought it was a lot of fun.

The Indians at night would sit around a fire gambling. It was fun to watch them. The ladies were busy making items to sell to the tourists.

We soon rented a farm where we raised milk cows and our crops were sugar beets, sweet corn, peas, potatoes, carrots, and we also had a vineyard. My mother also worked as a supervisor in the "hop yards".

We had not even heard of a TV but we had a radio. You see this was the dirty thirty's and no one had much of anything. We had no basement but we had a storm cellar built a short ways from the house.

My Dad worked the farm with horses. Whenever he needed the horses he would send us girls after them as they knew if he came then they would have to work. The horses would come right up to us and follow us home. This all was during WWII.

I remember coming home from the first grade one afternoon and hearing President Franklin D. Roosevelt announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor. Us girls really didn't understand the enormity of all that was being said.

One day at school some people came into the school and took out all the Japanese children and took them and their parents to a holding camp for their own protection. You may not understand why this happened---but it was because most of them had many relatives in Japan and the US didn't trust them and they didn't trust us either.

During this period we had to have black shades on our windows so the lights wouldn't show at night. Our lights were kerosene lamps. We could see the search lights flashing up in the mountains because of our proximity to Japan to keep watch so we wouldn't be attacked.

We also had rationing of sugar, metals, tires, gas, oil and many other items that time has erased for me. Us girls didn't really realize how bad things really were.

Oh, the innocence of children.

Be sure to come back as I will continue on about Grandma's growing up.