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- Well, hey, my friends.
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It is the middle of January and this is my first day
0:07
back filming and I have to say, I have missed y'all,
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just knowing that I hadn't been out there
0:16
and spent time with y'all so I think,
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I think I remember us doing a tour of the living room,
0:22
cause I promised y'all that I would do a tour of each room
0:27
as we get 'em complete.
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And I think we did a tour at Christmas time,
0:33
right Eddie?
0:34
- [Eddie] Yes, right after we got the house done
0:36
you wanted to do a quick tour, so.
0:38
- Yes, and Eddie decorated this house to the hilt.
0:41
Everywhere I looked was Christmas
0:43
and I was so glad to see it come
0:47
and I was so glad to see it go.
0:49
(chuckling)
0:50
So this is our living room as it is the living room
0:57
that we live in
1:01
day to day.
1:02
So I want y'all to see,
1:04
I can't remember how much I went into depth,
1:07
but I do want y'all to look at these beautiful doors.
1:12
Now,
1:15
these doors I've had them 17 years and there's a beautiful
1:19
carving up at the top.
1:23
I don't know if it's supposed to be an angel.
1:25
- [Eddie] I think it's an angel, yeah.
1:25
- [Paula] I think so, too.
1:27
- [Eddie] And that probably had some, you know,
1:28
these would have been old storm doors.
1:31
- [Paula] Yes.
1:32
- [Eddie] Or, you know, a townhouse.
1:33
So I'm sure that may have some significance as to,
1:38
like maybe
1:39
protecting the homeowners. - Right.
1:40
The homeowner. Yes.
1:42
Well Eddie and I went junking with CC and Great Great
1:46
the other day and we went into a store that had
1:51
a lot of architectural pieces.
1:55
Eddie, they had some beautiful old doors.
1:58
So if you're in the middle of redoing things,
2:04
you might consider finding a place that carries
2:07
some of these beautiful old doors.
2:10
And this is the natural.
2:11
Eddie and I've been saying we were gone wax it or something,
2:14
but we still hadn't done it.
2:18
And the builder had to,
2:22
because the doors were not as wide as a normal door,
2:26
they had to bring in so that these doors would fit.
2:31
But I want you to see this other side of 'em.
2:37
I'm gonna come in here, Eddie.
2:38
Can you come in here? - Okay.
2:40
- Come in here
2:41
and because one side is natural.
2:46
And one side,
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I had a decorative painter do the gold
2:55
and I just adored this door.
3:00
All right, they actually will close
3:06
if I was strong enough, but it does actually lock.
3:12
And I love it so much.
3:15
Uh oh, somebody, the cleaners got some white on it, Eddie.
3:21
I actually love the doors so much that quite often
3:24
I will shut them just so I can see and look at the trends,
3:28
that came, that was part of the doors.
3:33
So like I said,
3:35
I saw so many beautiful old doors the other day
3:38
and I'm racking my brain to think,
3:40
where could I use those doors?
3:42
And Eddie, they had some gates like for outside,
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old, old, old gates.
3:49
And I'm racking my brain to see where we can use
3:53
some of those outside.
3:56
So.
3:58
- [Eddie] Okay, let's start on one side and.
4:00
- Okay, let's start on one side.
4:02
You want to start back here and go that away
4:04
or how do you want it? - Yeah, we'll just go
4:06
around the room.
4:07
- I've had this piece for forever.
4:10
I bought this from Scott's Market in Atlanta.
4:14
They have all the antique dealers come in once a month
4:20
for like, is it three or four days, Eddie?
4:22
- [Eddie] Yeah, it's just a Thursday through Sunday.
4:25
- Thursday through Sunday and it's, is it the second weekend
4:29
or?
4:30
- [Eddie] It's, I can't remember.
4:31
It's the middle of the month and it's every other month.
4:34
- It is every other month?
4:35
I thought it was every month.
4:37
- [Eddie] I think it's every other month.
4:39
- I don't know, but Scott's Market,
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if y'all are gonna be in the Atlanta area,
4:43
check it out because it is
4:49
insane.
4:53
So, and these I've had for years.
4:58
These came out of an estate-
5:02
- [Eddie] Downtown.
5:02
- Downtown, yes.
5:04
- [Eddie] They're concrete with some applied shells
5:10
and rocks and they are like something you would hold on to
5:15
if a tornado was coming.
5:16
(laughing)
5:18
They are very heavy.
5:19
- Yes, they're so, so heavy, but they're so, so beautiful.
5:23
And my Audubon's,
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I bought them when I was in Key West,
5:31
maybe 12, 13, 14 years ago.
5:35
No, our house wasn't built down the road.
5:39
And I was in Key West doing a shoot for my magazine,
5:43
"Cooking With Paula Dean," and there was an audobon store
5:46
down there and I went in and I saw these two prints
5:51
and I said, "Oh my goodness, those would be perfect
5:54
"in the house that we're building."
5:57
And so I bought them,
5:58
they rolled them up and I brought them on the airplane
6:02
with me and finally got him framed after we had moved
6:08
into Riverbend.
6:10
And let's see, I've got some special things in here.
6:15
- [Eddie] I was gonna say, talk about those flowers.
6:19
These beautiful flowers that I hadn't finished putting
6:22
together.
6:24
You're not gone believe it.
6:26
Oh no!
6:28
Well, I can't let that go to waste.
6:32
Ummm.
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That flower tasted pretty good, Eddie.
6:38
(chuckling)
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Ummm.
6:42
Ummm.
6:44
Have y'all ever eaten your flowers?
6:48
You might want to try them sometimes
6:49
'cause they're pretty good.
6:52
Y'all, these,
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Michael threw me a surprise birthday party
7:00
this past Saturday.
7:02
And I was so shocked.
7:04
Eddie told me that we were doing a photo shoot,
7:10
a family photo shoot, because it had been a while
7:13
and Aunt Peggy, and Bubbles and Phil,
7:18
and Karly was home so we were doing a family shoot.
7:22
So I didn't question him because we do those every
7:26
couple of years, you know, to just keep them updated.
7:30
Well, so Emily, my hair and makeup,
7:36
precious girl, got me done and I said,
7:39
"Emily, it sounds like a party's going on in there
7:41
"in the kitchen."
7:43
So I just thought, well, maybe the family has gotten here.
7:46
I walked in and it was full of folks.
7:51
And (chuckling)
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I was in shock
7:56
because they thought I had caught on,
7:59
but I had not one clue what they were cooking up.
8:04
And Sissy, Susan Green, knew these girls that live in
8:11
Newnan and she had them make me a birthday cake
8:17
and these were the edible flowers on top of it.
8:21
And it was made to look like a blue Willa bowl, a big bowl.
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- [Eddie] We'll get some photos of those.
8:29
- I was going to say,
8:30
let's get some pictures to them.
8:33
In this cabinet, I just keep things that, you know,
8:36
this is how I keep up with things
8:38
that are kind of special to me.
8:40
I'll just stick them in here.
8:42
This is from the Twin Towers
8:48
and someone was kind enough to give these to me.
8:54
I'll never forget that day that the Twin Towers went down
9:00
and I'm so happy to have this as a reminder.
9:07
And this is from the World Trade Center Tower Two.
9:11
And it was cut from the core beams from the first through
9:14
the 110th floor and
9:21
I love having it.
9:23
Remind me of how blessed we are
9:30
that so many people rally together.
9:35
And I just, I can't appreciate our service members,
9:40
I can't say enough about how I respect them,
9:45
the firemen and the policeman,
9:47
everybody that has practically given up their freedom
9:52
to keep us safe and be able to remain to have our freedom,
9:59
so that just keeps my heart full all the time.
10:04
And Elaine Seabolt has started me,
10:09
she started giving me these little things
10:11
and I don't know what they're called.
10:13
- [Eddie] They're Baccarat.
10:15
- Baccarat.
10:16
- [Eddie] Baccarat crystal.
10:18
- Baccarat?
10:20
- [Eddie] Yeah.
10:21
- Well, they are beautiful.
10:22
And they come in all different colors, don't they?
10:25
and I love that.
10:27
And Sissy just gave me this piece for my birthday Saturday
10:33
and it's just beautiful.
10:35
It's a sterling silver piece from,
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I think she said it was from her grandmother
10:44
on her father's side.
10:46
I don't know,
10:47
but I've got to write it down and put it in this
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because it's just beautiful.
10:51
Very, I don't have many true silver pieces, y'all.
10:56
Most of it's silver plate,
10:59
but I don't care as long as we can clean it and it shines.
11:03
Now this piece is sterling silver.
11:05
This belonged to my mother.
11:08
And I remember this sitting on our coffee table
11:11
in the living room with candy in it.
11:15
And my mother wasn't one foot, she was not,
11:19
she was not one for silver.
11:21
I don't think it mattered to her one way or the other.
11:24
But that piece means an awful lot to me.
11:28
And I love decorating with chafing dish lids,
11:36
like this one was monogrammed.
11:38
It belonged to somebody and these are beautiful
11:41
to hang them, you can actually hang those on the wall.
11:45
So let me show you the most beautiful,
11:50
beautiful piece in here.
11:53
And this is my Blue Willow.
11:58
Eddy gave this to me this Christmas.
12:02
So tell them all about it, Eddie.
12:05
It's from 1842, right?
12:08
- [Eddie] It's an English.
12:09
- Hey, Mikey.
12:11
I didn't think you gonna be home till five o'clock.
12:14
- [Mikey] I didn't either.
12:16
- Okay, excuse me.
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- [Eddie] It's an English transferware platter.
12:24
- You found it at 7th Heaven.
12:28
- [Eddie] Yeah, I went to see Joe at 7th Heaven.
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- Oh, this is just so beautiful.
12:35
I couldn't believe it when I opened it,
12:37
but I should have known cause Eddie has got
12:42
such good taste
12:45
and oh, I did, I do have one of these in here,
12:48
Blue Coral.
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I love coral and it's 7th Heaven.
12:54
You can find the blue.
12:56
Can you get that?
12:57
- [Eddie] Yep.
13:00
- But like I said, as far as value, (chuckling)
13:04
you'd be wasting your time to come (chuckling)
13:07
put it in a pillowcase and haul it out.
13:09
But there are some pieces that are very, very,
13:12
very special to me
13:16
and we put the lights in it
13:18
so I can, so I can see everything.
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- [Eddie] (whispering) Hey Pumpkin.
13:32
- (chuckling) Pumpkin is,
13:34
it's kind of nippy here today and pumpkin is enjoying
13:39
laying by the fire.
13:43
All right.
13:45
This table might be one of my favorite tables in here.
13:49
It came from Tapley's.
13:51
It's 17th century, isn't it Eddie?
13:54
- [Eddie] 18th century.
13:56
- 18th Century Which means it was made in the 1700's, right?
14:02
- [Eddie] Yeah, 17th, yeah.
14:04
This is about 1740 I think she had on the tag.
14:07
- Yeah, so I adore this table.
14:12
How would you describe it, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] It's a fruit wood provincial
14:19
table. - You think English inspired?
14:21
Or French inspired?
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- [Eddie] Oh no, definitely, definitely French.
14:23
- That's what I thought.
14:26
And these beautiful lamps.
14:28
I found the jars at 7th Heaven
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and Joe turned them into lamps for me
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and I think they're so beautiful.
14:38
And one of my grandchildren's favorite things in this room
14:41
is (bell ringing)
14:44
is the bell.
14:45
And we found that at Clutter.
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We sold Riverbend furnished.
14:52
So Eddie and I had to get out and get to scurrying
14:55
pretty fast.
14:57
And the first thing we did was order
15:02
the soft furniture from my furniture line,
15:08
Paula Dean craft Masters,
15:13
is where you can find the furniture
15:15
and the fabrics to go with them.
15:20
This is a beautiful tilt top table.
15:24
It actually tilts up and we found that at 7th Heaven.
15:33
And when I decided to get my furniture,
15:37
I insisted that everything be able to move
15:42
'cause I don't know that I've ever really had
15:44
a rocking chair to rock my grand babies in.
15:47
So I just adore that and look at this.
15:51
This is kind of neat that I found at different times.
15:58
I found this piece and it looks a lot,
16:03
it reminds me a lot of the piece down there
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and found this at Tapleys.
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- [Eddie] I'm not sure, you know that you had this one
16:11
at the other house we took...
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- [Paula] Uh uh, no.
16:15
Did I?
16:16
- [Eddie] Yeah, this was outside
16:17
Michael's office. - Well where's that other one
16:18
that I found at Tapleys?
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- [Eddie] The other one was, you found at
16:25
Apple Street Auction.
16:27
- [Paula] I thought it was at Tapley's.
16:29
- No you got that piece and the table at Tapley's.
16:34
- I could have sworn it was from Tapley's.
16:38
Okay, well, we're not doing that room yet.
16:40
So I know this was in the hallway at one time.
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- [Eddie] Right, so you had, this was one piece
16:46
that we did take with us. (Paula laughing)
16:50
- Oh my gosh y'all,
16:51
I'm so confused,
16:52
if it wasn't for Eddie to keep my brain straight.
16:55
All right and this is the matching jug to that one that
17:04
Joe turned into lamps for me.
17:07
And you want to hear a funny story?
17:09
You know, these drapes were made years ago
17:14
for the kitchen windows.
17:20
The kitchen used to stop right here and the rest was porch
17:27
but I knew the way our family has grown and exploded
17:31
that I had to have enough room to feed everybody,
17:34
to have a seat for everybody.
17:37
So Eddie found these
17:41
waded up in a closet
17:45
and he pulled them out and showed them to me
17:47
and I said, "Oh my goodness, Eddie,
17:48
"that was original drapes."
17:50
And they cost so much money
17:56
to have made because this is fine, fine fabrics.
18:00
So Eddie took them and had them cut in to, y'all.
18:05
And we were able to hang 'em back here in the living room.
18:10
So I just adore looking at those and I think, oh gosh,
18:13
it saved me so much money because custom draperies
18:17
are crazy, crazy money.
18:22
And now these I have had,
18:26
I got these from the same estate that the concrete
18:31
tables came from and these are just beautiful and have no,
18:36
no idea how old they are,
18:40
but I think they're so, so pretty.
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- [Eddie] You know, I think, you know,
18:43
something like that looks like it would come from like,
18:49
like new England, you know, Maine, you know,
18:51
a great old Adirondack types of thing.
18:55
- Well, they're just beautiful.
18:58
And this man's estate, he traveled all over the world.
19:04
And he, I think he over collected.
19:09
I understand that he had warehouses just full of stuff.
19:13
And.
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- [Eddie] Now this, a lot of people may not know,
19:19
this is something you created.
19:21
- Yes, I created this handsome man.
19:27
I got into shelling and
19:32
I found this piece and he was like, almost kind of white,
19:38
but I took some Briwax, Eddy,
19:43
and I rubbed him all down to give him more of a tan,
19:50
because like I said, he was really, really light,
19:53
light, light.
19:55
And I wanted these shells to pop.
20:00
And so he sat in our foyer for years at Riverbend.
20:07
And this is one of my favorite pieces, y'all.
20:13
Listen.
20:15
Please tell me my children haven't.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, there may be a button underneath that
20:19
you gotta.
20:20
- [Paula] I don't know.
20:23
I've tried to keep it up.
20:30
- [Eddie] Hold on, don't over.
20:31
- [Paula] I know it, I'm afraid I'm gonna.
20:36
Here, let me.
20:38
- [Eddie] I see it right here.
20:39
- [Paula] Oh you do? (bird chirping)
20:41
Oh my gosh, that scared me so bad, Eddie.
20:44
(birds chirping)
20:49
That is so beautiful.
20:50
And look, their little heads move.
20:52
Are their heads still moving, Eddie?
20:54
- [Eddie] Yes.
20:55
(birds chirping) - Oh yea.
21:02
I found that quite a few years ago at 7th Heaven.
21:09
And look here, Eddie, I'm sure I've told you this before.
21:12
Do you see this old, I think it's mahogany?
21:17
That was my daddy's poker chip caddy.
21:23
And he had it full of clay, actually clay chips.
21:29
And I've got them put away
21:32
in the bathroom,
21:34
but I just adore that.
21:36
And I've wanted to have it refinished forever,
21:39
but just hadn't got around to it.
21:42
And course, pictures of our children,
21:46
all around.
21:52
Oh, that's me when I went to celebrate Mr. Jimmy
21:57
and Mrs. Roselyn 75th wedding anniversary
22:01
some months back and there's me and Great Great, a
22:04
Aunt Peggy, she's still so pretty, y'all.
22:08
And two of my precious friends
22:11
that are no longer here with us.
22:14
And that was at Mr. Jimmy, Mrs. Roslyn's house.
22:20
And that's some of my children, more of my children.
22:25
Okay, give the camera back to you.
22:30
In fact, one of the pictures that I just showed y'all
22:34
was given to me by Ann Sherberger,
22:37
one of my dear, dear, dear friends.
22:40
And she no longer wanted her dining room chairs.
22:44
So I said, well, I just love them.
22:46
They're ole needle eye chairs
22:49
and I think they're beautiful.
22:51
All right, now this is,
22:53
this is one of those tops that I was telling y'all about
22:57
for use for hanging,
23:01
tops to chafing dishes.
23:03
And this is one that was cut in two.
23:06
So moving on down,
23:11
this is one of the pieces that we found on our shopping
23:14
spree and we found this at 7th Heaven and it is,
23:20
well, what's the technical name for it?
23:21
- [Eddie] It's an English fireplace seat fender.
23:26
- Seat fender, okay, that's what I couldn't remember.
23:28
- [Eddie] And this, you know, this is probably,
23:32
probably from like around looking at the design of it,
23:35
it's probably like around 1900.
23:39
- Yeah. Yeah.
23:40
All right, now y'all, I'm sure y'all have picked up on
23:44
Eddie's knowledge
23:47
and that's because he came to Savannah when he was 18 years
23:51
old and he attended SCAD, graduated from SCAD,
23:55
So he's very artistic.
23:59
And then he,
24:01
he really spent quite a few years
24:05
in high-end antique shops
24:09
and you'll have to fill them in from there, Eddie.
24:13
He got such an education though,
24:15
working with some of the best antique dealers here
24:19
in Savannah.
24:20
Is that right?
24:21
- [Eddie] Yeah. Yeah.
24:22
And I, and gosh, some of the best clients in town,
24:27
you know, some great houses in town, but yeah,
24:32
I worked 18 years with Lee Smith with his shop.
24:38
- Uh huh, who has just beautiful stuff.
24:41
And like I said, Eddie had a wonderful education,
24:45
so he's like a wonderful teacher for me.
24:51
He teaches me much and this,
24:55
I don't remember where I found it,
24:57
but I was told it was from a building in New York City.
25:03
- [Eddie] Yeah, usually the top, you know, top level
25:08
of a building, or if you look at like a Victorian home,
25:11
the attic windows, were usually, I mean, this is metal.
25:17
I don't know if it's copper or not.
25:19
It might be copper,
25:21
but usually the, you know, in the roof line,
25:24
the window frames would be cast, you know,
25:27
metal like that to blend in.
25:29
- Uh huh, so this was an outside architectural feature.
25:33
- [Eddie] Yeah. Yup.
25:35
Now it looks like copper the way it's between it right here,
25:40
Eddie, but you know,
25:41
I cared not whether it was copper or plain old tin
25:45
because I thought it was beautiful
25:48
and it hung in our bedroom at Riverbend
25:53
and now it hangs over the fireplace at Dogwood.
25:58
And another find that we found,
26:03
I mean, Eddie and I really came up on some good deals
26:06
because I mean we really put our feet to the fire
26:10
in searching because we knew we had to get furniture
26:13
for this house and get it pretty quickly.
26:16
And Eddie spotted this again, it's 7th Heaven.
26:22
And you can tell them about that, Eddie.
26:24
- [Eddie] I mean, it's an English leather Ottoman,
26:30
but the size, you know, the size of it,
26:33
the name actually is Edward Farrell,
26:37
which is a very high end furniture line, you know,
26:43
similar to yours.
26:45
- Well, I wouldn't know Edwin from (both chuckling)
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anyone else because I am not trained that way.
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And this chest, isn't that one that I had had for
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a very long time, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] This one, no, this one here,
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you got at 7th Heaven as well.
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- [Paula] I did?
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- [Eddie] Yeah, this was one of the last pieces you got
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and the
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grain pattern on it, the English,
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it is a solid mahogany chest.
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There's not any veneers.
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- [Paula] Yeah, I'm not crazy about veneer furniture.
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- [Eddie] The grain pattern, the English called it
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plum pudding, because of the muddled grain pattern.
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- [Paula] Uh uh.
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- [Eddie] It's kind of like a diseased mahogany,
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(Paula laughing)
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but it's a very unique, if you can find it.
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- [Paula] Plum pudding.
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- [Eddie] Yeah.
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- [Paula] Somebody looks like they might've burned it
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with a cigarette right there.
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- [Eddie] Yeah, probably.
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I mean, it's a brushing slide.
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So, you know,
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someone probably headed up ironing or something.
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- [Paula] Yeah, yeah. (chuckling)
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Oh, I wish all this old stuff could talk,
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'cause I just love to hear all the stories it could tell
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and Eddie, I don't know if I ever told you this,
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but this piece means a lot to me, this fern stand.
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Jimmy Dean, my children's father,
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my husband at the time, gave me this
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for our 10th wedding anniversary.
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And Bobby and his girlfriend at the time
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insisted that they just fell in love with this baby rabbit.
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And I said, "Okay, but you've got to tend
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"to that baby rabbit."
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Well, they let him out one day and they were not tending
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to him and he gnawed one of the corners off.
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But I think I just put some Old English onto it,
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but that means a lot to me.
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and it's gonna mean a lot to one of my children
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having that one day.
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So that completes a tour of the living room.
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And so now I'm gonna go in the kitchen
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and I'm gone cook us up something good.
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I'm so glad to be with y'all again.
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Love and best dishes and happy New Year!
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Happy, happy. (chuckling)
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