PersonallyByPat Boutiques

PersonallyByPat Boutiques
Linens, home decor, & more . . . for creating a home you love!

Welcome! This is the home page for PersonallyByPat Boutiques, which offer high-quality, hard-to-find items for you and your home with great customer service and speedy shipping! Bed and bath linens, tableware, kitchen items, home decor, ladies' accessories, and more! Occasionally some vintage items, too!

Here on my home page I post photos and write about my recent decorating activities and about exciting new items I am offering for sale. Hope you'll join me often!

PersonallyByPat sells on Bonanza, eBay, Etsy, and Amazon and also has a Facebook page!

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Announcing the Publication of

Lincoln's Rise to Eloquence:
How He Gained the Presidential Nomination
by D. Leigh Henson

To see the author's full announcement of August 6, 2024, on Facebook, go to this link and click on "see more":
https://www.facebook.com/share/cCRLh3LkMgoLWs4V/

Author D. Leigh Henson and wife Pat Hartman (PersonallyByPat)

At the University of Illinois Press:
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088032

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Lincoln's Birthday

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born on February 12, 1809. My husband, Professor D. Leigh Henson, was born and grew up in Lincoln, IL, the only town named both for and by Abraham Lincoln before he became famous. Leigh's first Lincoln book, The Town Abraham Lincoln Warned: The Living Namesake Heritage of Lincoln, Illinois (2011), offers a unique look at the only town named for and by Mr. Lincoln and how the town has used its Lincoln heritage. Visit the author's website to read more about the book and view the accolades it has received: htttp://findinglincolnillinois.com/townabewarned.html

Leigh's second book, Inventing Lincoln: Approaches to His Rhetoric (2017), provides a systematic discussion of the work of selected biographers and several kinds of scholars who have invented Lincoln through their explanations and judgments of his discourse. Inventing Lincoln reveals the rhetorical concepts and analytical methods applied by Lincolnists to his discourse and in turn the rhetorical qualities they perceive in his speeches and other writings. Read more about it here:
http://findinglincolnillinois.com/inventinglincoln.html

PersonallyByPat has new signed copies of the books for sale on eBay and Bonanza.

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Leigh's latest book, Lincoln's Rise to Eloquence: How He Gained the Presidential Nomination, will be published by the University of Illinois Press in August 2024.

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The rabbits are getting ready for Easter!

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Presidents' Birthdays

On the February calendar we mark Presidents' Day, George Washington's birthday, and Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Actually, four US presidents had February birthdays: George Washington (first US president), February 22, 1732; William Henry Harrison (9th US president), February 9, 1773; Abraham Lincoln (16th US president), February 12, 1809; and Ronald Reagan (40th US president), February 6, 1911.

For a unique look at the only town named for and by Abraham Lincoln and how it has used its Lincoln heritage, get Professor D. Leigh Henson's book, "The Town Abraham Lincoln Warned: The Living Namesake Heritage of Lincoln, Illinois."

Visit the author's website to read more about the book and view the accolades it has received. http://findinglincolnillinois.com/townabewarned.html

PersonallyByPat has the book for sale on eBay, Bonanza, and Amazon.

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Some Current Listings

Star-Shaped Crystal Candle Sticks, 4.5" Tall

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Vintage H.K. Antiqued Collection
Mini Sepia Prints
on Velvet Hanger Ribbon

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Rare vintage hand-painted pair of Chinese vases
on wood stands in fancy boxes

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Vintage pheasant statue

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Vintage blue and white floral for your table!
Enoch Wedgwood Gainsborough Blue!

I have just ~~bread/dessert plates and~~ cups/saucers left.

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Royal Cauldon Glastonbury Abbey Plate

From Royal Cauldon, England, Est. 1774, this is a beautiful vintage 9 3/4-inch plate, made in England in the Glastonbury Abbey pattern in brown on creamy ivory. The plate is in excellent vintage condition with no cracks, chips, or crazing. On the back side in the flat center area near the base rim there are what appear to be the numbers 4 8 2 impressed into the porcelain. They are very hard to read. This is the last plate I have from this Royal Cauldon collection.

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Oneida Sakura Still Life
salt and pepper shakers

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Rare antique 1920 Jack and Jill
china baby dish from Germany!

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SOLD
Vintage Wedgwood Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit 10 pc
Children's Tea Set, Made in England

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Recently sold vintage jewelry listings!

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Rare Vintage Chinese Interior-Painted
Crystal Bead Rope Necklace

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SOLD
Vintage Reed & Barton
English Crown Silverplate
~ 82-piece set for 12 plus bonuses! ~

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Johnson Brothers Windsor Ware
Appleblossom Rimmed Soup Plates

Visit the China/Pottery/Glass department of my booth
on Bonanza.com to see these and other listings.

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SOLD
Queen's China Hooker's fruit

SORRY -- THIS SET IS SOLD! From Queen's Collection Fine Bone China and the Royal Horticultural Society, made in England, this is a lovely vintage set of teapot and six pedestal mugs in the charming Hooker's Fruit pattern. The teapot has the apple pattern, and each of the six mugs is a different fruit pattern. Made in England! Excellent, like-new condition!

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Fall decorating time!

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SOLD

From J.G. Meakin in England, Vintage Sugar & Creamer
in the lovely Sterling Colonial Renaissance pattern in black and white.
SORRY! This item is SOLD!

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Easter Table 2022

The French country boy enjoyed finding so many colorful eggs with his dog and rabbit friends!

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Button Heart in a Frame

This button heart under glass in a frame was an easy craft project for the Valentine's season, but the "love" message is nice all year 'round!

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Fall Table Centerpiece

Mid-September feels like the right time to put a new fall centerpiece on the dining room table. We are finally into cooler weather here, but Halloween is still a month and a half away. Too soon for a jack o' lantern on the table! A garland of leaves in turning colors, some imitation fruits and vegetables, a lovely vintage English brown transferware bowl, some cute bird votive candles in pinecone candle holders, and a golden leafy table runner will do nicely!

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Visit PersonallyByPat's
China/Pottery/Glass
Department

Visit PersonallyByPat's
Queen Bedding Department

Visit PersonallyByPat's
China/Pottery/Glass
Department

Read Professor D. Leigh Henson's pictorial research report on Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and their connection to circuses on his Finding Lincoln Illinois website:

Read It Here

Professor D. Leigh Henson's latest, award-winning, online publication: "The Real Estate Empire of the John Dean Gillett Family of Elkhart, Illinois; the Gillett Great Estate Trial of 1904 at Lincoln, Illinois; and Gillett History to the Present"

Read It Here

Professor D. Leigh Henson's latest book, Inventing Lincoln: Approaches to His Rhetoric. Click on photo or title to link to book summary and order information.

Also available, Professor D. Leigh Henson's book, The Town Abraham Lincoln Warned: The Living Namesake Heritage of Lincoln, Illinois, recipient of an award for superior achievement from the Illinois State Historical Society. Click on the photo or title to link to book summary and order information. The book is available on Amazon, Bonanza, eBay, and eCrater.