Pearls and Lace Thursday #4

Pearls a La Purple!

Well, the purple chocolate tins with the violets have found a new home, on a dresser that belonged to my wonderful hubby! His father used this piece, and now it is part of the guest room.

The costume jewelry is from my Great Aunt Freda. She had a lovely collection of many items, and I am the care-taker of a few lovely pieces, and have been since I was a child!

I remember the huge sunflower "Diamond" brooch so well. I've kept it in the jewelry box all my life, but now it's time to display it. It is missing some stones, probably from my mishandling it as a child, but it's still so pretty. I can remember taking it and holding it close to my eye and looking through the back of the largest stone and looking at my little world. So fascinating to a child!

The lace is from an estate sale I attended about a month or so ago. One of 3 lovely pieces.

I think the detail is lovely, and do you notice that the flower in the lace looks similar to the "diamond" brooch?? Flowers and leaves. Anyway, just a bit or whimsy.

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Blessings!

Doni

"Meant" to be Mine!

I guess I've always love glass...I went to garage sales a lot when I was just a kid (thanks mom!), so I've always wanted to have a home of my own and collect all the beautiful

pieces I saw and display them. This first picture show a recent find at a

local shop near me. It was so sweet, it had to be a part of the collection.

The rose jar on the right also came from the same shop, and of course I fell in love

with it at first sight! Do you ever do that? Just see something and KNOW that it

was meant to go home with you? The piece on the left was from a garage sale,

and as usual, it just had to come home with me!

This is a cool jar. It's large and it's heavy. It has a spigot down at the bottom (like for tea),

and seems to work. BUT, I wanted it for all my LACE!!!

Perfect! It looks cool in there! The bottom of the jar says ITALY, and

I found it at the GoodWill store near me. Cost me 5 dollars, and

I almost left it behind....but it just caught my attention and I KNEW...

It had to come home with me!!!

They were meant to be mine!

I'm still working on my Guest Room, and have SO far to go, but it's a work in

progress and looks as if it will only progress slowly. I've redone the dresser my

Grossmutter gave me, so it looks a whole lot better. I used the new dresser scarves

I bought at the Estate sale, and I've moved the purple violet tins to another

place in the room. More pics as I get them all done!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Doni

Ode to Grossmutter

Not sure about this setup...in fact as I look at it closer, it's just tooooooo busy! Too much lace or something. Now how y'all do it, I just don't know. Maybe I need to take lessons on how to set up a beautiful vignette. My dresser belonged to my Grossmutter (grandmother) we pronounced it "Growshmudder", who was my biggest fan. She lived 3 doors down the street from us. She was born in March in the late 1800's. When I was a young child, she moved to a retirement home and couldn't take all of her furniture, so both my sister and I got her bedroom suites, mine including this dresser. I've always loved it, mostly because it was hers. I can remember the top middle drawer. It was where she kept her clip-on earrings and a picture of her son who had died too young. It was a school picture, of a young man with a silly grin on his face. At the time, we didn't have a clue...he wasn't there for us to know. What we did know was that it was special to Grossmutter...and now that I have two sons of my own, I know just HOW special. So the drawer is special. And those earrings..she kept them on a plastic earring holder like a short wide ladder. The pairs of earrings clipped to it, and my sister and I got to play with them like dressup. Grossmutter was always finding little things for us to do or enjoy. So many memories of my childhood with her were made right next to this dresser. And her favorite color was purple, her favorite flowers violets (she raised some GORGEOUS African violets!). So the purple tins with the violets are because of her. I guess a lot of her favorites rubbed off on me. I loved her house, the smell of the mothballs (yes, I'm wierd), and the crystal chandelier over the dining room table. The cedar panelled room with all the windows. The plastic Christmas Tree for the table that you stuck the gumdrops on every year. Her CATS! TONS of CATS! And her sweet smile, gray hair, and wrinkled face of love for me. I miss you Grossmutter. Thanks so much for letting me have your dresser...I love it and always will.

Doni