Holiday

[tends2dogs]

@Oznell For some reason, when I am out "picking" I am always drawn to glass and also, metal items.  I have a large wood strawberry basket (at least that is what my mom called it) where I have misc. metal items laying on it.  Old curtain tie backs, fancy hinges and knobs, hooks of all kinds, etc. Many would find it odd, but I love looking at them.  Don't get me started on baskets and wicker pieces lol. 

I have a small collection of clear paperweights.  My favorites have a snowflake design in them.  I love to look at them while I am down south here.......

It is funny what we are attracted to.  I have and do enjoy looking at all of my finds and inherited pieces.  I have told my daughter to do with them what she wants.  She is not a collector and I would never want her to be saddled with a boat load of stuff.  What is one man's treasure is another man's junk, as the old saying goes.  

[Oznell]

@tends2dogs ,  I love your posts and am interested in many of the same "artifacts".  That is cool to have a basket with various kinds of old, interesting and appealing hardware.  "Found objects" that no doubt hold so much history....

When I was younger, I collected a few glass paperweights too.  Five or six.  Haven't added to them in recent years, but have them on a vintage whatnot shelf in the dining room, and I love to look at mine also.  Mine have flowers, one a "millefiori" motif, one with swirls, and one with a sort of starry effect from Scotland that someone gave me.  They are mesmerizing little worlds...

Our son also hasn't much interest in antiques or heirlooms--unless they are automotive, ha.  But he seems to understand the meaning they have in families. I think he will hang on to just a few significant items. He can be surprisingly sentimental.  

[Enufstuff]

@Oznell   What a great idea, to use your alabaster owls as

                 bookends. Mine are also rather small but heavy.

                 They are 7" tall and they have yellow and black 

                 glass eyes.

                  Back in the 70's and early 80's owls, strawberries,

                 mushrooms and macrame were very popular in

                 home decor. All those things are popular again.

                  Perhaps it is because those are the things that adults

                 now are nostalgic for that they remember seeing in                     their homes,as children. Collectors are buying them.

[Oznell]

@Enufstuff ,  I saw both mushroom and strawberry motifs in china and accessories playing heavily in my last swing through Hobby Lobby!