(Not) Collecting Vintage Silverware (!!!)

Thursday Greetings dear friends & readers

A friend called in for lunch late last week on her way travelling North.

While I prepared us some lunch Liz wandered around my house looking at all my junk treasures.

"I really love your vintage silverware collection" Liz commented while we were enjoying lunch

"But I don't collect vintage silverware" I promptly replied

"Oh Julie ... I think maybe you are in denial" said Liz "remember anything more than 3 items Is a collection! 
And You my dear have way more than 3 silverware items"!!

When Liz had left I wandered around the house looking at my junk displays ... perhaps she was right ??

And Yes, I do know it all needs a polish but I quite like the slightly tarnished look of it all

These groups of photos above were taken in my lounge & my bathroom ... I did not even dare go in my bedroom!!

And so it was, that same night, while browsing Pinterest I came across the sweetest little pincushion that 
just happened to be made using vintage silverware

This is the lady - Laurie May - that I must credit with creating the pincushion ...... her flicker pages are just 
beautiful 💗

 I remembered that I had a few pieces of vintage silverware left over in my Cottage from when I closed it a year ago.

This little silver sugar bowl above - almost identical to Laurie Mays bowl - was among my leftover bits.

For my "pattern" I drew a bread & butter plate circle - one in calico, one in a cream crochet doiley

Here is the sugar bowl all polished up, & with the pincushion part inserted - now to create the wee bird
I used a scrap of cream wool blanketing from my stash & fashioned a wee birdie with wings & a tail

Then I affixed my bird to the pincushion before adding some bling - I keep a small bag of old costume jewellery in my craft stash - this is an old brooch
Some mother-of-pearl buttons just finished it off.

I am delighted with my birdie pincushion & shall be finding a nice spot to display it among my non-collection 
of silverware 😉

Last Saturday I had some luck at the Op Shops in my local town
I haven't visited for several months & was delighted to come away with this stash of treasures

There are 7 Op Shops in my small town & these treasures were bought from just two of them - Hospice & St John's 

This beautiful glass pedestal stand above ($10 from St Johns) was just perfect for the new/old pomanders 
I wrote about in my last post

I wanted to display all my pomanders together so this oak petticoat table from my Cottage, was just the ideal size

I had some lovely post this week also - this book had been on Order for several weeks & finally arrived 
in my mail box.

I have been enjoying following along with Jenny of elefantz in her Gentle Domesticity book studies & now I will have my own copy to leaf through

Every morning when I get out of bed, I complain endlessly to The Mr about the cats sleeping on (my side!!) 
of the bed all night!
I tell him I am going to get my own bed in my own room with the door shut tight 😉
This morning, this little funny appeared in my inbox from The Mr alongside a message he wrote telling me "we will follow you Mum, no matter where you go !!"

Thanks so very much for your visits today dear friends,
I hope the week is treating you kindly
Be good & kind to yourselves & to each other,
With much love & friendship,
Julie & the furry ones x0x0x