Pink at Walmart for my Shower? Antique Collecting...

Can you believe that Easter Baskets at Walmart have gone Color coded....

This is a hoot!

What is marketing going to think of next?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

This works out really good for me and my

PINK, BLACK & WHITE BRIDAL SHOWERS

I have a number of small milk glass containers that I plan on

filling with pink candy on the table!

The bird nest looking candy is going to go in the bottom of

one of my glass apothecary jars and I will put the cotton candy on top!

Or I may put the little pink eggs on them..... Always have options.....

No idea why I purchase the bunnies, I just thought they were so CUTE!

I am getting excited about how well everything is coming together!

Bygone Treasures

2887 Highway 78 in Loganville, Georgia.

This is almost half way "Between" (a little town right up the street)

Atlanta and Athens (home of the UGA Bulldogs)

Yesterday I dropped in really fast to one of my favorite antique malls to pick up some Milk Glass pieces for my upcoming Bridal Showers.

I thought while I was there I would take a couple of pictures of some COLLECTIONS to give YOU some ideas of some items to pull together for you pictures on Monday!

Don't forget

TOUR OF COLLECTIONS

MARCH THE 16TH

INFORMATION BELOW

OLD UTENSILS

VINTAGE BOTTLES
YES.... EVEN MATCHBOOKS.....

ONE OF MY FAVORITES....

I PURCHASED ONE OF THESE ITEMS WHILE I WAS THERE...

CAN YOU GUESS WHICH ONE???

IS THIS NOT BEAUTIFUL?

I should have purchased a blue bottle for Whitney....

Is this not SWEET???

Ok Girls, The Challenge is on....

Show Us What YOU Collect.....

Monday morning, bright and early.....

The Collector & What I Collect March 16th....

Tour for Collectors

One of the threads I have found that most bloggers have in common is that we all have this unbearable desire and love to collect. Whether it be dishes, ribbon, bears, fabric or even the oddest of trinkets; we seem to feel an affection for being drawn to having a group of objects are being taken in to having something of our past. For me, I love to pick up an old door handle or key and wonder who turned the key or handle of the door. Could it have been someone who made a difference for all of us by changing the future? Or could it have been someone who was afraid to turn the handle, afraid of what was beyond the door!

My grandmother and mother started the fire growing in my belly. My grandmother would give me trinkets of her past and tell me stories about her life growing up as a child, I knew it was hard. In the same voice, I could hear how much love she had for the smallest of gifts such as the tin cup and oranges she received one Christmas. My mother started me on my crystal collection~ The one I loved the most... The beautiful Forest Green Boopie Bubble Tea Glasses from Anchor Hocking. They became an obsession with me. I tried to find every glass I could at $10.00 and under. I wanted all the girls in our family to get a set of eight for wedding gifts. At this point between my mother and I we could probably host a wedding.

Collecting~

It can become an Octopus, with its tentacles wrapped firmly around you, never letting you go! It is amazing, how at times it becomes an annoyance and other times it becomes the joy that brings us the calm during the storm.

“Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.”

Edward G. Robinson

On the 15th of each month

I will have my

Mister Linky waiting for you to sign up...

What I Collect...

Please,

Come andJoin

The Charm House

as we ALL proudly

show our

TREASURES & TRINKETS

that we so

like to

COLLECT!

Mr. Linky will show up bright and early that morning!