Category: Trinkets & Treasures
Estate sales, vintage glass, books, coloring, and creative work
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Somebody packed Annie up for an estate sale. I do not know what her life looked like before that. I do not know who watered her, where she sat, or whether someone once watched for each new leaf and bloom. I only know that, at some point, she became one more thing in a house…
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The origin of the Sunstone Grove Menagerie I did not set out to build a menagerie. I did not wake up one morning and decide that what my life needed was a growing population of glass animals, pottery creatures, unidentified inherited objects, and the occasional paperweight with an attitude. It happened slowly. One piece caught…
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brought home another piece of glass. I know. Shocking. This one is a St. Clair paperweight I’ve named Magnum. She is a substantial little world of cobalt-blue flowers arranged around a white center, with clear bubbles caught among the petals. You can look through the side and see flowers overlapping one another. Look down from…
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Come sit a spell. I have a confession. I name things. Not just pets. That would be normal. I name plants. I name pieces of glass. I name pottery. I name particularly troublesome book projects. Anything that spends enough time in my house is at risk of acquiring both a name and an unnecessarily detailed…
