Collections: Part 1

(Sandi, this one's for you!)

CoLlEctIOnS

(part 1)

I have a collection of old potholders. 

Here are a few just hangin' around the kitchen. 

The rest? Well, this is ONE of the piles. 

Now I'm dying to display them. 

As I was flipping through the pages 

of one of my old Mary Engelbreit magazines 

at the water park today, 

a framed set of potholders leapt off the page at me. 

Yipee! 

Now I'm on a mission for a long, skinny frame.

   

The skirts of these lovely ladies unsnap to become potholders. 

  

I also collect old buttons. Here are a few jars . . .

  

. . . and suitcases. Hooray for suitcases!

The bottom two traveled around the world with my grandparents. 

Alas, my stack would be higher 

if I hadn't stolen the little ones to use in other displays! 

Look out, garage sales, here I come.

(Let's just save the watering can collection for a later post!)

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And I guess I can add these darling metal chairs to the list. 

Here are two more old ones I painted 

a robin's egg blue with white arms. 

 

I added them to the yellow and green chairs 

I redid a few weeks ago 

to finish off this pretty little table. 

And the tablecloth? 

More on that later!

 

The famous reclining blue chair has been retired 

to a corner 

on the front porch.

 Its mate is still a 

rusty red rocker 

hiding in the phlox patch! 

It will have to wait until I'm over the fumes 

of spray painting those first five!

 Sandi, it's true -- you can never have too many collections.

As for me, I'll be gathering up more of my collections 

for another photo shoot!