I was looking through an old ottoman that is full of material that I've never used and at the bottom I found some coin collections, saved for my daughters when they were young children. I also found some historic car tokens that were given with petrol. I think most of these were collected by my mother's second husband Gordon, who at that time drove a tanker lorry. My grandsons are interested in cars so I think I will see if they are interested in having them!!
Sadly not a good picture and I didn't have time to take more!
I am really late publishing this post as I had problems uploading my photos and video. It messed up my day but better late than never!!
Mariposa has come up with a good theme for this week.
Collections...she says:
We all have them...and if you don't, you do....you just may not realize it. For some reason or another we all collect something and we collect it for reasons that will definitely make for good reading. So on Monday, I want to see your collection. If you don't have or don't want or CAN'T (wink) show us a picture, then tell us what the collection is in 10 words or less. Then tell us why you started collecting it.
I'VE JUST RR-READ THE RULES AND REALISED I'VE BROKEN THE 10 WORD RULE......SO SORRY.... YOU NEEDN'T READ ALL THE DRIVEL I'VE WRITTEN, IT'S PRETTY DULL, SO JUST LOOK AT THE PICTURES AND MOVE ON!!
I don't know where to begin because I have lots of collections (you might think I just hoard junk!) and in any case I have show you some of them, like fridge magnets, coffee cups and willow pattern china before. I actually think I have shown you my figurines and I had these units built to have them on display. Now I look with a critical eye I am rather cluttered with photos and paintings done by my grand children.... but these are also a collection of sorts! I started not long after we moved into this house and I saw 'Rosie picking apples' (3rd shelf, 2nd figure from left) and it just appealed to me and I then began collecting different series. I gave up when I ran out of space! Above and below are two collections belonging to Sam I think that she would be happy for me to get rid of them but I can't bring myself to do that, as there are some quite old key rings and badges among the collection. The video shows some of the teapots that my mother used to collect. She has given them to Beccy who has no room for them so they have been packed in boxes for years. There are several Arthur Wood teapots, one of which I recently added to the collection. Before I repack them my mother is going to tell me the stories behind the collection so that I can record it for Beccy.
Sam has this teapot and hot water jug set (picture not very good) which also belonged to my mother It is quite unusual with the metal lid which is weighted.
So there we are that's all folks I will get around to visiting you all over the next couple of days.
Sadly not a good picture and I didn't have time to take more!
