April 26, 2013

This is another embroidered silk panel from Grandma Chris's collection.  This one is smaller and square and not framed.

April 25, 2013

This jar contains the ashes of my sweet kitty Fatty, who died April 15, 2013.  I got the jar from World Market and I got the kitty from heaven.  Just kidding.  She came from the Tri-County Humane Society in St Cloud.  Born in July, 1994.

April 24, 2013

This is another amazing find from the LLS auction.  An antique Imari ginger jar.  I didn't even care that it had no lid.

April 23, 2013

It's a three-fer!  Here we have a little painted dish, a carved shell spoon and a bi-color jade bangle.  The dish and the spoon were a grandma's and the bangle came from ebay.

April 22, 2013

This is a cute little orange painted box from GR's collection.

April 21, 2013

This is a beautiful antique Imari vase I won at an auction we had here at work to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  

April 20, 2013

This is a little ceramic stork/crane from my Grandma Rae.

April 19, 2013

This is a little incense jar or pomander jar from my Grandma Rae's collection.

April 18, 2013

This is a little carved god from Guam.  My dad got this for me on one of his Navy Reserve trips.

April 17, 2013

These are a few more of the thimbles I decided to start collecting as a kid.  They are from the Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London.

April 16, 2013

These are little Dutch shoes I picked up when we were in Amsterdam in 1989.

April 15, 2013

These are some of the pieces of malachite I have collected over the years.

April 14, 2013

And I'm back.  Sorry for the long hiatus.  I hate gmail.

This is a piece of sandstone from Taylor's Falls.  We used to go there a lot as kids.  I love this little rock with it's smiley face.