A Look At Things Scottish

Robbie Burn's day is coming up on January 25th 2016 so I decided to post things that have something to do with Scotland.  I did a post called "A Little Tartan And Finds" in a January 2014 if you are interested in looking back at it.

These are a few cookie and candy tins I have collected over the years.

I'm afraid this picture didn't turn out that good but as you can see I'm still using it. 

I wanted a picture with a selection of different items so here it is. 

I was at The Market a local favorite store I love to check out and took pictures of things as I walked around the store.  I also found some dining room chairs we bought that I hope to show you in a future post.

 

The above collage are a few pictures from my 2014 post I mentioned at the beginning of this post.

This brooch I found at a second hand store just before Christmas.  I was going to leave it behind as it was a bit more then I wanted to pay but there's something about the thistle design I like in jewelry.

 These two Bracelets are Scottish  I received them as Christmas gifts from him this past Christmas.

I must admit the one on the left is my favorite.

All the above pieces of jewelry are brooches but the one with red stones it is for wearing a scarf.

I was at a antique show a couple of months ago and came across this mirror and powder compact for a reasonable price so I had to get it.

The above scarf  is 100 percent wool made by Johnstons of Elgin in Moray Scotland.

They've been in business since 1797.

This paperweight was a gift to me this past Christmas from some friends it's made by Selkirk Glass Scotland in 1986.

It was a cold frosty day last Sunday and we met up with my cousin his wife and their son who's just over 4 months old now at Wendells in Fort Langley,  British Columbia for breakfast then we went for a drive so I could get some pictures which are in the collage above.  These are a few I actually took over 222 pictures.

I almost forgot the lamp, it was one of my husbands flea market finds and he told me if I didn't like it we didn't have to keep it.  Apparently me calling it the ugly lamp was not a clue to him what I thought of it since he put it up on our family room wall.  Last week we had a 4.8 earthquake here and I watched it shaking on the wall hopeful it would fall off and break but no, it stayed up.  I guess it's a survivor. Lets hope he doesn't find to many more of these kind of great finds.

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Friday
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Saturday

Blue, Blue And More Blue

I can not believe how many blue items I have found in the last two weeks since my last post.  Everywhere I turned blue was the color I saw and brought home.  It's a good thing blue is one of my favorite colors.  Well I hope you all like the color blue since this post is all about blue.

I found these three pieces of art glass in a day of each other for a price that amazed me and made me very happy.  Two of the pieces are marked Chalet Canada and the other is unsigned.  The piece on the stand that looks like a raindrop has fallen hit the ground and splashed up is one I already have but this one is a bit smaller in size.  Glass has always been something I've collected it started with collecting pieces that washed up on the beach at my grandparents cabin.  And grew from there.

The paperweights are not from my last two weeks of hitting the second hand stores but some more of the ones I received last month.  These are all signed Skookum which are pieces from Robert Held Studio.  I have some other pieces by  him and when on our honeymoon last October we stopped at his studio in Parksville and I picked up two pieces with some of the money we received for wedding gifts.  If you are ever in Parksville on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and like glass I would recommend it as somewhere to stop.

Blue Mountain Pottery is another one of the things I like to collect and was happy to find this piece a few days ago to add to my collection.  This Canadian based company is no longer in business and quite a bit of their product is out there.  I collect pieces I don't see very often which helps me from filling my house up with a lot of pottery.

From The Kitchen

This Pyrex bowl and casserole dish was a nice find in the Colonial Mist pattern.

The blue metal mug holder is one I've never seen before and now holds my blue Fire King mugs.

I picked up three of the plates shown made in England at the Staffordshire Potteries Ltd.

The Canuck mug brings back childhood memories the logo shown on the mug was the uniform logo I remember seeing on their uniforms when honkey night in Canada was on as a kid.  When we were at my mothers parents place when a game was on I was allowed to hear the theme song that was really the only part I liked then I was banned to the kitchen.  I'm guessing this was so I wouldn't nag my grandfather to put on a show I would like.

I collect Celtic jewelry and added this brooch to my collection this past week.  I have one just like this piece with red stones but it's not a brooch but a clip for scarfs to wear around your neck and hold it in place.

This scarf caught my eye and I decided to bring it home.

Do you have songs that all you have to do is hear them and they transport you back to somewhere in your memories. "Crystal Blue Persuasion" when I hear it by Tommy James And The Shondells sends me back to the early 1970's me and my sister were being babysat by the neighbors teenage kids and we spent the day in their backyard surrounded by all their friends who set up a kid's pool for us maybe the song was playing on the radio. 

These pictures are from the husband side they are of his grandfathers beach vacations.  You would not believe how many pictures we have of him in bathing suits.  The funny thing is my husband won't even wear a pair of shorts.

Thanks for taking the time to drop by.

Denise

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This garage sale find is a signed brooch made by Sherman. The brooch is made with violet colored Swarovski crystals and something that looks like pearls.

This Pyrex is Cremax it is a dinnerware that came on the market after World War Two.  I identified this as Cremax from the following book:

Pyrex The Unauthorized Collector's Guide
Barbara E. Mauzy
Found on page 138